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20.06.2025 | 23.06.2025 | 24.06.2025

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Victoria continuing to be a MVP. Clock him.

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"Everything's changed. You, me."

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Emmerdale | 24th June 2025

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I cannot deal with people hating on Aaron and not seeing his side of this! He’s done nothing wrong!

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i feel as chill as i felt in feb 2015 even when rob was manslaughtering. i just feel like everything is gonna work out okay. i understand every character's point of view. it's a nice place to be

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Is [Vic] okay? Her eye looks bad, but she says it doesn't hurt.

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this is why i trust danny miller w my life tbh. aaron said all those things but he said them softvoiced and tired. he said them weary and defeated because he knows he's fighting an eventuality. he hears a scheme in everything robert says - prison trauma, liv's death - as ways to break through and get back into aaron's life, because aaron knows HE KNOWS it'll only take one sliver of a gap, just a chink in the armour and he'll be effectively defenseless all over again. the more vulnerable robert is, the more vulnerable aaron feels.

the breaking point of that is going to be exquisite

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being able to turn an emotionally stunted closeted cheating sex machine into an openly bisexual hopelessly monogamous husband and father is crazy work… aaron dingle i hope you are aware of the power you possess

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This might be controversial but I actually love how they’re playing this with Aaron at the moment.

I can’t decide whether it’s Danny’s acting doing the heavy lifting here, but even with Aaron continuing to be cold and distant, that unconditional love for Robert always finds its way through in little moments and gestures. His words may say one thing but his eyes and microexpressions tell a completely different story. It’s subtle enough not to give himself away, but noticeable enough for us to know exactly what he’s really feeling underneath the pretence.

That makes it all the more satisfying when his walls do come down for a moment, the genuine concern and care seeping through – and all the more interesting to visibly see him put them back up again when Robert tries to get too close.

And then we have Aaron’s go-to defence against Robert by telling him he needs to leave the village, that it’s not his home anymore and he shouldn’t be there. It’s harsh and it’s hurtful, but understandable in the context of their prison conversation, where Aaron begged Robert to stay away, knowing full well that they’d start something if he didn’t.

He’s pushing Robert away, saying whatever he can to create some distance, because the alternative is giving in and letting himself love the one person he’s been trying (and failing) to move on from for the past six years.

But the cracks are already beginning to show and it’s only a matter of time before Aaron gets tired of pretending. He always does.

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aaron can't even look robert in the eye most of the time and that is genuinely exciting to me. i don't even think it is about protecting his marriage to john. the marriage thing is an excuse. the way i see danny playing this is that aaron is still traumatized from what happened when robert went to prison and cut all contact. aaron is lashing out at robert like he lashed out when he came back in 2023 and was saying the most horrible things to the people he loved because he was hurting. so what i mean is, aaron still resents robert for cutting him off, for abandoning him, for choosing his life for him again. and now john is mostly a cover for aaron's pain. and yes, aaron knows he can't trust himself when it comes to robert, but a stable aaron would have been able to try and support robert as a friend like robert asked. this aaron is completely OFF. he is teetering. on the edge. he is desperate. HE CAN'T LOOK ROBERT IN THE EYE.

IT IS A DELICIOUS ANGSTY MEAL !

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And.. what about you? Are you okay? No. No, not really.

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For @aaronsugdenhawley :) 

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john talking about aaron: he needs me! i'm his hero! i need him to look up to me! me i me i me i me i me me me !!!!!

robert talking about aaron: being with you was the best. i was always coming back for you. you're here, that makes everything okay. i would do anything for you. you. you. you.

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It's too dangerous for me to be here. I need to go.

Emmerdale | 23rd June 2025

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I don’t know how likely this is to happen, but I think John blackmailing Caleb could be a really interesting way to turn the tide for Robert and Aaron.

Assuming that Robert remembers that John drugged him and dragged him into his van, and as a result Robert has an almighty crash out in front of everyone accusing John and begging everyone to believe him, I think it’s safe to assume that Aaron isn’t about to run to Robert’s defence in the moment that he needs him to. But I don’t think that means Robert’s accusations would completely fall on deaf ears.

Even after all this time, Aaron knows Robert. This could be wishful thinking on my part, but I hope that just the very possibility that he could be telling the truth, the instinct deep within Aaron’s gut telling him to listen, would be eating away at him. Enough for him to want to seek some answers.

And although there’s no way for him to prove that John did drug Robert, the one thing he can prove is whether he got Robert fired, and that’s where Caleb comes in.

Caleb evidently feels guilty about firing Robert, so seeing him pushed to the brink by John and throwing all sorts of accusations at him will probably raise alarm bells. Whether he chooses to do anything about it considering what John is holding over him is the big question, but if Aaron were to ask him outright and in complete confidence if John pushed him to fire Robert, he might be willing to tell the truth.

And with the knowledge that John is willing to blackmail Caleb over a traumatic event in order to enact his revenge on Robert, at the very least it might plant the seed needed to get them to start question what else he’s capable of doing.

One can dream anyway.