#culminating in Jonathan making Nancy laugh for what feels like the first time in years. THEN WHAT!!!

[lunar-years]

I’m kind of ready for jancy angst tbh…like if they’ve broken up after s4 but then the time jump and they’ve both returned home from separate colleges because Hawkins is in even deeper crisis and they need to be there for their families only to be immediately drawn into one another again. If they spend the first half of the season first with nervous half-looks and awkwardness between them and then with s2-era longing glances & protective stances & hesitant “should we be doing this” touches because they’ve spent the last couple of years desperately missing one another and longing for what could have been but neither wanting to admit it to the other……

[your-iron-lung]

If you're up to it, I'd love a soul mate au. Timers, words, seeing colors, anything you choose. Something with a happy ending, please!

send me an au and i’ll give you 5+ headcanons about it 

ty for indulging me

for this, im gonna utilize the ‘soulmates cant see colour until meeting’ trope! it wont be canon compliant; several events are gonna take place out of order (such as nancy leaving steve for Jonathan, etc) but who cares about that 

on to the hcs

1. while steve would love to finally meet his soulmate, he doesnt hold out much hope for it ever happening in his lifetiem. and its not like he even minds seeing the world through a grey filter, because he honestly cant conceive what a world of colour would look like, despite nancy doing her best with trying to describe it to him. and while he is happy that she was able to find her soulmate so soon, it still kind of stings at the same time because he hasn’t found his. some people went their whole lives never meeting their soulmates; shit, even his parents are still colourblind. sometimes people just ended up settling, and even though settling isnt something steve necessarily wants to do, he also doesnt want to chase the dragon for too long. 

billy, however, vows to never settle; a lot of good that did for his parents. when his dad declares that hes moving the family to hawkins, part of him is relieved because he feels like hes run out of options in california. no one there has had any impact on his vision, but maybe someone in hawkins will.

2. when billy first rolls up into the hawkins high school parking lot, he takes his time in looking around. he meets the eye of several girls, but none of them bring colour to his vision. bitterly he leaves the lot, unaware that steve, whod watched him pull into the parking lot, suddenly realized what the colour blue was. in a panic he grabs nancys arm, eyes bulging, mouth open in as he stutters: “what is that?” he asks, pointing out billys camaro. “what colour is that car?”

“blue,” nancy replies, concern creasing her brow as she sets his paper down and takes hold of his hand. “its blue, steve; can you see that?”

“blue,” steve repeats, and sits back in his seat amazed. “i can see blue.”

3. blue is beautiful. its the colour of the sky, water, the shirt he’d put on earlier that morning to wear to the halloween party, and the colour of billys eyes. vibrant, blue, and angry. steve doesnt even mind that hes been dethroned; hasnt cared about the title of ‘king of hawkins high’ in a long time, so when billy gets up in his face to boast about it, all he cares about is the colour blue. midway through his boasting, with tommy jeering at his side, billy is caught off guard by the fact that steves hair isn’t grey. it’s luscious and brown, and when steve lowers his shades he can see that his eyes, too, are a beautiful dark shade of the same colour. billys eyes widen imperceptibly, and steve realizes at the same time billy does that theyre fucking soulmates.

4. they dont talk about it for a long time, tip-toeing around one another as they slowly come to terms with the fact that they, in a word, belong together. for steve, who has told himself that he doesnt care much about having a soulmate so long as hes happy, is too overcome with the fact that hes actually found his soulmate to act on it. but for billy, its different; hes just… numb. all the fruitless years spent searching have culminated to this moment, and hes too stricken by the discovery to do anything about it. the only colour each of them can see matches the colours of the others eyes, and they each yearn to unlock more, to see more. neither one of them care that theyre of the same sex, but both of them want the other to make the first move. neither of them do until finally nancy does it for them. she organizes an interest meeting- not a date, a meeting- so that they can just… see where it goes, because shes tired of all the melancholic sighing and ‘i dont know what to do here nance’ steve has been doing as of late.

5. steve expects the meeting to be rough, since billy is, well, billy, but it goes well, actually. really well. steve talks about the colour blue, and how billys eyes almost match the sky, and billy just laughs at him and tells steve that his eyes are the colour of shit. steve gapes at him for a moment before he breaks out into a laugh himself. ‘ive always wondered what colour shit was,” he remarks casually, almost proud that his eyes could be so brown. billy studies steves face as hes laughing, and realizes distantly that other colours are beginning to fade into view: the light complexion of his steves skin, the pinkish hue of his lips, and the vibrant, surprisingly golden hue of his eyes that become more pronounced. the farthest thing from shit hes ever seen. when hes done laughing steve soon finds that more colours have manifested in his vision as well, and he stares in wonderment at billy as they each develop full colour in their eyesight. 

