#I am ALSO thinking about a potential ronance fic where nancy realizes Robin lost her job bc she was checking on her

[eskawrites]

Random robin thoughts brought to you by the fact that I finally read rebel robin recently and the entire time I was just thinking about barb and robin parallels. Like I know it’s been pointed out the parallels between robin and will, and how it could’ve easily been robin taken by the demogorgon instead and that’s so interesting to me. But the barb parallels are just as interesting to me (and just as sad tbh)

I mean first of all Robin is saying the entire time that Barb just ran away. That she ran away and she found someplace better than Hawkins and it is 1000% projection because that’s all Robin wants to do, more and more so as the book goes on. She talks about Barb escaping the Hawkins monster just like Robin wants to. Except, Barb didn’t escape. She never had a chance to. And neither does Robin—not the metaphorical teenage angst monster, and not the actual monsters that she gets caught up in eventually

But also, ALSO, Robin’s interactions with her friends mirroring Barb’s last interactions with Nancy. Robin’s closest friend drops her so he can pursue his crush, leaving her all alone. And it’s even more obvious on the night when Dash is being a creep and Robin tries to get Kate to leave with her. Kate argues with Robin and chooses to stay with Dash (Nancy argues with Barb and chooses to stay with Steve), and Robin is left to head home alone on a cold November night

If that interaction had happened just a couple weeks earlier, it could’ve been Robin killed instead of Barb. And just like how Robin doesn’t have a Joyce to march into hell and back for her, she doesn’t have a Nancy to go looking for her either. None of her friends would go looking for her. They wouldn’t climb into alternate dimensions to find her or bait monsters to avenge her or illegally gather evidence against a shady government entity in order to bring justice and closure to her family

Idk what the point of this post is, but I’m feeling so much for little lonely sophomore Robin who was so close to tragedy and had absolutely no one to fight for her

#this has been me getting up in my feelings about Robin Buckley #this has also been me emphasizing how critical Nancy is to the plot #and how much she really does do for barb </3 #I am ALSO thinking about a potential ronance fic where nancy realizes Robin lost her job bc she was checking on her #and the two awkwardly become friends from there #but that’s another post #anyway #Robin Buckley #the poor lucky soul that you are #stranger things