vic-timism

eddie and steve under a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G ! victor -he/him

[nancywheelesbian]

Eddie would love using “my boyfriend said no” as an excuse to get out of things

[precioussteveharrington]

It's all well and good until he accidentally automatically responds it to Steve.

[vicfobia]

Okay, but imagine they’re just starting to get to know each other and fall in love and Steve is still scared to use the word "boyfriend" with Eddie, and then out of nowhere Eddie drops that bombshell—and now Steve thinks Eddie has a boyfriend; Eddie has a boyfriend who isn't Steve, Eddie has a pretty controlling boyfriend who -again- is not Steve, Eddie has a damn boyfriend who isn't Steve, and he has the nerve to say it right to his face

[nancywheelesbian]

@vicfobia okay somehow I never considered Steve thinking he’s a homewrecker and now I can’t stop considering it. Because getting cheated on is one thing but being the other woman is another. He’s simultaneously thinking “oh I’ll never be enough for anyone” and “awwww he wants me enough to do this” and then feeling horrible for thinking it. (Crucially he justifies being the homewrecker with ‘well Eddie’s boyfriend sounds controlling anyway’)

[vicfobia]

OKAYYY, so now Steve is facing a personal dilemma, with an angel and a devil on his shoulders (both looking suspiciously like Robin) whispering things like, "Eddie is a cheating asshole and you know better than anyone what it does to a person to get cheated on—no matter how controlling or weird they might be," and "Eddie wants you so bad he can't control himself or respect his partner." Now, every time he sees Eddie, he feels the urge to either punch him in the face or give him a blowjob—and for some reason, that confusion just turns him on even more. What the hell?

Meanwhile, Eddie is just so relieved that Steve took his joke so well: "heh my Stevie has such a good sense of humor i love him 🥰"

[nancywheelesbian]

Eddie would love using “my boyfriend said no” as an excuse to get out of things

[precioussteveharrington]

It's all well and good until he accidentally automatically responds it to Steve.

[vicfobia]

Okay, but imagine they’re just starting to get to know each other and fall in love and Steve is still scared to use the word "boyfriend" with Eddie, and then out of nowhere Eddie drops that bombshell—and now Steve thinks Eddie has a boyfriend; Eddie has a boyfriend who isn't Steve, Eddie has a pretty controlling boyfriend who -again- is not Steve, Eddie has a damn boyfriend who isn't Steve, and he has the nerve to say it right to his face

[nancywheelesbian]

@vicfobia okay somehow I never considered Steve thinking he’s a homewrecker and now I can’t stop considering it. Because getting cheated on is one thing but being the other woman is another. He’s simultaneously thinking “oh I’ll never be enough for anyone” and “awwww he wants me enough to do this” and then feeling horrible for thinking it. (Crucially he justifies being the homewrecker with ‘well Eddie’s boyfriend sounds controlling anyway’)

[nancywheelesbian]

Eddie having to pull together Valentine’s Day on like. The night of February 13th because he always thought it was stupid and something he wouldn’t bother with. And then someone mentioned to him “yeah Steve’s always wanted to celebrate it but none of his exes were into it” and Eddie’s like well. Can’t let that stand now can I.

And then he and Max end up driving around to find a store that’s open all night because it’s her first Valentine’s Day back with Lucas and she fully didn’t notice it was February 13 already. She thought she had more time.

[nancywheelesbian]

Eddie would love using “my boyfriend said no” as an excuse to get out of things

[precioussteveharrington]

It's all well and good until he accidentally automatically responds it to Steve.

[vicfobia]

Okay, but imagine they’re just starting to get to know each other and fall in love and Steve is still scared to use the word "boyfriend" with Eddie, and then out of nowhere Eddie drops that bombshell—and now Steve thinks Eddie has a boyfriend; Eddie has a boyfriend who isn't Steve, Eddie has a pretty controlling boyfriend who -again- is not Steve, Eddie has a damn boyfriend who isn't Steve, and he has the nerve to say it right to his face

[scoops-aboy86]

Eddie’s out at a gay bar, sees the most gorgeous man he’s ever clapped eyes on nursing a half finished beer at an otherwise unoccupied table, and can’t resist offering to buy him a drink. The man looks at him with droopy hazel eyes, and he seems… Well, he seems sad. But he smiles, and accepts, despite being so far out of Eddie’s league it’s ridiculous.

