#i know i spelled demegorgon wrong

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hey i saw your tags on that post about steve harrington and his redemption arc. did you not think he was an asshole in season 1? sorry if i misinterpreted that from your tags i’m just curious bc i love your opinions

I didn’t exactly say I thought he wasn’t an asshole in season 1, but the reasons most people link him to being in asshole is for things that shouldn’t tie him to that label. SO, in that respect, no I don’t think he was a complete shithead like the post states about his redemption arc.

Like, yes, of course, I’m not going to dismiss the spray paint on the marquee slut-shaming nancy, but that quite. literally was the only real indicative scene that showed steve being an asshole and not just a misunderstood jock who was cornered into bad characterization and the nerd-wanking-superiority writing of the duffer brothers. Let’s take a stroll through Steve’s season 1 and dismantle the entirety of his “asshole” tendencies shall we?

1. Steve always included Barb anytime Nancy went somewhere or was invited somewhere by Steve. He never put up a fight or whines about her “less than popular” friend tagging along even if he and Nancy did leave Barb alone downstairs to hook-up upstairs (which is more on nancy’s shitty behavior than steve’s). At the party Steve makes sure that Barb feels included and even speaks to her a couple of times to bring her into the conversation knowing she felt uncomfortable being there.

2. Steve was very careful and gentle with Nancy about having sex. He made sure she was completely alright and comfortable before even leading her to the bed. He never forced himself or his persuasion on her to sleep with him because he knew she’d never had sex before, and he was even sweeter about it after the fact to make her feel more supported about being with him intimately.

3. The biggest pointed finger of Steve being shitty is when he breaks Jonathan’s camera, but like. is that being shitty? Steve Harrington stumbled upon creeper photos of HIS GIRLFRIEND taken by Jonathan Byers and does what anyone would do in that situation, confront him and dismantle the entire issue. Jonathan wasn’t being sweet or misunderstood. He literally sat in the woods on Steve’s property and took photos of Nancy without her knowledge or permission. That isn’t something to flutter your heart at, it’s creepy and gross and tbh Steve was justified in tossing his camera on the ground after seeing them and hearing Jonathan’s bullshit excuse.

4. Steve gets upset when he sees Nancy hanging out with Jonathan and anger clouds his judgement which causes him to spray paint the marquee, slut-shaming nancy which isn’t alright by any means, BUT imagine seeing your girlfriend choose and defend someone that took up-close photos of her without her knowledge and was never going to tell her he took those photos. (was he going to continue if he wasn’t ratted out??) It’s incredibly confusing and upsetting and he shouldn’t have done something so drastic, but that’s the one time he veered away from being the steve harrington that was a good dude. EDIT: I was reminded by an anon that: Steve did not spray the marquee, it was clearly stated that Tommy did the spray paint and. it was also heavily implied that he already knew it was a bad idea. "I should have shoved that can of spray paint down your throat" is what he tells Tommy. Carol is also the person who calls Nancy a slut "with a heart of gold" to her face. My guess is it was Carol's idea, Tommy gleefully spray painted and Steve dumped them as friends. Steve's crime is that he was a coward in the moment, not an asshole

5. When Steve is sitting on his car, icing his eye, his friends start talking shit about jonathan and nancy and steve, even through everything, defends nancy and shuts them up before realizing he needs to immediately apologize to her.

6. When he’s met with the demegorgon at Jonathan’s house (which he sees nancy and sees her hand and thinks jonathan did something which hello??? the dude was a creep steve should’ve gotten protective) he goes back and helps fight the thing without knowing ANYTHING about it or why it’s there. He knew he needed to help defeat it, so he did (not to mention without his baseball bat, they wouldn’t have gotten where they did with the demegorgon).

I’m probably missing other things but i’m drinking my camomile tea and that’s all my brain can remember right now. anyways, the point is, steve didn’t need as much of a redemption arc as many seem to think and the only way the duffer brothers allowed this “redemption arc” to happen was to push steve into this loser character all because it’s a nerd’s fantasy to see the stereotypical jock (or boo-hoo popular dude) become inferior to the nerd when in reality the nerd is inferior in every way and the entirety of stranger things is just about nerds prevailing and “getting the girl.”

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This contains spoilers for Stranger Things Season 3 and avengers Endgame

Okay welcome to my crazy conspiracy that is probably wrong and you might be saying what do stranger things and avengers have in common? Fortnite. Now before you leave let me show you, so if you haven’t been keeping up or aren’t in the know(which I don’t blam you I don’t like really fortnite but here we are) fortnite has been doing collaborations with companies and making skins with some of their characters, and this is where the spoilers come in, three of these skins stick out to me. One and the first, Black Widow, now they didn’t make any skins for infinity war just for Endgame and the one they made was for specifically Black Widow and guess what, she dies(the Instagram post with her in it has the captain nothing last forever, which I probably a line I forgot exists but still). You know who else dies? Jim Hopper, he was very recently made into a fortnite skin along with the demegorgon(Definitely spelled that wrong) now this could be because they are the two most recognizable characters from that series and they probably don’t want the kids as skins because well they’re kids and you don’t want kids getting shot at and killed in a video game or just in general. And if you didn’t know in the stranger tings s3 mid credit scene there’s a demogorgon. Now of course my theory/rabbleings are most likely 98% wrong and totally batshit but still. It’s a thought