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grandwretch · 2 years

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instead of it always being that the Harringtons are too rich to abuse Steve obviously, what about a fic where Steve's warped sense of self comes from a childhood where he spent most of his childhood being abused at fancy parties. just a lot of long nights of his father shouting for hours, sometimes hitting him, and eventually Steve stops expecting the people surrounding him to stop it. he gets so used to cold faces watching, his mother and father's guests looking at him like an object-- used to them joining in on the berating, if anything. he doesn't think they do it on purpose, but he always messes up, and they force him to come along anyway.

so when he finally talks about his parents, and the party is angry and the parents are horrified, Steve is surprised. He just kinda assumed they knew. Especially Nancy and Hopper-- He thought they knew ages ago. He was pretty sure Hopper had known the whole, and didn't care enough to stop it. He thought Nancy understood when he tried to tell her how angry his dad got, and just thought it was a bad excuse.

He never resented them for it. Not any of them. Why would they stop it? Why would anyone try to help?

#shut up az #Steve harrington #Abuse cw #I think ppl give rich parents too much credit like I don't think papa Harrington is like a super villain with machinations #I think he's just mean and rich enough to get away with it #Like I mean you can literally watch rich kids get abused on tiktok in real time and no one ever does anything #I say this as someone who used to be a mandatory reporter right: CPS only cares about poor parents #like they will do everything to take a poor kid away from their family but you can literally call once a week about a middle class kid #and unless the kid is like coming to school with bruises they're put so far down the priority list #and like on one hand I understand it you know like no one wants a kid in a situation where they don't have food or clothes #on the other hand having food and clothes doesn't make some of the shit kids told me any better for them #anyway that's why I stopped being a teacher lol the inability to save every kid I met made me crazy!!!!

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