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Somewhere before the events of S4, when Dustin Henderson is still loudly crowing about how awesome Harrington is to all of Hellfire (but specifically Eddie) at large, the brat comes in with a new set of beautifully painted mini figures.

We are talking near professional level here. Realistic looking fire. Shadows and shading. This guys sword looks like it's GLOWING.

And Henderson keeps insisting fucking Steve Harrington did it.

"He says he used to get dumped with his Grandma a lot and she loved painting miniature dollhouse stuff. Steve said she let him do cool stuff with the paints while the watched tv."

"Of all the lies you have spewed," Eddie snarls around the fist he's practically eating, eyes boring holes into the newest beautifully displayed figure (a dragon that somehow looks like it's made of actual fucking ice) "This is the worst."

"But I'm not lying!"

"Holy shit, the thing has chrome gold nails." Jeff says, head level with the table to stare at it. "How is it chrome!?"

Eddie inhales.

Exhales.

Hisses: "The woooooorst."

Henderson just rolls his eyes and huffs.

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I love how steddie nation have some varying takes, but that we all agree on one thing.

Dustin has NO IDEA what's going on between his dads.

His gaydar? it's nonexistent.

So I have this stupid thought, that Dustin doesn't find out about Steddie, until Steve asks him to be his best man at his wedding. Dustin, rightfully, freaks out because;

"WHO ARE YOU EVEN MARRYING?! WHY DON'T I KNOW ABOUT THIS??!"

"What do you mean- Eddie, my boyfriend- erm, fiancé?" Steve just looks at Dustin like he's a moron, which, he might be. Dustin on the other hand, entire world view shattering.

"EDDIE IS YOUR BOYFRIEND AND I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT YOUR PROPOSAL-"

"Oh my gosh dude where have you been-"

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Eddie who thinks he’s the only gay guy in Hawkins and has to make trips to Indianapolis to meet other gays vs Steve who has hooked up with half the guys in Hawkins

Eddie thinks he was Steve’s bi awakening and Steve who is under the impression that they’ve probably hooked up with some of the same people

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The other day I read through all your officer noodle/ uncle Phil Callahan au posts and god!!!! How that would change (but also not!) the Dynamic S1 & S2 especially. Like Steve is the only kid without any parent on screen who is In His Corner. He’d finally have an Adult who gives a shit and, while he may not Like Steve, loves him & would be able to say ‘why is this teen getting the shit kicked out of him every 6 months’ and make sure he’s actually getting medical treatment every time he gets his shit rocked lol. Also the angst potential of Callahan & his mom (Steve’s grandma) realizing his sister abandoned them when she found a rich husband/ family but now she’s abandoning her own kid like she did them and like, ‘fuck is he my responsibility now if she’s not even in the country??’ Idk, would love to hear if you (or anyone else!) have any more Thoughts abt it!

I have thoughts! This is kinda long.

Phil was never particularly close with his sister, but the six-year age gap between them never felt wider than it did when he saw his nephew for the very first time. He was twelve, gangly and awkward, and his legs hurt all the time from growing, but he didn’t feel like an uncle.

Everybody said that he was an uncle now, but Uncle was a grown-up word and Phil was just a kid. He thinks that Mom is a grown-up word too and that just because Angie was eighteen and married, that it didn’t make her an adult.

When he saw her, tired and exhausted, holding her little bundle of baby like she didn’t quite know what to do with it… it felt like she was just playing pretend. He didn’t think that she should be having a baby or that she should be married to twenty-five year old Richard Harrington no matter how good his job was, but that was what happened.

Phil was technically the first man – boy – to hold little baby Steven because Richard had stepped out to make a call and didn’t come back until an hour after Steve was born. He had lipstick on his collar, wasn’t particularly interested in the baby, and Phil was left with this sinking feeling that they were all going to fail this kid.

Phil graduated from high school, tried college, dropped out, joined the police force, and that feeling remained there. It never really went away – not when Angie stopped coming around for holidays, not when they went five years without hearing from her, and not when he found out that she left her ten year old home alone while she followed her husband out of the country.

Phil’s dad died when he was young and he didn’t really remember much about the man, but he knew that he must have been a fierce man because that fierceness lives inside of Angie, or maybe it was just something that Richard Harrington put there. Their mother was not fierce. She was timid and kind, and she didn’t put up a fight when Angie came to collect her child after a week because she didn’t know how.

Angie said a lot of hateful words that day – mostly to Phil – and Richard threatened worse, but Steve didn’t cry when he was dragged away even though he looked like he wanted to. Phil was put on a week’s suspension after Richard threatened to sue the police department for harassment, and life went on.

Phil always pictured a life where he left Hawkins but it never came to fruition. He never moved out of his mother’s house. He made plans to but they fell through when her health took a turn. He stayed. He slept in the same bed that he had his whole life, he continued his work at the police department under Hopper, made a life-long friend out Calvin Powell, and he did not check in on his nephew. Though maybe he should have.

