#polyglot robin buckley

[sapphirecobalt-1]

Steve and Robin: *doing something they definitely shouldn't be doing*

Steve, to Robin: remember. if we get caught, I'm deaf, and you don't speak English

[discocandles]

Anytime I think about Steve, Eddie, Chrissy or Robin as famous musicians, I have to hold myself back from adding a shit ton of Lady Gaga references.

Like in the 2010s Lady Gaga appeared for an mtv music award show as this rugged, unkept greaser type character she made up named jo calderone. He's kinda known as "Lady Gaga's boyfriend that is also lady Gaga in drag". Steve Harrington, teen popstar trying to get away from his overbearing label would show up to the red carpet in drag as Amanda Miller, the girlfriend his label chose for him. She is dressed how they have their other popstar darling, Chrissy Cunningham dress. Amanda Miller later shows up in one of his music videos after he leaves the label. Both appearances of Amanda Miller cause mass bi panic online.

Speaking of fellow teen popstar Chrissy Cunningham, she starts openly thanking God and the Gays for the successes in her career. The label hates it, but they deal or else she's not gonna thank God either, causing problems with her religious fanbase(the impact of only letting her make ultra clean love songs for years). Also the idea of Chrissy disrespecting the interviewers who disrespect her is so healing. Think about it. Like yeah she ate that guy's script, and she'd do it again if he asks about her diet.

For rockstar eddie? So in Lady Gaga's song government hooker there's a spoken bit(not the jfk line the "back up and turn around" one). Those lines are spoken by Gaga's bodyguard Pete, who has a very thick Dutch accent after Lady gaga suddenly brought the idea that he be the "pervy robot voice" up during production.

Like Eddie would so do this, as I think creating songs gives him a lot of almost maniacal energy. Also for this one, the bodyguard is Italian Steve, but he's Jeff's bodyguard who Eddie's been constantly flirting with. That's perfectly fine by Eddie's actual bodyguard, who needs "a damn second to fucking breathe, you hyperactive bastard".

Indie rock vocalist Robin Buckley would have an album where she sings in like four different languages outside of English like lady Gaga did in born this way. And also sing in other languages fairly often. It's most often in French(like lady Gaga does), but every time Robin starts singing in a language that isn't English, the fans will scramble to figure out what tongue she's singing/speaking in now and what is she saying? What does google translate say she's saying?

There's paparazzi photos of vocalist Robin standing next to Jeff from Corroded Coffin but she's chatting in Italian with... his body guard? Apparently they met as teenagers on a trip abroad and became best friends then pen pals after. But we guess it evens out as robin's makeup artist/one woman glam team was best friends with Eddie in high school? And she won the prom queen tiara that CC wears in their iconic album cover. I dunno, just something that's been haunting my brain.

[fandsart]

As someone who projects onto Steve a lot, the idea of polyglot!Steve has occurred to me before, but it was always quickly dismissed because I didn’t have an explanation as to why it would have not come up in season 3, because Robin being a polyglot is what helps them translate. But now @amoris-no-smut-allowed has got me thinking about it again, and I realized I could easily solve this problem by simply projecting onto Steve even harder.

Not long after season 3, Steve says something in Italian, quoting his mother or something, and Robin is like “You know Italian?” He doesn’t usually speak his other languages, but since Robin has already revealed that she knows some of the languages that he knows, he knows she’ll understand, but then she’s way more surprised than he expects and it becomes a whole conversation he was hoping to skip past.

“Yes, I know Italian.”

“Oh, that’s great! Now we can gossip in front of people! This will be so much fun!”

“Oh, yeah! That’s cool.”

“Maybe I should teach you Spanish too, just in case we want to talk secrets in front of your mom, or other Italian speaking relatives. If you’re up for learning a new language that is.”

Steve sucks in air through his teeth. “Yeah, that’s gonna be a problem.”

“Don’t take to learning new languages all that well?”

“Kind of. English and Italian are my native languages, so that makes things easier, but I actually already learned Spanish. I do like learning languages.”

“That sounds like the opposite of a problem.���

“Right. Except there’s a reason you were so much more useful when translating Russian. Because you’re ears might be geniuses, but even though I’ve learned 7 languages that I didn’t already speak, I can’t understand any of it when spoken by someone else.”

“You know nine languages???”

