#dustin and max add to it sometimes

[starship-buccaneer]

Steve: Well yeah, Eddie flirts with me constantly and touches me all the time and I do it back and everything, but we're just two guys horsin' around, y'know?

Everyone: No Steve. We do not know.

Steve: Yeah, Eddie's fruity with me, so what? Just because I'm a guy and he likes guys doesn't automatically mean he's into me. He's just comfortable being himself with me!

Everyone: Steve. He's sitting in your lap, playing with your hair. He calls you pretty boy, Steve. He's wearing your sweater, Steve. Steve, please.

[acowardinmordor]

I think when Steve gets Vecna'd, Eddie adds together what he knows about the situation and comes to a logical conclusion. To him at least. He knows that Steve came here asking for heavy drugs and high quantities. He knows that Steve was sounding a hell of a lot like 'sleep' meant something worse.

He knows that Steve is X, and that means all of the horrible things that Eddie knows X thinks about himself, the guy in front of him thinks that too. He knows that Steve, ever since the letters stopped, has been upsetting the freshmen by being distant and cold.

The only assumption he can come up with is that Steve already took something, and it's hit. Or it's causing a reaction. Or its a bad trip.

He has no hesitation about touching him, immediately checks his breathing and his heart rate. It sorta, kinda seems like an overdose, a little bit could be an allergic reaction, but Steve is trembling like he's scared, and his body is stiff. Those explanations don't make perfect sense, so he watches for something that would mean it IS medical, and heads towards his better guess.

Bad Trip.

Steve is high, and is in a bad brain place, and that means he needs to be grounded. Music helps, right? When he was on that bad trip with Rick after his first senior year, Rick put on one of Eddie's tapes, and talked to him. Calm shit. Encouraging shit.

Eddie fully ignores the flickering lights - electrical gets weird in the trailer sometimes - and grabs the mixtape he made for X, and shoves it into his sorta fucky boombox. It's a mix of X's favorite songs, and the ones he mentioned in his own letters. He doesn't know if Steve ever listened to them, but that tape is the only thought he has.

Gets it playing, and grabs hold of Steve's arms. He knows that Steve stopped talking to him. Since Steve knew who he was, and Eddie didn't know who X was, it means Steve probably doesn't care if Eddie wants him to be okay.

Eddie talks about how everyone else feels.

He tells him about how protective Dustin is. How angry Lucas gets anytime anyone says a bad word about Steve. How Eddie has never seen Robin smile so much. How no one judges him for needing to repeat a year. Everyone knows about how hurt he got, and everyone gets it. No one thinks worse of him for it.

He knows his voice isn't exactly calm and soothing, but the longer this insane eye-flutter, non responsive thing goes, the more terrified Eddie is.

"Steve, please, please, it's okay. Just find your way back. try to breathe, try to feel your body, and you'll be okay. I know - I know I've been an asshole to you. I know, okay. But the boys, Robin, shit, fuck, Steve, I need to apologize for shit, so you gotta slow down your breathing. Whatever you're seeing, it isn't real. I promise it's not real, okay? Come back to the real world and I can get you feeling better, I promise. Steve? Steve?"

He doesn't notice at first that Steve is starting to float. He's too focused on his face, the way his eyes are still rolled back. He lets go before he can notice his own hands rising with him. Shits too real, this isn't just a bad trip, he needs help, he needs an ambulance, a cop, anyone that can actually help Steve.

He has the phone in hand, and is about to dial when he turns back, needing to keep looking at him while he begs someone to come fast. He sees Steve in the air.

One step closer, then another. He keeps trying, another whispered sentence or three. But the lights are going crazy, and the music is staticky, the dialtone is screaming, and suddenly Steve is flattened to the ceiling, arms pulling slowly to the sides.

Eddie runs.

Leaves the door swung open as he throws himself into his van. His hands are shaking and he's hyperventilating too hard to notice Max Mayfield sprinting across the road, up the stairs and into the trailer. He's pulling away, when Max screams as Steve falls.

He hears the scream, he hears and feels the heavy thump of a weight hitting the ground. He knows what that sound must mean.

Eddie runs.

Behind him with the tape still playing, Max holds onto a terrified Steve, who has trickles of blood on his cheeks, and bruises blooming on his arms.

Steve, alive, cursed, who immediately asks if Eddie is safe.

[rogueddie]

Helpless T | 497 words Prompt for steddielovemonth: Love is watching them do the stupidest things and falling harder for them every time

Steve Harrington is smart.

It's a fact, something that Eddie is entirely unwilling to move an inch on. He knows Steve is smart, far smarter than he realizes himself, and especially smarter than any of the kids give him credit for.

But, quickly, he learns not to defend Steve on his intelligence. He quickly notices how often Steve uses their assumptions.

Sometimes he'll use their assumptions to get away with shit.

Usually he uses it to play the fool, playing a little into slapstick to make the group laugh. It's so easy for him to lighten the mood, knowing exactly what each person finds especially funny.

For some reason, when it's just him and Eddie, he doesn't play into the idiot role. He's calmer, relaxed... comfortable.

"One time I got Dustin to snort," Steve says, brushing past Eddie questions. "I've been trying to get him to do it again ever since. You shoulda seen his face. Priceless."

That was a day that Eddie tries his hardest to forget though.

He'd been so distracted when Steve lifted his shirt by the hem to wipe at his face that he'd walked straight into the sliding glass doors that lead to his backyard.

Steve had rushed over, panicked, and fussed over him, despite Eddie's mumbles assurance that he was fine.

"I've done it before," Steve says, patting him on the shoulder. "It's an easy mistake to make. But there's a trick, look, here, watch. This bit, here, is only visible when the door is open."

Other than filing the fact away, Eddie didn't think anything about that specific detail.

It wasn't until, two weeks later, when the kids were arguing over something small and starting to get heated that-

Steve walks straight into the glass door, bouncing off with a comical 'thump'.

The kids are immediately distracted from their argument, Max loudly cackling, Dustin yelling his teasing comments over the burst of noise.

"Hey, come on, how was I supposed to know?" Steve complains, rubbing at his head. "It's glass, man, you can't see it!"

"Oh my god," Mike groans, rolling his eyes. "It's so obvious!"

"Alright, genius, just because you've apparently got it all figured out-" Steve taunts, hands on hips.

"You don't have to be a genius, you just need eyes!"

"Not even," Max adds. "I can get through it fine."

Eddies attention is locked on Steve, who's defences only get progressively worse.

But, when he catches Eddie's eye, he shifts a little. Like he knows he's been caught, like he knows the gig is up.

He holds a finger to his lips for a moment, winking, before turning back to the kids.

"Colored glass doesn't really count as glass though, right? That's visible. Glass isn't."

Eddie shakes his head, biting back a laugh at how much louder the kids get.

He sends Steve a subtle thumbs up when he glances over again, resolutely ignoring the butterflies wiring around his stomach when Steve grins back, wide, eyes crinkling.

[layce2015]

Stranger Things (Steve Harrington x Female!Reader)

Chapter 2: Trick Or Treat, Freak

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*3rd Person POV*

It was Halloween and Mike, Will, Dustin and Lucas all dressed up as the Ghostbusters. Although it seemed that Mike and Lucas both went as Venkman instead of either of them wanting to go as Winston. But the bad and probably most embarrassing thing about today is that they were the only ones who dressed up at school for Halloween.

So, through out the day they had been teased for wearing costumes but also Dustin and Lucas were trying to strike up the courage to talk to Max. Finally, later that day, they see her  at her locker and they decided to finally approach her. Dustin then clears his throat to get her attention.

“Um...Hi, Max. I'm Dustin, and this is...” Dustin introduces as Max looks at them. “Lucas.” Lucas said. “Yeah, I know. The stalkers.” Max accuses and the boys stutter. “Uh, no. Actually...” Lucas stammers. “We weren't stalking you. No, we were just concerned because, you know, you're new and all.” Dustin said. “Yeah, for your safety.” Lucas adds.

“Mmm-hmm. There are a lot of bullies here.” Dustin said. “So many bullies, it's crazy.” Lucas stammers. “Yeah.” Dustin affirms. “Is that why you're wearing proton packs?” Max asked them as she nods towards their homemade proton packs. “Well, these don't function. But...I do have this handy-dandy little trap here.” Dustin said as he reaches behind him and grabs the ghost trap. “And look, it even opens and closes. Look, look, look...” Dustin said and he pushes the button and the trap door opens.

”Voilà!” Dustin chuckles. “It's cool, right?” Dustin asked her but Max just looks at them. “No? Okay. But, um...So, we were talking last night, and you're new here, so you probably don't have any friends to take you trick-or-treating, and you're scared of bullies, so we were thinking that it would be okay if you come with us.” Dustin said to her. 

"It'd be okay?” Max asked, confused. “Yeah. Our party's a democracy, the majority voted you could come.” Dustin said. “Didn't realize it was such an honor to go trick-or-treating with you.” Max said, sarcastically. “We know where to get the full-sized candy bars. We figured you'd want in.” Dustin tells her. “That's presumptuous of you.” Max said, which stuns the boys for a moment before Dustin recovers.

“Yeah. Totally. Uh, so, um...you'll come?” He asked her and she shuts her locker door and walks away. “We're meeting at the Maple Street cul-de-sac at 7:00. That's 7:00 on the dot!” Dustin calls out after her as she walks down the hall and takes a corner.

“Presumptuous." Dustin repeats then looks to Lucas. “That's a good thing, right?” He asked Lucas, who sighs then walks the other direction. “Is it bad?” Dustin asked again as he follows Lucas. “Lucas, is it bad? Lucas? Son of a bitch, Lucas. Is it bad?” Dustin asked, repeatedly, but Lucas doesn’t respond.

*(y/n)’s POV*

“Where the hell is she?” Billy growled as we stand by his car sometime after the final bell rang. “I don’t know. Maybe she got held up in class?” I suggested to him as he smokes his cigarette. “She knows she’s supposed to be here.” He growls just as I see Max on her skateboard, coming towards us. “There she is.” I said and Billy looks over at her then takes another drag of his cigarette.

“You're late again.” Billy said to her as I go to the passenger door and open it for her. “Yeah, I had to get catch-up homework.” Max said. “Jesus. I don't care.” Billy said, annoyed. “You're late again, and you're skating home. Do you hear me?” Billy said and Max and I share an annoyed look before I push the seat forward and she gets in. 

Later, Billy was flying like a bat outta hell on the road, which was covered in the autumn leaves, Max was in the backseat as I was in the front passenger seat. The music was blasting as none of us spoke until Billy decided to speak up. “God, this place is such a shithole.” Billy grumbles. “It's not that bad.” Max said. “Yeah, I agree.” I said. “No?” Billy asked and he pushes a button on the middle console to make the passenger window roll down and he inhales deeply.

“Mmm! You smell that, girls? That's actually shit. Cow shit.” Billy said as he pinches his nose. “I don't see any cows.” Max said as I roll my eyes and I push the button to roll the window back up. “Clearly, you haven't met the high-school girls.” Billy said and I scoff at this. “I mean, ask (y/n) here. She knows.” He said and I look at him with narrowed eyes.

”Oh, c’mon, I seen you with that one ugly looking girl.” He said. “Robin? She’s been showing me around the place.” I said, defensively. “Really? Well, you two looked pretty close at the cafeteria.” Billy said. “What? It’s wrong to have some sort’ve connection?” I asked him, annoyed.

“So what, you two like it here now?” Billy asked me and Max “No.” Max and I said. “Then why are you two defending it?” He asked us. “We’re not.” I said. “Sure sounds like it.” Billy said. “It's just we're stuck here, so...” Max said and Billy hums at this. “You're right. We're stuck here. And whose fault is that?” Billy asked as he looks up at the rearview mirror towards Max.

“Yours.” I muttered but it seemed Billy caught that. “What'd you say?” He asked me. “Nothing.” I replied, quickly. “Did you say it's my fault?” Billy asked me. “No.” I said, feeling a bit frightened but kept up the tough girl facade. “You know whose fault it is. Say it.” Billy tells me but I stay silent, while I look up at the rear view to see Max looking slightly nervous. “(Y/n)…” Billy said in a sing song voice. “…say it.” He said, in a quiet angry tone but I stay silent. “Say it!” He screams in my ear then he slams his foot down on the accelerator and we fly down on the road.

Up ahead, I see three kids on bikes and I look up at the mirror and see Max looking a bit worried. “Billy, slow down.” Max tells him. “Oh, these your new hick friends?” He asked her. “No! I don't know them.” Max shouts. “I guess you won't care if I hit 'em, then? I get bonus points, I get 'em all in one go?” Billy asked as slams his hand against the steering wheel, repeatedly.