Phil’s interactions with Steve were few and far between and each one filled with more disdain and attitude than the one before. He saw him running out of parties that the police broke up, grinning through the window of his daddy’s car when he was pulled over for speeding, and he saw him beaten halfway to hell sitting in the waiting room after Will Byers was found.

“Did a nurse look you over?” Phil asked, crouching down to catch Steve’s eyes when it was just the two of them and a sleeping Ted Wheeler left in the waiting room. Steve squinted at him and shrugged, but otherwise didn’t respond. “You could have a concussion – you probably do.”

“I deserved it.”

“Yeah, I know,” Phil said because he probably did. He put his hand on Steve’s knee to lift himself back up but stopped, “God, you’re shaking like a leaf. Are you-“

“Just shut up, okay?” Steve snapped at him. He looked angry and panicked for a second, and Phil was left with that sinking feeling of failure again. “I’m sorry. I’m just – I’m sorry. Just – I’m tired.”

Callahan went to get Steve a cup a water and came back to an empty chair. Steve cleaned up his act after that and then Billy Hargrove happened. Steve was in the hospital with a concussion, cracked ribs, and three broken fingers, and neither Angie nor Richard answered the goddamn phone. Fall passed into winter, spring, summer, and Hopper died.

Hopper was dead and the mall was in flames, and the only goddamn thing that Callahan can see is his nephew beaten half to hell again. Steve’s on a stretcher with a shell-shocked look, and when Callahan approached, Steve startled so violently that it looked like everything hurt.

He asked what happened and Steve told him with a choked voice that Hopper was, uh. That Hopper was gone. And Phil asked if Steve was okay and he said in barely a whisper, “No.”

Phil took Steve home that night. He made up the bed in Angie’s old room for his nephew and the Robin girl that he insisted had to stay with him, and he knows that he’s missed a lot – a lifetime – but he vows to himself that nothing else was going to happen to this kid anymore.

He doesn’t pick up the phone this time.

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Ohhhh I just had a diabolical thought

Eddie thinks Steve's stickin it to his dad by dating someone like him. Until he meets Mr. Harrington.

And it's like looking in a mirror.

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"You, Me and Steve", but Steve is Steve Harrington.

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Actually fic that combines this idea where Steve and Robin are long lost twins seperate at birth and this post where Hopper adopted Steve as a kid but no one knows about it.

And then give me a scene where Robin comes clean like, “I’m sorry I have to tell you this but you’re adopted.”

Steve is just like, “….I know?”

And then they keep talking and he’s like, “Wait a minute. I was given up twice, what the fuck?”

“Twice????” Robin says because Steve didn’t tell her that it was Hopper who adopted him.

And then the guy torturing them is like, “Can we get back to this?”

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Monster hunting AU, where Jonathan is trying to find his lost brother, collects information about mystical incidents in the town, conducts his own investigations. Steve started to suspect that something was wrong. Then  he will come to realize that his father’s company  had something to do with a series of “in-laboratory incidents”. They decided to work together to figure out what is going on in the town of Hawkins.

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steve goes back to the upside down to get eddie but he goes alone- it's a suicide attempt but he keeps telling himself that it's not, that he's just trying to do the right thing. he even leaves a note that's sus as hell, apologizing for what he's done and that he needs them to know how much he loves them. but, when he gets there, he doesn't find eddies body. he finds eddie alive. he's feral, completely out of his mind and doesn't know who he is.

but this new thing is curious of steve. especially when steve doesn't even try to fight him. they're stuck together in the upside down for a while but the longer they spend together, the more eddie starts to remember. he takes care of steve the best he can and steve keeps him sane.

the problems only really start when they get back home. they've been unhealthily codependent by that point. they're both terrified when they're apart; steve panics because he keeps worrying that it was all a dream and eddie is still dead, and eddie panics because he thinks that one of the demogorgons must have finally got steve whilst his back was turned.

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characters apologizing for things they have no control over. mumbling sorry while losing consciousness. feeling ashamed of a bleeding wound. embarrassed when an infection sets in. deep seated feverish guilt when they need to be carried, when their legs won't keep them upright anymore and they lean heavy on a friend, slurring apologies..........

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I lied it wasnt my last one. I will never stop

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i could not rest until i made this

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Have had this idea brewing in my cauldron for a minute so—

The older kids are hanging out at Steve’s getting their party on with some drinks and weed and Eddie and Steve are tentatively at the point in the friendship where they are just starting to rag on each other but Eddie unknowingly takes it a little too far. Steve isn’t gonna say anything cuz he knows it wasn’t malicious and he wants to keep the mood light, but Robin definitely ain’t gonna let that slide.

Robin decides she should take Eddies handcuff belt and cuff him to some of Steve furniture. Eddie, who was barely functioning drunk and now dead asleep, isn’t able to object. Steve, who is currently helping Jon take a stoned Nancy to his car, also can’t prevent it. When he comes back in he doesn’t notice the dining room chair suddenly next to Eddies sleeping form on his couch, and just takes Robin home.

