you know it's really funny how of all the White Boys fandoms become obsessed with, steve harrington really is the most valid one and every good thing about his character came about entirely 100% by accident
he was written in the pilot to be a shitty one-dimensional asshole who gets killed by the monster but the creators liked the actor so much they did a complete 180 and decided he was an actual sweetheart who was just in with the wrong crowd. after the one bad thing he does he decides to go apologize to the boy he thinks his gf is cheating on him with and gets dragged into supernatural shenanigans at the LITERAL last minute but decides to go in there swinging anyway. when making season two the writers had no idea what to do with him so they stuck him with dustin solely bc they had nobody for dustin to bounce scenes off of and it ended up becoming one of the best brotps in television. the rest of the show steve's character is "babysitter." they were gonna give him a love interest but three episodes in the actors said "hey we're not feeling the romance and kinda just feeling platonic. can we make her gay" and so then this shitty 80s jock became the #1 lesbian ally. like literally everything they did with him was completely on accident and it just WORKED


