“No, Billy, stop. It's not funny.” I shout at him as he accelerates the speed and I see the three kids, looked like boys dressed up as the Ghostbusters, pedaling as fast as they could on their bikes. “Billy, come on, stop it. It's not funny. Stop!” Max and I shout as we get closer to the boys. “Billy, stop it!” Max shouts as I grab the wheel and jerk it over to the left, making his car swerve and avoid the boys as they dived to the side of the road to avoid us.

“Yeah! That was a close one, huh?” Billy screams at us then laughs like a maniac as we scream down the road. Both Max and I turn around to see those boys were safe as they stand up and stare at us.

“You sure they said meet them here?” I asked Max as we come upon the cul-de-sac of Maple Street. I had asked Mom if I could borrow her car to drive Max to her trick or treat meet up and I would go to the party as I really didn’t want to be around Billy, not after the shit he pulled this afternoon. Plus I know he was gonna get extremely drunk and I didn’t want to be riding with him at that point. Mom agreed as she wasn’t going anywhere that night, so she gave me the keys and warned me to be careful and be back at a decent hour.

”Yeah, they did. We’re just a little early is all.” Max said, who was dressed up as Michael Myers. She told me about these boys, the ones Billy tried to make into roadkill, had invited her out and she was mildly interested in it. “Okay, well, you have fun. You be careful and meet me back here around ten o’clock.” I tell her and she nods. “Okay.” She said, smiling, and she starts to get out of the car.

”And remember, I get at least ten percent of the share of the candy.” I tell her and she scoffs. “Ten percent?! That’s too much. How about five?” she asked me. “How about eight? And that’s my final offer.” I tell her and she thinks for a moment before she nods again. “I guess that’ll be okay.” She said and I smiled. “I love you, Max.” I tell her. “Yeah, yeah, love you too.” She said and she walks off as I see many groups of kids start to surround the place. I then maneuver my way around and head off to the Halloween party. 

Music was blaring and I was nursing on the cup of beer I had in my hand. People were dancing or talking really loudly and off on the other side of the house I saw a group of guys cheering as they had Billy doing a handstand on a keg, drinking beer from it. “...thirty-eight, thirty-nine, forty, forty-one, forty-two!” One guy shouted and Billy gets back on his feet as all the guys began to cheer, loudly, and pumping their fists in the air. 

“Yeah!”

”Forty-two!”

“We got ourselves a new Keg King!” Another guy shouts and Billy cheers as well as everyone begins to chant his name. “Billy! Billy! Billy!”

”That's how you do it, Hawkins!” Billy shouts as the guys continue to chant. “Billy! Billy! Billy!” I just shake my head at this and take another sip of my beer. They head inside the house and I just scoff again as I head back inside and go to refill my cup.

Once inside, I noticed that girl, Nancy, going to the punch bowl and starts to dip a cup in it to get a big cup full of the punch, which going by my experiences in parties had to be spiked with the hard stuff. Steve came up to her and looked like he was trying to stop her but she argued with him before she begins to drink the cup.

I was honestly shocked by this. She didn’t seem like the kind’ve girl that would drink the hard liquor. Nancy then walked away and Steve leaned against the counter and lowered his head. Not really knowing much about him or the situation he and Nancy are in, I kinda felt bad for him. I slowly headed towards the bowl before Steve raised his head then walked away and tried to look like he was enjoying the party.

I get to the bowl and scooped up some of the punch to make at least half of my cup. I take a sip and could tell that whatever the punch was spiked with was very strong. I was taking some cautious sips and leaned against the wall as I watch a bunch of people dancing or making out.

Minutes later, Nancy came back over to the bowl and grabbed her some more drinks before Steve came up to her and tried to take her cup away. She did seem extremely tipsy when she came up to the bowl. They fight over the cup until the punch spills all over Nancy’s front and everyone stopped and stared at her and Steve as Nancy looks down at her shirt.

Then she glared up at Steve. “What the hell?” She asked before she walks off then Steve follows her towards, what I assume, the bathroom. The party goers resumed the dancing as if nothing happened. Moments later, Steve was walking out and he didn’t look very happy as he heads out of the house. I frown at this before I finish my drink and decided maybe I need to head home myself. This party was kinda lame anyway and it was almost time for me to pick Max up.

Later, I pull up to the meeting spot where I see Max waiting for me with two of the Ghostbusters boys that Billy tried to run over. I pull up and Max goes to the passenger door and opens it. “Hey, Max.” I said. “Hey.” She said as she gets in and I look over at the boys. “You gonna introduce me?” I asked her. “Oh, um, (y/n), this is Lucas and Dustin.” She said, gesturing to the boys when she said their names, and both boys waved at me and I smiled and gave a little wave to them.

”Nice Ghostbusters costumes, boys.” I complimented and the boys smiled. “Thanks.” They said. “Oh, check this out!” Dustin said and he pulls up the ghost trap replica from his hip, holds it up and presses a button and it opens. “Wow, very cool.” I said and Dustin’s smile got even bigger and I chuckled. “Anyway, we better get home. Mom and Neil are probably wondering where we are.” I said and Max nods then turns to wave at them again before she shuts the door.

“So, how was trick-or treating?” I asked her as we drive down the road. “It was fun. There was a couple of other boys that were with us but…they had to leave.” Max tells me. “Why?” I asked her. “I don’t really know. This one boy, Will I think, he was kind of upset the whole time cause some kids were calling him Zombie Boy. And then all of sudden he ran off and when we found him, he was really freaked out. So this stick-up-his-ass-Mike took him home.” Max explained and I ponder this.

”Huh, why did they call him zombie boy?” I asked her and she shakes her head. “No idea. I mean, I had heard he went missing for like a week but….I don’t know.” She mutters and we sat in silence for a few moments. “So, how was the party?” Max asked me and I shrugged. “It was alright. Billy making an ass of himself, everyone was dancing and the drinks were okay but…it was kinda boring.” I said and Max nods a bit at this before she starts digging in her candy bag.

”Hey, you got my eight percent?” I asked her, smiling, and she rolls her eyes at me. Then she hands me a candy bar which was a full size and it was a 3 Musketeers. “Oh, cool!” I said and I try to open the candy and eat it as I continue to drive back home.

[sunnytoonsproductions]

Just know, y'all, before ya start readin' this list, just know that this list will always often be edited since I always add again some new characters here. Y'all can read now! =^/////^=

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Here's finally the official characters list of the 'back to the SING!' reboot:

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Note: the eight main characters all appear in EVERY single episode, and I'll make these notes for each types of characters lists

Main characters - Sunny, Li'l D, Madison, Philly Phil, Tamika, Eddie, Kim, and Kam

Note: in the antagonists list, each one of the antagonists appear in each episode, and some characters that often act evil or villainous will be added here

Antagonists - Dr Nefario, Big D, Salieri, Lil' G, Addison, Brooklyn Bill, Bambi, Freddie, Jim and Jam, Big D, Mr Yin snd Mr Min, Gunther and Inga, Principal Luna, Kaylie and Mackenzie (they're sometimes good), Tanya, Jared, Zelda (often), Dustin and Preston, agent one, agent two, Ms. Jaspers, Karl, Vladimir, Scranton Sue, Dylan and Ronald (Jared's friends), Ruby, Bi-Bi, Kee-Kee, Maya, Jesper, Maximus, Belle, Rosie, Sally the chubby dance student, (them nine are actually also often nice unlike Tanya), Timmy, Milford the chairman, Hal the bodyguard, Al the bodyguard

Note: the main reccuring characters all very often and nearly always appear in the reboot along with the main characters, and are important to the reboot ofcourse like always

Main reccuring characters - Mila, Cheddar man, Bianca, Kaylie and Mackenzie (I'll add them here, along with Tanya and Jared), Tanya, Jared, Lucius, Jan, Bullfrog, Ms Noir, Sherri and Carrie, Coach Barnum, Petunia Squattinchowder, Albert Schwartz, Efron, B.R.O.C. (he can often be a evil), the Beast, Santa Claus, Mrs Claus, Sulu, Momo the Gorilla, Sherry Stevenson, Ruby, Bi-Bi, Kee-Kee, Maya, Jesper "Jes", Maximus "Max", Belle, Rosie, Sally the chubby dance student, Replacement Tamika "Tamara", replacement Madison "Maika", Reverend money, Kathy the teenage girl, Talk show host Kassandra, Ms Margarette, Yeti, Frank, Buddy Z

Note: just like the main reccuring characters, but these ones are the NEW ones, like, they're my own characters for the reboot and they will often and nearly always keep all the original characters company

NEW main reccuring characters: Oliver Starz, Agathe Dubois, Amy (she's Agathe's student) Soleil, Valien the alien of the solar system, Dakota the humanoid android, Meowster the cool cat, Cam the iguana, Margarete the Queen Spider, Ms Rubystein, Moony Nights (he can often appear here), Cheddsy charsy

Note: just like for the NEW main reccuring characters, the NEW antagonists are my characters for the reboot, that will ofcourse, also keep the original characters (even my own characters) company in the reboot

NEW antagonists - Sunil, Kitty McBitty, Mozzarela sir, vampiric-medusas trio (Aelius, Barbara and Gouda gentlemen), Robotic Sunny, T-Top dog, Robotic Li'l D and the robotic westley kids

Note: the minor/background characters are all the other unimportant or background characters that I've found on the behind the voice actors site, and in the reboot, they aren't important to the reboot but are just the part of it just to be background characters

Minor characters - all the other background guest roles on the behind the voice actors site:

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And this is even for all my loved ones in my big tumblr family, so they all can know more information and details of my reboot (even all my other series/shows for the 'sunny toons productions' company), even tho some of them aren't really into class of 3000: @0lemonadefox0 @kxllboii @cheezekennith @aquamarine-dream-queen @dayzsac224 @oscarandgrinchfan @moshywoosh @ilovescaredysquirrel2 @nuggetaubrey @sharkyy599 @nightkit92 @familyoffood @animatronicdoozer @thelazzyblogzz @sugar-miss1 @shrimpathizer @shypeachrunaway @iggyguyy @sayuri-does-skits @peaceforpeople @ben5569 @oxxjustfrankieandmikuloverxxo @ducktopia90264 @artismeyou-12 @blackstar044 @dieguin-san-theartist2009 @nia1sworld @rumplestiltsbear @s4gefr0g @beeware-of-lulu @leafith @bluebird-in-a-cagedrawing @blo0st4r @fancytigercupcake @classywinnerpeace @dackychansworldofhoshino @itzbluecl0udd @moonlightrosebud2000 @avaford2009 @ghostytoasty726 @devillemon085 @untitled14360 @dynastinoble @kornyart and @elizachangreaves and even some class of 3000 fans here on tumblr, and outside of tumblr =^///////^= 💖💖💖🩷❤️❤️❤️🧡🧡

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[dancethroughthethunder]

It's You, It's You Chapter 5

Pairing: Steve Harrington x Reader

Word Count: 1.4k

Summary: You decide to host a P-Squared (what you call a Party party!) and Steve gets roped into taking the guys to get things for it. Getting back and helping set up, Steve overhears you and Dustin talking about who you have feelings for. There’s no room for misunderstanding as Steve hears you say his name.

Previous Chapters: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4

Author’s Note: The moment we've all been waiting for!! This one is complete on my ao3! Divider credit: @/saradika

Sometimes Steve wonders how he gets himself into these situations. It’s a Friday afternoon and instead of getting ready to spend time with you, or going to a party, he’s driving Dustin, Mike, Lucas, and Will to the store to pick up snacks and decorations. There’s no real occasion, other than because they can. 

You once joked that everyone loves a good party, and after everything you’d all been through, who said you needed to wait for someone’s birthday for one. You’d dubbed them Party parties, or P-Squareds. Everyone had groaned at that one, which if anything, made you laugh even harder. At some point you had convinced Max and El it would be fun, which naturally got Will, Lucas and Mike on board. Dustin and Eddie were easy to convince with the promise of snacks, and as much as they like to tease the kids and roll their eyes at your P-Squareds, Nancy, Jonathan, and Robin were all in agreement that a fun night at home sounded great. 

Steve didn’t need any convincing, unsurprisingly. Sure, he put on a show about rolling his eyes and groaning about the set up, or your bad jokes, but there was never a question that he’d agree. If it made you happy, he’d do it. Plus, he secretly thinks everyone deserves it. He could look around the room and pick anyone and find a dozen reasons why they personally could use a Party party. 

Which is how Steve has found himself in his current predicament. Normally you go with him to the store but you had promised your mom you would run a few errands first, and you had taken Max and El with you for a girls day. With you busy, Steve had no excuse not to take all four boys to the store. 

"So Steve, when are you going to tell her you’re in love with her?” Dustin smiles smugly. 

“I - what? I don’t know what you mean, dude.” Steve hopes they don’t notice the slight blush he can feel coming on. 

“Oh come on, Harrington, everyone can see it.” Mike adds from the back seat. 

“Yeah, you are not subtle.” Dustin laughs beside him. 

