#platonic Eddie & Nancy and romantic steddie agenda ❤️

[loveinhawkins]

DOES STEVE????? THINK ED AND NANCY ARE A THING?????????

(context is the last line of this part of my fic. Steve says to Eddie ���If any of us was going to be a romantic, it’d be you.”)

haha no! i want to reassure you that Steve 100% does NOT think that lmao

there’s a lot kind of going unsaid in that scene but i saw it more as Steve calling Eddie out on his hypocrisy a bit. like Eddie refers to himself as “these cynical eyes” when talking about an “unambiguous sign of true love”, and steve’s sorta fondly amused by that cause, like, would a true cynic be trying to make observations about love when the world could be ending?

& in that scene in my fic i think steve is also admiring Eddie’s descriptions of Hawkins & how he’s still finding hope in things. plus steve might not know what Mordor is, but imo he has time to mull over the quote & secretly thinks that maybe there is something inherently romantic about declaring ‘the shire is burning’, in how Eddie uses stories, how he sees the world. ❤️