#steve and robin are platonic soulmates

[xxbottlecapx]

One of my favorite things about the steddie fics I've read is that pretty much every single one of them that's from Steve's perspective will have at least one time where Steve thinks like, a fact or something, and it's immediately followed by "Robin said" or "Robin told him"

I just love that we all unanimously agree that Robin is Steve's source of education and news, like everything he knows about world events ties into her yapping at him about something.

[kittythelitter]

Thinking about Steve getting disowned by his parents.

And he's talking to Eddie and Eddie calls him "Steve fucking Harrington." And Steve's like. "I'm not a Harrington anymore :( They took everything from me including my name." And he was like. Understandably sad about his name and his identity and the fact that his parents don't love him and all that.

And Eddie. In an attempt to cheer him is all flirty and offers his own name up for Steve to use. Steve sad laughs and says that if Eddie wants to propose he needs to do better than that.

While they're having this conversation Dustin is lurking and hears this and is outraged that Eddie thinks he can just. Give Steve his name without earning it. Steve should be a Henderson. He's basically Dustin's brother already.

Dustin complains about this to Will in front of Joyce and Joyce is like. Not if i can adopt him first.

Will mentions it to Lucas and Erica is like. Bitch he should be honored to be a Sinclair! And she tells her friends about it in front of Robin who's like. Excuse me. We are twins. He needs to be a Buckley.

Meanwhile Lucas mentioned it to Max and she's always down to compete with Dustin and also. Steve is her brother too asshat.

She complains to El about it. Hopper overhears and is like. Steve is disowned? Where's he living? I already adopted one kid in the past few years what's another.

Over the course of the next week everyone has decided that Steve is their family and he should live with them and/or take their last name.

They're all getting together just because they're all a bit codependent and need to get all together every few weeks or else they all start worrying.

Steve and Eddie are running late for whatever reason. (overslept. Steve's trying to do his hair. Steve found Eddie's 5-in-1 doesn't really matter except Steve and Eddie are together and Steve's been staying at Eddie and Wayne's new government issued house.)

By the time they arrive everyone is bickering, varying from Hopper quietly saying that Joyce already has two kids wouldn't it be better for Steve to have a parent who can give him more attention, to Max and Robin having a silent standoff to Erica and Dustin fully wrestling on the ground biting and scratching.

And Steve's like. "HEY! What the fuck is going on?"

And no one wants to admit how wild they've all gone in fighting to adopt Steve. So there's this awkward beat of silence before Dustin and Robin both break down and yell at Steve that he's their family and he should take their respective last name.

Steve is so overwhelmed he starts crying. And almost none of them have seen him cry. Like. Nancy and Robin. Maybe. And only when he's been pushed to his limit.

So everyone's like. Did we break him? Did we offend him? Did we accidentally remind him of his pain?

And he's just. Never felt this loved before.

Maybe he chooses one. Maybe he chooses all of them into a really long string of names. Maybe they develop some kind of elaborate competition to decide who earns Steve as family. Maybe there's some kind of rotation in place. Tbh I'd love to hear other people's ideas.

But I do know that the day it becomes legal, Steve's last name and Eddie's last name become the same. Maybe it's a hyphen. Maybe Eddie charges his name to Buckley-Byers-Henderson-Hopper-Mayfield-Sinclair-Wheeler (alphabetical was decided to be the most fair).

And no matter what Steve is so so loved and everyone makes sure he knows it.

[munsonshire]

Steve: Everyone has had sex over the summer

Steve: *looks at Robin* except you

Robin: And you, dingus

Steve: Excuse me?!

Eddie: *out of nowhere* We could change that *wink*

Yes, this is from sex education, I liked the scene😭

Pizza

[flowers-that-sing]

literally steve harrington and eddie munson

[threewaywithdelusion]

Steve Loves Robin, Pre Capital P

When Steve works at Scoops Ahoy, he asks out damn near every girl who walks into the place. 

He asks out the girls who just graduated alongside him, the girls who are a year older than him, the girls who are old enough to never have gone to school with him and not remember King Steve or his quick and shameful fall from grace. 

Every single one of them says no. They all know they’re too good for him, a lowlife with a dead-end job who once ruled Hawkins High. 

