#wip: mercreature!steve

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WIP WEEKEND

Slightly panicking over my bigbangs and the mermay fic I'll likely not finish before end of month (fingers crossed), so I'll be doing seven sentences for this wip weekend, emoji edition.

Send me an emoji, and I'll write and share seven sentences from that project (will not be sharing big bangs, but will instead ALSO write and share from another wip of either your or my own choosing.)

⁉️steddiebang2023

❔stbang2024

🫂cuddlebug

🧜‍♂️mercreature!steve

🌸late bloomer

And a snippet from cuddlebug:

Steve shouldn’t wonder about things like these, he’s… Eddie was never properly his, they had only been on the cusp of courting and barely that, and he’s still gone on him after three years and counting.

‘Where’s Edith?’

It’s the first words out of Eddie’s mouth when he turns up a the baby room door, his scent sour and dark like a thunderstorm, but it sweetens when he clocks Steve, who’s already holding her, even when he knows than he really shouldn’t, that it’s a bit manipulative at best, but he can’t help himself for getting a last cuddle with her, because he can’t be sure Eddie would want him holding her if he saw him here… even if it’s the same hospital Steve had been volunteering at before he’d left.

Eddie’s still beautiful, even looking as haggard and worn as he is now. He doesn’t look like he’s slept the night.

‘Stevie…’

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Jumping here, although I already made a post of my own...

My five this week:

Steddiebigbang2024

STbigbang2024

mercreature!steve

cuddlebug

late bloomer

Snippet from cuddlebug:

Steve ends up cuddling with Edith all day, as the parents of the other babies in the nursery cuddle their own babies and he can focus on her, dote on her.

As he holds her he thinks about becoming a foster-parent, as he can’t think about having anyone else’s babies than his, at least for the immediate future, he had been rather unforgettable, after all, and he sees his face on the cover of magazines at the grocer’s and on TV.

Edith is an easy baby, cute as a button, absolutely adorable and not helping to derail his thought-processes, his pining.

She smells familiar, but he brushes it off as his own scent having rubbed off on her with how much he’s been cuddling her.

WIP Wednesday Game

It’s WIP Wednesday, time for a little accountability, sharing your work, and getting a kick in the pants.

Here’s how it works:

In a reblog of this post (so people can find you in the notes) or new thread (w/ rules attached) if you want to play on your own, post up to five (5) filenames of your WIPs; not titles, file names.

Post a snippet from one of them. Snippet must be words you wrote in the last 7 days. We’re posting progress here. If you haven’t made any, go make some and come back to play!

After you’ve posted, people can send you an ask with one of your file names. You must then write 3 sentences in that file. If the filename is one you can't share from (for example, an event or gift fic), write 3 sentences on it anyway, and then 3 more on another to share.

That’s it! You can invite others to join in, or just post. I’ll be searching the reblogs to find people to send asks to!

If you’re reading this, you’re invited!

If you see someone posting a WIP Wednesday Game snippet, send them an ask! Make them write.

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WIP WEEKEND

For wip weekend I’ll share filenames of five wips, some of them big bangs, you can send me an ask and I’ll write seven sentences for it and share, except I won’t be sharing the BB fics, but instead share something else, you can request what you'd like (even from wips not here) or let me choose all willy nilly.

My WIPS this weekend:

steddiebigbang2024

stbigbang2024

cuddlebug

mercreature!steve

fluffspring2024

Snippet from cuddlebug:

Steve ends up cuddling with Edith all day, as the parents of the other babies in the nursery cuddle their own babies and he can focus on her, dote on her.

As he holds her he thinks about becoming a foster-parent, as he can’t think about having anyone else’s babies than his, at least for the immediate future, he had been rather unforgettable, after all, and he sees his face on the cover of magazines at the grocer’s and on TV.

Edith is an easy baby, cute as a button, absolutely adorable and not helping to derail his thought-processes, his pining.

