#is there a ship name for eddie/hopper?

[hauntedonfire]

I'm torn on making this stripper Steve thing a full fic or just a little drabble cause I know myself and if I try to make it a full fic I'll probably never finish it. Also I wouldn't even know how to tag it or define these relationships, mean dom Eddie Munson but also whipped as hell Eddie Munson and mean sub Steve Harrington but also reluctant switch Eddie Munson and mean daddy Jim Hopper who he's insanely jealous of because he wants to be Steve's daddy...and would it be considered dub-con if Eddie's only letting people fuck him to stay close to Steve? Like he doesnt want to do it but he's not not liking it, as long as Steve is there. 🤔

[hairmetal666]

The first time Steve meets Eddie Munson they're booked for a little indie wrestling show in Rhode Island.

Eddie is--scrappy, untested. It's obvious the only kind of wrestling he's ever done is of the backyard trampoline variety. But. There's something there; they can all see it.

He doesn't like Steve much, but then Steve can't blame him. The Harrington's are a legacy wrestling family. His dad, uncles, even his mom was a famous valet and manager before getting married and retiring. So, he's got this name, and this look, and--earned or not--a reputation, and Munson doesn't like him.

Steve tries not to take it personally.

In between tours and indie bookings, Eddie starts as a trainer at Hopper's gym, and they start doing demonstrations for the kids together. Eddie's good, really good. Even though it's just for teaching, their styles and energy match.

They get booked in their first match against each other at a local show a few months later. The energy they had at Hopper's is nothing compared to this. Sure, there's only about 200 people packed into this high school gym, but it doesn't matter. It's electric.

Eddie's long, curly hair, lean muscles, and tattoos caught Steve's eye the moment they met, but it never flourished into anything because of how much Eddie hated him.

Now, though, they're spending time together, talking, rolling around in a wrestling ring all day, and Steve's only human.

There's a Ring Of Honor pay-per-view, it's the first time that Steve and Eddie have wrestled for a large audience. Anticipation for the match burns in his stomach.

This is Eddie's first appearance in ROH, and no one quite knows what to expect. He only gives a little Cheshire Cat grin when asked. So, Steve is genuinely startled when the arena lights go out, less so when Master of Puppets blares through the speakers.

The lights come up and Eddie stands at the end of the ramp. He's shirtless, hair in damp, loose curls around his shoulders. He's wearing pleather wrestling pants with mesh cutouts across his thighs and shins. Steve thinks he might die.

Eddie slips between the ropes to wild cheers, and Steve stops thinking about how hot he looks.

The first time they tangle up, Steve leans extra close, whispers, "that was amazing." And Eddie gives him this smile that's part menace and part joy. Steve's heart leaps, and their bodies crash together. It's the best time he's had in the ring in years.

Steve's crush aside, he thinks it was relatively normal until he catches up to Robin backstage.

"What the hell was that?" She hisses.

"Huh?"

"Oh my god, Steve. You were all over each other."

"Yeah? We were wrestling?"

"Is this wrestling?" She pulls up the picture from the beginning, of Steve leaning close and Eddie's smile.

It's, uh, way more intimate than Steve realized in the moment. His ears heat. "It wasn't like that," he says.

Robin rolls her eyes. Of course she sees right through him. "Tell that to the 5.1 thousand people who've already liked and reposted this picture."

"It's not going to be a thing," he tells her. He's certain of it.

It becomes a thing.

There are memes, fan art, fan fiction. People ship them--a couple of their trainees, Max and Erica, show them all the fics about them on ao3.

They're a hit.

They're booked against each other again, and this time, Eddie grabs Steve by the back of the head, pulls him in until they're almost kissing, until Steve stops breathing, feels his eyes going starry at the proximity.

The crowd is screaming so loud he can't hear anything, not even what Eddie is saying, even though they're so close. He leans in, unthinking, and Eddie stutters.

"They're eating this up!" Eddie shouts.

And they are, totally captivated. Which is why Steve presses their cheeks together for a several seconds before punching Eddie in the solar plexus.

Their next match, someone starts yelling "kiss, kiss!" and then it's the whole arena. Steve has to hide his laughter against Eddie's shoulder.

They lean more into it. They're having a blast. It even sort of helps his crush a little bit, to kind of make it into something the fans are in on.

He debuts on AEW against Hangman Page. Steve gets the win, and as the ref lifts his arm, he takes a blow to the back of his head. He has a second to see Jason Carver's signature letterman jacket before he goes down. He tries to curl up to protect himself, but still takes a boot to the stomach and more hits to the face and head.

The crowd is already in a frenzy, but when the noise goes up to a fever pitch, he knows Eddie's running down the ramp. He hears the thunk as Jason goes down, then Eddie is hauling Steve up by the shoulders.

They don't leave the ring right away. Instead, Eddie holds him there, brushes his hand over Steve's forehead before cupping his cheek.

As they slip between the ropes, walk to the back, his ears ring. He doesn't think it's from all the cheering.

---

In their next appearance on AEW, Jason attacks Steve backstage. The cameras cut to them right as Steve is thrown into a brick wall. It's supposed to be violent, supposed to get bloody. When he crashes into the corner of a backstage crate, he lets it catch him just above the eyebrow.

The blood starts flowing, warm, down his eyelid and nose just as he hears Eddie burst through the door. There's yelling, the sound of Jason running off, then a warm hand is on his back.

"Steve?" Eddie yells. His voice breaks. "Stevie?"

Hands are on his face, his shoulder, pushing back his hair, pressing against the cut above his eye.

"Ed," he mumbles.

"I'm here, I've got you. Paramedics are on the way, okay? You're going to be okay."

The cameras go down, and the medical team rushes over to patch him up.

Eddie's waiting for him when they're done.

"You're okay," Eddie says. "There was blood everywhere."

"Yeah, I'm alright. Crate got me a little more than I meant for it to."

"Can I?" Eddie asks. He reaches towards Steve, like he wants to touch.

"Course." Steve's voice is thick.

Eddie gently presses his hair back, revealing the butterfly bandage on his forehead. He hisses in a breath. "Got yourself good. I--I don't like seeing you hurt," he says, soft. "I didn't expect--I mean, I know it's not--I didn't like seeing you hurt."

Their eyes lock, the air between them charges. Not like when they're in front of an audience, the cameras. It's just them, alone; just them, standing too close.

Eddie's eyes dart to his mouth, and he leans forward until their breath mingles. Steve's eyes drift closed as the warmth of Eddie's mouth ghosts over his own.

A door down the hall bangs open with a clatter. Eddie and Steve spring apart, the moment fizzling.

Later, Steve tells Robin he thinks he imagined it.

---

Steve isn't on TV the next few weeks, the story is that he required surgery to repair internal bleeding and ended up with a grade-3 concussion. His timeline for return is unknown.

Eddie is set to wrestle Jason at the next pay-per-view, Revolution.

During Steve's two week break, he gets a text from Eddie. "Miss you, Stevie. Not the same here without you."

"Miss you too," he says back.

He's so in love with him.

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The night of Revolution dawns, nerves thrumming in his stomach. He stays low-key, out-of-sight. He isn't going to make an appearance for a while, and he and Eddie agreed to not see each other before the match to make the reunion all the more real.

So, he hangs out in a backstage room, watching the show on a small TV, and psyching himself up for what's to come.

He makes his way to gorilla position as soon as Jason and Eddie finish their entrances, watches the match play out on the producers' monitors.

It's an even fight at the beginning but it gets nasty at the first appearance of weapons. Eddie takes a steel chair to the face, Jason sets up a table and Eddie dives from the top rope to crash him through it. That mat is littered with thumbtacks and sticky with blood, and then Jason grabs a chain from under the ring, wrapping it around Eddie's throat.

Steve runs down the ramp and the crowd goes insane, distracting Jason and allowing Eddie to scurry free. Jason disappears over the barricade and into the crowd, but neither of them go after him. Instead, Eddie runs around the ring, pulling Steve into a tight embrace. The fans scream.

They hold each other tight, the roars from the stands washing over them until they coalesce into one word, "kiss."

"Should we give the people what they want?" Eddie asks. His eyes are bright.

It's not real, Steve knows it's not, and maybe this will hurt more than landing in a pile of thumbtacks once it's over, but he nods. He's smiling so hard his mouth hurts.

He expects a stage kiss, a quick peck, but Eddie's hand cups the back of his head, draws him in slow, their lips meeting in a gentle press.

Everything around them melts away and he sinks against Eddie, lets the kiss carry him away. He wants more, wants to taste, wants anything Eddie will give.

"Guys," a voice says next to them. "Guys, you gotta ease up. We have to re-set for the main event."

The audience noise comes back to him in a tidal wave chant of their names and "They're in love" accompanied by a rhythmic clap.

They walk backstage together, close but not touching, and Steve thinks he can't be disappointed if it was only for TV. It was the closest to bliss he's ever been.

In the bustle of backstage, Eddie pulls him into a quiet hallway, hands immediately going to Steve's face.

"I meant it." He says. "The kiss. I meant every second."

For their second kiss, no one is there to tell them to stop.

[scissorsxluvv]

MY STRANGER THINGS HCS!!! (as in characters' sexualities)

!! I know some characters are minors, I use the whole names (e.g. bisexual instead of bi) to be clearer, I don't mean to sexualize them!!!!!

el - pansexual, she/her but wouldn't mind other pronouns

mike - bisexual, he/him

will - gay (canon), he/him

lucas - bisexual, he/him

dustin - panromantic asexual*, he/him

max - bisexual, she/they

nancy - bisexual, she/he (genderfluid)**

robin - lesbian (canon), she/they

steve - bisexual, he/him

eddie - gay, he/they

jonathan - pansexual, he/they

joyce - bisexual, she her

karen - lesbian (semi-canon***), she/her

hopper - straight (ally), he/him

murray - gay, he/him

henry - he serves an aroace tbh (bro didn't even get the chance to experience anything 💔💔), he but couldn't care less about pronouns

argyle - pansexual, he/they (he's too high to even care if someone would call him a she cuz of his long ahh hair)

suzie - straight (a bit sceptical about lgbtq+, but would accept her loved ones) she/her

barb - lesbian, she/her

tommy h - gay (semi-canon), he/him

carol perkins - lesbian, she her

these mfs that I think are homophobic:

ted

lonnie (canon)

billy (canon)

troy and his friends (canon)

meanings for those who might be confused lol:

straight - well, just heterosexual, men who like women, women who like men

ally - a straight person who supports lgbtq+

leabian - women (non-men)'s attraction to only women (non-men)

gay - men (non-women)'s attraction to only men (non-women)

bisexual - attraction to both men and women

pansexual - attraction to anyone regardless gender

asexual - little to no sexual attraction, does NOT mean no romantic attraction

genderfluid - very elastic gender identity, genderfluid people might feel like every, any and none of the genders, sometimes they feel more feminine, sometimes more masculine etc. it might sound complicated and hell yeah it is 😭 (speaking as a genderfluid person)

aroace (aromantic asexual) - little to no romantic attraction and little to no sexual attraction

explanations to the " * " marked things:

