#eddie's getting back to basics

[muchalucha-art]

UPDATE*

*more a note to myself to get things clearer in my head!

While my producer works his connections to establish a production path for Socorro, I started work on some key frames from the storyboard in an effort to define the character design some more. Above is an animation sequence of Rayo X and his mentor Kato Kung Lee as they try to get the upper hand using the martial art called CHIN NA.

But as I've been pretty much obsessing over Socorro for almost a year, I found my mind wandering, and started exploring an idea that popped into my head when I was drawing Tales From The Coliseo...

(a wider screen grab of my workspace reveals a little of my thought process through doodles...)

The idea centered on Coco Demento embarking on a journey to find Kurtz who is living a hermit-type existence on an island. Coco wants to put the Class 407 group back together. But as most of you know, anything overtly Mucha Lucha! I do has its restrictions, and unfortunately I am restricted in terms of copyright as to where this idea could possibly go.

But as the ML! style is not under any copyright restrictions, I decided to go with a new set of characters in keeping with the ML! spirit. Working title is 'Rudopolis' (it may change) and it follows the same idea of a former faction getting back together and trying to reestablish itself.

So, a little diversion to give me a little break from Socorro and have some fun. I have my main group now, so time to get the storyline into shape.

Again, thanks to everyone for the support and likes. This is pretty much the only social media I do now, so it's nice to have it all in the one place. ONWARDS..!

#socorro #rudopolis #eddie's getting back to basics

[ecmort]

Storyboard panels - 'Socorro'

#eddie's getting back to basics #socorro #storyboard #sketch

[heleizition]

this is my naruto oc age 12 and age like 15 lmao she goes through it

#naruto oc #sora #eddy's art #digital art #dont rly wanna tag this too much lmao jst wanted to share it... #i love heeer basically its naruto universe bc i love it but like no naruto characters except like important figures ig #and a war starts jst before she graduates and gets to be put in a team #THIS SPECIFIC concept is . def stolen from still waters by vulpeca_et_anser on ao3 ! #amazing sakura centered fic #anyway. going to war at 12 and shes like aw yeah ! i can prove myself ! except that war isnt pretty #jst a big ol hurt no comfort for a while #and then its all about healing once she's like 16 and back and cant do anything else than fight and is put in a shinobi team #i have her two other teammates but not their leader yet... #anyway. green haired girliepop #her name is sora ! her two teammates are masao and kosuke !

[scoopstomyahoy]

thinking about a no upside down au steddie fic where steve and eddie run into each other years after moving away from hawkins, and eddie remembers steve and his fall from grace as king, and is kind of intrigued to see what kind of person he is now

and steve doesn’t remember him at all at first, because, look, eddie changed his hair again, and steve’s had a few head injuries (no upside down but i imagine he still went thru some shit with the party and with robin), and he didn’t really think about eddie in high school anyway, and he’s trying to forget about hawkins as much as possible (besides the kiddos, but they’re all moved out for college now, anyway) (obviously he lives with robin)

but steve is different now, happier, more open, flirts with guys, flirts with EDDIE, and eddie….. well, he wants to know more! and he tells steve he knows him from hawkins, and steve’s sunny little smile flickers a little, but he just apologizes for not remembering him and mentions he has some memory problems

and they get to know each other, and eventually as eddie tells him more (and maybe with the help of some yearbooks) steve remembers eddie. and. well. they like getting to know each other. and they like each other. and then they get together

eventually they’ve been together for a while, and eddie thinks he wants to maybe introduce steve to wayne, and he mentions he’s going to go back to hawkins for a long weekend (as he’s done a couple times) and this time he’d like steve to join him

and again steve’s sunny smile flickers a bit, but he says he’d love to meet eddie’s uncle, and… they go to hawkins. and it goes well— meeting wayne, at least, but steve seems a little on edge the whole time they’re there, tense when they drive in, fidgety when they go to the grocery store, et cetera. eddie thinks maybe steve is nervous about staying with the man who raised eddie, which is ridiculous, because wayne LOVES steve.