“Max was just telling me –” 

“Okay, thank you for your advice. You’re all, what, ten years old? But yeah, I’ll make sure to take your girl advice.” He cuts Lucas off before he can share whatever secondhand wisdom he has to share from Max. 

Steve rolls his eyes as he parks the car and ushers them all in the store, handing out the mini shopping lists you always made in advance so they could divide and conquer. You told the guys that it was so they could race to see who could get their items faster, but later you’d confided in Steve that it was really to make his life easier so they weren’t there too long, trying to buy everything while driving him crazy. 

Steve smiles to himself, as he looks down at his shopping list. Underneath all of the usual things he grabs (the alcohol for the older ones, sodas for everyone else, and the dessert), you added an item. 

Reeses, please? :) 

As if there was any chance he’d forget your favorite candy. Technically Will has the list of sweets for the Party party, but sometimes you’d ask Steve to grab an extra pack just for you for later. Even when you don’t ask, Steve grabs them anyways. His favorite is when he hides them around for you to randomly find. He just has to remember not to put it somewhere super out of the way in the summer. He almost ruined one of your lesser-used purses that way. 

“Hey, earth to Steve. What’s so fascinating? It’s the same list every time.” Mike walks away as quickly as he appeared, giving Steve a judgmental look. 

Fucking teenagers , Steve thinks, as he goes off in search of his items for the Party party.

Thankfully it doesn’t take too long for everyone to grab their things and head for checkout. Then they do their usual song and dance of pretending they didn’t grab extra snacks, while Steve does his normal part of pretending not to notice until he’s already paid. They all pile back into his car and head for your house, ready for the P-Squared.

As they get to your house, the boys are arguing about something and Steve is too busy thinking about what they were saying on the way to the store to care to pay attention. Should he say something to you? What if it ruins the friendship? You’re his best friend, he can’t lose you. Besides, what do they know? Again, they're just kids.

As he gets his own bags out of the trunk, Steve is just about convincing himself to disregard everything they said when Will turns and looks at him.

“I think you should tell her. I think she likes you too.” 

With that, Will turns away and heads into your house. Steve probably won’t ever admit it, but coming from Will, he thinks he might just take the advice of a high-schooler. Will’s a good kid, and something about the kind way that he says it makes Steve think that maybe there’s something there, something beyond being teased by Dustin and Mike. 

Steve shuts his trunk and follows Will into your house. He greets Nancy and Jonathan who are in the kitchen telling the boys where to put all of the food and decorations, and goes in search of you. He finds Robin and Eddie in the living room, rifling through your music trying to decide what will be the first album to be listened to tonight. 

“Hey Steve.” 

“Hey Harrington, your girl is in the family room with Dustin.” 

“Hey Robin, hey Munson.” Steve doesn’t bother disputing that you’re his girl as he heads down the hallway to the family room. 

“I’m telling you, just tell him how you feel.” Dustin’s back is to the hallway, and he’s blocking Steve’s view of you.

“Oh my god Dustin I’m not taking love advice from you.” Steve can just barely see you throw your arms up in exasperation on either side of Dustin.

“He’s my best friend. You don’t think I’d know if he was in love with you?” 

Oh, after all of this time, after all of Steve's confusion, is it Eddie? Steve thinks back to your conversation with Max, it would make sense why Max would be teasing you about liking Eddie, in fact it makes much more sense for the tone of the conversation than if you were into Billy. Speaking of Billy, could he know? Could Eddie be the guy that Billy thinks is so lucky? 

Steve doesn’t know what to think. He’s thinking about hearing you with Nancy and Jonathan and realizes that of course you’d talk to them if you liked Eddie. It makes sense, you’re all friends, why not ask their opinions too. He’s a little hurt that Robin must have known this the whole time too, based on her conversation before her “date” with you, but he doesn’t really blame her for not telling him. Maybe she didn’t want to break his heart on your behalf, or didn’t think it was her place to say. 

Dustin is tall enough now that neither you nor Steve can see each other through him, and with his back turned, Dustin can’t see Steve either. Which is good for Steve, because it gives him a moment of privacy as he realizes that it’s Eddie. Eddie who makes you laugh, who dances with you in the living room of your Party parties, and who has always been kind to you. Steve doesn't get it, but if it makes you happy, he'll figure out how to live with it, and pretend it feels normal.

“He’s my best friend too! So I think that out of everyone, I’d know if Steve fucking Harrington was in love with me, Dustin.” 

“What?”  Steve doesn’t even realize he’s opened his mouth until you and Dustin are both turning to look at him. 

“Remember, bravery.” Dustin tells you as he rushes past Steve. “Oh what was that Robin? Okay I’m coming!” Dustin continues as he runs down the hallway, away from you and Steve.

“Steve, hi.” You’re frozen in place as you greet him.

“Hi.” He takes a few tentative steps into the room with you.

“Well. Okay. Hi.” It’s awkward, and it’s stilted, and Steve’s never heard you like this. Not with him.

“Hi. Again.”

“Right, we said that.” You roll your eyes, presumably at yourself.

“We did.” Suddenly you’re smiling, and Steve is smiling. It’s just natural for Steve to smile when you do. You’ve got such a pretty smile, and he loves to see it. 

“Do you want to come in here for a minute?” You usher Steve further into the room, and further away from the hallway, where you’re both pretty sure that if you turn, you’ll see all of your friends lined up, trying to hear what you’re going to say. But neither of you turn around, neither of you can bear to look away from each other for even a second. 

Steve doesn't know it, but while he's mentally replaying what he overhead before coming into the room, you're giving yourself a pep-talk. As scared as you each are, you know that at the end of the day, it's you, and it's Steve, so maybe it's time to have that conversation.

[werepuppy-steve]

*slams file down on the table* here, it's the party's pokemon teams.

doing it by game was easier for me since i'm more familiar with gen 1.

we're going off vibes, not stats. don't yell at me.

character type specifics will vary from game to game, sometimes they won't. it depends on what i feel when looking through the pokedex's.

tagging: @nburkhardt @simplebtromance @spectrum-spectre @corrodedcoffindisband @matchingbatbites @sugarcookiesteve @sentient-trash

we're starting with gen 1: firered/leafgreen, aka my first pokemon games. i tried to be as creative as i could with this one, but kanto's pokedex is so limited in gen 1, it was a little difficult.

*first set of pokemon are the battle teams. the rotation set is who i felt also fit the characer (will and mike don't have rotations bc i was honestly pulling blanks) *steve has an eevee/eeveelution and eddie has a haunter in every gen, that's just the way it is

alright enough babbling. if yall have any suggestions per gen, feel free to add them in the replies or tags!

Eddie - Ghost/Poison

Rotation:

murkrow • sneasel • ditto • ekans • jigglypuff • venonat

Steve - Water/Ice

Rotation:

eevee • magikarp • kingler • seadra • octillery • delibird

Robin - Fighting/Grass

Rotation:

clefairy • lickitung • meowth •psyduck •sandshrew • ditto

Nancy - Fire/Flying

Rotation:

dragonair • persian • primeape • magmar • venomoth • charizard

Jonathan - Bug/Ground

Rotation:

raichu • voltorb • weedle • oddish • graveler • pidgey

Argyle - Grass/Rock

Rotation:

dugtrio • rattata • snorlax • venusuar • oddish • ditto

Chrissy - Poison/Water

Rotation:

dratini • golduck • polywag • vaporeon • clefable • zubbat

Dustin - Bug/Grass

Rotation:

bellossom • rattata • weedle • butterfree • golbat • magnemite

Lucas - Water/Fighting

Rotation:

cloyster • cubone • omanyte • quilfish • remoraid • raticate

Max - Electric/Fire

Rotation:

flareon • moltres • pikachu • polywag • staryu • zapdos

El - Psychic/Normal

Rotation:

clefairy • growlithe • nidoran ♀️ • persian • rattata • tauros

Will - Normal/Ground

Rotatation:

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Mike - Fire/Dragon

Rotation:

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Erica - Normal/Poison

Rotation:

clefairy • ditto • eevee • lickitung • pidgey • rattata

up next: pokemon crystal

[camaro-hargrove]

eddie finding out what really happened to billy and he's furious. he wants to slash steves face with the broken bottle he found, wants to scream and kick and break everything around him.

he feels like billy in the earlier days of their relationship, that's what he feels like. and it hits him like a freight train.

he's silent when they tell him what happened, about the upside down and the mind flayer.

"you knew this whole time?" eddie asks, voice quiet but loud in the silence.

"yeah" dustin nods "it's a lot to take in, i know"

"i didn't believe them when they told me" max adds

eddie nods.

"did you tell billy?" he asks, he already knew the answer but he wants to hear them admit it. that they didn't tell billy anything about that night at the byers, how they tranquilised him and left him alone. how they let him die when they knew something was wrong and wasn't himself.

"he" steve coughed awkwardly "didn't need to know"

"so you let him die" eddie deadpans, it makes max flinch and he should feel bad because they're max and billy had started to mend their broken relationship but he finds he doesn't at all.

"we didn't let him" dustin tries to explain.

eddie stands up, kicking the already broken bottle into even more pieces as it shatters against the boat.

"he was my best friend" eddie laughs. sometimes billy would laugh when he was mad, laugh when he was furious and eddie never understood why. it's almost funny for the timing of his realisation and it makes him laugh harder. "why did you kill my best friend?"

[sweet-villain]

Fashionably Late~E.M

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Angst

@amberolivia666 asked:

I have a request 🥺

Eddie is best friends with the reader and another girl. The other girl knows about the reader's huge crush on Eddie. One night, Eddie gets drunk, and the reader is taking care of him. You're laying him down on his bed, and he starts drunk mumbling, saying "oh by the way, the other night i had sex with (girls name) on this bed." And he keeps going on with the details. And the reader is just heartbroken.

You could decide if you want a happy ending .

@babyloutattoo89 @palomam18 @becca-alexa @sadbitchfangirl @irish-newzealand-idian-dutch @steddieandstonathansprincess @haileighboi @bookshelf-dust @moonchildquinn @strangerfreak

You threw the doors open to Family Video almost ripping it off it’s hinges while putting on your vest and running your fingers through your hair. Steve’s head popped from underneath the counter watching you stomp around until you stood next to him. His eyebrow rose in question on what has gotten you so angry all of sudden. He was too afraid to ask why you chose to almost rip the door like it was on it’s last breath. 

You threw your hands up in frustration and annoyance, “ I don’t understand what that girl has that Eddie can’t seem to shut his mouth about.” 

You were expecting an answer from Steve who’s yet to stand up from his position and instead be crowded himself in the corner while he stared up at you. 

“ Earth to Harrington? Did you hear what I said?” You waved a hand in front of his face thinking he’s too lost in his thought or simply wasn’t listening to you. Steve blinked a couple of times before he stood up and leaned against the other side. 

“ I did hear you and I don’t know what you want me to tell you. Tell me again who this is about?” Steve questioned like he had no idea who you were talking about when he kew exactly who it was. It was the girl that Eddie has been hanging out with a lot. It was getting on your nerves and all you seem to hear about how interesting she is or something new each day. 

“ You know exactly who, Harrington. Stop jerking around” you mumbled, rolling your eyes. He put his hands up.

“ You know, why don’t you.. I don’t know, stop hanging out with Eddie… you’ve only been hurting yourself. Are you ever going to tell him how you feel?” 

Your eyes got wide and you slapped a hand over his mouth like someone else was in the store and has heard you. You looked around to see if Steve had any earlier customers but the place was deserted and it was only the two of you. 

He mumbled something into your hand which you didn’t understand. Steve licked your hand and you brought it away from his mouth to wipe it on the polo shirt he’s wearing. He glances down with a deep frown. 

“ Thank you for that” he sarcastically says. “ There is no harm on telling him how you feel. What’s the worst that could happen?” 

“ Um.. Harrington, you do know he’s my best friend and I might lose him. No, thank you. Where is your head today?” 

“ I’m aware about your best friend being Eddie Munson of all people and my head is where it should be.” 

“ I don’t know how sometimes I’m friends with you” Steve shook his head as he pouted. The door opened and the both of you turned to greet them when you saw it was only Max and Dustin walking in with Mike and El trialing behind them.

“ Oh it’s just you” Steve mumbled. Dustin stops as he puts his hand on his heart. 

“ That was very hurtful Steve” he says. “ I have feelings you know” He adds. 

Max rolled her eyes at the two as she smiled over to you. Her smile drops when you don’t return her smile and it looks like something was bothering you. 

“ What’s with the face?” She asks, motioning with her hand on her face. 

“ She’s pissed off about the girl that Eddie keeps talking about and hanging around with” 

“ Oh she’s cool” Dustin says like he didn’t just hear that you were pissed off. If looks could kill, Dustin would be underground by now from the look on your face. 

“ She is mad” El says as she looks over to you. “ Why?” 