[lovebugism]

eddie x shy!reader , she asks him on a date by giving him tickets to a concert and he thinks its a joke til she walks away feeling rejected & he realizes she’s like dead serious & goes up to her

thanks for your request! i sorta broke my own heart with this one — the one where eddie rejects you and immediately regrets it (shy!reader, hurt/comfort, 2.6k)

bug's summer fic fest ♡

Robin tells you that he’s nice. She says he won’t turn you down because he loves Mötley Crüe too much and he’s called you pretty too many times. Robin Buckley is many things — a dork, a polyglot, and your best friend, to name a few — but she’s never been a liar.

She wouldn’t lead you to the slaughter that way. She wouldn’t just let you get your heart broken. More than anything, though, she knows Eddie far better than you do — partly because she’s actually able to talk to him.

So despite your lingering worry, you swallow her words like a shot of vodka and maneuver helplessly through the bustling crowd of the Hawkins High lunchroom.

Eddie Munson sits alone at the Hellfire Club table — the smallest one in the very back corner by the large square window. 

Instead of eating a real meal (even though the hamburgers might be horse meat instead of cow), the boy eats crumbled-up pretzels from a worn ziplock bag. He pinches them into his mouth blindly because his chocolate syrup gaze is trained on the well-loved book folded in his left hand. 

J.R.R Tolkien’s, The Hobbit.

It makes you smile softly to yourself. You hope one day you’ll have the courage to tell him you’ve read that book so many times you could recite it in your sleep. You hope that day comes soon.

“Eddie?” you call softly to him when you reach his table. Your sweaty fingers fidget with the concert tickets you clutch between them.

He just thinks he hears his name at first. It’s barely audible over the sounds of muddled chatter in the cafeteria. He glances up from his book, not expecting anyone to be there, and gaping when he finds you standing in front of him. 

His cinnamon eyes go wide. The boy blinks owlishly at you once, then flits his eyes behind you like he’s expecting to see someone there. When he doesn’t, he blinks at you again. 

“Hi…” you waver with a trembling smile.

Eddie grins back, still obviously confused. “…Hi?”

“I, uh… I don’t know if you heard, but— well, obviously you heard, that’s… that’s stupid,” you laugh at yourself, shaking your head with your eyes squeezed shut. You’re already stumbling all over yourself, and you haven’t even managed a full sentence yet.

“Mötley Crüe is coming to Indianapolis in a few days, and a friend of mine was selling tickets, so I bought them. For us. Potentially. You know, if you wanted to… to go… With me.”

Your offer lingers and hangs in the air between the two of you.

A smile quirks at the right side of Eddie’s pink mouth. It isn’t a kind one, though. It looks more cynical than anything else.

His head juts back. He’s almost peering at you from the corner of his eye as though you were some suspicious thing he needed to analyze. A laugh sputters from his lips. “Did Buckley put you up to this? Is that what this is?”

Your faltering smile fades entirely. Your features crumble in disappointment.

This worse he could say is no, Robin had told you. 

You hadn’t prepared yourself for this.

“…What?” you wonder, voice fragile like a wilting flower petal.

Eddie chuckles to himself. He sets the book down to give you his full attention, though you’re not sure you want it anymore. “You know, I knew she was upset about me trying to set her up with Vickie and all, but this is a… whole new low.”

“Vickie…?” you murmur through a tightening throat, brows pinched in confusion. “I don’t understand—”

“Look, sweetheart… Tell Robin that this was a real funny joke, but I’m not interested, alright?”

Your chest aches with an empty feeling. You think your heart might be breaking. “J—Joke?”

“—Actually, tell her that this was very not metal of her, and that I will get my vengeance,” Eddie says with a sardonic laugh deeply rooted in his chest. His smile looks almost like he pities you as he shakes his head, eyes twinkling with pessimism. “I’m sorry she sent you to do her dirty work, but… You should probably go now. This is, you know, the Hellfire Club table and everything, so…”

You swallow thickly, then nod.

Eddie doesn’t want you here. Eddie doesn’t want you at all.

“I’m— I’m sorry if I…” The words get caught in your throat. You clear it and blink back burning tears. “I was just… I thought that maybe—”

“Eddie!” a boyish voice calls from across the cafeteria, only halfway drowned out through all the noise. A group of guys in Hellfire shirts walk towards the table.

You take that as your cue to leave. You don’t want to burst into tears in front of your crush and all of his friends.

“I’m sorry,” is all you manage to choke out before turning on your heel and walking away.

He’d been smiling up until that point — like it was all a big joke to him — because it was. 

The girl he’s been fawning over since junior year comes out of nowhere with tickets to see one of his favorite bands? That was the kind of shit he dreamt about — the kind of plan only someone as vicious as Robin Buckley could concoct to hurt his feelings. And after spending so many years being the brunt of bullies, Eddie was tired of being embarrassed.