His name is Steve, newish in town and recently single. He catches Eddie noticing the tan line from a ring that’s no longer on his finger and adds, “I was married. I’m… not anymore.” (Eddie guesses it must have been a rough divorce.)

Steve is bisexual, he also mentions hastily with a faint blush that tells Eddie the attraction might actually mutual.

They chat for a few hours, comparing their early lives growing up in small towns (Steve in Indiana, Eddie in Colorado) and their current jobs (Steve works in an office doing something the only explains as “really, really dull,” Eddie in a local community center organizing afterschool activities for local kids and DMing for a couple different youth DnD groups) and music tastes (neither of them are huge fans of what’s playing in the bar). After a while, Steve admits that he’s in a rut.

“You looking to change that, sweetheart?” Eddie asks, and part of him wants to jump up and down and punch the air at how smooth that came out holy shit. Because Steve smiles shyly back (it’s like the fucking sun coming out a from behind a cloud) and says that yeah, he’d like that.

Fast forward to next morning. Eddie wakes up drooling on a perfectly hairy chest and a pounding in his head that doesn’t actually hurt, it’s just loud. Knocking, he realizes eventually, and reluctantly hauls himself out of bed. Whoever it is at this unholy hour of… uh, 10am, can just deal with the fact that he’s answering the door in his boxers, covered in hickies and scratch marks, and with bedhead so wild it makes him look several inches taller than he actually is.

Only to be informed by the woman at his door that she knows Steve is here because she tracked his phone to this location. “Oh! Not like that,” she adds hastily when Eddie’s eyes go wide. “No, I’m not, like, a jealous girlfriend or anything, that’d be weird, he’s like my sister. I mean—well, it’s hard to explain. But, anyway, look, I know he’s been having a rough time since his wife died, and I’m glad he found someone to, um, keep company with, he’s way too fucking picky if you ask me—It’s just, I really can’t afford the time off to keep babysitting right now, so if he could be, like, alive by the time school gets out, that’d be good…?”

And oh god, Eddie is trying to absorb all that. Steve is a widower? Jesus H. Christ, at some point last night Eddie had moaned that whoever his ex was obviously hadn’t known what a good, perfect, wonderous thing they were giving up. Steve is picky, but picked him? Oh, that’s giving him butterflies. Steve has a kid? Well, Eddie is good with kids…

Suddenly there’s a groan behind him and Steve shuffles up to wrap an arm around Eddie’s torso in a loose but affectionate hug. “Thanks a lot, Robin,” Steve complains, his voice still rough from sleep, “I hadn’t told him about the twins yet.”

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[scoops-aboy86]

Excellent tags, @iridescentrylandgrace.

I did specifically have widower Steve in mind from the start, because I think Eddie taking him up via shit talking Steve’s ex and then finding out later she didn’t leave him she DIED is really funny. And later he’s just like, “Oh my GOD why didn’t you tell me to STOP,” but Steve just laughs because “Don’t worry, she would’ve thought that was hilarious.

Maybe Steve’s late wife was Chrissy? Idk, but whoever she was she had a fantastic sense of humor (Max is their child, how could she NOT). Also she totally would’ve wanted to watch.

Dustin is absolutely either already in one of Eddie’s DnD groups or on the waitlist and goes absolutely rabid the second he realizes it’s THAT Eddie.

Max and Eddie have a running “you’re not my mom” bit that Steve and Dustin find really funny but the school staff who nearly called the cops one day during pickup after school let out DON’T.

Eddie visits Steve’s dead wife’s grave to leave flowers and compliment her taste every year on the anniversary of his and Steve’s meeting. One of their wedding photos includes her gravestone and Eddie always defends it against anyone who complains it’s morbid with a faux-scandalized “She’s a part of the family! Where is your HEART?!”

[morganbritton132]

Eddie keeps having to dissect a frog.

He does it once senior year. He does it again supersenior year. He does it yet again, third times the charm? Right? He hopes.

He does it because he has to so he can graduate and it's early enough in the year that he thinks he still can, but he cries.

He cries the whole time every time.

[morganbritton132]

Eddie: *once again standing in front of a dead frog with a scalpel*

Eddie: I will always be here.

