I can't think of the ship name, but eddie x richie (reddie? Redeye?)
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Obviously I ship it. So sit tight, this is gonna be long! 😉
I first got into this ship by watching the 1990 miniseries and their whole dynamic is just so perfect in it. Not only do I feel like they're portrayed as kind of opposites of each other but they also seem to compliment each other a lot in different ways. Like they are both very different but also similar in all the ways that matter? They seem to bring out each other's best (and worst) qualities. I'll give you some highlights that really made me fall in love with this ship:
That scene in the movie theater when they're kids and little Eddie accidentally spills his popcorn over their bullies and Richie immediately jumps into action, throwing his soda on the bullies as well and insulting them to make them angry at him instead. Oh my god, yes.
Richie touching Eddie's hair all the time when they reunite as adults and Eddie just giggling adorably. Incredibly gay behaviour on both their parts and I love it!
When Richie freaks out (for the hundreth time or so, lol, this man is a nervous wreck), not wanting to go to the sewers with the rest of them and then Eddie just gently touches him and looks into his eyes and Richie immediately goes like 'ok fine I'll do it'.
That damn scene in the sewers with Eddie confessing things~ and Richie's stupid af initial reaction to it - but then he goes and touches Eddie's neck so gently anyway and looks at him with heart eyes. What the fuck. I can't take it!
The book is obviously filled with lots of little things I love as well, such as Richie calling Eddie cute and 'my love', Richie being one of the first things Eddie remembers after Mike's call, etc... I haven't read the entire book (I know, shame on me), but what I've read... only made me ship it even more.
2. My favourite things about the ship?
I'm answering this one based on the miniseries only, because I love the miniseries and it's my favourite.
I like that they are so at ease with each other and you can see how much they both mean to each other just by looking at their interactions. They barely remember each other - yet they are immediately all over each other from the very moment they meet again. Touching, touching, touching. They are so affectionate. I love to see them being soft and silly together. They deserve to be happy together. 😭
3. My unpopular opinion, which I'm not sure if it even is unpopular or not because I honestly don't interact with more than like... a handful of people in this fandom, is about one of the fanon portrayals of the characters.
While I prefer the miniseries, I also read lots of fics about the new IT films... And I hate it when some people write Eddie as this whiny slutty submissive bottom boy for Richie's 'big alpha male' in those fics, because I honestly don't see either of them, be it any version of them (book, miniseries or the new films), like that at all. And like, I'm not saying my own interpretation of them or their dynamic is perfect or that I'm some kind of of authority on this, obviously, but that's just... a huge no from me and I can't read those kind of fics about them, sorry, not sorry.