#That is my bestie - my fav - my babygirl - my hero - my star

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Steve respecting Robin's secrecy as a lesbian no matter what made me so fucking happy all season long.

One of the biggest parts of Steve's character recently has been how he feels like he's failing all these expectations on who he is supposed to be and what he's supposed to be doing (ie. not being in College, feeling like Dustin is replacing him with Eddie, etc). And one of Steve's biggest traits as been his reputation as a womanizer. But even with his continued failure in that regard in S3 to mentioned redemption in S4, he never once tells anyone why he and Robin are just friends.

It would be incredibly easy for him to say "She's not into dudes, so really it's not my fault I haven't gotten with her, ya know?"

In the face of Dustin's continued pressing on the subject and the Nancy moment, he only has ever said that they are just friends. Because he respects Robin's decision on who she tells and understands that it is incredibly dangerous for that sort of news to spread in their time and place.

Sure, he'll tease her and encourage her to just go for it with Vickie, but he never tries to make her feel bad about being scared and never tells anyone (not even with the people he trusts in a "you can't tell her that you know" sort of way).

Because, even though Steve Harrington's first examples of abusive behavior were directed at queer people, he has accepted fault and grown from who he was in S1. And that's fucking beautiful.

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