* as I said before, I'm not sexualizing anyone, dustin not having sexual attraction (or little of it) is completely normal for a 15 yo (pre s5), it's just a very common headcanon which I think really fits. panromantic means the same as pansexual, except that just romantically

** nancy as genderfluid is my personal headcanon which I RARELY see among other fans, I can elaborate on it in another post (I'd love to :33)

*** by semi-canon I mean:

karen - cara (her actress) said she thinks she's a lesbian and ships joyren

tommy - if I'm not wrong (but I saw it a WHILE ago) his actor lowkey confirmed one-sided stommy, tommy being gay and in love with steve

nancy is also lowkey semi-canon, 'cause natalia (her actress) openly ships ronance and said she'd love ronance to be endgame multiple times

[queer-but-not-here]

I want some of your Stranger Things headcanons (if you have any) :3

AHH!! I spent like 20 minutes on this so

under the cut bc i would be greatgul if someone else did

no beta read we die like bob (im sorry)(i am high key dyslexic)

also it’s only like 4 hcs, but also I kinda got off track and it’s my personal reasons agenst mlv on els side

the older kids share a closet basically. Its starts with Steve and robin- robin where’s smt if Steve’s, and becuase Eddie also leavkes clothes sometimes she grabs smt eddies, she brings over baggy clothes and they get circaled, eventually they forget who’s is who’s and now Nancy is whereing what was eddies black wife beater type shirt. 

Same also gose for the party. Lucases mom but him a shirt, max steals it, it ends up with el, it gets left at mikes, will barrows it, back to el, back to max, and Lucas never crosses the cycal. Everyone is about the same size, all with in a size or two of each other. The adults have just gotten a good median between and everyone but mikes parnests jst remind that the chance of that shirt ending up across town is likely. This is my favriot bc for almost all au’s.

Now, most of these are separate AU or don’t all play at once’s. Wethier ships change, I simply don’t want them together, or it didn’t make since in the ig plot, idk

Queer hcs go crazy

I loveee genderfluid Mike. Idk why but hovering Mike a non cis gender hits hard. Will can be cis, but Mike. I project. 

also trans Mike to me is open, 

For me with Mike, I don’t think any of the kinda adults payed enough attention to him, in a cirtan way. Like they showed up, Nancy played with him (untill a year or two before s1) but his parents were kinda busy. Ted worked, Karen was doing what ever or three wine glasses down. So if he transitioned, they honestly forgot untill they got like calls from school or doctor things that his name wasn’t Michale. 

El, my butiful baby. I love her :3

Anyways, she is not mentally mature. And this ain’t as much head canon as here the evidence I think this. She spent years in a lab, she didn’t know much social. She has no concept of homophobia or racism or anything of that. She hasn’t grown in the world of a person dispite being one. And when she was, she was chased, she was held in hoppers cabin for a year. She spent it watching soap operas and romance movies and what not. Her main idea of life is what mikes showed her, and Thea fiction movies that are even more imaginative then the ones modernly. and I also plead the idea that she didn’t know how she feels kinda.(I hate saying that but.) after dumping Mike, with max, I think it says alot. She’s not upset, she hangs out with max, she allows max to talk about mike the way she dose. I saw someone on here say this but idk where it went,, but she would of defended him with max if thier was a true bond. And also I think this is part for mikes sort of internalized homophobia. 

But I give el the aromantic spectrum. She feels it less, but in a Cupid sexual kinda. She wants a relation, but she doesn’t feel that attraction like that. (Me too brotha I’m crying)

Idk what else. I have more but idk brain is ASS rn

Ty sm :3

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my name is virna, but call me vi. my pronouns are he/they but i'm honestly fine with anything. i love stranger things, IT, wednesday and the umbrella academy. my hobbies are listening to music, drawing, writing and baking. i love the colors green and blue and my favorite drink is iced coffee and monster energy drinks. i love billie eilish, tv girl, glass animals and the neighbourhood. i'm a stranger things fanartist and fanfiction writer. i don't really post a lot of fanfiction but i do have a lot of wips. i love talking about byler and jancy and am a proud wheeler siblings apologist. i'm a nancy wheeler and will byers defender, i kin jonathan byers and am a bi mike truther.

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mlm ships: - byler (mike wheeler/will byers) - reddie (richie tozier/eddie kaspbrak) - boreo (boris pavilkovsky/theodore decker) - stenbrough (stanley uris/bill denbrough) - stanlon (stanley uris/mike hanlon) - stonathan (steve harrington/jonathan byers) - jargyle (jonathan byers/ argyle) - steddie (steve harrington/eddie munson) - klave (klaus hargreeves/dave)

wlw ships: - elmax (jane hopper/max mayfield) - ronance (robin buckley/nancy wheeler) - rovickie (robin buckley/vickie) - buckingham (robin buckley/chrissy cunninghum) - telenor (elenor shellstrop/tahani al-jamil) - wenclair (wednesday addams/enid sinclair)

mlw ships: - jancy (jonathan byers/nancy wheeler) - jopper (joyce byers/jim hopper) - lumax (lucas sinclair/max mayfield) - duzie (dustin henderson/suzie bingham) - henderhop (dustin henderson/jane hopper) - delila (deigo hargreeves/lila pitts) - felores (five hargreeves/delores) - luane (sloane hargreeves/luther hargreeves) - chelenor (chidi anagonye/elenor shellstrop) - peraltiago (jake peralta/amy santiago) - simosa (jonah simms/amy sosa)

poly ships: - elumax (lucas sinclair/jane hopper/max mayfield) - stoncy (jonathan byers/nancy wheeler/steve harrington)

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[theshippirate22]

somehow all my old hyperfixations are fighting for dominance in my brain which is probably like a way to fight off seasonal depression but regardless i’m thinking about Stranger Things and a fic I wrote twenty five pages of and then abandoned and I feel the need to share it with you

The premise was like? witch trials and scarlet letter based kind of but it was really lore deep so i feel the need to give you some highlights of it:

-Hawkins is like this Evil Wonderland/Upside down fairytale kingdom that’s like super religious because the place was so cursed

-They have a religious text called The Guidebook which prophecied the coming of anti-christ known as Kaz the Destroyer that would seek evil to prepare the world for the evil reign of Lord Vecna

-it also foretold of signs of this coming all of which are beginning to come true in the story

-there are rabid demodogs living in the forests that surround Hawkins so it’s really hard to get in and out and everyone knows not to go to the woods (i also thing the dogs couldn’t be in the light? so they stayed in the woods all the time and became more dangerous when the sun was down)

-Steve is the new king because his father had just recently died and its revealed that before the story starts, he keeps having “fits” and they diagnose him with nerves (he had anxiety lmao) so he had to go away to live on a merchant ship to get the sea air to fix his brain for two years and the story starts with him coming back to Hawkins after this time

-While away on the ship, he makes friends with another sailor named Robert and they suffer through the labor together until it’s revealed right before he returns to Hawkins that it’s actually Robin and she’s been a woman this whole time. Since her cover is blown she comes back to Hawkins with him

-Nancy is like a head advisor and one of the high priests and everyone expects Steve to marry her because they were together before his mental breakdown but neither of them are into it

-Dustin is like legally Steve’s brother because Steve’s dad and Dustin’s dad fought in the war together and when Dustin’s dad died Steve’s dad promised to look after him and Claudia so he’s the next heir and the prince of Hawkins

-Hopper is the head of guards and Joyce owns the best five and dime/bar establishment and their relationship is exactly the way it is in the show like will they won’t they but they will lol

-Alexei works the counter at the store and can’t speak very good English and has very strong silly opinions on things and the boys love him

-The party is as it always is- Lucas and Mike are sons of nobles so they’re allowed to hang out with Dustin and Will gets specially privileges for being awesome and Joyce and Hoppers kid.

-Byler is happening but like season 2 type Byler where they’re just silly and cute

-El is a genuine witch with powers and Joyce, Hopper, Will, and Jonathan are the only ones that know and they just don’t mention it like ever

-Will is meant to be the next prophet (but no one knows that) so he’s plagued by visions and it’s really complicated and exhausting for him

-There’s a side plot where Billy and Max belong to a caravan of traveling performers that always come to Hawkins for Steve’s birthday and Billy has this whole plan to become one of Steve’s concubines so he can pay for Max to go to school

-Max wants to stay with the caravan but she knows she doesn’t really have a choice so she’s annoyed at Steve constantly even though it’s not his fault. She also has a sixth sense like fortune teller premonition style and when things start to get funky in Hawkins she seizes and falls into a trance with the power of it and Billy is fucked up about it and will do anything to bring her back

-Eddie, of course, is just the local charlatan that’s kind of known for being a menace but is relatively harmless besides some vandalism here and there

-Eddie also continually kidnaps Robin because then Steve comes after her and it’s funny to him plus he has a crush on Steve and how else are they going to see each other and they have this funny little back and forth thing.

-Chrissy is killed the way The Guidebook described would happen and suddenly the catalyst to put the return of Kaz in motion has now happened

-Jason, the priest, is convinced that Eddie is the one chosen to be the reincarnation of Kaz and that there is evil in him and this total witch hunt for Eddie starts

-In the hysteria, Joyce keeps Will and El locked in the shops attack because she thinks the witchcraft+visions will get them killed so for a good chunk of it they’re just. up there

-This is when Max goes out and Billy goes to Steve to beg him to help her but like. he doesn’t know what to do

-A series of tortures are forced in Eddie like in Salem to prove that he is Kaz (even though he’s not) including one moment where they chain him to the floor of the church and cut his hair with rusty shears and it’s really humiliating and dehumanizing

-Steve has realized he’s also in love with him at this point but they have this like crisis relationship because the kingdom is in shambles and when Eddie gets dragged back to the castle bald with his head all sliced up Steve almost goes batshit insane but then Jason spins the narrative that Kaz has seduced Steve and he can’t be trusted and the manic mob of townspeople believe him

-They’re going to start testing Steve too so Eddie makes an under the table deal with Jason that they can burn him at the stake if they just leave Steve alone

-He doesn’t want Steve to know what’s going on because he’ll try to stop him but he also doesn’t want Steve to blame himself when it’s done, so he tries to convince Steve that he actually is Kaz so he’ll hate him, which features a tragic moment where Eddie is sobbing and Steve is sobbing too and he just keeps saying “no you’re not evil you couldn’t be evil they’ve gotten in your head but i’m gonna fix it i’m gonna make you feel better”

-Steve doesn’t realize what’s happening until it’s too late and Eddie is too gone to save so he really stupidly prays and begs for something to save Eddie literally anything and when he gets to the pyre, Eddie is there and he’s alive!

