#I just moved to Hawkins

[fanficfanatic000]

Eddie munson x female reader

Chapter 17 its okay

Story:I just moved to hawkins

Warnings 18 plus. Spoilers ahead

Y/n" He said softly. "Eddie! I-i thought i lost you." Eddie:"sorry i-im sorry"Eddie goes to slowly sit up and immediately felt the pain of the wounds.Eddie:"F-f-fuck ow! Nevermind sitting up " "Take your shirt off " He slowly pulled the shirt off over his head and you saw about 6 bat bites and alot of scratches still bleeding. In a swift motion you ripped your shirt into a long piece of fabric and you wrapped it across eddies toned wounded stomach. "Does that feel better?"Eddie:"ye-ah thanks. but uh can you help me up?". You nodded yes and you threw eddies arm around your shoulders and used you strength to help him stand. Eddie: "welp job completed I guess". "Yeah i-i guess it is." You heard running from the left of you and eddie. Robin:"run faster!"Steve:"im trying my best." They stopped right infront of you and eddie. Still trying to catch their breath steve:"its....-the vecna he escaped us... we had him but then he ran hes gonna...---". Nancy:"hes gonna kill you y/n he knows your a lab kid". "Wait how would he know?!" Eddie:"the hive mind....you used your powers on the bats "Robin:"Ok but we need to get her to music! or shes a-a goner!" You and eddie walk towards the bike eddie:"Fuck! I cant drive..." nancy:"then ill take y/n to the trailer and you three can walk it would get her there alot faster." You look at eddie and he looks back. He doesn't want to leave your side but it's safer that way. He mouthed "its okay go". You and Nancy rode off the bike. You hear the clock Chime again and suddenly nancy's gone off the bike. its a hallucination.

[ickypuppi3]

billy’s mom waking him up while it’s still dark, whispering even though neil’s working the night shift. it’s a couple days before his tenth birthday and she’s telling him they’re going to have their very own adventure, just like the ones in billy’s books. she grabs an already packed suitcase from under billy’s bed and kisses him on the nose, tells him to get dressed quick. the two of them leave in an old beat up yellow bug that she managed to get for a third of the asking price and keep parked around the corner until now. they stay with friends and jump from place to place so neil can’t track them down. billy gets used to surfing couches and staying in motels.

he spends his tenth birthday in a diner, his mom gets him a big stack of pancakes and a milkshake with extra cherries. gets a candle out her pocket along with her silver lighter. sings happy birthday and pulls a face when the waitress frowns at them, just to make billy laugh. she sips at her coffee while billy tucks in. smiles when he holds some out with a “c’mon mama, share with me.”

billy thinks it’s neat. thinks it’s the best birthday he’s ever had.

they eventually end up with a place in california, a little bungalow near the coast and billy grows up with his mom. billy gets pretty shirts from the thrift store ‘cause his mama lets him do stuff like that. doesn’t call him a queer, doesn’t force a baseball bat into his hands whilst yelling at him for crying, for being a pussy. his mom lets him read and keep a journal and press flowers between the pages of the neverending story, she plays hendrix and dusty springfield and laughs when billy comes home from his friends’ house with his first piercing at thirteen. she doesn’t tear down his posters or yell when she finds him using her eyeliner.

and everything’s perfect. sort of.

they have bad days- billy’s mom has bad days. billy calls them gray days ‘cause that’s how the world looks when she’s like this. all her color gone. no singing-dancing in the kitchen or baking five different kinds of cake because she couldn’t decide which one was best, no last minute trips to the beach or sitting outside at night and telling billy about the stars. instead she’ll stay in bed, won’t go to work. she’ll stare at the wall blankly and look right through billy when he tries to talk to her. she won’t take the pills the doc gave her and billy doesn’t know what to do. never knows what to do. just chews at his lip until it bleeds, bites at his thumb until it’s red raw. he’ll get in the bed with her. lay beside her and just talk like she used to do with him when he had a nightmare. hum a song to her.

