Kyle

They/He Lesbian 22 Steve Harrington Lover Autistic Feel free to send asks

[fangirlagainstmywill]

I still can’t get over the fact that Steve Harrington is CANONICALLY that guy who shares absolutely NOTHING about himself, but like—it’s not even on purpose. He’s not TRYING to be mysterious, he just genuinely forgets that people don’t know everything about him, or that people would even WANT to know.

[poetic-crimelord]

You know I was like it would be fun if The Hand meets Alistar and if King Ren of Soluna has to see a version of his partner that is clearly not as happy as the both of them are (even if there is war). And having to see what his life would be like if he decided to solely focus on the war and be like, maybe, the life I have is for the better

I may have done a fic about it.

[rockyroadnotmoosetracks]

Scoops Troop should live up to their likeness and always find themselves in a middle of a conspiracy. I mean kill me if I'm wrong but you cannot tell me Dustin "For science" Henderson, Robin "I was free one afternoon" Buckley, Erica "If I can extort I'm on board" Sinclair, Steve "For the love of the game" Harrington wouldn't be in the most scooby adjacent scenarios.

Those four call to trouble likes bees to honey. I need Dustin and Erica visting Steve and Robin at their many jobs and always proving it's a front of some sort. I want Steve and Erica going to pick up Dustin and Robin in college and breaking down in the weirdest of places and dismantling a cult. I want Dustin and Steve having weird long lost family that leaves them a huge inheritance and revealing it was a murder.

I just need more Scoop Troop shenanigans

[kermit-the-hag]

[morganbritton132]

Hopper Adopted Steve as a Kid AU where Hopper had an agreement with Wayne Munson that if something happened to one of them, they’d would look after other’s boy.

Something happens.

Hopper ‘dies’ and the first thing Wayne does is track Steve down to a hospital room. He tells the kid about the agreement, tells him that he’ll be staying with him until he’s good and well, and gives no other alternative.

Steve is just numb enough to give in.

Wayne goes home and lets Eddie know that he met (with) a guy and that he’ll be staying with them for a while. Eddie, only half listening because he’s working on something, thinks, ‘wow, I didn’t know Wayne was gay. Good for him.’

And then says, “Okay.”

He doesn’t think about it again until he comes home a few days later to Steve Harrington in his living room and - “Are you fucking my uncle???!”

[morganbritton132]

Steve gets a regular old head injury, wakes up in the hospital unsure about everything except the fact that, “Tommy should be here. If ‘m in the hospital, Tommy would come.”

He is insistent on this.

He is distressed about it.

Now Robin and Dustin are standing on the Hagan’s front porch like, “Steve’s in the hosp-“

“Taking the car,” Tommy shouts back into the house as he grabs a set of keys. “Let’s go.”

[morganbritton132]

Eddie got rejected.

He wasn’t actually asking anyone out and was, in fact, just trying to figure out when him and his lab partner were going to meet up for their class project. But still.

He got turned down for a date he wasn’t asking for with, “Sorry, I have a boyfriend.”

Steve watched the girl walk away and shook his head like, “Man, that sucks.”

“I wasn’t-“

“She turned me down too,” He said about this girl he’s never seen or talked to before. “It’s rough. I guess we’ll just have to date each other.”

“This Saturday,” He added causally to Eddie’s confusion. “At the drive-in.”

And that -

“That’s how you gay kissed someone before me?!??” Robin exclaims. “That’s it?! You just realized that you were bisexual last week.”

“Well,” Steve shrugs. “I wasn’t bi at that time.”

“You were literally asking a guy out.”

“Asking Eddie Munson out. It’s different.”

“How?!?”

[allsteddie]

Steve Harrington who just stops talking.

It's not something that he does consciously, it just happens.

No one takes his opinions seriously. The kids dismiss his suggestions, sometimes there's an ironic retort after he says something. He starts talking to someone just to realize halfway that the person isn't paying any attention to what he's saying at all; they are just standing there, waiting for Steve to be finished so they can go.

And you see, Steve's grandma passed when he was barely twelve, but he remembers clearly what she used to say to him, "Do not waste your words with people who can't even bother themselves to listen. They don't deserve to hear what you have to say."

So little by little, Steve stops trying.

He listens, agrees when it's needed but never contributes to whatever discussion is happening. After a while, keeping his thoughts to himself becomes second nature.

