#with robin santos.

[solaadisa]

closed: @robinsantos

location: oasis parking lot, early afternoon after country night

When Sola returned to Oasis the morning after country night to move the Jolyani truck back to Ocean Crest, only to find a busted window and a brick in the driver's seat, she'd just stood outside for a long time, torn between wanting to cry and wanting to hurl a brick at something — someone, even — herself.

Besides the fact that fixing the window would be an extra, unanticipated cost that she and Ravi were probably going to have to run some numbers to cover, the truck was her baby. The thought that some drunken idiot stumbling out of Oasis just thought it would be fun to break something — and chose the truck — made a rare kind of anger settle deep into her chest.

After a quick trip back home to get a broom and a shitty little handheld vacuum, there she was, on her hands and knees in the front seat, carefully picking glass pieces out of crevices wondering if it'd be worth anything to ask the employees at Oasis if they had any security footage from the night before.

With a deep, shuddering sigh, she straightened up to roll her shoulders and give her back a break for a second when she spotted a body standing outside through the open door. Suddenly it all made sense. Sola wasn't one to think the worst of people, but in this case, she just knew.

The vacuum was turned off, and Sola tried to wipe the genuine distress off of her features and steel herself as she met Robin's eyes.

"You come back to admire your work or something?"

[laureljacobs]

closed: @robinsantos

location: neptune

Laurel plastered on a polite smile as she stood, extending a hand to officially wrap up their meeting and send her new client on her way. As the jilted, soon-to-be ex-wife stepped away from the table and wished Laurel and Robin goodnight, Laurel watched her go before slumping back into their seat next to Robin with a groan.

They resisted the urge to light up a cigarette right there at the table. She absolutely would've if Neptune didn't act like a second office for her so often, the meeting point for her and all of the scorned spouses of Aurora Bay who hired her after Robin had collected enough research to bury whoever they were set on divorcing. There seemed to be an endless well of them, at this point.

"Jesus Christ," Laurel huffed, shifting a little in her seat so an elbow was on the table and her body was facing Robin. Their partnership was still relatively new, but things were already working out pretty well, and Laurel had liked what she'd seen through these work-dinner meetings.

"Where do you find these people?" they asked with a sigh, a hand going to their jacket pocket instinctively, where their pack was sitting and taunting them. Before she could stop herself, she took out two and tapped them against the table. "Fancy a debrief drink at Four Leaf? Stop for a cigarette on the way?"

[introspectivememories]

at the center of gotham, lies its oldest public hospital — gotham general. it’s staff are kind and compassionate, if a little intolerant of bullshit. the city may not care about the crimes that occur in it but the people certainly do. gotham’s emergency services are renowned throughout the nation as one of the best. 

the ER nurses at gotham general love to gossip and their latest is about how their ever-reliable EMT bernard dowd, who'll rush into burning buildings if he thinks he can save one more person, who smiles so brightly and brings them cupcakes on his days off but has such sad eyes, seems so lonely. they determinedly decide to find a date for him. maybe dr. zacharia thomas, their latest trauma surgeon? yes, yes! he's only a few years older, bernard knows him, they get along, and most importantly, he's got a stable job. he'll be perfect for their bernard!

and then, literally only days after they decide to set up dr. zacharia and bernard on a date, head trauma nurse marissa santos comes running in with a copy of gotham daily, clutched in her hand.

"look! look! nakita mo ba ang balita?" she whisper-yells, "did you see the news?!"

instantly they're all crowding around her, trying to see the paper. covering the front page is a blurry photo of a black-haired man engaged in a passionate game of tonsil-hockey with someone who is unmistakably their youngest EMT. he's still wearing his uniform for christ's sake! in the largest font known to man, "WAYNE'S NEW PARAMOUR?" is written at the top.

"he's dating the wayne ceo!" marissa gushes excitedly.

"isn't he a little too old for bernard?" someone pipes up from the back.

"not the father, you idiot! the son! timothy!"

that's way better than their candidate. everyone is stoked. by nightfall, everyone in the ER knows that bernard dowd is dating timothy drake-wayne, the youngest ceo wayne enterprises has ever had.

when bear stops by, at around 2 in the morning, dropping of the last patient from his shift, he's immediately accosted by the nurses.

"whoa! hey!" he exclaims as they lead him to the nurse's station and sit him down in a chair, "what's going on?"

marissa slams the paper down in front of him, "spill."

bernard groans and turns cherry red, "oh my god tita. don't you guys have patients to attend to?"

"already taken care of." nurse gu says.

"what about mr. gomez, the one with third degree burns that just came in?" bernard tries desperately.