And at first, he thought you were just a really good actor. You did look almost genuinely confused when he’d snuffed out the plan so quickly. But those wide, glassy eyes you looked at him with — he doesn’t know if a person can fake that sort of heartbreak. That looked real.

Eddie had been close to commending himself for not letting Robin win. He thought he was a genius for not allowing Buckley to use you against him. Now he knows he’s the same dumbass he's always been.

“Hey, man…” Gareth wavers as he sits at his designated seat adjacent to Eddie’s. The boy’s forlorn and faraway gaze doesn’t go unnoticed by the rest of the club. They all share looks of confusion, but the sandy-haired boy is the only one brave enough to speak up. “You okay?”

Eddie keeps his gaze trained on your figure as you maneuver through the crowd. Robin looks happy for you when you reach her, but the puppy-like excitement washes away when she notices how sad you are. 

He feels like someone’s shoved a knife between his ribcage. He wonders if this is what a broken heart feels like.

“I think I screwed up,” he answers, laughing cynically at himself. “Like, big time.”

“Well, it wouldn’t be the first time, right?” Dustin jokes before popping a fry into his mouth. He laughs, but no one else joins him. “…Right?”

Eddie glares at the boy.

He cowers. “…Kidding. I was kidding.”

—————

He stews over it all day — your offer and what he said to you and how sad you looked after he said it. 

He pictures your pinched brows and big, glassy eyes and his chest starts to burn a little. Everyone always thought he was some raging asshole just because he had crazy hair and a crazier taste in music. Now he feels like they were sort of right about him. 

Whatever chance he had with you has surely turned to dust by now. It wouldn’t surprise him after he shrugged you off like he did. But after waging a nearly four-hour war in his mind between lunch and dismissal, he knows he has to make sure. 

He has to know if he’s ruined things entirely or if there’s a glimmer of hope he can hang onto.

He comes to you at the end of the day, dripping in metaphorical blood from the mental carnage he’d endured. He stood across the hall from you for five whole minutes as he tried to come up with something to say. He walks to your locker empty-handed and just blurts, “I thought you were joking,” like a total idiot.

Through the muddled conversation in the bustling hallway, you hadn’t heard him coming. You didn’t know he was there at all until he was right next to you. Seeing someone so suddenly close to you makes you flinch — hard.

And it’s not totally Eddie’s fault. You’re jumpy and too easily frightened at times, but he can’t help but feel like he’s messing things up more than he already has.

“Oh…” you deflate with a sigh, eyes still wide and swimming with something he can’t quite place. You look like you’re almost relieved to see him. Almost. 

“Sorry— shit, sorry. I didn’t mean to…” The boy stumbles over his words, then trails off when they don’t come out the way he wants. He shakes his head and finds it in himself to smile. It’s bitter, though, filled with self-abhorrence. “I wasn’t trying to scare you.”

With one hand still clutching the door of your locker, and the other gripping a stack of textbooks, you peer at him through your lashes. “I know. It’s okay. I just— I wasn’t expecting it…”

He grimaces. “Sorry…”

“’S okay,” you repeat.

“I, um, I only came in so hot ‘cause I wanted to apologize— you know, for earlier. In the lunch room,” he stammers and puts his fidgeting hands in the pockets of his leather jacket. He tries to laugh, but it comes out more as an insincere puff of air. “Honestly, I thought you were joking.”

Your brows pinch. “Joking? Why would I—”

“I sorta locked Robin and Vickie in the old chemistry room in the east wing a few days ago,” he confesses, bouncing his shoulders. “Just because I know they both like each other and everything, and I thought maybe they’d finally admit it if they were alone together.”

“Okay…?” 

“Well, they didn’t. And Robin was pissed. So I thought she was using you to get back at me.”

“Using me?” you echo.

“Yeah. ‘Cause I’ve kinda been into you since junior year and everything,” he admits with a nonchalant shrug. The corner of his rosy mouth quirks into a half-smile. “It’s, like, the one card Robin could use against me that would actually hurt, you know? If she did try to get me back.”

Your heart swells so much it hurts, almost — the same kind of hurt you'd felt in the lunch room earlier. It feels fiery, like someone’s taken a match to your ribcage and lit your heart aglow. But it’s different now. This is a good hurt, a happy hurt.

“Really?” you squint at him, your voice high and light. Your lips twitch like you want to smile, but you don’t let yourself — lest this all turns out to be some kind of elaborate dream. Or a joke.

