#canon steve hasn't cried

[stevebabey]

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❤️ I would love numbers 30 and 34 from list 3 if possible- please and thank you 😊

hey hey!! thank u for being here! this was a toothrotting set of prompts for which i applaud u for dear GOD <3 i hope u enjoy it as much as i enjoyed writing it hehe - FYI: fem!reader

It’s a snot-fest, honestly.

Like anyone can blame for crying on your wedding day. Well, you call it crying but Robin had called it blubbering which might be more of an appropriate word for it. Some silly part of your soul sings when she tells you that Steve is doing no better, two doors down the hall from you, and apparently on his 2nd box of tissues already.

How the pair of you are going to survive the ceremony is beyond anyone.

You do, though. It helps that it’s not really a proper ceremony. There’s no priest, no officiant that isn’t just one of your friends. Along with a series of other undisclosed skills, Murray surprisingly has the legal power to wed you. Strange man, you think to yourself, but you’re thankful for it. Keeps the wedding among friends.

It’s small numbers, just enough of you to fill the backyard. You get married amongst the flowers, in the evening sunlight, just enough of a breeze to swish your dress. It's a perfect first event to hold in the glorious backyard of your new home.

Will had painted the bunting that’s strung above your heads, pastel and dreamy, fluttering in the wind. The bouquet in your hands was gathered by Erica and Lucas, who had taken the job very seriously, and found beautiful purple and yellow flowers from the nearby meadow. Eddie pleads Steve to let him set off fireworks after the ceremony, sneaking you a wink that tells you he probably will anyways. It's hard not to feel utterly surrounded by love.

Steve’s eyes are already red rimmed by the time you meet him at the altar.

His vows are short but bursting with love. He promises all the important things, like to always split the last pancake with you, to only use his puppy dog eyes when he really wants something, and to never let his girl go a day without a proper good kiss.

After your teenage adventures with alternate dimensions, the til death do us part comes as easy as air. And you mean it.

Despite all your practice, the kiss is a bit fumbled — too much excitement between the both of you. It‘s a bit alike to the first time you kissed Steve, way back when. This time, however, the clumsy kiss means something different all together. Steve has no shyness around kissing you; it’s his own excitement for the future trickling through. For your future together.

His warm hands hold you tightly. You don't even mind that Steve hasn't waited for Murray to tell him he can kiss the bride.

As Murray announces your official union, Eddie and Dustin yell like they’re attending a concert and not a wedding, hooting and swinging their ties above their head. Robin attempts to join them but can’t get hers undone for the life of her and instead, helicopters it around in her hand while it's still attached to her neck. Steve laughs as he steals a glance at the small crowd, the garden filled with love, and swallows, his throat thick with emotion.

He turns back to you, eyes shining, and presses his forehead down against yours. You feel full, breaking at the seams with how affection runs wild in your veins. You think you could live in this moment forever — could bottle it and drink it and get stupidly drunk with how in love you feel.

“Thanks for marrying me,” Steve murmurs, words wobbly. Words meant just for you. His eyes scan your face, the brown a bit lighter through his tears. You wonder if he’s committing this moment to memory as you are. “Wasn’t sure I’d have any takers for a minute there.”

You startle a laugh that comes out doused in emotion. A poke at the time he’d floundered for dates for more than a year after the break up with Nancy; at least, he had until you came into the picture. There’s irony in it, considering how you’d seemed to be enamored with each other from the very beginning.

You think you’ve always known you’d end up here, with him, one way or another.

“That’s okay,” It comes out awfully sentimental, even as you aim for a jest. “Any time, really.” You say, with an insistent nod and another wet-sounding laugh.

Steve’s chest tightens impossibly — he feels like he’s got no heart at all, just a cavity that you fill with burning hot love. The flowers dance in the wind behind you, your friends clap and cheer, but it all feels worlds away. There’s no room for any other emotion, just love.

“I have never loved you as much as I do right now.” He says, voice sappy beyond words. It’s genuine, the words as tender as they are softly spoken. It’s a whisper on the wind but not a secret.

You don’t need to tell him the same, he already knows. You remind him with another kiss and finally remember your friends, feet inching towards the makeshift aisle. There’s bouquets of wildflowers tied to the seats with twine. You’re in love.

“C’mon, husband.” You say, grin like starlight. Steve thinks he could hear those words forever.

join the celebration!

