#keith stranger things

[wynnyfryd]

“Stee-ee-eeve,” Robin groans miserably into the Family Video countertop, voice muffled by her folded arms. “I’m gonna get fired.”

“What? Why?” Steve gives her a sharp look, because Robin just came out of the back office after a private conversation with Keith and oh god, if Robin gets fired then Steve will have to quit, and he hates job hunting, man, he really—

Robin lifts her head, leans forward on her elbows, and says in a rushed stage whisper, “I cannot stop being a total asshole to Keith!”

Steve huffs a laugh.

“It’s not funny!” she hisses. “Our very jobs are at stake!” Her hands reach up to tug the ends of her hair into two tight fists, and her eyes go wide with worry.

Okay. Steve can be a good friend. “What happened?”

“He pulled me back there to tell me that he’s- ugh” —Robin’s face looks like she just bit into moldy leftovers— “that he’s going into his dad’s insurance business and would I like to go to lunch with him to talk about insurance? Long term care insurance, Steve!”

Steve’s cracking up by the end of her rant, because her voice has cranked up to full volume and her hands are flapping all over the place like her wrists aren’t totally screwed on right and he really just loves his best friend so much.

“Yeah, yeah, keep laughing, pal.”

“Pal?” Steve laughs.

“Whatever! Anyway, so he says all of that to me, and my stupid brain-to-mouth filter just evaporates, apparently, because I look at him and suddenly cannot contain the PFFFT noise that wants to come out of me. Only I squeeze my mouth shut too tight, so instead, I end up making this high, crunchy snort sound like kkkrkrkrht to his face!”

Tears. There are tears pouring out of Steve’s nose. He’s doubled over laughing with his hands braced on his knees, and Robin whines “oh, my god!” and thumps him right in the middle of his spine.

“Ow!”

“Stop laughing and tell me what to do!”

“Okay! Jesus! Stop thumping me!”

“No!” And now Robin’s laughing, too, unleashing a flurry of blows all over his arms and ribs with her freakishly long fingers.

“Excuse me,” the stern, quivering voice of an old woman cuts through their slap fight. They turn in unison to see a mop of tight gray curls barely peeking over the candy display. (Oh, god. Robin’s gonna spend a whole week now talking about how Sophia Petrillo came in to return a video, he just knows it.) “Are either of you two going to assist me?”

[harringroveera]

Keith: Would a Joyce Byers please come to the front desk?

Joyce, arriving at the desk: Hi, is there a problem?

Keith *points to Jonathan, Billy, Will, El*: I believe they belong to you?

Joyce: I didn’t even bring you guys here with me—

[shares-a-vest]

Prompt: Unexpected Conversation (Discord Drabble)

"No, you have to push in and twist!"

"You jiggle it!"

Steve releases the set of keys from his tight grasp, leaving them to jangle in the stupid front door of stupid Family Video. Keith reaches for them – likely to prove his incorrect push-and-twist technique – but Steve bats his sweaty hand away.

This is all his fault, anyway. The guy is too much of a cheapskate to call a locksmith to replace the damn lock, even though whoever it is that owns Family Video would probably pay for it in the name of store security.

Just as Steve is about to elbow Keith out of the way (and stop him from breathing his morning coffee breath into his already buzzing ear) Robin comes running, her boots slapping hard on the pavement.

Steve screws his eyes shut as his best friend now huffs away directly into his right ear. They aren't even in their place of work yet!

"I... need... sex... advice!" Robin blurts out between laboured breaths.

"High-five, Buckley," Keith beams and Steve can just feel his hand hovering high over his head.

"A bit premature there, Keith," Robin admits, gulping away her breathlessness, "But I need pointers nonetheless. I need to be prepared, Steve!"

Steve can feel his eye twitching. He still isn't used to not only Keith knowing about Robin, but also being overly invested in her budding relationship with Vickie. He'd found out only about a month ago after walking in on Steve and Robin talking a mile a minute at each other about Vickie breaking up with her boyfriend.

And Keith was... cool with it? Something about him having a gay cousin who's his favourite...

Or at least Steve thinks that's what it was... He wasn't listening, his heart pounding out of his chest and all at the time.

