#yes aria is from my town shush

[bogwitchlesbian]

More ramblings about my Steve’s sister oc feel free to ignore

Her name is Aria Juliette Harrington, her and Steve are twins and she was raised in England with their mother and stepfather.

Mr Harrington was only married to their mother for a few years, and Steve was mostly raised in England even after the divorce. He faked an American accent when he moved in with his dad and eventually just sorta, forgot his original accent. Aria teases him for it endlessly.

When Steve’s dad got remarried and decided to start a business, he wanted the perfect family image and that didn’t include being a deadbeat dad and a divorcee, so he fought for custody of Steve (read: bribed several officials and social services) and threatened Steve to pretend his family didn’t exist, and to call his new stepmum mother.

Aria and Steve remained as close as they could, only seeing each other on holidays and communicating through letters.

Aria is, as Steve would put it, batshit insane. She forms judgements of people super quickly and holds grudges like you wouldn’t believe. She does NOT like Nancy or Jonathan after Steve told her what went down and no amount of Steve telling her that they’re cool now will change her mind.

She’s also super sweet and caring and is very maternal to their half siblings, but has a fairly short temper and while she would never turn her temper on her siblings, she has no issue with fighting anyone else.

She’s been to see several therapists and they’ve all mentioned some stuff about a personality disorder and emotional childhood neglect but her mother won’t hear of it, so she just goes untreated which. Isn’t great.

It’s especially not great when she’s 19 and steals her stepdads car and hits a dude and almost kills him. No one knows what happened there apart from the judge and her lawyer, but she gets a reduced sentence and the guy himself goes to jail for a verrrry long time, and everyone just sort of decides it was for a good reason and looks the other way.

Steve is very hurt that aria won’t tell him what went down with her and the guy she hit, but aria doesn’t want to upset Steve by telling him, bc it would absolutely change everything for him. The way he views his childhood, the way he views her, and she can’t have that (yes the guy did what you think he did no I won’t go into detail)

Once aria gets out of jail her mum decides that England isn’t the best place for her and talks to her paternal grandmother about sending her to Hawkin’s. She goes, and is absolutely not what anyone expects Steve’s sister to be like.

She’s funny, sarcastic, and not willing to put up with any disrespect from any of the kids to Steve and openly tells them to get their shit together. She’s not easy to get along with, but she also clearly makes Steve super happy, so they put up with her.

Plus she can cook super well, so that’s a plus.

She always seems to be making something; food, embroidery, crochet, knitting, her own clothing. There’s always something in her hands and she is always happy to explain to el what she’s doing.

She isn’t close to anyone in the party but el, who appreciates not being treated like a secret weapon, and being taught new skills that have nothing to do with her usefulness or her powers.

Aria knows all about her powers and the upside down, though, since Steve tells her everything. She just doesn’t bring it up.

She ends up making super good friends with Eddie who is a fan of her quick wit and unwillingness to let anyone else’s opinion get to her.

She openly rolls her eyes at people trying to call her a freak for having two piercings, and is perfectly happy to sneak off in the night and put Steve’s bag through artie mckinnon’s windscreen after he calls Eddie some interesting words in the family video car park.

She is genuinely a trainwreck of a person, but she also helps Steve let go of his rigid grasp of his old reputation, protects Eddie in a way no one has since his mother died, immediately clocks robin as another queer woman and gives her some much needed solidarity.

Ironically, though she helps Steve let loose and stop being so worried about being looked at as a freak, her own persona seems more and more to Eddie and robin like a shield.

They see the gentle way she interacts with el, how she softens her voice, and gently guides her hands to knead dough, or manoeuvre a crochet hook. They see the way she drops a hand on wills shoulder and steers him into the kitchen when he starts breathing too fast at a stupid horror film that mike and Lucas insisted on.

They talk it out with the party at Steve’s house (he let them use the pool due to the heat) when her and Steve go on a trip to Indianapolis for the day for some twin bonding. The others refuse to believe them that aria might be anything less than a Rottweiler in human form, so Eddie and robin go snooping for old family photos in Steve’s room.

Eventually, they find a video titled “picnic in the meadow, 1981” and play it

It’s grainy, and the footage is wobbly. It’s arias face that fills the screen first, smiling widely with her sandy blonde hair falling around her face in a stark contrast to her usual low bun.

The sound clears and she is laughing at whoever is holding the camera. Her voice is soft and impossibly tender.

