#the losers club headcanons

[chosenhanlon]

headcanon is that eddie would ALWAYS be wearing socks. you would NEVER catch that man being bare foot. it makes him feel obnoxious without them on. therefore richie would ALWAYS make sure to buy a huge pack of socks for his eddie every christmas ever since they’ve met. thereupon eddie’s love for richie continues to grow even stronger as the years go by.

[brain--drop]

Could I request Richie Tozier, Beverly Marsh, and Eddie Kaspbrak [separatly] with a significant other who buys them gifts all the time, and just basically wastes all their money on them.

Richie Tozier, Beverly Marsh and Eddie Kaspbrak with Gift Giving S/O

Richie:

The first time you give Richie a gift, he's pretty touched since he hardly gets anything out of the blue from someone other than his parents so he cherishes the first gift which was another Hawaiian shirt to add to his collection

The next couple times you give him more gifts, he gets pretty confused but still appreciates it. It takes you giving him about 10+ gifts in a month that he questions you about it, making a joke on how much in debt you're probably in

After you explain to him that you just love seeing him happy over the thoughtful presents (and that you are actually okay on money), he shakes his head and laughs at you thoughtfully

"Christ, looks like I'm gonna have to put that wallet of yours behind bars! At least give me a chance to return the favor!"

Beverly:

When Beverly sees the necklace that was hidden in its small gift box, she immediately tries to hand it back to you saying that she can't accept it, but you reassure her that you want her to keep it and put it on her before she can decline the gift again

She doesn't say it, but the more gifts you give her, the more flustered she gets from the pampered affection. In fact, she can't find the heart to tell you to slow down on them

Really, it gets to the point of her not finding much room to keep the gifts in that she gets you to slow down and even starts giving gifts back to you the further you are in your relationship

"Damn, you beat me to it! I also had a gift for you! Let me go get it then we can rock, paper, scissors on who opens theirs first, okay?"

Eddie:

With the first ever gift you give him, he looks at it with genuine but gleeful shock since wow, you really though of him enough to gift him something which was a nice little keychain that he could attach to his backpack or fanny pack

Each time you give him a gift from then on, the shock doesn't go away and the smile on his face shows you each time that he appreciates it, but he does get a bit concerned on the amount of gifts you throw his way after a while

When he asks you why you give him endless presents and hears your reply that you just like seeing him happy, he laughs and playfully rolls his eyes at you

"You bet that I'm gonna start giving you gifts back because I'll start feeling spoiled! ...By the way, we should really get a bookshelf for these gifts, I think I'm running out of space."

[sunshinereddie]

hc where one year eddie isn’t allowed to go trick or treating, for whatever bullshit reason set by sonia, he has to call up the losers and tell them that he won’t be able to join them this year. he’s really upset about it, because halloween is one of his favourite nights of the year. (he gets to hang out with his friends all night, and he gets free candy? what could be better than that!) he reassures his friends to have fun without him, though, and tells them to pick up a few pieces of candy for him. 

the next day at school, eddie realizes that his friends took his words quite literally. 

the losers each show up to class with this big bag full of candy, and at first eddie thought they brought it to show how much candy they had scored the night before... but then the losers start handing the bags over to eddie. when he asks what this is all about, they tell him that at every house they went to, they made sure to get an extra piece of candy for eddie. they put all of those pieces into a separate bag, and brought it to school with them to give to eddie. 

sure, it sucked that he hadn’t been able to come trick or treating with them, but the losers weren’t about to let eddie miss out on the candy as well. and when eddie realizes this, his love for his friends grows even stronger.