Robin draws tally after tally on the “you suck” side of the whiteboard and Steve can’t help but feel that she’s more right than she knows. 

~~~

Steve’s confession of love to Robin is in an unglamorous, unromantic public bathroom after they’ve both vomited the drugs mostly out of their system. After they’ve been tortured together. After Steve realizes that Robin is the type of person who will stay behind and hold the door with Steve to allow two kids she hardly knows the chance to escape.

She’s the type of girl to laugh while tied to a chair in a torture chamber. The type of girl to spit in a Russian soldier’s face. The type of girl to give up information, not because she’s being threatened, but because Steve is.

She tries to protect Steve.

No one ever tries to protect Steve. Steve is the shield. He’s the one who puts himself between Nancy and the demogorgon, between Lucas and Billy, between Dustin and the demodogs. 

It feels weird to be the one being protected for once. 

It feels almost like being loved. 

At least he thinks so. What would Steve know about love? His parents have never loved him, Nancy never loved him, certainly none of the girls he’s dated have ever loved him. The kids like him, like how he drives them places, like the free ice cream he gives them and how he lets them sneak through the back into the movie theater. 

But Steve thinks Robin — brave, sarcastic, beautiful Robin — might love him. 

Someday. Maybe. If he’s good enough. 

She turns him down. Of course she does. But it’s actually kind of nice, knowing it’s not about him. Robin doesn’t like him because Robin likes girls and Steve isn’t a girl. Not because Steve is too cool or not cool enough, because he’s stupid, because he’s fake, because he’s bullshit. 

Robin says she likes him. 

She doesn’t mean it that way, but she doesn’t have to. 

Robin Buckley, one of the best people Steve has ever met, likes him. 

He’s never letting her go.

~~~

Three nights after Starcourt, Robin shows up at Steve’s front door at two in the morning. 

“I can’t sleep,” she says. 

Steve doesn’t think he’s slept since 1983. 

He invites Robin in and leads her up to his room, where she hesitates by the bed. 

I have a girl in my room, says the part of Steve’s brain that’s used to registering these things. She’s only in her pajamas, ratty shorts and a t-shirt so big it falls off one shoulder, revealing freckled collarbones. She looks so pretty, and part of Steve still wants to kiss her, wants to belong to this girl who followed him into hell and held his hand when he was scared. 

But she looks nervous, watching Steve like she isn’t quite sure she trusts him. Like after all they’ve been through — after Russians and monsters from another dimension — what scares her is being a girl, wanted by a boy. 

Steve wrenches his eyes away from her. “I can sleep on the floor.”

This is going to hurt like hell. Steve’s head hasn’t stopped hurting for a single second, no matter how many painkillers he’s taken, and he’s pretty sure his broken ribs won’t do well on the hard ground. 

But he’ll do anything to keep her from being scared. He’ll do anything to keep her here. To not have to be alone.

Robin’s shoulders drop a little with relief, but she still says “I didn’t come to your house to kick you out of your own bed.”

Steve watches from the corner of his eyes as she climbs into his bed, under the covers on the side he never uses. 

It was Nancy’s side, once upon a time. 

“C’mon, Dingus,” Robin says, chin tilted a little like she’s trying to be brave. “I trust you to be a gentleman.”

He climbs into bed carefully, staying a foot away from her, not crossing any lines. He can hear her breathing in the dark, steady and even, and it’s enough to lull him to sleep. 

When he wakes in the morning, he’s wrapped around her. Her head is on his shoulder and she looks peaceful. The sun is up, and Steve can’t remember the last time he slept for so many hours in a row. 

Steve makes extra sure his hands haven’t come to rest anywhere Robin wouldn’t want him touching. He needs to keep her, this girl who teases him and trusts him and helps him sleep through the night. 

Robin sleeps over every night after that.

[idlyfretting]

they are longing to stray

(Read of Ao3)

snippet from chap 2:

“Fuck, not again.”

Robin blinked, the smile falling off her face. 

Shit. Steve hadn’t meant to say that. He really hadn’t meant to say that. “I don’t–”

“What do you mean?” 

He shook his head. “Did you have fun? You mentioned checking out that new–”

“Steve, what do you mean?” She cut him off again. 

Steve was pretty good at putting his foot in his mouth at very unfortunate moments. But this definitely took the cake. 

