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So I just finished reading Paradise by the dashboard light by oaseas on ao3 and it was awesome. I would go as far as to say it’s one of the best fics I’ve ever read ever period. I swear if your into steddie it’s a must-read. Here’s some fannart/concept art I made of Steve from that fic, because I was absolutely itching to get my ideas onto paper.

The idea is that he’s part demogorgon (through an infection of sorts) , and the lower half of his face is supposed to open up into two large petals. I took a creative license and added human teeth and a separated lower jaw to make it seem more organic, like the human part of him is transforming and making way for the monster parts. I also added a smaller 3rd petal in between the 2 large ones because things just look better in 3s. I wanted the petals to not only peel from his face, but down his neck as well so that they could be bigger, and more dramatic like I sense that they were in the fic. Lastly, he needed blackened elongated claws.

“It wasn’t a demogorgon.

The bottom half of the creature’s face retracted, the petalled maw swooping upwards to close into mole-ridden skin. It left two thin, silvery scars; a mouth like a white slash; the curve of a familiar nose. It left honey-brown eyes devoid of their familiar gleam, guarded and blank. It left dirtied, blue jeans and bare feet, a stained navy shirt and a missing jacket, a sweaty mop of flatter, but no less wavier hair, and ichor-blood smeared across a familiar throat and face.

It wasn’t a demogorgon.

It was Steve.”

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