"Not exactly the conversation I was expecting at 8am, Robs."

"If you're giving out sex advice," Keith begins low and leaning in even closer, "I'll take some too."

Robin rapidly taps at his arm, "It can be like a presentation."

He looks over to find her bouncing on her heels and nodding at Keith with great enthusiasm. Not breaking eye contact, Steve violently jiggles the stupid door.

"It's a push-twist, Dingus!"

[wheels-of-despair]

You've just handed in your application at Family Video, and Keith has demanded to know your top 3 movies. (Pre-1986, obviously.)

List your choices in the tags. You WILL be judged on this. Harshly.

[findafight]

Ooooooh you know who would have been an interesting vecna victim to have instead of Fred? Keith. He's not a new character so it wouldn't feel like he was created just to kill him off, but he's also minor and we don't really care about him. Give him a scene in family video with stobin again or something, establish he's still around and maybe struggling etc, and then kill him off. Idk how I just think it would have been neat for someone we actually know a little bit (and have since S2!) was killed off!!

[stevesbipanic]

Hahaha I saw someone make Steve and Keith as a crack ship and it's making me cackle.

[ghostlynimbus]

Alrighty

so after reviewing the character sheet for the supernatural AU I have 95 characters involved in the story or character backgrounds.

And 6 of them i haven't decided on creature types for yet.

Characters I definitely want to already be or at some point become something supernatural:

Alexei

Dmitri Antonov (Enzo)

Murray Bauman

Yuri Ismaylov

Characters that could be humans but also wouldn't it be fun if they were something supernatural:

Flo

Keith

[brettdoesdiscourse]

I can't imagine what Keith must be feeling. Like, imagine you're working your silly little arcade job. And then a group of lameass kids start harassing you at work. Which sucks, but you can deal with that.

And then you lose that job when they put in a mall, so you gotta move. And you find a good job at the video store. Then Robin comes in and defends Steve fucking Harrington to you. You give them jobs because sure. Whatever. Before you know it, those lameass kids turn up on the news, linked to possible cult activity. But before you can even bring yourself to think about that, the entire Earth splits in two.

[strangertfandom01]

Do you guys hope these two make an appearance in Season 5? I do!

[byler-alarmist]

Is Robin out to Keith? 🤔

ROBIN BUCKLEY in STRANGER THINGS 3.08 “The Battle of Starcourt”

[hychlorions]

(looks at the time) ooh... the bitching hour

[spirit-meets-the-b0ne]

God I love Dustin Henderson so much man, I know Will is in love with Mike because only a deeply down bad homosexual would be able to say Mike “is the heart” when Dustin is alive and in the party. Dustin is the one constantly mediating in S1 between Mike and Lucas, he’s even insecure of his own newness to the group when he conciliates. Because even though the party are all HIS best friends he is able to rationalize why they might have a hierarchy based on seniority. Mike makes it clear that isn’t the case. It’s partly why Dustin is quicker to accept Eleven and partly why he’s so open to including Max “as the new kid” because that was him once. Dustin’s iconic “she’s our friend and she’s crazy!” Dustin and Lucas having parallel deviations from their code of honor in ST2 and Dustin being (so dramatic ik) literally ready to fall on the sword for his misdoings. Dustin basically involving Steve out of necessity but then cultivating that relationship to make Steve a good friend, Steve who had the shittiest friends in high school and attention for all the wrong reasons. Steve never had a true friend in his life and then some 12 year old basically gave him a crash course. In ST3 when Dustin earnestly challenges Steve’s socially conditioned need to be seen as cool only for Steve to become bffs with a band geek. A band geek who is also a lesbian that Steve would rather be seen as a rizzless hack of a womanizer than out her to anybody, even Dustin. All of Dustin and Steve. Dustin going from calling Steve a douchebag, to Eddie saying the kid worships him and thinks he’s a total badass. Dustin who in ST4 is once again demolishing social norms of high school vs middle school because FUCK, his friend is in middle school! His friend Erica, his comrade Lady Applejack, is a black girl in junior high and he dgaf what anyone thinks about it. ALL OF DUSTIN AND ERICA. Dustin teaching Erica to embrace her inner nerd, to Erica staunchly declaring “I’ve bled with him!” When asked if she knows Dustin. Dustin who is the FIRST person that Max goes to when shit hits the fan in ST4 because god damn dude Dustin is the heart. Dustin’s unwavering support of Eddie even when the evidence is stacked against him, Dustin always believed in Eddie Munson. Dustin is the only one who truly offers Wayne condolences. He is the friend of all friends. Dustin is constantly carrying the party through crisis and discomfort, he’s dedicated, he’s unabashedly caring, and he’s the character that is able to socially move across the board in every direction. I fuckin love this little curly haired drama king because these geeks would be LOST without him!!! If Dustin isn’t the heart; he’s the Central Nervous System, he’s the nucleus, he’s fucking vital to not only the party but every other tertiary character of importance. He’s constantly inspiring and providing direction. He’s a goofball, he’s wise beyond his years, he’s a lover and he’s a fighter, he always has a plan and he always has a bad idea, he’s the voice of reason and the resounding falsetto alarm of things gone wrong, he’s never done anything wrong ever in his life, one time something ate his cat but besides that. He’s my heart of the show damn it!

