Inspired by THIS picture of Joe Keery and the possibility that s4 Steve could have had the most glorious blonde highlights. we could have had it aaaaaall.
The bell chimes as Steve bursts through the glass doors of Family Video, bringing in a gust of the hot summer air with him.
"Shut the door!" Robin demands from behind the counter, lunging forward, exasperated because of course, that stupid door is getting stuck on its hinges and not closing properly right in the middle of summer. And Robin had only just managed to regulate the store's temperature after a pair of morons (aka, Mike and Will) had biked away and left it wide open.
Steve nods, looking like his blank, dingus self in his summertime attire: a baby blue polo and navy shorts that are far too short, giving Robin vivid flashbacks to their dorky Scoops uniforms. She looks down and realises he is, in fact, wearing an identical pair of blue sneakers he'd worn slinging ice creams and her mind drifts to what she could fashion in order to resurrect the 'You Suck' board. Between the outfit and his new hairstyle, he sure was regressing back to his peak 1985 lameness.
"Hi!" he announces, doing his silly little dad-jog to the counter.
"Oh my god!" Dustin shrieks, finally looking up from the VHS order catalogue he was 'helping' Robin look through.
The exclaim stirs Eddie, carefully selecting candies he is absolutely, one hundred percent going to pay for.
"Oh," he says, looking at Steve's hair, now almost entirely blonde with shining, fresh highlights. His face stays frozen in an 'o' shape as he practically collapses against the counter and holds on for dear life. Robin snickers, readying herself for some not-so-subtle teasing, but Dustin gets one in first.
"You look like a Ken doll."
Robin cackles, admittedly at her best friend's expense but, sue her. Henderson sure has a way with (bitchy) words.
Steve leans an arm on the counter, conveniently facing Eddie and smirks. "Always so complimentary, Henderson."
"Shut up, it looks good!" comes Max from the comedy aisle where she and Lucas have been standing for way too long.
Robin makes a face, knowing that all these little pocket moniless twerps are only in the store for the (not even all that good) air-conditioning.
Lucas elbows Max, offering a faint, "What the hell?"
"What?" she retorts, folding her arms. "He looks good."
The couple continues squabbling, the only intelligible words being, "he's lame", and, "but he has nice hair".
Steve runs a hand through said hair, likely knowing it's causing a store-spanning reaction because he's just that vain.
"Just got it done," he smiles like he hadn't spent the past week sitting behind the counter and not working while he was looking at hair magazines.
But he also looks like he's really only interested in impressing one very stupid, slack-jawed metalhead dressed head to toe in black despite it being the dog days of summer. Robin narrows her eyes and pokes at Eddie's bare arm in hopes of rebooting him to his annoying factory settings.
"Munson! You are being suspiciously quiet. What's say you?"
"Uhhh," he hums, looking Steve over before settling back on gawking at his goddamn hair.
"Jesus Christ!" Dustin groans, hanging his head in his hands. He gathers up his pen, paper and order catalogue and heads to the back room, continuing to act like he's an actual employee.
Eddie finally closes his mouth and gives a tight-lipped smile and Robin can practically feel Steve fawning over his devil-disguised-as-a-cherub dimples.
"It… It looks... good," Eddie mumbles, stuttering all the way and avoiding eye contact.
Robin snorts, realising the lovesick moron is just going to remain a melting puddle of goo, not worth teasing at all. She pushes off her wheely chair, sending it flying backwards as she heads for the returns trolley sitting abandoned across the store.
She misses Eddie eventually gathering himself up enough to move a step closer and quietly say, "You look pretty".
And all Steve can do is blush with a meek, "Thanks".
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[An AU where Max and Norm can build an avatar body for Spider, who is excited as this is something he's always wanted. When they're done, they show Spider his Avatar.]
Spider,marveling at his Avatar: This is amazing!
Norm, patting him on the shoulder:Yep! Soon you'll get to say goodbye to these blonde locks!
Eywa, who heard this: WHAT?!? NO!!!
[Next day]
Spider shows up to look at his avatar when he sees it and is confused.
Spider:Norm... Did you bleach the hair or something??
Norm:Wha??
And there in front of them is Spider's avatar. Yesterday the hair was straight and black like a regular Na'vi's hair, now it's like Spider's OG hair without the dreads, long, blonde, and curly.
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