“I didn’t… I didn’t realize it was getting that serious,” he tried. “I didn’t think she–”

“What? Liked me back?” 

“No,” he said quickly. And then before she could take that the wrong way and interrupt him again, he stuttered out, “I didn’t think you liked her?” It came out more like a question.

Now she looked confused. The red in her cheeks was getting brighter. 

“What are you talking about? You knew I had a crush on her. We talked about it a few weeks ago– You know I’ve liked her since before we left, Steve. What the hell?” 

“I thought it was just a crush. I didn’t realize it was bigger than that.” That was true at least. 

“You didn’t think it was real?” She was talking louder now, not quite yelling but Steve knew where this was headed. Fuck, he had fucked this up. 

“That’s not what I–”

“Nancy and I being together just isn’t a believable concept? Is that what you're saying?”

“No, of course no–”

“Because why would Nancy want to be with me, right? Dweeby Robin Buckley and kickass future journalist Nancy Wheeler, not a likely pair. That just doesn’t add up.”

“Robin, that’s not what–”

She wouldn’t let him talk. “Of course it doesn’t. Who the fuck do I think I am, trying to date her?” She threw up her hands, and looked around the apartment as if trying to find someone to answer her. Her eyes were shiny and Steve felt his stomach lurch.

He needed to fix this. He needed to fix it now .

“Robin, stop.”

“Why? You obviously don’t think I deserve–”

“Robin!” His voice felt loud in the apartment. All of their neighbors were abnormally quiet. No slamming doors echoed down the hallway. No voices or footsteps or mysterious bangs. All he could hear was his and Robin’s breathing and a high pitched ringing that was probably contained to his own head.

He waited a moment, but Robin stayed quiet. She lifted her hand to run her fingers through her hair in a move that so resembled the way Steve would do it that he felt his stomach flip again. 

“Robin, you deserve the fucking world. You deserve to be as happy as you can possibly be.” He wanted to step forward, pull her closer and make her listen. But something felt off. Regardless of how often he screwed things up, Steve was usually pretty good at reading a room. Something was wrong here, tense in a way things usually weren’t between him and Robin. He didn’t want to fuck things up more than he already had. Standing still seemed like the best option, even if he didn’t know why.

“There is no one on this planet who is too good for you.”

They both let out a simultaneous breath. He should have felt comforted by that, but the tension in the room hadn’t gone away. And looking at Robin, he noticed her hands were still clenched tight. 

“Then what–” She stopped and shook her head. “I still don’t get it.”

“Don’t get–”

“What did you mean by that? ‘Not again.’ What do you mean?” She looked at him with a strange expression on her face. Steve didn’t recognize it. He hated not knowing what Robin was thinking. Sometimes it felt like the Russians had accidentally mind-melded them together in that bunker. He always knew what she was thinking. 

“I just… I don’t want you to get hurt.”

“And you think Nancy is going to hurt me?”

Steve opened his mouth but nothing came out. He didn’t want to say it. He couldn’t, because it would come out all wrong and twisted. And he wasn’t even really sure if he was thinking right, logically at least. And was it even his place? Did he have any ground to stand on when he’d fucked up so much way back when. 

Was he even allowed to feel upset?

Robin waited a few more seconds, but when Steve stayed quiet, she continued.

“You think it’s going to be like how you were with Nancy.” Robin shook her head and looked away from him. “Steve, it’s not the same. We’re older now, not dumb teenagers dealing with shit we shouldn’t have been dealing with in the first place.” 

He wasn’t sure how he was supposed to take that. Which one of them was she calling dumb, him or Nancy? Probably both. But it felt more like him. He’d been the one who everyone else had pretty much agreed was the main fuck-up in that scenario. Steve was the douchey jock who had no idea how to date someone who wasn’t as much of an asshole as he was. And Nancy definitely had a better head on her shoulders. 

He was the dumb one.

Robin still wasn’t looking at him. 

“This isn’t some weird leftover jealousy thing, right?”

Oh, fuck that.

[myrkky]

platonic soulmates Stobin

[steviesbicrisis]

To me it’s the fact that Steve assumed Robin had a license but still woke up 3 hours before his work shift to drive her to school everyday.

That is not a plot hole everybody, that is just the kind of person Steve Harrington is.

