Momoooo!! KingSteve is online p2 and Dustin is a bully? Pretty please? 🤲
Nebs my beloved! Hello! Thank you for the ask 💜💜
KingSteve is Online was supposed to be a quick sequel to a ficlet I made ages ago, of an AU where Stranger Things was set in an ambiguously late 90s/ early 00s setting. Purely so I could make them IM using absolutely horrific chatspeak. And to make them chat even more - Steve has gone off to college with Robin, and Eddie is still stuck back in Hawkins. Feeling a little lost, and like everyone has moved on without him.
It feels like it could be a super long fic, and that's intimidating, so this wip has mostly fallen to the background. Whoops.
My previous snips for Dustin is a Bully are here, here, and here. Not sure what else I can add for this one, other than I like writing Steve standing up for himself. He's not a pushover, and Dustin being a real cunt isn't going to turn him into a doormat.
Snips below, just for you 😘💜
KingSteve85: ppl aren’t forced here like they are w high school. or at least not the same haha. so theyre a lot more cool ab things. since they made the choice to be here. its chiller
KingSteve85: that doesnt include those kids who get a first hit of freedom and go fuckin crazy tho
KingSteve85: does that make sense? haha
Eddie sits, and breathes, and watches as Steve’s messages ping through. And when they do — Eddie lets himself sit in it for a moment. Let the words wash over him, let the pixels of the screen burn their way into his retinas.
That actually sounds sort of nice. Going to a school where everyone isn’t scared of you, or hates you, or both. Surrounded by people who actually want to be there. Maybe he’s romanticising it, he doesn’t know what it’s actually like. He probably never will. Hell, who is Eddie kidding, he’ll never know what college is like. He’s not cut out for it.
It’s not like Dustin’s been saying anything that’s untrue. Steve told him about his grades in high school, how essays and such ‘weren’t his thing’. He doesn’t know even the most basic scientific principles — shit him and The Party have been talking about since middle school. Steve graduated high school yeah, but he didn’t get into college. Obviously, since he’s still in Hawkins.
“Plus it’s not like you can’t take it,” Dustin adds, scowling. Steve’s older, he’s tough, he can handle a few harsh truths.
“Yeah, but I shouldn’t have to, Dustin,” Steve adds, leaning forward on the recliner, steely gaze settling into something angrier. More intense. “I thought you were my friend.”
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