“Since we had Mr. Kaminsky’s together, yeah,” Eddie affirms with a slow, confident nod. His chocolate eyes flit up to the water-stained ceiling. “Let’s see… We were learning about reproduction, and Tommy Hagan made some stupid joke about using you as a real-life model instead of the pictures in the textbook—”

“I remember,” you nod, trying not to shudder at the memory that still haunts you. 

“And I told him that he was making it real obvious that he’s never seen an actual vagina before and that the one in the textbook looked a lot like his mom’s,” the boy recalls with a soft laugh. “And you looked over at me, and you smiled, and I… have been a goner ever since.”

He looks down at you again, all sheepish like he isn’t gluing your broken heart back together again. His chocolate eyes twinkle in a way you’ve never seen before. They sparkle in their softness. You have to look away before it turns you into a puddle at his feet. 

You smile widely into your locker, pursing it off to the side in attempts to conceal its brightness. 

“No one’s ever stuck up for me like that before,” you confess quietly after a few moments, peeking at him from the corner of your eye. “I’m pretty sure I gushed to Robin about it for days.”

“Yeah?” Eddie hums. He can feel his hopes getting too high.

“Yeah. I told her all about the pretty boy in the back of the room that finally got Tommy H. to leave me alone.”

“Oh… You think he’s pretty, huh?” the boy teases despite his pink cheeks.

You nod — made much braver by his previous admission — though you still have a little trouble looking him in the eye. You drag a notebook from your locker as you tell him, “I think he’s very pretty.”

“Well, I have it on good authority that the boy you think is pretty is super sorry for being such an asshole to you earlier,” Eddie murmurs, his nose scrunched and head tilted. “And that he’d really love to go to that concert with you— if you haven’t found some other schmuck to go with you, that is.”

Your eyes light up like a Christmas tree as you beam at him. No one’s ever looked at him that way before now.

“I’d like that,” you nod, then shrug. “I don’t think I’d wanna go with anyone else, anyway…”

“So, it’s a date?” Eddie asks, just to make sure. His raised brows disappear behind his fluffy bangs. His chin tilts to his chest as he smiles hopefully down at you.

You nod, and repeat it more softly than the loudmouth boy. “It’s a date.”

Eddie can feel himself grinning like an idiot. His cheeks ache with how wide he’s beaming at you, but he's too lovesick to stop. Like squinting into the sun, smiling every time he looks at you is muscle memory by now. 

And what did a freak like him ever do to deserve a date with the freakin’ sun?

[formosusiniquis]

Am I the Asshole?

Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington; Robin Buckley/Original Female Character(s); Steve Harrington/Original Character(s); Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson WC: 6052 | Rated: T | Tags: Modern AU, Reddit AU, Some AITA typical terrible people, QPR Steve & Robin, NB Steve, NB Robin AKA the Stobin AITA fic

r/AmITheAssshole u/HufflepuffHero94 9yrs ago AITA for being concerned about my girlfriends living situation?

Context: My (20F) girlfriend (18F) is amazing. She's a polyglot linguistics major, speaks three languages fluently and she's completely self-taught, a genius basically. We go to the same college (Midwestern Liberal Arts college) where we met in the marching band. Now R, my girlfriend, is from a small town. Like the kind of small town that they make jokes about in sitcoms, she isn't really online (so I'm not worried about her seeing this) because she claims they didn't even have the internet until she was in high school. She isn’t really “out” because of this. It’s like she lives in this semi-closeted space like some kind of TV queerbait character. It's not really a problem, I mean she’ll tell people we’re dating if they ask and all of our marching band friends know but when I ask about it she says it’s because it wasn’t really safe in her hometown growing up. But it’s 2014 not 1980…

Even though R is a freshman she’s in special accommodations. Instead of living in the dorms like the school usually requires she’s got a small, studio apartment just off of campus. A perk considering how awful living in the dorms is. R is a pretty private person and super studious. Most of our dates have been in the library or a study date at the coffee place on campus. She’s not big on PDA, she says she’s trying to get better at it but she’s still only sort of out and I’m her first real girlfriend. I was psyched when she asked me if I wanted to go with her to her apartment to study, said her best friend had a never fail study method that she was eager to try (and when she told me what it was I was pretty eager too).

R can’t drive, so when I pull into the parking lot of her complex she notices something and says her roommate hasn’t left for work yet. I’m a little confused because like I said she lives in a studio apartment, but she just brushes it off and says something about asshole parents and this being what they could afford when some money fell through. She’s sent me snaps from her place, so I know it’s pretty cozy so I tell her it’s fine. Obviously I’m concerned about what the set up is going to be like when we get up there but she insists that dingus (her words) will only be there for another couple minutes before they have to leave for work and that Stevie (again her words) is her best friend in the world. They moved here together from the same small town or something.

