#steddie rambles

[blues-steddie-blog120]

Let's ignore canon for a moment (sorry i meant an eternity) and pretend Steve's mom is a beige mom that heard that minimalism and beige is so in style. So she never let him have things with color because "it's not fitting with the times, Steven."

Hr grows up, starts wearing his colored sweaters instead of his neutral colored polos, or maybe even bright and colored polos. He doesn't know what goes together or what colors look nice bc he never had access to lively things like that (that and he's my favorite dork who I think would mix and match horrible prints). Then Eddie comes along, all black and dark in colors, takes one look at Steve trying and goes "oh yeah, we're doing this." So he takes Steve shopping, and makes him change over and over again into colors that both look good and Steve likes. Eddie gives him gifts of colors and assorted items all for the purpose of seeing Steve light up in joy. Slowly that lonely room of his is vibrant and bursting with color and it hurts Eddie's eyes but Steve's smile is worth it.

[hallo-spaceb0y]

I really love the steddie trope where they fall in love after all the vecna shit but keep it squashed down and hidden from each other, so pathetic mutual pining is there.

then Eddie and Corroded Coffin have a chance to leave Hawkins and of course they grab it and run for the city where they get signed and slowly start to build in popularity. Gareth and Jeff pretend not to know Eddies singing about Steve when they do the occasional rock ballad. Eddie makes a life away from Hawkins. and consequently away from Steve.

Steve stays in Hawkins because the kids are there and Robin needs him and he has no idea what he wants to do with his life, he's a bit of a wreck. he keeps up Eddie through magazine posts and radio interviews and rushed phone calls becoming more and more rare as their lives grow apart. Steve convinces himself it was for the best nothing ever happened with Eddie, they're too different and they want different things in life.

but Eddie keeps singing about Steve, and Steve keeps the newspaper clippings with Eddie in.

and a decade later they bump into each other and make stilted painful bittersweet conversation as they catch up and ache with what could have been had they stayed with each other.

the meeting solidified in each of them that there was no other. and they rush to spill their bruised hearts to one another, and they weep for the time they've wasted, but it's not all bad. they have each other again.

they'll figure it out. took'em ten years, but they got there.

[mc-i-r]

Steve would totally dance around his kitchen to 50s and 60s classics like Chuck Berry and the Beach Boys while cooking

and if he drags Eddie along to dance with him and twirls him around then it's okay because they laugh until their stomachs hurt and kiss and sway to the sounds of plucky guitars while the food grows cold but it's okay bc as long as they're together there's no place they'd rather be