it’s not til they leave the town altogether that steve relaxes, and eddie realizes it wasn’t “meeting the parents” but rather going back to hawkins. and speaking of meeting the parents, steve didn’t ever bring his own up, even though eddie knew they still lived in hawkins. and the way steve glanced around whenever they went in public, like he was scared of getting recognized

and he asks about it, and steve doesn’t really want to talk about it, but he gives eddie snippets of it. people he wanted to leave behind in hawkins, memories that resurfaced, things he wants to forget

eddie goes back to see wayne sometimes, and the first time he doesn’t know whether to ask steve to come, so he just mentions he’s thinking about going to hawkins for some weekend and steve immediately starts making plans with him as if the invite is implicit. they go back to hawkins several more times, steve still tense and pent up the whole time they’re there

over time steve reveals more and more to eddie. everything that made hawkins hell for him, from the things he himself did in high school to the things people did to him. stuff tommy and carol and billy said to him. some of it is just typical high school bullshit (and oh, the nancy thing.) some of it is the tragedies steve went through, the horrors he had to protect his kids from. the injuries he sustained. more generally the homophobia that permeated the whole town, keeping steve from being himself. the lack of support in the indiana public school system for a high school senior who’s had two concussions and gone through incredible trauma.

his parents. the reason why steve’s mail is addressed to ‘steve buckley’ now, not ‘steve harrington’.

(that doesn’t come out until much, much later, and eddie is kicking himself for ever suggesting steve come back to hawkins.)

eddie, who hardly had an easy time of it in hawkins, is absolutely blown away by what steve had gone through in the same town, right under his nose. the entire persona that steve was trying to leave behind — the cool as a cucumber, unaffected, douchey mask he wore to hide all that he had endured. the head injuries. the emotional tragedies he had gone through. the way he had to be the rock for the kids even as he went through the same things as them.

he tries to tell steve they never have to go back to hawkins again, and steve is having none of it. he tells steve wayne can come visit them in their new city, and steve thinks that’s completely unfair to the man who had raised eddie, seriously, you’re going to make him come all the way up here?

and well i don’t know exactly what the ending is but steve is so stubborn about trying to love hawkins because it was eddie’s home and he wants to be able to go see wayne because wayne deserves to see his kid and eddie deserves to see his uncle and steve doesn’t want to be the problem :(

#steddie #stranger things #this isn’t very fleshed out but just. hawkins as an incredibly scarring place for steve #something built up in his mind as a very dangerous place for him not just because of what happened there but who he had to be there #i think ultimately it would culminate in them going back to hawkins and running into steve’s parents when they least expect it #and steve gets to yell at them in public and tell them they suck and ruin their image and eddie is being his little guard dog next to him #baring his teeth #for the no upside down part of the au i think it would have to be like. nebulous tragedy of season 1 struck them #barb still died (sorry barb) so that his relationship with nancy falls apart. will and el are twins and they disappear the same night #steve knows the kids earlier in the timeline in this one and has already basically adopted them when will and el go missing #eddie was never the victim of a massive witch hunt but jason still harasses him during his third senior year and gets ppl to gang up on him #so he was never like Wanted by all of hawkins and can never return but he sure doesn’t feel welcome there besides w wayne #oh i also think it would be important that one of the trips steve snaps at eddie bc he’s so strung out and immediately regrets it #and takes it as proof that when in hawkins Steve Is A Bad Person and tries to explain this to eddie #eddie meanwhile is trying to convince steve that he’s not a bad person and that he was being mean because he’s completely stressed out #and he wouldn’t be so stressed out if he didn’t make himself come back to hawkins #anyway ultimately. steve realized hawkins is just a place where bad things happened. it is not a place that makes people (including himself) #bad. it’s just. a place. and steve did not grow and change for the better bc he got out of hawkins. he got better bc he put the effort in #god i just. love steve so much and the version of him in my mind is so much better developed than what the duffers are doing

[kitausuret]

I think one of the most compelling things about the symbiot3 to me, especially when you hold off on putting them together until after vol 3 starts, is that it's not a human having to get used to a human partner with an alien - it's about a human having to get used to their alien partner being with another human.