billy’s still pissed at the world just slightly less so. still has that anger and anxiousness simmering just below the surface and shows his teeth when cornered. he’s still hardened in a way that a kid shouldn’t be but. it’s different. there’s no neil. the only bloody noses he gets are at school, when he fights with the kids who call him a fag and a fairy, call his mom a basket case. he uses fists when they laugh and ask if she’s all there with a finger pointing at their heads, ask if billy will “catch the crazy.”

those are billy’s bad days. sitting in the principals office, icing his knuckles.

when he’s fifteen, billy manages to bag a job at the local auto repair by turning up every day and telling howie how good he’d be, that he knows cars and it’s all he wants to do and please please please. eyebrows pulled together, eyes puppy dog wide and hands clasped in front of him until howie grumbles, throws an oily rag at billy. says fine but billy’s gotta pay for anything he damages. someone brings in a chevy camaro and billy asks howie to let him help fix it up. does the begging again until howie laughs. says get a hold of yourself, kid, voice fond as he ruffles billy’s hair.

billy’s four months away from turning seventeen when the doorbell goes. he’s eating a sandwich and watching knight rider. he’s wearing the necklace his mom got him for his last birthday and- he answers the door. doesn’t think twice. freezes when he sees neil standing there. he looks different. hair a little shorter and more wrinkles. where billy’s gained weight, gained muscle, neil’s lost it. his eyes are a little sunken and he’s still got his wedding band on. he reeks of booze. billy has to remind himself to speak, just says “yeah?” his voice comes out small and neil smiles at him. smiles and billy feels this weird twist in his stomach ‘cause .. that’s his dad and he hasn’t seen him in years and it twists and twists and-

turns out. not much has changed. billy realises a little too late that neil will always be neil. they run again. have to leave everything behind. billy doesn’t get to say bye to his friends, to howie, to the car. they leave a lot of stuff behind and head in any direction away from neil. they both try to keep the mood light, take turns driving and play the tapes billy grabbed. they end up in indiana- hawkins. they stay at a motel until billy’s mom finds a place for dirt cheap. it has two bedrooms and a dingy bathroom, a living room slash kitchen and one hell of a damp problem. it’s dirt cheap for a reason.

it’s above a shop in town and- it’s fine. their landlord is an asshole but they’re together and they’ve got a roof over their heads. billy’s enrolled at hawkins high and his mom gets a job at the laundromat. he tells her that he doesn’t need to go to school, that he could just work and help pay the bills but his mom won’t have any of it. says that she wishes she had finished school and that billy’s too clever to waste it. that he has potential.

billy knows the reason she dropped out of school was because she had him. he just nods, rests his head on her shoulder.

it’s billy’s first day at school and his mom drives him to make sure he actually goes. he gets out the car and tries to shake the nerves off. straightens up and puts on his act. plasters a fake smile on his face and it’s working, he’s got most of the girls swooning and the boys at least seem curious. billy looks around and his eyes land on a guy leaning up against a bmw. his hair’s coiffed to high heaven and he’s wearing a polo, preppy as fuck but- pretty. it’s one of the first things billy realises about him, all doe eyes and moles dotted just about everywhere. he’s got a smirk on his face. not aimed at billy but the guy beside him.

pretty-boy walks over to him and billy raises an eyebrow, plays it cool. he introduces himself as steve and billy gets the idea that he’s top dog at hawkins high, is immediately proved right when they step into the building. king steve, freckles calls him. billy laughs- catches steve looking at him when he does and feels his face get hot. steve just smiles wider, calls billy california and tells him to sit with them at lunch. billy tries to ignore the way steve’s smile makes him feel like the rug’s been pulled out from under his feet.

he nods and steve grins. tugs at one of billy’s curls.

says “i think you’re gonna like it here, california.”

[starrystevie]

steve poking fun at eddie whenever his southern upbringing sneaks its way out is my new favorite thing to think about. his accent, a little bit of a drawl, comes out after a few drinks or when he gets overly excited or when he's angry. better yet, eddie will say things that steve has just never heard of and finds it too entertaining having him repeat certain things.

