also how fast do you think michael shut down the nickname “mike”?
like do you think he shut it down before adam even said it?
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*adam thinking “i’m gonna say ‘hey mike’ to michael hehe”*
adam approaches michael and opens his mouth to speak but before he can utter even a syllable michael cuts in with
“absolutely not. do not continue executing the action you have planned.”
and adams all like, “what the hell man, i haven’t even said anything??”
michael just deadpans and says, “you didn’t have to we co-inhabit the same mind and body. and i’m not planning on letting that thought leave your brain.”
adam throws up his hands like ‘whatever’ and walks away, cursing at ‘mike’ in his head.
“i can still hear what you are thinking, adam. it’s michael.” michael calls out.
“okay! whatever, michael!” adam yells back, still cursing at him in his head but cursing at “michael” not “mike”
One of my favorite trope for Steddie is Steve hunting down Eddie when the kids join Hellfire and giving him a long list of dos and donts.
At first Eddie thinks he’s just being a prick, and worried he’s going to turn the nerds into freaks like him. Especially when he says not to mention drugs in front of Dustin.
But then he starts pulling out lists of monsters that can’t be in campaigns. And like what??? Why can’t he use demagorgons? They were gonna be in the next combat! He’s tempted to ignore the warnings, in fact he’s all set to, but something about Steve’s face when he was laying it all out haunts him. Something so deadly serious about it. So first he decides to test the waters to see if he’s full of shit.
When the session starts, he makes a throwaway comment, “you’re acting like there’s a mindflayer around the corner.”
All the kids freeze but Wheeler especially looks like he’s going to be sick. He even grabs at the bracelet around his wrist. The one he always said his best friend made him before he moved.
Eddie curses himself for even trying to test it out after that, and immediately bullshits the whole session so he can scrap any hint of demogorgans from the campaign.
After that session he drives straight to Harringtons house and demands they go over all the things he can’t include again, in detail, while he takes notes.
He doesn’t know what’s going on with these freshmen, but he knows trauma when he sees it and well he’d gotten attached to the gremlins.
When he leaves that night, he thinks Steve is looking at him with approval. Like he trusts him with their well-being now.
one of my favorite feelings is starting a new show and having that: ….are they…having gay… sexual tension?? And then logging onto tumblr dot com and seeing gifsets that show several thousand other people also agree that it was, indeed, gay sexual tension