But then Vecna happens, and suddenly Steve is friends with Eddie Munson, who never seems to shut up. Even after everything is over, and Eddie is stuck on a hospital bed recovering from his countless injuries, he just never runs out of things to say.

It's cool. Steve likes Eddie, likes listening to his rambles and rants, likes when he puts Dustin in his place and knocks that attitude out of him with a snappish answer because Dustin really needs to watch that tone of his. Even if Steve doesn't say much, Eddie's incessant talking is kinda comforting.

When Steve's visiting one afternoon, however, this dynamic changes. It's just the two of them in the hospital room. Steve's pulled the plastic white chair closer to Eddie's bed and he's been listening to his friend as he munches on the strawberry cupcake Steve brought him and rambles about school and about having to go through a fourth senior year because he missed finals and failed again.

Eddie is mid-rant when he suddenly stops. A small tired sigh leaves his lips, shakes his whole frame and he chews the cake absentmindedly for a moment, until he turns towards Steve and asks, "What do you think I should do? Should I even go back? Do I really need this diploma, or am I just being a stubborn fucker here?"

And Steve stops. Freezes completely because that's the first time someone honestly asked for his opinion in ages and Steve is just not used to this anymore.

He opens his mouth to ask if Eddie means it, but closes it immediately because it's obvious that he does. Eddie is looking expectantly at him, his eyes focused on Steve and giving him his full attention, waiting for Steve's answer as if it's something important to him, something that matters.

Maybe it does. Maybe Steve finally has someone in his life worthy of his words and thoughts.

"I think that a diploma could make your life easier, depending on what you plan on doing afterwards, can open some doors to better jobs, but I don't think it's, like, necessary. If you don't want to go back, then don't. Especially if you're going to go through with that idea of using the money the government gave you to open your own garage. You don't need a diploma for that."

Eddie answering smile sends warmth all through Steve's bones. "See? That's why I like talking to you, Stevie, you always help me think more clearly."

It's hard to breathe with the tight lump suddenly lodged in his throat, but Steve manages it.

[allsteddie]

@cozysweatersteve, he totally does.

Since the start of their friendship, Eddie notices Steve tends to stay quiet when everyone is gathered and discussing plans and other stuff.

He can't understand why. Steve always plays a big role in everything the party does, and yet he hardly ever speaks his mind on the matter. Eddie wants to question him badly, but doesn't know if he can or even should.

So he does the next best thing, whenever they are hanging out and he notices Steve is quiet, he ask silly questions. Nothing too serious or deep, just small things like, "Oh, so you don't like raisins?" and "Did you watch that horror movie last night? It was so bad!"

Steve does gives him answers, mostly short answers but sometimes he'd say a little more like, "I stopped watching horror movies after the upside down, gives me the creeps." or "I used to like raisins until I ate a pound of it when I was a kid and puked for hours."

And Eddie loves when he does that, cherishes each small piece of information Steve shares with him because he knows they are rare.

The day in the hospital is different because it's the first time Eddie asks for his opinion so openly and about a delicate matter. He doesn't try do hide his curiosity behind amenities, he asks for Steve's thoughts directly and that's why Steve finally realizes Eddie is someone who wants to listen to him.

[iridescentrylandgrace]

@allsteddie Yes yes yessss!

I love the idea that Eddie maybe gets just the end edge of some of the remarks that get tossed Steve's way. And the ONLY reason he says nothing about it, if because he doesn't want STEVE to be uncomfortable.

Like maybe one day Robin is like "oh hang on lemme go get Steve!" Or "lemme go ask steve!" And as she walks out someone makes a comment about it. And it clicks IMMEDIATELY for Eddie. That this is why Steve stops talking, HAS stopped talking, for the most part.

And Eddie HATES IT. It takes everything in his whole being not to call them out and tell them to fucking stop talking about him like that. But he doesn't. Only for Steve. Because he's chosen silence, and Eddie WILL respect that. He WILL respect Steve, especially since no one else fucking seems too. But that just spurs on his little questions more.

Because he went to school with steve. Im sure that had at least ONE class together. Eddie KNOWS he's got good ideas in there. He'd been the one that went over Steve's creative writing assignment in their writing class. And He'd loved it, steve had written this small weird story about a little bird who could travel through space and time and go on adventures. Eddie had ADORED IT.

So he knows there's good stuff in that Harrington brain. And he wants to experience it! Family video is the best place for it. Because they can talk movies. And Steve may not have a good memory for titles but once you get him going on theories, he's chattyyyy! Eddie also finds its easier to get him talking at first when Robin is around, because she's a safe space for him and they rile each other up and it gets him going.