[ronancebyler]

Platonic Edancy headcanons?

heheheheheh it's them!

as always, canon is simply a suggestion over a rule. if these contradict each other or canon i truly don't care. also you will probably see ships/friendships of either characters mentioned

she/her for nancy, they/he for eddie (as always, alternate pronoun hcs used in different posts should be ignored <3333)

they are disgustingly platonic soulmates. like, they're steve and robin level horrendous. they will think and say the exact same things in the same phrasing at the same time and know what the other's thinking without saying anything

they both are weirdly physically connected. like, if eddie is nauseous because he didn't eat well nancy will immediately feel nauseous too and it is FREAKY. like, nancy will be hanging out with robin and be like "give me a minute" to text eddie if he's been eating recently and they would go "how tf did you sense it" and she responds with "telepathy pains, edmund. eat your fucking food"

nancy does not drink enough water. she'll forget for far too long and she doesn't like how it feels on her throat, but eddie can always tell when she hasn't been hydrating herself.

"drink your water, nancy drew" "but ew" "you are way too smart to die from this." "fine..."

nancy has an immaculate gaydar, and eddie has the most horrendous gaydar known to mankind

"you thought i liked steve????" "listen, i didn't know you well enough to know how much you would loathe getting back together with him." "i was painfully obviously in love with robin!" "SHUT UP!"

meanwhile nancy immediately clocked both sides of steddie

like she could immediately tell that eddie were in love with steve but also immediately clocked that it was reciprocated which eddie strongly argues with

texts the most out of pocket shit to each other with no context

they end conversations with "i'm going to go fuck your ex boyfriend" and "i'm going to go sleep with your boyfriend's best friend"

they both need glasses and they both hate wearing their glasses so they have a backup pair for each other just in case they forget

nancy is always the one who fixes eddie's wounds. steve and hopper have both tried and failed, she is terrifyingly protective of wounded eddie

nobody but eddie cooks for her. she prefers to cook, even though she's not very good at it it gives her a sense of control, but she still feels in control when it's eddie doing the cooking (even though they're a horrendous cook)

when she and jonathan broke up, she cried into eddie's shirt for hours as he sat with her and let her let it out

nancy helps eddie graduate school! she's the only one who explained the concepts in a way that clicked in their brain

nancy plays dnd with eddie (and the rest of the spicy six) MUCH to mike's chagrin, but even worse, she's really good at it

like her and eddie are the best teammates ever, and it gives steve and robin a run for their money in syncronization

robin and eddie constantly argue who knows nancy better (eddie is in the lead, though to be fair if it was over steve robin would win)

not the touchiest of best friends, but do use an indescribable amount of pet names

"honey" "darling" "dear" "love" "my husband" "my darling wife" all lead to extreme confusion with robin and steve when they're in the room too

they are both investigative journalists and they're partners in the field

nancy has defended eddie from bullies before, which is absolutely terrifying for the bullies

eddie helps foster nancy's urge to clinge onto the hinges of society to keep herself small and fitting in into an "i dont give a fuck!" attitude

eddie introduces nancy to her first queer experience. it was very one off and she was in love with robin but it was very helpful to her to have a queer experience with someone who didn't have all this history and emotion and care attached to them and was just casual

she went to eddie to cry after her and robin got together because the last time she felt like this was with barb

eddie was absolutely horrified to tell her he was gay. they were shaking, quiet, and overall just didn't look like themself, because losing nancy would be like losing a part of himself but not telling nancy would be hiding a part of themself.

nancy told eddie they were into steve, so that wasn't a reveal he had to attempt.

"you're in love with steve." "how the fuck--"

extremely good at charades, can guess from an eyebrow raise

nancy taught eddie how to get really good at guns, so now they're terrifying to everyone in a seven mile radius apart and in a four hundred mile radius together.

nancy's competence calms eddie down when they're anxious, eddie's energy drowns out the world when nancy's anxious

they're so weirdly similar it's insane. like, different universes, same brain

eddie draws nancy so much, so when steve found his notebook of drawings and noticed they were mostly nancy, she jumped to the conclusion that they had a crush on her

nancy was ready to punch everyone who were trying to get out of replenishing eddie for the struggles they went through from both the homicide allegations and the "earthquake"

everyone assumes nancy is the reasonable one, but they're both pretty even in that matter

"nance--wheeler, you know I love the energy, love the concept, but things will go very bad if you kill everyone in the government" "you know i could get away with it." "you absolutely could, but it would be exhausting and take so much work and you should probably take a nap instead."

