When Steve and Eddie first tell the kids they're dating, Dustin's immediate reaction is: "YES! Steve, now you HAVE TO play DnD with us!"
Despite the excited encouragement he gets from the party, Steve waves them off and tell them that they can borrow his boyfriend for their nerd game but he will not be joining.
Prior to this, everyone in the party (besides Dustin) was kind of ambivalent to Steve learning how to play. But now it's a challenge. Now they are on a mission to get Steve Harrington to break down and *finally* play a game of DnD with them.
They try begging.
They try bribing.
They try asking Eddie to withhold -- "Not a freaking chance!" Eddie tells them before they even finish the question. "No way I am punishing *myself* for your dumb mission."
They all take turns designing potential characters Steve could play, all mighty heroes with the coolest powers they can come up with.
Steve turns each of them down.
"Why not just do a session to get them off your back?" Eddie finally asks him
"It's just not my thing, ok?" Steve says. "Besides, you guys don't really want to spend a whole session just teaching me how to play."
Eddie lets it go, but his gears start turning and he starts forming his own plan to get Steve to the Hellfire table.
He throws himself into the character design, making sure to get every detail right. Then he marches down to Family Video and presents the character to *Robin*.
She's excited about the character. Eddie knew she would be. She's less excited about spending a whole afternoon with the "munchkins", but gets on board quickly once Eddie lays out his whole plan.
At the next session, Eddie leads the party on their quest until they reach a dramatically appropriate moment, and narrates, "The doors to the ancient castle swing shut behind you, trapping you in the ornate foyer. From the top of the grand staircase comes a cackle -"
Robin's voice rings out from the top of the Wheeler's basement steps in a deranged laugh, causing the whole party to jump.
They stare in varying stages of shock and excitement as Robin and Steve come down the stairs together. Eddie notices the pair already egging each other on to lean into their characters.
"You didn't think we'd just let you walk away with the amulet, did you?" Steve asks as he and Robin take their seats on either side if Eddie. "Sister, what should we do with these intruders who are trying to steal from us?"
"I say we KILL THEM!" Robin says gleefully.
"The Lord and Lady of the castle have you trapped," Eddie tells the party, delighting in the panic laced excitement he sees in their expressions as they realize what's happening. "Roll for initiative!"
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Decided to ruin my own life and start a sapphic Gothic novel about a haunted house where the ghosts might be manifestations of repressed queer desire or they might just be shadows of the Victorian obsession with electricity for this NaNoWriMo, and it's definitely patchy so far, but the queer yearning vibes are there, so it's fine by me
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merely players and all in are direct parallels of each other
“but playing’s real when you commit to danger” vs “even when the world is mad baby i’m all in”
“there's nothing that we can't feel we just got to move on in give everything without fear” vs “i know we’re both afraid but baby that’s ok”
+ the dances follow some of the same choreography
+ the instrumental melody from merely players plays during the kiss at the end
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some fnaf LockJaw ship art cause they are my emotional support lesbians.
I actually love them sm you guys yall don’t get it.
they go on double dates with Ness and Mike :3
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