#chrissy and robin are dating and nancy and jonathan (who is actually eddie knows bcs jon takes photos of bands in town for cheap)

[shushmal]

my new plotless comfort au that i play in my head like a 5 year old with barbies is the following:

corroded coffin are a local band that has a pretty good circuit in the bar scene of chicago. all of them have day jobs to keep it going, but their dream is to get bigger, to headline. and they actually get a shot, put on a roster with some other up-and-comers for a small local music fest. unfortunately, gareth breaks his hand TWO days before the festival.

eddie scrambles, asking literally anyone if there's a drummer that can at least keep a drumline for them. a blonde girl over hears him pleading, and says "oh my gosh, you need Steve!"

the blonde girl, chrissy, is the lead singer of her bubble gum pop punk girl band with nancy on lead guitar, robin on bass, and steve on drums. (i had a name for them but i forgot it, but their music is based on tiltawhirl by boys go to jupiter in my mind)

"if you're a girl band, how come you have a male drummer?"

"steve's one of the girls! don't as that in front of him, you'll hurt his feelings."

she drags him two blocks over where steve is bartending at a queer club, looks eddie up and down and smirks.

"sure, i'll give it a go. you got your track list i can listen to tonight?"

turns out steve's kind of an instrumental savant. eddie gives him the tape that night, and they hold an emergency rehearsal the next morning and while steve doesn't NAIL all of gareth's parts, he does a serviceable job for only having their music for five hours. Gareth, casted up, sits by the drum kit and they work through gareth queueing steve so that he can match the rest of the band's energy while they play.

it's not PERFECT like eddie would have wanted for their real first shot at stardom, but it will WORK and corroded coffin is eternally grateful. and eddie is eternally grateful when steve shows up to the fest all metal-ed out courtesy of the girls. he's wearing eyeliner. omg.

[gonegrove]

Jodi Pierce: same year as nancy + jonathan. was friends with benefits with billy until he got his shit together and got with [preferred partner for billy here]. they’re still friends bc she’s literally is only one lol. very style forward. socially mobile and well liked without really belonging anywhere. new wave, funk and proto-indie. likes the muppets, puppets and animatronics and makes puppets of her own for comedy shit. dates robin. finds out she and eddie are half siblings bc her mom had an affair w/ his dad pre-3 bc her mom has a crisis about them being in the same grade now. it’s a mess but they’re working on it.

Shannon Harrington: roughly nancy’s age. steve’s younger sister. she’s also very popular and extremely funny. she’s on the volleyball and cheerleading teams. she’s a loud pain in the ass and deeply weird when you actually know her. she’s Peak annoying younger sister. still considers steve probably her best friend bc he’s the only one who actually knows her and still likes her. she is a tinkerbell who will die without attention and her entire outward personality is geared to ensuring attention. also has like no filter, no shame and says wild shit so often. pop music fiend.

Rhiannon Hargrove: nancy’s age. billy’s younger biological sister. named after the fleetwood mac song and hates it. is one of those memes of someone who looks sweet and nice that has the subtitle of something like “i’m about to fucking lose it”. she and billy pretty co-dependent and rhia’s life is heavily controlled by neil and billy tho for different reasons. trying to make this new family shit work but people are Testing Her. can be just as shitty as billy but is usually better at reigning her anger in for the most part (or really she just lets it stew until she Snaps lol rip). a little pop-y and little boho. she and chrissy would get on except that rhia would snap jason’s spine over her fucking knee in 0.0005 secs of meeting him so lol. takes after their mother a lot in looks and personality, not sure how she feels about that since she’s not a fan of her as much as billy still is. still tries to fight back against neil when he gets physical about 50% of the time, usually when he’s going after billy.

Richard Brandon Mayfield: goes by his middle name brandon bc he hates richard. is about 14-15 when they move to hawkins. he’s the epitome of the DW “this sign can’t stop me because  i can’t read!” meme. he’s a dipshit and he means business. literally all the other siblings are smarter than him but he doesn’t give a shit and it’s not a thing for him. he’s gay and he’s so aggressively average about it. like he just is what he is and like ???? that’s it???? doesn’t think their dad is as cool as max does. deadass tries to go toe to toe with neil every. single. time. you cannot TELL this child otherwise. he is a fratboy and an idiot and he could be 100000% shifaced and never get your pronouns wrong even tho he doesn’t get SHIT about what ur talking about. he’s gonna go to trade school after hs for carpentry. he and will get together at some point lol.

