STRANGER THINGS ▸ 2.01 chapter one: MADMAX
#strangerthingsedit#steveharringtonedit#nancywheeleredit#stranger things#steve harrington#nancy wheeler#stancy#cnomadedits#dailyjoekeery#userpng#userdanahscott#userdm#userarrow#userbuckleys#userlockescoles#userberry#useremz#pavlmescal#so it's interesting giffing these s1 and s2 steve scenes bc obviously a lot of them include nancy#which means i get both shippers and non-shippers in my notes. and people have. STRONG. opinions about stancy apparently#personally i am a steddie shipper which doesn't exist in canon so i just kind of happily enjoy fanon and don't get involved with the rest#but like. as a steve fan i will say. i'm not personally a stancy shipper but i can see how they could have worked and their potential#and i can see why they didn't work#like they are v clearly a coupling that is a victim of timing. the steve and nancy pre-barb's disappearance probably could have worked.#canon makes clear that steve was all in on nancy and that she was different from his past patterns and he grows bc of their relationship#(he willingly drops his friends and goes to apologize to jonathan before ever finding out about the upside down)#and nancy is clearly very enamored with steve and she is making active choices in those first 3 eps to pursue things further with him#but barb's disappearance causes a schism that can't ever really be bridged. bc steve wasn't there for nancy when she needed him#and jonathan steps in and shares that experience with nancy instead. and that bonds them in a way steve just. can't really understand#and we see in s2 how trying to ignore that just causes more strain on their relationship (seen here) until they fall apart
