Another Powered!Robert au idea, where his power is actually fairly disabling though it helps him survive things.
Robert has an intense healing factor, but his injuries have to be near fatal for it to kick in. He’s not immortal, he could be killed instantly, but he’s way tougher than a normie should be. It’s why he can jump back from torture or crashes and the like and be relatively unharmed.
However, the catch is that when he isn’t injured enough for it to kick in, it acts like an Autoimmune disorder . Not any specific one, he’ll just have random nasty symptoms and sometimes get sick for no reason. With a bonus near constant chronic pain because his cells attack healthy cells and then his power kicks in to heal it so i doesn’t kill him. He has to go to a special Doctor that knows the disorder is super power caused so he can be treated with medicines that actually work.
When they kick in for injuries it works on a range of “This is just the amount to make things chill out for a couple weeks” to “This is too much so your powers have overloaded and you can’t manage to get out of bed the next week.”
Why does he have this power? Because he was grown in a Mad Science Tube by Robbie and Elliot, when they couldn’t get a fetus to stabilize they decided to use the Astral Pulse and for Technobabble reasons it worked to make a Viable Baby but the SciFi radiation it has also gave him super healing. (the super healing is the reason he was able to functionally grow)










