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1. All You Can Do is Control It by mvtk42

   Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • Gen, F/M
   • Work in Progress

   30 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Shroud | Elliot Connors/Vitalia
   • Shroud | Elliot Connors
   • Robert "Robbie" Robertson | Astral Mecha Man
   • Robert's mother (minor mention)
   • Chase | Track Star (Dispatch)
   • minor OCs
   • Robert Robertson | Mecha Man
   • Brave Brigade (Dispatch) - Character
   • Vitalia (Dispatch)
   • Pre-Canon
   • Start Of Darkness
   • Robbie Robertson is a Bad Person
   • slight gun violence
   • some body horror
   • is it canon divergence if there's no canon to diverge from?
   • Powers during kissing
   • Era-common views on child rearing
   • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
   • Minor Child Abuse (a slap)
   • Worldbuilding
   • fleshing out the skeletal canon they gave us with theorycrafting until things make sense
   • Powers During Sex
   • Counter Sex
   • Mild canon divergence
   • Slow Build
   • welding the plot holes closed
   • no beta we die like Robbie's gonna
   • Tragic Romance
   • Elliot Connors is a Bad Man
   • Nobody Knows Who Robert's Father is
   • Doomed Relationship
   • Fix-It
   • Shroud could've been such a better villain if AdHoc had had the time
   • But we're gonna make him worth Matthew Mercer's voice

   Summary

   Shroud didn't start his life wanting to be a villain. Elliot Connors always dreamed of being a hero.

   But hero work isn't as simple as just saving the day and enjoying the parade after. There is pain. There is terror. There are sacrifices.

   The greater good eats you alive piece by piece, until there's nothing left of the person you were - only the parts of you too vicious to die.

   Build Up: Ch 1-14
   Downfall: Ch 15-22
   Villain/Prison Era: Ch 23-
   Game Events:

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   119,055

   Chapters:

   24/?

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

   125

   Bookmarks:

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