“Come here, love, let me hold the camera”

A little boys voice, no older than four, says okay and giggles, and the camera changes hands. The footage changes to a small boy with blonde hair like aria and Steve, and he giggles again and runs off. Aria huffs goodnaturedly behind the camera, and the kids are struck by how genuinely happy she sounds.

The crappy camera pans up and around, showing a picturesque landscape that has the viewers gasping. It’s an actual, literal, meadow. Like something out of a fairytale. Lush grass, wildflowers in almost every colour, and at one point a blue butterfly flutters past the lens, making aria laugh in delight.

Eddie cements this image in his mind, deciding to use it in a future campaign.

The camera moves again, showing the base of what is clearly a huge, ancient tree. Steve is sat there, with a toddler on his lap. It’s a little girl with dark hair, and she’s grasping eagerly at the strawberries Steve is handing her.

Aria moves closer, scooping up the little boy from before as he giggles maniacally, and drops him down next to Steve.

Steve lifts his head and smiles at the camera in a carefree way that none of them have truly seen before. He is wearing a light blue cardigan, clearly handmade, and it’s obvious that it’s arias handiwork. He looks soft, and happy, and the little girl on his lap smacks his hands in frustration as he stops de-heading the strawberries for her. Steve and aria laugh and Steve smacks several kisses in rapid succession on her face, and her mouth opens in high pitched laughter to reveal two missing front teeth that have everyone twisting to look at Dustin.

The little girl rolls out of Steve’s lap and her and the little boy steal a packet of raspberries and run off to sit by a low stone wall not far away.

Steve rolls his eyes at the camera, and asks aria to hand it over.

The footage switches back to aria and she looks so different that it’s hard for the party to recognise her. No haphazard low bun, no loose hoodies and yoga pants.

She looks beautiful. Her hair is down, and crowned with a poorly made daisy chain. Her cheeks are rosy and freckled, and her brown eyes are golden in a ray of late afternoon sun. She is wearing a light green sundress that floats around her in a light breeze and she looks like a completely different person. She looks happy.

Steve stands behind the camera, and turns the camera so it faces both him and aria as they press their cheeks together and smile into the lens, capturing forever a moment that seems all too normal for them. Like they spend every day this happy.

The footage ends, and robin and el have tears in their eyes.

Max is the first to speak. “No wonder she’s so unhappy all the time, if this is what she left behind”

Eddie and robin share a look, not saying it outloud but knowing that max is thinking of billy, and how he changed after being forced away from a life he loved in California.

Robin rewinds the tape and returns it to it’s spot.

Everyone seems a little more inclined to cut aria some slack after seeing the tape. It seems easier to imagine her as something other than the perpetually annoyed, grungy ex con they’ve come to see her as.

Seeing her press a loving hand to her little brother’s face as he tugs on her dress, and a kiss to Steve’s cheek makes her seem more real to the kids. And the little girl with missing teeth that Steve dotes on in the video has Dustin silent for several hours, wondering if that’s why Steve tolerated him in the beginning, because he reminds him of his sister.

When Steve and aria come home, it’s to a quiet living room full of kids, and el rushes forward to wrap her arms around aria’s waist. For the first time, everyone takes notice of how instinctual it seems for aria to place a hand on els back in response, and to stroke her hair.

They don’t tell them what they saw, but they’re nicer after that. They stop making fun of Steve, and start calling before they just barge into the house. Eddie asks her more about her home, and enjoys watching her smile when she starts gushing about the twisted trees in the woods at the end of her road, and the wild beauty of the moors that inspired wuthering heights, did eddie know?

Things get better for aria after that. She stops feeling like living in Hawkin’s is tearing at her heart. Even though she still misses her family, and her life in England, she’s adapting.

[blouisparadise]

Upon request, here is a list of bottom Louis fic recs where Harry and Louis are already in a relationship. There are a lot of good ones for this list, so this is only part one of the list - part two is here.

Happy reading!

1) Precious Little Diamond (I’ll Give It All To You) | Explicit | 2044 words

Alpha!Harry/omega!Louis PWP written for this textpost: Established relationship H/L with alpha!Harry just popping his knot in omega!louis and it’s his favourite part; just laying down and cuddling as they mate but louis just wriggles around in his lap until he can grab his xbox controller and starts playing video games with Harry still inside him and Harry’s like “??!?????!???!!!???” And louis’ like “oh shush it takes forever” and scores a goal on the game

2) Tie You Up and Make Me Scream | Explicit | 2166 words

AU where Harry teases Louis and it becomes a game until they cant handle it anymore and escape to have tent sex while the rest of the boys are in the other tents.

