#stranger things s4 vol 2

[demigoddessqueens]

Never forget what they took from us!!!

(Found said meme on twitter)

[ramona-thorns]

"thank you for having him while he was here."

[daybreaklynx]

if the duffer brothers don't let eddie graduate, I will.

[quits-writing]

VHS

a/n: here’s another eddie fic, not smut tho. we’ll save that for later, i’ll probably post other characters next. hope y’all don’t mind

cw: fluff, male reader, s4 vol 2 spoilers, eddie survived au, i hc eddie loves dark humor. it’s his coping mechanism, cringy lines (?)

It’s been a year (daddy) since the vecna incident with you and eddie moving out of hawkins, being the best friends that you both were. you stuck together like a gum under a random table.

the event was all a blur to you, really. all you could remember was your traumatic experience of almost losing the love of your life, how you’d regret not telling how you feel about him— which is ironic since you still haven’t confessed to him.

going through your stuff that’s been in a box, you saw a video tape hidden. it was the tape where eddie and dustin was begging to look at after the events of the fall of hawkins, you told them it was fully broken (which it wasn’t). however, you could remember why.

curiously, you took and played it. the video started with a dark background, muffled voices were heard as it began.

“have you started recording already?” an excited voice spoke as another voice popped in.

“just gotta ask but why are you even recording? we have a task to do”

“there’s nothing with a little videotape on this, it’s for memories!“ your own voice talked as the video finally showed something other than a dark color, showing dustin and eddie setting up their ‘stage’.

“yeah! plus it’s for bragging rights, this is going to be the most metal concert to be recorded”

“alright fair, but you better start helping right when they’re near our sight”

“got it, boss” you both replied to dustin while eddie mockingly saluted to him.

“it’s like i’m babysitting two grown adults whose supposed to be babysitting me—“

the curly short haired boy couldn’t even finish his sentence as buzzed voice came out from the walkie talkie.

“she’s in. move on to phase three” robin, you assume, reported.

“copy that. initiating phase three.” dustin replied and plugged the device.

“let’s hope they hear this”

the sound of the whining amp was heard, he maxed the sound volume while the feedback crackles. eddie getting ready to play by ripping his guitar pick necklace off of him.

“chrissy, this is for you.”

the curly long haired brunette yelped and started to play “master of puppets” by metallica, as he strums his guitar; thunders were roaring, the color of angry red envelopes the sky.

the guitarist seemed to enjoy himself as he head banged to the sound of his song while dustin listens to the music head banging as well, awaiting for the arrival of pesky flying monsters.

his fingers sliding fret by fret over the neck of the guitar, doing the rifts of the music flawlessly without stopping.

you felt like you were in that position again, reliving the memory; the video may be dark and grainy but you remembered how cool eddie munson played that song.

a smile broke out of eddie’s face as he shredded that guitar solo.

you were focused on him, you didn’t even hear dustin’s shouting until the shrieks of the bats were heard.

your eyes finally broke out the trance you were in and observed the surroundings, while the thunder was flashing you saw your figure. your reflection, eyes stuck at eddie.

you looked love struck.

oh

oh

you remember now, why you told them the tape didn’t work.

“one!”

eddie finished playing and let the sound trail away.

the VHS was corrupted and froze exactly after they wrapped the song up— technically, you weren’t wrong about it being corrupted. you were about to remove the tape from the player when a voice bloomed behind you.

“h— and here i thought you said it wouldn’t play” you turned and saw the same metalhead that you were just watching just now.

“what are you doing here?”

“we’re supposed to meet up with henderson and the others remember? celebrating mayfield’s full recovery?” he told you while leaning over to scan the video, smug as he realized how cool he looked.

“how long were you watching?”

“long enough to confirm your heart eyes on me, big boy” the lil’ shithead chuckled when he saw your embarrassed look, deciding to rub more salt to the wound; he teased you.

