Wilbur Robinson - Tumblr Posts
Wilbur as a defence attorney: [mouthing 'girl this is bullshit' to the judge (Penny) as the prosecutor talks]
Penny: [shaking her head and mouthing 'I know baby"]
More au stuff, remember, when I say "it gets worse before it gets better" I do not mean it's a one arc thing
HA
No. I mean, this is something that will probably last until the end of the story
Anywho enjoy the gang watching stranger things
*PTSD Thing* What if Wilbur one night just woke up screaming, and took half the family to calm him down. Like he forget where he was for a few seconds.
I raise you the idea of the whole Robinson family rushing to Wilbur’s room in the middle of the night because they heard him screaming, and when they get there all they find is a scarily quiet Wilbur hugging himself tightly because he doesn’t want to get pulled out from the space-time continuum again.
And that was how the Robinsons learned about him getting un-born.
Futuristic Four Headcanons
Violet collects vinyl records!! Whenever Wilbur time-travels, either to the future or the past, he gets her new records. It makes her really fucking happy
Cornelius (Wilbur’s dad) and Hiro studied together at SFIT and are actually pretty good friends!! (I haven’t decided if they spent all four years studying together or if Cornelius did an exchange for a year or something)
Wilbur really likes jazz music. He grew up listening to it because of his mom, and he grew to be really fond of it. This results in the gang taking a lot of trips to the 1920s to listen to the music and dance the night away
Penny and Wilbur have the Ultimate Pity Parties together. Although they usually convey an air of confidence, they feel as if they’re not strong or smart enough to be part of the team sometimes. Hiro and Violet don’t know about it, at least not for a long time
Wilbur and Violet would not get along at all when they first meet.
She takes his Confidence Act as arrogance and finds his determination to execute half-thought plans exasperating
He thinks that she’s a drag because she constantly disagrees with his ideas and acts like she thinks she has the right to tell him what to do (when she’s merely giving viable options based on past crimefighting experiences)
It probably goes on for a while but since they both like Penny and Hiro they deal with it
After a moment of catharsis (idk after a mission or maybe in the middle of it), they finally begin to understand one another and get over it and a beautiful friendship begins to grow
For some reason I constantly imagine Penny and Hiro going out for slushies late at night. They would sit by the curb or near the parking lot and just talk about things they don’t feel comfortable talking about during the day.
like Tadashi’s death
like Penny’s dad’s disappearance
like how neither of them knows what they’re doing sometimes and they’re just hoping it’s the right thing
also I think there would be reassuring hugs and little hand touches and maybe a forehead kiss on a night he was feeling especially bold
Wilbur is the team’s coffee patch supplier (though dealer sounds more appropriate for some reason). He usually gets them for them during midterms and finals week. Hiro unsurprisingly uses them the most out of the four of them.
Heyyyyy
So remember how I said I have a au?? Yeah I made it a fic!!
So yeah go- go check it out, I just posted the first chapter :)
(HC) Wilbur is constantly covered in coffee patches, they're just all under his clothes. I'm willing to beg dollars to donuts he barley sleeps at all
Wilbur, wide awake at 4 am: good morning!
Hiro: wh- i- were you up all night??
Wilbur: yeahhhh, why?
Violet: this is like the 7th time this week, you get used to it.
Hiro: IT'S TUESDAY??? HOW ARE YOU ALIVE
Wilbur: I dunno, spite?
Super suit reworkings because I have a vibe I'm going for
*Cries really hard* the damn video game 😭
Wilbur’s “I tried like crazy to fix things!” line takes on an even greater emphasis if you’ve played the game
Wilbur: Do you mind if I take the skin off the Furby? I want to make him a god. Once he is free from his sinful flesh, he can begin the path toward enlightenment. He will take care of us.
Wilbur: Also I want to softhack his circuits.
Cornelius: I’m sort of proud, but never say anything as frightening as that ever again.