[thelosers-club]

i had an idea

based off of the image below the cut

[morrirylet]

stanley is a people watcher

stanley uris is a quiet boy and he's always been the quietest of the losers

it's just something that runs in the uris family, they're very calm and quiet people with a lot of secrets and unspoken words. every time stanley talks more than he should or louder than he should he gets this "be quiet, it's inappropriate" look so stanley just behaves and observes

it's just easier to learn what dad's face looks like when he's silently angry so you don't get scolded, it's just easier to memorize mother's breathing rate when she's annoyed. stanley was a people watcher from a young age because he always had to predict his parents' moods

stanley is a people watcher and it's something that he hates about himself. he knows people too well

he just knows why bev's cheeks turn all red when she's looking at bill he just knows why ben's all sad when he sees bev and bill together he just knows when mike's smile is fake because he's sad and needs extra care he just knows why richie's smile fades when he sees eddie not laughing at his joke he just knows exactly what eddie looks like when he's just pretending to be disgusted by richie ("idiots") and he knows for sure that bill doesn't love him the way he loves bill

stanley is a people watcher and he hates it because no one watches him. because stan is a closed book and most people don't try to go deeper than what they see. they see that he's a calm and quiet boy just like his parents taught him to be and that's okay for everyone

that's why stanley prefer watching birds instead. who knows what's going on in those little minds?

[liv45no]

One afternoon in the barrens the losers all tried to spell out Eddie’s last name for a bet. All of them failed miserably.

“K-A-S-B-”

“Noop. Next.”

“K-A-S-P-R-”

“Close. Try again.”

“K-A-S-S-B-”

“wHaT tHe fUcK-”

[marcomilkie]

love how we all collectively decided that stan was the first person richie ever came out to

[reddje]

losers fic writers what are ur losers middle names since they don’t have canonical last names 🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️

i’ve been writing losers club / it fics for seven years so i’ve had plenty of time to perfect their middle names so here they are

eddie

eddie’s middle name when i write him is always isaiah. it’s biblical, it’s pretty, and i just think eddie’s mom is very much about pretty perfect things and edward isaiah kaspbrak is just a pretty little name

richie

alwaysssss wentworth! always! richard wentworth tozier is so ingrained into my mind that it’s almost canon to me. i just think wentworth and maggie are the type to name their kids after themselves and when richie was born they were like okay cute, little boy, dads name as his middle name.

stan

i think stanley asher is so cute and it’s also a popular name in hebrew and it goes well with his last name so i do love it. truth be told i did do a little digging when i was 14 and needing a middle name for stan and asher was one of the names that kept showing up on popular jewish names websites so it kinda just stuck w me. stanley asher uris ur so famous to me <3

bill

william henry 🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️ william henry denbrough 🤷‍♀️ and georgie’s middle name is james, even though he’s the only one with a canonical middle name 😭

mike

mikes middle name is william bc it’s his dads name , but i also think he could’ve been named “michael leroy hanlon” after his grandfather. i tend to go with william though !

ben

benjamin alexander!!! so so cutie pie just like he is.

bev

beverly grace just screams at me idk. i just feel like her dad would’ve picked it, and she hates it, but richie found out about it and calls her by it all the time and it’s grown on her hearing him call her it. (bc they’re bffs)

[incorrect-losers]

any stozier friendship hc's?

looking for a friend

AHHHH OH MY GOODNESS I LOVE THIS QUESTION OK UMM

Stan and Richie 100% created their own language when they were 8 and 9 respectively and have continued using it forever. (It’s mostly used to talk shit about the other losers (Bill))

Stan gets really choked up when under pressure/when all attention’s on him (mostly because of his dad), but Richie is always able to see the signs that Stan’s panicking and derails the entire subject (it’s what he does best). They don’t talk about how that’s why Richie did that but Stan’s always grateful

Richie’s usually the only one that picks up on Stan’s overly complicated jokes (he ended up laughing too hard at a joke Stanley said about Bowers being Pavlov given the way he gets his dogs to drool, the losers thought he was mocking Stan)

Stan carries around a cloth to clean Richie’s glasses, them being dirty doesn’t bother Richie but it drives Stan up the wall