"okay, okay, just humor me this one last time!" he'll say and eddie will roll his eyes but he'll play along because, damnit, he'll do anything to see his boy belly laugh. "you're going grocery shopping. it's a big shop and you know you can't carry it all so... what is it that you need to help?"

and steve will be all barely held back giggles, eyes crinkling into crescents before he's even begun to really laugh and he looks like a kid waiting to catch santa claus.

and eddie will sigh, laying it on thick by rolling his eyes once more for good measure and crossing his arms over his chest before muttering out, "... a buggy, steve. you need a gotdamn buggy."

seeing steve bend over to cackle is worth any sort of humiliation eddie thinks could ever come from showing his true colors and laughs along with him, his own smile wide and bright as he pushes into steve's space so he can press a kiss to his crinkled cheek.

[demadogs]

no offense but i cannot believe some people only watch this show for byler and dont care about the upside down and everything else oh my god thats so insane to me

[deathlooksgoodonyou-if]

All this talk about Jules route just makes me want to play it, MC not being able to move on or let go, or seeing MC maybe slowly learn to move on. will it be painful? yes. would I love fun with it? yes. I can always enjoy some pain in a IF.

THANK YOU! I am glad you are willing to give it a go. I was afraid people would be upset by the idea of there being an ro with whom you can't really get a happy ending because theyre well, dead yk.

But death is not something anyone has control over. I just wanted there to be a route where you voluntarily choose suffering. Doomed romances are fun.

People can always romance the other very much alive ros and be Jules' friend to save themselves from the pain haha.

[skepsiss]

I understand people love giving Steve and/or Eddie a dog or a cat and that's super sweet but... Guys. I hate this but Steve and Eddie are Bird and Reptile people.

They would come by owning a bird totally by accident because "they don't have time for pets," "they make the house messy/harder to clean," "we travel too much" etc etc. But then they would just become OBSESSED with rescuing birds.

Eddie loves the exotics and teaches them to sing and say the dirtiest things. While Steve adored finches and little birds like that.

Eddie would also 1000% have an Iguana or a Tengu and walk it around on a leash like a fucking nerd.

You'd come over and they'd each have at least one bird on their shoulder.

They're bird people.

[a-shadowedvales]

so… in the additional media of stranger things (specifically the comics i’m mentioning), it was initially brenner’s idea/plan to kill off the other test subjects because they weren’t performing as well as eleven was. it was his best solution because that way, all the resources, time, and money could instead be placed only to her. and i just…. sure henry is a fine character and the massacre makes a lot of sense to me, but i think i am once again gonna change up my canon to actually fit this potential narrative instead.

i genuinely think the comic canon of the lab and brenner is far more intriguing than the show. everything with 9/9.5, ricky, and francine. eleven being the only one who grew up completely in the lab. those other kids were either volunteers, well into their teens, or had some semblance of a home life. eleven was the only one practically moulded from the womb. and they all had such a range of interesting powers. i firmly stand with the idea that jane is the only one who can contact the void.

brenner’s entire point of view on the lab subjects changed the second he found out terry was pregnant. he discovered he could steal this baby and make her his own. there would be no convincing the child because it’s all she would have ever known. because of this, i would not put it past a man like brenner to kill the other subjects for the sake of the “greater good” in this case, eleven.

eleven’s gifts just continue thriving beyond his wildest expectations. brenner would never dare assume that having moulded her from the womb, she would still be able to grow into her own person, her own mind, and one day be able to see him for exactly who he was.

back before season four aired, it was obvious there were other test subjects because jane was 011. so there were at least ten kids before her. but i always liked the idea/assumed that she was the last experiment because she was the most successful. that they didn’t need anyone after her because she was fulfilling everything they set out for her to do. with flying colours.