No I’m serious he needs a good cry and a hug from his parents why did they just never mention the-
OK OK so my thing is, why did the game just brush over the like- 32 hours (give or take im making half this shit up) Wilbur spent fixing the timeline??? Like yeah I get it’s supposed to be a goofy fun silly game but ??????? I’m 100 percent sure no 13 year old would be completely anxiety free during all this like Wilbur was 🤨
Anyways more hcs but this time is just Wilbur:
•he’s actually closer to Talulla than Lazlo
Idk I feel like they bond pretty well as the dramatic(er) family members, plus talulla seems like that cousin who just vibes with the younger kids in the family
•”I’ll put all my feelings right here, then I’ll die.” He’s the gifted kid burnout
No because he was fr willing to run around alone in lava ass city instead of asking his parents for help, if that is not some “I need to be independent” thought train. Plus as the gifted kid/sibling I look at this kid and think to myself, “you’re a burnout 🤨”
• He was/is a bolt mega fan
Penny was his celebrity crush before captain time travel, she’s low-key the reason he’s so, adventurous and “cool” (he is cool but ok that’s a whole persona)
•he angry cries (see picture)
No because I’ve said this like 10 times but, how did he:
1. Almost die in a pyramid
2. Fuck up the time stream (1)
3. Fight multiple iron giant head ass robots
4. Help civilians around magma city
4.5. Fight mega Doris (that bitch)
5. Go back in time
6. Witness his future father interact with his present time family without anyone besides him and CARL knowing the truth
7. Watch Carl DIE
8. DIE HIMSELF
9. COME BACK TO LIFE
And be completely chill????? Rubs eyes omg
Anywho the game soundtrack is fire I think there should’ve been an extra cutscene where he gets to hug his parents and just be happy everyone is alive HAHAHA
WILLET - inspired by tfios
“ You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers. ”
Not to be a downer but willet nation, can one of y’all explain the appeal for team future??? I read it (and skipped damn near 75% future Wilbur and Violet had me annoyed) did NOT enjoy 😭
How is this the “best” willet fic out there I genuinely want an answer
Anywho uhh peak (implied???) willet imo is from https://archiveofourown.org/users/LibertyBelleAnne/pseuds/LibertyBelleAnne/works?fandom_id=24807930
Go read these, they’re fire 😎
Ight gn
*Kicks down door*
Alright meet the Robinsons fandom, check this shit out
Both Cornelius and Franny have freckles in their youth, and (presumably in Cornelius’s case) as adults. By punnet square logic, any offspring they have should also have freckles 🤔
Right. So where are they 😭
Disney where are his freckles, you can’t give me two fun characters with freckles and then not give their kid some
I legit made a punnet square for this man
It’s like 20% bullshit but the rest is real
Btw all the framagucci’s have thin waists and I think that’s actually great (except for Gaston but he stands fruity so he counts too)
Eating this shit up
Gundham’s just Tim Burton’s emo Wilbur Robinson AU
Good soup
Unnecessarily Complicated (Speculative) Psychoanalysis of the MTR characters:
*basically these are headcanons because the original canon? not much to go off of tbh
so I’m only doing the three main (ish) characters although I’ve already talked a lot abt Michael and Wilbur here.
Cornelius:
We know about him the most, from gawky self-depreacting childhood to freakishly collected adulthood so i can confidently say that he consistently seeks validation, covertly through his inventions. He will literally never say so out loud, not under oath, not with a gun to his head, not to anyone. But he craves attention and nothing is ever enough. He’s used to working to the bone until he gets what he wants to the point where when he does achieve something, he doesn’t know what to do with it. Once he’s finished one invention he’ll start another, if one project is failing or starts to bore him, he’ll immediately loose sleep on moving on to the next thing. Though he likes to tout about his love of charity and using his inventions to help people, they’re also a means to an end: both to seek others’ attention, and to distract from thinking about himself too much.
He doesn’t want to think about his flaws or his strengths, or his personality, or his vulnerabilities; it’s all about what he does. If someone were to criticise his inventions, that’s fine he’ll just work harder if someone criticises his behaviour or his personality it’s like hitting a brick wall. Of course if he cares enough about the situation he will find a way to adapt, he’s very stubborn and sometimes even obtuse but he’s a people pleaser at the end of the day. He simultaneously cares about pleasing everyone and asserting himself as an individual than everyone in a very specific way. He loves rules and he’ll follow them to a T until he finds a way to break them and be better than everyone else. He never wants praise for anything that he personally didn’t achieve or can’t control. Like if someone compliments him on his looks, he’ll call them vapid.
Everything is a work in progress, something to figure out and this also applies to his relationships. After years of rejection and abandonment he’s immediately suspicious of everyone but if and when someone does gain his trust and peak his interest, he’ll start to analyse them and pull their personality apart until he (thinks) he knows them. He can be very charming and finds all these ways to indirectly play his strengths to them, tailor himself to their personality, make all the gears mesh together. He’s really good at chasing after people but he’s also extremely self-conscious about seeming too clingy so he’ll compulsively avoid the very people he wants attention from. Like his work, once he does get someone to love him back he gets confused, like he never expected this to happen, he didn’t plan this far ahead. He needs someone to tell him what happens next, else he’ll get bored and scared and hole himself up in the lab.
He’s very driven and can become really hyper fixated on something he’s working on/any goal he’s working towards which often intimidates people, if they can’t keep up he’s likely to just leave them behind. And sometimes even justifies it by thinking its their fault they can’t follow, he can be very snobby. (i definitely think thats why he surrounds himself with people who share his intensity) He’s not necessarily confrontational but I think he enjoys the challenge of people picking a fight with him, like a debate.
Though as he gets older he becomes a lot more confident and calmer (and of course he has to for the diplomatic side of being a CEO and a parent) and he’s probably able to deal with everything much better and compartmentalise his work vs personal life and separate his identity from his projects. Partially due to his lingering abandonment fears, he’s very loyal to a select number of people. And when he makes the effort (which he sometimes forgets to), boy can he read people and emotionally empathise with them very closely. Slowly, he starts to learn how not to push things towards an indeterminate future and just hang out in the moment.