Imagine Eddies Surprise when he wakes up to a pounding headache and when he goes to reach for his head he can’t move his hands because oh no! He is handcuffed to one of Steve’s dining room chairs.

Which, hey, for a guy who could Hotwire a van, should be easy to get out of, right?

No, Eddie never bothered to learn how to pick the locks on handcuffs. Hopper always made then just loose enough for Eddie to slip them right off. Even with eddies own cuffs he always had the key on his keyring, but that was lost during the whole Hell is real and in your town fiasco so, he doesn’t know what to do.

Enter Steve who walks down stairs to Eddie attenping to go through Steve kitchen to find something to pick a lock with. Steve offers to help but Eddie, hungover, annoyed, and embarrassed, says something about Steve being too much of a good boy to know anything about handcuffs and picking locks, that his little jock brain wouldn’t be able to understand it.

And well— Steve thought Eddie and him were become a bit more friendly and nice to each other, but he is still the queen of petty and bitchy so, Sure, he could unlock those cuffs in five seconds, but why should he, he is just a goodie two shoes little jock who doesn’t know a thing about picking locks.

He lets Eddie suffer for HOURS, forced to stay stuck in Steve’s house as Steve putters around offering more and more ridiculous ideas to get Eddie out of the cuffs.

Eventually Steve noticed how rubbed raw Eddies wrists are and goes upstairs and gets out his lock picks and finally makes Eddie sit still so he can unlock them. Eddies attempts to make a jab about Steve being a kinky bad boy with his handcuff knowledge and Steve let’s put a small laugh and goes “naw man, I’m still your good boy, I just was really into magic”

Eddie absolutely blues screens at “I’m still your good boy” coming out of Steve’s mouth but then he hears the rest of the sentence and is absolutely flabbergasted because what do you MEAN Steve practiced up close magic in seventh grade before Tommy got too embarrassed by Steve doing magic tricks at school and started bullying him about how dorky it was until Steve stopped.

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Robin and Eddie are mid rant about how neither of them have been kissed and being gay in small town America is hard when Steve interrupts them like —

Steve: “uh, no, don’t blame being gay for your lack of action. You’ve never been kissed because you both don’t have any type of game.”

Eddie: “it’s not like there’s a wealth of people we can kiss here steve. It’s Hawkins.”

Steve: ive made out with like three different guys in this town since last summer.

Robin and Eddie: “you. What.”

Steve, flipping through a magazine: “it’s not because you’re gay. It’s because you’re nerds.”

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Eddie and Steve were shooting hoops. Steve knew it wasn't what Eddie had in mind when he'd invited him to hang out that night, but they were always hanging out in Eddie's comfort zone. Steve had watched Corroded Coffin perform at the hideout more times than he could count, and Eddie had gotten into the habit of hosting Hellfire's D&D sessions at his place. This time, the ball was in Steve's court.

He chose to take Eddie to an old outdoor basketball court on the edge of town he and Tommy would frequent what seemed like a lifetime ago. They'd smoked on the edge of the court and talked about nothing until the air turned icy then Steve had the bright idea to play HORSE.

Eddie was horrible. Worse than Steve expected, and honestly, Steve hadn't expected much. They'd been shooting hoops for the better part of an hour, and Eddie had yet to get one in. However, he was having fun creating more elaborate handicaps to give to Steve after each layup or swish he nailed.

Hop on one foot, Steve. Turn around five times, Steve. Close your eyes, Steve.

Yes, Eddie sucked, but he seemed to be having fun. Steve definitely was.

"You really are bad at this game, Munson." Steve chuckled as Eddie missed yet another shot.

"Dude, it's not my fault. Gays can't do sports, it's a fact of nature," Eddie huffed, sweat shining off his brow.

Eddie had come out to Steve a month beforehand, and it appeared he was finally finished walking on eggshells around Steve, no longer worried the former jock was lying about how perfectly okay he was having a gay friend.

"That's bullshit, dude. For one, 'Sports' is like a whole subgenre of lesbian," Steve argued, sounding genuinely offended. Robin was great at soccer. She was a closeted jock if Steve had ever seen one.

"And how does Steve Harrington know so much about gays anyway?" Eddie teased, wiggling his brow suggestively as he lined up another shot at the hoop.

Steve panicked. Eddie had come out to Steve, but he had no clue if Robin had come out to Eddie. Oh, Christ, had Steve outed Robin? He couldn't tell Eddie he'd heard about it from a friend. Steve had one friend, besides Eddie, who wasn't a kid, and that was Robin.

"Because I'm queer," Steve responded before he could come up with another excuse. Which solved one problem and created about twenty more.

Needless to say, Eddie missed his next shot and promptly began choking on air.

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somebody gimme a fic where eddie and steve start dating-

and the party immediately closes ranks because that is their babysitter okay that is their protector and eddie is cool but how do they know he'll be good for steve? steve is constantly getting hurt he needs someone cool

steve is oblivious to the kids making sure he and eddie are never alone together meanwhile eddie is completely confused by the absolute 180 the kids took around him