Involving the Venom symbiote as essentially having this... string of exes makes the dynamic between human partners potentially really interesting. But, for Flash in particular, it's that he was forcibly separated from the symbiote and then to find it back with someone who, in two different identities, tried to kill them had to be pretty jarring. (Not that Eddie had a great impression of Agent Venom, either, what with the kidnapping, the being-tied-up-for-Crime-Master, the almost getting cooked alive...) Everyone's been awful to each other at some point. Like, it's messy. There's a messy dynamic all around.

But... then you remember that at some point, there was that little turning point. That moment when one realized the other wasn't such a terrible Venom awful after all.

(Venom (2011) #35 (Bunn, Shalvey); "Venom Inc: Omega" (Slott, Costa, Stegman))

But the crazy thing is when neither of them knew each other before Venom. They only ever associate each other with symbiotes - and largely, with one particular symbiote. Their shared partner, hell, their shared identity is Venom. It's for a long time the only thing they do have in common (at least, as far as they're each concerned).

Sure, there's something to be said for AUs where things go a little differently. I've read one fantastic AU where Eddie met Agent Venom and had never been Venom before, and another where Flash met Venom and at the time had never himself been Venom in the past. But making Venom their common ground... it's just something so special.

But, to kind of get back to my original point... normally you would expect like, oh, this human is getting involved in a relationship with another human being, they have to get used to this other human being a package deal. But here, it's Flash having to get used to (and maybe accept) that his symbiote partner is with someone else. He's already sweet on the symbiote. That's his partner. They've been through everything together, but Flash gradually seeing what the symbiote sees in Eddie? Flash eventually coming to fall in love with Eddie, too? Not just accepting but embracing the impact Eddie had on the symbiote, as the first host to reciprocate its love and affection?

And on the flip side, Eddie feeling everything the symbiote does for Flash, and having to try and separate its feelings from his own? The slow burn of going from assuming Flash is only hanging around him because he wants to be near the symbiote, to realize that Flash isn't that kind of guy? That Flash isn't so dead-set on his own jealousy that he can't trust that his partner is making its best choices?

Beyond that, they'll also find unique human-y things to love about each other. They see what the symbiote does, sure, but there's so much they can discover in the mundane day-to-day of human life, too. Even if the symbiote was the original thread that bound them together, and may ultimately be what they always come back to, they both also know what it's like to have to drag yourself back from the brink. They both know what it's like to hit rock bottom.

And they both know that you can't get back up without help.

(Venom (2018) #8 (Cates, Coello) ...oh Eddie, you were never second best. 💞 don't mistake affection for diminishment. props to this issue for the admittedly-brilliant use of "our other", though.)

#symbiot3 #eddie brock #flash thompson #venom #meta #idk i am just big feelings about them right now #i haven't written about them in a hot minute so it felt good to get this all down #i hate using the same 6 panels for every post i make about them but listen. comics haven't given me much in a while. #occasionally i get back to my basics. and that is these three. #i know i ship flash with everyone under the sun but i'll always go back to them. every time.

[keepingmyoptionsfluid]

You guys need to calm the fuck down. You're not better than new fans, you're not better than people who are happy bisexuals get representation. Go outside and touch some grass and stop being chronically online. You're making the fandom more toxic because you personally don't like a decision? Grow the fuck up

(who needs homophobes spewing hate us for this when we have so many militant buddie fans attacking anyone who is excited)

#911 abc #911 fox #911 #im not sorry for not holding back my words #this fandom had an amazing 12 hours and then so much negativity exploded within it #obviously i want buddie endgame but im just happy at the moment thay us bisexuals - especially bisexual men - are getting representation #and i dont hate bucktommy as a couple #its basically wish.com buddie #so i have no doubt buck might realise what he loves about tommy is basically that hes eddie but openly queer

[wolfblood-of-anubis]

Alfie: We shouldn't have come! I knew it, we shouldn't have come.