Franny:
Franny craves attention but it has to be in a very specific way: she goes out of her way to stand out and be The Weird Kid. If someone ever called her normal she would die. Be a musician? Be a scientist? Ew no. And anything that doesnt fit her carefully curated personality she’ll hide like a dirty secret. She pretends she doesn’t care about people’s opinions, that she’s above it all, if someone doesn’t like her, it must be because her strong sense of individuality intimidates people and not because she actively pushes them away because she’s afraid of intimacy. She’s independent that way, or stubborn depending on the day.
She’s very ambitious and very competitive. And if she decides that someone’s either boring or feels like hey don’t appreciate her enough, she cuts them off. Despite her warmth and friendliness, even to strangers, she can have a mean, no-nonsense personality and punish you for expectations she won’t admit she has. I doubt it’s very fun to be grounded by her.
Of course, to the people she loves, she goes all out and remembers every single little detail about them so she can make perfectly tailored, personalised gifts or outings on their birthdays. She’s very good at remembering people’s dislikes and their flaws and depending on the situation, will either do her best to avoid them or deliberately push their buttons to get back at them. She’s also very intuitive about people’s emotions, but she’s not always very open about all that insight, which she’ll keep to herself for safekeeping.
Franny is a sort of in-between for cornelius and wilbur, she doesnt care about performance at least not ultimately and she doesnt concern herself with what people think of her or wether they’ll leave her, she’s constantly living in the future and thinking about the big picture. She doesnt plan either because she knows that after the plan, life goes on. She just wants life to be fun and interesting and while she loves analysing it and taking it apart, it’s all a game to her, she just wants to laze around, eat chocolate and maybe travel to the world’s highest mountain and do something really impulsive .
Wilbur:
I once considered climbing into the Discourse Ring and getting into a debate w someone over wether or not Wilbur’s a Slytherin but i thought better of it because we’re all going to die and Hogwarts houses are worse than the MBTI types and who cares it’s just fun. But for the record: i don’t think he is and the reason is simple; it’s because he’s not ambitious. He’s too afraid to be.
He’s extremely intelligent, very witty and fairly adaptable to complete disaster. Everything for him is about performance, he’s a perfectionist and he goes out of his way to try everything: sports, checkers, math, sculpture, acting, knitting, gif-making. All the time and he has to be the best at everything he does but when he finds that there’s something he can’t do, he’ll dismiss it like nothing really matters in the grand scheme of it all. He doesn’t wanna say anything about it lest he confront his family’s gung-ho opinion on failure. And the thing is: the Robinson’s celebration of failure predicates an expectation of trying, of constantly working and you know what? He doesn’t want to try. He’s too scared to go after anything and he’s certainly weighed down by all the unspoken pressure of having a famous family of prodigies.
Sometimes he wishes there were rules he could follow so he could be the best at life but that doesn’t really work with his family’s complete lack of boundaries. I think there’s a part of Wilbur that will never truly grow up and not just because he’s spoilt or that he’ll always be freakishly close with his parents but also because he’s still waiting around for people to tell him what to do. I have a very specific image of him as an adult doing weird shit to compensate for how immature he feels. Like, he’ll make his house all black, no colour, he wears a tux and slicks his hair back with GOBS of hairgel, he has a fancy car he never uses but likes to show off because look how clean it is! Of course, even though he thrives on rules and fulfilling expectations, he’s still very selective on what rules he’ll follow because again: if he thinks it’s dumb or if it’ll negatively impact his rep, he’s not touching it with a ten-foot pole.
He’s very easily bored and gets distracted all the time (also hd him as having ADDD or ADHD). He’s deliberately getting himself into trouble and pushing people’s buttons as a way to act out. But again he’s very charming and very observant. He likes to play dumb but he’s secretly paying attention to everything about everyone and he knows exactly what will tick them off and what won’t. And given the right circumstances he can be a genuinely caring and empathetic person.
YO I FUCKING CALLED IT, WOLBUR HAD FRECKLES AT SOME POINT WE WERE ROBBED 😭😭😭
MTR Storyboards
Collection 7
lol what’s up Futuristic Four tumblr, i bring mood boards
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(Small note rq: yo u accidentally guessed half my true name, nice!! Just thought I’d point it out i think it’s funny)
Anyhwo the heterozygous explanation makes a lot of sense in hindsight, genetics and all that ✨ it just lowkey pains me because Wilbur with freckles would’ve been fantastic
Nice Punnett square! Looking back on mine i really should’ve just did the freckles and other facial features cuz i did get a bit confused by the time i was done 💀
*Kicks down door*
Alright meet the Robinsons fandom, check this shit out
Both Cornelius and Franny have freckles in their youth, and (presumably in Cornelius’s case) as adults. By punnet square logic, any offspring they have should also have freckles 🤔
Right. So where are they 😭
Disney where are his freckles, you can’t give me two fun characters with freckles and then not give their kid some
I legit made a punnet square for this man
It’s like 20% bullshit but the rest is real
Btw all the framagucci’s have thin waists and I think that’s actually great (except for Gaston but he stands fruity so he counts too)
😭
@cryptid-moone youre not gonna believe this