3) True North | Explicit | 2575 words

Note: This fic is locked and can be read by AO3 users only.

Altered-canon non-au set between November 2012 and January 7th, 2013.

4) What’s Yours Is Mine (What’s Mine Is Ours) | Mature | 2982 words

Prompt: Something about Louis always waiting until the last minute to pack his bag for tour so one time Harry does it for him and then they’re thousands of miles away by the time Louis figures out Harry hasn’t actually packed anything useful. Whether it’s because Harry is just genuinely useless at packing for other people or because he wants Louis to be forced to wear his clothes is up in the air. Also Louis refusing to wear Harry’s clothes out of pure spite until Harry makes it up to him.

5) Double Dog Dare Ya | Explicit | 3411 words

The one where the boys play some truth or dare and Harry has a one track mind.

6) A Touch Of Your Love | Explicit | 3856 words

Harry’s physical training has been intense. He wakes up before the sun to run. He spends long hours in the gym boxing and lifting weights.

Louis usually likes working out with Harry when they’re on tour, and even now he enjoys going on a run or boxing a bit with Harry. But Harry hasn’t seemed to stop moving since he accepted the role in Dunkirk. And it’s not that Louis always needs to be the center of Harry’s attention, but he very much wants to be.

7) It’s Your Soul That I’m Caught In Yet You Don’t Hear Me Call Your Name | Explicit | 4433 words

The one in which Harry goes out for a run in the early morning rain without telling Louis and Louis wakes up alone, cold and needy.

8) Hook’s Intention | Explicit | 5156 words

Harry hadn’t realized what, exactly, being the Captain Hook to Louis’ Peter Pan would entail.

9) But I Want You | Explicit | 5200 words

After their successful night at the VMAs, Harry can't keep his hands off Louis for long.

10) A Gentleman’s Arrangement | Explicit | 5205 words

Harry has been in the countryside, Louis has been trapped in town awaiting the London season, and three months apart is far, far too long.

11) ‘Cause Lately I’ve Been Waking Up Alone | Explicit | 5667 words

“Ow ow ow ow,” Harry continues cursing, hopping back and forth on the balls of his toes and trying uselessly to cradle his dick.  Louis’s eyes fall to the sink, where he can see a torn-open package and what looks like a sheet of instructions.

“Clone-a-Willy?” he reads out loud, not sure he’s reading right.

...or, Harry gives Louis a very special sex toy for an early birthday present, and Louis uses it on Skype when Harry's in LA.

12) Power Inside | Explicit | 5861 words

Louis wrinkles his nose and pokes Harry again. “You want a baby,” he repeats.

Again, Harry frowns. “Uh, yeah, Lou, I want a baby. So do you.”

Where is this even going. Harry honestly has no clue.

Abruptly, Louis stops frowning and practically throws himself off of Harry, splaying himself out on his side of the bed, arms spread wide. “Okay. Let’s make a baby, then.”

Can eyebrows get permanently attached to a hairline? Harry has a feeling he’s going to find out. “You do realize - ” he starts.

“Yes, Harry, I realize,” Louis says, stroking his fingers over the inside of his own thigh, ruking his shorts up. “You gonna shut up about it and give me a baby or am I gonna have to go out and find someone else to fulfill my deepest desires?”

He’s a nutjob. He’s a complete nutjob. Harry’s in love with a complete nutjob.

13) We’ll Stumble Through Heaven | Explicit | 6504 words

Louis likes to be a good boy for his alpha.

14) You Drive Me Wild (You Know You Do) | Explicit | 6632 words

Their management informs them that they have an interview right before the ARIAs, and it isn't until he's in a suit, seated on a couch between Liam and Zayn, that he gets the idea.

The interviewer, Angus, smiles at them, right before the cameras roll on, and a metaphorical light bulb goes off inside Louis' head. He's perfect. Well, not as perfect as Harry, but enough. He's attractive, attractive enough to drive Harry crazy, and he doesn't even think of the consequences of his actions, just decides right then. It's all Harry's fault anyway. Louis should be allowed to have a little fun.

15) I’m Broken, Do You Hear Me? | Explicit | 6957 words

Louis starts acting weird and distant around Harry, and it takes Harry a little while to put together what's wrong. When he finally does, he's determined to help Louis see just how much he loves every piece of him.

16) Back Where I Belong | Explicit | 7217 words

Harry’s trying to have a conversation with Nick, who he hasn’t seen in nearly three months, but the way Nick’s eyes keep darting over his shoulder every few seconds is quite distracting.

