listen this isn’t necessarily an steve but ever since we’ve been talking about ur max living with steve fic i’ve been thinking ab max being the only one that knows steve is planning on proposing to you because he literally left the ring on the kitchen counter and she came home and found it and so she somehow gets wrangled into helping him plan the whole proposal…. he’s #overthinking it of course and max is like steve…. you love her this is not hard…. because she knows steve more than she’d like to admit but she also knows you. and steve values max’s opinion so much on everything like 🥺
i really just wanted to talk about max and steve tbh
first of all, i will ALWAYS talk about max and steve, so jot that down!!
i'm not gonna lie!!!! max strikes me as the kind of person who, deep down, does enjoy romance (s3 max!!! s3 max!!!!) and while she would be obligated to give steve shit for #overthinking, i think also she would just be so happy that he found someone he wants to be with forever🥺🥺🥺
on top of that, i feel like she would interrogate steve's proposal plan out of him, go, "that's fucking stupid," and then tell him how to make it better. because he really did overthink it. (i mean, come on, do you really want the bed of the truck to be filled with roses? it's corny and expensive, steve.)
as for steve................. here's my thots. My Thots. i genuinely think he would get max's opinion on the ring/if he should propose/everything of that nature, because her opinion matters so much to him! and if max thought you were wrong for him, then, like, why bother? esp in terms of max living with steve post s5, i think steve would be so conscious of how rough max's life has been and how much things have changed on a whim for her, so he would be hesitant to do anything to upset the status quo (like getting married and moving someone new into the house) and anyone he dates has to pass the Max Check but also vibe with the fact that max and steve are a package deal until max decides to move out. but also they're a package deal forever!
(and you just happen to be lucky that max likes you as much as you like her 🥺🥺🥺)
