you’re not scared of anyone robert sugden probably most scared guy i know btw. literally pathologically destructively scared since he was like fourteen.
do the bad thing!
merry christmas, please don’t call
yeah sure is
robert sugden | smalltown boy
That civil enough for you?
21-Jul-2025
unhinged robert you will always be famous
god kate oates really popped off when she went “yeah let’s re-introduce legacy character robert sugden. and let’s make him bi. fuck it why not” owe that bitch my entire life
ROBERT J SUGDEN IS WEARING A FLANNEL THIS IS NOT A DRILL
I feel like Robert really doesn’t like being this sort of damaged guy that has ptsd nightmares and needs help from other people and this week was really about clawing back some semblance of his old self to prove to himself that he can still be that person.
I mean, he gets out of prison, scrapes enough of the old Robert together to go crash Aaron’s wedding and try to win him back and not only gets rejected by the love of is life and has to live with the fact that he just married Robert’s weird new half brother but he also gets sent back to prison (by the love of his life no less).
He has all this prison trauma already and then he gets beat up again but hey, not all bad, Aaron’s coming to see him but then he gets rejected again. John comes to twist the knife in about how much he doesn’t have a place in his old life. He manages to score a point with the bridge kiss and he’s now genuinely concerned about John not being a good guy but Vic doesn’t believe him and he knows Aaron won’t because he’s so thoroughly pushing him away.
So he comes back to the village he’s been rejected from time and time again and has a pretty rough first week.
He thinks he’s getting things sorted with getting the job with Caleb but that gets immediately ruined by John. Then his ptsd nightmares are ruining his sleep, causing him to hurt Vic, forcing him to admit that he’s really not okay and in a more honest way and not for a scheme. This is a real problem. Aaron rejects him again. He goes on the date from hell in the end and ends up in the back or John’s van staring at a syringe and knows this guy is a nut job but can’t prove it. Vic forces their truce and he’s gotta play along for his sake cause now he has to figure out how to play the long game. He’s still having nightmares. John’s mocking him for not being able to pay for lunch and embarrassing him with the Hide job with Gabby. Then he has to accept farm work scraps from Vic’s meddling and Marty’s generosity.
So he’s had the worst first week back. But hey at least Mack doesn’t really like John.
So he’s got no Aaron, no steady job, trauma he can’t shake and he’s having to accept help from everyone and he’s got an evil brother he can’t prove is evil.
So I can see why a bit of scheming was appealing to him. It proves to himself that the real him is still in there. And if he can have that and a bit of money in his pocket, he feels a bit more stable. The ptsd hasn’t gone away and he still doesn’t have Aaron and he still has to prove John is bad news and he still probably needs some help from his sister, from other people in general but at least he knows the old Robert, the one that got left behind in 2019, the one that had it all, he’s still in there and maybe he can get back to that.
the ache of watching 11 year old robert constantly telling his parents that he feels overshadowed by andy and thinks everybody stopped caring about him once andy showed up, knowing that that pain is going to haunt and shape him for the rest of his life
EYE personally think it makes perfect sense that after robert has spent 6 years physically and mentally locked away from the world in a prison where he was constantly hounded and beaten and bullied and where he never had a moment to simply just exist because he was always in survival mode and constantly surrounded by other prisoners and guards and noise and walls and bars that he would find a lot of peace in working out in open fields surrounded by nature especially when it's so familiar to him and likely reminds him of an easier simpler time in his life and the family and the life that he did once have as a child. i think that maybe a lot of robert's hatred for the farm he grew up on has less to do with the farm itself and perhaps had more to do with the fact that he was a queer teenager trapped in a tiny village with an abusive homophobic father and a golden child of a brother who killed his mother and he felt scared and trapped and isolated and alone and the farm became a physical embodiment of that ugly frightened feeling he felt as a boy. i think it makes perfect sense that this version of robert who is so deeply hurt in so many different ways but who is nowhere near as angry as he once was or desperate to prove that he's 'more' or 'better than' his roots with money and status or fucking people over would find a sense of solace in metaphorically returning to the beginning and starting all over again. i think robert's penchant and desire for fancy things always stemmed from him feeling like he was less than and therefore needed something physical to make up for the deficit of being him and not because that's truly who he was or what he wanted at his core. personally. but you know. he does like his fancy body wash so who knows 🤪