But then Eddie just.... subtly start asking little things here and there. And steve is cautious at first but constantly remembers the easy way Eddie had waved him off not knowing who Ozzy was. Tried a little explaining but then waved it off like it was fine, didn't matter. And not because he was mad, eddie had made no comment about steve being an idiot for not knowing. And that always reminds steve that eddie has NEVER done anything like that his way. Ever.

Its always just those big expectant eyes waiting for his answer, sometimes little encouraging nods or hand gestures. And Steve falls so fast it makes him a little dizzy. In a good way. He starts asking Eddie stuff, and then just... offering up information on his own.

And after Eddie is free of the hospital. And School. I dont think he'd go back. He may get his GED later. Cuz he can just test for that. But he's free, has his shop. Steve comes over for lunch everyday and they just chat chat chat back and forth, both of them ranting back and forth.

And maybe one day someone makes a comment that makes steve get quiet and eddie no longer holds it in. Not anymore. He tells them straight up to fuck off. That if they cant respect Steve they can leave. Whoever it is probably thinks its a joke at first and then eddie just stares them down, lifts his finger and points and is like

"there's the door." And then follows it with, "you can apologize and stay. Or you can go. Pick one." And they apologize and eventually settle back into conversation.

And after everyone leaves steve is all shy and like "you didn't have to do that." And eddie immediately is like "yes i did. You choose to keep quiet and i get that. I understand. But thats not me. And i cant sit there and watch them make you ... dim yourself down, because they dont want to take the time to listen to you and you're wonderfully weird thoughts."

And steve turns so red. His ears are burning and eddie decides to take a chance. He's been waiting. Wanting. So he steps closer and is like "I'll always stand up for you Steve. You're thoughts and opinions matter. So much. Especially to me." And he shrugs, one shoulder bouncing up, then down. And steve just sighs, and Eddie's stomach flutters as he closes that last little space between them.

Because all steve ever wanted was someone who would listen. And now he has that and more. Not only does Eddie listen, he insists that everyone else listens too. It's a requirement for being around them. Cuz they're a "them" now. And if you come to listen to Eddie say werid shit. You have to listen to Steve and his weird shit too.

[allsteddie]

Pleeeeease. Protective Eddie is my favorite kind of Eddie. Especially in this kind of scenario. He'd be feral, he'd take shit from no one and let no one dismiss Steve; not on his watch.

And Steve would blush so pretty and get all squirmish because Eddie didn't need to do any of that but Steve loves him so much for doing it anyway.

Aaah, I love this so much.

[morganbritton132]

For the briefest second before Twitter reloaded, I saw a prompt or maybe just someone’s idea that was like, ‘Eddie has to win over the party before he can woo Steve’ and that’s all I saw before it went away.

I like this idea and I like the idea of Mike being the final hold out.

Eddie was kinda figuring that Dustin would be hard to win over (and he was) or maybe Max (and she was too) but Mike won’t budge.

Everybody thinks it’s because he doesn’t like Steve but it’s actually because Mike knows Steve too well.

Steve was over at their house a lot when he was dating Nancy so Mike has seen Steve when he’s not being The Babysitter, and honestly. He thinks Steve deserves better like, “You don’t even like the stuff he likes. What are you talking about?”

“Well,” Eddie jokes. “There wouldn’t be a lot of talking.”

“Oh, so you just want to use him for his body?” He asks. “Like that’s not one of his biggest fears? You wanna feed into the belief that he’s only a pretty face?“

“Wait, what fear?”

“Maybe you should know who you’re trying to date before you date him. Munson.”

[sentientmasstransit]

Everything surrounding the scene in the back of the Camaro gets me every time

The fact that Max and Mike (and maybe Lucas) were totally okay with leaving Steve passed out on the floor

Not just okay with leaving him there alone but leaving him here with Billy who probably won't stay sedated very long and will not be happy when he realizes the kids stole his car

How did they even get Steve into the back in the first place? Did he wake up enough to walk? Did they carry him there and shove him in? The world will never know

The way the first thing he sees is Mike Wheeler with a can of gasoline

Asking for Nancy and activating the 'oh yeah that's right, you're dating my sister' mini feud (because I don't think Mike would know they broke up yet?)

Dustin talking to him like he's a child or a wounded animal, while also pointing out that Billy did, in fact, kick his ass.