-Except he’s not because it’s not him, Kaz the Destroyer just heard Steve’s plea and because Eddie would’ve done anything Steve wanted, he now had the consent to reanimate Eddie’s body. so now Eddie really is Kaz lmao

-Because Eddie’s body “belongs” to Steve through technicality because they’re in love with each other, Kaz is forced to submit to Steve until Vecna returns. Which is coming quickly

-So then everybody gets together with this coming of Vecna situation because they’re gonna have to defeat him but they have Kaz and because Eddie was so in love with Steve, Kaz is also a little bit in love with Steve and is like fiercely protective of him

-When i wrote it i initially imagined a really awesome fencing montage where Kaz has to teach all of them individually how to fence

-They get together a group to travel beyond the Hawkins woods to find the reclusive current prophet (Murray) and he very quickly can tell everything that’s going on with everybody in true Murray fashion and they manage to convince him to come back to Hawkins to help.

-Will’s visions get more and more intense and Max begins to convulse and enter sort of possessed periods where she seems to be awake and speaks prophecies and it’s uber creepy before falling back into bed as lifeless as before. the demodogs start acting insane and begin venturing from their woods and into the town so nowhere is safe

-Vecna ultimately does end up coming back and Kaz’s loyalty shifts to him and Steve is devastated and the gang has to do a canon-typical attack to get defeat Vecna but there’s a moment where they are almost beat and Vecna has Steve by the throat and tells Kaz that it’s time to kill him

-He plays on the fact that Kaz should want to kill him because he was his servant for so long even though Steve is nothing but a mortal and this is his chance to get revenge

-Kaz steps up, holding Steve there off one of the balconies of the castle ready to strike and Steve realizes he’s going to die in this moment and then he sees it

-Kaz is standing there looking at him and his eyes (which turned blood red as soon as Kaz entered the body) flash for a moment back to Eddie’s brown eyes but it’s just a moment and Steve is sure he imagined it

-Then Kaz throws Steve down off the balcony, whips around and cuts Vecna’s head clean off, before leaping down after Steve to catch him before he hits the ground.

-I don’t remember exactly how it ended but I’m pretty sure Kaz ends up leaving Eddie’s body and taking over Jason’s instead and Eddie is able to come back to life because Kaz’s power healed the body and then him and Steve get married

-And Kaz is just like. around still because he’s better than Jason lmaoooo

Anyway sorry that was long I just thought it was worth sharing!

[awkward-anxiety]

1x1 RP Request

Hey there! My name’s Teddy, but you can also call me Theo, Ted, or Tedster—whatever feels right! I’m 23 and looking for a long-term, detailed roleplay partner who loves angst, slow-burn romance, and deep character development just as much as I do.

I’ve been roleplaying since I was around 17, starting on Amino before moving to Discord. I took a small hiatus last year due to personal issues, but I’m back and ready to start writing again. I focus on quality over excessive length and love exploring my favorite characters in unique and compelling ways. If you enjoy in-depth storytelling, found family dynamics, and emotional intensity, we’ll probably get along great!

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✨ Experienced: Dazai Osamu ⭐ Intermediate: — 🔹 Beginner: Ranpo, Fyodor, Sigma, Chuuya, Ango, Oda, Fukuzawa, Mori 💕 Ships:

Soukoku (Dazai x Chuuya)

Fyozai (Dazai x Fyodor)

Ranpoe (Ranpo x Poe)

Decay Trio (Fyodor x Chuuya x Dazai)

Mersault (Sigma x Dazai x Fyodor x Nikolai x Chuuya)

Odango (Oda x Ango)

FukuFuku (Fukuzawa x Fukuchi)

FukuMori (Fukuzawa x Mori)

🐢 Rise of the TMNT

✨ Experienced: Donnie ⭐ Intermediate: Raph, Mikey, Leo 🔹 Beginner: — 💕 Ships: —

😈 Hazbin Hotel

✨ Experienced: Alastor ⭐ Intermediate: — 🔹 Beginner: Vox, Lucifer 💕 Ships:

RadioApple (Alastor x Lucifer)

RadioStatic (Alastor x Vox)

AppleMedia (Alastor x Lucifer x Vox)

🚲 Stranger Things

✨ Experienced: Mike Wheeler ⭐ Intermediate: — 🔹 Beginner: Jonathan Byers, Steve Harrington, Jim Hopper, Joyce Byers 💕 Ships:

Byler (Mike x Will)

Jopper (Joyce x Jim)

Stoncy (Steve x Jonathan x Nancy)

🎈 IT

✨ Experienced: Richie Tozier ⭐ Intermediate: — 🔹 Beginner: — 💕 Ships:

Reddie (Richie x Eddie)

Stozier (Stan x Richie)

PolyLosers (Any mix of the Losers Club)

Stenbrough (Stan x Bill)

🕵️‍♂️ Sherlock (BBC & Moriarty the Patriot)

✨ Experienced: Sherlock Holmes (BBC & Moriarty the Patriot) ⭐ Intermediate: — 🔹 Beginner: Mycroft (BBC), William Moriarty (Moriarty the Patriot) 💕 Ships:

Johnlock (Sherlock x John)

🛹 Sk8 the Infinity

✨ Experienced: — ⭐ Intermediate: — 🔹 Beginner: Reki Kyan, Joe, Cherry 💕 Ships:

Renga (Reki x Langa)

CherryMacha (Cherry x Joe)

🔥 Moriarty The Patriot

✨ Experienced: Sherlock Holmes ⭐ Intermediate: — 🔹 Beginner: William Moriarty 💕 Ships:

Sherlock x William Moriarty

🦸 MCU

✨ Experienced: Peter Parker ⭐ Intermediate: — 🔹 Beginner: Tony Stark, Harley Keener, Stephen Strange 💕 Ships:

Parkner (Peter Parker x Harley Keener)

IronStrange (Tony Stark x Stephen Strange)

🐦 The Goldfinch

✨ Experienced: — ⭐ Intermediate: — 🔹 Beginner: Boris Pavlikovsky 💕 Ships:

Boreo (Boris x Theo)

💊 Be More Chill

✨ Experienced: Jeremy Heere ⭐ Intermediate: Michael Mell 🔹 Beginner: — 💕 Ships:

Boyf Friends (Jeremy x Michael)

🌳 Dear Evan Hansen

✨ Experienced: Evan Hansen ⭐ Intermediate: Jared Kleinman 🔹 Beginner: — 💕 Ships:

Kleinsen (Connor x Jared)

Sincerely Three (Evan x Connor x Jared)

Treebros (Evan x Connor)

🧳 Book Of Mormon

✨ Experienced: Kevin Price ⭐ Intermediate: — 🔹 Beginner: — 💕 Ships:

McPriceley (Kevin Price x Connor McKinley)

🌈 Falsettos

✨ Experienced: Marvin ⭐ Intermediate: Jason 🔹 Beginner: — 💕 Ships:

Whizvin (Whizzer x Marvin)

📜 Hamilton

✨ Experienced: Alexander Hamilton ⭐ Intermediate: Thomas Jefferson 🔹 Beginner: John Laurens 💕 Ships:

Jamilton (Jefferson x Hamilton)

Hamilsquad (Hamilton x Laurens x Lafayette x Mulligan)

Lams (Laurens x Hamilton)

📖 Plot Ideas & AU Preferences 📖

I love character-driven narratives, emotional arcs, and unique settings! Here are a few plot ideas I’d love to explore, but I’m always open to brainstorming something new:

🌙 Post-Storyline AUs – Could be based right after the initial plot took place or even years after it took place. 

🏠 One Stayed, One Left – One character moved away while the other stayed behind. Maybe they’ve become a parent, or they’re lonely and stuck in the past.

👥 Foster Care AU – One character is almost 18, jaded and angry after being in the system too long, while the other helps them open up. (Works best as a Platonic RP TBH)

🎓 Teachers AU – They reconnect or meet as teachers in the same school.

🌲 Summer Camp Counselors – A chance meeting at a summer camp leads to something deeper. 🎭 Artist x Theater Kid – Opposites attract in an artsy way!

🌀 Group Therapy AU – They meet while working through their personal struggles.

🔄 Body-Swap AU – Chaos, hilarity, and emotional introspection!

🎓 College AU – A fresh start, new friendships, and navigating adulthood together.

⚠️ Boundaries & Triggers ⚠️ 

I love writing angst, but I do have a few limits:

🚫 No excessive gore/violence – I can handle some, but not in large amounts or suddenly.

🚫 No gun-related topics – Guns make me extremely uncomfortable.

🚫 No hospital settings – Please avoid this theme.

🚫 No car crashes – I have a major issue with this topic.

🚫 No animal abuse – Shouldn’t have to say this, but I’ve been proven otherwise.

For dark themes, there needs to be buildup – If a character struggles with something like depression or suicidal ideation, I prefer realistic character development instead of it happening randomly.

📌 RP Style & Preferences 📌

✅ I only RP canon characters – No main OCs (I allow side character OCs, but they must be discussed first).

✅ I write in third-person – I’d prefer if my partner does the same.

✅ No script-style RP – No asterisks for actions or “hfjskdj” in dialogue.

✅ Character ages must be 17+ for romance plots and 18+ for NSFW content – No exceptions.

✅ I prefer partners 18+ but am willing to RP with younger partners as long as the RP stays appropriate.

✅ I match responses but prefer semi-lit to literate – I start off with longer responses but may shorten them as we get comfortable.

📩 Interested? Let’s Chat! 📩

If any of this sounds like your vibe, DM me here or on Discord (@awkward_anxiety)! I love OOC conversations and brainstorming, so don’t be afraid to reach out. Let’s create something amazing together!

[seriouslyiamnotapollo]

Hello, and Bienvenue to my reader insert side blog! (My main blog being @nottherealapollo)

I'm Apollo/Luka, my pronouns are he/they/it/sun/sol/that, and I'm 18!

Although I am 18, I don't think this blog will be 18+ as I won't write explicit things.

In this intro post, I will tell you guys which fandoms and which characters I write for!

I won't write any N/S/F/W as I am not comfortable doing so! Please respect my boundaries!

I can take a while to write, as I am a slow writer, so please don't take it personally if it takes a while for me to do one of your requests!

I will mostly do male!reader, gn!reader and nb!reader, but can do fem!reader if the love interest is also fem!

I won't write male/masc!reader x fem character(s) sorry!

I mostly write gay stuff, as i am more comfortable doing so, so don't hesitate to ask for *extremely gay* stuff! (without being n/s/f/w ofc!)

Here are the Fandoms and Characters I will write for!

(dividers made by @menaceisdrawing )

My Hero Academia

Jujutsu Kaisen

Kimetsu no Yaiba

One Piece

Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus

Stranger Things

TMNT (2012/RISE)

MHA;

Midoriya Izuku

Todoroki Shouto

Bakugou Katsuki

Shinsou Hitoshi

Kaminari Denki

Kirishima Eijirou

Sero Hanta

Aoyama Yuuga(?)