"dr. zacharia is already on it." dr. esperanza responds, "so spill."

their youngest tries one last time, "how do you even know if that's me?"

"there are like 10 blonde people in the EMT department and considering all of them are older than you and none of them seem to have the three ear piercings that kid in this picture does, we're gonna have to assume it's you." dr. farah nasim, one half of the head of the ER, says.

bernard turns on her with a betrayed look.

"sorry kid," she snorts, "also, you're still wearing your uniform in the photo. it says 'dowd' on the shoulder."

"im too old to be bossed around like this." he mutters before sighing, "alright what'd'ya want to know?"

"tell us everything!" marissa says, "how did you two meet?"

"we were friends in high school and we fell out of touch after junior year. he hit me up on insta 6 months ago and we reconnected."

"oh my god!! they're high school sweethearts!" nurse gu squeals, "that's so cute!"

"tell us more! who asked who out?"

"okay well, technically he asked me out but he didn't know he was asking me out. but we went on this date at this restaurant and it got attacked by some villain and red robin, but he was going by robin at the time, rescued. so i told robin, 'hey if i make it out of this, tell tim drake, i would've liked to finish our date'. and then, tim, shows up at my door the next day and says 'i don't know what this feeling i get when i'm near you is, but i'd like to find out'. and the rest is history."

"bernard, what the hell?" dr. esperanza says shocked, "that's the most rom-com-esque story i've ever heard."

"what?" bernard blushes, "no it's not."

"bear," esperanza says slowly, "he showed up at your door and said 'i don't know what this feeling i get when i'm near you is, but i want to find out.' that is something straight out of the notebook."

"no, no! he's such a dork!" bernard assures them frantically, "he does this thing, when he laughs too hard, he snorts and it sets him off again and it just keeps going. and you should've seen him in high school, the biggest skater boy to ever exist. he's teaching me..."

and bernard goes on and on for the next 15 minutes, trailing off only when he notices them all smiling at him.

"what?" he says shyly.

"you're in love with him, aren't you?" dr. farah says.

bernard chokes, "what?! no! ...maybe?"

everyone shares a look between each other. marissa steps forward, "well on behalf of the gotham general ER staff, i can assure you, we all approve."

"thank you?"

"bring him around sometime!" nurse gu says, "we'd all like to meet him."

"why? so you can give him the shovel talk?"

"of course!" dr. farah says, smiling widely, "he’s dating our youngest! we have to threaten him!"

bernard's voice is suspiciously wet when says a few moments later, "thanks guys."

and so on it goes for the next few months until marissa comes back after her break, deathly pale. everyone worries but she refuses to tell anyone what's wrong. and then a few weeks later, nurse gu goes on his break and comes back shocked. and then a month later, dr. zacharia comes back from a quick step outside, lips sealed shut.

and on it goes until there is one glaring truth the gotham general ER night staff cannot ignore:

bernard dowd is dating red robin. open relationship or cheating, to be determined.

a year after the news about tim drake and bernard had been released, and half a year after the, what the staff has taken to calling it, Red Robin Scandal™ began, dr. farah calls a night staff meeting.

the staff meeting is boring as usual until the end when dr. farah opens the conversation to the staff to voice their concerns.

"are we going to talk about the elephant in the room?" dr. esperanza asks.

"i think bernard might be cheating on his boyfriend!" marissa blurts out before slapping her hands over her mouth, horrified.

“oh thank god.” esperanza sighs.

"wait you saw them too?" nurse gu asks.

"in the narrow walkway," dr. zacharia starts.

"between the ER and jacobson building." dr. esperanza finishes.

"exactly!" marissa says.

"i caught them in the parking lot once." dr. farah admits, mouth pressed into a grim line, "they were pressed up against the fence in the back — y'know where the light doesn't shine? — kissing each other like they'd just come back from world war 2."

"ay, how could that boy be so stupid?" marissa sighs, "getting caught up with a vigilante?"

"maybe it's like polyamory?" esperanza says, ever hopeful.

"whatever it is," farah says, "he should know better than to get involved with those people. we have to talk to him."

they pull bernard into an unused conference room, just the 5 of them, 3 weeks later.

"hey, hey!" bernard exclaims as they shove him into a chair, "what's going on?"

nobody speaks.

"guys?"

"are you cheating on tim drake?"

"what?"

"are you cheating on tim drake?" marissa repeats.

"no! why would you think that?"

"everyone on the night staff has caught you kissing red robin at least once. wanna try that again?" farah says.

bernard sighs, "is that what this is about? doc, i swear to god, i'm not cheating on tim."

"so he knows?" zacharia asks.

"yes zach, tim knows about me and red robin."