5+1. after the interest meeting, they decide to just… go for it. they keep it relatively low-key, but in a world where soulmates arent chosen, but predetermined, no one really gives them much shit for it. the only person they really have to worry about finding out is neil, but high school is almost over and billy doesnt owe his dad a damn thing by sticking around longer than hes wanted. steve offers him a way out and a new lease on a life that has thus far been unkind to him, and billy grabs onto it with both hands because life is so much more beautiful now that steve has brought colour into it

[humble-althemist]

Harrington Family Cabin HCs

I don't usually do these, because I feel like I'm giving up on a story idea when I throw it out all choppy like this, but dammit I found these in my drafts and I wanted to share them somewhere. 

also, many apologies if any/all of these ideas are already in fic somewhere, I have been woefully behind in reading like anything lately. but oh man please let me know if you've read/written fic like any of these. I will read it so hard. and probably link to it here or something. 

with that said, here are some headcanons/scene ideas I had a bit ago, about a Harrington family cabin trip with the Teens:

It's the first time Steve’s parents have been back in town for a while and are stuck in Indiana for a bit, so they decide to go to the family cabin for Spring break. Steve’s mom tells him this one day like it's a fact, like he doesn't even have any say in the matter, and because he's started dating Billy in earnest now, has finally convinced him that he's not gonna run, but their relationship is still new and hasn't quite found its feet, he kinda panics and shouts.

She's affronted, but more surprised than angry. Asks "Why? Stevie, you love the cabin!" and he blurts out that it's because it's his “last spring break in high school,” and he “doesn't want to spend it away from his friends.” 

"So invite them!" Mrs. Harrington says easily, and just like that Steve is stuck. That night he sheepishly calls Billy up and invites him (begs him) to come, and to make it seem less suspicious since he did say "friends" he calls Nance and Jonathan too, and invites them all up to the cabin. 

Much to his dismay, they all say yes.

- there’d probably be skinny dipping, started by Billy and continued by Steve and Nance and finally joined in on by Jonathan because no way in hell is he leaving his girlfriend alone with a naked Billy Hargrove (either he doesn’t know about Billy and Steve, or he doesn’t trust Billy’s gayness to make him not a creep). Steve and Nancy are a bit weird at first, but it doesn’t take long for Billy’s confidence to catch as they all get distracted splashing each other and racing and screaming about the fish in the water.

- Billy smoking cigars with Mr. Harrington (just because i love the image, and also oh my god Billy having a lightweight crush on Mr. Harrington, and Steve being grossed out by it but Billy making the point that it’s because he looks so much like Steve + 30 years, which is fucking hot. and then, of course, things get sappy as hell from there.)

- Billy lying in the sun getting his tan on, Nancy trying to join and just getting burnt as hell?

- the group goes hiking and Steve is good (had a cabin all his life), and Billy is good (Sierra Nevada mtn range babyyy), but Nancy and Jon are atrocious and unathletic and get quickly left behind. Steve and Billy eye each other like ooh it's time to fuck now, right? but then someone triggers someone else's competitive side, and they end up racing to the top of the mountain/hill/whatever. once up there, panting and sweating and laughing, they collapse against a tree and look out over the vista holding hands until the others catch up.

- Billy staring at Nancy in her bikini and for a while and Steve catches him and gets a little jealous like “since when do you like girls, asshole,” but then Billy says he was “just sizing up the competition.” maybe Billy tries to find similarities between him and Nancy that would make Steve's taste in lovers begin to make sense, and they both end up cracking up as Jon and Nancy walk back up the beach and ask what's so funny.

- Steve wakes up early one morning to find Billy out on the back porch lifting and nearly busts a nut right there. watches for a while as Billy works out, and it's about half an hour before Nancy walks up behind him and startles him out of his drooling.

- what if it culminated in a wine-drunk foursome that's awkward as hell 'cause Billy's gay, and Jon is pretty straight, and Nancy still has a bit of a complex about leading Steve on again, and Billy's possessive as hell. so like it is pretty much just Billy kissing Nance, the two of them kinda having fun with it like straight girls do, and then Steve kissing Jon 'cause what the hell, they've both thought about it and Steve has crushed on him a little when they were kids. but their kiss is less fun. they kiss more tender anyway since they're the sweeties of their respective relationships, and when Billy glances over and sees this happening he gets jealous and a little bit like wtf does this guy have that people keep cheating on their s/o’s for him? so he pulls Jon over and forcibly makes out with him and kinda gets the hype a little, for which Jon is grateful but doesn't really return the sentiment. and it just ends up petering out mostly, with soft jokes and laughter and more drinking until Jon and Nancy fall asleep and Billy drags Steve back to their room to finish things properly and remind him who he belongs to.