Eddie: We had to! There's safety in numbers.

Alfie: Well, there's also death in numbers, Eddie— it's called a massacre!

#source: teen wolf #i just realized eddie as scott and alfie as stiles would make a killer teen wolf au #especially if we combine fabian and alfie into one person so we get the humor the alfie smarts and the book smarts #amber is lydia; possible a combo of amber and mara #patricia is derek hale lol #rufus can be peter hale; the one who keeps dying and showing back up #kt is allison; they both had familial secrets or important ancestors to uncover #besides in this version eddie and kt did dare but they broke it off just like scallison #and then kt starts dating girls and eddie starts to realize he likes trixie #its a peddie slow burn basically #is patricia also malia? lol she’s most hale members #and then i guess mick could be jackson? bobby lockwood already has werewolf acting experience; how hard is lizard experience? #and jerome works as isaac! #wait then whom the fuck is joy then #house of anubis #sibuna #teen wolf #hoa #alfie lewis #eddie miller #fabian rutter #nina martin #joy mercer #jerome clarke #patricia williamson #kt rush #wait…should joy be lydia instead? she too is very smart and well known and then heavily traumatized #hmmmm

[ghostlynimbus]

I'm curious...

Which major domain/category do you most associate with Eddie Munson?

Also please feel free to reblog/reply/send an ask with any thoughts or comments you want to share.

#eddie munson #stranger things #poll #fic: godsverse #hellcheer #munningham #eddissy #gods and goddesses au #ghost.txt #greek mythology inspired au #in this au these are the most basic and most broad domains #all other domains relate back to them #however distantly or abstractly #i know i want her to be a goddess #tbh i dont think im going to make eddie a god in this au #but im still curious what category people think his major domain would be if he had one #all arts/music related domains fall under both the life and space/void domains for reference #space/void category gets a lot of the more abstract stuff #including magic

[muchalucha-art]

Still working. Hoping to finish the animatic this weekend. It's a bit epic...

#los campeones de la lucha libre #rayo x #socorro #eddie's getting back to basics

[ecmort]

Still working on his model, but it's good enough to storyboard with. I'll define him more as the board progresses. (I actually use storyboard stage to experiment with the character design.)

I'm keeping his mask intact for now, but I think I may go back and 'rip' it depending on where I go with the story...

#rayo X #socorro #storyboard #character design #eddie's getting back to basics

[usedtobecooler]

matty healy is basically just modern day rockstar!eddie and no i won’t be elaborating on it it’s just a fact 🫡

#i mean if you see matty’s back on stage he’s basically eddie #and like his onstage antics scream eddie #yeah are they both arrogant and full of themselves in public? sure #do i wanna fuck them both? also yeah #i’ll go on about this all day don’t get me started #candy has thoughts

[fox-mulder-gets-pegged]

So like does anyone wanna hear about my au where after Barb dies in the Upside Down, she's resurrected as a part demogorgon creature to serve Vecna as his personal attack dog (until the party comes along and help her break free)?

#stranger things #barb holland #i took one look at the kas!eddie theory and went ok but what if Barb 🤔🤔🤔 #cause like #eddie and barb both died in the upside down at the hands of monsters #so like if eddie gets to come back fuck u so should barb #i am working on a fanfic dont worry #this isnt super relevant but in the version of this au with kas/vampire eddie #he's basically like her little brother and they are evil and bitter and do want Nancy and Steves heads on a platter #if eddie isnt dead and is just there barb is like fascinated by this shiny loud man who makes funny noises #and she treats him like a purse dog (to his absolute terror) #anyways enjoy

[milf-harrington]

For the WIP guessing game: hand 🫣😉

Something moved in the gloom, and a burst of sound rattled in his throat, a long stream of bubbles escaping through his nose and tickling his lips. It took shape as something familiar, a pale hand reaching through the void as the red light of the gate lit up the area around them.