[post-modern-prometheus]

random (and sometimes outlandish) st4 theories that have minimal basis for anything but i just wanna put them out there just in case i'm right so i can say i called it:

*keep in mind not all these are connected lol

-nancy and victor kreel are like clarice sterling and hannibal lector: he respects her and she has a begrudging admiration for him

-oh but also victor kreel kills karen and ted because of nancy (in the epilogue)

-the mind flayer forces will to come out to mike because it remembers how he feels about him

-dustin is the most upset about lucas ditching the party to go be a jock, and it's surprising and jarring when dustin starts yelling at him. the fight ends up getting physical (dustin starts it)

-steve spends the entire season trying to set up robin with a girl, only for robin to take pity on the sweet himbo and tell him that not only does the girl have a crush on him but robin herself is also dating el's kind-of-sister now

-max, lucas, mike, and dustin go to your stereotypical high school party and everyone but max gets drunk (she won't because of neil and billy) (mike is a lightweight)

^lucas' teammates try to pull him away from his friends which pisses off dustin

-mike is in the woods with chrissy for some reason when the demogorgon kills her. he's seen fleeing the scene with blood all over his hellfire club t-shirt. this is why he runs away to the byers'

-el's powers aren't working because they are- only they're fighting off the mind flayer trying to possess her

^she uses her powers to stop one of her friends from being killed, which allows to mind flayer to possess her

-connecting the mike is a suspect for murder and el is possessed ones, mike (and will) get arrested and questioned by the police. possessed el comes after them in a very terminator-esque scene, massacring everyone at the precinct

-i've said this before, but el has a carrie moment: one of her bullies pushes her just a bit too far and el's powers unleash, killing the bully

-will, mike, and el get so many ferris bueller references

-the party (at least the members still in hawkins) sleep over at steve's apartment all the time

-joyce doesn't actually end up going to russia (ok i'm pretty sure there are set pics that rule this one out But i need to get it off my chest). she's talking to owens about it- but then jonathan comes to her and tells her that will and el are missing and she deems her children more important than the possibility that hopper could be alive

^joyce and jonathan team up this season (yeah ok argyle's here but bear with me). we address the pressure she has put on him to step into the patriarchal role of the family and how it's negatively effected him

-max isn't sad that billy died, per-say, she just feels guilty that she's relieved that he's out of her life. add that to everything she's going through with neil...

^this guilt leads her to sacrifice herself to save someone else's life

-another on max is that she makes lucas mad enough to dump her, and this time for a mature reason

-el and mike have some et and elliot connection/sickness

-after meeting kali and watching her try to train el and help her get her powers back, mike knows that pain is what fuels el and her powers. he thinks that's how he can get through to her while she's possessed, so he sets himself up to be alone with her- and for her to kill him.

^it's important to me that dustin is the one who realizes mike's plan

^alsooo mike's plan doesn't work because just as she's about to kill him, someone comes through the gate she's about to open: hopper. the love she feels for hopper is what overpowers the mind flayer.

-the hellfire club is actually a cult who is using dustin and mike to get more information about the upside down. eddie witnessed something happen and now the cult worships the mind flayer. it's made up of kids and adults.

^max's guidance counselor is a member of the hellfire club, who is also trying to get information out of her and turn her against her friends/isolate her. (maybe they gets max to betray the party, which is why lucas is mad at her.) (or we get a 'i never said anything about a graveyard professor' moment, where the guidance counselor knows something they shouldn't and max realizes.)

-el gets separated from mike and will (either because of possession or lab) and we get outsiders ponyboy and johnny vibes.

-time works differently in the upside down.

-keep the previous bullet in mind when i say that the russians send hopper and a few other prisoners and guards through the upside down to test if it's safe to send troops through for a red-dawn-type invasion

^the end credit scene is of the troops being sent through (and the cold open of season 5 is the mind flayer possessing the entire army)

these are just the ones off the top of my head bc i've been sitting on them for awhile

[hardestgrove]

CURRENT OC SITUATION:

bios for the kings (Adam, Christina, Emily, Jackson, David, Stacy, Alison): HERE

Jodi Pierce: same year as nancy + jonathan. was friends with benefits with billy until he got his shit together and got with [preferred partner for billy here]. they're still friends bc she's literally is only one lol. very style forward. socially mobile and well liked without really belonging anywhere. new wave, funk and proto-indie. likes the muppets, puppets and animatronics and makes puppets of her own for comedy shit. dates robin. finds out she and eddie are half siblings bc her mom had an affair w/ his dad pre-3 bc her mom has a crisis about them being in the same grade now. it's a mess but they're working on it.

