#stcreators event

[robin-buckely]

@stcreators event 05: dynamics | @pscentral event 24: team tools ↳ Robin + Steve + Nancy

[ insp: one / two / three ]

[vinmauro]

steve & i are just friends.

@stcreators event 03: comfort — comfort dynamic: steve harrington & robin buckley (a remake)

[ronancevibes]

stcreators event 05: dynamics

I love the scenes they had together in season 4.

[keerysquinn]

@stcreators event 01: favorite

[jaytriesstuff]

Event 02: Family

Stranger Things Creators Event

Me: *sees event in the @stcreators server*

Me: *drops a thousand words immediately*

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Summary: Some words are hard to grasp the real meaning of, Family is one such word for Eleven.

Read below the cut, 1234 Words

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Words never came easy to El. There is a lot that El does not understand. She knows it makes her odd. She knows that people find her strange. For the way she talks, the way she dresses, the way she gets confused easily. She tries her hardest, studying words with Will and Joyce when they have time to spare, practicing her writing by sending letters to Mike and the other friends she had to leave in Hawkins while she was in California.

She likes to think she has done a good job with learning new words. There is one word that stumped her for a long time. A word that seemed to have a straightforward meaning at first, but it is far more complicated than El realized.

“Family.”

It is an important word that she took a long time to really understand.

Papa always said he was family. For a long time that is all Eleven really knew, so it was easy to take it at face value. It was easy to think of family as people close to you, proximity and titles were what made a family. Papa referred to the other numbers as El’s brothers and sisters. At the lab, El had a very big family. But there was no warmth in the sterile rooms and hallways. Papa liked to cause conflict between El and her siblings. He seemed to think it created competition, making all of them work harder to be better than each other, making them try to win Papa’s affection. Not that El would call anything Papa did “affectionate.”

Mike tried to help El with words when they first met. He was not a very good teacher. He interrupted her attempts to communicate a lot and made many assumptions about what she was thinking and feeling. It was not fun. Mike made her angry sometimes when he did that. El is very grateful for all that Mike did for her when she got out of the lab. She learned a lot about the world when she was hiding in his basement, tucked away in his small fort.

He talked about family a lot differently than Papa. He did not seem to like his sister very much, but it was not the same way El’s brothers and sisters disliked her. It was strange to hear the shouting and hugging from the bottom of the stairs while waiting for food from Mike. Mike had a Mama and a Papa though he called them different things. It made El wonder if she had a Mama somewhere. Mike showed her family without hostility, without coldness. Mike changed the meaning of the word for the first time.

Mike complained about Nancy a lot. He liked to say she was annoying and that he hated her. At the time El did not really know much about hate, but it did not seem like he actually hated Nancy. It did not make a lot of sense to El, why he would say something he did not mean and also tell El that “friends don’t lie.” If it was not the truth then it was a lie. But maybe it was different and family does lie but friends don’t.

El wound up with Hopper before she was able to figure it out.

Jim Hopper took El in and did a lot for her. She realizes now all that he really did. She did not like hiding away in the cabin but looking back she knows it was for the best, to keep her safe, even if she had to be lonely. It was confusing and frustrating at the time but Hopper was very good at taking care of her. She still wondered about Mama. When El found out that she had one somewhere she went to find her. Mama was not what El had hoped. It was nice to learn that she had a name that was not a number, that she was Jane before she was Eleven, but there was hardly anything left of Mama when El met her. It was sad and what El learned while in Mama’s head made her angry.

Mama was supposed to be family but it did not feel like that is what she was. It was confusing. Complicated. She was family, but also she was not. She helped El learn about Eight though.

Eight called El them sisters. It was different from the other numbers, back in the cold lab. It was warmer. There was kindness there to an extent. But ultimately Eleven knows that she was liked because she had her abilities. El was happy with Kali and her friends. She was happy to call Kali her family. It did not feel like what El had seen with Mike and Nancy. It did not feel how she felt with Hopper. It was not family even though it was the closest thing she felt like she had. Still, it was sad to go.

When El was reunited with Hopper there was a click somewhere in her brain. She was not sure why and she still is not certain what exactly changed but all of the sudden she was calling Hopper her Dad. She knew that that is what he was to her. Dad did not seem to react much, but sometimes when she would call him that his eyes would get all wet and he would blink it away. She asked him one time if he would like her to stop and he said no so she continued.