To give R credit, she’s definitely done the best she can with the space. When I walked it it definitely felt as homey as it does in her pictures. The door opened up into the kitchen and living room and she’s got those spaces divided off from the beds with one of those Chinese paper divider thingies. Anyway to make a long story short it turns out her roommate and best friend Stevie is actually a whole dude (19). He comes out, gives her a look and asks her if “us girls are planning a sleepover” and if he should make himself scarce for the evening. R says she doesn’t give him shit when his “special friends” come over and after that I kinda stopped listening. I slipped off into the apartment looking for the bathroom and that’s when I saw how their “bedroom” was set up. Twin beds INCHES apart, they might as well be sharing the same one.

Here’s where I might be the asshole. When her “friend” finally cleared out I told her the truth. I didn’t know how comfortable I was hanging out in her place where she lives with a guy. I do live in the dorms but I’ve got a single right now. I asked her to move in with me so she wouldn’t have to be in this situation. I guess it maybe sounded like I was dissing her friend, which I was but I didn’t mean for it to sound like that. I just think it’s weird that she won’t come out to anyone and is also living with some guy! I told her I wasn’t interested in being an experiment and if things were serious then she would want to move in with me.

That’s when she kicked me out and called me an asshole. But really I don’t think I’m being a dick for being concerned that she might just be jerking me along while she plays lesbian so she can tell her boyfriend about it at home. Even if nothing is going on I'm just worried that living in this kind of environment isn't safe for her. I mean this guy is probably just pretending to be her friend to get in her pants, I think the fact that they're from the same small town means she can't see that. I really think she would be better off if she moved into the dorms with me aita?

u/otpsnotbrotps NTA

u/foreplayisntreal NTA guys and girls can't be friends. If she even is a lez and a katy perry wannabe then roomie is just biding his time til she's ready to be converted

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[stevesnailbat]

also happy fourth to former scoops employee, fashion-forward, trumpet-playing polyglot lesbian robin buckley and robin buckley only 

[sunflower-butch]

oh mon chéri i need you to know that i shut my laptop after i read your reply i was blushing so much (i'm stupidly easy to flatter, it's horrible. mix that wit being short af and having hair like mine and you'll get a constant stream of 'oh you're so cute' from old ladies)

i've actually read about the gay m&m honey but i'm sure it's not as sweet as you!

time to impress you then ig. my first language is English but i'm also fluent in French! i understand Spanish better than i speak it, i know a little bit of Russian (i'm learning it rn) but i sing it better than i speak it. i also sing Arabic, Japanese, Italian, and Tolkien Elvish(on a dare)

now would be the time when i'd give music recs but i seen your post about how northern attitude. now i'm not gonna lie i've never actually heard of Noah Kahan before but when i seen you talking about him i went and check it out and OH MY GOD HIS VOICE IS SO BEAUTIFUL??? but that's not what made me cry, it was the lyrics. they sucker punched me. how dare they resonate so deeply

(if i get too close

and i'm not how you hoped

forgive my northern attitude

oh. i was raised out in the cold) shoot me it would hurt less

i would love to go to a renaissance fair with you.

if you're my knight in shining armor then that makes me the damsel Not in distress because i know archery.

твой преданный - эль

Oh darlin’, I hope you’re aware of the gay panic this message has instilled in my poor gay heart. I made *you* blush? I feel like a tomato. (And boy do I get that! Us adorable short people gotta stick together, you know?)

I am. On my knees. That’s so cool?? Wtf, you must be so intelligent! Languages are so hard, I’m so easily impressed by a polyglot. French is so romantic, and Russian is so badass (hello are you Robin Buckley??) but my god, if I’m not swooning imagining Elvish singing. I bet you could guess by now I’m a huge LOTR fan. I just know your voice must be so beautiful, and of course a face to match. And Italian! Be still my beating heart.

Oh! Oh! Don’t let that deter you from giving me music recs, I adore music with every bit of my soul, and I think the music people share says a lot about them, you know? Swapping music is probably one of my favorite ways to get to know each other.

I’m so so glad you loved the song as much as I did. It’s such a punch in the gut and a warm hug all at once. His vocals are so lovely—and I would highly recommend Stick Season as well by him!

(And I'll dream each night of some version of you

That I might not have, but I did not lose

Now you're tire tracks and one pair of shoes

And I'm split in half, but that'll have to do) gets me right in the heart strings every time.

