usually I hate possession plots but god,I love the possessed hunter plot. because it's just so painfully resonant as an abuse victim. especially to anyone who's been abused by bigots.
like. this outside force you once loved, you spent so much of your time trying to please, so much of your time begging for the approval of, isolates you. they cause you to grow paranoid and angry, snapping at people and pushing you away from your support system. makes you seem crazy to your loved ones, making them doubt your mental health and making you question your sense of reality because you can't tell what's real or not anymore (gaslighting, baby!) you're cut off and overwhelmed. you get put in situations where you're forced to do things you don't want to, you're in so much pain, you're being treated like something with no wants or thoughts of their own. you're stripped of your autonomy. you're belittled for what you wanted and told THIS is how you're supposed to be, and you're so miserable. you're pitted against your loved ones. your abuser tries to make all your loved ones hate you so you come back to them, so they don't lose you. and belos being a horrifically realistic portrayal of an IRL abuser makes this so much worse. he craves Caleb's attention and tries to force hunter to fill that void. nevermind HES the one who robbed himself of caleb in his life by killing him. he tries to make hunter his shoulder to cry on, his therapist, his punching bag, his doctor. uses him to look at himself and go "see! look how good I'm doing! my family is back and he finally loves me again!" , he is obsessive and horrible and cruel and so horrifically realistic. he strips hunter of his autonomy, and in the shit that will start sounding familiar to people who grew up in bigoted families:
forced him out of what made him most comfortable. literally grew out his hair against his will, treated how he'd changed his body and wardrobe to make himself more comfortable as something that tainted him.
also just. holy shit the violating him like that. just the fucking undertones. it's fucking horrific.
and that's why him fighting back is so huge. because he has the strength to say, no. fuck you, no. this is my goddamn body. this is my goddamn life. he takes all these things he LOVED. he loved, that belos had taught him he was sinful and a horrible person for not despising (hm, allegories) and says, fuck you, I WANT this. I want this, I love this, you tried to teach me to hate it but I don't. I love it. I love it, and you didn't break me. I want to leave the coven, I want to leave you. you hurt me, and I said sorry. you used me, and I said sorry. I am done being sorry. I am done feeling bad. I want this life you're trying to take from me. I want to go to the boiling isles and I want to have a life there, in that world you hate so much. I want to go to the boiling isles and be sinful and disgusting and everything you hate and I will love it. I will be happy. I will be free and everything you hate. and I miss when I thought I could please you, because it was simple. but I am happier as a heretic and as a sinner, and you can't change me. I tried to change myself for you, I just ended up miserable. you can't make me something I'm not. I tried. and I am done trying. I am hunter. fuck you, my name is hunter. my name is hunter, and you hurt people. it doesn't matter if you were trying to help me. you hurt me. and I am done, and I am leaving, and most of all I will never let you hurt anyone else like you hurt me.
and he fucking got it, man. he fucking got it. he went through HELL and he still came back swinging. the death feels symbolic to me almost? losing a part of you in traumatic events and you have to live without that part. and you got out but you lost pieces of you in the process, and that stays with you.
but he keeps going. he kept fucking going man and THAT is fucking amazing to me. he kept going. ohhh my god. I wish I had this when I was 13. hunter isn't as massive of a hyperfixation for me anymore by a long shot, but goddamn. I love this dude. I LOVED the possession scene so fucking much and it will always resonate with me so, so hard.
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as much as Eddie makes fun of Steve for having immaculate outfits he’s not blind, he notices things. He has a whole section of his brain dedicated to ‘Steve harrington lore’. And a new addition to the files is that when Steve is stressed, he irons his clothes, it lets him give the outward appearance of being in control, of being the Image of ‘Steve Harrington’.
So when Eddie starts to see the ironed in seems make an appearance he starts to take a little extra time in his day to check in with Steve. He spends an extra five minutes at lunch to sit close and hold his hand, to thank him for the sandwich he made for them both. He gets to pick Steve and Robin up, he’ll look after the kids. Just anything to make Steve feel a little more looked after
It takes a week or two but the perfect seems and straight cuffs start to fade out, Steve’s shoulders loosen up and he slowly starts coming back to himself. They are in Eddie’s bed, wrapped up in a duvet that it’s really to hot for when steve leans up to place a kiss on Eddie’s cheek muttering a ‘thanks’.
Eddie pulls away ‘not that I don’t appreciate the sentiment but you don’t have to thank me for giving you a hand job darling, think we are passed that point’. All said with a smirk. Steve rolls his eyes, equally stupid smile on his face but carries on ‘don’t be a dick, I was trying to thank you for looking after me but I can take it back if-‘ Eddie stops him before he can finish, capturing him in a saccharine kiss trying to convince him that he never has to say thank you for something that Eddie sees as part of his daily life. He wakes up, he eats his cereal and he looks after Steve harrington, simple as that
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ketelone_us: We had the best time celebrating Broadway’s biggest night at @ darrencriss and @juleshough After After Celebration, raising a toast with show-stopping Ketel One cocktails 🍸
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