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[artiststarme]

Swimming Ground

Warning: mentions of su!cide

Steve hated his pool. Not swimming or lounging near water but the pool in his backyard in particular. He hated the reminders it held. The pool in the Harrington backyard held too much power over him.

He remembers when he was in the eighth grade and his parents decided to get the pool. He remembers how happy they were to be one of the only families in Hawkins with a new in ground pool that Steve could practice for the swim team in. They never could have imagined that just two weeks later, they’d find Steve floating in it. His mom looked out of the kitchen window to find her beautiful boy fully clothed, face down in the water. They didn’t love the pool so much after that.

They didn’t love their son too much after that either. To his parents, Steve had tried to take their precious boy away from them and they could never truly forgive him for being so selfish. They started taking more business trips and longer vacations away from home to forget about the son that wanted to die.

And Steve was left at home with the constant reminder that he failed.

He used the pool to make friends and to throw rambunctious parties but he never stepped foot in it. The first time he did since the eighth grade was with Nancy when he pushed her in. That was the night his pool took Barb. After that night, the kids thought his hesitation around his pool was because of guilt over losing Nancy’s best friend which he went with because it was so much easier to explain.

He’d throw them pool parties and play lifeguard but he would not touch the water.

Some nights, Robin would swing by to the Harrington house just to find Steve sitting at the pool’s edge. Close but never touching the water. She’d lure him inside to complain about girls or any other topic that helped distract her from the uneasy feeling she got when she saw him sitting there.

After their final bout with the Upside Down, Loch Nora was destroyed. Steve’s house was barely standing and his backyard was a chasm. The pool that had haunted him for years was gone but the thoughts that gave the pool such power remained. Steve didn’t know why he deserved to live more than Eddie and he wasn’t even sure he wanted to. As he thought about his fallen friend that could’ve been more, he yearned to feel the floating like he had in eighth grade. He wanted to feel his lungs burn for air and the fire in his chest when he finally breathed in.

But the pool was gone, he couldn’t do what he’d wanted to since he first tried and even though it was gone, the temptation remained. Instead of sinking into the chilly water, he slouched down next to the blazing chasm where his pool used to be. He felt the heat envelop his body and knew that it was the right decision. He was supposed to perish in the Upside Down as a martyr fighting for his friends. That didn’t work out though so now he had to pull the role of a coward and die a fiery, reasonless, self-imposed death alone.

He didn’t leave a note, didn’t think he needed to. His friends would care or they wouldn’t but nothing he said would make the situation better.

So, he closed his eyes and stepped into the void just as he’d done so long ago. There wasn’t peace or panic like there was the last time, just nothingness as he stepped into the crack in the earth.

Strangely, the afterlife wasn’t dark as he’d expected (but to be fair, he hadn’t thought about it much). Instead, it looked exactly like the Upside Down almost as if the chasm wasn’t a portal to hell but a gate to the alternate Hawkins.

When Steve sat up, still alive despite his efforts, it was face to face with Eddie. A bloody and scarred Eddie that looked a little pissed off but Eddie nonetheless.

“Well hello Harrington, what the fuck are you doing here?”

Goddammit, the swimming excuse wasn’t going to work this time.

[pyllif]

They’re besties your honor

[endominator]

The three queens

[tmtquickcomics]

"Sleep Pile"

Polished copy

Comic List

[foxsnails]

A barb on their way to watch the barbie movie

[wummbo]

‘Master of Puppets’ blaring in the background

Artist Info

[noodlesewp]

Watched all of the trolls movies and did a doodle of my otp,

I just think theyre neat <3

[sharingoreozwithbeelfox]

On a hot day, Barbatos will ask you to pardon him for just undoing a few of his buttons to cool off. Meanwhile, Mammon will strip down to his boxers on his way to sit in front the fan.

[binkusdinkus]

(based off me and my little brother also quality sucks, press on it for the good stuff)

Math doodles

[squeakitties]

shooting the shit

[koppaiterocker]

Hello please enjoy this gif I hastily made because this scene was just WAY too cute...

[twigsyy]

Smokin' hot babe

[glorioustragedykid]

Barb while the others were on a crazy adventure

[endominator]

Strength Test

(Read from right to left)

[tmtquickcomics]

"Measurements" - Part 3

Part 1, Part 2

This comics polished

"Bad Joke" Previous comic sketched <==

"Bad Joke" Previous comic polished <==

==> Next comic sketched "Midnight Thoughts"

==> Next comic polished "Midnight Thoughts" tba

Comic list

Bonus comic: "Barbs Shirt"

I have some ruff sketches of this page posted here and here

Just want to say thank you to all the likes, reblogs, and notes/comments. For a new blog, you all have given it a lot love, again thank you!

I have more mini comic ideas for these guys, but probably going to work on some other projects for a while.

[in-correct-trolls]

Poppy: I’m Poppy, and this is my boyfriend Branch, and my girlfriend Barb, and Branch’s boyfriend Synth, and our boyfriend Hickory-