dustin moves to hawkins in 4th grade and him and mike bond at recess like, immediately. ofc he's close with the whole core four - not just mike - but here's the thing. mike wheeler is the type of kid to get his hands dirty and look for worms and bugs and toads at recess. will Does Not Like That because he doesn't like touching "slimy little creatures". lucas is okay with it. DUSTIN, however.
dustin is different.
when mike finds a hop toad in the field at recess the first day dustin is at school, dustin scurries over and explains - in detail - the species of toad, its mating habits, where it lives, and the "proper" way to catch more. and mike is absolutely GOBSMACKED. BAMBOOZLED. and, before he knows it, every recess him and dustin are digging for little creatures and naming them and going to the library to read books on them while will and lucas watch like. What Are These Children Doing. mike and dustin have an absolute BLAST but are soon forbidden from "creature catching" at recess after they find a toad, bring it into the classroom, and accidentally let it loose where it nearly climbs up their teacher's dress and causes her to scream so loud that the entire hallway thinks there's been a murder (both mike and dustin get a very stern call home after that. will and lucas are like. we told you so.) even so, they still like hunting for little creatures after that, and as a result now have an encyclopedia's worth of knowledge on obscure species of salamanders, newts, toads, etc.
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Everybody, including their mothers and grandmothers, knows Iceman eats and snacks around every time he can. Preflight, postflight snack, a gum in his mouth chomping away most of the day, and, if he has enough, even during their flying time because he can, and so he does that too. What a significant smaller number of people knows, and that's probably Slider and Mav himself, is that Ice can appear like someone who eats whatever you put in front of him, but he can be picky, not that much that everyone notices but enough to start an argument with Slider over lunch.
("Ice c'mon leave it alone"
"Sli, you know I don't touch that thing"
"Iceman please, stop, we are already being over this" pointing their plates and then the both of them "thousands of times."
"And then you know I'm right, Slider"
"Tom!"
"Ron!"
"Thomas leave it be"
"Ronald, for the love of God, stop being such a child"
"Thomas Jacob!"
"Ronald William!"
Months later, Mav is still unsure what the problem was.)
So, when Mav decides he's going to ask Ice out for a date (to spend the rest of your life together, had mock Goose) he can't help but try to guess what Ice isn't going to like to find on his plate. And it's fucking hard because the man just eats and snacks, and it seems so random that he almost gives up the idea of cooking for him and just takes him out for a burger and fries or a pizza. But then Slider approaches him with a half-hearted exasperated smile and says, "Listen, Shorterick, Ice is going to love everything you're going to make him, even if it's half burnt and non-edible. But, just as a little help so you can finally put an end to my sufferings, Ice likes red M&M's, he doesn't eat stuff made with oranges, but he drinks and eats them if they're fresh, he fucking hates capers and can't stand to find onions on his plate, but he can live with it, he's a grown boy these days, so no problem. But please, please Pete, don't try to give him stuff with cinnamon in it and try not to eat cinnamon chewing gum before being in his vicinity because he didn't hook up with Cougar because they were his favourite flavour of chewing gum."
"He was going to ho-"
"Mitchell! Not the point now. He doesn't have any allergies, so don't worry about that. And please kiss him, okay man? Give the entire squadron a break from whatever you two have going, please."
He's out of the room before Maverick can even think of saying anything, and for once it was all going to be a thank you.
(It takes Maverick another month and a half to master the courage to ask Ice out, but when he does, the other man's smile is so big and genuine that they almost end up kissing right there, in the middle of the O Club. The dinner is a success, and when Mav starts to divide the M&M's for the movie, Ice kisses him so hard that they both lose their balance and half of his work ends on the floor, but it all has so little importance because they're both laughing and kissing, and oh god, Mav really loves this man and he has the nagging feeling that this particular man loves him too.)
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Sometimes, the biggest problem in the Kazansky-Mitchell household is the dishwasher that isn't clear as it should. The pair of red underwear with white shirts that makes everything pink and as Ice laughing for days and then he puts on the same shirt to go to important meetings because it's such an inconsequential thing buy makes him happy and as Mav texting all day with scenario's of how different people are going to react to that new color. And sometimes it's no more milk in the fridge, one egg instead that two so no homemade pancake Mav! just to be solved by so I can take you out for a breakfast date, Kazansky?
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Guys!!! Stop saying that my man Eddie is going to die next volume!!! He is STRONG and he is FUNNY and he is PRETTY and I LOVE HIM and he is NOT gonna die!!! Stop being mean!!! >:(
More seriously, the main argument that I keep seeing is "Eddie is going to die because there’s no way that the squad can prove his innocence to the town even if they defeat Vecna" and I just … are we really going to pretend that the whole fbi/government/secret lab people can’t magically make this whole situation disappear? Like they did with many other situations in the previous seasons?
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