“i don’t blame you, i mean— i’m clearly a full course meal”

“yeah, a full course meal to a cauldron of bats” a snarky remark escaped your lips, he smacked your arms pretending to be offended.

“hey!” you laughed, it was truly a traumatic experience but he couldn’t stop a stupid grin showing up on his face. after all, you both did like dark humor to cope.

as both of your laughter died down, you finally asked him the question that’s been bothering you since he showed up.

“so, how long have you known?” he hummed, asking for more clarity; you asked again more to make your previous question more clearer.

“how long have you known that i liked you?”

tapping on the nearest object, he leaned towards you— both of your eyes locked to one another.

“oh no, sweetheart. i didn’t, i only started to have suspicions after i felt that burning desire of a stare you had while i was playing ‘master of puppets’. honestly, i thought you were gonna take me right there and then”

your gaze switching between his doe brown eyes to his luscious lips, suddenly feeling bold— a flirtatious sentence escaped through you.

“but you’d like it, wouldn’t you?”

you were shocked by what you said, mentally beating yourself up ‘cause you remembered he was just clarifying your feelings towards him; it doesn’t mean he likes you back.

before you could speak again, he scoffed.

“well obviously— i didn’t expect a man like you would be into a freak like me” a hum escaped your throat before gripping his belt to pull him closer to you.

“by freak, do you mean freakishly delicious?”

you could feel his breath hitch, he couldn’t help but force himself to you; locking lips with you, you kissed back at him. you felt his hand hold the back of your head in order to get closer to you, not wanting to let go.

after minutes that felt like hours of passionate make-out session, you both finally pulled away and stared at each other’s messy appearance. a sudden giggle escaped the other’s lips, replying to your previous comment.

“to the bats?”

a whipped smile broke out on your face, grabbing his waist and pulling him for another kiss before replying.

“to the bats.”

[mileventhings11]

season 5 is gonna be sick

(it’s an edit)

[puzzledhistorian]

okay but we all know that steddie isn't going to happen in season 4 volume 2, right?

bc gaten never would've gotten away with saying that's what happens next in pressers if it did

like maybe season 5 but idk, noah is the spoiler not gaten

[love-avenoir]

petition to give will byers a shotgun in season 5

[stardiveatnight]

the way the duffer brothers wrote eddie kind of set him up to be a main character in the next season

i’m just genuinely confused about eddie’s death. like i know i’ve ranted a lot about how it falls just in line with what the duffer brothers have always done, introduce a character only to kill them off… but if you compare eddie to barb, bob, alexei and billy, his whole involvement in the show and the plot was just absolutely different.

like, it genuinely felt more like they were trying to set him up as a main character.

barb… even though the way the aftermath of her death was handled was kinda horrible and how it seemingly only affected nancy, she didn’t have much to do beside be nancy’s friend and kinda be the angel on her shoulder during her relationship with steve. and her disappearance caused nancy to start investigating and eventually find out about the upside down.

while bob’s death was definitely avoidable, it’s always been obvious the show was planning on jopper being endgame. and he didn’t have his own story line, but he still affected the overall plot in many ways, and even though i would have loved to have him around i felt like towards the end of the season his death was very predictable. and at least it made sense that he did what he did right before he died. he just happened to die in the middle of it all.

alexei... i loved him to death but i feel like no one expected him to stick around for long. like, even if he hadn't died i wouldn’t have expected him to turn back up for season 4. his death was strange, the fact that it happened out in the open and no one but murray noticed was weird... his death was solely for shock value and to undermine the evilness of the terminator arnold schwarzenegger looking ass dude, okay. in the end, he had fulfilled his role in the plot so the writers killed him off, fine, but i also never had a feeling that they were setting him up to play a bigger role in season 4.

billy... well, i guess he is a bit different as he is around for two seasons. i'm still disappointed with the direction they took with his character, that they just made him the villain because they realized people didn't love him as much as they probably hoped they would and because of the emotional aspect of max being his sister... i liked billy and i would have loved to see them explore his trauma and his character more, maybe give him like an anti-hero role... yeah, i kinda felt they were setting him up to be a main cast member and then just didn't, but with him my confusion isn't so big as with eddie since billy was never really likable.