aka my 'there's a monster in lovers lake and his name is eddie' fic that i started writing for mermay before my shitty attention span mindlessly added it to the pile and forgot about it

but basically eddie is a monster that lives in lovers lake, and he and steve become somewhat friends post s2 and lovers post s3; the vecna shit still happens except max is the one who saw chrissy die and it was some kind of prank-gone-wrong that lead to someone getting vecna'd in the lake

so they still decide to check it out and steve's still like "hey im a lifeguard and an ex-swim team captain" but he's also thinking that my boyfriends the scariest thing in this lake anyway, i'll be fine only he still gets dragged under and eddie tries to grab him but just ends up getting pulled through into the upside down as well and now eddies joined the gang very much against his will (but he got to watch his man rip a demon-bat in half and spit out blood so, silver linings and all that) and there are shenanigans

#there's also a wayne-munson-adopts-eddie subplot which is basically wayne coming home from the night shift #which is a half hour or so after the teen-party climb back through the gate in the mayfields trailer #and he just sees this grimy kid with fins chain smoking in a wheelbarrow full of water and goes 'anyone gonna adopt that?' #and then doesnt wait for an answer #it's a very fun fic that mostly only exists in my mind despite my best efforts but im getting there #asks #wip asks #anon

[icarusinstatic]

Someone please tell me why I want to write a Harrington!Sister OC whose the same age as Dustin and Max?

Hear me out, Veca would try to get her because when she was younger (possibly between S2-3) she was kidnapped by someone and the thing she feels guilt about is that she and Hopper hid the fact that they left her kidnapper to die in the bunker he had hidden her in?

Like, she shouldn't even feel bad about it, because the guy was definitely going to kill her - but it was her idea to leave him there, and Hopper agreed with her (because he would have just killed the guy outright, but he didn't want to tell her that, and she didn't - she just didn't think about the implications of leaving the guy to die until later). And Vecna uses her guilt against her, but it's this huge secret that she's kept from Steve because she doesn't want Steve to think less of her he wouldn't.

Meanwhile Steve doesn't realize that his sister has anything weighing her down, until he's with Max in the middle of the night breaking into hawkins high and sees her name in the councillors files.

Que Steve not only needing to keep Max and Eddie safe, but to find a way to keep his own sister out of Vecna's hands.

....I am absurdly taken with this idea.... Morally ambiguous Hopper protecting the city of Hawkins with this secret that he's promised to keep with the youngest Harrington.

What he has never told her is this.... After he had gotten Sister!Harrington back to her family and safe - he did return, and he made sure that the guy would never hurt anyone ever again.

#Stranger things #obv this would be steddie #and jopper #And I feel like El and Max would become her friends #because Steve has basically adopted the kids into his inner circle #so his sister would become part of the group #he just makes sure to do his best to keep them all safe #after everything that happened she didn't talk about it #... to be honest she rarely spoke at all. #I have too many ideas for this show #but this is definitely going in the to be written pile #along with Vampire Steddie #and probably the Domestic Steddie au where #Eddie stays at Steve's house to hid out from the cops #and town while hopper convinces the govt to clear his name #alive dr owens for that one #actually alive doc owens for all of them #I still want to have the owens gets El back to hawkins in time to save everyone au

[discoscoob]

If they had just filmed the scene in the woods sooner

#basically they need to bring time travel into the show #they already kinda did since we discovered nancy’s house in the upside down is still in 83 #so bring time travel into the show #go back in time and save chrissy and clear eddie’s name and then chrissy and eddie get together the end!

[theold-ultraviolence]

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#imma write one angsty fic to cope #and another one to fix it #as a treat #and then when I get back to No One Like You #those chapters are gonna be extra fluffy #the story is pure fluff anyway but now eddie is gonna get all that extra love lol #the next two updates of that one are basically already written down anyway #and I was already planning a sequel with the SIDE B songs of the mixtape but I didn't know how to continue that story BUT NOW #NOW IT'S ALL CONNECTING