Losing him broke her heart in a way that she never thought was possible.

She moved in with Joyce and Will and Jonathan. They moved to California. Somewhere along the way she found new siblings in Will and Jonathan, real siblings. She learned that love is what made them different from her and the numbers.

“Love” is an equally complicated word to “family.”

Will explained it to her once. Saying that she was his sister, not because of blood or titles or proximity, but because he loved her. He explained that love meant caring about each other a lot and wanting to do things for each other and standing up for each other too. He said that love was a feeling and an action, that it was affection paired with the desire to see the other person safe and happy and healthy. He said that they were all a family. That everyone who helped with the Upside Down is her family. Because they love her and they love each other.

She asked if that included Hopper. He said, “of course.”

Finally understanding the word a little better, El was very sad that she could not appreciate having a family with all of its members since they were split up across the country and Dad wasn’t there anymore.

She missed her Dad very much. He was a hero to her and to a lot of people.

It was a miracle when he came back and El would never be able to thank Joyce enough for bringing him back to her.

Despite the trenches and the red sky over Hawkins, El knew that everything would be okay eventually. Even with all the fear and the uncertainty, El knew that they would make it out. Because she had her family, broken and injured and sad, but alive, and together, and there was so much love.

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Anywho, I wrote this for the @stcreators event 02: family. It is not beta read and I hardly even read over it.

This is also the first piece of Stranger Things fic that I am actually posting despite my hoards of wips in my notes and docs. Hopefully you like it. I had some trouble capturing El’s voice but I hope I did alright. Let me know what you think but don’t be mean, i’m a sensitive lad. Thank you @stargyles and @usermauro for giving me some advice on writing El!

[kwistowee]

#brothers forever @stcreators event 02: family

[cowboykeery]

 @stcreators event 01 • favorite

favorite character • steve harrington

[midnighthangintree]

@stcreators event 06: tropes - NANCY WHEELER + CHARACTER TROPES

[ricky-olson]

@stcreators​ event 02: family     🡮 Lucas & Erica being peak siblings

[stevesjockstrap]

@stcreators event 01: favorite

Ahoy Captain

“Jesus H. Christ.” Eddie stopped walking so sharply that Gareth ran into his back. He did a double take and his jaw was on the floor.

“What the fu-“ But Gareth followed his gaze and his jaw also dropped. “Is that?”

Jeff came to stand next to them, eyebrows raised. “…Steve Harrington in a sailor outfit?”

“That’s the Steve Harrington you won’t shut up about?” Drew said, especially loud in the crowded mall.

“Shut up!” He turned to hiss at him before rounding back to stare across the hall. “Did I die and go to heaven? Pinch me.” He pulled the sleeve of his leather jacket up and offered his arm to Gareth. He pinched his forearm roughly, without looking down. All of their eyes were locked on the figure in the brightly colored ice cream shop, now coming around the counter to crouch down to hand a cone to a small child. Doing so making the tiny shorts ride up his thighs, but Eddie’s eyes were suddenly drawn to where his v-neck hung open, getting a glimpse of chest hair.

“Buh,” he turned to Gareth to announce.

“Yo, we have to go in there. This is like once in a lifetime shit.”

Eddie adamantly shook his head and started backing away but Gareth and the guys shared a look before suddenly grabbing him under the arms to escort him awkwardly through the mall thoroughfare.

“Oh no. Oh no.” He chanted under his breath.

Back behind the counter now, Steve greeted them as they bodily pushed him into the store. “Welcome, fellas! Would you like to set sail on this ocean of flavor with me? I’ll be your captain!”

“Holy shit,” Eddie breathed. It’s so much worse, being this close. Steve’s eyes shine under the terrible fluorescent lighting and he can see the muscles in his arms flex as he leans onto the counter.

“If you need any help let me know. The flavor of the week is triple decker extravaganza!”

Eddie’s brain had stopped working. His arms were dropped as his friends went further up to the counter to look at the ice cream options. He continued staring stupidly at Steve as he leaned a hip against the back counter.

“You guys check out the new record store yet?” Steve Harrington was actually making decent conversation with them. What universe did he teleport to this morning?

“No, not yet,” Gareth answered. “That’s where we were heading actually, when uh-“ he awkwardly turned around to make eye contact with Eddie, still a few feet behind them and drawing Steve’s attention over to him.