“ Because boys are stupid” Max answers. 

“ Don’t worry about it El, Y/N is very sour that she’s not the girl that Eddie wants to hang out with.” 

You took the films he stacked on the counter and knocked them on the ground as you stared at him. 

“ Clean it up” 

“ My tapes!” He shouted throwing his hands up in the air. “ That was uncalled for” he points a finger at you and walks around the counter to pick up the tapes you had dropped on the ground. 

“ You know you should tell Eddie how you feel” El suggest. “ It might make you feel better” she adds. You throw her a shrug and shake your head. 

“ I don’t want to lose him” she gives you a sympathetic look. “ Hey are you going to Tina’s party that’s happening on Saturday?” Steve asked forgetting he’s been inviting and dreaded going alone. 

“ Why?” You ask. 

“ Because I don’t want to go alone.” 

 “ Why don’t you ask Robin?” 

He gives you the look like why didn’t I think of that but he already did. 

“ She has a date with Vicky” he says. “ She’s finally got the courage to set something up to surprise her.” 

“ At least someone has their balls” Mike mutters. Next thing he knew he was falling to the ground with Max towering over him, she glared at him. 

“ Say that again and it will be your fingers I’ll snap” 

You were thankful Max was on your side at least for this. But you spoke to soon when she turns her head saying you should tell Eddie how you feel otherwise you might miss a chance. 

“ Just think on going with me, will you?” Steve asks. “ I really don’t want to go alone” he says. 

Your lips draw in a thin line and he’s well aware that parties aren’t really your thing to go to. You weren’t really a people’s person either. Not the people you went to high school with and not the people you saw at parties. 

“ They are stupid” you muttered. “ I’m sure you’ll find some girl there to charm and then you’ll leave me, all alone” Steve shakes his head. 

“ Eddie will be there” he says. He was probably going to be there to sell to make some money. He wasn’t very much of a partier either. 

“ Are you picking him up too, or is he meeting you there?” 

“ He’s going to drive over there. There is no way he’s coming inside of my car” Steve says. 

“ Will you pick me up, then?” Steve’s eyes got wide at your question and a smile appears on his face when he takes notices that your agreeing to go to the party with him. He slide over the counter but it was more like rolling to the ground. 

The rest chuckle at this. 

He quickly got up, fixing the vest and looks around.

“ No one saw anything” he says. Max smirked. 

“ We saw everything” she says while Steve walks over to you and picks you up, twirling you around. Your feet hit the films on the shelf which he doesn’t take notice after the second twirl. 

“ Awe man, come on! I just put those up this morning” he puts you down and groans. 

“ Your own fault, Harrington” you muttered fixing your shirt. You hadn’t noticed the others have left during this leaving you alone with Steve. 

“ Where did they go?” You looked around trying to see if they were playing hide and seek or something which was weird. Steve shrugs and looks over his shoulder.

“ It’s been awhile since you’ve been to party. Do you know what your going to wear?” 

“ Don’t worry about what I’m going to wear, Harrington. I think you should be more worried about if you’ll go home with a girl” he glare over to you when he shoots back a you. 

“ Oh? What about you and Eddie?” 

Your eyes squint at him not knowing where he was doing with this. 

“ What about it?” You asked. 

“ You’re not going to tell him?” You shook your head. 

“ Are you joking, Harrington? I’m sure there will other girls that would be more happy to go home with him than me. I mean, I’m not really pretty” you motion to yourself and Steve shoots you a look.

“ What? I am” 

He shakes his head. 

“ You’re pretty. Eddie is just blind to see it” 

“ Is that suppose to make me feel better?” 

“ Look I’m trying here!” He shouts throwing his hands up. “ You’re my friend and I would hate to see you get hurt by him. He’s dumb.” 

The door opened and Keith walked through the door staring down the two of you. 

“ We were stacking these” Steve says motioning to the shelf. Keith says something and walks to the back while you look at Steve. 

“ Oh shut it, go put these in another section” he hands you a box of fills that were by his feet. The rest of the week went by quicker than you thought and it was Saturday. The party was happening tonight and you were dreading on going. Not because you were going to be around people you didn’t like. 

But you were kinda scared seeing Eddie with another girl. 

You were looking into your closet what you would wear to the party, throwing clothes left and right and creating a pile all over your room. Your anxiety was making fun of you because you started to question what if you chose the wrong outfit or what if you chose something that shown too much skin.

Your mind was racing with too many thoughts. You didn’t even know your bedroom door opened and Steve walked in. His eyes fallen on the sight of your room. 

“ It looked like a tornado hit here” you jumped at the sound of his voice, throwing a shirt into his direction that was on the hanger. He catches in his hands and raises his eyebrows on what just happened.

“ You scared me, warn a girl” he pointed behind him to the door. 

“ I have knocked and told you it’s me walking in” he says. 

“ Be louder next time, Harrington” he sets the shirt he had in his hands on the chair while making his way to the chair in your room that didn’t have clothes on and sits down. 

“ Let me guess, you want to look pretty to catch Eddie’s eye?” You cast him a look going back into the closest looking at the colors you had and the dresses. You were thinking on a skirt but you felt self conscious of your legs. 

“ Should I wear a dress?” In your hands you held up two dresses and turn to Steve who had his arms across his chest as he looked between the two of you. 

“ You wear what your comfortable in” you groan, throwing your head back. 

“ You’re not helping, Harrington. Pick one” he hummed putting a finger to his chin while he thought on it. You sighed seeing the was taking his precious time in deciding. 

“ You know what, your not any help at all. Maybe I shouldn’t go to the party” Steve stood u from the chair and walked around your room were he looked at your clothes and picked up a shirt for you to wear and a skirt that looked cute too to go with the shirt. 

He hands you the outfit and turns you around pushing you into the bathroom. 

“ Go get change, you are dramatic as Eddie. No wonder you like him so much” he mutters underneath his breathe.

“ I heard that!” You shouted from the closed bathroom. “ You were meant too, now hurry up” he says through the door. You mutter underneath your breath how he was being annoying as you changed into the outfit he has chosen for you and surprisingly it looked really cute. 

Your heart raced at the thought of Eddie looking over at you and noticing you. It’s not like he didn’t notice you but you wanted him to come up to you and tell you how pretty you look. 

He has never told you. 

You opened the door and stepped out.

“ Well?” You did a twirl. Steve’s mouth hung open as he stared at the sight of you. You were really pretty like he always told you. “ Munson is missing out” Steve says and stood up from the chair he was sitting again in making his way to the door. In his hands he had his keys. 

“ Ready?” You nodded, slipping on your shoes and following him out there door to his car. The party had many people you knew and didn’t know. Your eyes scanned the familiar faces. Those familiar faces turned to look at you, eyeing your chosen outfit and giving you a whistle.

Steve’s hand was on your shoulder leading you through the crowd. 

“ I need a drink” you shouted to him through the loud music and scrunched your nose at the many popped around. This wasn’t really your scene. 

You spotted the back of mane of curls and the Dio vest. Steve nudged your side as he motioned his head towards where Eddie stood. It looks like he was making a sale as he talked to the other girl. The two exchanged something while your eyes watched Eddie’s hair bounces as he looked around after making the sale. 

Those brown doe eyes happen to fall on you and a smile spreads on his face. His eyes move to the person next to you, Steve and his smile drops. There is a hint of change in his eye as his jaw clenches. 

“ Look there is your best friend” Steve mutters to you. To Eddie, it looked very different. He thought you came with Steve to the party and the two of you were flirting. He gripped his lunch box in his hands, tightly and vanished through the crowd. He wasn’t going to stand there and watch you flirt with Harrington. 

He never really thought someone like him would be a match for you. He thought Steve Harrington would be more your style since Steve could spoil you more than he could. Eddie was your best friend. 

You frown losing Eddie in the crowd thinking he went to do another sale. 

“ Do you think he’s avoiding me?” You asked Steve who was too busy looking around the crowd in hoping to catch girls eye. He didn’t hear you which caused you to frown. You left him standing there making your way into the kitchen looking at the various drinks laid out and a stack of red cups for you to take. 

Your hand reaches for a cup when another hand beats you to it. Your heart races seeing the ring clad hand and your eyes raise to meet the face of your best friend once again. He doesn’t have a smile on his face or any kind of look for that matter. 

“ Sorry” you mouth to him through the loud music. He makes his way around the counter where he stands next to you. His arm brushing against yours and you swore you felt electricity from that brief touch. 

“ I’ll make you a drink” he shouts through the loudness of the music, which isn’t his taste but he’s more here to make some money. He was surprised to see you here though. He knows your not a party person. 

“ Surprised your here” he says starting a conversation as he makes your drink. His hair shield his face where you don’t see the look on his face and you badly wanted to reach out to move the hair away from his face. 

“ I wanted to give it a try” your voice speak out for the first time seeing him after a week. He nods and hands you the drink he’s made for you. 

“ You’ll like it, I promise you” he says. Your hand brushes his own causing you to gasp. You grabbed onto the cup and quickly draw it to your chest like his touch has burned you. 

“ Thank you” he nods and leans with his back at the counter with his hands on either side. 

“ So, Harrington? Huh?” He looks around the party, a deep frown on his face as he stands there still talking to you but avoiding eye contact. 

“ Harrington, what?” You were confused on what Eddie was on about. 

“ You like him or something?” Eddie didn’t want to look at you. He was too afraid to look to find out if you liked Steve. If you did, then it would break him and he didn’t know how to handle it. 

“ Steve Harrington?” Your eyebrows knit together with a small chuckle leaving you. Eddie turns his head at the sound with his eyebrow knitted together in confusion on why you were laughing. 

“ I don’t like Steve, he’s my friend” Eddie tilts his head to the side but nods. He’s not really convinced you don’t like Steve. Every girl seem to like a guy like Steve Harrington. 

Your eyes don’t miss the girl that walks by who waves her hand over to Eddie as she calls to him. His head snaps over hearing his name being called, a smile appears on his face as he waves back at her. 

“ Who’s that?” You asked, never really seeing the girl before. She looked to be new. 

Eddie turns his head seeing the look on your face. He blinked twice to see if the look he saw was real. Jealousy. That’s what he saw. He blinked again and the look on your face was gone. 

“ She’s my friend” he shrugged. “ Met her at the Hide Out. She came to watch us play” He adds. Your heart sinks knowing now you weren’t the only girl to watch his band play. Something in the air between you and Eddie felt different and you hated it.  

“ Do you like her?” The question came from you suddenly catching Eddie off guard. His eyes scanned your face before he answered.

“ No” he shook his head. “ I like someone else” He adds. His eyes your reaction as he says it but to only to have you look away. Your eyes fall down to the drink in your hand finding the color of the drink more interesting than his face. 

“ That’s cool” you nod feeling your heart sink to your stomach. “ I’m going to go dance” you add wanting to get away from his area, from him, you wanted to cry. But you took another drink from your drink slipping through the crowd leaving Eddie on his own.

His lips form a deep frown watching you walk away. What was that all about? He shrugged it off hearing his name being called. 

Meanwhile, you were looking around the dancing face, scrunching seeing the sloppy making out sessions some of them were having while others were groping each other. You leaned your back against the wall when a voice catches your attention. 

“ Well, Well, Well, if it isn’t the nerd” Jason’s voice calls to you as he stands next to you. 

“ Go away, Carver” you rolled your eyes at the sight of him. “ You look lost” you add. He laughs. 

“ So the nerd does talk” he looks you up and down as he sways. “ How about I teach you a few things?” He licks his lips as his arms falls to the wall next to you as he peers down at you. Your nose scrunches up smelling the alcohol on him. 

“ Where is Chrissy?” You asked. “ Your little cheerleader broke your heart or something?” Justin frowned at the mention of her. His silence was giving you an answer. 

“ You piss her off or something? “ He sighs as he leans next to you on the wall.

“ We had a big disagreement and told me to go cool off” he mumbles. 

“ Poor you” Steve makes his way over to you seeing Jason talking to you. 

“ Is he bothering you?” He asked, standing in the space between you and Jason as he glares over at him. Jason chuckles at the sight of Steve, and looks behind him at you.

“ Is this your dog?” He asks. Steve notices that Jason is drunk and grabs onto your wrist, puling you into the kitchen where he turns to ask if you were okay.

“ He didn’t hurt you or anything?” You shook your head. The red cup in your hands you left near the table where Jason stood. You didn’t want to drink anymore. You were feeling out of place at the party. 

“ Can you take me home?” You asked. Steve was about to answer when the girl from earlier that you saw waved at Eddie walks over to you. She looks worried from the looks of it. 

“ Are you, uh… Y/N?” She asks, looking you over. Eddie had given her a description on what you look like and the outfit you were wearing and from the look of it. She had found you.

“ Yes, did you need something?” 

She nods, pointing behind her. 