Iida Tenya(?)

Uraraka Ochako

Jirou Kyouka

Yaoyorozu Momo

Aizawa Shouta (Platonic/Familial ONLY)

Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic (Platonic/Familial ONLY)

Dabi

Shigaraki Tomura

Toga Himiko(?)

JJK;

Gojo Satoru

Getou Suguru

(maybe more later, I don't know)

KNY;

Tomioka Giyuu

Shinazugawa Sanemi

Iguro Obanai

Uzui Tengen

Rengoku Kyoujurou

Kanroji Mitsuri

Kochou Shinobu(?)

Tokitou Muichirou (Platonic/Familial ONLY)

Shinazugawa Genya

Kamado Tanjirou

Agatsuma Zenitsu

Hashibira Inosuke

Lady Tamayo

One Piece;

Monkey D. Luffy

Roronoa Zoro

Black Leg Sanji

Nami

Nico Robin

Tony Tony Chopper (Platonic/Familial ONLY)

Portgas D. Ace

(more to be added,, probably idk)

PJO/HOO;

Percy Jackson

Annabeth Chase

Jason Grace

Leo Valdez

Piper McLean

Nico di Angelo

Will Solace(?)

Hazel Levesque (Platonic/Familial ONLY)

Thalia (Platonic/Familial ONLY)

Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano (Platonic/Familial ONLY)

Rachel Elizabeth Dare(?)

Stranger Things;

Steve Harrington

Eddie Munson

Nancy Wheeler

Robin Buckley

Jonathan Byers

Mike Wheeler

Max Mayfield

Lucas Sinclair

Dustin Henderson (Platonic/Familial ONLY)

El Hopper

TMNT;

(All Platonic/Familial ONLY)

Leo

Donnie

Raph

Mikey

(may add more later)

The ones with (?) next to their names are ones in which I am not sure if I will write for them, but I still put them on the list.

When requesting, please be specific! And be respectful and mindful!

Do not request anything ped0philic, incestu0us or anything of the sort.

I might not make your request, either because I do not have the energy or because I do not feel like I have enough inspiration. But if I like the idea but don't have enough inspiration, I might ask for more info.

You *can* request poly ships! I would love to do that! However please don't request too many f/m ships, as I am not *that* comfortable with writing f/m relationships.

I can do some *light* gore but nothing explicit!

NOW; onto the DNI;

N/S/F/W blogs

anti agere / dd/lg/lb etc blogs

And the basic DNI criteria!

SORRY if this post is a bit messy... I was trying to make it as organised as I can, but maybe organisation is *not* my thing /silly

But, Voilà! I will update and make this post prettier when I'm on my computer. And also, I might make a master list of my writing after I've started posting.

[darkphoenix180]

[steddie-fanfic-recs]

it's friday (i'm in love)

by Rebelskyguy (rebelskyguy)

Rating: Mature Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationship: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson Characters: Steve Harrington, Eddie Munson, Robin Buckley, Dustin Henderson, The Party (Stranger Things) Additional Tags: Assorted background ships, Minor Dustin Henderson/Suzie, Minor Eleven | Jane Hopper/Maxine "Max" Mayfield, friendship bracelets as love languages, Not Canon Compliant - Stranger Things 4 Vol. 2, Fluff, Fade to Black, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Gay Eddie Munson, Good Babysitter Steve Harrington, Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington Friendship, POV Steve Harrington, Protective Steve Harrington, Eddie Munson is a Sweetheart, Eddie Munson Lives, Eddie Munson Has a Crush on Steve Harrington, Steve Harrington Has a Crush on Eddie Munson, Eddie Munson Calls Steve Harrington Pet Names, mixtapes as a love language Words: 11,889 Chapters: 1/1

Summary

When Dustin bursts into the Family Video with the supplies necessary to make a friendship bracelet for his girlfriend, Steve's transfixed, to say the least. Making a friendship bracelet for someone you love sounds like the perfect gift. The only person he can think of making something like that for is Eddie Munson. Operation Bracelet for Eddie Munson is a go... He just hopes Eddie feels the same way.

[ronancebyler]

Platonic Edancy headcanons?

heheheheheh it's them!

as always, canon is simply a suggestion over a rule. if these contradict each other or canon i truly don't care. also you will probably see ships/friendships of either characters mentioned

she/her for nancy, they/he for eddie (as always, alternate pronoun hcs used in different posts should be ignored <3333)

they are disgustingly platonic soulmates. like, they're steve and robin level horrendous. they will think and say the exact same things in the same phrasing at the same time and know what the other's thinking without saying anything

they both are weirdly physically connected. like, if eddie is nauseous because he didn't eat well nancy will immediately feel nauseous too and it is FREAKY. like, nancy will be hanging out with robin and be like "give me a minute" to text eddie if he's been eating recently and they would go "how tf did you sense it" and she responds with "telepathy pains, edmund. eat your fucking food"

nancy does not drink enough water. she'll forget for far too long and she doesn't like how it feels on her throat, but eddie can always tell when she hasn't been hydrating herself.

"drink your water, nancy drew" "but ew" "you are way too smart to die from this." "fine..."

nancy has an immaculate gaydar, and eddie has the most horrendous gaydar known to mankind

"you thought i liked steve????" "listen, i didn't know you well enough to know how much you would loathe getting back together with him." "i was painfully obviously in love with robin!" "SHUT UP!"

meanwhile nancy immediately clocked both sides of steddie

like she could immediately tell that eddie were in love with steve but also immediately clocked that it was reciprocated which eddie strongly argues with

texts the most out of pocket shit to each other with no context

they end conversations with "i'm going to go fuck your ex boyfriend" and "i'm going to go sleep with your boyfriend's best friend"

they both need glasses and they both hate wearing their glasses so they have a backup pair for each other just in case they forget

nancy is always the one who fixes eddie's wounds. steve and hopper have both tried and failed, she is terrifyingly protective of wounded eddie

nobody but eddie cooks for her. she prefers to cook, even though she's not very good at it it gives her a sense of control, but she still feels in control when it's eddie doing the cooking (even though they're a horrendous cook)

when she and jonathan broke up, she cried into eddie's shirt for hours as he sat with her and let her let it out

nancy helps eddie graduate school! she's the only one who explained the concepts in a way that clicked in their brain

nancy plays dnd with eddie (and the rest of the spicy six) MUCH to mike's chagrin, but even worse, she's really good at it

like her and eddie are the best teammates ever, and it gives steve and robin a run for their money in syncronization

robin and eddie constantly argue who knows nancy better (eddie is in the lead, though to be fair if it was over steve robin would win)

not the touchiest of best friends, but do use an indescribable amount of pet names

"honey" "darling" "dear" "love" "my husband" "my darling wife" all lead to extreme confusion with robin and steve when they're in the room too

they are both investigative journalists and they're partners in the field

nancy has defended eddie from bullies before, which is absolutely terrifying for the bullies

eddie helps foster nancy's urge to clinge onto the hinges of society to keep herself small and fitting in into an "i dont give a fuck!" attitude

eddie introduces nancy to her first queer experience. it was very one off and she was in love with robin but it was very helpful to her to have a queer experience with someone who didn't have all this history and emotion and care attached to them and was just casual

she went to eddie to cry after her and robin got together because the last time she felt like this was with barb

eddie was absolutely horrified to tell her he was gay. they were shaking, quiet, and overall just didn't look like themself, because losing nancy would be like losing a part of himself but not telling nancy would be hiding a part of themself.

nancy told eddie they were into steve, so that wasn't a reveal he had to attempt.

"you're in love with steve." "how the fuck--"

extremely good at charades, can guess from an eyebrow raise

nancy taught eddie how to get really good at guns, so now they're terrifying to everyone in a seven mile radius apart and in a four hundred mile radius together.

nancy's competence calms eddie down when they're anxious, eddie's energy drowns out the world when nancy's anxious

they're so weirdly similar it's insane. like, different universes, same brain

eddie draws nancy so much, so when steve found his notebook of drawings and noticed they were mostly nancy, she jumped to the conclusion that they had a crush on her

nancy was ready to punch everyone who were trying to get out of replenishing eddie for the struggles they went through from both the homicide allegations and the "earthquake"

everyone assumes nancy is the reasonable one, but they're both pretty even in that matter

"nance--wheeler, you know I love the energy, love the concept, but things will go very bad if you kill everyone in the government" "you know i could get away with it." "you absolutely could, but it would be exhausting and take so much work and you should probably take a nap instead."

robin and eddie have a sibling esque villainizing each other friendship and nancy absolutely comes up way too often as the mutually agreed upon best person ever

e: "you're annoying!" r: "WELL IM SLEEPING WITH YOUR BEST FRIEND" e: "WELL IM BEST FRIENDS WITH THE PERSON YOU'RE FUCKING." r: "IM BEST FRIENDS WITH THE PERSON YOU'RE FUCKING TOO" e: "YES BUT BEING BEST FRIENDS AND THE FAVORITE PERSON OF WITH NANCY IS INFINITELY COOLER THAN BEING BEST FRIENDS WITH STEVE" s: "hey!" e: "love you, stevie, but it's nancy fucking wheeler" s: "that's fair" r: "hey, im also nancy's favorite person!" e: "yk im the favorite just like stevie's yours." r: "fair but fuck you."

eddie's the only person who will ever make fun of nancy. mostly because everyone is scared of her or admires her too much, but partially because if anyone else every tried they'd immediately murder them

"maybe those murder allegations should be correct" "edmund, no." "that's not even my fucking name???"

they have beef with mike because of this since mike feels the exact same

nancy absolutely finds it hilarious the idea that anyone finds eddie cool

"didn't you trip over air the other day?" "STFU"

they're cofounders of the "mike wheeler realize ur gay" club and do sit him down often for interventions

it seems i typed too much for the death hcs so they'll show up in the reblogs

[foreverautumn89]

@miwiromantics

And I think its funny how Jonathan is useless and Steve is superior, yet if it weren't for Joanthan Steve wouldn't be the hero he is now. Steve wouldn't have done one damn thing for anyone else if it weren't for Jonathan. It was Jonathan who stood up to him and saved his life in the same day. It was Jonathan who changed Steve change for the better. It was all because of Jonathan. All the good Steve does now is thanks to Jonathan.

I don't know if I posted it but I know I have talked about it before about how amazing Argyle was all he did for them. It's thanks to him taking care of them and he was a ride or die type of friend to Jonathan and he helped them find the base they were keeping El there is so much more to it but point is I agree completely with you. I love Eddie but he gets credit, while Argyle doesn't.