"and he's okay with it?"

"yes. tim doesn't mind me dating both of them." bernard says, a smile playing on his lips.

nobody speaks for a while.

"so..." bernard breaks the silence first, "are we good here? do you approve?"

"no." esperanza says, "we don't approve."

"what?"

"he's no good for you." nurse gu says.

"you don't even know him." bernard says incredulously.

"oh and you do?" zacharia says scathingly, "he's a vigilante bear. how much do you really know?"

"more than you zach!"

pleadingly bernard turns toward farah, "c'mon doc, you don't agree do you?"

"you know, when you first started dating tim drake, i had my reservations. rich people and all that. but i figured with all that money, if you ever got roped into rich people problems, tim's money would help out. you'd be taken care of and he clearly loves you, so i didn't mind too much."

"but this..." farah trails off, "i can't accept this."

turning towards marissa, "tita, please."

"don't do that, bear. wag kang tanga. it's not good to be with him."

"he loves me! is that not enough?" bernard near-yells, "i thought that's what you wanted. someone who loves me!"

"enough to quit being a vigilante?" esperanza asks.

"quit being a vigilante? are you guys hearing yourself?" bernard asks angrily, "he saves the city on a near-nightly basis and you want me to ask him to give it all up because what? he's dating me?"

"so let him save the city without you." nurse gu says, "why does he need to drag you into it?"

"he's not dragging me into anything! i am a full consenting adult! i chose him! what’s so different about what he and i do anyway?"

“well for one, our job is legal. and two, there are safety measures put in place so that you don’t get hurt. so that your coworkers don’t get hurt. your man walks into the joker’s lair with an inch of kevlar and a prayer on his lips.” zacharia says.

nurse gu sighs, "look. nobody here is mad at him for saving the city. everyone here knows somebody who has been saved by the bats. but the deal is that they save the city and they don't drag anybody else into it."

"the bats, whoever they are? they chose that life. for whatever reason, they chose that life and all the dangers that go with it. you’re not stupid bear, don’t get involved with whatever he has going on. pick literally anyone else.” farah says.

“you need a third person that badly? take zach! the ER was planning on setting you up with him before we found out about tim, anyway.”

“what?” zacharia says, rounding on nurse gu.

“you know what?” bernard says, pinching the bridge of his nose tiredly, “ i don’t have to explain myself to you guys.”

“you can’t marry him.” marissa says.

“who said anything about marriage? i’m 22!”

“you clearly love tim. you two seem like you’re going to last a while and if you love red robin they way you love tim, them somewhere along those years of being together then you’re going to start thinking of marriage. what then? how are you going to explain red robin to the people you love?”

“we’ll cross that bridge when we get there.”

“look, bernard,” farah says gently, “we’re not doing this cause we don’t want you to be happy. you mean a lot to me, i think of you as my son. we just-”

“you’re not my mom.” bernard snaps out, “you’re not my mom, you’re not my aunt, my uncle, my brother. you guys aren’t anything to me!”

he turns and walks away.

“farah do something.” marissa hisses.

“let him go. he said he’s an adult right? then let him make his choices.”

“but,” she says, raising her voice so bernard can hear her, “if anything goes wrong, and i mean anything at all, i hope he knows that adults don’t have to do everything by themselves. that they can ask people for help.”

bernard’s hands still on the doorknob. “thank you.” he says voice rough, “nothing will happen, but thank you for the offer.” and he walks out the door.

bernard dowd, is 22 year old EMT that has too much heart and not enough brain. he’ll rush into burning buildings if he thinks he has even a minute chance of saving someone. he’s kind and he’s sweet and more importantly, he’s dating timothy drake-wayne, ceo of wayne enterprises.

if you ask the ER night staff at gotham general, after a lot of prodding, they might tell you that bernard dowd was one of the youngest EMTs to ever join the gotham county emergency medical services. they might tell you that bernard dowd has been wondering if he should become an AEMT or a paramedic. they might tell you that as the major receiver for all patients, bernard saw them all the time and imprinted on them like a baby duck. and if you’re really close they might, tell you the ER’s biggest secret: bernard dowd is dating both timothy drake-wayne and red robin. or they might just let you walk in on them making out behind the ER. whatever comes first really.

