oKah so honestly the movie did no justice to richie as the sweet guy he really is. I was wondering if yoU could do a hc where someone in the group is talking about something super serious (like,, abuse or smth iDk) and somewhere in, richie has the perfect opening for a sexual joke and he doesn't go for it bc it was serious and itd be super shitty of him and the loser club is super surprised and he gets upset that they think he's nothing but jokes 24/7? IDK THIS IS SUPER LONG SORRY SNJDND
i gotchu (potential trigger warning ahead be careful)
-the losers have all had their fair share of trauma, this we know. abusive parents, dead brothers, demon clowns, you know how it be. they’ve all been suffering in their own ways from a very young age and it was truly a blessing that they all found each other. they’re all each others’ therapists in a sense.
-bill comes up with this bright idea one day to share all the bad stuff that happened to them in their lives. just to get it out in the open, “b-because talking about i-it to s-s-someone can-can help sometimes”
-and everyone’s super reluctant like mmhm idk bill some of this shit is dEEP
-but bill gets the ball rolling like “you all know what ha-happened to my b-brother s-so that’s obvious” but then goes on to share that he actually watched his grandpa die right in front of him when he was just six years old. they were on a walk in the park when, out of nowhere, he had a stroke and died before anyone could call an ambulance.
-eventually, everyone else starts to speak up too. mike about his frequent sleep paralysis, stan about his eating disorder, ben reveals he was diagnosed with dyslexia when he was in elementary school and that he was relentlessly bullied for not being able to read at his old schools.
-when it eventually comes around to bev, she’s stuck. she doesn’t know which terrible part of her life to share. everyone pretty much knows what her dad did to her.
-”well…you guys know my mom died a long time ago, right? i’m sure most of you were at the funeral.”
-everyone apart from ben, mike, and eddie nodded. it’s always a big deal when someone in town dies unexpectedly, especially because mrs. marsh was a very active member of the community.
-”my grandma decided to tell everyone that it was a car accident. your standard hit and run. but that’s not what happened. not even close.”
-she begins to tell the story of how her mother actually killed herself, and ho she had tried to do so on multiple previous occasions. swallowing unprescribed pills, crashing the family car into poles and trees, jumping from the roof. in the end, what did her in was a razor blade.
-bev tried to tell the story, tried to form the words in her brain and then release them from her mouth in one big gust of breath. but just thinking about watching her father carry her mother out of the bathroom, lifeless was just too much. she vividly remembers walking into the bathroom and slipping in puddles of her mother’s blood.
-”god i’m sorry,” she was getting choked up now “i can’t right now. it’s just too long, too hard.”
-everyone glanced towards richie, waiting for the inevitable “that’s what she said” remark. but it never came. he was completely silent, a comforting hand placed on bev’s knee. even she was surprised.
-”what, rich? no dick joke? are you sick?”
-”it’s not the time. what, are you kidding? you guys think i’d make a dick joke at a time like this?! bev’s in tears for fuck’s sake!”
-and stan’s just kinda like “sorry rich…it just seemed like an opportunity you wouldn’t pass up”
-”fuck you guys, i’m not ONLY capable of making dirty jokes. i have a brain, i have empathy. god.”
-and the losers all have to apologize because richie started getting worked up about how the losers think he’s only ever good for jokes and nothing else.
-he eventually calms down once eddie tells him that they all love and cherish him and that they’re sorry for being idiots.
(this is the first prompt i’ve written in like two months who am i)
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