17 Bookmarked Items in Dispatch fics with fun friends and HR violations
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Robert Robertson the Third disappeared shortly after he finished high school, vanishing one summer day without a trace.
Just over a decade later, Robert Park is hired by the Superhero Dispatch Network's Torrance Branch to help in their IT department, and maybe he'll end up helping more along the way.
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- Part 1 of The Life and Times of Robert Park
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Robert Robertson cannot die. When a bullet enters his frontal lobe and exits through his occipital, it takes roughly twenty-eight minutes for him to wake up in a puddle of his own blood—the team in hysterics.
Funnily enough, the chromosome mutation that means he cannot feel pain, fatigue, hunger, or fear is a genetic issue entirely unrelated to the generation-skipping powers.
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The first Mecha Man to grace L.A. was titled Mecha Man Prime, being the first in the legacy of non-powered humans to make a difference as a hero. The second Mecha Man named himself Astral and made his debut in L.A. as the leader of a group of heroes.
Robert was supposed to be the third Mecha Man. His father would have wanted that for him, but disappointing his father isn't new to him anyway.
In Robert's defense, he had a very valid crash out after his dad was murdered a decade ago. In his opinion, this leads to his very reasonable agenda of hunting down the man who murdered him. It sucks, because it's his target is beloved by the entire damn State.
L.A.'s third Mecha Man, Elliot Connors.
(OR: Robert Robertson is L.A.'s most wanted supervillain, hunting down the newly retired Mecha Man one dispatch call at a time.)
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“I control the fire and the flame," Flambae waved his wand, and fire roared to life around him, licking the edges of the workspace.
“Oh, you’re like… tell people obvious shit guy,” Robert muttered, already exhausted by the man’s obnoxious attitude.
Robert Robertson enters his final year at Hogwarts and is convinced to join SDN, the Spellcasting Dueling Nexus.
aka Hogwarts AU (No Harry Potter Characters will be mentioned)
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ManMech was a Vtuber whose main gimmick was acting as a dorkish Mechaman impersonator. Its a known joke within his community that he's well overdue to be sued by the hero's lawyers for his burlesque parody.
Robert is just hoping that nobody makes the connection-- that they're actually the same person.
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- Part 4 of Sorta-Related Dispatch Fics
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Soulmates find each other when marks are left behind.
Flambae's fingers got cut off, and his side of the bond flared to life. Sent to prison with a one sided bond and knowing his soulmate is the man who put him there, he's still not sure if he wants to live. But one thing he does know is this bitch in his head is just depressing.
Also known as: Flambae's journey to being somewhat ok, and falling in love with the man in the suit.
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Robert does not survive the encounter with Shroud in the bar. However, such a silly little thing as death will not keep a true workaholic from returning to his job.
Or: Robert’s ghost, oblivious to his fate, haunts the dispatch network.
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Robert receives a distress call on the dispatch line that has him driving across the city late at night. He finds out something about Herman that permanently alters the parameters of their work relationship.
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A deep dive into the psychological balm of BDSM.
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Calling it a 'Quirk' is Fucking Dumb by CallaGenji
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game), 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
02 Dec 2025
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So here's the thing: let it be known that Robert Robertson the III is not a quitter. Despite life seeming to only know how to punch down on him, he continues to crawl forward.
He has hunted down Shroud for over fifteen years, he had rebuilt the Mecha Suit, and he managed, quite literally, the worst possible team in all of California.
But this? This might be his breaking point.
TLDR; Someone voluntold Robert to be shipped off to Japan to teach a bunch of kids. Robert and Z-Team are not okay with this.
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“Sooo have you actually had gay sex?” Victor asks genuinely curious.
Robert tilts his head, an actual grin breaking through. “Have the news ever lied to you?”
Everyone stares at Robert. He just shrugs.
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Or the SDN makes the horrible executive decision to put Robert onstage as the Z-Team’s hero representative, fully aware that his PR experience consists of half a prayer and a legacy doing most of the heavy lifting. Robert takes the microphone and runs with it, feeding Los Angeles the most outrageous half-truths he can get away with.
