Murray, after watching Steve and Eddie for all of five seconds, confidently walks up to them and starts his whole spiel about pining blah blah etc etc, and like, Steve will absolutely not have that, there is no way.
So he snorts, looks at Murray down his nose, and with zero hesitation lies, tells him “We’ve been dating for a month, congrats on seeing the obvious... Or not since you couldn’t tell”
He just hopes Eddie will play along. Steve is sending him the strongest signals with his mind right now, and, just, he knows Eddie can be petty like this too (that’s why he likes him so much, and yeah Murray is a little right but fuck him so much more for it)
Eddie ‘lives for the bit and to fuck with people’ Munson does not disappoint. He slings an arm around Steve and is like “Yeaaahhh wow, real clever observation there buddy.” In the driest tone imaginable
And Murray, well he was sure he was right, still kind of is sure he’s right so he just squints at them for a bit and then breaks out in a wide grin, and only sounds a little sarcastic when he says “Congrats on figuring your shit out yourselves.”
Except he absolutely does not mean it because he wanted to do that, he likes doing that. And now he's sulking and will watch them so closely because something seems off
Eddie and Steve, so committed to the bit and to not let Murray win, start fake dating. All while Murray tries to catch them in their lie, and they’re all too stubborn to give up
Murray starts to slowly think he maybe was wrong though because they really seem like a couple. And even though there’s still something there he can’t ignore the proof.
When they straight up make out in front of him, and he can tell that they’re so lost in each other they probably don’t know he’s there he's about to concede
But then after that, they act so weird around each other again? It’s like before but worse and how did the pining get worse when they’re actually openly together? Regularly have their tongues down each other's throats and all?
Meanwhile, Steve and Eddie are going through it because they thought they’d be okay but that kiss was so much, and oh god they don’t think they can do this? But they can’t let Murray win?
A week and a half later at their monthly 'we survived the apocalypse, again' get-together at Hoppers and Joyce’s, Murray just gets enough of how twitchy they are. He grabs them both and locks them in a closet and is like “I don’t wanna know anymore, whatever fight you had or didn’t figure it out”
They sort of stand there shuffling from foot to foot not marking eye contact until Eddie is just like “Oh for fucks sake, I like you for real okay? The bastard was right so can we actually just date? Please?” And all Steve's can do is say "Thank god," while he smiles the most blinding smile and grabs Eddie by his collar pulling him in for a kiss
Fifteen minutes later they come out of the closet (the irony and symbolism is not lost on them) all disheveled and a little too satisfied looking and are met with very loud screaming from all the younger teens, ranging from a simple “Ew!” (Mike) to “Dude we are right here what if we'd heard? Or walked in there and seen?” (Dustin)
They’re lucky they’re too distracted by this to see Murray's self-satisfied smirk because if they did they would have pretend broken up and there would have been another month of sneaking around but this time actually dating and pretending they weren’t
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Hi so ive been thinking (tragedy)
so i dont think dust would use petnames often but i do think hed have like korean nicknames for all of the gang (plus red bcs. yes) and i needed to write them down b4 i forget
general im not korean n dont speak it n this is based off google rabbit holes so may be incorrect yeah 👍
Dust - Tokki (토끼) - Bunny
Horror - Gomdoli (곰돌이) - Cute Bear
Killer - Gil-Nyangi (길냥이) - Street Cat / Stray Cat
Cross - Gangaji (강아지) - Puppy
Nightmare - Mun-eo (문어) - Octopus
Error - Neoguli (너구리) - Raccoon (technically i think its raccoon dog but can be either)
Red - Jindo-gae (진돗개) - Jindo dog (breed of dog!! i thought it was fitting lol)
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it's interesting to see 'cameras in the cabin' debate in the until dawn tag, because honestly this is has always felt canon to me. josh tells mike about the cabin before the trip. he suggests they go when the fight breaks out. he calls them porn stars, says he'd pay to see it, and it isn't a leap to think he left the kama sutra there.
this doesn't mischaracterize or villainize josh by making him 'perverted,' because he isn't doing it for his own sexual pleasure. he's doing it because what happened to hannah was sexual. they were going to film her making out, possibly more, and weren't deterred by her move to take her shirt off. josh's stated goal is to make them feel what hannah felt. by filming mike & jess in some state of undress, he's humiliating them in the same way.
it's also in line with other things he does. however you interpret his actions toward sam - whether you think he's playing into horror tropes for the 'movie' he's making or that he simply wants to humiliate her, too - he still films her naked and steals her clothes.
he plans on posting this online in some fashion, so anything explicit would presumably be cut from the final product. but the point is that josh's goals are to humiliate people he blames and/or put on a good show for the cool horror movie slash prank video he's going to post online, and putting cameras in the cabin makes sense as part of that.
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bsd pronouns headcanons but it's in a tierlist format for some reason. (text-only version under the cut.)
i know some of these takes are insane but i believe that i am correct. i do welcome other takes though i LOVE talking about gender headcanons with people!
text-only tierlist:
she/her: agatha christe, higuchi, elise, teruko, kouyou, haruno, yosano.
she/they: karma, yuan, sigma, lucy, kyouka, tsujimura.
she/it: louisa.
she/neos: naomi.
he/him: andré gide, alexander pushkin, mori, mark twain, rimbaud, adam frankenstein.
old man drag show (he/him): kunikida, francis fitzgerald, herman melville, fukuzawa, fukuchi, hirotsu.
he/they: atsushi, tj eckleburg, katai, fyodor, katsura, shirase, nathaniel hawthorne, minoura.
he/it: kajii, odasaku, verlaine, ivan goncharov.
he/they/it: akutagawa, tanizaki, ango, lovecraft, bram stoker.
he/neos: tachihara, nikolai, natsume.
he/she: kenji, margaret mitchell, jouno.
he/she/they: chuuya, dazai, gin, tetcho, shibusawa, poe, john steinbeck.
they/them: aya, mushitarou.
any pronouns: ranpo.
neopronouns: Q (kyusaku).
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