El being wholesome with Steve. El being wholesome with Steve. The weird sibling duo we didnāt know we needed. I need more of it. I might do itā¦.no Iāve done enough of themā¦
Okay, okay. But just picture this:
The kids trying to embarrass Steve all the time with photos and stories to Eddie, but El ruins it every.single.time. because she is so unbelievably wholesome when it comes to Steve.
Here is everyone pulling out scoops photos (which Eddie actually loves thank you very much) and sharing stories about his failed dates. Dustin tells Eddie specifically about the time he was teaching Lucas basketball and Lucas threw the ball too hard at the backboard and hit Steve in the face.
So they are all poking fun at Steve in his and Robinās apartment (because in every universe these platonic soulmates live together) and there is just El who randomly chimes in:
āSteve took me to this thing called a ren faire once. It was very fun. We both looked really pretty.ā
Eddie absolutely melts at the story and gushes over the photos she has.
And everyone gets quiet every time, because no one wants to criticize El, but one time Max gently goes, āYou know thatās likeā¦.nice right? Weāre making fun of him.ā
Everyone one expects her to being embarrassed or confused but instead she simple says.
āI know. I donāt like it. Steveās nice.ā
And she embarrasses everyone, except Robin and Eddie who are the only ones Steve never gets upset with when they make fun of him. They all mumble out apologies, and Steve turns to Dustin and goes:
āThis is why she gets a special section in the freezer. All different flavors of eggos.ā
Elās eyes get wide. āEven the blueberry ones?ā
Steve gives her hair a tousle, āEspecially the blueberry ones.ā
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rockstar Eddie au where everyone in the fandom knows that if he's stepping towards the audience for a moment that they shouldn't get excited, his eyes have locked onto his husband Steve and has become blind to everyone else in that moment. he does it so much that it becomes a meme.
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Drops This disappears again š
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Got my life ruined by this fucking show
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NASCAR loving Steve, my beloved ā¤
Eddie would show Steve real music this, Eddie shows Steve the wonders of Lord of the Rings that----I get it. But have you considered....... Steve gets Eddie into those ridiculous, smutty romance novels? The ones that even if they're bad, they're good. Have you considered Steve getting Eddie into the Indy 500? NASCAR? What about cooking shows? Cheesy soap operas where Steve literally knows every insane storyline by memory?
WHAT ABOUT EDDIE GETTING INTO STEVE'S INTERESTS???
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The ring on Eddieās right hand is often recognized as a āmood ringā. BUT there's a debate that it might be a specific stone. An obsidian snowflake. In close ups, you can actually see the ring better, with black and speckles of white.
A mood ring would be pretty cool. I'm all for it. But guess what?
Upon further research, an obsidian snowflake just so happens to be of importance in DnD. Hereās the description: āWhen exposed to dragon's breath, the stone absorbed an unpredictable portion of the damage and disintegrated. It is formed when the scorching-hot lava inside a volcano spurts out and cools down. Its birth signifies that in every chaos, peace is inevitable.ā Coincidence? Or is it exactly describing Eddie's character arc? In the most chaotic of all places, the Upside Down, Eddie finally found peace when he "didn't run away this time, right?". Joseph Quin described Eddie as guilt ridden over what happened to Chrissy. Eddie could have found some serenity after all, by avenging her in his own way, and buying time for his friends to fight Vecna.
It also builds Eddie's character in such an awesome way. He probably stumbled upon that ring in a shop and recognized the obsidian. Just the kind that would protect him from a dragon's breath. A strong metaphor for people waisting their breath on him, calling him a freak and other colorfull nicknames. Eddie is the kind of guy that pays šš» attention šš» to the smallest things, wearing daily a DnD reference that most people won't notice. That melts my heart, because it shows our boy is detail oriented.
AND, in lithotherapy, the obsidian snowflake is the stone of rebirth and emotional growth; also why called āthe flowering obsidianā.
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Eddieās live-streaming from the front porch where heās sitting on their porch swing, playing guitar. So Eddie did not bring his followers into their neighborhood drama. Steve did.
You can see Steve pass in front of the camera a few times before you hear him loudly ask, āWhat?ā
Thereās a pause and then heās like, āI canāt hear you!ā
Eddie looks up and over towards the yard but he doesnāt stop playing. He doesnāt seem to have any interest in the conversation going on at all. His chat on the other hand are thrilled to be able to hear Dan say, āGot myself a ring camera. It records the porch and the driveway and sends the video to my phone if it detects movement. So if any vandalism happensā¦Iāll know.ā
Steve: Okayā¦? And I have a gun
Eddie: *experiences twelve different flavors of āwhat now?ā*
Dan: Is that a threat?
Steve: No. I thought we were both just stating facts about home security no one cares about.
Steve: You can go now. Bye.
Eddie, stopping Steve before he goes back inside: Babe, you donāt actually have a gun, right?
Steve:
Eddie: Stevie, you once almost took my head off with a baseball bat full of nails in your sleep. You did NOT buy a gun.
Steve:
Steve: Are you stupid? Why would buy a gun when I could borrow one from Nancy?
Steve: *goes inside*
Eddie:
Eddie: That didnāt answer my question, Steve!
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Based on this TikTok
Steveās always said Eddieās fingers are magic. Guitarists fingers. Strong and deft, heās always been better than Steve at anything more precise than getting a basketball through a hoop.
Eddieās the one who mends their clothes. The one who took apart their stereo and got it working again.
