btw my actual dream steve robin (+ eddie) job is that in the wake of the welcome to HELL i mean hawkins fiasco and in an effort to both boost town morale and benefit from tourism plus governmental aid they ship in a metric shitload of materials and turn lover's lake into a sort of day camp combined summer attraction camping ground. gift shop boat rentals a little area to eat a get back to nature service that's literally just babysitting for a few hours even a little hiking lake tour because it's pretty out there i think :). and as is the nature of humanity a significant amount of people going to hawkins of all places is because it's the place with the mysterious spooky happenings and now there's a LAKE well obviously they've got a lake monster obviously...
so it becomes this sort of unofficial roadside attraction and the kids decide to make it their mission to prove there IS a lake monster (for reasons ranging from "we need to kill it it could be the upside down!!!" to "we need to save it and be it's FRIEND!!! IT'S A DINOSAUR A LIVING LEGEND!!") and like sure maybe the only reason steve applied for the job is to keep an eye on things bc it IS lover's lake but he's also got lifeguard experience plus he never got to camp as a kid.. :(. eddie works the gift shop bc he's insane but the right amount of insane to work at a roadside attraction giftshop and get people to buy little keychains and bullshit merch including the t-shirts HE makes and sells on the side that's like "i saw the HAWKINS LAKE MONSTER" (eddie is also the one who comes up with 99% of the mythology not because of dnd creativeness he just really believes it). robin and steve trade off on the tours + kiosk food service and steve more often than not is the one leading around a group of 11 year olds telling them the most child inappropriate stories known to man because it's the only thing that keeps them quiet they all think he's in like. the mafia and a world renown monster hunter. steve always puts a line of zinc sunscreen on eddie's cheeks and then by the middle of the day there will inevitably be a little bit on his own as well. This is my beautiful world.
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one hokma line that always really stuck w me was "when i no longer feared the impending night, i chose to love this place" theres just something so poignant about it. at first i was wondering what day he meant but now i realise he's most definitely talking about how he has to die every reset. and he said he used to fear it too. how could he not? he was most loyal to a, but now he's the last one running away from him. he couldn't stand being a part of his self-destructive plan anymore. and feared in past tense implied he always knew it was coming with each reset. this went on for... thousands of years
with how he keeps his memories for every one of them, sometimes i wonder how he reacts to angela. do you think he quickly got used to it and just sat there waiting for her? pre-suppression its pretty clear that hokma has resigned himself to this and is completely fine doing it over and over again. he chose to love that place because it was the only thing he could really do. its what his mentor wanted and when has he ever gone against that?
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re entering the mcyt sphere and posting and shit after a while is so interesting bcs back in like 2021 or something ppl kinda abandoned civility as a whole and would openly talk shit and reblog with absolutely no filter and how do I say this..it's just a little interesting bcs the whole peaceful only sometimes passive aggressive posting is kinda nostalgic 😊😊
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