[tubesock86]

“Rob, how do you always manage to kick off all the blankets?”

“I get hot, sue me,”

“I can see that, Rob, are those hearts on your bra?”

“Steven, if you ever look at my boobs again I will blackmail you into never showing your face in this town again. You know I could,”

“You’d miss me too much,”

[dwobbitfromtheshire]

The party, of course, immediately accepted Will and Robin when they came out. Dustin couldn't help but ask the question because he's a nosy little shit.

Dustin: *looking at Robin* If you had to pick a man, though, who would you go for?

Robin: Steve. No contest. Only in a parallel universe, though. And parallel me still has to like women. There's no universe where I'm straight. Not that I have anything against heterosexuality.

Steve: Eddie. *everyone stares at him* Oh, was that question not directed at both of us?

Eddie: It's okay, big boy. If I were gay, I'd go for you, too.

Argyle: *whispering* Oh, man, Steve and Eddie don't know about bisexuality.

Steve: You whispered that to me.

Argyle: Oh, sorry. *turns to Jonathan* Oh, man, Steve and Eddie don't know that bisexuality exists.

[xxbottlecapx]

Platonic stobin, steddie, and ronance headcanons 

Robin and Steve are so codependent that it honestly unnerves the rest of the party. 

Like Steve will wait outside the bathroom door if Robin is going to the restroom. Most of the time he’ll literally just go inside the restroom with her and sit on the floor. They have absolutely no regard for each others personal space. 

They shower together. Not once do they think it’s weird. If Robin walks in on Steve changing she’ll have no reaction. 

They sleep in the same bed. They change in the same room. They share clothes. When they go shopping for outfits they both try the outfit on to make sure it fits both of them. 

If they can’t spend the night with each-other they will call eachother and fall asleep on the phone because they’ll both genuinely cry themselves to sleep otherwise. They will share everything. They share milkshakes, they share toothbrushes sometimes (Dustin finds out and tells them it’s disgusting. They don’t care.) 

someone on Tiktok said something about Robin and Steve sharing chewing gum and yes, they would absolutely do that, and then they wonder why people think they’re dating. 

If Robin has to leave Steve for long periods of time she’ll leave her cologne at his house because it comforts him. They cuddle religiously. They will seriously share anything.

 If they don’t get a set number of hugs in a day from each other they’ll both be in terrible moods. Sometimes Eddie or Nancy will find them hugging in the middle of one of the family video isles. Why? Just because. They stick to each other like koalas. 

They’ll share a plate when they eat, share utensils. 

Eddie and Nancy eventually only go on double dates because if they try to plan alone time with their partners their partners will accidentally ruin it by bringing the other along. 

When they have sleepovers together, Eddie and Nancy will get kicked out of bed. Until they’re able to buy a bed that fits all four of them, they just let Steve and Robin take one bed and Nancy and Eddie take the other. 

Steve and Robin are actively planning their wedding together. Nancy and Eddie find it hilarious that they don’t understand why people think they’re dating. They try to explain that people don’t just marry their best friends but Steve and Robin think they’re being stupid. 

Eventually Nancy and Eddie decide they’ll probably get married to each other as well, since it’s not like they legally can marry their real partners anyways. And even if it were legal, Eddie and Nancy are almost certain Robin and Steve would still just marry each other. 

Robin and Steve have engagement rings. Robin has the more “masculine” ring and Steve has the more “feminine” one. They show off their rings with upmost pride. Robin will call Steve her fiancé. He is absolutely okay with it. They call eachother every pet name under the sun. Steve will absolutely sometimes refer to Robin as “love of my life” 

once Jonathan asks Nancy if she’s jealous and she laughs at him. Looking from afar, she totally should be, but she’s not, and eddie is in the same boat as her. 

One time eddie and Nancy try to separate robin and Steve when they’re sleeping. It doesn’t go well. 

If you think Steve and Robin sober are clingy, Robin and Steve drunk/high are complete menaces. It’s like they actually hide how in synch they are, and when they’re drunk they stop hiding. They will literally act like they have a hive mind. Like their brains are connected. They’ll have entire conversations where they say the exact same thing at the exact same time, finish each other’s sentences to an uncanny degree, el actually tries to figure out if they also have powers because it genuinely doesn’t seem real. 

