Max: can i go over to el's house tonight?
Robin: did you ask Nancy?
Max: she said no
Robin: then why did you ask me?
Max: she's not the boss of you
Robin, internally: it's a trap it's a trap it's a trap it's a trap
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Listen, I'm a sucker for hurt/comfort. It's well and truly my wheelhouse. Therefore:
Ronance hurt/comfort ideas
These may become fics at some point if I have the energy to write them (point 4 and the final point are strong contenders for fics, especially the last one).
When Nancy has nightmares about Barb or...everything that's happened in Hawkins, she always ends up hiding her face in Robin's neck, with Robin gently playing with her hair. It just makes her feel safe. Sometimes she wakes up and she doesn't immediately realise where she is or who she's with, and she'll scream and weakly hit at Robin as the redhead pulls her close. She always feels awful when she realises, but Robin just gently shushes her and tells her it's okay.
Robin has a nasty self-sacrificing problem (which she and Steve have in common) and she has an especially bad habit of throwing herself into danger without telling anyone. Nancy loses her shit with her after Robin shoves Max out of the way of a tentacle in the Upside Down during the final confrontation with Vecna, and is almost strangled by it before Eddie saves her.
Speaking of Max, they both take on pretty serious big sister rolls with her, especially after they finally beat Vecna. The first 2 weeks after it all, Max stays at the Wheelers with Nancy (and Robin, because Robin's staying over too) because she's terrified to be alone. They basically become for her what Steve and Eddie are for Dustin and the boys.
Both of them have serious paranoia issues, but Nancy's are definitely more prevalent on a day-to-day basis. Her worst trigger is when Robin (or anyone for that matter) is gone longer than they said they would be. Like, one night Robin was supposed to go to the Wheeler's after a shift and she was 2 hours late (she stayed for some overtime and got chatting to Eddie for 20 minutes) and when she got to Nancy's room, Nancy was curled in a corner having a panic attack. She was so afraid something had happened to Robin.
Robin's paranoia manifests more when she's feeling ill or otherwise 'weak.' She caught the flu at one point and Nancy had to all but pin her to the bed to get her to actually rest. In the 5 minutes Nancy was in the kitchen, Robin managed to work herself up into a panic because if anything came to hurt them, she wouldn't be able to help. Nancy gently ran a hand through her hair and quietly assured her that they were safe, Steve and Eddie were safe, the kids were safe, everyone was okay, just to get her to sleep.
Robin also gets worried that some day the pressure might just become too much for Nancy. Being gay in Hawkins isn't the best thing (because 80s rural America) and even when she knows she's being stupid, Robin worries that Nancy might decide to leave her just to avoid the judgement. Nancy couldn't give less of a shit what anyone thinks of her for dating Robin, so she always tries to assure Robin that that's never gonna happen.
Robin has a full blown meltdown after she gets diagnosed with autism. Not because of the diagnosis itself, but because people suddenly start listening to her. Suddenly, people don't make her do last minute stuff. They don't make her eat unsafe food. They don't make her wear uncomfortable clothes anymore. Nancy finds her in their apartment, just screaming and sobbing so hard she can't breathe properly. When she manages to get her to talk again, Robin just whimpers "None of it mattered, no one listened until a piece of paper told them they had to." Is this one projection? This one might be protection.
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