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I just think he's neat!

Too late for Steve week, just in time for pride month! This is from my Everybody's Favorite Grunkle AU I've been slacking on updating. My Steda fan kid Calle Clawthorne is Steve's bf. During the events of TOH (at least until season 3), Steve ends up chilling with Calle and the fam instead of joining the EC. Upgrades, man.

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Steve Week 2025 Day 7: Flower

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Steve Week Day 6: Belong

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Steve Week Day 5: Custom

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Steve Week 2025 is over but that doesn't mean you can't still take part! The prompts are open for the rest of the year so if you fancy making something a week or a month from now you still can 💛 just remember to use the tag or @ this blog so it can get shared!

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Steve Week Day 6: Belong

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Steve Week Day 5. Custom.

The palistrom forests had grown tenfold in just a few years after Belos had died. Steve recalled his mother telling he and Matt how she'd fantasized about visiting them as a young girl.

She had read all the Scarytales about young witches getting lost beneath their canopy and finding enchantment and love. Steve recalled how his mother also told them that she had been dismayed when her family took a trip there only to find that it was a tourist trap full of t-shirts and boiled bone taffy.

That and very few trees.

It was from Steve and Matt's mother, Feeana that the brothers had learned there were no palistrom forests on the Isles as they were described in the books and that her own parents told her it was because Scarytales were just that. Tales.

And Feeana had decided to read these tales to both of her sons when they had turned 8 -- of course Steve and Matt were quite a few years and one father apart, so by the time Matty had written to Steve in the Emperor's Coven to ask if he'd seen them, so by the time Steve saw them himself there was even less to see than ever.

But the palistrom forests had been real once and destroyed by Belos. Belos, who Steve had followed loyally. Until he didn't. So when his fellow CATTs had begun talking about plans to replenish them, Steve was hopeful, but also tired.

Steve had once so loyally served Belos that he had given up his palisman Eddie, a sweet ragged hound that had been in the family for decades. Now that Steve knew what Belos had done to Eddie, it was difficult for him to thing of the palistrom forests without a twinge of guilt.

So when Steve decided to walk through the newly grown forests, he had felt the need to mourn Eddie and what his foolishness had done to him.

Hours into his hike, Steve came upon a clearing. The trees seemed to sing and in the middle of it all was a familiar figure sitting under a hand carved sign that read "Palismen".

"I thought I'd find you here," Steve smiled.

The Golden Guard Hunter smiled back, but said nothing. When Hunter was a child, Steve had first known him only as, "Recruit." He was the butt of the other scouts jokes. An 8 year old among 16 year olds, who was so intense with his training that he swore to all the others that he was going to be the Golden Guard one day.

He talked a lot. Steve hadn't seen his face under the mask, but he knew him by his very distinct voice. The other scouts liked to mimic the kid. Steve did it too a few times, but he felt bad after.

One time Steve had punched him so hard during training that he'd broken Recruit's Hunter's ribs and the kid had thanked him as he coughed up blood. He felt really terrible about it. What if someone had done that to Matt?

The other scouts told Steve not to feel too bad about it. Later they laughed less, because the kid did become the Golden Guard -- and as Steve later discovered, while he'd stopped being the scout's favorite punching bag, he'd become the Coven Heads' target. And Lilith had informed him (quite shamefully on her own party) that it turned out that he'd always been Belos' punching bag.

Hunter's eyes now lacked the dark bags that had lined them in his youth. His eyes were now brown and lighter, but still a little sad. But he smiled cautiously as Steve approached.

"Katya warned me you'd be around here today," he smirked.

"Warned?" Steve laughed a little. Katya and Hunter had become friendly enough, but things were weird between Steve and Hunter. He could gather why. He'd only seen the kid's face for the first time after that incident with the Hexside kids -- and Hunter had only first seen Steve's face right before the end of the world.

"Did you want to adopt? Or were you looking for a custom commission?" Hunter wiped his brow and laid out his carving tools next to a bright blue log.

The frankness of Hunter's question caught Steve off guard.

"I don't think I deserve a palisman," he shook his head, "not after all the harm I caused."

Hunter had always been talkative. As a scout. As the Golden Guard. Now he just nodded a little. His hand ran over his scarred face.

"It's not that I don't want one," Steve explained, "it's just that -- I used to pride myself on my loyalty. First I thought it was to my birth dad. I thought my mom remarrying meant she wasn't loyal. But when that didn't work out, I decided to be loyal to the Titan -- and Belos instead, you know?"

