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snowangeldotmp3 · 9 months

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I want to hear more about "i wanted her to look at me."

okay SO 'i wanted her to look at me' is technically a prequel to everything that happens in the rebel robin: surviving the upside down au.

it originally was not going to exist, and i had no plans for a prequel of sorts, but i sat down to kind of outline/plan the 'season 3' part of the au and then went, "wait.....what if robin said 'nancy wheeler' instead of 'tammy thompson' in the bathroom with steve...?" because ALLEGEDLY (bc idk how true it is) robin was supposed to say nancy's name in that scene but they changed it last minute. AND nancy wheeler is based on nancy thompson from A Nightmare on Elm Street.

but, because we also have a book and a podcast about robin and about her discovering she's a lesbian and becoming the robin we know today, i'm using those as reference points too. (and also rebel robin is canon to ME.)

so robin discovers she likes girls and not only does she like girls, but specifically nancy wheeler, who is currently being wooed by steve harrington. it's about a week, maybe a week and a half before november 6th, 1983, the day that (at least, in this au) robin and will disappear.

here's a tiny piece of it:

...but today is worse, because it’s Monday, and it’s raining, and it’s Halloween, and Nancy Wheeler is wearing Steve’s letterman jacket.

originally i was going to add in a little barb and robin scene, since they were friends before nancy and barb were, but i'm still on the fence about it, so right now it sits in the deleted scenes folder for this wip lol. but !! thank you for this ask!!

wip wednesday <3

#got mail! 📩#eriquin #again !! thank you for this !! seeing it all like this and kind of structured really helps me too so !!#ronance #robin buckley #fun fact halloween was on a monday in 1983. that is the Worst day for halloween to fall on in my opinion. besides like. a wednesday #rebel robin: surviving the upside down #there was also going to be a plot twist type of thing that i was going to do but it just didn't feel right to do in this wip and it felt #like i was taking away from robin by doing that SO.#i've decided to save it for later #maybe #(the plot twist was comphet nancy lmao)

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