“You don’t want anything?” Steve asked him. Oh he wanted something. Wanted to drop to his knees in front of him. Or the other way around. He wouldn’t mind either way. He would’ve done anything to have Steve’s undivided attention on him and now that he had it he was blanking on English. He opened and closed his mouth a few times. He finally forced his body forward, tearing his eyes away from Steve to send a panicked look at Gareth. He just smirked, the absolute asshole.

Steve frowned at him and he wanted to melt into the floor. “If you’re not a fan of ice cream we have cookies, too.”

Steve being so sweet to him finally rattled some brain cells loose. “Oh, um, no, that’s-“

Jeff chuckled from the other side of Gareth. “Eddie here loves ice cream. That’s why we had to stop in. Isn’t that right, guys?” The rest of his band laughed obnoxiously and nodded. Steve looked at all of them confused, but still with an easy smile when he turned back to Eddie.

“What’s your favorite?”

“Um, huh?” Eddie blinked at him. He watched as Steve pulled his bottom lip in to bite it, probably trying to figure out what was happening with him and the guys. Eddie’s gut clenched. He hoped he didn’t think he was doing anything wrong or they were making fun of him.

“Your favorite ice cream? We can talk about any of your other favorites after we get that out of the way,” he grinned at him and Eddie had to grab the counter in front of him when his knees threatened to give out.

“Rocky road?”

“Perfect. Coming right up! Cup or cone? Or waffle bowl? It’s like a big cone in a cup?”

“Cone please?”

Once he wasn’t under the heavy gaze of gorgeous brown eyes, he turned to his friends for help. But Drew just snickered at him and Jeff sent him a thumbs up. Dicks.

Steve handed him his cone and their fingers brushed. He dumped all the change he had into the tip jar and Steve fucking winked at him. The guys ordered their ice creams suspiciously easily, but Steve kept coming back to Eddie’s side of the counter. He tried hard not to hold eye contact with him as he licked across his ice cream.

“So was it worth it?”

“Wh-what?” He stammered.

“Coming in, for the ice cream?”

“Definitely. The ice cream is… great.” He looked around and realized his friends had gone to sit in the furthest booth by the door. Steve had only been sweet and amazing to him and he couldn’t leave without at least having a somewhat competent conversation. “But I- I really came in to see you.”

“Me?” Steve leaned further across the counter towards him. He turned those big brown eyes up at him and Eddie wasn’t sure if he could get any other words out.

“Couldn’t walk away from you in this getup.” His hand moved on his own accord to reach out and tug on the red tie in the middle of his chest.

“Oh,” he huffed. “Yeah. I wish I would’ve known before I agreed to work here. Not that I had any better offers.”

Eddie’s fingers itched to run along the blush that appeared across his cheeks.

“No, no, it’s- I mean, I like it.” He winced as it came out, but his eyes shot open when Steve chuckled. “Really. I really like it.” He cleared his throat because that couldn’t have been his voice. It was deep and gravely and sounded way too fucking hot to have come out of his mouth.

Steve’s wide eyes tracked his tongue as it came out to wet his lips. Fuck.

“Oh.”

Eddie leaned a bit closer, drawing on this unknown confidence that came from Steve Harrington hanging on his every word. “So what time do you get off, Captain?”

xx

This was a benedryl-fueled thought but Scoops!uniform Steve was the only thing my brain wanted to give me for “favorite.”

@lighthousebeams

[katesbish0p]

ROBIN BUCKLEY & NANCY WHEELER (in/sp)

@pscentral​ event 24: team tools - gradient/vibrance @lgbtqcreators event 20 - love and hate @stcreators event 05 - dynamics

[robin-buckely]

@stcreators event 01: favorite

ROBIN BUCKLEY + favorite tropes ↳ tvtropes page

[vinmauro]

i wish everyone had gotten to know him, really know him, because they would have loved him.

@stcreators event 05: dynamics — eddie munson dynamics (remake)

[ronancevibes]

@stcreators event 06: tropes:

Maybe I followed this prompt okay?? Maybe not but either way here’s an edit!

Nancy Wheeler and her being the badass. Also her as a massive slay with her guns.

[kizzys]

@stcreators event 01 ✦ favorite (in/sp)

@lgbtqcreators battleship bingo ✦ blorbo(s)

[djo]

@stcreators event 01: favorite  STEVE HARRINGTON + google search results (in/sp)