Eddie: I am doomed to be here with you, dissecting you, my froggy friend.

Eddie: You are my Sisyphean nightmare.

Steve:

Steve: That frog has an STD?

[novacorpsrecruit]

Eddie who knows Robin is a lesbian and thinks that Steve is oblivious.

So Eddie pulls Steve aside to explain to him that Robin just isn’t into him, but he does it so poorly and tells Steve that his crush isn’t into him and Steve is just heartbroken

Because he heard Eddie say he’s not into him.

[scoops-aboy86]

Eddie’s out at a gay bar, sees the most gorgeous man he’s ever clapped eyes on nursing a half finished beer at an otherwise unoccupied table, and can’t resist offering to buy him a drink. The man looks at him with droopy hazel eyes, and he seems… Well, he seems sad. But he smiles, and accepts, despite being so far out of Eddie’s league it’s ridiculous.

His name is Steve, newish in town and recently single. He catches Eddie noticing the tan line from a ring that’s no longer on his finger and adds, “I was married. I’m… not anymore.” (Eddie guesses it must have been a rough divorce.)

Steve is bisexual, he also mentions hastily with a faint blush that tells Eddie the attraction might actually mutual.

They chat for a few hours, comparing their early lives growing up in small towns (Steve in Indiana, Eddie in Colorado) and their current jobs (Steve works in an office doing something the only explains as “really, really dull,” Eddie in a local community center organizing afterschool activities for local kids and DMing for a couple different youth DnD groups) and music tastes (neither of them are huge fans of what’s playing in the bar). After a while, Steve admits that he’s in a rut.

“You looking to change that, sweetheart?” Eddie asks, and part of him wants to jump up and down and punch the air at how smooth that came out holy shit. Because Steve smiles shyly back (it’s like the fucking sun coming out a from behind a cloud) and says that yeah, he’d like that.

Fast forward to next morning. Eddie wakes up drooling on a perfectly hairy chest and a pounding in his head that doesn’t actually hurt, it’s just loud. Knocking, he realizes eventually, and reluctantly hauls himself out of bed. Whoever it is at this unholy hour of… uh, 10am, can just deal with the fact that he’s answering the door in his boxers, covered in hickies and scratch marks, and with bedhead so wild it makes him look several inches taller than he actually is.

Only to be informed by the woman at his door that she knows Steve is here because she tracked his phone to this location. “Oh! Not like that,” she adds hastily when Eddie’s eyes go wide. “No, I’m not, like, a jealous girlfriend or anything, that’d be weird, he’s like my sister. I mean—well, it’s hard to explain. But, anyway, look, I know he’s been having a rough time since his wife died, and I’m glad he found someone to, um, keep company with, he’s way too fucking picky if you ask me—It’s just, I really can’t afford the time off to keep babysitting right now, so if he could be, like, alive by the time school gets out, that’d be good…?”

And oh god, Eddie is trying to absorb all that. Steve is a widower? Jesus H. Christ, at some point last night Eddie had moaned that whoever his ex was obviously hadn’t known what a good, perfect, wonderous thing they were giving up. Steve is picky, but picked him? Oh, that’s giving him butterflies. Steve has a kid? Well, Eddie is good with kids…

Suddenly there’s a groan behind him and Steve shuffles up to wrap an arm around Eddie’s torso in a loose but affectionate hug. “Thanks a lot, Robin,” Steve complains, his voice still rough from sleep, “I hadn’t told him about the twins yet.”

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[shieldofiron]

He swears his next fight won't be homoerotic. Swears.

[vanycat]

It's for science, Steve!!! ☝️

[morganbritton132]

Season 5 AU where Eddie lived and he keeps getting paired up with Jonathan for the crawls because everyone thinks they get along.

They don't.

They think the other is mildly annoying in small doses.

Big crawling doses? They're ready to kill each other.

They keep coming to Robin (for a reason she cannot fathom and would like to stop) to bitch about each other. She is just like, "Find some middle ground - where I am not at - and stay there. Jesus."

Eventually they find it.

It's Steve.

Unfortunately, they will come to realize that they have assigned very different meaning to the phrase 'Fuck Steve Harrington.'

And then. Turns out.

They have the same meaning of the phrase 'fuck Steve Harrington' and now they're fighting again.

