#in todays book of i am tired of most common steddie tropes lol
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Everyone loves the 'eddie has been crushing on Steve off and on since sophomore year' trope but honestly love me an Eddie who is like "yeah Harrington is hot, I've got eyes, but prep isnt my type" and honestly just doesn't think about Steve that much! Outside of, like, school gossip, especially during/after Steve's fall from grace. Really kind of love the idea of Eddie not giving the time of day to Steve up until his little sheep come to him every day weaving wild tales about the shit Steve has done, and even then it isn't really until he sees Steve go teeth first at a demobat that he starts reevaluating Steve and seeing him in a new light.
Because Eddie honestly kind of gives the impression that he's just as much caught up in his own world view as Steve was pre upside down/even pre S2. And like I know that we love Steve but Steve hasn't really done anything to give most of like his classmates any reason to love him aside from the generic jock stuff lbr. Especially for someone like eddie who is extremely anticomformist to the point of monologuing on the lunch tables.
And it's not so much a 'love at first bite' (heh) situation either but just all the things during and after s4 and the friendship they develop that makes Eddie reevaluate not only Steve but his world view and what he wants from the world! It makes him think. Fighting interdimensional monsters has a way of bringing out the best and the worst in people. And Eddie finds he likes what he's seeing. I'm not necessarily saying I want a slow burn either, but having them both have time to be like "huh maybe this person isn't what I thought i would want but he is want i want, isn't he?"
#steddie#in todays book of i am tired of most common steddie tropes lol#okay but here in the tags gotta be honest#i think its a bit disingenuous to eddies character to say hes been pining hopelessly for steve for years#like i like it sometimes but its so common and im like????#non-comformist/anarcho adjacent eddie???? pining after a doucheh jock romantically???? for years????#nah i dont see it#i do very much enjoy 'steve is sexy and i am INFURIATED by this' eddie tho#i just dont think eddie would really view him romantically until he gets visible proof the man has changed!#like he basically says that with his munson doctrine thing#something something if eddie survives/survived i think he would actually make a very good foil to steve#and him having to get over his internal biases but from the other end of the spectrum#but thats a dif post#stranger things#steve#eddie#steve harrington#eddie munson
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