“ Eddie is in the bathroom asking for you. I believe he had more than a few to drink and I think it’s best if he goes home. I’ve tried and he’s only pushed me away.” 

You look at Steve as he says he’s going to go start the car. He didn’t drink. 

“ Thanks, I’ll take it from here” she nods averting her eyes for a moment feeling like she wanted to say something else but says nothing as you slip past her making your way to the stairs. There was a couple of the stairs making out.

“ Excuse me?” You shouted trying to move past them but they didn’t hear you. Your hand reached out to tug on the guys jacket who pulled away shooting you a glare. 

“ Move!” You shouted into his face. He moves mumbling “ bitch” underneath his breath and takes the girls hand as the two walk downstairs into the living room while you head upstairs to find Eddie. You knock on the first three doors but they only have been bedrooms before you found the right door. Eddie was leaning against the bath tub with his head back while e had a bottle besides him that he’s been drinking from.

“ Eds?” The sound of your voice and the closed door catches him off guard. His head moves and his eyes land on you where his eyebrows knit together. 

“ Is that you Y/N?” He slurs, moving to sit up but he groans and lifts up he bottle to take another drink from it when your hand stops him. “ I think you had enough for tonight. How about we get you home?” 

“ I don’t want to go home” he says slurring looking up at you with a dopy smile on his face. “ You’re so pretty” he adds. “ such a pretty flower.” 

Your cheeks flush from the comment and leans down to move the hair away from his face. “ Come on, drunky. Let’s get you home and into bed.” 

“ Bed” he hums, “ sounds nice.” 

“ Can you stand up, Eds?” He groans something and uses the bath tub with one hand to stand up. He’s wobbly on his feet and almost falls on top of you. “ Woah there, sleep will do you some good.” 

You mange to help him out of the bathroom where he stumbles into some people when he gets outside. 

“ Sorry!” You shout helping him down the steps.

“ They look funny” he slurs, chuckling as he points. “ They have circles. Are you a circle too?” He asks. You were holding in your own laughter, taking one step at a time. The door to the house opened and Steve steps in looking around for you. 

“ Harrington!” Eddie shouts. Steve looks up watching as you were trying to help Eddie down the stairs. “ Oh Jesus” Steve mutters making his way up the stairs and helping you with Eddie down the steps. 

“ Did you know Y/N is a circle? Does that make you a square, Harrington? What am I, then? A triangle? I am defiantly a triangle. I mean look at me, it screams triangle” Eddie kept muttering to himself while you and Steve were carrying him down the steps to the car. 

“ Do you think I could be a star one day? They are so pretty and bright and they are free” Eddie continues. Steve opens the back door of his car while you push Eddie inside. 

“ Hey, if you wanted me to be rough, sweetheart. You should of told me” Eddie says as he leans up on the seat putting his head behind your seat. You got into the passenger side looking at Eddie. 

“ What kind of sandwich do you think I could be? What color do you think I could be? I would be black because that’s metal. You know? Peanut butter sandwiches are nice, I could give to flavor too. You know?” 

Steve looks at you while he drive while Eddie continues to question what he would be like as an animal, a treat, a plant etc. It went on like that until Steve drove to the trailer. You never seen his side of Eddie before. 

You didn’t know weather to laugh or comment on his questions. You sat in silence hearing what he talked about. He did have a lot to drink but why?

Once you reached the trailer, you turned to Steve thanking him while Eddie looked between the two of you.

“ Are you not going to kiss him, goodnight? What kind of person are you? Don’t be a meanie” Eddie says. You look at Eddie with a look and looked at Steve who looks amused. 

“ I have one better” you tell Eddie. Eddie watches with wonder eyes and laughs when you flick Steve in the forehead. Eddie leans back into the backseat clutching his stomach while he laughs. 

“ Alright time to go home, drunky” you slip out of Steve’s car as he helps you get Eddie into his bed. “ Will you be okay?” Steve asks, looking down at Eddie who’s laying on his bed with his hands over his head staring at the two of you. 

“ Yeah, I’ll be fine” you muttered. “ Thank you, you know for the ride and this” he nods telling you to call him if anything. Steve leaves, leaving you with Eddie who’s happily wiggling his eyebrows at you like something is about to happen.

“ Oh, Eddie. What am I going to do with you?” 

His eyebrows knit together in the question.

“ Love me” he says with his hands out making grabby motions with his hands. He was still dressed in his clothes. 

“ Why don’t we get you out of your clothes and into something more comfortable? How does that sound?” He nods happily listening to you and sits up with a groan. 

He watches as you take out some pajamas out of his top dressers while he leans down to take off his shoes and nudges them off with his feet. He lays back down on the bed working on his handcuff belt but doesn’t seem to get it off as he can’t. 

“ Help” he says his hips are thrust up as he struggles to get his pants off. You turn around seeing the trouble look on his face and the little pout he has. When he sees you have not came over to help, he kicks his feet on the bed and whines. 

“ Help” he says, trying again. “ Please” he adds. He was adorable even when he was drunk.You make your way over to him and help him take down his pants, cheeks were lighting up red having to undress him. Your eyes peek at his tummy trail that looks delicious to leave kisses on. But you bite your lips watching him slip his shirt off and turn around after handing him his pajamas. Your face was bright red and when he giggled telling you to turn around seeing him in bed with his brown doe eyes staring up at you. 

“ Stay” he says patting the space next to him. You couldn’t help but look at how cute he looks right now. You couldn’t not stay with him, you were going to anyways until he was sober up. 

“ Let me get you some water and ibuprofen and I’ll be back” Eddie huffs putting his arms across his chest having to wait for you but doesn’t say anything. You make your way into the kitchen searching around. 

“ Y/N! Y/N! Y/N!” Eddie kept shouting your name from the bedroom being impatient meanwhile you told him you’d be back. Once you found what you were looking for, you walk back to find him curled up on his side with his hair over his cheeks, some strands in his eyes too. 

“ Hi” He says happily once he sees that your back. “ I want to talk to you about something” he adds. You slip off your shoes and crawling into bed with him while he scooted back to give you some room. 

“ What is it?” He giggled hiding his face into the pillow. His cheeks were red.

“ You know the girl that waved to me at the party?” You nod, not sure where he was going with this. “ We had sex on this very bed, last week!” He shouts, slapping his hand on the mattress with a giggle. Your smile drops from your face and your heart sinks to your stomach.

This wasn’t something you wanted to hear from him or talk about. 

“ She would make all these noises and guess what, I’ve made her squirt! Squirt! I never done that to a girl, you know?” He says. He doesn’t look at your face. Your eyes were becoming glossy. He thought you were listening to to him.

“ She has even left her marks, look I think one of them is still there” he says looking down at his chest searching for it. It was very small when he finds it and points to it with his finger.

“ Look, it’s so small” he says looking at up you. “ Are you looking, Y/N?”

“I’m looking” you wren’t really looking. You were staring at his bat tattoo instead of the make. It was hurting too much that he’s talking about the girl he had sex with. Why now? 

Does he know you like him? 

“ She scratched me up pretty good too know and she made me cum more than twice! I think it was three… wait.. no four… was it four?” He asked, laying down on the bed. There  was a sudden change in color on his face and he shot up in bed, covering his mouth.

“ I think I’m going to be sick” he says racing to the bathroom where you found him hurling into the toilet. You took the rubber band off your wrist and wrapped his hair up in a pony tail while you rubbed his back.

There were tears rolling down your cheeks from listening in what he told you before he races to the bathroom. You had a lump in your throat that was very hard to swallow.

Eddie flushes the toiled and you helped him up as he stood by the sink, gripping it with his hands. 

“ I’m never drinking again” he says taking his toothbrush and putting some toothpaste on it. You helped him steady it as he brushed his teeth. He has yet to notice the tears rolling down your cheeks and how heart broken you look. The silence finally hits him as he takes notice you haven’t had said a word. His eyes meet yours in the mirror. 

“ You’re crying” he says. His eyebrow knit together. “ Did something happen?” You shook your head with a hand on his back. “ Let’s get you to bed. You need sleep.” 

Eddie follows you to bed where you help him in. He watches your every movement and you start to head to the door when you shut off his lights.

“ Stay” he says. The sound of his voice has your heart breaking even more. But you can’t handle being around him right now. No matter how much you care about him and how much you love him. 

“ I’ll be on the couch” Eddie doesn’t say anything anymore but he looks as you close his door and hear the sound of your footsteps making their way to the living room. He hears the small plump of you sitting down on the couch. He rolls over on his back as sleep takes over him. 

The next morning when he wakes up. He has a pounding heading and reaches over on his beside table for the ibuprofen and the water bottle that you had left there for it. He yawns as he stretches and stands up from his bed making his way into the living room. His eyes don’t catch you sleeping on the couch in the morning, it’s only the sight of Wayne that he sees there. 

He looks around his kitchen seeing no note or nothing from you. His brain races knowing last night you were there helping him. There are bits and pieces that he’s remembering but no all of it. He turns around heading to the bathroom for a shower. He’s going to call you later.

When Eddie calls you later, the phone rings and rings and your not picking up. You stare at in your bedroom as it does. You know it’s him but you don’t want listen to him. You heard enough yesterday. The person he likes, it’s not you. It’s her. You felt really stupid for falling for your best friend when you weren’t even a choice to him. 

You thought things would be different with him. 

You’ve been really quiet at school too, not really answering question and sitting away from Eddie. Not defending him against Jason. The Hellfire table felt empty without you. You spend your lunch period in the library catching on studying. At work you don’t speak to Robin or Steve either. 

You aren’t yourself and everyone can see that. 

The drama room opened and Robin stepped in with Steve trialing behind her. 

“ Robin?” Dustin asked. 

“ Alright, dingus” she looks at Eddie sitting on his throne looking at her confused on why she’s here. “ What did you do? Because if you haven’t noticed one of our best friends, the person you seem to fawn over has stopped communicating with all of us. I want to know what you’ve done and you better stop talking or I’ll throw your ass across this room..” She glared down at Eddie.

Eddie looks at her wide eyed. 

“ We don’t know what he did either. None of us do” 

“ She was last seen with you, we took you back to your trailer from the party. What did you do?” Steve asks this time. He leans his hands on the table as he glares at Eddie. 

“ Talk now” Steve demands, slamming his hand on top of the table. 

“ I don’t know what I did! She won’t talk to me either!” Eddie shouted standing up from his throne. 

“ Think Eddie, what did you say to her last?” Jeff says.  

Eddie stands there looking around his friends as they all look at him for answers which he doesn’t know. His brain races at the last time he saw you. You were crying at something. He remembers telling you about the girl he slept with too.

“ I told her about the girl I slept with…” he says. Robin’s eyes are wide and Steves too.

“ You’re an idiot, Munson” Steve says. 

“ What do you mean?” Eddie asks, his eyebrows knitted together as his chest feels like someone is clenching it. 

“ she’s in love with you, dammit! How stupid can you be!?!” Dustin shouted as he stood up from his seat. “ Are you that much of an idiot to notice she hasn’t dated anyone and spend all of her time with you?” Mike asks. 

“ You’re all she talks about” Steve tells him. Eddie’s eyes grow wide and his mouth feels dry. He had to talk to you.

“I’ve got to go!” He shouts. 

But, when he gets to your house, your mom answers the door. 

“ Is Y/N home?” Your mom shakes her head.

“ She went to take some time off visiting her grandparents. She wasn’t doing so good, the school agreed she needed some time too. I’m sorry, Eddie” his heart sank knowing he was too late.

“ Would you tell her I’ve stopped by if you talk to her?” Your mom nods. “ Take care” your mom tells him as she closes the door. Eddie walks back to his van with his head hang knowing he has hurt you to cause you to go away.

You didn’t want to see him and he would wait for you to come back. 

[fandoms-in-law]

Eddie's One Track Mind

Summary: Eddie wants to use the murder accusations to inspire a music video for a Corroded Coffin song. The rest of the band is reluctant but the party steps in to help.

Author's Note: When it comes to Eddie I use 2 people IRL to inspire my writing, my brother and my step brother. Since my step-brothers are in a band that sometimes means a music video becomes a fanfiction like this.

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Eddie had struggled with the accusations for a while. Just managing to remember that it had been disproven and announced by the police that he wasn’t guilty and should have been a suspect didn’t change the towns reactions to him and it would only take so long until he tried playing into it the same he had being called a freak.

“Come on guys! Let me play into my murder accusations! It’s just for a music video.” He had tried suggesting it casually but slowly got the rest of his band to realise he honestly wanted to do this, which led to now, having had a clear rejection of the idea and arguing that they should do it.

Gareth shook his head, throwing the notebook Eddie had planned the video out in over to him/“A witch hunt would be easier to convince us to do.”

He pouted in reply, but grabbed a pen instead, writing while he replied, “That could be the next one! Pair the songs up! One video that seems to show me wanting to kill and possibly killing someone, the next the witch hunt and proving my innocence!”

