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if one of yall don’t make a buddie goodbye edit to “for good” from wicked STAT i will be haunting your dreams

if im going to have to suffer through eddie making bad choices without consulting his son again i at least should get to enjoy

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I was gonna make a joke about how I say “I need to go the circus again” the way people used to say they need to go to the sea to balance their humors. But I realized the circus balances humors too

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Sometimes I think of a Steve Harrington that is absolutely exhausted by all the horror and bullshit and trying to keep the kids alive through said horror and bullshit, who watches Eddie rock up to him at the beginning of S4 with a dead eyed, flat stare.

"Steeeeve Harrington." Eddie taunts and peacocks and twirls around him, and all Steve wanted was for a couple months to process the trauma, maybe feel safe enough to start thinking about the future instead of stuck in a never ending anxiety loop of what might happen to Dumbass Near-Deatherson, should Steve go to college or move out of Hawkins (bc all the bad nicknames in the world won't erase the fact that Dustin's family, now. They're all family. And when they need help, they go to Steve.) and now he's suffering the unjust ordeal of being haunted by the high school drug dealer.

"His highness has come down from his castle!" Munson will crow, making a show out of Steve picking up the kids like this is a great battle of wits, a scoreboard between them and not like Steve is half dead on his feet, head aching, dreams full of too many teeth. "Quickly hide behind me, he'll try to cut off your heads!"

"Wouldn't he just cut yours off too?" Lucas asked, though the tone was slightly timid, Sinclair unsure if his joke would be well recieved.

(Steve doesn't care if the kid outright insults him. He still recalls the junkyard, the fight with Billy, the blood staining the kid's headband. Lucas lived, therefore, he can be a shit if wants.)

"Mine? Oh, the King wouldn't dare." Munson tosses his head, full of cartoon energy, too big for his body and grin both. "Many have tried you see, but no one had ever succeeded!"

Steve, equally, does not give a single shit that Eddie Munson has decided to play these games with him--until he realizes he's maybe been a little too exhausted and depressed and morose around the kids.

Watches them getting worried over him, whispering urgently and making dramatic gestures and talking to Robin and suddenly, playing a little tug of war over them the way Munson seems to want feels like a good idea. A way to hide all the rough edges, a way to be fine so they can be fine.

"How about you guys skip the dork brigade tonight," Steve taunts back the next time they're all together, standing like the man he used to be, wearing a dead personality. "And we go do something actually fun instead?"

Eddie laughs, lights up, is all too happy to match him tit for tat, and it's so easy to fake this kind of interaction, rolling his eyes and snapping his gum. Steve could match this energy in his sleep, and never once does Munson catch on that Steve's not doing this for him.

That he's not even looking at him half the time, eyes askew, locked on the kids. Seeing them relax as he banters, seeing Dustin glow as he returns to his favorite position, being the center of attention.

So long as they think he's okay, Steve will be okay. If that means putting up with Munson, then so be it.

Its not like he'll catch on.

Eddie doesnt.

(Or rather, he does--but Its months and several deaths later, when they're in the RV, chasing what feels like literal demons, does it dawn on Eddie what Steve is doing.

Has been doing, the whole time.

Steve, sassy, ridiculous, jock- brained Steve makes the mistake of doing it again, using the same trick he had on the kids to convince them he was fine on Eddie. To further convince Eddie that they were fine as a group.

That they'll survive, they'll figure it out, they'll make it.

Loudly bantering with dead eyes, smiling with a mouth robotically locked in. Jokes on jokes on jokes and all of them making the kids take their minds off VecnaHenryOne to screech ineffectively at their babysitter. Winks tossed to the girls, who both roll their eyed at him. A sly look given to Eddie, to include him.

Its then, that Eddie decides to cement his life with Steve's. Because this loyal bastard of a paladin is too good hearted to die, too protective to not try it anyway. The idiot is cutting himself to ribbons to tie them all together and Eddie can't undo the damage but he can grab all the pieces he can, loop them together.

He can make those dead eyes light up again.

And he does.

This time when things are over Steve finds himself unable to pull those little tricks of his. Every time he slides the mask over his face Eddie rips it right back off again.

They fight, a lot, until they start kissing instead and for a while that also, somehow, feels like fighting but Eddie's real good at this. The emotional part, not so much the kissing, but he knows how to draw Steve out. How to break down walls, and annoying his real personality out.

The kissing was just an odd little side benefit.

A thing they don't talk about.

There's a benefit to it, one he doesn't look very hard into, until strangely, one day, Eddie wakes with Steve's head pillowed on his shoulder and comes to the abrupt conclusion that he's screwed.

Or so he thinks--until bright, loving eyes blink awake, and turn on him, and Eddie realizes just how long it's been since they looked dead.

He wonders, vaguely, how long it'll take for Steve to catch on, that this just got serious.

Will laugh at himself when he learns that Steve already knew.

Guess that's what he gets for finally paying attention.)