And a few more because I’ll never shut up about music, but Something in the Orange by Zac Bryan and Sleep Deprivation by Chance Peña will also break your heart, but Apple Tree Blues by Caamp is a bit cheerier!

Okay, pause, WHAT, that’s cool as shit!! Maybe I’m the damsel in distress, given my utter lack of grace. I’d probably get my sword stuck in a tree, but that’s okay because I’ll have you to protect me <33

Adoringly yours,

- Max/Lo

[cutyrteeth]

little q's , tagged by @aegonette thank u thank u sm 🫶🏼

tea, coffee, or soda? dr pepper is first choice but I drink unweetened iced tea the most

dogs or cats? never had a cat but i love both

can you play an instrument? no B) took a year of piano in highschool n came out w being able to play approx 5-10 seconds of when the saints go marching in <3

what’s your sun sign? capricorn

first song lyrics that pops into your head? he looks so sick, i wanna take him for a walk <3

do you have any tattoos? nope

favorite place you traveled? santa cruz or nyc

what’s the last movie you watched? a house on the bayou; it was bleh but country boy sold it for me

what languages do you speak? just english </3, i know a little spanish but not much. i practice that, italian and high valyrian on duolingo lmao. ill be a polyglot in approx 100 yrs <3

do you have any hobbies? i love a craft. im knitting squares for what will b a sweater one day but i have no time, trying to figure out my sewing machine to make little tings <3, also reading always

you can hang out with one fictional character for an hour, who do you choose? robin buckley bc i think we'd be besties

compliment yourself: green n purple hair still slays

no-pressure tagging: @wickedelicacy @ladysansa @montilyet and whoever else wants to <3333

high pressure tagging: @satelltes 🫶🏼🫶🏼 sdksd hey shawty

[antitheticaldreams]

    word on the street is that ROBIN BUCKLEY from STRANGER THINGS is in bar harbor. they seem to look a lot like MAYA HAWKE. they’re twenty and have none of their memories in tact. somehow they’ve managed to get a job at atlantic brewing company as a bartender to help pass the time. looks like they’re ready to settle in for the long time.

NAME: robin buckley

AGE: twenty 

BIRTHDAY: march 10th

FANDOM: stranger things

JOB: bartender at atlantic brewing company

RELATIONSHIP/FAMILY: daughter of melissa and richard buckley, single.

ARE THEIR MEMORIES IN TACT?

not a one. robin’s been pulled from her world during the timeline of ‘ rebel robin ’ and doesn’t have an inkling of what went down when we first meet her in stranger things 3.

DO THEY ENJOY BAR HARBOR?

sure. she’s gone from one small town to another, in a sense, so she doesn’t know much of what she’s missing.

A BRIEF BIO: rambler, knower of not many social cues, polyglot and a general disaster on a good day, robin’s plucked straight from the small town of hawkins, indiana, where she spent her high school days observing the rest of the social food chain and at band practice, half - high to get through the monotonous hail to the varsity that she swears will haunt her in her sleep. somewhat of an outsider, she couldn’t help but to nose her way into the business of fellow coworker steve harrington — and really, it’s not her fault, because if they wanted to keep it private they wouldn’t have been so goddamn loud — and fell into the world of monster slaying and postponing the apocalypse several times over. she has no memory of any of this now that she’s in bar harbor, only that she’s graduated from high school, bartending to stay afloat, and looking for something in life to give her purpose.   

[kilgatehq]

CHARACTER INFORMATION

  character name: robin buckley

character fandom: stranger things

character faceclaim: maya hawke

character age & dob: 24, march 10th 1968

character biography:

robin was born and raised in hawkins, indiana but never felt like she really fit in. as a child she was involved in a lot of extracurriculars, including playing the french horn, playing soccer, and becoming a polyglot at a young age. languages have always interested her and aside from her native language of english, robin is also fluent in french, italian, and spanish. later in life she becomes fluent in russian. in middle school robin became close friends with barbara holland, a girl in her grade. they did everything together, always hanging out and just wanting to be around each other. eventually barb began to get closer to nancy wheeler and robin felt like this was some kind of betrayal and stopped being friends with her since she thought barb had chosen nancy over her.

in high school was labeled a band dweeb given that she was still playing the french horn for the school. after the presumed death of will byers and disappearance of barb, robin starts getting very dissatisfied with her life in hawkins. while talking to a teacher about barb she told him that she was convinced that barb had just run away. this is around the time she starts becoming serious about operation croissant, a travel plan to get to the exotic and interesting europe. in 1984 robin has history class with steve harrington and grows to hate him for a variety of reasons, including how annoying he is and how he manages to get crumbs everywhere when he eats.