You don't want to get me started on that I wasted the entire day the other day btching about that to raingingongallifrey she's probably sick of me repeating myself by now. I agree fanon Steve is canon Jonathan and its so funny the fans don't realize it and have no idea. Even in the Steddie and Byergrove ship-theres posts everywhere so it was hard for me not to see them but I realized they use Steve's name and image but its just Jonathan's character and they do it for Eddie and Billy too. Yes Eddie and Billy have a lot of similarties to Jonathan already canon wise they do, but Steve is the one who stands out the most because he is the opposite of canon Jonathan like since when does Steve preech to the kids about being themselves and loving themselves for who they are/be true to yourself? That was Jonathan. they have re-written Steve's entire character as Jonathan but with Steve's face and name. Steve was NEVER fcking abused. Never. His dad is strict thats it. And any parent even the nice ones would get pissed about their son having a party while they were away and getting the cops called on them and expect their child to be responsible and teach them a lesson by making them work at an ice cream shop and teaching them a vlue of a dollar. That doesn't make Steve's dad an abuser. Lonnie locked Jonathan up in a trunk before [Jonathan checking the trunk for Will's body which is canon] and pushed him against the wall as a form of greeting it was very clear Jonathan was getting abused. But they ignore Jonathan's abuse and say that Steve is getting abused. No he wasn't. There was never evidence of that what so ever.

I also said that to her as well about how they keep replacing Jonathan/cutting him out of the story completely with someone else. The one I remember is when they made Eddie an older brother figure for Will and El. I'm like btch they already have an older brother who protects them and saves them. They have completely written him out of the story or they only bring him up to talk trash about him. That annoys me too the Steve and Hopper stuff that Steve is Hopper's son even though thats Jonathan and there is canon stuff of Hopper being more of a father to Jonathan in 5 seconds than Lonnie was to Jonathan in his entire life.

Also the stuff about Steve being their babysitter since before S1 even though Jonathan was canon-ly the OG babysitter of the boys. He was close to the boys before Steve was. Steve took over taking care of the boys FOR Jonathan in S2. But it was Jonathan who was originally close to them. It was Jonathan who babysat Will and the boys who Will was always hanging around with. I get that its rare to see the boys and Jonathan together but their rare scenes together made it pretty clear that the boys adored Jonathan and vice versa.

[strangerocsbymouse]

oc — nine "nellie" barnes 🖤

FULL NAME ;

Nine/009 aka Cornelia "Nellie" Vivian Barnes *ik there is a canon 009 but let me have my fun

D.O.B ;

1967, exact date unknown — her adoptive parents made her adoption date her birthday, oct. 15th

PRONOUNS ;

she/her

SEXUALITY ;

bisexual

PERSONALITY ;

sullen and rude, but very bold and impulsive, the only thing she's really more closed off about is her feelings for Jonathan Byers. she's willing to put herself in harms way for her friends and the people she loves, even if it means self sacrifice.

MAIN SHIP ;

Jonathan Byers — ship name; Jellie

RELATIONSHIPS ;

Jonathan Byers (best friend/crush) Eleven/Jane Hopper (friend/sister figure) Eight/Kali Prasad (friend/sister figure) Eddie Munson (best friend) Nancy Wheeler (frenemy/rival) Steve Harrington (frenemy) Robin Buckley (friend) Billy Hargrove † (enemy) Max Mayfield (friend) Jason Carver † (enemy) One/Henry Creel/Vecna (enemy) Argyle (friend) Willa Carter (frenemy) Amber Hargrove (friend)

FACE CLAIM ;

Katie Douglas

GENERAL BACKSTORY ;

1975 — Escaped the lab with Kali/008, but got separated from her once they reached the city of Chicago, and got taken in by the police. 1976-1980/1981 — She got adopted by the Barnes family in Chicago lived there for a few years before her family moved to Hawkins, where her father grew up, just before she turned 14. Her parents never knew about her powers. 1981-1984 — When she moved to Hawkins, she made friends with Jonathan Byers, Eddie Munson, and basically nobody else because people thought she was weird, despite not knowing about her powers, which she keeps quite hidden. She got a fast crush on Jonathan, but keeps that hidden too, because of his feelings for Nancy Wheeler. She had no idea about El or the Upside Down, Jonathan didn't tell her to keep her safe. 1985 — She didn't end up displaying her powers to her friends until Nancy and Jonathan were attacked by part of the Mind Flayer in the hospital, she'd only followed them there because she had a feeling Jonathan wasn't telling her something. She had to explain to her friends who she was and what happened, and that she had no intention of ever revealing this until her friends were being attacked. She and El understood their rekindled sisterly bond, and made a pact to always work together when combating the Upside Down. She felt guilty when El's powers drained, and tried to stop the Mind Flayer from harming El, but was knocked unconscious until Billy sacrificed himself for El, so she felt powerless herself. Once the battle of Starcourt ended, and the evil was (temporarily) vanquished, Nellie had a hard time dealing with Jonathan moving away. 1986 — With Jonathan gone, she was spending most of her time with Eddie and The Hellfire Club in general, she doesn't play D&D but she enjoyed watching Eddie lead his campaigns. She also tried to be there for Max, seeing as she felt so guilty over Billy's death. Nellie was looking just as forward to Jonathan coming for spring break as Nancy, but ultimately fell disappointed when he never showed. The night of Chrissy's demise, Nellie was on her way to Eddie's when she saw him speeding out of the parking lot in his van, and followed him over to Reefer Rick's to try and find out what happened. Seeing how scared he was, she tried to offer him some comfort. She couldn't remember why, but something about Chrissy's death was vaguely familiar to her. She tried over and over again to contact Jonathan, but he was responding to her about as much as he was responding to Nancy. Without any response from the Byers, and with El's powers still gone (to her knowledge), the fate of Hawkins seemed to be up to her this time, whether she was ready for it or not. She also fell fate to Vecna's warning, having gone through the Upside Down with Steve, Nancy, Eddie, Robin, and Willa, just before she hopped out, she was in that trance- Vecna greeted her as "Nine" and shared his great plans, scaring the hell out of her. But it also made her angrier than ever, ready to use her powers by any means necessary. She knew her powers alone weren't strong enough to stop Vecna, but as part of team distraction, she was able to save Eddie's life.

LINKS ;

Spotify playlist Pinterest board RPTWT

bitchin' divider by strangergraphics © strangerocsbymouse all rights reserved !

[chornayadrakoshig]

fanfic end of year asks: 3, 12, 25 (any or all of them!) 💕

3.favorite line/scene you wrote this year

I can't share my actual favorite because that fic will be published only in February next year, and I can't spoil it/reveal that I'm the author yet 😢 It's only say that is a femslash smut for Code Lyoko fandom, which is very much not my usual thing xD

But I'm going to share a piece of a different unpublished fic that I like. I was suppose to post it for 2024 Prongsfoot Fest this July. Struggled with it a lot, didn't finish that oneshot on time. I still haven't gave up on this and I like.. add a few sentences per month to my draft (currently about 2.8k). Hopefully I'll finish it next year lol xD Anyways, that was suppose to be Hockey Player/Figure Skater AU, which isn't mentioned in this snippet but I like that a lot.

Sirius should have known that all the important people in his life stumbled into it by accident. Of course, he had parents, he had a brother (barely a year younger than him, but forever a whiny baby in Sirius’s eyes), he had cousins and aunts and uncles and God knows how many other relatives. But if Sirius had to name one important person in his life, he wouldn’t pick any of them.

12.favorite character to write about this year

Ooh that's a tricky one. I've tried writing so many fandoms and characters this year! But I think my favorites were Chrissy (Stranger Things) - I wrote 3 oneshots with her, and Lise (Code Lyoko) - she got a series of 5 small oneshots.

25.a fic you read this year you would recommend everyone read

Okay I can't pick just one so I've put together a list (sorted by fandom, long list under the cut)

~Stranger Things~

Alone On Thanksgiving? Mad At Your Mom? by Anonymous

Hellcheer Modern AU. Chrissy moved to California and she'd coming back to Hawkins for Thanksgiving. She meets Eddie through craigslist because he basically put up an ad "do you need a fake boyfriend for holidays to piss of your relatives". He didn't expect anyone to actually answer but. Yeah they're about to give Laura Cunningham a heart attack and it's HILARIOUS.

WIP, currently 4 chapters/21k words

INDIANAPOLIS GENERAL - 12:40 AM by IntotheTrees

Hellcheer, No Upside Down AU, outsider POV. Chrissy is a waitress, Eddie got into a bar fight. Very very cute fic!

Wild Thing (You Make My Heart Sing) by MoonWitch96

(Some of the tagged ships are Harringrove and Heelcheer but there weren't any romantic plot points yet really. Rated E for violence etc)

Time-travel fix-it, where Chrissy and Billy got psychic abilities after thet've died, and they returned into their old bodies to the point when Billy and Max has just moved to Hawkins. This fic touches on trauma/trauma response a lot. I love the characterisation of Billy in this work. Since he, well, died, it changed him a lot. He actually tried to mend his relationship with Max. Also this fic has protective Hopper (I think he has one chapter from his POV so far?) which I adore.

WIP, currently 8 chapters/12k words

okay losty I couldn't resist to put your fic on this list because it was very good <3 Since I Found You by 1lostsoul0fishbowl

Greatmage, No Upside Down AU. Okay first of all I really like epistolary fiction, but it's not super common so I'm so glad to see it for this rarepair! Also, a separate kudos for the visuals - it's very very cute. The plot is fluffy and comforting, and I think that El/Jane backstory for this AU is great.

heavy metal lover by ninja and his butterfly

Hellcheer, No Upside Down AU. After graduation Eddie opens a shop where he's trying to sell metal cassetes/band merch but he's not great at sales. He desides to hire someone… The only person who comes to the inverview happens to be Chrissy.

WIP, currently 1 chapter/9k words

~ATLA~

Salvage by MuffinLance

Gen, early canon divergence. Zuko falls from the ship and is found by Water's Tribe ship. Zuko redemption arc. IMHO The best thing in this fic are moments that show cultural differences between Fire and Water nations (and briefly Earth nation), espesially when we see the same stuff from different POV. Also +1 cutenes: Zuko is good with animals.

~The Mandalorian~

Miite by tar_senaar

I admit I haven't finished watching Mandalorian (I liked the show but at one point I just stopped and never picked it up again. I'm bad at watching series). BUT! Who can resist baby Grogu? Right, no one. So, here is the cutest oneshot where Din teaches Grogu some words from his language.

~Good Omens~

Друг из машины by bfcure

AU where Aziraphale is immortalized as an AI car navigator, built into remodeled Bently. Crowley bought the car. Oneshot. It's pretty angsty in my opinion but I loved it.

[schrijverr]

I Found Myself a Cheerleader 20

Chapter 20 out of 28

Bumped to the lowest step on the social ladder after his fight with Billy, Steve gets roped in with the cheer team. What starts as a favor to help them out when one member breaks her leg in turn for protection from the brunt of the bullying, sets the universe on a different path.

