Steddie - Corroded Coffin or Hellfire stuff ideas
I get the usual shit of “You’re dating who?!” when the guys hear about Eddie with Steve, but I think there’s more ideas that can be explored
- instead of trying to stop Eddie from dating the former king of jocks or test him to see if he’s worthy, the three stooges take it upon themselves to get them together (que some half-baked brainstorming to create romantic openings which shows none of them a have romantic bone in their bodies combined, which either Eddie or Steve won’t notice, or just cause a chaotic mess)
listen, they’re weirdos, they’ve accepted that since they knew, but man does Eddie take the cake in being an oddity, they gotta give this man the best chance possible to look good, but after spying a date or two, it looks like they don’t need to help, Steve’s pretty into Eddie’s weird and is also off-putting himself
- rockstar drama, in some stories Eddie’s in a new band (even read a cute one shot with Erica & Argyle playing in the band), kicked out of his old band, or no longer in music because the guys fuck off after the whole “wanted for murder” witchunt (whether because they’re forced to stop interacting by family or they choose to stop hanging out with him(self-preservation, questioning how well they know their friend, seeing him on friendly terms with a former jock, etc))
maybe Corroded Coffins ends in an ugly argument, Eddie pissed at the people he used to be there for all the time leaving him in the dust (already lost the old trailer, maybe the guitar gets wrecked, his body and mind forever scarred, just so much has already been lost or taken), maybe the guys feel like they don’t know their friend anymore for a multitude of reasons (like Eddie refusing to talk about anything but unable to act like nothing’s happened), or silent stalemate where no one knows what to say, they just feel something’s changed and it’s not for the better so they drift apart
maybe sometime goes by people move to bigger cities, the guys are still in the music scene trying a name for themselves, something something find a cool place to play live advertising on diy flyers outside and surprise Eddies playing tonight (something something see him play, see who he’s playing with, and why is Steve Harrington here? maybe he’s on stage too), time to reconnect?
- also I get it, Steve plays nice with the hellfire guys because he’s turning a new a leaf, but he will remind motherfuckers how he earned the title of king among a bunch of knuckledragging jocks if they want to issues, Eddie’s not gotta stop it that’s what makes him hot under the collar (idk who needs to hear this but nice doesn’t equal doormat, that’s trend’s boring)
I guess this is more on the friendship side compared to romance, but in all my worlds, steddie still happens, it’s just not the main focus bc Im bad at that anyway