now eddie... unlike billy, the immediately introduce him as a super likable character, and since the audience sees what happens to chrissy, no one ever doubts that he is a genuinely good guy. i'm just so confused why they made him such an important character. like, why did they give him so many scenes alone, why did they make him a part of the whole nancy-robin-steve gang if they were just going to kill him off anyway? i get it, i get it, shock value, but with the way they wrote him into the story they totally set him up to be a main cast member in season five. kind of like with max in season 2. i guess i should have realized something was up when they didn't even try to create any sort of bond between nancy and eddie or him and robin but... i was hoping for all of that in vol. 2. instead we got a whole lot of nothing. he just feels so much more important to the plot than, say, barb in s1 or bob in s2. his death was meaningless, it was so dumb and it was just painful to watch. with so much of the vol. 1 plot revolving around finding eddie and keeping him save and involving him in everything that's going on, building his character and making him feel like an important part of the group... everything that happened to him in vol. 2 was just so shallow.

and i think that + how horribly written his death scene was is one of the reasons why people are so upset. because once again, just like with many other things this season, the duffer brothers set up an expectation (eddie is going to survive and become a main cast member next season - just like steve is going to die, byler is gonna happen or at least will is going to come out, there will be many emotional deaths), then feed into that expectation only to chicken out the last minute. i'm not sure whether they realize that they're only hurting themselves in the long run like this.

and maybe this is all just me in denial but still. this shit doesn't make any sense.

[demigoddessqueens]

I’m eating glass, will never emotionally recover from this

[bluewlnteroses]

can season five give us the byers-hopper family scenes we should have gotten ages ago please thank you

[goldenmorningglory]

anyone checked the Spanish dub yet

[daybreaklynx]

secret hawkins high sweethearts steddie... what we deserved

redraw of the pic i found on pinterest and that immediately reminded me of steddie because . shortest shorts steve? literally every steddie fic ever . love that for them !

[strawberryspence]

reading steddie fics now makes me want to k-word myself. so i have to create this delusion where eddie is alive and fine and living his best life with steve and their six lil nuggets while traveling the country without any worries.

[miaoiruma]

how are we feeling right now, eddie munson stannies

[23victoria]

FUCK YOU NETFLIX!!

FUCK YOU DUFFER BROTHERS!!

YOU FUCKING DICKS RIPPED MY HEART OUT MY SOUL!!!

FUCKKKKK!!!!

[queer-and-nd-coded]

Eddie's death would have made more sense narratively if Jason had killed him.

It would have given both characters some sort of closure since their arcs were intertwined since the beginning of the season because of Chrissy's death and their proximity to her.

Eddie's narrative of "I didn't ran away this time" could still be included and would make more sense because when Jason found him in vol. 1, he ran. He did what he had to do to survive. But Eddie running away when Vecna killed Chrissy? As someone else said, making it seem like Eddie needed to redeem himself because of that makes no sense because had he stayed, there was nothing he could do at that moment to prevent Chrissy's death.

The "Chrissy was buying drugs, Jason. She was scared and she just needed help" line would have been more impactful if it had been delivered by Eddie. Not that it wasn't when Lucas said it, but Eddie was there. He talked to Chrissy, he saw how broken she was, and he wanted to relieve her anxieties in the best way he knew how.

Eddie and Jason could have fought - perhaps another thing Eddie's dad taught him. Eddie is trying his best to protect his friends and he doesn't run away this time. He manages to knock Jason down and believes that he is unconscious. Until Jason silently reaches out for his gun, dropped on the ground during the fight, and shots Eddie before he can do anything to defend himself.

"You killed Chrissy, but I killed you," Jason says as a satisfied grin crosses his face. He then passes out and is later ripped in half by the Upside Down.