Sometimes robin will shove herself into one of Steve’s shirts while he is wearing it. They just. Share shirts sometimes. You know that “our get along shirt” meme? Yes but they actively choose and enjoy it. 

Steve and Robin will coordinate their outfits so they’re always matching. 

Robin knows Steve’s social security number. She helps him fill out paperwork at the doctors. 

When Nancy originally tried to ask Robin on a date, she got too nervous to respond so Steve ended up scheduling the date for her, to Nancy’s absolute delight (she found it hilarious) 

Steve will tell Robin in-depth details about his and eddie’s sex life. She will do the exact same thing about her and Nancy. There are no secrets. 

No. Secrets. 

Robin helps Steve shave is legs because he didn’t know how at first and it just kinda becomes a thing they do. 

One time, Robin has to go away to visit her grandparents in Italy and Steve is such a mess that he has to stay at Eddie’s place. He spends the majority of the week trying to talk to Robin on the phone whenever he has the chance and he’s absolutely miserable when he’s not. It’s honestly kind of heartbreaking to watch.  Robin is miserable about it too. 

When they finally get to see each other again Robin completely forgets to say hi to Nancy too and just slams into Steve and refuses to let go for hours. 

Sometimes robin and Steve forget they are not the same person and they’ll call Eddie and Nancy “our boyfriend” or “our girlfriend” eventually Eddie and Nancy call each other girlfriend and boyfriend. Not because they actually like each other that way but because they spend enough time together by proxy for them to get away with it. 

Eddie and Nancy become really close friends simply because their partners rarely let them be alone. The entire party is still convinced they’re dating, even when Robin and Steve come out and tell them that they’re dating Eddie and Nancy.

[kittythelitter]

Thinking about Robin, Steve, Eddie and others seeing the US tour of La Cage Aux Folles.

I love la cage aux folles so much and spend a lot of time thinking about it, the birdcage, and all it's various versions and adaptations and like. It did a US tour from 84-86. And yes I'm making this about my blorbos if I wanted to discuss real queer history seriously I wouldn't be discussing it on the blorbo website.

Just like. A tony award winning musical about a gay couple who own a drag club pretending to be a heterosexual couple (using drag) so their son can make a good impression on his fiancee's republican parents. It's French. It's queer. It's got some of the most iconic queer songs of all time (imho) and. It was showing in Chicago in the summer of 1986.

Just imagine for a moment queer former theater/adjacent kids (no matter how you headcanon them they're both dramatic bitches with hobbies that had some theater overlap) Robin and Eddie finding out that theres a gay Tony award winning musical coming to Chicago.

And, for Robin. It's French! Based on a French play! And there's a movie from the late 70s she can get her hands on (Keith lets Robin be in charge of any fancy/foreign/art film acquisitions.) So of course she gets a copy and forces her bestie and their closest gay friend (who may or may not be mutually pining for said bestie) to watch it with her.

And Steve isn't sold on seeing a French musical or watching this French movie especially because Robin thinks it's funny to not tell him anything about it except that they're going to see the musical and that they're watching the movie first so he doesn't get confused.

So they watch the movie and because it's subtitles Steve is like. Not quite getting it. (he's dyslexic and she couldn't get a dub). But like with Rocky Horror when he watches certain scenes he Gets It.

Meanwhile musicals aren't really Eddie's thing (anymore) but he trusts Robin and he knows it's good and queer so he's willing to bear with her.

And then seeing I Am What I Am performed live Changes Him. He immediately starts working on a metal cover. Not that he thinks he'd necessarily be able to play it safely anywhere. But he wants to take this song which is. Everything. And make a version that is his own. For himself. For who he is.

(every single drag scene leaves a lasting impact on who Steve is and who he allows himself to be.)

All in all everyone is glad they went, and Robin gets away with showing them like 4 more foreign films after that before they catch on that they're not all going to be like la cage aux folles.

When the birdcage comes out they all go see it together.

[munsonshire]

What if Vecna went after people who were virgins?

First off, this is gonna be based off my headcanon that Eddie is a virgin ofc. And if you ask, its from Teen Wolf

Fruity 4 panicking:

Nancy: I think I got it, the something that all the victims have in common

Robin: and what is it?

