#anyway im soOoOo normal about punk!Steve i had to come up with my own version of him

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I MUST, I MUST know about Punk Steve for your WIP tag game.

also tagging @stobinesque bc Read asked about it too ♡

so, as all my fics are, this one's inspired by a song. funny part is that the song is nowhere near anything punk skdksjda it's where do you go by flor, and it's more about the lyrics than the music itself, of course. it's mostly a concept, i haven't written anything for it yet but here's what it's about:

pre-steddie, from eddie's pov. i'm gonna have to do some research for this, since i know almost nothing about the punk scene, much less in the 80s/90s, much less in the usa. but i'm thinking they live somewhere with a good thrilling punk scene, moved there after they were able to defeat vecna. robin's there too, of course, because they're Steve&Robin, a single soul shared in two bodies. jonathan's there too, because he's the one to introduce punk music and the scene to steve first. not sure about the rest of them yet (but they'll probably all be there, my url isn't spicysix for nothing y'know)

i'm thinking it's a few years down the line, they're in their mid-twenties already. and it starts when eddie starts seeing some changes in steve, as he gradually grows into his punk self. i've seen this post once, not sure by who or when or where, about punk steve not necessarily changing his clothes or his hair or anything, and i absolutely love this. so he won't become that stereotypical punk dressed up guy, he'll still be just as preppy simply because i love that disparity

so it starts with steve's obvious change of music taste - i'm not into top 40's steve, but he was mostly a classic rock kind of guy, and as he and jonathan grow closer and jon introduces punk to him, eddie notices the different tapes steve starts collecting. then, he and jonathan start going out a lot at night, and it's not that they don't invite the rest of the gang, but they seem to like going just the two of them so they just let them. they usually come home drunk and high and sweaty and so fucking happy that it feels like sacrilege to mess with it. steve doesn't change his clothes absurdly, but when he goes out with jonathan he uses plain tees instead of polos, and sometimes he borrows jonathan's (and sometimes even eddie's) pants and shoes. he might get his ear pearced. at a certain point, he starts going out without jonathan, and further down he comes home not drunk or high anymore, but even more sweaty and even more happy, and with some bruises which actually makes eddie's brain short circuit (spoiler, steve's throwing himself into some moshpits heh)

so that's basically what the fic is about, eddie as an outsider seeing steve come and go night after night and changing so subtly but also so obviously, and actually improving his mood and becoming happier through those mysterious outings of his. using this new music and scene and people as a way to cope and heal and learn more about himself. and eddie's just curious, and just wants to know what's changing steve so much, and most of all, what's making him so happy because eddie's so happy that steve's happy. he kinda falls in love in the process 😌😌

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