Jeff sighed heavily. “That is not what he meant. We’re not doing this. Who would even agree to play the person you murder?”

“Steve! And he’s already agreed.” This concern Eddie had expected and kept an answer ready for, even if he hadn’t actually mentioned it to Steve at all yet.

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“So music videos are becoming a big old thing.” Trying to be casual and acting as if he had completely ignored anything about the music scene was the difference that Eddie had just failed to find.

Thankfully Steve didn’t comment on that, only humming a little before replying. “Yeah, have been for a while. What are you wanting to do?” He watched Eddie, clearly realising music videos had been brought up for a reason.

“Murder someone in a music video, make it a story, maybe show them still alive at the end just in case.” The summary was given more easily to Steve than it had been to Corroded Coffin. Eddie didn’t worry he would argue with it in the same way.

Steve leant back, tilting his head towards him. “I could be convinced to let you fake kill me. Bet Robin would also go for it; Jonathan and Dustin too.”

“And Nance, Max and you could stop me having the chance to kill them before I kill you.” Eddie beamed at the easy agreement, nodding rapidly as he listed other members of the party.

“Why Max?”

“Only her, El and Lucas would actually stop it if it’s pretend. The rest would push Dustin towards me and Max is most comfortable on camera.” Eddie pointed out about their friends, deciding that, as long as Steve didn’t question it, he wouldn’t bring up the rest of Corroded Coffin not being included in his plans.

Steve was nodding though, “If she doesn’t want to because it’s Dustin then I can just stop you twice, make my final death after seem more motivated. You’re thinking I stop you killing Robin, Nancy stops you for Jonathan and Max for Dustin, right?”

“Right. And we’ll probably need the entire party to play for the follow up music video.” Eddie tacked on, pulling his notebook to add the planning down as well as note who he needed to ask to join in.

“Is that cause your band mates don’t like the idea of this one?” Steve asked.

“Yep, entirely shot it down until I said you’d be on board to do it.” He agreed. “And suggested doing a witch hunt video instead so I said that could be the sequel where it’s shown you’re all alive.”

For a moment Steve was quiet, reaching out to hold Eddie’s wrist. “I can’t blame them for that. Do you know which songs this is going to be to?”

Nodding, Eddie grabbed his guitar. “I’ll play them for you.”

After hearing the songs Steve was laughing. “You want the song that sounds like you’re sex obsessed to have a video that shows you instead obsessed with murdering someone, and the video proving you didn’t kill anyone in the first to be about sheep? Never did stop wanting to yell from cafeteria tables, did you?”

“Not at all.” Eddie laughed too, “Gotta get people thinking somehow.”

/\

“You want us to what?” Dustin and Robin stared at Eddie as if he was insane.

“Play murder victims in a music video, not even that really, just people who almost became murder victims, really it’s just standing around, chatting to someone when the come over. The camera will barely focus on you, seriously.” Eddie rushed to explain, wondering if he should have led in with his idea for the video rather than the roles he wanted them to play.

Robin looked from him to Steve. “What have you talked Steve into doing?” She asked after a moment.

“I’m the one who actually seems to get murdered, and the one who distracts you so you don’t. We’re waiting to find out if it’s me or Max that stops Dustin being the victim.” He answered coming over. “And the one returning at the end of the video to show I definitely didn’t get killed.”

“Are you trying to make Hawkins forget you were once accused of murder?” Dustin asked bluntly.

Eddie shrugged, “If they haven’t by now, this is honestly more likely to make them remember it more all over again.”

“Then slowly either get more annoyed or doubt it more as everyone else reacts to mentions of it saying ‘that was a music video; Not everything you see on TV is real.’” Steve added on. “It’s one of the things getting popular helped me learn, everything can be forgotten if enough people insist on something more recent being what’s referred to.”

“You need to tell Gareth that.” Eddie clicked at Steve before carrying on. “Also I want you in the follow up video either in the angry mob or scenes showing my innocence, possibly both.”

Robin met Steve’s eyes for a while, an entire conversation happening that Eddie couldn’t guess at before she nodded. “Yeah, that sounds fine. Just let us know when you want to be filming and please tell me you’re getting Jonathan to film for you? I’ve seen your attempts at home video and you need a professional or at least a great hobbyist.”

“If he’s not, I’m telling Will and he’ll have to. I’m down to be in the video though.” Dustin chimed up, smirking when both Steve and Eddie chided him for the ego in his tone.

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Gareth looked at the finished video dubiously. It was very close to the description Eddie had originally come to the with and he still worried that it could bring back Spring break of 86 all over again. “Are you sure we have to use this video? Can’t we just get like a video to follow Steve’s failed flirting attempts for a few days instead?”

“No! This is perfect!” Eddie protested immediately, despite the sighs of the rest of the band.

“We’ve put too much effort into it now, plus do you want to field questions over why the next one is so odd if we don’t keep this one?” Jeff commiserated.

Grant shrugged, “I don’t think we’d get Eddie or Steve to agree to that. Besides it definitely looks metal now it’s done. We could even release the videos together, back to back so-”

Eddie held up a hand halting his suggestion, “I don’t think we’ll manage to get any channel agree to hosting songs back to back except maybe the most local. Jonathan might be able to swing it there as he worked on them.” He cautioned. “But yes, if we have private releases of the videos we can play them back to back. The songs mesh relatively well together.”

“I do think it looks like you could be dating Steve in the video though. Jonathan added a lot of extra scenes of the two of you together before that faked murder and reveal he was still alive.” Gareth hummed, deciding not to focus on getting the videos broadcast since he didn’t understand it all.

“Well I am, and we weren’t meant to be getting recorded in any of those moments.” He replied, rolling his shoulders, “Jonathan just decided the dynamic it added to the video was cool.”

Jeff nodded, “He’s right. Definitely adds more of a story to it which I didn’t think was needed.”

“Eddie? You said you were looking at the finished video today, can I see it? Jonathan said I was in it a lot.” Steve called, letting himself into the trailer and quickly joining the band around the TV.

Eddie was already rewinding it after hearing his voice. “You are, Big boy. Stealing the show constantly with your parenting of the group.” He teased over his shoulder before hitting play again.

Steve groaned in response, even while watching the video with a furrowed brow from concentrating. “Are you okay with the changes to what you wanted?”

“I like it.” Eddie reassured. “And any extra shots of us together are always fun to have.”

“Sap. What about you guys? I know you weren’t certain about making this the music video but are you happy with it now?” He glanced around at the other three for a moment before watching the video again.

Grant shrugged. “It’s still a risk to put out, but I’m happy enough with it. Might even catch the attention of more metal fans for such a storyline I bet.”

“Here’s hoping.” Jeff and Gareth agreed.

“Definitely. You guys are sure to make it with your music soon.” Steve agreed easily. “And I’ll be right there helping any way I can.”

[dame-zoom-a-lot]

I like you (sometimes)

Prompt fill for @harringrovewinterbingo B2 - Free Space.

Rating: T, WC: 4.5k

Major tags: Hurt / Comfort, Financial Issues

It's also a prompt fill for all of my bingo prompts because I saw a discussion about it on the discord and I got the idea in my head. Fortunately, my prompts played pretty well with each other. All other fills should be in the creature Billy AU

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"A Water Genasi should be unstoppable in Icewind Dale. The entire place is snow drifts! That's all water!" Erica argues.

"Look, it's not like Water Genasi control water. Their magic is just water based," Mike says snottily.

"Yeah, Erica, have you even read the Monster Manual? I gave it to you weeks ago," Dustin adds.

"I did read it obviously," Erica says with a huff, "and they're descended from the water realm and their magic is based on water. It's a stupid coward move to add that then do nothing with it. They should get a plus one when they're casting close to water, like snow."

She turns to Steve, who's doing the best he can ignore the screaming so he doesn't get a migraine.

"You agree right? It's stupid to have elemental creatures and not have them be effected by the environment. Remember what Eddie said about rule of cool?"

"Rule of cool doesn't mean homebrewing something that'll destroy the balance!" Mike sputters.

They're so loud.

Steve doesn't give a shit about gnashing or Icy Dales, or whatever the hell it is that Eddie's been throwing at his kids. This was supposed to be a nice simple outing to the new arcade so he could walk the kids through the mall and figure out what they'd want for their Christmas presents. The kids need to let off steam after that nightmare of a summer, and Steve has a pocketful of "please don't tell the press" money that's just begging to be spent.

"Is that Billy?" Dustin shrieks. The scream pierces right into Steve's throbbing temple.

"Dustin. Don't be stupid. Billy's in—" Steve stutters to a stop. It is Billy Hargrove. He's coming out of the mall with a deep scowl, shivering miserably in a thin jacket that would have been barely suitable for a midwestern fall, let alone winter.

"Hargrove?" Steve calls out.

Billy jumps then looks up. He's smaller. He did get pierced in multiple places by that giant spider monster, but it's still jarring how shrunken he looks. There's dark circles under his eyes and his hair lies limp. His shirt is actually buttoned. He should have been in California, letting the sun bleach his hair and soothe his joints. That's what he said when he left. What's he doing here?

Steve puts out a hand to stop the kids from running up to him. Sure, Hargrove might have saved El and Max's life, but that doesn't mean he still wouldn't swing at the kids for bothering him. There's a look in Billy's eyes that Steve doesn't like, like a feral cornered animal.

Without looking, Steve digs out a bunch of coins and presses them into the closest hand he can find. Probably Mike, judging by Dustin's long groan. "Get in the arcade. I'll be there soon."

"Steve. You're not getting into another fight are you?" Dustin attempts to whisper. "He'll kick your ass!"

Hargrove hears that. Of course. The terrified, desperate look in his eyes soften into condescension. Steve gently smacks Dustin in the back of his thinking cap. "We're not fighting you idiot. Get the fuck to the arcade. Now or I'm not giving you any more quarters."

The kids scramble into the mall at that, barely glancing at Billy as they pass him by. Hargrove flinches when they get close, but holds his ground. Steve approaches him carefully.

"Long time no see amigo," Billy says with a tired smile. He leans back a bit. Crosses his arms. Plants his feet.

"Dude, chill. I'm not trying to fight." Steve says. He puts up two hands and gathers his feet closer together to send exactly the opposite signal. If Billy decides to just push him for no reason now, that would suck, but he's fought bigger monsters, literally.

"What do you want then?" Billy asks, leaning back a bit.

"Just wanted to ask what you're doing back? I thought you were going to California?"

"Shit happened," Billy replies with a shrug. "And now I'm back."

"Back, back? Or just visiting?" Steve asks. There's an odd clench in his gut, probably from realizing that Billy fucking Hargrove is back to haunt the cursed streets of Hawkins once again. Fuck. Eddie is rubbing off on him.

"Back back, pretty boy," Billy says. He leans forward and licks his lips. Sharp red tongue poking around his white teeth. Steve has to force himself not to shy back.

"Now, if you'll excuse me—"

"Wait," Steve puts out a hand in front of Billy. "You can't go around dressed like that."

Billy scoffs.

"I'm serious dude. You're gonna hurt yourself. This isn't fucking California. You're at the mall. Grab a coat."

Billy glares at him. "I'm not cold," he insists while shaking from head to toe. "And the pickings here are atrocious. I'd rather die." He shoves Steve back lightly, but still firmly enough to be a warning. The fingers that land on Steve's chest are too pale, almost blue.

He doesn't really think about it. Steve whips off his jacket and slams it roughly onto Billy's shoulders.

"What the fuck are you doing?" Billy sputters, eyes wide.

"You are actually going to die you fucking idiot," Steve hisses.

"It's freezing here. What the fuck are you doing?" Billy hisses as he grasps at the jacket, trying to give it back. Steve holds it tighter to Billy's shoulders, so much. narrower than he remembers.

"I don't care! I want you to be warm now," Steve snarls. If he lets Billy fucking Hargrove freeze to death after surviving a fucking eldritch monster together, he'd never forgive himself, no matter how much of a jackass he is, no matter how much he hates him.

"Alright, Jesus! If it'll unknot your panties," Billy scoffs. He shrugs into the jacket then stalks off to his car, making sure to knock into Steve on his way.