They both did little league together, Stan was really good, meanwhile Richie was in outfield picking daises. Stan ended up making the middle school baseball team. After the whole It debacle he told Richie if he had swung at a ball half as well as he swung at that clown he might’ve actually made it onto the team with him

Richie bought Stan his first puzzle as a joke when they were kids, calling it the lame joke present before giving Stan his real gift. Stan absolutely loved it though, it started his love for puzzles and he ended up glueing and framing it

They do a daily lunch swap because Stan loves Wentworth’s egg salad sandwiches and Richie can’t get enough of Andrea’s famous pasta salad

They’ve always 100% without question not skipping a beat said the other was their best friend when asked. Yes, all the losers are all best friends but Stan and Richie have always been the closest and everyone knew it.

[kyutepups]

If IT was a sitcom Stan is definitely the character that can hear the laughtrack and break the 4th wall

[chosenhanlon]

absolutely LOVE their friendship. this is them, cannot change my mind.

[fresh-and-funky]

I have a funny and nonsensical IT headcanon… I think it would be hilarious if Richie and Patty were cousins.

IT’s magic kept the losers from meeting, but Richie and Patty had a standing once-a-month call they never missed. Somehow he never met his cousin’s husband. Missed the wedding too, flight got canceled last minute….

I think it would stress Stan out and I love that.

[sunshinereddie]

The Losers all made friendship bracelets one day but Reddie added a red string to theirs.

(They may have forgotten but all of them kept them on their person without understanding WHY)

OMG?????? YES??????? THIS IS SO CUTE!!!!!! im imagining all the losers as teens, it's a nice day in the summer before they graduate high school, sitting around in a circle making their friendship bracelets with strings and beads, they're all making their own until someone suggests that they also all make matching ones! ofc they're all on board, so they all get to work making bracelets with the same colours of strings and the same pattern of beads

but as richie and eddie are making theirs, richie steals eddie's bracelet for a moment. before eddie can even ask what he's doing, richie quickly ties a small, red string to the bracelet with a red bead attached to the end, so it's dangling from the bracelet. eddie looks at it as richie gives it back, and when he asks what that's for, richie holds up his own bracelet, showing the exact same red string and bead on his.

eddie understands immediately. he'd heard the tale about the red string of fate before, and richie liked to believe in that sort of stuff. when they had first started dating a few months back eddie remembered richie mentioning that their "strings had finally brought them together" (eddie would never admit it out loud, but he thought it was sweet).

at the end of their bracelet-making session, all of the losers' arms were filled with multicoloured bands of string and beads. throughout the years, most of those would fall off, get tossed away, forgotten about- except for one in particular. it was a bracelet stringed with a random assortment of coloured beads (none of them would remember, but it was a pattern made from each of the losers' favourite colours). for some reason, even years after they all left derry, the losers never seemed to be able to cut off and part with that bracelet.

especially richie and eddie. they both had the vague memory of the bracelet being attached to a memory from their youth, but they often found themselves looking down at their wrist, at the single red string with one bead on it, knowing that there was something important about that string but they just... didn't know what.

but when they step back into derry, and richie and eddie first meet each other's eyes from across the restaurant, the same thought blasts through their mind- the strings finally brought us together again.

[thelosers-club]

lover by taylor swift reddie coded

“You’ll save your dirtiest jokes for me, and at every table I’ll save you a seat”

“Have I known you 20 seconds or 20 years?”