robin comes out as a lesbian to her favourite teacher in high school mr hauser. she used to hang out in his classroom during lunch or after school sometimes.she could talk to him about anything, mr hauser being that one non family adult she was always able to confide in.

to get operation croissant going robin gets her first job. she tries to get a job at melvald’s. joyce byers wants to hire her but the owner doesn’t want her. she then tries to go to radioshack where she is denied because she doesn’t know about technology. eventually she gets hired at the movie theatre in town. after seeing steve and nancy make out in the theatre, she rants to herself about how gross it is. when nancy runs out robin goes after her and they talk about barb. because she’s away for so long she accidentally melts the film and gets fired.

robin is invited to the prom with her friends, though she wants to use this as an excuse to fly to europe. her friend milton accidentally spills her plans and her parents, thinking she has money from drugs, grounds her. after this robin rebels completely. she destroys her prom dress and cuts her hair before driving her father’s truck to the prom. she ends up crashing the truck and totaling it. while at the prom she dances like a maniac with her friend sheena rollins.

after the starcourt mall opens up robin begins working at scoops ahoy, the ice cream parlour in the food court, to pay off her father’s totaled truck. steve gets hired with her and she spends her time teasing him and calling him a dingus. robin keeps a tally of every time steve can’t get a date, using a whiteboard that has two columns. when she meets dustin henderson robin is completely astounded that steve has a secret handshake with a child. she helps them decode the russian transmission dustin had intercepted. she decodes the riddle from the message and helps them spy on the delivery. they get stuck int he russian base and escape very dramatically on july 4th. she has a very heartfelt moment with steve where she comes out to him while in a bathroom together.

three months after the mall burning down and people dying, robin and steve get jobs together at the family video store in downtown hawkins. they stay employed there for awhile as robin works through her senior year of high school. things actually go really well, with robin getting closer other members of the party. then spring break rolls around and people start dying violently in hawkins. it starts with chrissy cunningham, one of the cheerleaders at school. the top suspect is eddie munson, dm of the dungeons & dragons club at school. naturally, this is not some horrible murder but part of everything with the upside down. they group learns that there’s a new monster, vecna, that they have to destroy.

nancy and robin start to team up, doing research together at the library. after that they pretend to be college students in order to get access to victor creel, a convicted murderer being housed in pennhurst asylum nearby hawkins. there they learn more about what happened the night victor creel’s family died.

while looking for one of the gates to the upside down, steve gets pulled into it. nancy and robin jump in after him and go to save him, with eddie following after. they get stuck in the upside down for a bit and manage to start communicating with the party in hawkins through holly wheeler’s lite brite. just as they’re all getting out of the upside down vecna begins to possess nancy, showing her horrible visions of the future. the group makes a plan to kill vecna, with robin, nancy, and steve being the team that goes to the creel house in the upside down to kill him. with the help of eleven, they’re able to attack him and almost kill him, with robin throwing multiple molotov cocktails at him.

after vecna opens the rifts into hawkins robin begins volunteering to help out, where she gets close to her crush vickie while making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. she works with the group to defeat vecna and seal the rifts. robin stays close to steve and nancy and ends up becoming friends with jonathan. of the younger kids she is closest with dustin, thinking that he’s hilarious. robin and vickie start dating. after getting their college acceptance letters they both know they have to break up, with robin going north for college and vickie going even further. they talk about it for weeks until the middle of summer where they get into a huge fight about not wanting to break up but having to. they finally break up after this and try to stay away from each other, though they both have a hard time with this.

after graduating high school, robin begins attending saint mary’s college, a women’s college, at notre dame university. while there she joined the marching band and began in her major of women’s studies. halfway through her freshman year she changes her major to psychology, wanting to work with kids and help them through things. during her summers she returns to hawkins, seeing all of her friends again before returning back to school in the fall. while at saint mary’s robin enters her second relationship with sheena rollins, one of her friends from hawkins that happens to go to the same school as her. they date for most of their freshman year, only breaking up because sheena was accepted into a fashion design school in indianapolis.

between her sophomore and junior years robin does a summer study program in france, accepting the opportunity the moment it’s given to her. she can finally complete operation croissant and see another country. while studying in paris, robin gets to learn a lot about france’s history and studies the language more. it doesn’t really help with her psychology major but it gives her more experience and she has a great time, especially because she has a summer fling with a very pretty parisian girl.

