#sorry if it's jumbled and rambly... i just got excited bc i was lowkey hoping for all this to happen then it didn't so i was sad

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Can I get your thoughts on what would have happened if Tommy H had been pulled into the upside down stuff with Steve? Maybe followed him the the Byers house in s1 to confront Steve, Nancy and Jonathan or maybe he and Steve made up in s2 and he got pulled into it with Dustin?

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Okay, buckle in, nonnie mouse this could get long and involved.

Okay, if I'm going to think about this, I'm going to go at it from him being pulled in during s2. I feel like if they'd have done it, it would've gone down something like this.. -under a readmore because it did indeed get long overexcited and v.v rambly. If it seems all over the place this is because I've been waiting for asks like this and like I'm so happy right now ahhhh.

FYI, you guys can totally ask me stuff like this about different characters/fandoms or Stranger Things / different characters, i don't mind at all. Literally any questions like this, I love these thank you sm for sending it.

Tommy follows Steve to Nancy's to apologize / argue his 'valid' point. So these two chucklefucks are arguing as they walk up the sidewalk, right? Tommy's already irritated because Steve's just NOT.FUCKIN.LISTENIN. Cue Dustin popping up. When he mentions the bat with nails, Tommy's got a brow raised like duuuude, the fuck is this kid on?

His reaction to hearing Dustin say that Dart's face opened up and ate his cat would've been like.. "Kid.." but then Dustin insists it's true, right? But Tommy, he's taking it with a grain of salt and continuing to fight with Steve. Now we're at the junkyard. Whoooo boy. When Steve tosses him a tire tool, he's like "It's a lizard, dude. The fuck do I need this for." but then, just when it's getting dark and the Demogorgons have them all cornered on the bus, Tommy's literally gonna pull a Rocco (Boondock Saints) "FUCK FUCK FUCK. THE HELL IS THIS SHIT? FUCK." and at first, he's freaking out, right? - I mean, shit... wouldn't you?

lowkey feel like Tommy would've just outright said that the Demogorgons look like buttholes with flower petals. He probably would've referred to them as 'flowered assholes' or smthing, idk i'm so excited rn that my brain is not functioning but I NEEDED THIS BUT IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.

But then he realizes that him and Steve are the only ones keeping these damn kids alive because everybody else is gone awol for whatever reason, so survival instinct kicks in. I think he lowkey enjoys his first Demogorgon kill and this joy is clouded by the fact that one rushes him and knocks him back a little but he gets up, swinging that damn tire tool Steve gave him earlier in the afternoon like he's Babe Ruth going through the home stretch of the Series. And when he gets good at swinging the tire tool and actually landing hits, he's like a kid in a candy store, "HEY STEVE IM SENDING IT!" to which Steve is like "This motherfucker." while shaking his head.

When Mike suggests doing something, he takes Mike's side and not Steve's, this comes with the hilarious end result of Steve and Tommy getting into it over why they should stay put as opposed to why they should do something right away. Tommy just wants to get rid of these damn things, at any costs, because they're big and slimy and they're getting on his last nerve. All mans wants to do is go home and shower demogorgon guts off of his freckled bod and like...wrap his head around what he's been through. But he does wind up agreeing with Steve, that the kids need to be kept safe, so they come to the compromise they wind up going with on the show (Where they all go together) and Tommy insists on keeping the stuff to make a molatov cocktail on his person but Steve snatches it. "You're not setting shit on fire, Tommy." "Yes, yes I am. If one of those... things.. comes near me, you or any of the kids, I am. Bet, dude."

They keep telling him to be quiet so more don't come but he literally can't. He cannot. This man would have gone fucking TOE.TO.FUCKING TOE. with those demogorgons and nobody will ever convince me otherwise. "Kill them. Kill them all with fire." <- probably his slogan.

We won't get me started on s3 when they all get taken hostage by Russians and the way I think Tommy would've been right there with Steve, helping him fuck 'em up. I feel like when he got out of the chair he would've found the one who put him in said chair and probably would've battered it over their heads or given 'em a whack to the lower back with it while Steve's fighting the other guard. When Dustin is proud and grinning "You won a fight!" Tommy's right there with the smart remark, "It's about fucking time, Harrington, holy shit." while he's wiping his bloody mouth and smirking.

BUT FIRST.. FIRST.. He sees Dustin coming in and he's happy like Steve is. Then Dustin tells them about the Russian conversation he overhead and Tommy's like, "Here we fuckin go." but he's bored, Hawkins is a cow-town so whenever Steve decides he's in, Tommy's like fuck it, Me here for good time, not long time. And he's in, he's ride or die. I feel like he tries to give them an alternate plan based on the layout of the mall itself and Steve's like... where'd you get the blueprints, Tommy? And Tommy's all like 👀 maaaybe I picked a lock to the mayors office, dude? and Steve is throwing up his hands like "You broke into Kline's office? Why..." to which Tommy replies, "You can't be trusted with directions to save your fucking life, Harrington. I'm telling you, if we have a blueprint, we know where to hide, where to take them by surprise ." He broaches the subject of fire and Steve is like "NO. NOPE AND NO." and Tommy pouts for ten minutes but then he's like okay, fuck it.

Or s4 when Steve goes to the bottom of Lovers Lake looking for a portal, Tommy dives in behind him. "This was my idea, Hagan, goddamn it." "Our dumb idea, Steve. Somebody has to make sure you don't fuck it up, buddy." "Me? What about YOU, Tommy?" "So uh... this portal... does it like... glow?" Tommy's about to touch it then these fucking dumbasses fight over it -whose going in and such...

Tommy involved with this would have been amazing, he's sarcastic and he speaks his mind, so his reactions alone would have been fucking gold. I feel like they could have done so damn much with Tommy -and Carol, tbh? If they'd just given them the chance to grow with Steve and become entrenched in the stuff Steve is battling without them. I long for something that has Steve going toe to toe with the Upside Down with Tommy and Carol as part of it, omgggg. Like.. Tell me the older teens wouldn't have collectively banded together by the end of it, I feel like they would have. They should have.

A side note, I feel like Steve / Tommy have a very funny banter-filled back and forth with each other, they'll be fighting and arguing one minute but agreeing and snarking at literally everyone else the next? So.. that's where a lot of the above comes from?

#tommy hagan #tommy h #thank you and bless you for this my lovely anon! #this truly made me happy to answer #sorry if it's jumbled and rambly... i just got excited bc i was lowkey hoping for all this to happen then it didn't so i was sad #then you sent me the ask and i got excited and word vomited it #i could have been more precise but i was excited. #so.. yeah.my word vomit.