[morrirylet]

post zombie apocalypses stenbrough save me save me save me post zombie apocalypses stenbrough

stanley is one of the main reasons why the losers are alive, because he's smart and actually knows A LOT about survival thanks to being a scout. he is in charge of scouting in general and also he's the one who finds a proper place for a camp, because he knows where to place it right so the losers could have access to drinkable water, usable soil, and also a good camp should be well hidden yet you should be able to see your enemy from a distance stanley isn't a fighter, the only infected he's killed in ~5 years were his own parents. the others know how it's affected him so they never push him to be violent, usually stan stays at the camp and does gardening/laundry or helps eddie (they're kinda nurses for the whole camp), he also tries to make the camp feel more like home for everyone, but mostly for himself. he really clings to the old life and he grabs every opportunity he can to keep his fantasy alive. stanley does little things like clean his shoes or fill his planner or paint richie/bill's nails or make his and bill's bed, as if it matters. stanley tries very hard to forget all the nightmares they've been though, but it's really hard stan thinks about death a lot. it's hard not to think about it when you have to deal with it every day. he thinks of himself as the weakest and he's very afraid of letting everyone down. his ocd is getting worse as well as his depression. he is very grateful to the others for looking after him yet he still feels like a burden stanley finds comfort in wearing bill's old flannels as close to his skin as possible. he has lost weight and his beauty sleep from stress. beverly cuts his hair the way it used to be because it comforts him too. he wears a compass on his belt and never lets go of his star of david necklace

bill doesn't have any special skills to help his friends with the camp, but he does know how to keep the spirit up. he's the leader of this group and he tries to help with the planning, he and stanley are on the look out a lot, bill also goes hunting with mike or scavenging with beverly, and he helps ben with finding resources/building stuff. he's not afraid of zombies anymore and he's always ready to blow off some steam by killing infected bill has a lot of stress and anxiety. he worries about stanley a lot, and he's gotten into the habit of doing little "normal" things because they make stanley happier. bill is turning gray from the stress, and he also has a few bald spots on the back of his head. bill sleeps more than he should. he always has his little notebook with him because he's still writing stories, and stanley loves them a lot it's not that bill doesn't miss their old life, he just doesn't think about it anymore, he misses it but he doesn't mourn it because he sees what's going on around him, but he tries not to be hard on stanley because he knows stan needs more time bill stopped cutting his hair almost at the beginning of the virus because there were bigger problems than finding a hair band. he is very insecure about losing his hair. it's not like he talks about it with anyone but stanley. bill really, really likes it when stan braids his hair, it comforts him a lot

bill has become overprotective of the losers, but especially of stanley. they're always together when bill's in camp and they're always very close, they're always holding hands or sitting on each other's laps or hugging each other in any way possible or crossing legs, it's like they need living proof that they're both here. bill is very overprotective, like a mama bear kind of overprotective, and it didn't occur to him until eddie told him one day that he was acting like eddie's mother. he tries to be less intense, but it seems like it comforts stanley too they got "married" a few nights after they found richie. of course it's not legally official or anything like that. it was the first time stan told bill that he couldn't handle everything was going on, and bill promised him that they would make it no matter what. they are both wearing heart necklaces and their rings that they stole from one of the shops

they have lots of things to identify each other if they need to, like matching necklaces and rings, but they also have secret markers, like a piece of cloth on bill's leg or little hand-drawn hearts on stanley's arms

my comfort boysssss 🥺🤲

[eddiekaspbrakirlsblog]

Reddie / IT Christmas / winter headcannons because the voices never stop 🤞

. The losers do secret Santa every year and Richie always trades with whoever gets Eddie.

. There’s a snowman building contest in Derry for who can build the best snowman and Maggie and Richie always sign up for it. They never ever win but they have the spirit.

. Eddie’s always going on at Richie because he doesn’t wear enough layers and gave him a scarf one time and Richie’s never given it back.

. There’s also a winter carnival every year that all the losers go to. They used to be chaperoned by Maggie but once they hit 15 they got the privilege of going alone.

. They have a massive Christmas tree in the town park and Eddie always goes out to see the lights turned on w the Toziers.

. Every year the losers have a literally insane snowball fight like it’s war , they split into teams and plan strategy and everything.

. Reddie making snow angels. That’s all I have to say.

. Beverly claims she can smell when it’s going to snow and somehow she’s always right.

. Beverly is also a girlie who wears skirts and dresses in the winter and she freezes her ass off but looks great.