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I just love how Eddie was just immediately obsessed with Steve here. Look at my man’s ready to risk it all 😌

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I will always find it funny how buck is seen as the extrovert and eddie as the introvert when the reality is that buck has like one actual best friend (who he’s in love with) meanwhile eddie makes friends with everyone and anyone like nothing and he lives for all the gossip

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Steve calling Eddie Teddy specially when he's sleepy or want to convince him of something (it always works)

Initially Steve kept that nickname in his head since he thought Eddie may not like it. Until one day he's snuggling into him before falling asleep, sighs a "goodnight Teddy" and sees Eddie's face *melting* (no one ever called him that before but he think he wouldn't accept if it wasn't Steve anyway)

He not so secretly loves being Steve's Teddy. It sounds like he's soft and a source of comfort. Like a teddy bear 🧸 and Steve makes it very clear that he is.

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Thinking about Steve actually going to college and studying business just as his father had wanted. He can meet Robin there, when she finally goes to college. But he graduates and Mr. Harrington thinks his son finally had straightened up and became a "true man"(whatever that means) and will be his successor in the family business.

But Steve has other, more fun ideas. He met a local band while getting reacquainted with the town, and listened to some of their songs. The guitarist is a little wild, in a hot and sexy way, but they do have the talent.

Instead of getting himself shoved in an office, under his father's thumb for the rest of his life, Steve becomes Corroded Coffin's manager

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Eddie asks Buck out while at the firehouse, but Buck is refusing and making a fuss about how he can't be Eddie's first because that means he won't be Eddie last and Eddie arguing thats stupid

And this goes on long enough that that Chimney just stands up, kisses Eddie and then goes "There you go, now you aren't the first man Eddie's kissed, problem solved, you're welcome"

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I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff

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"Marry me," Buck pleaded, feeling feverish in his desperation.

Eddie laughed lightly, apparently not realising that he was being deadly serious.

"Buck, we haven't even kissed yet."

Buck darted forwards at that, pressing a short but bruising kiss against Eddie's lips.

"Marry me, Eds, please."

"We also haven't gone on a date yet, baby. I want to do this right."

"Date?" Buck asked. "What, so we can get to know each other better? Eddie, I'm coparenting your kid. I've spent more nights in your bed this past year than I have in my own. You just told me you love me, and you think there's any way we can do this that isn't right?"

Eddie visibly softened at that, pulling Buck in for another kiss.

"Ask me again tomorrow, okay? If you still want to. You said you only figured this out today, right? Just... Ask me again tomorrow."

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Do you ever think about that first time Eddie agreed to help Maddie move? Like, his Abuela had just broken her hip and was still in the hospital, Pepa was working, Shannon wasn’t in the picture, Carla wasn’t around yet, he’s in a bad place financially with no aid yet and working crazy hours in a new city, raising a kid alone, he is OVERWHELMED.

Then the guy he’s been working with for like a month asked him to help his sister move, a woman he hasn’t met, and Eddie said yes, of course! With a million things on his plate and I have to assume on a rare day off when Chris is at school he jumped in his truck and came over to help Buck move because that’s the kind of guy he is and I love that the day ended up being about Buck being there for Eddie but I refuse to lose sight of the fact that Eddie on that day was just as eager to help Buck first despite everything going on in his life.

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T-shirt that says “I’m not the trans man, im the trans that manned up”. Is that anything

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I think Buck was 100% the one to give Chris the internet safety talk because lord knows Eddie “you’re talking to PEOPLE on this thing?” Diaz did not know enough to do it when Chris started gaming

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Maddie: So Eddie kissed you... Buck: Yes. Maddie: ...and you said 'thank you'? Buck: *sighs* Maddie: Well, that was very polite.

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I keep remembering a run of Hamlet I saw a few years ago, where the Ghost was costumed in full plate armour which was very noisy, and instead of muffling it, they had him crash across the stage, stomping so the whole set rattled, and he said all of his lines in a bellow, like he was furious with Hamlet.

And the thing that made it absolutely terrifying was that Hamlet was the only one who reacted. He was cowering, and covering his ears with both hands, and yelling to be heard over the noise.

And no one else seemed to know why he was doing that. The other actors didn't even raise their voices.

That's scary, something so loud and painful, and REAL, and the people around you don't even notice it, and think that you're the crazy one.

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The beauty of buddie is you can take any trope and apply it to them and it would work

Didn’t know they are dating ✅ ( THE POKER DATE WAS A DATE AND THEY DIDN’T EVEN KNOW IT)

friends to lovers ✅ ( something something BECAUSE EVAN something something)

sunshine x grumpy ✅ ( the sunshine and the grumpy changes every three business days)

Workplace romance ✅ ( they would be insufferable in the firehouse once they are together I just know it)

Miscommunication trope ✅ ( no further explanation is needed)

Secret relationship ✅ ( no one would even notice cause they literally act like a married couple all the time)

They are just the embodiment of soulmates and I can’t wait for them to realize it.