In this chapter, seeing Chrissy attacked has them all on edge, which isn’t helped when they return to the cabin and find it completely ransacked. Eddie missing from the scene. The search for him only sets them on the path to more danger.

On AO3.

Ships: steddie & buckingham

Warnings: general season 4 shenanigans, child abuse mention, hate-crime, homophobia, f-slur, bullying mention

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Chapter 20: The Escape

Steve screams Chrissy’s name loudly and shakes her, despite the fact he knows it won’t do anything to save her.

Behind him, the others get there and see what has happened. Max is rushing forward, already pulling off her own headphones to give to Chrissy, but she is stopped by Lucas, who yells: “Are you insane? Vecna is looking for a target right now.”

“Do you expect me to let her die for me?” Max screams back, an again going unspoken. “She needs music.”

A part of Steve wishes Lucas hadn’t stopped Max, but he knows that wouldn’t have solved anything. Right now Chrissy needs music and Steve knows how to get it. He quickly scoops Chrissy up, hating how light she feels as he yells: “Get out of the fucking way!”

The party scrambles to let him pass as he carries Chrissy down the stairs, relieved she isn’t floating yet. Robin is at his side, Nancy at his back. Nancy asks: “Where are you going?”

“She needs music, I’m bringing her to music,” Steve replies.

“You’ll never make it to the car,” Nancy argues. “It’s too far.”

“We don’t have to make it to the car,” Steve tells her.

“The piano,” Robin exclaims, picking up on what Steve is saying as they hustle down the stairs to the now abandoned piano where once a happy family sang.

Right as he crosses the threshold, Chrissy floats out of his arms, hanging there in that horrid, ominous way. She always loved flying, but not like this. Steve wants to pull her back to earth, but knows music is more important to get right now.

So he lets Robin tug helplessly on Chrissy’s shoe as he takes place at the piano. Steve is the only one who gets to make Chrissy fly, not this Venca creep, and he is the one that knows how to get her down safely. Always there to catch her.

It’s been almost half a year since Hopper’s funeral, when they broke into his house to steal a suit to wear. However, the song still comes to him, having been burned into his memory. He thanks god for the strict French nurse, who had taught him.

Everything around him disappears as he starts to play. Hands gliding over the keys as the notes of We’ll Meet Again float through the air. The piano is a little out of tune, but it adds to the charm, well, Steve hopes so at least.

He doesn’t know all the words, but he knows the chorus, so he sings: “We’ll meet again. Don’t know where. Don’t know when. But I know we’ll meet again some sunny day.”

After that Robin takes over. She’s a decent singer and Steve wonders when she learned this song or if she has always known it. However, as long as she keeps singing Steve doesn’t care. The two of them keep on creating the music, hoping that Chrissy will come back to them, instead of leaving them behind.

The room is filled with the haunting piano and Robin’s surprisingly nice voice.

It seems to take a life time.

It only takes a minute.

Steve thinks it will never end.

The moment never really begins.

Then Chrissy is collapsing down to the ground, limp for a second, but seemingly still breathing. Of course Steve gets up immediately to check on her, right behind Robin. However, he is pushed back to the piano by Max, who demands: “Keep playing! He’s still here.”

Naturally, Steve plops back down on the bench without question as he starts up the notes again. It is harder this time, because he keeps trying to look back to where Chrissy is gasping, trying to come down from her encounter with Vecna.

He hears Robin ramble in that concerned comforting way of her and when he glances back Max is next to Chrissy too. The only one, who can know what she might have gone through.

Dustin, however, has disappeared outside with Lucas, but soon returns with a recording device, so they can tape Steve’s playing. It has proven effective, so it’s their best shot for Chrissy. Especially since the other tape is broken. Robin singing again just in case that’s important.

Once they get the tape, they put it in the backup walkman Steve brought and by god is he relieved as they hand it to Chrissy, meaning Steve can leave his bench.

Steve doesn’t waste a second, sliding out of the piano bench and running to where Chrissy is clinging to Robin. Though she lets go in favor of falling into Steve’s arms when he drops to the floor next to her.

“Oh god, Stevie, she- she was there,” Chrissy sobs and Steve holds her closer, knowing she is talking about her mother.

“You’re okay, you’re okay,” he assures her, as he strokes her hair, not wanting to give too much of her private details away to the party around them. “She’s not there. You’re not with her. You here with me and Robs and the others. You’re safe. You’re alive. I got you. I always got you.” He kisses the top of her head.

Chrissy cries a little more, hiding into Steve’s chest as Robin rubs her back, obviously unsure about what else to do.

When they have all come down from the crazy experience, they go to the Wheeler house. All of them collapse on the couches, not having been spotted by Karen or Ted. The exhaustion after the adrenaline drops makes that all of them forget about anything but sleep.

The next morning, they go by the grocery store. They’re all stuffed into Nancy’s car, probably looking a little insane as they pick a six-pack and some snacks and stuff to make dinner. If they need to hide Eddie for a little longer, Steve can cook for him. A good home cooked meal can do wonders for the soul.

But as they get to the cabin, Nancy gasps and hits the break in a way that tosses them all around in the car.

Steve is about to make a comment to her about safe driving, when he notices what made her react like that. The door to the cabin is open, the glass broken and on the walls is smeared in red spray paint the word FAG next to it is MURDERER.

His blood runs cold as he stumbles out of the car, aware of the kids behind him, who now see what has been done to his cabin. There has always been the sense that the cabin still belongs to Hopper in a way, his presence felt in location, security measures and room. However, looking at it now, Steve has never felt more like he owns it.

His cabin is his home. His safe space. He loves living there, finally having a place of his own that he can exist in without judgment or prying eyes, only letting in those that he wants there. And now that has been violated.

In his horror, he hasn’t even realized what that could mean for Eddie, who had been hidden there, until Dustin is running past him, calling out: “Eddie? Eddie!”

Without thinking, he snaps his arm up and grabs the back of Dustin’s sweater. Dustin looks back, frowning and looking offended as he exclaims: “What the hell, dude! Eddie might be in there. We need to find him.”

“I know,” Steve replies. “But maybe there is someone else in there too.”

That gets everyone’s attention as they look from Steve to the cabin, its open door now looking like a gaping maw instead of a welcoming entrance beckoning.

So far no one has commented on what is painted on the cabin, but Steve feels the words’ judgment as he takes the lead. When there is danger, Steve knows what to do. When they might get hurt, Steve is in the front.

Inside, the whole cabin is overturned. His couches are shoved to the side and blankets are strewn around. In the kitchen all the cabinets are open. Looking into the bathroom, he sees the shower curtains have been pulled down.

The doors to his own room and Hopper’s room are cracked open. His own room is better for hiding, so he pushes the one open first. His heart beats in his chest and he hates that he does not have a weapon as he waits for someone to jump him. The door creaking slightly.

Empty.

His closet is open, clothes tossed around. His bed is a mess and the window is open. But the room is abandoned, no one is there.

Hopper’s room has met the same fate and Steve curses whoever has done this. How dare they invade Hopper’s place. El’s last memory of her dad. Her one wish for this cabin in which she found kindness and love. He vows to clean up everything to how it had been when all this is behind them, so El can still come home properly.

“It’s abandoned,” he calls out. The words a relief as well as a mystery, a terrible mystery. The cabin might not have a threat, but Eddie has disappeared to and none of them know where he might be and what might have happened to him.

“Where is Eddie?” Dustin asks, sounding scared. Steve immediately hates how he sounds. Hates how he doesn’t have an answer. Hates how he is focusing on keeping himself from panicking so he can’t focus on finding an answer.

“I can’t see his clothes anywhere,” Nancy says. “Maybe he took them and ran.”

“Why would they even come here?” Robin asks.

“Who came here?”

“The basketball team,” Lucas speak up and they all look at him. He explains: “It must have been them. They’re on a war path. They think Eddie killed one of their own. They want his blood.”

“But Eddie didn’t do it,” Dustin points out.

“Well they don’t know that, do they?” Lucas snaps. “All they know Patrick died in his trailer with only him there. They hate his guts, Dustin. Just like they hate yours and now mine and Steve’s and everyone who has ever dared to not be cool and popular.”

It’s quiet, Dustin looks as if he’s been slapped in the face, staring at Lucas as they both breathe heavily.

Lucas then looks away and says: “And I wanted to be part of them, just so I wouldn’t be hated by them. They’re hunting us right now. I’m- I’m sorry, I should have listen to you and Mike. I was just so tired of the bullying.”

Steve readies himself to step in if Dustin makes a wrong move. He knows how Lucas has been struggling and he doesn’t want Dustin to ruin this. But he is pleasantly surprised when Dustin replies: “Hey, I get it. If I had more hand eye coordination I might try your method too.”

That gets a huffed laugh out of Lucas and he holds out his hand that Dustin shakes, before pulling Lucas into a hug.

Right when they let go, the radio that has been left by the party so Eddie could contact them, which has now been abandoned on the table, crackles to life. Eddie’s voice says: “Dustin, can you hear me? Stevie? Wheeler?”

Dustin fumbles for the radio, clicking it on with a breathless: “Eddie! Holy shit. Are you okay? Over.”

“Nah, man. Pretty- Pretty goddamn far from okay,” Eddie replies. He sounds rough, shaken up, but not hurt. Steve hates that he is relieved by the emotional devoid tone, because it at least means that Eddie is safe.

“Where is he?” Nancy asks.

“Where are you? Over,” Dustin repeats.

“Skull Rock,” Eddie answers. “Do you know it?”

They do know where that is, so they tell Eddie they’re coming. Steve slips on a comforting sweater, needing something soothing right now. He also grabs his nail bat from under his bed. Something made Eddie flee, it cannot be good and he wants his bat with him.

The walk is silent at the start. Steve keeps thinking back of his cabin, on how they knew to look there, knew to target him. That the kids saw what had been spray painted on the front.

Robin must feel his gloomy mood, because she slides up next to him and takes his hand. She squeezes it and he squeezes back. A gesture of silent support. She knows what is going through his head, she gets his fear and she is here for him every step of the way.

Chrissy also catches up with them, bumping her shoulder against his as she takes off one of the headphones. She quietly asks: “Are you okay?”

He looks at her, concerned eyes looking back. Chrissy has always been too kind for her own good honestly. So caring. He smiles at her and says: “I will be. This isn’t the worst that happened this week.”

“I know, but you can still be upset,” Chrissy tells him.

Steve hadn’t fully considered that. Sure, he is upset, but they have to move on. The town is getting worse and Vecna is still on the loose. They have to stop him and clear Eddie’s name without anyone getting hurt, so they don’t have time for Steve to mope. Chrissy makes it sound easy though, like of course he is allowed to be upset.

“Thanks,” he nods. Then is quiet for a beat, before he says: “I just don’t get why they always have to come back when I think I’ve gotten rid of them. I haven’t even done anything.”