i just think the whole rainbow room idea, pitting the kids against each other thing… been there, done that. boring and predictable. i think at this point my portrayal of her time in hawkins lab really stems from the complete isolation she endured. where having the rainbow room, although eleven was obviously the most isolated out of the kids, brings that sense of community and sister/brotherhood. albeit extremely warped and toxic. knowing that she wasn’t alone in that experience just. doesn’t sit well with me. i think it’s important to note that she was alone, physically and mentally. which is why kali is also so important to her growth. i thought a lot of the flashbacks of her time in the lab during season four was really boring, repetitive, and just very predictable. although peter becoming vecna was a surprise to me, and was a nice little twist, the idea of her having an ally on the inside was really interesting.

maybe they did get as far as they do in canon, peter ballad was telling the truth about everything, about some of the workers there being prisoners like him, and he really wanted to get her out and to safety. but before they can escape through the pipes, they’re caught. peter is shot on the spot, and eleven is put into the isolation room for a few days as punishment. in this timeline, henry would be vecna, but henry would not be peter ballad.

when eleven turned seven, and was already showing extreme promise, where the other children were average at best, brenner had the eight children killed. kali had already escaped. this was the main cause for peter to gain eleven’s trust and try to get her out. because if brenner could murder his “children” in cold blood, there’s no way eleven was safe even in spite of her power.

when eleven is allowed out of the isolation room, her testing becomes more rigorous in attempt to distance and make her forget about what she attempted to do with peter. brenner begins gaslighting her, saying that there was never a peter, that she must have been dreaming. eleven does ask “papa” about “mama”, given peter told her of the day terry broke in the lab, but brenner is convincing enough to make eleven believe it was all in her head. say she is around eight years old, meaning the same timeline of season fours canon flashbacks.

i still do wanna keep the henry creel canon, and keep him as 001. brenner didn’t have him killed alongside the other test subjects, because who knows, one day he could become an even better asset than 011. brenner definitely wants to be able to control henry, but keeps the chip in him because, for the moment, doesn’t know how. killing him would be too big of a loss.

when eleven is ten years old, henry’s concealed powers break free and he manages to get the chip out himself, and unleashes hell onto hawkins lab. he almost kills brenner by snapping his bones, but eleven manages to stop him. her extreme abilities are unleashed, and she sends henry to the upside down. she does fall into a coma due to the extremity of the situation, but she does not forget what happened. brenner believes she’s the perfect weapon as she stepped in to save him without a second thought, was able to defeat henry, and opened a door to something he never thought possible. eleven is rewarded for her efforts. although she remembers the entire battle / confrontation, her memories regarding the portal are very hazy.

brenner decides not to focus on the portal straight away, instead gets her training harder and harder to see what else she can accomplish. also loved the idea of brenner sending her into the void to “look for him” so that will definitely be kept.

by the time she escapes and season one begins, her knowledge of the upside down is basically what we see in canon. because she passed out the moment after she sent henry away, she was once again gaslighted into believing she merely threw him through the glass and killed him. for two years she believed this, until making contact with the demogorgan, and those memories return completely.

due to her saving brenner’s life, (it was pure instinct. she happened to be there. saw her “papa” hurt and knew she had to make him better.) brenner constantly thanks her. but in a very condescending way. tells her: “you saved me so i can continue saving you.” aka, harness your abilities and see what else i can achieve from you. despite the fact that she saved his life, these words and phrases make her feel indebted to him. that she owes him something further.

i don't realistically see her thriving with her speech improvement until she's well into her twenties at least. her slowed development, sensory and social deprivation causes a serious delay in language. surrounded by other children she would have overheard conversations, some would have spoken to her. her conveniently forgetting her upbringing pre the battle with henry just isn't good enough for me anymore. it makes more sense for her to have been raised alone.

it also helps indicate why she gravitated towards the boys when they found her in the woods. they would have been the first people her age she ever remembered seeing. as far as she knew, during the lab there was no one like her. everyone was much older, they were adults-- although she stayed with benny, i'm not sure if she would have stuck around very long. where she followed the boys home without thought.

also it's important to note that after time, jane does understand that peter ballad was a real person, and was truly the first person (aside from terry) who wanted the best for her. when she remembers him, knows that brenner was lying, she deals with immense guilt regarding his death. he was shot right in front of her eyes, because he was trying to help her. this is another catalyst as to why after season two, jane never refers to brenner as papa. she does not give him that sort of credit.

