Platonic Stobin - Tumblr Posts
I need someone to be the Robin to my Steve please applications are open now
platonic stobin is what fuels me. platonic stobin is what wraps me up in a blanket and tucks me into bed when my day was too much, grabs a bowl of dry cereal, and sets the volume to just the right number. platonic stobin is what i crave and what i need and i will fight anyone who says anything otherwise
*grips your shoulders tightly* listen to me. you HAVE to make stobin weirder, okay? you have to make them the embodiment of that Secret Third Thing™️. they’re those cats at a shelter that you can’t separate for anything. make them do examinations of each others bodies cause they’re worried about a health issue. make them share a single piece of gum. make them swap pronouns and names and clothes on a regular basis. make them shower together. i need one of the kids to call for steve in a different room and have robin come to help instead because they’re one person. i need steve to show up to work wearing robins tag cause she’s too sick to come in. they have to get weirder, do you understand? it’s for their health.
Broke: scoops troop's trauma not being acknowledged and them just ignoring it
Woke: them joking about all the stuff they went through in front of their very concerned friends
Bespoke: Robin had the trait to make little concerning jokes and comments and the rest of the scoops troop adopted it from her because of all the time they spent together
"I love you." Robin's eyes were dead, emotionless. Her eyebags only added to the effect, like straight charcoal was rubbed underneath her eyes. Like she hadn't slept in a week. And she probably hadn't, Steve remembered. Her voice was raspy from misuse, the only sounds Steve had heard her say since he found her being screams and those three simple words. He held her bloody hand, rubbing the joints on her fingers. Too thin fingers. He suddenly realized she wouldn't have had anything to eat all week unless she was eating the monsters corpse.
His eyes trailed down her arms. Covered in inhuman bites and scratches. He could feel splinters in her fingers. That explained the mediocre stake she had. That she swapped for her hands halfway through the fight. He shivered, remembering the gruesome fate that the monsters were doomed to. Even evil creatures didn't deserve such a horrible death. He glanced at the desecrated corpses surrounding them. What had she gone through to make her fight like... THAT?
The thing that really caught his attention was the cut on her forehead. A large scratch, mediocrely covered by a strip of her jacket.
With a start, he realized he hadn't responded. "I..." His voice cracked with emotion. Tears welled up in his eyes as he pulled her into a bone crushing hug, breaking down sobbing. "I love you too..." He mumbled into her shoulder.
The corpses surrounding them didn't matter anymore. The sulfur in the air of the upsidedown didn't matter anymore. Not even the fact that they were still in the upsidedown and anything could attack them at any moment mattered. The only thing that mattered was Robin back in his arms.
OR Robin gets dragged into the upside-down and can't be found for a week. Steve finds her and they fight a pack of demidogs (more of Steve watching in horror as Robin decimated them)
Not only has Robin seen Steve’s dick, she’s had a bunch of follow-up questions (“-so can it actually, like, get bigger?” “I am not answering you sober.” “Steve, it’s the middle of our shift, where am I going to get alcohol?”), has looked at photographs/film of other dicks for comparison and concluded that - as dicks go - Steve’s is pretty aesthetically pleasing.
Whether she informs him of this as part of a daily report on her research progress, as a compliment to bolster his self-esteem when he’s crying in the bathroom over someone who doesn’t deserve him or if she brings it up apropos of nothing during movie night that there’s a nude/sex scene - up to you. Regardless of context, Steve is genuinely touched and flattered and everyone else within earshot is fucking baffled.
everyone loves uncomfortably close stobin until we start talking about steve’s dick lmao. then they have a relationship that’s reminiscent of two ten year olds lol
really though, stobin are the kind of friends that walk in on each other in the shower to ask where they’re going for lunch. zero boundaries babey.
also, robin doing research on steve is so real to me, the stobin discord jokes about it all the time lmao. she has little notebooks, and any time he does something unusual it’s being picked apart and decoded.
also, also. any time they’re watching tv and a hot guy/gal comes on screen, it’s: “you’re wayyy hotter” “you could get her easy” “your boobs are totally better than his” they like reassuring each other <3
Robin: Can't you just try to see things from my point of view, dingus?
Steve: *crouching down* Nope, still bullshit
Steve: WHO ATE MY YOGURT!?
Steve: I'M GOING TO FUCKING K-
Eddie: I did?
Steve: kiss you and buy some more, you honestly haven't been eating enough today Eds *walks away*
Eddie: he's gone Robs
Robin, coming out of the closet with yogurt stuffed in her mouth: twankh uh
Steve: Don't go to the kitchen
Robin: Why?
Steve: I saw a spider
Robin: Well, did you kill it?
Steve: It has 8 arms and I only have 2, it's not fair…
Robin: it's not illegal though
Steve: *stares into Robin‘s room, which is full of cats?*
Steve: it's just..there's so many..
Robin: but it's not illegal
Robin, drunk: Stevie, are we friends?
Steve, also drunk: best friends Robbie
Robin: would you give me your kidney?
Steve: i'd give you my left kidney
Robin: but i want the right one
Steve: well now that's just being unreasonable
Steve, in line at a coffee shop: Can I get a very large cold brew with uh, seven espresso shots?
Robin, who just started working there: God, just do cocaine.
Sue me but I can't help but think that Best Friend by Conan Gray is definitely platonic Stobin coded
And that Family Line by Conan Gray is Billy coded
Disclaimer: Just to clarify I'm not saying he wrote those songs about them but that for me they feel like they are about them
if i had a nickel for every au spawned from twitter that i SWORE i was going to be normal about
PLATONIC STOBIN MY BELOVED
They're being chased by a monster and yet their first instinct at hearing Dustin singing on the radio is to judge him. I love them so much.
this scene in a nutshell
(Bonus: without captions and with Eddie's smile because LOOK AT HIM)
Bros beautiful
oh you write Steve and Robin as friends who only kinda tolerate each other and Robin has no interest in Steve's hobbies and they're only friends because they're traumabonded? Oh... that's cool... anyways MY Steve sends Robin his noods so she can rate them on a scale of 1-10 before he sends them to Eddie
istg I've never shipped then unshipped a pairing faster than Steve and Robin THEYRE BESTIES AND I LOVE THEM
my husband and my wife (left to right) ♡