The Z-Team slowly realizes their dispatcher is a public menace.
Unfortunately, they are completely whipped.
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Every power has a price. Something that would make you laugh at the irony if it wasn't so damn infuriating. A man with the strength of ten at the height of half of one. A woman with asthma who needs to hold her breath to stay invisible. A walking fireball who can lose his eyebrows to a rogue flame.
So of course when Robert realized he wasn't powerless, he could only laugh at the irony.
An immortal man who wishes he was dead really was the icing on the cake.
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Unspooling by LiterallyThePresident
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game), The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
22 Dec 2025
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When facing a strange villain that feeds off fear, that pulls the trauma from people’s throats like a horsehair worm from a wriggling mantis, Robert thinks it’s going to be routine, that Flambae will deal with him and get some free therapy as a bonus, that he’s safe behind his desk where the villain called Archivist won’t even think about him.
He’s wrong.
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Statement of Robert Robertson the Third, regarding his emotionally abusive father, his lack of autonomy, and the absence of personhood.
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“It’s not a real kid, Chase.”
Chase is technically underage, he’s a year away from being able to drink but the bartender didn’t bother to check his ID. Chase has always looked a little older than he was, it works in his favor now.
Nobody at a hero bar like this would assume he was so young.
“How the fuck do you think that?” Chase asks, spits. His hands still shake with the memory of it. The beer in his hand shakes with the tremors of his hands. “How the fuck do you do it?”
Mechaman sighs, deep, disappointed. He leans back, taking his whiskey with him.
The rest of the Brave Brigade was downstairs, drinking in victory, dancing with the other heroes, celebrating.
“It’s the Astral Pulse.”
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Tired of Comparisons, Trying to Learn the Lesson In by Anonymous
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
16 Dec 2025
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AU where Robert has powers his dad forced him to suppress in his youth. Upon stepping into the role of Mecha Man Blue, Robert runs himself into the ground physically, mentally, and financially to uphold his family’s legacy. It’s what he was born and raised for, after all. He can’t afford to fuck it up. He’s nothing outside of it. His dad was so keen on drilling that into his head.
…with that kind of pressure on him, is it any wonder he starts to act out? It really shouldn’t be surprising that he needs to let off some steam, some charge, so he doesn’t lose his cool doing real hero work. Call him a hypocrite. Call him a supervillain in a hero’s suit. Robert’s long since past the point of caring.
It’s just a shame he’s working so closely with people who know the hallmarks of a real villain a lot better than he would like them to. He’ll have to keep his work and his fun separate, for the team’s sake if nothing else. They mean a lot to him. He genuinely wants to help them succeed in their redemption arcs.
But he has no intention of stopping. Not when he’s finally back in his prime.
Not for anyone.
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my body's made of crushed little stars by DaQuirklessBeauty
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
24 Dec 2025
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Robert has always treated his body like something temporary—maintained just enough to keep going. Then one run-in with a passing villain leaves him younger, unscarred, standing in a body that no longer carries the visible proof of the pain he survived. As the Z-Team watches him move through the world in a way he hasn’t in years, concern sharpens into something heavier. Others begin to notice what Robert himself has long learned to dismiss, and the truth becomes harder to avoid: whatever hit him didn’t just revert him—it revealed how much pain he’d been living with, and how quietly he let it happen. Because if this is who Robert used to be, then the version they’ve known has been surviving far more than he ever admitted.
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Or: Robert gets caught in the crossfire of a fleeing villain’s power—and wakes up in the body he had at twenty-one.
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Blonde Blazer gets a call late at night that a child saved from a potential kidnapping situation could very well be SDN's newest Dispatcher.
A few secrets come out, and suddenly everything is a lot more complicated as Robert becomes the centre of the weirdest game of capture the flag.
With him as the flag.(Robert is de-aged to the last time he felt safe, which is at 11. Inspired by @killershark82 on Tumblr)
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