#doin' the lords work out here once more w/ the mungrove content lol

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How about some mungrove hcs?

Billy learns the drums with Eddie's encouragement and Eddie uses his connections in the Indiana music scene to help Billy put together a drum set he can afford and figuring out where to keep it since you know Billy trying to practice at home wouldn't go well lol

At some point they end up getting matching tattoos. Don't ask me of what or where right now I'm coming up blank but it's either 2 complimentary designs or the same design.

Billy loves to lay on top of Eddie with his head on his chest.

They have both the best and worst road trip energy. It's practically a blood bath when they're locked in a car together for too long but also they could literally spend months fucking around driving across the country and enjoy every second. The threats of violence is just how they communicate lol the mental breakdowns over tourist traps is just part of the fun.

Eddie has big honkin' ADHD and maybe some Dyslexia since it feels like those are buy one get one free. Billy is actually pretty good at school so he helps Eddie out which was a contributing factor in him finally graduating. Billy will crack jokes about how fucking incompetent he is but it's entirely out of love and Eddie shoots jokes right back about Billy's "freaky robot capacity to like, Do Shit".

Billy isn't always the best at expressing himself-- especially in ways that make him vulnerable like love and affection-- in words or in actions traditionally associated with it (like flowers or hug for someone you care for). His solution to that is to take care of Eddie on a practical level. Eddie is an ADHD mess-- his place is a mess, his affairs are a mess, his finances are a mess, he's always forgetting shit even when it's important. So Billy takes over. He makes sure the place is reasonably clean, that there's actually decent food in the house, that Eddie doesn't forget what he was supposed to do, looks after the money etc. It's his way of saying "I love you" without saying it. Because he's Billy Fucking Hargrove and it takes 2 seconds to realize the only reason he'd do this kinda bullshit without getting paid is because he loves them.

Billy sleeps in the nude and Eddie usually starts in sleep pants and ends up in some state of pantlessness because how is he supposed to just go to sleep with Billy just naked there???? What I'm getting at here is that sometimes Eddie falls asleep pants on dick out because that's just objectively hilarious and it makes me laugh.

Eddie has the Midwest superpower of being able to wear shorts in the winter like it's nothing which works out since Billy hogs all the warm shit in the winter. Billy hates the winter so much. Eddie lets him steal his thermals and sweaters and jackets and shit. He likes seeing Billy in his clothes but he also just you know, likes Billy not shivering to death.

They read things like Heavy Metal, Kerrang and other various music and more edgy/avant garde publications together and discuss them intensely. It's deadass an Eng Lit 400 course in here.

Spinal Tap. That is all.

Eddie cannot keep his fucking hands off Billy. He's so in love and has such dog shit impulse control he's can't not touch and hold and pet etc etc. He's figured out tho ways to do things that are "socially acceptable" so it looks like they're Good Bros and he's just an affectionate dudes and not like they're boyfriends. Cuz it's Indiana in the 80s and Neil exists. Alone tho he just goes absolutely off the chain with the touch, sometimes to the point it annoys Billy cause he's trying to do shit or just not in the mood but Eddie just genuinely struggles. He feels a LOT and he had to express it or he'll crawl his skin off (yes this is another ADHD thing)

Eddie is #Obsessed with Billy in that like "okay my guy is coming in here in a second and if you fuckers don't clap for him I'm gonna blow up the building" kinda way. Like he just loves him a LOT and he can't fucking shut up about how Neat he thinks Billy is. And he's making it your fucking problem. Billy has no idea how to handle this kinda love and hype it's very cute.

Eddie is probably the best at sensing Billy's mood and its subtle changes even when Billy is masking hard. He's much better than Billy at social niceties and shit despite his whole anti-conformity thing and he uses that to help get Billy out of situations he knows Billy doesn't want to be in but doesn't want to out himself as say, distraught. Eddie overall is very protective of Billy's emotions and works hard to give him a safe space to feel, express and unload them.

Of course they move to California to pursue careers in music and Billy takes the reigns of teaching Eddie how true civilization works. Getting Eddie to the beach is always a fight but Billy pretty much always wins because he can dead lift Eddie into the fucking car sooooo. Eddie bitches a LOT about California (personally I think he'd prefer the East Coast, it seems more his vibe you know?) but he loves how much better and lighter Billy is there so like, he'll muscle through the heat lol

Billy moving back to California is a popular concept and in this context it makes sense since LA is a solid choice to pick if you're aiming to start a music career I can also see them moving to Seattle and ending up somewhat mixed in to the forming Grunge scene of the late 80s-early 90s. IMO Grunge is a genre both of them would like for various reasons both musical and sociopolitical and I can see it being one of the few genres Eddie would at least somewhat branch off into playing/experimenting with/incorporating into his own music. Plus the Pacific Northwest feels like a happy medium between the two of them in terms of what they'd like out of a place to live.

Billy is truly cringey unhinged down bad for Eddie and quietly loses his mind a lot over the lovestruck shit Eddie does. Like Eddie gets all affectionate and peppers him with "I love you"s and Billy goes insane over it. He loves the attention, the affection and the praise and he's also just desperate for it after years without. He feels like the fucking king of the world when Eddie gives him that big fond smile of his. Billy loves to kiss him when he's smiling and feel Eddie laugh against him.