[ghost-proofbaby]

hey ghost! maroon is my roman empire and I just love it 🥲 i wondered how long eddie & sugar were together before…well it all went wrong? and how old they’re meant to be now?

hiya!! first of all i'm honored that maroon is your roman empire <3 thank you!!!

and oh boy. let's get ourselves comfortable.

so in my mind, and i may have previously written it differently somewhere in the fic but i can't recall so please don't come for me, they first met back in high school. logistics wise, the more i think about it, the more likely it would have been that it was eddie's first senior year/sugar's junior year. right before corroded coffin was formed, and long enough that they spent a few years together in school before sugar could take a year off and wait for eddie to graduate so they could move to new york together. that would mean they were 17/18 when they met, and then probably 21/22 when the ending of the og one shot/prologue happened. so they were together around 4 years!

as of right now, with that timeline, they'd be around 23/24 years old!

that took so much more math than i expected, oh my word. but yeah! early twenties, which is the prime time to be going through the type of relationship drama they're going through lol

[fanficfanatic000]

eddie Munson x female reader

Story name I just moved to hawkins

Warning 18+ spoilers ahead

Chapter 4 (what the hell)

You wake up the sun shining but it was a white sky. Gloomy wait where is eddie. Eddie's gone so you walk out of the cave like area and Eddie's still not there… "Eddie!…… eddie!" You walked all around skull rock and Eddie's nowhere to be found "Fuck eddie where are you?" You walk to the side of skull rock where eddie hung your clothes up and his shirt is missing.. of course he probably ran away from you y/n everyone leaves… you slide your t shirt and your jeans on then you go to the branch where he hung your shoes not surprisingly his are missing you slide your converse on. Then you see a shadow of someone behind you. You turn with a swift motion and you push the person behind you on the ground but you slipped and fell on top of them and you realized it's eddie "Eddie where have you been?" "Oh sorry sweetheart i walked down to the lake to wash my hair then i heard you calling for me so i ran back up" You notice eddie blushing probably because your on top of him "Its ok edds i just was worried" you stood up off of him and offered your hand to help him back up but he sat up looked you with his dark brown eyes. His damp curls shining in the light. He flashed a mischievous grin and he pulled you onto his lap by your hand you offered. "E-eddie?" "Sorry i just really like you on my lap" Your face turned cherry red from his words and actions. Your heart pounding loud and fast like it was going to explode. His eyes wandered to your lips then back to your eyes…

Nancy Robin Steve Dustin and max pov They decided it was to late to drive across the lake so they slept in the shed since it was a hour drive to the other side But then it was morning so they headed out " what if there not even at skull rock dustin" "trust me steve they're just keep driving" an hour passed and they were at the other side at the bottom of the hill you and eddie walked up they got out of the car and saw Eddie's shoe prints in the sand but no eddie " shoe prints aha told you steve" "Knuckle heads stop bickering and lets go theres no time to waste" said max So they walked up to skull rock.

Back to you and eddie His eyes wandered to your lips then back to your eyes and you heard foot steps up the hill and a voice of Dustin. You jumped off Eddie's lap and you yelled "dustin" "Y/n?". They had made it to the top. eddie didn't stand fully he just crouched. "Guys what happened? said robin" "Me and y/n were waiting for you guys to come back then jason and two of his friends showed up and they found us so we ran…. we used the boat to make a getaway and… jasons freind. Well the same thing happened to chrissy" "wait what happened to her.? Nancy asked" " first she was frozen then she lifted off the ground and then her bones snapped and he eyes exploded" Eddie almost in tears just thinking about it " that sounds familiar almost exactly the same as. Victor creels statement" "who's victor creel? Robin asked" " i dont remember all the details but some the library we could get some information on him at the library! And since im a reporter it wont look off…" "OK everyone but eddie and y/n is going to the library" "ok steves right but here you guys can have my walkie-talkie to communicate if your in danger we will talk to you on robins walkie" "thanks dustin" Eddie and Dustin hug then they all headed to the library. "Eddie are you okay?" You asked. seeing that he was on edge. "Well i guess if being the town freak getting accused of murder even though you watched her get murdered. The whole town hating you is okay then i-im okay "