(if you get close enough to a certain group of people on the ER night staff, they’ll tell you that bernard dowd has two hands and he uses them to hold onto his boyfriends. 

they’ll tell you that tim drake is a nice boy and they’re a little worried about their bernard fitting into the circles a wayne walks in, but he’s a nice boy who clearly loves bernard, so they’re not too worried.

they’ll tell you that that red robin character is no good for their bernard and has no business getting so close to their youngest. that red robin is going to get bernard into trouble one day, the kind of trouble that you don’t come back from.

and if you get really close to them, they’ll tell you over lunch breaks and muttered whispers, that both boys are going to break their youngest’s heart. and that if they had to pick, red robin will do it first. that their bernard loves a little too deeply and that they're worried that it’ll break bernard.

but they’re not too worried, they say. because bernard has them and if that bastard red robin breaks his heart, then they’ll pick up the pieces, they’ll sew him back together if they have to. after all, bernard stitches up half of gotham every night, this is the least they could do.)

[punkeropercyjackson]

Robstar Perlex redraw by my little brother @jellyfilledeyes i asked him to do because he said they're the same ship in different font and it made me so happy as a Kory kinnie and Dickkory stan♡Ref!!

[atticuscortes]

atticus cortes for event 013: country night at oasis.

ft. @noralevin, @maura-cortes, @robinsantos, @aurorabayaesthetic

[pytndyer]

📸 robin

@robinsantos

[julianxpark]

✨ robin

✨  for  a  random  text  from  my  muse // @robinsantos

Julian: ok so don't freak out Julian: but i am currently looking right at jessica alba at comic con Julian: if she wasn't fully married, i'd totally slip her your number Julian: imagine how many roommate points i'd get for that

[dxnielibxrra]

closed starter: @robinsantos / location: four leaf pub

Four Leaf Pub wasn't Daniel's first choice, but he didn't dare step into The Reef in case a certain someone's best friend was working. However, out of all places, it was the last place that he thought he would see a familiar face. One that he was not particularly fond of. "Guess cats really do just drag anything in." He said as he took the only chair left at the bar. "Funny seeing you here." He looked over at the brunette next to him, although it wasn't funny, but Robin Santos had caused enough trouble in his life.

[ravirussell]

jessie’s girl: what would you do if you found out your best friend was seeing your ex?

"I'd have to take a long walk on the beach, right into the ocean until I disappeared into the horizon." @solaadisa @robinsantos

🎸 50 iconic 1980s song asks

[reggiellewellyn]

closed for: @robinsantos

where: 100.3 pirate radio

"Well, well, well," Reggie says with a smirk before he bites into the green apple that he had taken from the station's break room, finding more than just one kind of snack on his wander back through the hallways. There was no mistaking the woman he had spent a night with before she vanished without a trace the next morning, making the way he took her in with his eyes an unnecessary step -- that was just for him.

He swallows down the apple chunk by the time he speaks again, his gaze still admiring.

"Of all the radio stations in all of Aurora Bay, you just so happen to wander into mine."

( He's not certain there was any other radio stations, but that was beside the point. )

[solaadisa]

👀 + why did robin smash your food truck window?

"—...we have...history, I guess. Not-so-awesome, not-so-ancient history. And she's still mad about it. I don't think she'll ever not be mad about it, and that makes me...angry? Sad? Like, I never wanted to be one of those girls who had a friendship fall apart because of a guy, but here we are, and I can't really even blame her. That much. Actually, I kinda blame her a little, because it wasn't cheating— he swore to me that they weren't together when we— otherwise I never would've—"

"It's complicated."

@robinsantos / @ravirussell

— 👀 + a question | open.

[ziggykyeons]

closed for: @robinsantos

where: their place, seabrook

"This is nice," Ziggy sighs with his eyes closed from behind the face mask that makes him look like Michael Meyers slightly less homicidal cousin, his feet up on the coffee table and a frozen margarita in hand that they had concocted in the kitchen.

He's got his laptop connected to the TV via a HDMI for a pivotal reason -- their Love Island premiere watch -- and it's only when Maya Jama appears on screen does he open them to focus.

"I think I'd clean up on here if I was on it. They asked me to do the US one, you know but I wasn't single, kind of kicking myself about that."

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Book names + authors under the cut

Hunter/Serpentine- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Daniela “Dani” Vargas/Carmen Santos- We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia

Tavra/Onica- The Dark Crystal by J. M. Lee

Robin Blyth/Edwin Courcey- A Marvelous Light by Freya Marske

[blake-michaels]

"I said it once, and it's stuck. You're forever 'lovebug' in my book!"

@robinsantos

[fiaxsouza]

Closed: @robinsantos

Location: Seasalt Spa

"Okay... I know there are client confidentiality clauses and all, but did I hear correctly that Sabrina Lewis is having her husband investigated?" Her friend had blown up her phone, sharing that this notable housewife in Orange County was causing a lot of ruckus recently out of spite for her husband's actions. "It's tax evasion, isn't it? He seems the type," she chuckled.

[tonguesofdestruction]

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