The three bandaids holding him together, one of them saying 'cool' among other words that I can't get a clear still of

Dustin being committed to holding that ice pack in place

Steve being so tall/slumped down that his legs are in the front of the car (luckily max is a proper zoomer and only hits one mailbox)

Mike's 'yeah, in a parking lot' undermining Dustin's attempt to keep Steve from freaking out. Dude why would you SAY that?

Lucas immediately defending Max's previous driving experience because we love a supportive future husband

The fact that they argued about whether or not Steve would freak out and 'I promised them you'd be cool'

He was not cool

"Stop the car!" Except its shouted in lowercase because he's concussed af

Throwing what's left of his dignity completely out the window when they turn onto Mt Sinai at Mach Jesus and he's screaming and trying to grab onto whatever he can reach aka Dustin

The way he falls out of the car once they get to the hole

"You're upset. I get it." Dustin, he is WAY past upset at this point this man is traumatized™

Packing the nail bat even though they 1. Didn't want to bring him in the first place and 2. Had no guarantee he'd be functional enough to do anything with it.

And let's be real, there was 100% another argument about who would drive on the way back. 13 year old or man who should already be at the hospital, may as well just flip a coin

[inkcoffinz]

The froge

[luescris]

Ive been debating on posting this for so long now but genuinely I dont think I can hold it in any longer so uh. I present:

My "What if Varian goes with the main cast in season two" rewrite designs

Yes. This is a whole fic. I am now working on chapter six. It is not going to be just a word-for-word thing; I have changed A Whole Bunch :)

Also the two bottom ones I am still eh about but I dont mind them either (and also cuz the last bottom left is meant to be a meme ref anyway (you all know which one) So)

[liightsnow]

Rewatching the s1 finale of tts and.. bro if this wasn't a Disney show Varian would've 'accidentally' killed like so many guards with those robots

[duke-nitro]

So uh, in that post about my personal Old Corona Conspiracy Theory, there were some ideas for the angst superfan section that I'd been thinking about but had to cut bc they weren't entirely relevant to the post and also were, uh, a Bit Much. Which I blame on watching too much Tales from the Crypt as a kid, but that's besides the point.

I'll say the end result first bc it's more black comedy than the outright horror of the cause: Varian has to almost physically restrain himself from murking the Baron's men on sight... if he's with other people. Alone he'll straight-up whip acid at their faces. One time he's about to drive a knife into a dude's chest and Hugo's like "hey I don't think we want to piss off Donella more by killing her goons", trying to save the life of his coworker. And Varian just goes "oh that's who he works for? no hard feelings man" and goo bombs him to the wall with a frankly scary 180 in demeanor. He gasses a guy but Yong and Nuru show up while he's trying to hide the body so he has to do a Weekend at Bernie's routine until they leave. (admittedly that last one was something I came up for the Sweeney Todd inspired AU but I wanted to write it down somewhere)

Stalyan and Brock stay at the castle for a week and he has to constantly repeat "sins of the father are not the sins of the child" to himself so that he doesn't lock her door and toss a molotov down the chimney. Eventually he tries to fake a haunting to make them leave but it turns out both of them really like the idea of getting absolutely wasted with a ghost. The ensuing drunken chaos gets them kicked out and Varian banned from the castle for a month. On the upside, he's friends with them now! Downside is that they forgot that Varian lives at the castle and doesn't have a house anywhere else (Quirin's dead). Upside, Lance and his kids get a wacky roommate for a month! Once the hangover ends!

Now onto the harrowing part. Warnings for gore and death and such, I suppose.

I'll start with The Collector, the weird cyborg from the Quaid episode. Not a cyborg yet, though. He may be huge as shit and strong as fuck, but that's not why he's here. He is a tracker first and foremost, sniffing out the stragglers like a hound from Hell itself, with the mercy of one too. Eventually they think they've got them all, so they start the disposal. The bounty hunter swears they've missed someone, but one of Fred's inside men and a couple other randos try to convince him otherwise. He turns around and backhands the inside man so hard his head does a 180 (like that bit from Kung Fu Hustle that I couldn't find a gif of). Varian takes the chance while his back is turned to throw a hastily made bomb at him, turning the other dudes into smears on the ground and flooring the giant.

