the duffers may have torn down the community that they built for us, but we built our own and not of our their scraps and wreckage. with our own two hands, and our energy and love.
written for @steddiemicrofic March prompt: short | wc: 321 | rated: G | cw: none | tags: established relationship, fluff, just a wholesome conversation between two boyfriends
“I think I’ve never heard your first name.” Steve inquires, his eyes fixed on Eddie’s once they break their kiss. The other boy tilts his head in confusion, like Steve just asked him how many fingers he’s got. “I mean, Eddie must be short for something else, right?”
“Oh…” Eddie’s expression lights up at the explanation, but soon turns into a theatrical frown as he brings a hand to his chest. “So, that’s what you think about while we make out? Am I that boring? There aren’t many names that can be shortened to Eddie, are they?”
Steve shrugs before answering while he plays with one of his lover’s curls- they’re particularly soft today. “More than Steve, that’s for sure. You could be Edward… or Edmund, like that kid from the book you lent me, the one with the ice witch and the talking lion…”
“Edmund Pevensie? Really?” Eddie shakes his head, disappointed. “That would take all my sexiness away; are you sure you’d like knowing that’s my name? Don’t you prefer the thrill of sharing your bed with a mysterious, nameless rockstar?”
Steve waits a couple of seconds, like he’s seriously considering that option, then he stops playing with Eddie’s hair just to lean closer and kiss his cheek. “You aren’t a mysterious, nameless rockstar, Eddie, you’re my boyfriend.” Eddie’s cheeks still turn pink when he hears that word from Steve’s lips. “And you won’t be less attractive even if you have the same name as a kid who betrayed his siblings for sweets.”
“Fine…” Eddie sighs.
“You don’t have to, though, if you don’t want to share that-”
“Hi, I’m Edward.” Eddie cuts him, offering his hand as if they were meeting for the first time. “I know: you were getting ready for something more… exotic. But that’s the exact reason why I prefer Eddie. I don’t like how… normal and serious Edward sounds, like I’m my own father.”
He is autistic :) He has struggled a lot in life and him and Al had a pretty good relationship when they were young. Al tried to get his older brother to make more friends.
Al did love Elizabeth and she did love him
Their sex ed was atrocious and they were too ashamed to get condoms, which turned them into teen parents
Elizabeth did NOT want a child and neither did Al but they did their best
They had very little support from their parents
Al tried to get a proper job but they struggled with money too much for him to say no to the less savant jobs people offered him
The stress of having Eddie pushed them apart
Eddie is autistic :)
Elizabeth loved Eddie but she did not want him. She struggled with that a lot. She often wished she would have figured out a way to abort and she hates herself for it
She ends up running away and leaving Eddie with Wayne
For me, the biggest proof that the new season of Stranger Things was written with Chat GPT is that they made Steve a teacher.
And we created that, in ao3 and here we gave Steve that future, it is the canon that we create, Steve ends up being a teacher and no one is going to take away the idea that Chat GPT stole it from the fanfics.
He genuinely felt something for him and you could see it in the way he was ALWAYS focused on Eddie when he was around. And now Steve has to deal with not only losing him before they could have explored their story, but also with losing the only person who could understand the way he might have felt because Dustin, although he loved Eddie differently than Steve might have started to, loved Eddie too. He’s learning how to deal with being mad at someone he could have really loved because Eddie was his type. And Eddie wasn’t scared of him the way Nancy was.
“everybody needs to stop acting like they’d be friends with Eddie Munson, you all need to admit you wouldn’t have been” actually! I would. at lunch in high school, I sat next to a kid who drew furry porn commission art on his lunch break and a juggalo sat on my other side. my high school girlfriend wore a Marilyn Manson (this was before 2018) practically every single day. my prom date was expelled for bringing drugs to school 2 weeks before senior prom and I had to eat the cost of his suit rental. the guy who was supposed to DM our D&D campaign couldn’t because he was kicked out of his stepdad’s house and was working every single day at job at Burger King. I hate to say it but the spirit of Eddie Munson from Stranger Things Season 4 is alive and well in every faggoty vaguely metalhead teenage friend group, tattoos, obnoxious behavior and all. and I fear he would have been my bestest buddy in the whole wide world.
domestic steddie where eddie’s doing the dishes & suddenly hears his guitar, only to find steve playing it (badly) while on the phone w robin — eddie just stares, completely in awe, while steve’s like “hold on robs, munson’s looking at me weird”
eddie: i’m looking at you because i love you asshole
steve, into the phone: robs, you heard that?
robin: yeah, you really gotta set boundaries with that creep
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