#steddie headcanon

[allsteddie]

Steve's dad being an asshole and at some point in his life saying to Steve, "I hope one day you have a kid just like you so you can finally know the disappointment you are to me."

Years later, as Eddie and Steve watch their newborn daughter sleep in her crib the first night they bring her home, Eddie holds him lovingly and says, "I hope she grows up to be just like you, baby. She's gonna be the sweetest kid."

Eddie has no idea why Steve started to cry, but he holds his husband anyway and doesn't let go.

[hello-sweetheart]

Eddie, having a breakdown after coming back from the dead: You don’t understand… I live off blood, Steve… I’m a—a monster

Steve, unimpressed: So basically you’re a giant mosquito

Eddie, so confused he stopped crying: what

[shanesholender]

Wayne gets home at 6:40am as per usual. What he finds is… Not so usual. Eddie is curled up asleep in his armchair, and the sofa is occupied by someone Wayne's pretty sure he's never met before. He looks young, maybe Eddie's age, but what's most glaringly obvious is that the kid's been put through the fuckin' ringer.

His left eye and the circle of skin around it is a stark purple-red, swollen enough that Wayne clicks his teeth in sympathy. There's a cut on his chin, just under his lip. It's been cleaned and butterfly bandaged (Eddie's work, he's sure) but it sure doesn't look comfortable. Nor does the way he's propped up almost vertical by the couch cushions. He remembers doing the same for Eddie when he showed up on his doorstep with a broken rib courtesy of one Al Munson almost a decade back.

So, yeah. The kid looks like he's been tossed in front of a bus. Or smacked around by an asshole without a conscience. And he's fast asleep in Wayne's living room with Eddie apparently playing both nurse and guardian.

A gentle beeping tears his eyes away from the couch and towards his nephew, who is currently scrambling to turn off the little alarm on his watch. He sees him do a full-body jerk when he spots Wayne's figure, jumpy as he's always been, before he smacks a hand to his chest in relief and flops his entire body backwards, dramatic as he's always been.

"Jesus Christ, Wayne," he whispers with a large dose of attitude, "are you trying to give me a heart attack?"

"Are you?" Wayne murmurs back, nodding in the direction of the occupied sofa. "Who's the kid and why's he look like roadkill?"

aka Eddie ends up babysitting a concussed and drugged-up post s3 Steve Harrington and Wayne comes home to a confusing sight

(p.s. Eddie's watch alarm went off bc he's waking Steve up every 2 hours to make sure his brain hasn't disintegrated into mush)

[shieldofiron]

That's down bad for you.

[keerypng]

Steve getting cut off from his parents and following Robin to college. She brings him thrift shopping because that's all he can afford now with his less than minimum wage job as a barista.

One day he finds this cool shirt and buys it, not realizing it's a band shirt. He wears it constantly because it's soft and comfortable from years of wear, likes how it feels against it skin.

Meanwhile Eddie is going insane because he keeps seeing Steve in a Metallica shirt around campus and his friends back home in Hawkins don't believe him. It's driving Eddie crazy in more ways than one.

[citizenofgotham]

Steve Harrington's the kind of guy to say 'they sang this on glee' about a song Eddie likes because he knows it'll piss Eddie off.

[munsonmanor]

Steve HoH headcanons // Steddie version

- post-s4, steve’s hearing is just… messed up. he lip-reads without thinking about it now. in loud places (the diner, family video on a busy day), half the conversation turns into white noise and he’s too embarrassed to keep asking “what?” so he just… nods and fakes it.

- eddie figures it out first because steve starts laughing on the wrong beat at jokes or answering questions that weren’t asked. there’s this awful moment where eddie realizes, oh, no one took care of him after all that. they just sent him home.

- some people in town think steve’s ignoring them when he doesn’t respond, and it feeds straight into that “king steve is stuck up” narrative, which makes him overcompensate and be extra nice while still not actually hearing half of what’s being said.

- steve has this ringing in his ears at night that makes it hard to sleep; sometimes he puts a fan on just to drown it out. eddie hears it one night and quietly starts bringing tapes over so they can fall asleep to music instead.

- when they argue, steve really hates when eddie turns away while talking, because he loses the words and it feels like being shut out twice. eddie has to train himself to stay facing him, even when he’s pissed.

- there’s this bit where dustin talks too fast and excited and steve misses parts and smiles anyway, and later eddie repeats the story slower in the van so steve can actually have it.

- they have a nonverbal way to communicate “i love you”. steve squeezes the back of eddie’s neck twice with his thumb (like this steady grounding touch) and eddie always answers with two taps to steve’s wrist. no one else knows that specific pattern = “love you”

[steddieendgamee]

I need Steve having a big family with at least seven siblings but they are all older than him and had left home when he was younger so nobody knows about them because by the time they moved to Hawkins Steve was the only one living at home still.

The siblings love Steve but they all have bad relationships with their parents so they don’t come home often but they call at least once a week to check on Steve. When the upside down happens Steve doesn’t tell them until they show up when Steve stops answering their calls and they find him and Eddie hiding out in the house while they both are healing from the Demobats.

Steve’s brothers are super overprotective as all the siblings know Steve is bi and they think Eddie is Steve’s boyfriend at first but they aren’t together yet just pining after each other