after coming back from france robin becomes one of those annoying people who talks about it all of the time. she doesn’t mean to be annoying about it but she’s just so excited that she got to finally do this and likes to share it with everyone. once robin graduates from college she is accepted into the school’s master’s program which she is currently pursuing.

explanation of what has drawn them/why they are heading to kilgate:

after getting a call from steve that something funky is happening in kilgate she decides to move there for the summer and get a part time job at mcdonald’s.

any important canon divergences to note: none

  OOC INFORMATION

  mun name/alias: smam

mun age: 27

timezone: pst

pronouns: she/they

[rebel-robin]

SHE SAID HER EARS ARE FREAKING LITTLE GENIUSES SO Y'ALL BETTER TRUST HER

this scene was love at first sight for me ive been down bad for robin since then

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@amoris-no-smut-allowed

Thinking about canon S3 Steve being pre-polyglot Steve. He’s always thought the idea of knowing other languages would be really cool and impressive, but he never tries, because with the perception that it’s impressive, he doesn’t think he’d be any good at it

So he never tries. But Robin drops sentences in other languages all the time. Little sayings, jokes, and asides. And he starts picking up on them, and how the sentence structures work in the different languages. I think he’s afraid to get his hopes up that he might actually be good at something he wants to be good at. He likes being good at basketball but it's the only thing he's found so far. That's why he puts so much weight on it, but none of his current friends are impressed by it so his sense of worth in that area isn't super high, but he's not ready to be disappointed yet

But he picks up on the languages really quickly, barely even trying (and he is a little bit, but just enough that he won’t let himself be disappointed when he misses things). Whenever he gets the general idea of a sentence, enough to understand what Robin means, he gets really excited about it, and Robin obviously notices

So she suggests actually delving into it, and while he’s nervous to try, they do, and he’s a fast learner when it’s something he can put into practice regularly

[brokehorrorfan]

Stranger Things: Rebel Robin will be published in hardcover, e-book, and audio book on June 29 via Random House. It tells the backstory of Robin Buckley prior to the events of Stranger Things' third season.

Set in 1983, the 368-page young adult novel is written by A. R. Capetta (Once & Future). Read the synopsis below.

The novel will serve as a companion to the Rebel Robin: Surviving Hawkins podcast. Premiering on June 29, the six-part scripted podcast stars Maya Hawke and Sean Maher. Lauren Shippen (The Bright Sesions) writes and directs.

It's the beginning of sophomore year, and Robin's Odd Squad friends have decided: this time, they're going to fit in. They couple up, they won't stop talking about college and their future careers, and they're obsessed with trying to act "normal." Robin knows that game well--she's been pretending for years, hoping nobody would notice the sarcastic polyglot French horn player with a bad perm in the back of the room. But there's one aspect of her identity that she knows for sure doesn't fit in with her carefully controlled image--something she's only just now realizing: Robin likes girls.

How exactly is she supposed to be her true self in teeny-tiny Hawkins, Indiana? Robin is convinced the only way she can experience real life is by fleeing to Europe for the summer--aka Operation Croissant. But she has no money, no permission, and no one to share the adventure with--and it will take a heck of a lot more than that to escape Hawkins in one piece.

Sprinkled with references to your favorite Stranger Things characters, this prequel chronicles one girl's realization that the only person she really needs to be accepted by is herself.

Pre-order Stranger Things: Rebel Robin from Amazon.

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@amoris-no-smut-allowed

Modern Steddie featuring polyglot!Steve (though the premise doesn’t require that, with some workarounds. It’s just on my mind)

Steve and Robin start up a sort of language learning app like Duolingo. Dustin helps with the programming, but Steve and Robin organize the lesson plans and know the material. Obviously it’s important for the app to contain sound, and while the don’t really need a voice actor for that, Steve and Robin’s deliveries do sound stiff, and what they probably should have is better equipment.

Dustin suggests bringing in his voice actor friend, enter Eddie, who works from home and is surprisingly good at pronouncing phonemes that don’t exist in the only language he knows, which is lucky for both groups, because the crew needed the equipment, and Eddie needs work. He wasn’t going to let them take his equipment for their terrible line deliveries when he could be using it for his own jobs. But now they work together with Eddie reading out the example sentences Steve and Robin set up

Steve and Eddie have a lot of fun and interesting conversations during the recording sessions when Steve helps Eddie go through exactly what he’s meant to say since Eddie doesn’t have the aptitude for languages to keep all the pronunciations straight. Robin finds it so annoying how long recording sessions take as a result. Thank god she doesn’t realize how much he’s playing up his slow grasp on the subject