“Well, you did house Eddie, you know. I think they don’t care about anything else you might have done,” Robin pipes up, then winces. “Bad comment.”

“It’s okay, Robs,” Steve laughs. He doesn’t mind her off the cuff comments. They can be quite funny and are a quirk of her. He doesn’t get annoyed, he only snaps if he feels under stress or hurt and she often knows when not to push.

“I also don’t think it would have mattered,” Chrissy adds. “I know those guys, if they’re convinced of something, they won’t stop chasing it. You’re just collateral.”

And Steve has been part of that crowd for years, witnessed them from Chrissy’s perspective for half a year and has been their target for a while now. He knows how they can be. How they don’t need evidence that it’s true, just the knowledge that it hurts. He sighs: “I know.”

“It’s gonna be okay, dingus,” Robin assures him with a soft grin.

“Yeah, I’m sure they won’t do anything with that weapon on you,” Chrissy says, nodding the nail bat he has been swinging absentmindedly.

He looks down at it and laughs, a bit surprised, he had forgotten he is carrying it and that is registers as scary. The nail bat for him is protection, not something to be afraid of. He smiles: “Yeah, I can take them.”

“Like that Russian guard,” Robin pipes up and Chrissy raises her brow at them when Steve nods in agreement.

“But I don’t want to kill anyone,” Steve amends. The bat is for non-human monsters, the kind that don’t stay down after a hit. Steve doesn’t think if he can stomach it if he’s responsible for someone seriously getting hurt, or worse.

“Yeah, yeah,” Robin waves him away. “At some point you gotta stop pulling punches, dingus. I am not capable of saving you if you throw yourself in danger like a dumbass. Look at these arms,” she shakes her arm in his face, “noodles! Incapable of fighting a grown man.”

Steve starts to laugh at Robin. Then Chrissy comments: “I think you could fight someone. You’re pretty strong, Robs.”

The look on Robin’s face is incredible. She turns entirely red and splutters a bit. Steve is now fully laughing at her and she shoves him away with a loud: “Shut up, dingus.”

“Okay, okay,” Steve laughs, putting his hands up as backs away. He wants to laugh a little bit at Robin’s expense, not out her.

He realizes that with them there, he has forgotten a little about why he was in a mood and now he can pay more attention to where they are. He calls out to Dustin: “Hey, we’re going in the wrong way.”

“No we’re not,” Dustin stubbornly replied.

“Dude, I’m telling you, you’re taking us the wrong way,” Steve says, walking a bit faster to catch up with Dustin.

“It’s North. I’m positive. I checked the map,” Dustin tells him in that way that tells Steve Dustin thinks he knows best.

A little annoyed, Steve points out: “You do realize Skull Rock is a super popular make out spot?”

“Yeah, so?”

“Yeah, well, it wasn’t popular, until I made it popular, alright? I practically invented it,” Steve informs him. “We’re heading in the wrong direction.”

He starts walking in the right direction, Dustin might be smart, but Steve knows he’s right here, so he doesn’t listen as Dustin complains: “Steve. Where are you going? Steve!”

“Stop whining,” he just tells Dustin as he waves everyone to come with him. “Let’s go. Trust me.”

Reluctantly Dustin follows as do the others as Steve leads them through a familiar forest. He turned Skull Rock into a make out spot when he was still King Steve, before Nancy he kissed many girls there, wondering why it never really felt like the movies.

Dustin is now walking next to him, looking a little sulkily down at his compass. Steve knows he’ll get over it if he gives him a moment, so he lets him stew as they walk side by side.

Sporadically he turns back to check on everyone. Lucas and Max are seemingly having a good conversation, Chrissy and Robin are joking around as well and Nancy is diligently watching the rear. He makes eye contact with her and she sends him a smile, he smiles back before looking ahead again, wondering why that made him uneasy.

Before he can think too much about it, Dustin suddenly says: “Was Lucas right? You know, when he said the basketball team hates you for not being cool and popular? That doesn’t make sense. You are cool.”

Steve’s heart constricts at that. He knows that Dustin has always looked up to him and he loves the blind faith the boy puts in him. It’s one of the few things he has never wanted to take from any of the kids; their trust in him.

“I’m glad you think so, dude,” Steve says as he scrambles for what else to say.

Dustin shoots him an annoyed look and complains: “Steveee,” obviously realizing how Steve is deflecting.

“Henderson,” Steve counters snappily, before taking a breath. He doesn’t want to fight with Dustin right now, he is too worried about Eddie and being a target himself, so he amends: “It wasn’t the worst, I just lost a fight against Billy and the results were very publicly visible. There isn’t really a social recovery from that.”

“But you’re Steve,” Dustin says, like that means anything. And to Dustin, it probably does.

“I am,” Steve smiles, unable to help the sadness that clings to his voice.

“You are like the coolest guy, I remember Mike yammering on about it when you and Nancy got together,” Dustin replies. “And Billy should have left you alone after Max’s threat.”

“He did, he did,” Steve lies. “Rumors just fly and I was loosing popularity long before that. It just happens sometimes, no big deal. Didn’t you say yourself that popularity is just a construct for high schoolers.”

“I mean, yeah,” Dustin agrees and Steve is glad he is seemingly letting it go, though never entirely of course. “But the basketball team are high schoolers. We need to get into their heads.”

“Dustin, you’re also a high schooler,” Steve points out, faintly amused by the turn this conversation has taken, but feeling the fear creep into his chest as well. He doesn’t want Dustin to press about the basketball team, doesn’t want to lie to him, doesn’t want to think about telling him the truth either.

“It’s different,” Dustin protests.

“Sure it is, buddy,” Steve tells him, going for condescending in the hope Dustin will get offended and defend himself instead of asking further.

“It is,” Dustin insists, taking the bait. “Because I am a mature person, who is above popularity contests, while basketball players by the virtue of being a basketball player, obviously do care, therefore are susceptible to those sort of things. In order to get into their minds, we have to understand that.”

“Lucas plays basketball,” Steve points out the flaws in Dustin’s logic. It’s hilarious that the kid is calling himself mature when he is so clearly kid-like on some fronts.

“He doesn’t count.”

“How so?”

“Well, he came to his senses and saw he was wrong.”

“And what about me?”

“You are on thin ice, but you also distanced yourself – I’m proud of you for that by the way.”

“Oi, don’t get cocky with me now, you little shit!”

“I’m not!” Dustin squawks, then immediately amends: “Well, maybe a little bit. But I’m almost always right.”

“Really?” Steve raises a brow.

“Yeah, like right now,” Dustin replies. “I checked the map and compass a thousand times, Steve. We need to head North and right now we’re not going North. We’re never going to find Eddie like this, I mean it.”

In a twist of beautiful irony, they come up on Skull Rock. Steve doesn’t answer Dustin directly, just exclaims: “Oh boom. Bada bing, bada boom. There she is, Henderson. Skull Rock. In your face, man, in your stupid, cocky little face.”

“It doesn’t make sense,” Dustin frowns, because he is a know it all, who can never be wrong.

“Yeah, yeah,” Steve waves him away as he scans the place for Eddie. “Even with it staring you right in the face, you can’t admit it. Can’t admit you’re wrong, you butthead.”

“I concur,” a voice says behind them and they whip around, only to be filled with relief when it is Eddie, unharmed and well. He grins: “You, Dustin Henderson, are a total butthead.”

Steve shouldn’t find his little breath and the way he hoist up his jeans hot, but he does, so he just stares dumbly at Eddie for a second, as Dustin says: “Jesus, we thought you were a goner.” He pulls Eddie into a hug while Steve pulls himself together.

He watches as Eddie hugs back and hears the exhausted tone in Eddie’s voice as he replies: “Yeah, me too, man. Me too.”

His heart aches for Eddie, who is obviously going through hell. He just had to flee from Steve’s cabin, a place they thought he would be safe. A place Steve thought, he would be safe. And now that is gone.

It is gone and all the emotions that he had managed to forget while bickering with Dustin come bubbling right back up. He doesn’t know what has happened, but he will never forget arriving at the cabin and seeing it like that, just like his car at graduation. The image is something that will stick with him forever and he can’t imagine what it was like for Eddie to be present as they did it.

Needing to remind himself that Eddie made it out okay, that Steve isn’t alone in what happened and that they’re both shaken up, but have each other, he lets his bat fall and reaches out and pulls Eddie into a hug.

The action is a little clumsy with Eddie stumbling as Steve pulls him in, needing to steady himself before he is able to hug back. But when he does, it’s soothing. Steve can feel parts of his shoulders unclench as he feels Eddie’s warmth under his hands, his breaths against his skin, the way Eddie holds on to his sweater.

“I am so glad you’re okay,” he whispers fiercely. “I- I got so scared when I saw the cabin. They- they graffiti-ed it, broke my front door. Fuck- Eds, they got in.”

Eddie rubs a soothing hand down Steve’s spine. Steve feels kind of guilty, because he should be comforting Eddie right now and instead Eddie is comforting him, but it’s too nice to step away from. Especially when Eddie whispers back: “I’m okay now, sweetheart. We’re okay. I’m sorry about your cabin.”

Steve lets out a laugh, it’s a little hysteric and a little too close to a sob, but it’s a laugh. He steps back before he can get emotional in front of everyone and tries to play it off. “I do not care about my cabin right now, dude.”

He catches Eddie’s eye, heart fluttering when Eddie grins at him the moment their eyes meet. Eddie pats his pockets with a twinkle in his eyes as he says: “I’m glad about that, don’t think I can pay you back right now.”

“You’re a fucking idiot,” Steve informs him.

Before Eddie can reply to that or defend himself, they are interrupted by an indignant Dustin, who demands to know: “How long has this been going on?”

“What?” Eddie asks, like he honestly has no fucking clue what Dustin is talking about, something Steve knows is a lie, because the edge of a dimple is showing.

“This- this canoodling!” Dustin exclaims and Steve has to bite the inside in his cheek to not laugh at the kid.

“Don’t be dramatic, Henderson,” he tells him, aloofness always coming easy to him. “My house has just been broken into, I’m allowed to be worried about the fugitive I was housing there. Maybe instead of being weird catch Eddie up on that Vector creep.”

“You-” Dustin starts, pointing at Steve in an accusing manner, before dropping it in favor of recounting all their discoveries and the absolute mess that has been the last 24 hours.

As Dustin talks the others chime in with additions to what they experienced to create a full picture for Eddie, who isn’t looking like he has much faith in the operation. Steve can understand that, especially when they move onto how to kill Vecna, for which they would have to go into the Upside Down. Something that isn’t really possible right now.

Their options look pretty bleak.

However, something in the conversation must have triggered Dustin, because he starts to pace up and down as he mutters to himself. Both Steve and Eddie track his movement with curiosity until Eddie leans in and asks: “Hey, uh, Henderson’s not, uh, cursed, is he?”

