#but also maybe eddie is super baked and he doesn't want them to know it i mean do you see how awkward his body was during that scene?

[mattzerella-sticks]

I was thinking to myself "wow, it's weird for Eddie to be wearing shades in this scene", especially since he is the only one out of the three to wear them.

And the argument can be made that he was wearing them while driving, but why didn't he take them off once he parked?

Because the sunglasses 🕶 are SYMBOLIC!

We can't see Eddie’s eyes in this scene so, symbolically, he's blinded and 'can't see what's right in front of him'.

This works doubly so, as:

- he can't see that he has interrupted Buck asking Tommy out on a date and being rejected, thinking that they're just hanging out

- he can't see Buck standing right in front of him (i.e. who Buck is, what their relationship is, what his feelings are, etc.)

This is to say that I think this 'blindness' will continue for the remainder of the season until the glasses are ripped away and he can see what it is that's right in front of him.

Season 7 is Eddie having fun. Ignorance is Bliss.

Season 8 is where we will have jealous, pining Eddie.

[thefreakandthehair]

Thinking up a half baked idea on this dreary humid day about a modern au with Eddie being maybe famous, maybe just mildly popular but passionate about his music. And Steve who goes to the gym to stay in shape because of his dead end office job working for his father. He enjoys the gym, enjoys the satisfaction of a good workout. He’s not a muscle head, but he’s plenty muscular and does it more for the satisfaction than for huge body changes. And he listens to rock and metal while he works out because it just spurs him on with the heavy drums and guitars. But he doesn’t know anything about the bands, he just listens to them a whole bunch and enjoys the music for getting himself pumped.

Eddie, disgruntled with his current manager, goes looking for a new one. A friend of a friend (Dustin who’s in his dnd group because why not) is apparently so dissatisfied and ‘come on Eddie, he’s good at bossing people around and getting what he wants, that’s all you need a manager for’ so Eddie reaches out. And he sends a link to his album so Steve will know what he’s getting into.

Steve, who’s been in a rut with everything, let’s Robin convince him to give it a shot, try it, see what happens.

So he does. He recognizes the music, so he’s immediately like yeah, I can do this!

So he goes during a rehearsal so he can see them in action and Eddie’s expecting a metal head, black clothes, roughish guy because that’s generally who he sees as being super enthusiastic about his music

And then Steve walks in, wearing a light pink button down, looking like he’s ready to model for a perfume add or something else light and seductive and Eddie immediately trips and falls off the stage.

Right into Steve’s arms.

He’s shocked, of course, and very smitten because Steve is so pretty and strong and Gareth has to threaten to get a spray bottle just so he stops staring

Ofc Robin also starts working with them, I refuse to think of her and Steve working apart (so she’s also been dying with him at work too all this time oops) and she seconds that suggestion.

Naturally they fall in love anyway, and the band really takes off, and there’s always a cotton candy colored beefcake who gets a shoutout at every show, he wears crop tops in the summer and looks so out of place but it helps Eddie to always be able to spot him

I just think it’d be neat

"I just think it'd be neat", says Kat, who just wrote a whole romcom AU in an ask???

I am, once again, begging you to write yet another AU, especially something like this which includes rockstar!Eddie, manager!Steve with soulmate!Robin, and Steve who doesn't change/become a caricature of himself to be with rockstar!Eddie <3333

I know you said it's half-baked but like, if you wanted to whole-bake it... 👀