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[dwobbitfromtheshire]

We need more bisexual rep, which is why I headcanon Steve, Eddie, Lucas, Max, and El as bisexual. I'm still unsure about Mike. I think he wouldn't label himself, but I'm not sure. I sometimes lean toward him being gay. Sometimes, I lean towards him being bisexual, and sometimes, I lean towards him being pansexual. I can't get a read on him. He's definitely queer. I also could kind of headcanon him as aromantic like Nancy. I headcanon Dustin as asexual along with El, and I could also see Dustin being pansexual. For me, Argyle is a trans man and pansexual. Hop and Joyce are bi4bi like Steddie. Jonathan is definitely pansexual to me. Scott Clarke is gay to me. Wayne is another question mark to me. He might be one who doesn't like labels like my dad. There's something about Wayne who reminds me of my dad a little bit. Well, a mixture of Wayne and Hopper. Tommy H is gay and Carol is a lesbian. They're beards, okay? Karen Wheeler is a frustrated closeted bisexual (I refuse to believe she lusted after Bully. It didn't happen for me because it didn't add anything to the story.) Jason Carver is a deeply closeted gay man (I still hate him). Yeah, I definitely headcanon Chrissy as bisexual but I can see her being a lesbian or pansexual too. Hell, I could see her being someone who doesn't label herself either. The conservatives hiding behind their religious guilt hate Eddie because he's not afraid of hiding who he is. Anyway, no one in Hawkins is straight. Stranger Things? More like Queerer Things.

Canon: Robin Buckley is a lesbian, Will Byers is gay, and Vickie is bisexual.

I was only going to mention a few people. Whoops, I got carried away.

EDIT: I ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT GARETH. Gareth is definitely gay!

I can also see Eddie and Steve being trans as well as Max.

[gayofthefae]

Thinking about how the pairs that fight, or don't fight, monsters together confirms who will be endgame. To clarify, you can be in the same setting a plot without being "paired off" and this happens consistently.

Mike didn't spend season 4 with El, he spent it with Will. Mike didn't spend season 3 with El, he spent it with the group. Mike didn't spend season 2 with El, he spent it with Will. He only spent season 1 with her.

Nancy didn't spend season 4 with Steve, she spent it with Robin. Nancy didn't spend seasons 1-3 with Steve, she spent them with Jonathan.

Max spent seasons 2 and 4 with Lucas, Jopper spent seasons 1 2 and 3 together and 4 focused on each other, to add a few as well.

The closest exceptions are Joyce with Bob and Steve with Robin but their time was still pretty evenly split between Hopper and Dustin and those were two couples you were meant to root for anyways to evoke the proper reaction at the end.

We see multiple couples, most notably Elmike and St*ncy, have moments together sometimes even in the same plot and group, but still be grouped with someone else. In season 4, Nancy is explicitly paired with Robin, even showing a scene of them picking partners. In season 3, El is repeatedly blocked separately from the group with Mike blocked with the group (specifically paired with Will). Do they have moments where they flirt and support each other's monster-fighting? Yes! Do they brainstorm solutions to the season plot together, one on one? No. Everyone else does. Everyone else.

It's even a very clear point of early season 2 that Nancy is able to work well with Jonathan on this part of life and not Steve, so they are not shy about the fact that they consistently say "fighting monsters together = romance" (when appropriate) and that has consistently been a received message. So it should be applied in the reverse as well: couples who do not fight monsters together are not romantic or endgame.

They want their romantic moments to bloom naturally from time spent together anyways, not to have to go out of their way to put them together for a single moment only to separate them again as soon as it's done - which is what they do do for strategic couples.

The message this sends is one of romance without friendship. They are only together for moments of romance.

(yet another reason I'm excited for platonic Elmike: they spent time together when they were friends in season 1. And in season 3, the main point was always that Mike saw her as his girlfriend instead of El, looking for a universal rule instead of going off of his knowledge of her)

[dragonflylady77]

Mr Steve and the Monster Hunter

Here we go, the next chapter of my fic for @bigbangharringrove

Chapter 1

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Steve gets some answers from Robin

Chapter 2 - You weren't even friends

Steve is still feeling a bit out of sorts when he arrives at Robin and Heather’s house. That dream has left him shaken. Not just that, but finding out Billy was alive was quite a shock to the system and he’s still processing.

He saw Billy die on the grimy floor of Starcourt Mall. The night is etched in his memory in vivid details, to the extent he still has nightmares about it sometimes. Steve shakes his head to clear the dreaded images and takes a deep breath.

“Fucking government and their stupid NDAs and their stupid secrets,” he mutters as he rings the doorbell.

Robin answers the door with a smile. “Stevie.”

“Hi.” Steve doesn’t have it in him to smile, not when he needs answers to so many questions he didn’t know he had. His life was simple until pick-up time yesterday. And now Billy Hargrove is alive and Steve wants to lick him everywhere.

He walks past Robin and heads towards the kitchen where Heather is getting a pan out of the oven. Whatever it is smells delicious, as usual. While Robin can cook basic stuff, Heather is the real chef between the two of them.

“Holloway.” 

“Harrington.”

Their relationship has always been on the frosty side and Steve stopped wondering why years ago. He reckons the bombshell dropped on his head the day before might have something to do with that, though he’s not sure what it has to do with him. 

Heather is busy cutting what’s in the pan and Robin stops in front of him. Her smile seems a bit forced.

“Sit down. Would you like a drink?”

“I picked up that white wine you like on the way over.”

“Oh, thank you. I’ll get us some glasses.”

Steve hands her the bottle and sits down, a glance to the right catching the silent conversation Heather and Robin seem to be having by the fridge. He sighs and the crushing loneliness he normally keeps at bay rears its ugly head. Everyone has found their person, except him. 

“So…” He taps his fingers on the table, bringing the women’s attention back to him. They nod at each other and Heather goes back to dishing their lunch while Robin sorts out their drinks. Two wines and an apple juice. Interesting.

“Steve…” Robin says as she puts his drink down on the coaster in front of him and sits to his right.

“Robin.” He turns towards her and makes a show of looking around, like he doesn’t know. “Where is your daughter, the delightful Olivia, today?”

“You know where she is.”

“No, actually, I don’t. I know who she is with though. And it’s funny, I’ve been her teacher since the start of school in August last year and she never mentioned she had a father, not until he picked her up yesterday.”

“We don’t reall—”

“Don’t bullshit me. She was so fucking excited, she couldn’t stop talking about how she was going to be hanging out with her dad all weekend. Her dad that I saw fucking DIE fifteen years ago.” His fist hits the table as he shouts the last part of his sentence and he sees Heather flinch out of the corner of his eye.

“Steve!” Robin chastises as she gets up to hug Heather.

“I’m sorry. Fuck. I just…” Steve folds his arms on the table and rests his head on them with a sigh. “Why did no one tell me, Rob? That Billy wasn’t dead?”

“Oh please,” Heather’s voice is thready but it has steel through it. “Everyone knew you hated him, we had no reason to tell you.”

“Everyo—does everyone know? The kids? Dustin? All of them?”

“Well, Harrington, you know your kids, if one knows, all of them know. Billy says he gave you his card, and I’m sure you had a look on his company’s website so you know that four of them work with him.”

Steve nods.

“I don’t know about Dustin and Mike, from what Max said, they kinda lost touch after El broke up with Whiny Wheeler,” Heather adds, showing a familiarity with the kids that Steve was unaware of.

He snorts at the nickname and wonders briefly if Billy was the one to give it. “I never really hated him, you know.”

“You sure about that? Because that’s not how he tells it.”

“Heather!”

“What? Billy told us he apologized about the fight.” She glares at Steve, daring him to contradict her. “Didn’t he, Harrington?” 

“The-the fight?”

“Yes, the fight that night you lied to Billy’s face about where his sister was. You threw the first punch and got your ass kicked, before Billy got drugged and threatened, then beaten up by his piece of shit father for coming home off his face and without his sister. Surely you remember that?”

“I’m sorry, what?”

“You heard me.” Heather squeezes Robin’s hand. “Sorry, babe. I know that’s not why he’s here but I’ve been waiting a long time to get this off my chest.”

“It’s okay, sweetie, I understand.” Robin turns to Steve. “Basically, Billy told us that beyond his apology to you and Lucas for that night, he kept his word and stayed away like Max had demanded. That summer you and I met at Scoops, he got the job at the pool with Heather and he was… caught… one night on the way to a date. Then, after, um, after Starcourt, when he finally got out of hospital, Owens organized for him to move to California without anyone knowing.”

“I knew.” Heather sits very still, her hand holding Robin’s, her eyes slightly unfocused, like she’s trying to remember something.

“Yes, you did.”

“I’m sorry,” Steve says, feeling like he fucked up. It’s a feeling he hasn’t experienced in some time, his social interactions these days are usually limited to his students in class and their parents. “Do you want me to leave? It’s been so long, I’m a different person now than I was then, we all are. It doesn’t really matter.”

“It mattered enough for you to message me at midnight last night, dingus.”

“I was in shock, or something, okay? Give me a break. My favorite student got picked up by a guy I thought died fifteen years ago.”

“Again, not like you cared about the guy, you weren’t even friends.” Heather is glaring daggers at Steve and it takes all he has not to recoil in fear. He’s surprised when she gets out of her chair a second later. “I’m sorry. Babe, I’m gonna go lie down for a bit, okay?”

“Yep, sure thing.” Robin gives her a kiss then watches her go down the hallway before she turns towards Steve again. “The whole subject stresses her like crazy. She still has nightmares about it, you know. Being possessed and the stuff the Mind Flayer made her and Billy do. Therapy helped, of course, but some nights when it’s cold, she wakes up screaming.”

“He likes it cold. I remember. I guess that explains why you go to California for Christmas.”

“That and Billy lives there. Listen, he’s been nothing short of amazing as far as I’m concerned. He saved the world then got to leave Hawkins and his asshole dad. He built a good life for himself out there and then… then he gave us the most precious gift.”

“Can you tell me a bit more about that, please? The website was very vague. And the whole ‘he’s a dad’ thing.”

Watching Robin take a sip of her wine reminds Steve about his but he doesn’t feel like it anymore.

“Okay so long story short, the Upside Down is still a thing, there are portals in many places and Billy goes in and rescues people that get taken. El helps him find them, Will and Lucas go in with him to get them out, dead or alive.”

“Wow. That’s both scary and amazing.”

“Yeah. Max handles all the paperwork, NDAs and stuff.”

“There was someone else on the website, some guy with no last name.” Steve tries to remember.

“Argyle. Super cool dude. He was Billy’s friend before he moved to Hawkins and he took Billy in when he got back. Steve… I gotta ask, why are you suddenly so interested in knowing all this?”

“I, um, I missed him, I guess. After… you know. And I never really understood why. I mean, it’s like Heather said, we weren’t exactly friends, but he was always kinda in my face from the day he arrived in Hawkins, and then, I don’t know…” Steve trails off. “I’ve been not thinking about all of that for so long, and seeing him yesterday, hearing his voice, it, um…”

“Steve, what are you trying to say?”

“I don’t know. Tell me how you ladies ended up having his baby.”

He is grateful when Robin shakes her head and drops the subject.

“Oh, well, Heather does the baby growing. That whole pregnancy and birth thing, soooo not for me. Way too intense.”

“Yeah, that explains nothing.”

“Billy and Heather kept in touch and one day she let it slip that we were looking at sperm donors and he… he offered. We had a big long discussion about it, the two of us then the three of us and he came over and they did the thing and boom. Baby.”

“When you say they did the thing…”

“Oh, haha, no, not literally ‘did the thing’ because hello, gay, all of us, and you don’t need the details.”

“What do you mean, all of us?”

“If you tell me you still think Billy is straight, I might actually slap you. I know it’s bad form to out a person but it was obvious to me back in high school that boy was queer as hell. And I know for a fact you’re bi so don’t even try me, Stevie.”

“Fine. I guess I can see it now, even if I didn’t back then.”

“Really? Come on? If nothing else, the nicknames he gave you were a dead giveaway.”

“The nicknames? You know about that?”

“Steve, he’s my child’s other parent. We talk.”

“You kept very quiet about that, Rob.”

“Yeah, well, me and Heather raising a kid as our own isn’t exactly legal, dingus, so excuse me for not shouting it from the rooftops. You’re in the know because we’ve known you since high school and I trust you not to blab.”

“I’m touched.”

“Shut up. You keep derailing my story. He wasn’t gonna be involved at first, but we saw the look of wonder on his face the first time he saw Livi and held her, and we decided we wouldn’t keep them apart. Well, anymore than his job already does.”

“Aww. And now you’re going to do it all over again?”

“Huh?”

“Apple juice.”

“Ah well, yeah, we’re trying. And we’ve been talking about moving to San Diego as well so the kids can see Billy a bit more.”

“What? You’re leaving?”

“It’s too cold here, and too far from Billy and Elumax.”

“Elu-what now?”

Robin snorted. “Don’t worry about it. You’ll find out when you’re meant to. Don’t want your brain to bleed out of your ears from too much information.”

His stomach growling stops Steve from replying and the loudness of it makes them both laugh. Robin goes to get Heather while Steve sets the plates she prepared earlier. His mind is whirling with all the new information he is now privy to. He knows he needs time to process but he also knows he definitely wants to have a chat with Billy in the near future.

The end credits of the movie roll on the screen and Steve nudges Robin, who’s half asleep on his shoulder. Heather went for a nap halfway through the first movie and hasn’t emerged again.