Nancy: They were all virgins

Eddie: holy shit im gonna die, IM TOO YOUNG FOR THIS, THIS IS NOT FAIR

Steve: Eddie whats wrong?

Eddie: you know who else is a virgin? Me, im a virgin and you know what, this means that my lack of sexual experience is now a threat to my life *screaming while also on the verge of tears*

Nancy: Eddie calm down

Eddie: No, I need to have sex like today, someone needs to have sex with me like today. Alright?

Nancy: seriously Eds its fine nothing is gonna happen

Robin: BUT HE HAS A POINT NANCY

Eddie: SOMEONE NEEDS TO SEX ME RIGHT NOW

Steve: *watching the chaos unfold* I can help with that

Eddie: WHAT?

Nancy: WHAT?

Robin: WHAT? YOU'VE HAD YOUR BI CRISIS NOW??? OF ALL TIMES, NOW???

Steve: *facepalms* meant it as a joke actually

Robin: What a time to joke Steve, Eddie and I are gonna doe and you're joking, IMMA DIE, Imma die because i've never been able to ask a pretty girl out because GIRLS. And now im gonna doe because im a coward, thats brilliant, by the way Vecna seems a little homophobic to me, just a little

Nancy: Robin stop, no one is gonna die, we will solve this and everything will be alright

There is a bit of silence

Eddie: Robin, if we die can we get burried together please? Like, two graves, one next to the other

Robin: *nearly crying* yes, I dont wanna be alone

*they hug while they cry*

Steve to Nancy: we gotta find a way to solve this, or else I can see Eddie already planning his funeral

Masterlist

[paperbackribs]

Oh post of origin

[gr3yearl]

robin buckley as chappell roan and steve as her backup dancer and platonic soulmate (obviously)

something something they go to the vmas, perform, look cool as fuck whilst doing it, and eddie munson, lead guitarist of corroded coffin, is physically incapable of not making a fool of himself on social media, much to his manager's chagrin

everything goes along swimmingly between the two and with robin's career until someone, probably a rabid corroded coffin fan, digs into steve and discovers robin and steve are married, and have been for years

cue an extensive media circus where a not-small minority of robin's fandom cancels her for lying about being a lesbian. robin and steve work together to search for the patience to explain midwestern homophobia and lavender marriages to 12 year olds on tiktok and are reasonably successful, much to their surprise

roughly half a year after the fiasco had died down -- besides the occasional over-zealous kid trying to remind people why their fav is #problematic -- eddie tweets 'i <3 sleeping with married men', followed by a frantic reply of 'THERE WAS MNEAT TO BE A PICTURE WITH THIS', before he finally manages to post the intended picture of him and steve

robin, Shit-Stirrer Supreme, innocuously posts a week later a wedding picture of her and steve, captioned 'the only man i'd trust to always be faithful to me' and eddie quite publicly unfollows robin

the groupchat with all three of them in it is full of screenshots and videos of reactions for them to laugh over, reaching its peak when robin features on a corroded coffin song

[idlyfretting]

Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington, Past Nancy Wheeler/Jonathan Byers - Relationship, Past Nancy Wheeler/Steve Harrington Characters: Steve Harrington, Robin Buckley, Nancy Wheeler, Jonathan Byers, Original Characters Additional Tags: Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington Are Best Friends, Codependent Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington, Complicated Relationships, Dating, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Steve Harrington Is a Mess, and doesn't know what do with his feelings, Implied/Referenced Cheating, Angst, Post-Vecna (Stranger Things), Post-Season/Series 04, Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington Are Roommates, they are also in new york, Lesbian Robin Buckley, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Bisexual Nancy Wheeler, Robin Buckley Needs a Hug, Steve Harrington Needs a Hug

Summary:

He missed her.

God, this is worse than a break up. He would have laughed at himself if he wasn’t so fucking sad.

It was like Robin had taken half his soul with him when she’d stormed out of their apartment two Saturdays ago. Like she’d packed her duffle, snagged her jacket off of the counter, and ripped his arms off on her way out the door. He didn’t feel like a whole person anymore.

One of their coworkers at the coffee shop had called them ‘unhealthily codependent’ once. Steve thought he understood what they’d meant now.

or

Steve and Robin have a fight they both should have seen coming.