She smells familiar, but he brushes it off as his own scent having rubbed off on her with how much he’s been cuddling her.

Steve doesn’t think about it, doesn’t allow himself to think about why, he just holds her and chirps at her. No-one tells him off about maybe holding her too much, making her too attached, he knows he’ll have to wean her from his presence by the time she’ll be ready to go home… where-ever that home might be.

He knows Edith won’t be going home with her mom the moment the weary nurse comes in shaking her head.

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WIP WEDNESDAY GAME

It’s WIP Wednesday, time for a little accountability, sharing your work, and getting a kick in the pants. Thank you, @kedreeva !

Here’s how it works:

In a reblog of this post (so people can find you in the notes) or new thread (w/ rules attached) if you want to play on your own, post up to five (5) filenames of your WIPs; not titles, file names.

Post a snippet from one of them. Snippet must be words you wrote in the last 7 days. We’re posting progress here. If you haven’t made any, go make some and come back to play!

After you’ve posted, people can send you an ask with one of your file names. You must then write 3 sentences in that file. If the filename is one you can't share from (for example, an event or gift fic), write 3 sentences on it anyway, and then 3 more on another to share.

That’s it! You can invite others to join in, or just post. I’ll be searching the reblogs to find people to send asks to!

If you’re reading this, you’re invited!

If you see someone posting a WIP Wednesday Game snippet, send them an ask! Make them write.

My five this week:

Steddiebigbang2024

STbigbang2024

mercreature!steve

cuddlebug

late bloomer

Snippet from cuddlebug:

Steve ends up cuddling with Edith all day, as the parents of the other babies in the nursery cuddle their own babies and he can focus on her, dote on her.

As he holds her he thinks about becoming a foster-parent, as he can’t think about having anyone else’s babies than his, at least for the immediate future, he had been rather unforgettable, after all, and he sees his face on the cover of magazines at the grocer’s and on TV.

Edith is an easy baby, cute as a button, absolutely adorable and not helping to derail his thought-processes, his pining.

She smells familiar, but he brushes it off as his own scent having rubbed off on her with how much he’s been cuddling her.

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Requesting some mercreature!steve for WIP Wednesday please!

They find him eventually, because of course they do, they’re the sharpest and most inquisitive minds he knows, there really hadn’t been a chance of them leaving him to escape from his old life.

‘Steve, we know you’re there!’ Dustin hollers from the shore, really putting his lungs to it.

He’s a bit annoyed, he’d been having a nice lounge-about, dreaming of brown eyes and curly hair without a single thought in his head about if he’d ever have legs again.

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Requesting mercreature!steve for WIP Wednesday please

It’s easy to navigate under the surface, like this is the way he’s always moved, he feels the same exhilaration as he did when he was still part of the Hawkins High swim team. Water’s not been an easy element for him ever since Barb, but now, it’s like a part of him has forgotten or admitted that he can’t let that tragedy shadow the rest of his life, and it’s not as if the water killed her, it was the demogorgon, the fucking Upside Down.

The same Upside Down which has now given water and swimming back to him. His laughter drifts up in bubbles and he swims, driven by his hunger, touching the new sharp teeth in his jaw with his tongue.

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I don't want to be too predictable so this time I'm going to surprise you and ask for... mercreature!Steve :)!

You could have been predictable, as a treat.

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He huffs. ‘Of course I have a tail.’ His tailfin broke through the surface for a moment, teasing. It’s a pretty thing, even if he thought so himself.

‘What do you mean of course?!’ Dustin screeches, bowling past Robin, having overcome his shock.

MAKE ME WRITE?

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mercreature!steve please!

Eddie glances after them before turning back to look at Steve, who’s moving to float on his back, letting him see his front. 

It feels lewd, but Steve’s never been shy about sex and isn’t about to start now. And it’s not like anything’s in sight… yet.

‘Whoa…’ Eddie says, sounding reverent.