But he gets up, bone and muscle and sinew exposed, and he turns to look Varian straight in the eyes through his broken mask. Then he simply turns and walks into the woods while Varian runs for his life. The rest of the men presume the explosion was an accident caused by something that huge weirdo was carrying on him and don't bother looking into, figuring that their own paycheck just got bigger. The King's men make mental notes that they missed someone and that they'll have to include that in the report. They don't get the chance.

Later, Varian will be furious that Rapunzel stole his revenge on that man by accidentally killing him with a swarm of bees. Turns out he's allergic. Who coulda guessed!

Earlier that night Varian was having what some might call "the worst time you could imagine". The hiding spot I had imagined was a tiny crawlspace that he happened to be nearby when it all went Bad. He didn't even know it was there until the nearest adult ushered him into it. Of course it stands to reason that more than just one person knows about it, so a panicked parent shoves their kid into the crawlspace as well, not knowing it was already occupied. It's very dark down there, you see.

So he's huddled in the dark in a spot too small to even remotely sit up in, clutching a child he can't remember the name of to his chest. He's old enough to know to keep his emotions in check so that he doesn't cry out and draw attention to himself... the kid isn't. They're found, and one of the brigands grabs what he thinks is the only person down there. Him and Varian have a brief tug of war with the child. Varian loses. The men joke about the arm strength of these country bumpkins and... I don't know what'd be worse for his mental health, the death being in his line of sight or if he only hears it. Either way, that's when he decides that all of these monsters need to die.

An Alternative scenario (or the following thing if you really want him put through the wringer) is him laying on his back looking up through a hole in the floorboards while it's occupant gets the shit beat out of them in an attempt to get them to give up the location of the others. They land face first on the floor, conveniently right where they can look back at him as they're asked one last time "where are they". The response could be paraphrased as "fuck off", and a knife slides along a throat. Blood drips through the floorboards as Varian realizes he's become completely desensitized to the sight of it.

[duke-nitro]

I'm fond of the idea of Team Radical laying down, watching the stars, and talking about the future. Then Varian drops the bombshell that is "I don't think I want to go back to Corona. I just want to stay like this after the trials. Me, Ruddiger, Prometheus, just going from town to town. Helping people and having adventures and shit. I'd, uh, still write to you guys and all that, but if you get questioned by anyone from Corona about where I am, don't tell them if you know. God, I don't even know why I'm talking about that, I'd never do it."

The conversation drifts to other topics eventually, but then they realize that Hugo never answered the future question and he's like "Well if I get filthy rich from the library like I plan to, none of you fuckers are seeing me again. But if I don't get anything out of it... someone needs to make sure you don't wind up completely destitute in your deranged adventuring lifestyle. Hell, with the right help you could make a tidy profit off it. Imagine how much I- we could rake in!"

Varian has to blink back the start of some tears, hoping that no one notices in the dark, because he understands what Hugo's really saying. That if he doesn't get handed his wildest, most unlikely dream on a platter, staying with Varian is his first choice.

And if he really goes through with it, well, chances are that Rapunzel would be in her 30's the next time he steps foot into Corona.

(All I could think of while writing this was this only somewhat related song)

[duke-nitro]

So like, the only real choice Varian has in S1 is to fight back, right?

He can't contact Rapunzel, can't count on any help from any authority figures, can't get help from the general populous, so his two options are Fight or Flight.

Now leaving the country sounds like a better option, but keep in mind that he's a freshly traumatized orphan with some burgeoning mental illnesses, who in this scenario just had to completely abandon everything he's ever known. And given his general... everything, his chances of falling in with a bad crowd or getting manipulated by basically anyone who can fill a parental role are astronomical. Provided he doesn't just starve on the side of the road or get taken out by a random bandit, of course.

But the thing is that'd be the least of his worries, because Varian is far more of a threat to Corona outside of it than in. Imagine what happens if he finds his way into, say, Equis or Pittsford? His firsthand account of not just the rocks, but how he was treated and why he had to leave could destroy Corona's reputation on a massive scale. Because him leaving means he knows that the masked men work for the government, otherwise leaving the country is pointless unless the goal is to leave the seven kingdoms altogether. And depending on the timing he might still have the graphtyc on him, putting another target on his back.

All of that would probably result in an even more dogged manhunt than before to prevent him from talking, so running would only make things far worse for him.

So paradoxically deciding to stay and throw hands is the option that keeps him safer than running.

[angmarenthusiast]

No little german boy! Don’t experiment on the black rocks!

“Oh mein god! dis chemical is gonna fix ze rocks—“