It’s ironic, because at least a quarter of the reason that he’s even talking to Nick in the first place is because he needs a distraction. He’s all too aware of exactly what’s going on behind his back.

Nick is the one who finally brings it up. “Do you think he’s doing it to spite you?”

“He’s definitely doing it to spite me,” Harry answers tightly, resisting the urge to crane his neck around so he can see. He clutches his drink a little tighter, trying to keep his tenuous control over his own movements.

17) Call Me Shallow But I’m Only Getting Deeper | Explicit | 7367 words

The one where Louis is a brat so Harry spanks him with a riding crop.

18) Rated R | Explicit | 7635 words

Louis gifts Harry with a surprise sex tape, and it accidentally makes its way into Harry's family Christmas party. Ridiculousness ensues.

19) Under the Vanilla Sky | Explicit | 8006 words

Who the hell wears a hat like that on a yacht?  That's one of the things Louis thinks when he sees Harry from across the deck of the most expensive, ridiculous boat he's ever been on.  He also thinks he'd like to get closer.  Just to see what's under those aviators.  Just to verify that, yes, in fact, those white swim trunks might be a little see-through when wet.  Just to see if someone could really be that hot in real life.  On a yacht.  In the Caribbean sea just off the coast of St. Barts.  

Here's what really happened on that yacht.

20) Love To Make Him Moan | Explicit | 8106 words

Note: This fic is locked and can be read by AO3 users only.

They fuck like they're sex starved, when they're really, really not.

21) Give It Up To Me | Explicit | 8134 words

"You're going to end up making me come with all the boys in our lounge," he finished, his tone softening the longer he spoke.

"And?" Harry murmured, placing his palm over the crevice of Louis' arse, keeping the plug nice and tight inside of him. "What if I wanted you to?"

22) Love Me in Between the Future and the Past | Explicit | 10991 words

Set during the 2013 VMAs.

Harry's scared of history repeating itself.

23) Read You For Some Kind Of Poem | Mature | 11969 words |  Sequel

He likes to imagine that he’s always aware of Harry’s eyes on him, but the spark that flashes across his body at how often Harry licks his lips while looking at his throat doesn’t feel like something he’s explicitly and consciously acknowledged before, but it feels familiar. Usual. Right.

24) In A World Apart | Explicit | 11973 words

During their off time in LA, Harry is reminded just how much he loves Louis.

25) End Of The World Tonight | Explicit | 12069 words

“You remember when you told me that you wanted to live with me for the rest of your life?” Louis asks. His voice trembles a bit, exposing exactly how much he hates what he’s about to do. How much he wishes that he wasn’t about to do it.

“I remember,” Harry says. His expression is a little lost, like he thinks that they’re about to have a fight and he’s not sure what they’re supposed to be fighting about. Louis closes his eyes because he has to, has to take a second to regain his courage. He can’t keep doing this. He can’t keep suffering, can’t keep killing himself trying to hide this. He’s ready. He’s been ready for a long time.

26) Know You Got That Thing (That I Like) | Explicit | 15798 words

In all the ways he thought about their reunion going, watching Louis finger himself open was not on the list.

27) 210 Days | Explicit | 16341 words

Harry is in the army and Louis is back in New York. Together, they get through Harry's six month leave by sending a series of letters back and forth. They've done it before, and they can do it again.

28) Temporary Tattoos, Hotel Hearts, Horizon Homes | Explicit | 17965 words

Note: This fic is locked and can be read by AO3 users only.

Louis is just 18 and ends up in 2015 for one day at Harry’s request, one day to make sure his spirit is strong and hopeful enough to take him to the X Factor and end him up where he’s supposed to be. Aka, the one where Harry makes sure Louis knows how amazing he is.

29) Can’t Fool Me | Explicit | 30162 words

AU where Louis hates fraternities and would never be into a frat boy. And one of these things is definitely not a lie.

30) Drowning In Your Eyes | Explicit | 45140 words

The Pirates of the Caribbean inspired au where Harry is a fierce pirate who holds the heart of a beautiful merman.

31) Such Good Luck | Explicit | 66205 words

Louis smiles at Harry’s words, leaning into his touch. “Tell me again.”

Smiling, Harry takes Louis into his arms. Pressing gentle kisses to his face, Harry murmurs, “In six months’ time, I will have my twenty-fifth birthday.  On that day, my portion of the inheritance will become legally mine. And I plan that very day to announce to my family that I have found love.” Harry chuckles as he runs his lips lightly along Louis’ cheekbone. “That, in fact, I found love when I was twenty-one years old, and that I have loved and been loved every day since.”

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