Steve can almost feel his pretty wet bambi eyes roaming over his body, all the ways he’s different now. It’s exciting but also a bit scary.

‘You’re beautiful. Always were.’

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Mercreature Steve for WIP Weekend!

Still, Eddie cocks his hip, right there where all of the others can see him do it becomes bold. He’s still hiding his mouth with his hair, though.

‘You know I do… Big Boy.’

Oh, Steve want to do things to him, knows that he’s blushing himself, for being so blatant, but a big part of him doesn’t care. His interest has been reciprocated and he’s hungry.

‘Righ!’ Robin says, shrilly, and starts shepherding the kids out of there, even when Dustin resists very vocally.

✨MAKE ME WRITE FOR WIP WEEKEND?✨

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mercreature!steve for WIP Wednesday, please!

‘Henderson, chill.’

‘No, I will not chill!’Steve has to admit that he’s becoming a bit concerned at how red Dustin’s face is or how shrill he sounds, he sighs, weary and done, and swims closer to the shore, still not revealing all of himself, feeling a bit self-conscious.

MAKE ME WRITE?

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mercreature!steve for your wip ask game!!

Here's a snippet! I have no idea where this is going anymore. I'm aiming to have this out for mermay. It'll stay under 5K if it knows whats good for it.

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Something happened to Steve at the bottom of Lover’s Lake when he was grabbed and dragged through the Water Gate.

It didn’t happen instantly, but gradually and the change reached its full potential only after they’d defeated Vecna, which was a good thing, as he wasn’t sure how useful his new form would have been in the fight, unless it had happened under-water.

The scales came first, starting to grow around his wounds.

ASK ME ABOUT MY WIPS?

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wipbigbang2024 please :)

Three sentences of wipbigbang2024 written, wrote and sharing three sentences of mercreature!steve.

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Part of him wants to evade them, to answer the itch that’s calling him to turn his back and dive deep into the lake and leave it all behind, to maybe seek the gate at the bottom of it and see if it might open for him, so he could… he shakes his head, troubled by those thoughts.

‘Steve?’ Dustin asks again.

And Steve could never leave him like that, never leave any of them, never leave Robin, or Eddie with those big wet eyes and that mouth now hanging open in shock.

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wipbigbang2024 for WIP Wednesday please

He laughs and doesn’t feel an ounce of remorse when Dustin shouts and ends up on his butt on the muddy shore as he sees him in all his new glory, although he’s not entirely sure how his face looks, water not being the best reflective surface.

‘St-- Steve, is that you?’

He sees the other kids behind him with looks of varying degrees of shock on their faces, shock and determination. And Robin, her lip wobbling. Beyond her… Eddie, gobsmacked.

He wants to preen, to present his lovely new tail, to get his hands on him. He doesn’t quite know what his face does, but they all take a step back, or a scramble in Dustin’s case.

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mercreature!steve for the WIP Wednesday game, please!

Catching fish is surprisingly easy, holding it in his hands and ripping the white flesh out with his sharp teeth doesn’t feel brutal but natural, it satisfies something deep-seated need in him, even if some part of his mind is screaming at him for eating uncooked fish.

It all seems a bit far-away as he lets the water move him, staring up towards the surface and the life he had before, walking on two legs on land and doing human things.

He sleeps.

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Ooo, mercreature!steve sounds interesting. Some of that, please

He breaks the lake’s surface with a gasp, freaked out over how instinctual it all all feels, like this is how he’s always been, even when he knows it isn’t. The depths of the lake are pulling him in, he wants to dive and lose himself. His jaws ache and he wants…he wants…

He dives under the surface, hungry.

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Wip bb feels appropriate for wip weds

Wrote three sentences of the wipbb, wrote and am sharing three of mercreature!steve.

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‘Do you have a tail?’

Of course it’s Eddie, as the others are stunned speechless and Eddie has no filter, not that Steve’s ever seen.

It makes something flare within him, that interest, even if it might not be the kind of interest he’s after.