Shannon Harrington: roughly nancy's age. steve's younger sister. she's also very popular and extremely funny. she's on the volleyball and cheerleading teams. she's a loud pain in the ass and deeply weird when you actually know her. she's Peak annoying younger sister. still considers steve probably her best friend bc he's the only one who actually knows her and still likes her. she is a tinkerbell who will die without attention and her entire outward personality is geared to ensuring attention. also has like no filter, no shame and says wild shit so often. pop music fiend.

Rhiannon Hargrove: nancy's age. billy's younger biological sister. named after the fleetwood mac song and hates it. is one of those memes of someone who looks sweet and nice that has the subtitle of something like "i'm about to fucking lose it". she and billy pretty co-dependent and rhia's life is heavily controlled by neil and billy tho for different reasons. trying to make this new family shit work but people are Testing Her. can be just as shitty as billy but is usually better at reigning her anger in for the most part (or really she just lets it stew until she Snaps lol rip). a little pop-y and little boho. she and chrissy would get on except that rhia would snap jason's spine over her fucking knee in 0.0005 secs of meeting him so lol. takes after their mother a lot in looks and personality, not sure how she feels about that since she's not a fan of her as much as billy still is. still tries to fight back against neil when he gets physical about 50% of the time, usually when he's going after billy.

Richard Brandon Mayfield: goes by his middle name brandon bc he hates richard. is about 14-15 when they move to hawkins. he's the epitome of the DW "this sign can't stop me because i can't read!" meme. he's a dipshit and he means business. literally all the other siblings are smarter than him but he doesn't give a shit and it's not a thing for him. he's gay and he's so aggressively average about it. like he just is what he is and like ???? that's it???? doesn't think their dad is as cool as max does. deadass tries to go toe to toe with neil every. single. time. you cannot TELL this child otherwise. he is a fratboy and an idiot and he could be 100000% shifaced and never get your pronouns wrong even tho he doesn't get SHIT about what ur talking about. he's gonna go to trade school after hs for carpentry. he and will get together at some point lol.

[eriquin]

Just going to put OP's tags right here for safekeeping:

#shush mal#steddie#eddie is also freaked out by the dynamics of the group#steve and nancy are exes and robin and nancy are exes and chrissy and steve used to be fwb before she got comfortable with her lesbianism#chrissy and robin are dating and nancy and jonathan (who is actually eddie knows bcs jon takes photos of bands in town for cheap)#and steve who has actually sworn off dating and hook ups after getting his heart broken one too many times#and the entire group + jonathan (he and steve had a Thing all of them giggle but never talk about) are OVERLY protective of him#so eddie's fighting for his life trying to get a date with steve#that's it#that's all i got#holds them in my hands i think they're neat#oh also steve taught nancy everything she knows on guitar#so one time when she's too busy with a final exam steve subs in for lead guitar and copies all of nancy's sexy dancing while he plays#eddie loses it

my new plotless comfort au that i play in my head like a 5 year old with barbies is the following:

corroded coffin are a local band that has a pretty good circuit in the bar scene of chicago. all of them have day jobs to keep it going, but their dream is to get bigger, to headline. and they actually get a shot, put on a roster with some other up-and-comers for a small local music fest. unfortunately, gareth breaks his hand TWO days before the festival.

eddie scrambles, asking literally anyone if there's a drummer that can at least keep a drumline for them. a blonde girl over hears him pleading, and says "oh my gosh, you need Steve!"

the blonde girl, chrissy, is the lead singer of her bubble gum pop punk girl band with nancy on lead guitar, robin on bass, and steve on drums. (i had a name for them but i forgot it, but their music is based on tiltawhirl by boys go to jupiter in my mind)

"if you're a girl band, how come you have a male drummer?"

"steve's one of the girls! don't as that in front of him, you'll hurt his feelings."

she drags him two blocks over where steve is bartending at a queer club, looks eddie up and down and smirks.

"sure, i'll give it a go. you got your track list i can listen to tonight?"

turns out steve's kind of an instrumental savant. eddie gives him the tape that night, and they hold an emergency rehearsal the next morning and while steve doesn't NAIL all of gareth's parts, he does a serviceable job for only having their music for five hours. Gareth, casted up, sits by the drum kit and they work through gareth queueing steve so that he can match the rest of the band's energy while they play.

it's not PERFECT like eddie would have wanted for their real first shot at stardom, but it will WORK and corroded coffin is eternally grateful. and eddie is eternally grateful when steve shows up to the fest all metal-ed out courtesy of the girls. he's wearing eyeliner. omg.