robin and eddie have a sibling esque villainizing each other friendship and nancy absolutely comes up way too often as the mutually agreed upon best person ever

e: "you're annoying!" r: "WELL IM SLEEPING WITH YOUR BEST FRIEND" e: "WELL IM BEST FRIENDS WITH THE PERSON YOU'RE FUCKING." r: "IM BEST FRIENDS WITH THE PERSON YOU'RE FUCKING TOO" e: "YES BUT BEING BEST FRIENDS AND THE FAVORITE PERSON OF WITH NANCY IS INFINITELY COOLER THAN BEING BEST FRIENDS WITH STEVE" s: "hey!" e: "love you, stevie, but it's nancy fucking wheeler" s: "that's fair" r: "hey, im also nancy's favorite person!" e: "yk im the favorite just like stevie's yours." r: "fair but fuck you."

eddie's the only person who will ever make fun of nancy. mostly because everyone is scared of her or admires her too much, but partially because if anyone else every tried they'd immediately murder them

"maybe those murder allegations should be correct" "edmund, no." "that's not even my fucking name???"

they have beef with mike because of this since mike feels the exact same

nancy absolutely finds it hilarious the idea that anyone finds eddie cool

"didn't you trip over air the other day?" "STFU"

they're cofounders of the "mike wheeler realize ur gay" club and do sit him down often for interventions

it seems i typed too much for the death hcs so they'll show up in the reblogs

[valkyrieandstrangeridingaragorn]

Darling (I hope you get this) ~ I'm enjoying tremendously your commentary as you watch IW - especially your Stephen comments😍. He never gets enough of the love he so deserves!

Stephen yelling after seeing 14 million outcomes... and nobody hugs him or anything, goddammit. I volunteer. Seriously though, he saved the freaking universe just by doing that and yet he never gets a thanks from anybody. Worse, he's blamed instead!

You know I'm with you on this. I wrote a whole fic to remind people of this and to give him the love & comfort he deserves. And ofc, I blame Feige for allowing his pet writer to completely ignore Stephen's burden, suffering, and PTSD in the movie that was supposed to be about him.

And about Gamora - the way she cries after 'killing' Thanos. I don't understand how people don't see it exactly as Zoe played it. It's catharsis, not grief or guilt. She carried the pain of everything Thanos had put her through for a almost a lifetime. Catharisis, relief, disbelief that it was all finally over. I recognize those kind of tears. I mean, who amongst us hasn't experienced such a moment?

Loving all the Steve love, too.💙

Hey dear, good to hear from you! 😉 I'm happy to know you enjoyed it, I was basically rambling last night lol

When I think of characters who have been treated unfairly by the MCU, Stephen is at the top of the list. Out of all the sacrifices and the pain he has been through, it's like the studio is allergic to allowing him to have some kind of emotional support. You and I both have the headcanon that Wong is the one who's always there for him, but it can't be anything more than a headcanon because the movies just won't give us their close friendship on-screen even though in the comics it's glorious. Stephen deserves some form of narrative protection and he can only get that if other characters acknowledge what he has done, if they defend him, if they support him.

And another thing that I despise (and there's a lot of this in MoM) is that if they're going to shine a light on his flaws and his mistakes... they should also shine a light on his virtues and his sacrifices and how much of a selfless and good man he is. It's not fair that whenever he does something wrong that's practically plastered all over but his many displays of kindness go unnoticed. It's crazy, only his fans notice! No wonder so many people think he's like Stark even though he's nothing like him. I so miss the Ancient One the way Derrickson wrote her...

Just the thought of all the pain he went through in IW being disregarded and knowing that, in canon, he's being blamed for the deaths instead of being thanked for saving the universe is truly upsetting.

Regarding Gamora, I couldn't agree more with you. That is exactly how I read it as well and I believe the writers meant to say just that, but I suppose since the rest of the movie tries so hard to show Thanos as sympathetic, a lot of people take his words as gospel - and he does say in that scene that Gamora was crying for him.

And Steve, well... I mean... I'm an absolute hopeless fangirl. I know you like him a lot too, how could we not? He's wonderful... and we only had one movie with Nomad Steve so we might as well enjoy it. We were robbed of a Steve/Stephen friendship, I would have loved them hanging out together, I think they could have been good friends. Oh well, good thing we got fanfic for that!