Who, now, has to squint hard when he does any of it.
But those skillful fingers are in Steveās hair, now. Scratching against his scalp. Massaging the tightness in his neck. And every time Eddie does this it makes Steve drool. Makes his jaw unlock and dribble spit out of the corner of his mouth, makes his eyes close and his spine tingle because this truly has to be recognized as an eighth wonder of the world.
āFallinā asleep on me?ā Eddie murmurs, above him, and itās all Steve can do to crack an eye open.
āFeel sāgood.ā He slurs, and Eddieās hand shakes as he laughs, adjusting, slightly, to comb a new pattern through his hair.
Steve closes his eyes again. Snuggles deeper into the pillow heād laid on Eddieās lap.
Their pillow smells like nothing, because their homeātheir homeāis so familiar to him he canāt smell it, anymore.
His childhood home always smelled like linen.
Eddieās hand adjusts again, gently twisting hair between his fingers. āYouāve got some grays back here, sweetheart.ā He murmurs, not judgmentally, never judgmentally, he says it as fact. One thatās clear to anyone who looks.
Steve mumbles his affirmation, well aware of the cluster of grays sprouting in full force at the crown of his head. āYāve seen āem before.ā He mumbles, and Eddie hums, continuing to twist the strands between his fingers.
āJust,ā Eddie starts, voice just above a whisper, ādid you ever think it was gonna happen? For us?ā
Steve blinks his eyes back open. Comes to a little more at Eddieās tone and wipes his chin off with his wrist, turning in his loveās lap. The fingers retreat from his scalp and Steve finds Eddieās hand in the dim glow of their living room, squeezing tight, letting them rest on his chest. Itās a comment on their relationship, forged and cultivated through nearly two decades of friendship, of bone-deep trust and more love than Steve ever saw himself worthy of that not a single part of him is anxious when he asks, āwhat dāyou mean?ā
Eddieās free hand comes to Steveās temple. Strokes along the grays he is well aware rest there, too, hidden, at the right angle, by his glasses that now lay discarded on the coffee table.
āThat we would get to grow old together.ā Eddie whispers. And he keeps stroking that cluster of gray, looking as reverently down at Steve now, at forty, as he did at thirty. At twenty. Touches him with all the love heās always had. Always held. All of the love Steve never thought he would find returned to him in kind, never thinking that his love for someone could be matched, could be held for him in return, but here they are. Eddie loving him with his glasses, his hearing aids, the wrinkles that have begun to creep onto his face and the grays sprouting through the hair he still canāt leave the house without styling, marveling at being able to see it at all.
And as much as Eddie loathes to admit it, being the one who always calls Steve the vain one, he can see the beginnings of Eddieās own hairline beginning to recede. The start of wrinkles on his forehead. How his curls have grown wispier. But Steve doesnāt think thereās anything more beautiful than the visible reminder of their years shared.
And yeah. Steve gets it, now. They werenāt exactly counting on a tomorrow for a couple of years, there.
Steve kisses the back of Eddieās hand, the scar tissue thatās still raised and puckered, even after all these years. āIām glad itās with you.ā Steve murmurs back.
Eddieās hand moves again. Begins scratching at the top of his head. āWouldnāt want it with anyone else.ā Eddie finishes.
They donāt say what they both know to be true. That neither of them would have made it here without the other. That without Eddie Steve may never have left Hawkins. That without Steve Eddie would never have made it out of the Upside Down. That either of those fates would have killed them, in the end. That without each other their lives would have followed paths so very different than the one theyāre on. A path that still prickles the back of Steveās neck to think about.
A path that will, thankfully, never happen.
Steve closes his eyes again. Turns into the pillow that smells like nothing while Eddieās fingers resume tracing patterns through his silvering hair.
Tomorrow theyāll both be a day older. They will both have more grays. Steveās back is going to hurt because he spent too long lying on this couch and Eddieās bad knee is going to ache because he scratched the headache from Steveās scalp instead of doing his exercises.
But theyāll always do it together.
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second and last steddie big bang piece
big thanks to @kyoxyukiforever for dealing with my bs lol
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Eddie can't flirt, but Steve's brain has been rewired to find the most insane shit in the world interesting, and Eddie hasn't said anything normal since he met him.
Eddie, trying to flirt: .... I know how to juggle
Steve: Go on.....
-later-
Steve: And then he messed up like 12 times in a row
Robin: And?
Steve: And I think I'm in love with him.
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little sister things š
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Eddie and Robin taking Steve as their 'token golden retriever straight friend' to a queer bar in indy only it has a rodeo bull and subsequently Steve ends up going home with literally almost every single phone number in that place cause
"I got an uncle with a ranch over in Texas, didnt I tell you that Robbie?"
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love language
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Steve just never giving Eddie's vest back. Like, even wayyy before they get together it's just like
"Hey can I have my vest back? I need it for this outfit."
"How about no."
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"Haha hey where's my vest? I haven't seen it in a while."
*actively wearing it* "Ah idk man. Anyways if any of the pins ever fell off how would you go about fixing it"
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"Steve, give it back. Now. I need it."
"... lemme think about it"
"Steve I need it ???"
"Hmmmmmm"
"Steve?????"
"HmmmmMMMM"
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parallel play (liking and reblogging your mutual's posts but not talking to them)
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I donāt know if Eddie will survive that š
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Cheeky little bastard...
(The missing scene can be read on my Patreon šāØ)
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