FIC: Five Things Robin Scherbatsky Doesn't Do (How I Met Your Mother, Robin/Barney)

[fearlessfan]

Title: Five Things Robin Scherbatsky Doesn’t Do
Fandom/Pairing: How I Met Your Mother, Robin/Barney
Spoilers: Up through season three, and some plot points from season four, although they play out differently in the story.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Robin doesn’t fall in love with Barney (except for how she totally does).
Length: 9700 words.
Notes:

Comments

[sinsense]

HURARGHK. That is the noise I made at several points during this story. Good lord, how do you do this to me? HOW? First: the romance. The romance! Second: Lily is pitch-perfect in this, which leads me to third: I love Robin's internal monologue, and Lily's unexpected injunction for her to man up, because you made both her direct persona and her internal monologue believable. Fourth: In general, you got the tone of the show so down, I am SO jealous of how you do that, it is UNFAIR and you should STOP. Fifth, this is really where I bought in to the story, hook line and sinker:
Sitting on the couch-bed fifteen minutes later, though, warm noodles in a bowl cradled in her lap, the feeling comes back, a feeling that Robin has always put on a list of things that were fine for other people, just not her; things like having kids, getting married, adopting cats.

Robin is homesick.

"Argh, this is lame!" she says to the empty room, through a mouthful of noodles so it actually doesn't sound like anything recognizable.I snorked up Lucky

[fearlessfan]

FELLOW JESS! Thank you so much! I didn't know you watched How I Met Your Mother or I would have TORTURED you last Friday by forcing you to endure all of my anxiety over the story, since I was stuck on the ending when I saw you! You are very lucky to have dodged that bullet! :)

But seriously, thank you so much for this awesome, awesome comment, which has made me all blushy and put a huge smile on my face. I so respect your opinion, so I can't tell you how excited I was to get this comment!

And re: Kristan Higgins, I will totally send you the book! I have your address, but I think it's an old one - it's from '06 and I'm pretty sure you've moved. Could you e-mail me your addy?

And again, thank you so much for this comment!

[sinsense]

I should have prodded it out of you! I only catch it once a month or so, but I try to keep track of the plot arcs, because I like it so much. Barney! Robin! Secretly I cherish them together. They really are a dream pairing of snark and manly stoicism. (Well, Robin carries most of the burden with the manliness, but.)

I will email you my address! Hooray!

[fearlessfan]

I totally not-so-secretly (obviously) cherish them together. BARNEY/ROBIN 4EVA.

Well, Robin carries most of the burden with the manliness, but.

She totally does, and I love that about them!

And I got your addy! I will track down the book and mail it to you post-haste!

[annakovsky]

AHHHHH OMG. I was so excited when I saw you posted HIMYM fic, and this did NOT disappoint, at all at all. It's so PERFECT, all the sections, how Robin it is, how Barney. And it gave me so many Robin/Barney feelings, which the show so often does and fic so rarely does, haha. So many fantastic lines.

"Aww," Robin says, and scoots her chair around the table so she can put an arm around Lily's shoulders. It's the kind of thing she's always seen girls do for their friends but nothing she's felt compelled to do herself until now.

Heee, oh, ROBIN.

And the whole scene where she tells Barney she's moving to Japan, and his quiet, quiet responses -- you just convey so much, so subtley. Just fantastic.

[fearlessfan]

Oh man, thank you so much for this comment! I am stupidly attached to Barney and Robin, and Barney/Robin, so I think half the reason I took so effing long to finish it was because I was afraid the story would be awful (and part of me still worries that it is!), so it's awesome to hear that you liked it, and an extra thank you for the note about the Robin/Barney interaction in the first scene. Thank you so much!

[agate]

"I got Kendall the Terrible to admit to stealing the class hamster in less than three minutes last week. It was a personal best," she says. "And that kid's a straight-up sociopath."

HEEEEEE. This is SO FANTASTIC. I love the voices and how everyone in it is so THEM but not in an over-the-top way...fic has such a tendency to turn sitcom characters really two-dimensional but they're so HUMAN in this. Seriously, this is super, super, wonderfully extra-awesome.

[fearlessfan]

Thank you so much for the lovely comment! And your note about how human the characters felt to you was awesome to get, such a wonderful thing to hear. Thank you so much!

[park_hye_in]

oh my freaking GOD. i love this! auggghhhhh this is so, so perfect, i can't even control myself. great job.

[fearlessfan]

Oh, thank you so much! I'm so glad you liked the story!

[fearlessfan]

Dude! Thank you so much! This comment is so amazing it totally leaves me speechless. I am so glad you enjoyed it and thank you SO much for saying such kind things. Thank you!