[eriquin]

@morganbritton132 tag preservation squad:

#Jonathan: Fuck Steve#Eddie: I’m trying#Jonathan *couple months later*: me too#Jonathan broke up with his girlfriend and he's ready to steal someone else's#Eddie is just like: I literally have a knife. back off#while Steve has Wii Music playing in his head and thinking about his next shipment of boppers

[withacapitalp]

@eriquin tag preservation squad inception (you were funny everyone must know)

[hailed-marys]

ive been thinking about grace and eridian formalwear.... idk how to design clothes/outfits at all so this is me throwing random stuff at the wall

[cloudabserk]

separation anxiety

[morganbritton132]

Steve is the only person Max doesn’t completely pull away from .

She knows he has his own complicated feelings about Billy that he doesn't talk about. For the longest time after the fight, he wouldn't even say Billy's name so she knows he won't ask.

And he doesn't.

They talk. They never really say much of anything and most of their interacts are tied into employee/customer roles across the counter at Family Videos, but they talk.

She rents a movie. Steve pretends to charge her for it. It's never much more than that but... it's something.

It's the only interaction that she has that isn't filled with this unspoken pity. There isn't this silent expectation that she'll snap back into normal. There's no held-breath anticipation that she'll talk about it, about him.

She doesn't know how to do that so - so she can't talk to Lucas, or Nancy, or write back to El. She can't even talk to her mom.

It's just Steve and his dumb attempt to get her to rent the muppet movie again because -

"I’m telling you, Mayfield. Popcorn, extra butter, Kermit, and bam. That's a good Friday night."

"That's the saddest thing I've ever heard."

"Everybody has a good time with Kermit. Ask Robin."

"Shut up," Robin calls from the back.

Steve smiles at the obvious inside joke, "She loves Kermit."

"Shut up!"

And for once - for the first time in a while - Max smiled too.

[iridescentrylandgrace]

Eddie buying Steve a plush Ewok on valentine's day. Giving it a little rose to hold. And bringing Steve a box of chocolates to finalllyyyyyyy confess his feelings.

He shows up on Steve's doorstep around noon, so fucking nervous his knees are shaking. He rings the door bell and then walks in a circle twice, like an impatient cat, his hands shaking as they hold his gifts.

Steve answers the door with that cute little pout, not expecting anyone today. He hides at home on valentines now. But he smiles when he sees Eddie. His smile falteres for a tiny moment when his eyes fall on the Ewok and chocolates in his hands.

But then his face turns pink and he rubs the back of his neck and he's like,

"Are those for me?" All shy and Eddie has completely lost control of his speech so he opens and closes his mouth a few times before clamping his shut and just nodding.

As soon as he nods Steve lights up. He bolts out the door, the like, two steps between them and moves his hands over the Ewok and he's like,

"You got me one of the teddy bears!!! I love himmmm!" And takes it and hugs it. And then looks at Eddie and is like,

"You didn't correct me." All quiet as he pets at the Ewoks paw. And Eddie just shrugs and says,

"Do i ever?" And he know he looks besotted and gooey and love drunk. And Steve just looks at him for a minute and then nods slowly and is like,

"You wanna come in?" His hand falling to Eddie's wrist. He loses contol of his mouth again at the touch and nods again. Steve grabs the chocolates too, and then Eddie's hand.

He tugs him inside and they sit on the couch watching Star Wars, and then other stuff neither one of them pays attention to, for the rest of the day. Steve's little Ewok setting between them or on Steve's lap.

Steve names him Theodore. Eddie turns red to the tips of his ears.

(Steve's the only person besides Wayne that knows that's his real name. The only person Eddie himself has ever told. 🧡)

[iskander-tm]

Rocky's ptsd makes him stupid as hell, but no worries, Adrian would still listen and console to the best of their abilities

[nancywheelesbian]

The thing about Eddie is that I do think he’d kinda enjoy being hit on even after he’s with Steve. Like obviously he’d never do anything about it but just. The reminder that he’s not a completely undesirable troll would thrill him a little. But Steve would notice that he likes it and get his feelings hurt

[nancywheelesbian]

The obvious ending for this is Robin seeing it happen and yelling at him but consider. Dustin sees it happen. Sees Eddie enjoying the attention and Steve just deflating and lays INTO him. “What are you DOING that random guy is not better than Steve there’s no way!”