"Eddie i promise we will win this.. we will win" "Okay we will " . You are sitting on the grass when you see eddie climbing up skull rock "Eddie what are you doing" "just come up here sweetheart"

You climb up skull rock it actually looks harder than it is while eddie is waiting at the top "hey come look y/n" You look and you see the lake shining in the sun the clouds look soft. "Wow what a view" Eddie sitting next to you his brown eyes watching the view that you were looking at "So the water this morning was pretty warm y/n do you see that?" He points to your left "see what edds ?" "Hm look closely try squinting your eyes" you look closely and nothing " i-i dont see anything eddie." You turn to look at him "Eddie?!" He's gone "hey princess bet i can beat you to the water" He said from the bottom of skull rock "No fair! " You rush down skull rock then you rush down the hill its much easier going down a hill than up You reached the bottom and there he is standing his boyish grin on his face then he took his shirt off throwing it farther on shore so the waves won't take it then his pants leaving him in his black boxers "Enjoying the view ?"

[chirpsythismorning]

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[shadowedvales]

there is something so important to me about jane going from the title of "the mage" when she's a child, to becoming more akin to a witch when she's an adult. something about her having that mythical vibe, an air of mystery about her [specifically after closing the gate, and the physical scars it leaves on her neck + hands] and an overall magical presence. her powers and abilities becoming more natural rather than science based after she learns to control them in a way that makes her comfortable, rather than feeling forced. even when she loses them at sixteen, and lives without them for about ten years, she still has that spirit about her. if jane lived long enough, she would absolutely fall under the category of "green/woodland witch" [probably would've moved into a cottage in the woods somewhere fr just for that peace and quiet. because she was never made for the modern world y'know. she gave it her best shot, it was never meant to be!] presenting a hippie / bohemian aesthetic in terms of clothing, furnishings in her home, the way she physically moves and her overall perception of the world. she would get in touch with her spiritual side, practising things like tarot reading, cleansing rituals, and divination. not that she needs to physically have her powers at this point to practise these things and live that sort of life, but it helps her get in touch with her emotions properly, and really gets her down that cathartic path that no amount of therapy or "modern" techniques could truly achieve. she becomes soooo ethereal can u believe it!!

[taylorhawkins]

via Foo Fighters

[brionysea]

i can make my fic able to be added to the "mike wheeler has powers" ao3 tag in ways that are SO technical and canon-typically subtextual

[whynotimtired]

Flickergate makes me want to tear my hair out bc it's a cute hc sure! It makes absolutely no sense. The established rules of the universe in-show DO NOT allow for flickergate. They even had the older teens stuck in the Wheeler house and hearing conversations that are happening CURRENTLY. time runs parallel in the upside down but nothing is moving forward because there is nobody there to progress anything. The upside down is NOT "stuck" in the past. It is a world without a society, if there's nobody there to turn the calendar to the next page then is time really moving? In the REAL WORLD. IT IS.

[gr4ve-dxt3s]

i really like the idea of mike getting a cat and it doesnt matter when but im convinced mike wheeler wants or has had a cat in his life and ive decided that he should have one after the apocalypse is over and he and will move out of hawkins and they got a cat and a dog because theyre both literally opposites attract idk what to tell you

[greenlikethesea]

appalachian eddie this, deep south eddie that. eddie’s from a little beach town in new jersey. put that in your pipe and smoke it.