Hunter's eyes turned up.

"I know," he said without even a hint of sarcasm.

"Of course," Steve pulled his mouth in a line, "so I betrayed my palisman -- I betrayed Eddie -- because I wanted power. And now?" he shrugged, "I don't know if I can trust myself again. And I don't know if a palisman should trust me. So now, no palisman for Steve."

Hunter nodded a bit. His hands had begun to whittle away at the wood. He carved away peels and peels delicately.

"It's hard when you can't trust yourself," he said gently, "I'm still working on that. I'm not sure when I'm gonna be able to bond with another palisman. Maybe I never will," he shrugged in defeat, gazing off into the trees, "if you could tell Eddie something, if you could tell any palisman anything right now what would it be?"

Steve imagined himself as a young witchling.

Eddie was snuggling him with a wet snout. Steve ran his fingers through Eddie's raggy gray hair. He transformed into a staff and together they flew off beyond the horizon.

"I'd tell him I'm sorry," Steve said soberly. "I'd tell him I might not have been the best person back then, and maybe it was because I was easily tricked or because I wanted the wrong things and the wrong friends, but now I just want to be the best version of myself that I can. I'll probably still make mistakes," Steve chuckled, "but I know now that loyalty isn't just following the strongest witch in the room. It's about mutual trust and being able to accept when you're wrong."

Hunter smiled. He lifted his hands up towards Steve and offered him the form of a golden dog.

"I couldn't," Steve's eyes grew wide.

"It's not my choice," Hunter shook his head slowly, "it's his."

The dog's tail wagged. His eyes opened revealing a bright green glow. He took a big deep breath and barked before transforming again.

"Okay," Steve nodded. He opened his palms accepting his new staff, and his new palisman, "I promise to honor your choice," he told him.

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Steve Week 2025 Day 5: Petrify

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Steve Week 2025 Day 3: Rain

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Steve Week 2025 Day 2: Pretend

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Steve Week Day 2: Pretend

I’m not sure if I’ll put this on Ao3 or not but I thought it might be fun to write a little ficlet from Steve’s POV in the scomverse.

Enjoy.

"What's he doing?"

“What’s it look like he’s doing, dingus?”

Steve smiled a little. Katya always liked to be snarky, but Steve had grown to realize that was just her way.

The two of them had grown up differently under the tight fist of Belos' regime. Steve had chased power, found himself under the questionable guidance of his birth father.

When that proved more abuse of power than anything, Steve joined the Emperor's Coven trying to chase power under the guise of "helping people".

Then realized the power he'd gained in the Coven still hurt people. His mother had tried to steer him from this life, and Steve admitted defeat. It was easy at first for him to pretend to be the “strong scout” in service to the Titan, and another to be just Steve, who was fallible, but didn’t seem to mind if the Titan understood that or not.

So Steve defected and joined CATTs, which is where he'd met Katya.

Katya was from a group of witches who had deep connections to the Forests and the Bat Queen. She wrote weird stories about food falling in love and eluded the Coven System even though she was a natural musician and the Bard Coven would have literally killed to recruit her. Well, maybe Raine wouldn’t have, but they were pretending to be a loyal Coven Head, so they’d have made it look real if the time came.

As good a bard as she was, Katya had no desire to join any coven.

Steve was a joiner. Katya was a rebel.

Orion was ... a kid.

Orion was their kid.

Which is why when he picked up a stick off the ground and started faux playing it like an electric guitar, singing “nah nah nah.” Katya laughed.

“He’s pretending to be YOU.” She told him.

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Steve week day 2 - pretend

‼️MILD BLOOD WARNING‼️

Ooh....that's not Steve.... @jamscandraw

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Steve Week 2025: Journey

Okay. It doesn’t exactly fit the prompt, but I have an idea for Steve Week day 5 and drew this as a prelude to it. @steveweektoh

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Steve Week 2025 - Day 1: Journey

!!!! just found this today and i figured i'd give it a shot :] got experimental with it but lalala here we go!!

close-up on steve under the cut

steve week by @stevecoven !! ^_^

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Steve Week 2025 Day 1: Journey

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Steve Week 2025 kicks off tomorrow!!

As always, you do not have to post something every single day, or in the correct order, or whatever. All I ask is that you please use the tag #steve week 2025 or @ this blog so I see it and can share it, I don't want to miss anyone out! and if you have any questions about anything just get in touch. Happy Steve be upon ye :)