“Cursed?” Steve repeats. “No, no, he’s fine. Mental? Absolutely.”

That gets a smile out of Eddie again, though Steve can’t feel satisfaction at that, because they both startle when Dustin suddenly yells: “Boom! Bada. Bada. Boom. I was right! Skull Rock was North.”

“Seriously? You’re serious?” Steve asks. He knows Dustin is a cocky little bastard, but this is a little extreme. But Dustin hums as he nods. Steve gestures around them: “This is Skull Rock, okay?” Again that stupid little hum and nod. “You’re totally, absolutely, 100% wrong! Right now.”

“Yes,” Dustin agrees. “And no.”

“Oh my god,” Steve mutters to the sky. He can’t with this kid sometimes. Next to him Eddie snorts at his misery, the traitor.

“This worked correctly when we left the Wheeler’s house. Correct when we got in the car on Curly, but it started to slip the further East we went. Now it’s way off,” Dustin explains. “When I was leading us here, I wasn’t wrong. The compass was.”

“So you’re using faulty equipment. You’re still wrong,” Steve argues, feeling a little silly, but also annoyed. He is right, goddammit. He found Skull Rock. He won’t let Dustin take that from him. He needs the win.

But then the conversation quickly devolves into something Steve can’t follow and he is reminded of just how smart Lucas is as well when the kid easily catches Dustin’s drift. Steve can barely follow the first part, but he does get that there might be another gate.

“Snack sized gate,” Robin nods, also understanding and Steve loves her and her wonderful, dorky mind. Chrissy obviously does too with the way she snorts at that.

“How? Why?” he asks instead, because those are valid questions. Portals are never good news. The only times Steve has seen portals is when monsters crawl out them.

“No idea,” Dustin answers honestly. “All I know is that something is causing this disturbance and the last time we’ve seen anything like it, it was a gate. And I hope it is, because then we’d have a way to Vecna. And a shot at freeing Chrissy and Max from this curse.”

With those words, he starts to walk away and fear grips Steve immediately. He calls out: Where are you going? Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.” Dustin stops and looks back at him. “Eddie’s still a wanted man, who got attacked, I might add. We can’t just go hike in the woods.”

“This little steel capsule,” Dustin holds up the compass like the dramatic nerd that he is, “might be the key to saving Chrissy, Max and Eddie.” He focuses his attention to Eddie, who has been disappearing a little into the background, which is unlike him. “What say you, Eddie the Banished?” Dustin asks him.

“I say, you’re asking me to follow you into Mordor, which – if I’m totally straight with you – I think is a really bad idea,” Eddie tells Dustin and Steve nods, glad the other isn’t letting the kid run towards danger. “But, uh, the Shire- the Shire is burning.”

Steve feels his insides plummet at that, he vaguely recalls this from one of Eddie’s rambles and it sounds like he is going to agree with Dustin. Something that is confirmed to Steve when Dustin starts to jump excitedly like an idiot. Eddie gets up and it feels like the beginning of the end as he says: “So Mordor it is.”

Everyone takes that as a sign to start moving and Steve picks up his bat as he mutters: “What’s Mordor?” to himself, watching Eddie forget his stuff and run back. A little bitchily he says: “Get your stuff, dude. Let’s go.”

He feels like he’s allowed to be annoyed with Eddie for agreeing to Dustin’s bullshit.

During their walk through the forest, Dustin drags Eddie along with him, excited about the prospect of adventure. Eddie doesn’t look wholly convinced, but Steve isn’t saving him either. Eddie dug his own grave, let him lie in it.

Steve, meanwhile, is watching the rear of the group. The bat swings casually, the weight comforting in his hand. If anyone tries anything, he at least won’t be unarmed.

Eddie never really said what happened at the cabin, but that only makes Steve worry more. Eddie is never quiet. Whatever happened, Steve won’t mind making Jason loose a few teeth.

It’s dark by the time Dustin has lead them to the edge of the lake, right to where Fred must have died. Nancy looks a little green and clings to Steve’s arm, who supports her. After Barb this can’t be easy on her.

“There’s a gate in Lover’s Lake?” Max asks, voicing their confusion out loud.

“Whenever the demogorgon attacked, it always left an opening,” Nancy says, having pulled herself together into her mask of professionalism. “Maybe Vecna’s the same way.”

“Yeah, only one way to find out,” Steve says, not liking where his night is going, because if there is a gate on the bottom of that Lake, Steve knows who is going to check it out. And that is him. He’s not letting anyone else do it, even if he hates the idea of doing it himself.

They go look for a boat unearthing one near the docks. Eddie and Steve carry it to the water, it’s not a big boat, can fit maybe five people, max. Not all of them can go.

It’s clear the others have noticed too, but no one comments on it as Robin steps in, before helping Chrissy aboard as well, then Nancy. Steve wants to protest that, but is distracted by Eddie climbing past him, who is followed by Dustin.

Well, Dustin attempts to follow him. Eddie, however, stops him in his tracks with: “Hey, hey, hey, are you trying to sink us? This thing holds four people, tops. Okay?”

“It’s better this way. You guys stay here with Max. Keep an eye out for trouble,” Nancy explains and Steve realizes they mean to leave him behind there. Just the babysitter again.

“You keep an eye out,” Dustin snarks back, not wanting to be left behind. “It’s my theory.”

“They’re right, Dustin. Leave it,” he speaks up, already thinking about he is going to get aboard as he stealthily puts his nail bat in the boat.

“Since when are you on their side,” Dustin exclaims.

“Since they’re talking sense,” Steve rolls his eyes at Dustin.

“Yeah, listen to Nance,” Robin tells Dustin from where she is making Chrissy more comfortable on the boat.

“Who put her in charge?” Dustin asks, indignantly.

“I did,” Robin replies cheerily and Steve has to work not to laugh at that bitchy comment.

With that Dustin gives in and hands over the compass to Nancy, though he obviously does not want to and will make that clear to everyone. Steve doesn’t care if he complains about it for the rest of his life, as long as he stays away from the danger.

Steve pushes off the boat and quick steps aboard. Eddie has left a space open for him, obviously anticipating this while Nancy frowns, which Steve ignores in favor of apologizing to Dustin, whom he is leaving behind, much to Dustin’s dismay.

Nancy is less annoyed with his presence on the boat when he and Eddie start paddling so the three girls can investigate the waters to look if they see anything.

After a little bit, the compass starts going wild. They have found the gate. Well, probably. They still don’t know for sure. Robin is checking in with Dustin in the most Robin-like manner, informing Dustin that: “Your compass has gone from wonky to wonky with a capital ‘ahh!’”

She hasn’t realized what that means yet, but Steve has, so he is already taking off his shoes and socks, wanting to get ahead of protests before anyone can notice. Nancy, of course, notices: “Steve, what are you doing?”

“Somebody’s gotta go down there and check this out,” he informs them, hoping he sounds authoritative enough for them to let him go. “Unless one of you four can top being a Hawkins High swim co-captain and certified lifeguard for three years, then it’s gotta be me. No complaints, alright?”

“Hey, I’m not complaining,” Eddie backs him up, though Steve thinks that is more out of fear, which he can’t blame the guy for, especially as he watches him fumble with his pocket, probably looking for a smoke.

“I do not want to go down there,” Chrissy agrees, looking anxiously at the blackness pooling all around them.

Steve takes of his sweater, hearing crinkles behind him. When he turns around, Eddie is the source of the noise. He is holding some cigarettes like Steve suspected, but he has also tied a plastic bag around a flashlight so Steve will be able to see down there. Eddie offers it to him with a soft: “Hey. Good luck.”

And it hits Steve that what he is about to do is dangerous. He might not come back, he might not see any of them again.

With lead in his heart, he takes the flashlight from Eddie, letting their fingers touch. Then he looks at Robin, imprinting what she looks like in his mind, before doing the same to Chrissy. He turns back to Eddie then, decides to be a little bold, since it might be the last time.

So, he gives Eddie a one over, getting stuck on his lips between which now is a cigarette, before looking in those deep, dark, beautiful eyes. He winks and says: “Thanks,” before diving into the cold water.

Steve swims down, muscle memory taking over as he searches for the gate. He finds it looking gross and glowing. Sickly in the lake bed. He reaches out to touch it, feeling oddly compelled to do so, startling back when it seems something is trying to reach back.

He needs to get away from it, he thinks wildly, as he kicks off from the bottom and breaks back out on top. He holds on to the side of the boat and reports: “I found it.”

The four, who he must have startled by his sudden appearance, lean back towards him and ask: “You found it?”

“I found it. Yeah, I found it,” Steve confirms, still panting slightly from his time without air, his heart beating fast after the scare. He wants to get out of this water. And soon.

He is about to ask for a hand back onto the boat, needing to tell them to get out of there, because the gate looks out of place. Dangerous. When he feels something wrap around his leg. His eyes grow wide and he catches Robin looking back.

Her excited exclamation to Dustin dies on her lips and she reaches back out to him, the question about whether he is okay never reaching his ears as the something yanks him down.

Steve struggles and fights, but it’s no use. The water around him turns into a slimy feeling as Steve is dragged through the gate. Into the Upside Down.

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A/N:

I love conversations between people too much, which gets in the way of plot, but we are getting there, no matter how slow!!!

[mangoslam]

What are your other Stranger Things ships, outside of Hellcheer?

HMMMMMMM

Yeah, Hellcheer is my #1 but I have seen some interesting ships while scrolling through the crazy (but wonderful) Stranger Things fandom. No other ship has really caught my interest as much but I do like:

Max and Lucas

Nancy and Jonathan (though the actress has better on-screen chemistry with Steve's actor imo, go figure)

I saw some Billy and Barb crack-shipping which was effing hilarious and excellent.

Joyce and Hopper

That's it really - a bit boring, yes - but what can I say? I don't really get the hype for Steve and Eddie or Billy and Steve but seen a lot of talented fanart for them. I tend to ship canon pairings or total crack-ships usually (less heartbreak - I lived through Zutara man).

I also enjoy seeing Chrissy shipped with other people (she has some of the BEST shipping names). Chrissy and Eddie are my OTP, but Chrissy is such a sweetheart who deserves love and affection and I just want her to be happy, okay? I like:

Chrissy and Steve (i can definitely see the attraction here and they make a beautiful couple, plus they're very similar in certain ways. This would be my second preference after Hellcheer for Chrissy. Also Chrissy/Eddie/Steve smut is like shit HOT).

Chrissy and Robin (fuck me, too beautiful for words)

Chrissy and Jonathan (i just think this would be seriously interesting as again opposites attract. Smooches in the dark room bb. Hit me up with links for this one seriously)

So yeah, that's my shipping list for Stranger Things. I don't think I'll ever write something for anything other than Hellcheer, but I do like looking at other artwork and reading the fics. There's some STUNNING fanart across the board.