what are steve’s fav petnames for nancy and why hehe
hi anon i'm sorry this took eons!!!!!!!
darling: (i just watched all six seasons of downton abbey and i love listening to them use darling.) backstory time: steve threw it out there one time, in a super casual way, i’m talking like this man almost didn’t even realize he said it, and usually nancy doesn’t make a huge deal about pet names, but something about this one was so different! next thing steve knows, he’s looking up to see if nancy heard him, and she is full, 100% paying attention to him, and there’s something so precious about how pleased she is to have been called that. genuine little smile and everything.
peanut: she is just so small to him. squishes her cheeks while she's glaring up at him and he just laughs and says peanut again. no further explanation.
fancy nancy: ik that fancy nancy didn’t come out until 2005, but it rhymes so i don’t think it’s a stretch for him to use this nickname hehe. first time is when they’re going to a new year’s party (ca 1991) and nancy’s dressed to the nines and steve chooses to call her fancy nancy in lieu of passing out because he’s just so darn in love with her. fancy nancy when she’s in a glittering dress and fancy nancy when she’s off to work and fancy nancy when she’s curled up on the couch with him, because she really is so beautiful all the time. <3
schmancy: see above lol. nancy lowkey hates this one because mike heard steve call her it once and things got out of control and ended with more than one person crying, no i will not give more details
nancy lee: THIS IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE A HOT TAKE but since nancy doesn’t have a canonical middle name, i feel like it’s either marie or lee. i know it sort of rhymes rhymes OKAY but as a good 80s girl i just know there’s a high likelihood it’s one of these, and even though nancy lowkey always thought it sounded stupid, steve likes how all the syllables flow together, and this is his most sing-song petname for her <3 he walks into the room singing nancy lee and whereas nancy would have originally pegged herself for a cynic, it just kind of makes her melt.
honey: v influenced by the song honey hehe (especially thinking about how steve transforms this name from something patronizing and sad to something special between the two of them <3). interchangeable with darling but i see this one being thrown around like “honey, where’s the xyz?” and it’s just so perfectly domestic!!!
my lovely angel princess: do not be confused. this is used for emergencies and steve’s overused it haha, but he exclusively whips this one out when he screws up. (not, like, major screw ups.) i’m thinking he forgot to make a dinner reservation at the place they were looking forward to in the city ("my lovely angel princess, was tonight the night we were…”—a long silence. “right, right. i’m calling now to see if they have any last minute cancellations.”), or he never actually booked his flight to come join nancy back in hawkins for holly’s graduation (idk, i feel like she went down early and there was something with work and he legitimately got all the way to o’hare and realized he never did lmao. you better believe he found a rental car and broke several traffic laws getting there on time.)
