What are your favourite tropes and aus when it comes to Steddie? (Both general and nsfw if you want to elaborate!)
This was such a good question, thank you!!
Timeloop fix-it: Steve getting to know and falling in love with Eddie as he tries to make sure no one dies, no matter how much it takes out of him 🥺
High School crush: Eddie crushing on the king and being unhappy about it is funny, but Steve crushing on the freak who isn't afraid to be himself? I eat that shit up
Scoops Ahoy era: Steve was so babygirl, and Eddie finding Steve and Robin after they got drugged is the best take on an earlier first meeting
Furure fics: Eddie returning to Hawkins after leaving and becoming famous: I live for the angst of them experiencing something in the upside-down and Eddie then fucking off for years while Steve is slowly left behind by everyone, but I equally live for Eddie leaving pre-Vecna and returning and being confused af about what Steve Harrington has going on
Eddie being the first to really see Steve: okay so everyone else always still seem stuck on who Steve used to be, Eddie actually acknowledges that Steve has changed, but taking that further, Eddie realising that Steve is masking to not burden anyone, and being the one to break down Steve’s walls (but Eddie is not responsible for Steve’s health, okay it's very important to me that the support is only enough for Steve to reach out to get professional help, a relationship needs healthy limits)
Accidental sugar daddy Steve: I've read one fic where Steve buys things for Eddie and the idea lives rentfree in my mind, like a subsection of acts of service as a love language is absolutely gifts, Steve is so full of love he needs to express, and him not having his parents money makes it so meaningful
BDSM lessons: So maybe I adore Steve finding out what the handkerchief can mean and approaching Eddie because being submissive sounds interesting actually and them exploring a dom-sub relationship while falling in love and doing gross things (i did not care for dacryphilia or spit kinks before reading steddie and now i love it send help)
Little!Steve & Caregiver!Eddie: i just think Steve deserves to age regress, and if Eddie makes him feel safe enough to do it? all the better (this is not kink, nonsexual only, this is a coping mechanism)
Hook-up: shoutout to fics where Steve already knows he's bisexual, love them hooking up at a party or club or after Eddie played a concert, especially when one or both of them doesn't recognise the other, equally fun pre-vecna as post-vecna, and post-vecna but Eddie had already left Hawkins
also a honorary shoutout to
Soulmates: it's my weakness, doesn't matter if they're soulmates and know and have to grow together, or if they don't know and find out and it's chaos, or they're not soulmates but choose each other, doesn't matter if there's multiple kinds of soulmates or not, i live for this concept and i always have thoughts, souls aren't stagnant, soulmates can change and they can be made