“I should go home, let you get on with your evening.”

“Or…” Robin checks her phone. “You could wait another twenty minutes for Billy and Olivia to get home and you can take him out for coffee or dinner or whatever.”

“They’re coming here?” Oh crap. Oh no. Fuck.

“Um yeah, this is where Livi lives. And Billy lives in Cali so he stays in the guest room when he’s in town, duh.”

Steve starts to freak out. He’s not prepared to face Billy so soon, not after that stupid dream he had last night. Oh Jesus. 

“I, um, I need to go. I can’t… I can’t be here… I need to…” He knows he’s flustered and rambling and he knows Robin will pick up on it, but he can’t avoid it. 

“Steven Middlename Harrington.”

“That’s my name.” He gets off the couch but Robin pulls him back down.

“Steve…”

“Uh huh?” Steve keeps his eyes on the TV, totally ignoring Robin because he’s nothing but a mature thirty-something year old.

“Why are you suddenly so anxious to leave and why is your face all pink? What are you hiding?”

“No-nothing.”

“What did you… oh my God! Steve!”

“What? Stop it. I need to go. Now. Before—”

“Before Billy gets back and he sees the look on your face that will tell him you totally had a sex dream about him last night? That about right?”

“Yes. No. Fuck. Shut up.” Steve drops back onto the couch with a groan, hands over his face. He’s not sure what’s more embarrassing, the fact he had a sex dream at all or that Robin can still read him like an open book.

“It’s okay. I won’t tell anyone. I promise. But I know that Billy was keen to catch up with you and I think you should give him a chance.”

Steve lets his hands drop so he can look at her. “Rob…”She put both hands up. “You don’t have to. But you might regret it if you don’t.”

Chapter 3

[pythoness94]

I love your commentary on the fanon perception of the party

so id love to ask how you'd think the different members would *actually* react to will coming out to them

also thank you for acknowledging byler fights AREN'T one-sided. they're both love struck teens that say dumb things sometimes and thats perfectly fine

I know! It's a thing that's been bugging me because as i'm writing my fic. ( a react fic with the characters watching the show.) I'm forced to watch scenes upwards of 10 times or more while writing, i've rewatched episodes almost everyday, skipping around back and forth to write the characters reactions. By doing this, I have been able to go "WTF IS DUSTIN DOING IN THIS FIC BRO???". Since i've seen the show probably more then I should have and more often than average it's a lot easier to piece canon from fanon when canon is etched into your brain. I'm able to acknowledge every character's faults because I see it and have to write it down into my story, analyzing how each character would react to each situation. I am, of course, not perfect because i am VERY fond of Mike since see myself in him so i'm more sympathetic to him and i'm trying to be better about that.

However, instead of just seeing them as (this is the worst cases i've seen, mostly in 2020 fanfics.) Mike's a dick,( He's a teen boy who's been getting in terrible situations since he was 14, and trying to process that while realizing he's gay and thinking that he's leading El on. He's scared so he's snapping at the hand that feeds him, not being a dick for no reason. ) Will's a sad gay baby, (He's the same as Mike, 14 and trying to process his trauma, except he was a lot more of it. His best friend is wigging tf out over his girlfriend and distancing himself from him, making Will feel even more alone and worried so he's trying his best to save his relationship by sacrificing himself for Mike's relationship. not realizing that's the EXACT opposite of what Mike needs. He's not JUST sad, he's scared, he's scared of things being taken from him, so he's giving them away first.)

Max is mean, (She just lost her fucking brother, she is trying to grapple with the fact that she doesn't really feel all that bad about losing him. That's what is making her snap. Billy was horrible to her, but she was his brother so she should feel bad, that's her thought process and Vecna is preying upon that. Trying to make her feel like a terrible person infecting everyone around her, so Max is pushing everyone away, making herself look terrible and mean so that way they leave her alone to rot as she thinks she should. She's not mean, she's scared.) Lucas is dumb but strong, ( he played basketball in one season guys. He's strong but he's also a nerd. He's loyal, he's funny, he WANTS to protect the people around him. That's what Lucas is, a protector, he wants to keep his party safe and is trying to be strong for them. Trying to keep everyone together and in his sight. He will lose his shit if ONE more person gets taken from him. He's scared not dumb.)

Dustin is funny, (He's a kid who has lost many things, he's trying to cope with the things happening around him. he thinks Dart is his fault, he knows he should have told the party from the start but instead he lied, and it caused a bunch of pain for his party. He refuses to make that mistake again. However, he knows his party is struggling and he doesn't want to add onto that, so he laughs and jokes, trying to keep the mood up despite how he's panicking. Losing Eddie is going to terrify Dustin. he's going to be quieter and more thoughtful. I know that when Mike inevitably pulls his self-sacrifice bullshit, he does in every season to some extent. Dustin is going to flip his shit, seeing Eddie dying, and refusing to let Mike pull that. Especially since he was there for the quarry, he's going to be protective of Mike, not only because he doesn't want to lose him and knows Mike would GLADY pitch himself in front of a Demogorgon if he saw fit. But because Mike knew Eddie to, he was as close with Eddie has Dustin was and he wants to talk about that with him. He wants to keep Eddie's memory alive, and he can't do it alone. He's not just funny, he's terrified.) El is incapable outside of her superpowers. (This is regarding her knowledge to the outside world, but we're past season 1 guys, she knows how the world works, just not all of it. She won't be asking what things are every five seconds, mostly she'll just SUCK at picking up social cues. She wants to be her own person, she'll do her best to learn this stuff alone as time goes on, trying to advance individually to be on equal grounds with her party. She doesn't want to have to rely on people, she wants to be the person people rely on and not just for her powers. She's not incapable, she's not just 'superman.' she's her own person who is scared of people not seeing her as such.)

One thing i've noticed is that everyone in the party is scared, everyone is scared of something. That something is giving Vecna a chance to prey on every one of them. Making them more scared, so, instead of pushing each other away, they are uniting. They saw how going solo worked out for Max and they refuse to let that happen again. So, keeping all this in mind, how would the party react to Will coming out? Not one of them would be disgusted by Will, confused? Yes, disgusted? no. They have all been the weirdos they have always been the weirdos. The party knows that each of them have something about them that makes them "different" and being gay has always been that for Will even when the party didn't know it to be true.

We all know how Mike would react. A bit shocked at first but accepting, (this is if Mike is straight.) he pushed Troy over in season one for calling Will a fairy, he would NOT be homophobic. That man was besties with Eddie along with Dustin, he embraces that kinda stuff even if he's scared by it. If he was gay (because being fr he is.) he would also be hopeful. He would stop distancing himself so much so he can try to be there for Will.

Max would be chill with it. She is Californian and ,coming from a fellow Californian, it has always been way more liberal than any other state. especially Indiana. Cali is more open to change than most other places and even in the 80's it was less homophobic than Indiana. So Max, being from there, she would be more exposed to it and less shocked. She would be supportive of Will, and if told of his crush, would be the ONLY person to go "Oh really? Mike?" and it would be joking. she would totally try to set them up. (Remember season 3 with the magazines, I like to think she would try to do something similar for Will and Mike.) although she would be a bit worried about El after figuring out their...situation, she would be on board with it after they broke up.

Dustin would be curious, he would be like. "Wait...you're gay?" Not connecting all the dots until he looks back on it and goes. "Ohhhh, that explains why you thought Phoebe cates wasn't hot!" he'd be supportive but wanting to look deeper into it, taking a second to process y'know?

Lucas would be on it immediately, I get the feeling he already knew. He would be like, "Yeah, that makes sense." Since he knew Mike and Will the longest i'm sure he already had it figured out. Lucas is literally just waiting for Mike to get is shit together. He would be supportive and tease Will about his crush on Mike until they got together and them he would tease the both of them.

Finally El, she wouldn't understand Homophobia (this is one of those social cue things I was talking about.) however, I think two things could happen. A being I don't think she would really KNOW that boys can like Boys and Girls can like Girls, so she would be like. "Wait...that can happen?" and then she would need it explained to her. Will would be extremely nervous, because El is Mike's girlfriend but while I think El would be a bit sad if she knew Mike had a crush on Will she would understand that you can't really change that. Also that she doesn't deserve to treated like that and should have someone who loves her. The second thing I could see happening is El going. "So? i like boys too??" and needing Homophobia explained to her, to which she goes. "That's fucking stupid. Mouth breather behavior honestly." and being supportive of Will.

Thank you for the ask by the way! I really wanted to talk about this and I hope you enjoy it!

[arwenextrauniverse]

My complicated relationship with Mike Wheeler !

Like promise in my stranger things post i will explain my roller coaster with Mike character, how i went from loving Mike, to hating him, to loving him again much more than before !

So at the begining (the 2 first seasons) like i said, i loved him ! He was one of my favorite : a brave leader, kind, clever, HE JUMP OF THE CLIFF FOR A FRIENDS !!!! And he was the only one present for Will in the second season !

But like a lot of people, from S3, i started to hate him. His character declined HARD and i didn't understand what was happening to him.... and the S4 do not arranged that, in fact at this point, i had enough of him (and his relationship with El) I literally give up, every time he appeared either I got angry or I blew in despair.

I was standing by that years after S4 have released. But now i have seen analyses of the character and.. oh boy..! I/We judged him SO badly !! Now every time i see someone talking bad about Mike i found them unnecessarily cruel !

First HE'S A CHILD !! I/We have tend to forget that he has only 12y/old at the start and 15y/old in the end (16y/old in the final season in coming) he goes through puberty, he grow, he learn, he discovered himself and he's a boy in the 80s OF COURSE HE WILL BE DUMB SOMETIMES, HE'S A TEENAGER !! In fact, I/we judged him only while next to him we have Lucas who in S3 is all as unbearable as him. No even better, Lucas is the one who PUSHES MIKE TO BE STUPID at certain times, we have literaly a scene proving that : the episode where El spy on them ! Her idea by the way which is EXTREMELY indiscreet, personally I even call it a violation of privacy. She doesn't get enough of a slap on the wrist for that either, the boys had right to be angry when you think about it !!

Second if you just seat and take a little closer look on him you can see that his hate's himself such as you hate him, it's sad but is truth ! We have plainty of exemple : his whole speach in the van scene when he glorified El and dismised himself in the process, literaly him in the whole S4 thinking that he's not good enough for anyone but one of them mark's me more that the other.. a person I saw on Tumblr point out that at the cliff scene where he jumps to save Dustin's baby teeth, he ignores Dustin telling him NOT to do that because he believes that HIS LIFE IS LESS IMPORTANT than Dustin's baby teeth. It's an analysis of the scene of course but intentional or not the symbolism is very present ! Plus it comes to highlight something else about Mike, he has a suicidal tendency, he jumped off a cliff at 12y/old with almost no hesitation, excuse me but I find it REALLY WORRYING !!

Third he has depression and probably eating disorder. The first one apparently was almost be confirmed by the actor (i'm not very sure, it's mostly rumors but we can still see it in the show because he is in parallel with Max in S4 where she is canonically depressed), the second is not but we have clear indication that is probably the case : the fact that we see him very often at dinner table without eating or at least implied eating but NEVER SHOW IT ! The time that we see him ate is "junk food" like ships or eggos but never "REAL FOOD" ! (I am pointing out because in the series there is precisely this enphase that is put by Hopper and Mike towards El, I believe that if this enfase exists it is because it is important) and we have already seen character with this kind of trouble (Chrissy, Hopper in season 1&3) so it's not unbelievable !

I can go on honnestly but it will be VERY LONG and we have already very good Tumblr analyses post, if you are interrested you can take time to deep dive into the many Mike Wheeler tags and accounts to read it more about him !

I'm just going to add that we've always been dealing with the same Mike all along, if you look the intelligent, brave leader is still there in the last two seasons, we're just too focused on what he was doing wrong to see the good as well !

(and i have excluded the Mike have Internalised Homophobia of the picture because if i included that it will be MUCH longer ! I believed he had IH by the way, which adds to his horrible behavior in the last seasons, not necessarily excusable but justifiable)

With all that i have COMPLETELY change my mind about him all over again, he has been traumatised at a very young age (saw his best friend body (even if we now now that it was a fake body, at that time Mike doesn't now that and the body was VERY realistist), saw El disapeared and presumely dead for a YEAR !! Probably thinking that it was he's fault if she "died", etc...) he's a child triying to have a normal life again and be extremely clumsy with the person he love's !

Now i ADORE HIM !! He's a very complex character and i recognise myself in him now, with is personnality precisely ! I'm excited to see him in the last season and i hope that he will be redeemed in the eyes of the GA !

Fell free to tell me what you think about the character too, i love reading other people's review and also what do you think about this post think to improve ? is it interesting to read ? to long ? Tell me !!

Also i hope my english is correct, I did my best to make it understandable to read !^^