[shares-a-vest]

Prompt: Working together (Discord Drabble)

"Dude!" Keith argues, chopping his hand through the air, "That makes absolutely zero sense!"

Dustin shakes his head.

"Jesus Christ," Steve grumbles, pinching his nose and looking away from the scene currently unfolding mid-way down the comedy-drama aisle.

"What's going on?" Robin asks, rolling the wheely chair straight into him.

He yelps, catching himself on the computer keyboard and mashing the keys. But she ignores him, instead looking over the top of her 'work glasses' (gaudy, thick purple frames that contain no lenses) to Keith and Dustin. The pair are now in a silent stand-off, arms folded.

"I told him," Steve starts through gritted teeth, "If I got him a job here, he couldn't just waltz in with all his ideas about how shit Keith is at organising the place."

Robin grabs his wrist, preventing him from further flailing about as he gestures to his young friend.

"Wait 'til Keith sees Henderson's typed proposal," she smirks.

"What!"

[sofiiel]

🤣 First thing I imagined was Keith getting mistaken for Steve, probably by Argyle, who's never seen Steve before and is going off of a vague description.

He's looking for Steve to help out with some Upside Down, Demo-something mess.

Argyle's practically dragging a confused Keith out of the video store, while the poor guy is nearly shouting that he isn't Steve.

"It's ok to be scared, dude. I totally get it, but your assistance is needed." Argyle saying.

"I got just the thing to calm you down, my dude." he adds.

Keith's still as confused as ever, but after a while it dawns on him that someone actually mistook him for ladykiller gorgeous Steve Harrington, and he just doesn't fight it anymore.

Keith has assumed he's being hauled off to a party or babes or something and assumes the role of Steve, trying to impersonate him, and it's just awful.

Argyle can't tell though because he doesn't know what Steve acts or sounds like.

Argyle returns to Jonathan and Nancy with a proud, victorious smile on his face. "I found Steve." he proclaims.

Keith gives an awkward wave.

"Keith?" Nancy questions.

"No, his names Steve remember." Argyle says, turning his gaze to Jonathan, "Your lady's got a bad memory, short term memory loss. I've got an aunt who-"

"That-that's not Steve, man." Jonathan stammers, while Nancy covers her mouth to hold in a laugh.

"Sure it is, tall, thick brown hair, dark eyes, looks a little bratty." Argyle repeated.

"That's Kieth, Argyle. Trust us, we know." Nancy tries to explain.

"Well, then, who's Steve?" Argyle asked.

"I am?" Steve voices as he arrives with Robin and Dustin.

He's standing behind Argyle and Keith. Steve's expression reads, "do I even want to know?"

Meanwhile, Argyle gives a silent "ooooh" and turns to Jonathan, pointing over his shoulder at Steve, "he makes more sense." he says with a nod.

Write a piece about a case of mistaken identity

[starch1ldz]

Me seeing Maxley on my fyp: oh they feel familiar.... Hmm

HMMM

OH

Oh no..