By the way, I can't believe you're still in shadowban, it's been so long already. I got an email with the notification of your ask but I saw nothing on the site. Not cool, staff!

[hesterias]

tw: death, drinking, depression, suicidal ideations, post-canon

I've been thinking about this a lot - it refuses to leave my mind. Partially inspired by the absolute tear-jerker of a gorgeous story that is Your Graveyard Silence by @werewolfsteve.

Post-S4 story where Steve is absolutely shattered over Eddie's death. He grew close to him during Vecna's campaign, closer than he ever thought possible (or wanted to admit), and he doesn't really know what to do with that. Or how to process his feelings. Because he feels this painful emptiness inside of him, this deep sadness that he can physically feel, as if something was ripped out of his chest (his heart, he later realizes). He grows closer to Dustin and grieves with him in a way he can't with the others. Because they didn't know Eddie; they didn't know him like he did. The sleepless nights where they'd stay awake and admit to each other how scared they really were, away from the kids. The deep talks where they'd tell each other their life stories. The flirty glances. The smiles they had for only themselves. The praise and admiration they had for one another (Steve never really had that before). The dreams that would creep in about Eddie. The way their fingers would naturally reach for each other, like magnets.

Steve grieves because he knows the world lost the brightest light it came to know. He lost the brightest light he's ever come to know. Who's more magnetic than Eddie? No one.

So he starts to visit Eddie's gravestone and just sits there. Thinking. Grieving. Crying. Mourning. Thinking "what if" scenarios that will never come to pass. What if we had more time is his personal favorite but it breaks him every single time. Steve's not much of a drinker anymore but he brings a 6-pack of beer one day, because 6-packs only remind him of Eddie now. And he drinks them all. He's broken and thinks What can beer do to me that hasn't already been done? and starts to make drinking a habit. Every third day he goes to Eddie's gravestone with a 6-pack and just drinks himself to sleep, thinking he can make himself forget that the beautiful boy he grew to love is no longer walking this Earth. And he always wakes up with EDWARD MUNSON staring back at him. Cold, lifeless. Stone.

Until one day, as he's feeling the buzz of four beers inside him lulling him to sleep, he feels a warm hand on his cheek. A touch he's felt before and has craved since. He immediately jerks up and sees Eddie kneeling down, looking at him with soft, worried (gorgeous) eyes. He's so happy he could cry - he does cry. He cries and cries and cries because how could this be? How could he get so lucky? Eddie is there and touching him and talking to him, and he cries. So much. Eddie wipes his tears and talks to him all night - he talks and talks and Steve listens and listens and stares. He can't help it. The last two beers are forgotten, much to Eddie's pleasure. Because seeing Steve slowly destroying himself is like dying a second death. So he'll do anything to stop it, even if it means distracting him (and really, it's not hard to spend time with the boy he's been in love with since he was 14). Eddie runs his fingers through Steve's hair and Steve melts under his touch. He wakes up the next morning, cold and alone. He looks to his side. EDWARD MUNSON stares back at him. He cries.

Steve goes back every night after that and waits for Eddie. He doesn't bring the beer any more. He wants to remember every single moment he possibly can with his boy. And so they do - they spend countless nights together, talking and touching and kissing. Steve makes sure to bring a sweater and blankets now.

After about three months, Eddie starts to feel uneasy. Sad. Heart-broken. He knows he has to stop this; he has to let Steve go. Because his Stevie? He deserves the world. He deserves a normal life, with a normal job, and a normal love. No, a great love. It fucking pains him but he knows he has to let Steve go.

He talks to Steve one night, tells him "You have to move on, sweetheart. I will always be here. Always. But you have so much more to live and experience. You have to go out there and be whole again. I refuse to hold you back." Steve cries and protests and yells, but he eventually understands. He hates it, but he understands. He always does. Steve grabs Eddie and whispers "I'll always love you. I just wish we had more time. I would have given you everything." And Eddie replies, "I know, sweetheart. I will always love you too. I always have. I wish I would have given myself the chance to tell you sooner."

Soon enough, Eddie notices Steve visits less and less. He goes from seeing him every day to seeing him every 3 days, every week, every two weeks. It fucking pains him but he knows it's right. Eventually - close to a year later - he stops seeing Steve altogether. He doesn't see him for years. And part of him is sad, and always will be, but he's happy. Because he knows Steve has moved on with his life. Eddie imagines him having fun in a big, unfamiliar city - living out his dream of being a marriage and family counselor. Getting married. Being loved and loving in return.

Sixteen years later, Eddie is laying on the grass next to his grave, staring up at the stars. He hears footsteps next to him but he doesn't bother to look. There's footsteps near him all the time. He hears a gorgeously familiar voice he could recognize anywhere saying his name: "Eddie." He jerks up and sees Steve - older, more wrinkles, still handsome, still with great fucking hair (and some grey). Steve is... there. Eddie runs to him and slam-hugs him, whispering a furious "Are you real? What?! I missed you so fucking much." Steve just laughs and kisses his hair, wraps his strong arms around him and says "Good. Because this time it's forever." And the weight of those words hit him like a brick and he realizes what Steve is implying. His heart breaks all over again. But then, life fucks everyone over eventually, doesn't it? He doesn't want to ask how, not now. He just hugs this beautiful man he's never been able to stop thinking about and kisses him.

After all, they have forever now.

[pizzaqueen]

This is pure crack but, on the one hand, Steve hasn't (yet) cried in canon (though he’s been on the verge) so it's not unreasonable to say he's not much of a crier (for whatever reason) but...on the other hand, imagine if he got a little misty-eyed over random, kind of silly things?

Like, I don't know, some sportsball stuff probably! Or like weird moments in movies like when he and Eddie are watching Gremlins at Christmas and the gremlins are terrorizing Gizmo and put him up on the dartboard, Steve gets a little choked up.

And Eddie's like "Are you... Are you crying over Gremlins?"

And Steve's like "Pfft, no, of course not! But... He's so little and fluffy and defenseless!" He waves at the television. "Look how sad and scared he is!"

And Eddie just finds it so cute and kind of weird but he loves weird and he wants to know all about Steve's weird, you know?

[strangertheories]

💙

I'm going to rank my favourite characters, ships and seasons of Stranger Things for you (:

Characters:

Robin Buckley - she's a disaster lesbian and I relate to her so much

Will Byers - very close second. The character helped me through a lot a few years ago, but he's fallen just behind Robin after S4

Max Mayfield - she's funny, cool but I care about her a lot and cried so much in Dear Billy

Steve Harrington - what is there to say about Steve that hasn't already been said

Lucas Sinclair - criminally underrated, super funny, protective, great boyfriend, great character

Shout out to Nancy and Hopper as well, didn't make it into the top five somehow which shows how great the characters are but I really love them (I love them all obviously, but these are my faves)

Ships:

Ronance - this is pretty much tied with second. Their dynamic is iconic, they'd be such a great duo and I love sapphic ships. I really hope they become canon (not sure) because they're so cute together and bisexual Nancy is a must.

Byler - again, pretty much tied. I love Will so much and I want him to be happy with Mike. They'd be great for each other. Duffers, please make them canon.

Lumax - I said before S4 that I preferred Elmax to Lumax, but after seeing it, I've changed my mind. They're so cute together. Their relationship is a lot more mature than others on the show. They're not constantly making out or gushing about each other; you can just tell that they deeply love and care about the other person. Lucas is the best boyfriend and he's the support that Max needs.

Jopper - solid ship, really sweet, great parenting duo

Seasons:

Season 1 - a perfect season of television in my opinion. Brilliantly crafted (especially with a lower budget), great pacing, great plot, great characters, a tear-jerking finale, what's not to love? There's a reason the show was so successful and I think that can all be seen in S1

Season 4 - I love how they went back to more mystery and horror content. I cried so many times watching it and it's such a fun and exciting season of television. Well worth the wait. My only complaint is that the California plot line was a lot less interesting than the other ones, but it was still a good, natural continuation of the series.

Season 2 - another great season of Stranger Things. It was a little slow at the start of the season, but the mystery was great and well written. The Lost Sister episode wasn't bad, but it completely killed a lot of the pace that the season had been working up. The season started Dustin and Steve's bromance too. (also, rip Bob)

Season 3 - you know a show has to be epic for this to be the bottom ranked season. It was funny, entertaining and engaging. However, I felt like the plot felt like less of a logical continuation than the other seasons did. As well as that, I like the mystery of the show and season 3 didn't really surprise me ever. They showed us everything that was going on (Billy being flayed, Russians building gate) and didn't let the audience put together the clues like in previous seasons. I also didn't just find it that scary. The last episode was one of the best of the show though, I still sob every time I watch it.

Hopefully this answer was alright! Thanks for the ask, anon (: