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When Steve applies for a summer camp per Dustin's request, he doesn’t expect to have the most interesting summer of his life.
Featuring a sulky metalhead who hates Steve for no reason, eight kids set on driving Steve to an early grave, Robin Buckley’s ability to charm any girl she wants, and Steve’s bisexual disaster/dream/nightmare.
But hey, that’s what summer camp is all about. Right?
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- Part 1 of CFCU (Camp Folktale Cinematic Universe)
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“I’m not trying to kill myself,” she snaps, sounding far more snippy than she means to, and immediately shuts her mouth.
He seems unphased, though, and she swears there’s snark in his tone when he replies, “Oh, sorry for assuming, Miss Standing-on-a-Ledge.”
Steve and Robin meet officially for the first time in December 1984 instead.
Stobin Month, Day 1: Alternate Meeting
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love is a battle i can win by palmviolet for beetlesandstars
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Dec 2022
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"She’s taking a sip, dry and sharp on her tongue, when the doorbell rings a floor above, and she hears distantly Steve’s open delight, Robin, Dustin, back from the shit I won’t understand?
I’m a lesbian, Nancy thinks, taking another sip of wine. Eddie clinks his glass against hers and sneaks a slice of chorizo from Steve’s chopping board, tapping a finger against the side of his nose, shh, don’t tell, the way normal couples keep their secrets, the way honesty is earned and not borne on the back of a lie.
Love is a battle I can win. Nancy turns to face the door."
// Christmas 1994. Nancy faces her fears.
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through the years we all will be together (if the fates allow) by sapphirerays
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Dec 2022
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Robin shrugs again. “We didn’t want to intrude,” she says plainly, as if either of them could ever be intruding by just being around.
“And nobody asked,” Steve says, to which Robin nods. The casual way in which he says it makes her heart sink. “Not until we’d already committed to working these hours, anyway. Look, it’s fine, really. We’re having fun hanging out together, it’s not like we’re alone.”
But you are, she wants to argue. You’re just… alone together.
Steve and Robin are working the Christmas shift alone at Family Video, so everyone brings a little bit of Christmas to them instead.
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“We’re having a Christmas party on the 23rd,” Robin says. “And our weird kids will not be portalling in through Hell this time.”
“That’s good to know,” Maisie says, trying her best to plaster a grin on her face. She’s very good at feigning grins when the Interdimensional Portal Incident comes up.
Josh and Maisie are invited to a very odd Christmas party. It's not so much the Christmas party that's odd, but the people who are attending it.
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- Part 3 of 4B ‘verse
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Steve Harrington's Deaths (And The Times He Maybe Saved The World). by badpancake
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Aug 2022
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“I had another one.”
It stops the playful atmosphere instantly.
Not everyone tells him when they have a Memento. Lucas had kept to himself, and Will had refused to tell Steve about his dream. Some of them just tell him, softly, I remembered number one-seventy-three, or I had a Memento, last night. Sometimes it’s easier to just mention that it happened, acknowledge it and move on.
And Robin, for the most part, had done this. She hadn’t mentioned the details, because she’s sure that Steve is tired of hearing them, doesn’t want to hear his death from another person’s eyes, another person who is left with his body for a day before the loop dissolves into nothingness.
AKA: In the aftermath of it all, when Steve is learning what happiness means for him, people start to remember his deaths.
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Eddie Munson was supposed to meet his end after he finally refused to run so Max would live and Vecna could be destroyed once and for all. But then he woke up, and Eddie couldn't help but feel like he hadn't woken up in the afterlife. He should be dead. He was supposed to be dead. Eddie is dead, right?
So it was thought, my friends. So it was thought. But Eddie — lives.
A story where everything in the Upside Down comes to a conclusion, and Edward Munson and Maxine Mayfield emerge victorious. The Party saves a revived Eddie and Max, ending the threat that is Vecna once and for all, and Steve finds he never could get rid of Eddie's battle jacket.
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- Part 1 of Spirit's Steddie Works
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“Munson,” he says, “go to prom with me.”
Eddie cocks an eyebrow, curiosity glinting in his eyes. “I didn’t think I was your type, Harrington.”
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In which Robin wants to ask a girl to prom but is too scared of coming out, and Steve is willing to pretend to go with Eddie because he’s such a great friend. No other reason.
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The real reason Steve never really dates anymore is this: the nightmares and the secrets behind them.
In the middle of the night, reeling from bad dreams, Steve properly starts on the mixtape Eddie made for him. Master of Puppets made Eddie feel invincible once. Maybe Steve can borrow that feeling for one night.
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You can put it all on me, you can laugh and you can bleed by steveharringtoned
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Aug 2022
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Phil Callahan has made a large variety of strange arrests in his time working as a cop for Hawkins, Indiana. Daylight skinny-dippers; a small group of old ladies who’d attempted to rob the corner shop with their umbrellas, a guy who’d stolen a total of eighteen gnomes from his suburban neighborhood.
But pulling over Max Mayfield driving her brother’s Camaro at the ripe age of thirteen was pretty insane. Sure, kids will be kids and kids will be crazy. Until Steve Harrington crawled out of the backseat, clutched his knees and horror-movie hurled blood all over his boots and shit got crazier.
That took it from a minor concern to oh, fuck. Callahan has to take this kid to a hospital.
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"This time, do it right. This time Eddie won’t bleed out in his arms, in anyone’s arms. This time, Steve will do it right."
— or, steve relives the day they try to kill vecna over and over, and eddie just can't seem to stop dying. steve finds this totally unacceptable.
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all the missing girls are hanging out without us by greatunironic
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Aug 2022
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“Here is a riddle: the answer is one.” Eddie Munson lives, and dies, and lives again.
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Steve and Robin get a two bedroom in Hawkins. It's perfect, except for all the ways it isn't. Drafty windows, clogged drains, shitty landlord. But it's got a couch. A couch that's often occupied by Eddie Munson. Home isn't really the kind of thing Eddie has much of anymore, ever since his trailer became the primary source for all his nightmares. Luckily, he knows of a semi-comfortable couch where he's always welcome.
Despite all it's problem, the house has perks. Primarily, it's somewhere Steve can actually call home. Secondarily, it's somewhere he can share with the people he loves.
AKA: The fruity four live in a convoluted roommate situation, and romance happens along the way.
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After Steve Harrington goes missing, Eddie Munson gets exposed to the secret dangers of Hawkins, Indiana in 1985 instead of 1986.
Will a different first meeting lead to a change in his fate?
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leave the light on sometimes all night by anniebibananie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Aug 2022
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June 1986
Steve is lonely.He’s always been lonely, honestly. An empty house, absent parents, friends that didn’t really know him. Frankly, he probably doesn’t really know himself, either. It used to be easier to ignore—between sports and parties and searching for the next girl to hang around with.
Then Nancy Wheeler told him he was bullshit. In the wreckage of the storm, he realized she probably hadn’t been that off base to call his life bullshit.
[Life in Hawkins, Indiana is boring, ordinary, no supernatural entities. Steve still changes.
Luckily, he still makes some new friends, too. Certain people are simply meant to be in the same story.]
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It starts like this: Steve, waiting in his car to pick up Dustin and friends from a session of their Chutes and Ladders club or whatever. Waiting kind of impatiently, to be honest, even though it’s not like he has anywhere else to be because Robin’s busy tonight and, as he well knows by this point, saving the world doesn’t get you a girlfriend or glory or even a second age-appropriate friend, it just gets you another evening shift at Family Video and a long personal to-do list.
In the spring and summer of 1986, Steve Harrington contends with the biases of the day, hatches several plans, and finally really gets to know Eddie Munson.
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It's Not a Big Deal by AidaRonan for strawberryspence
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Jul 2022
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Eddie survives, but his entire life is locked away in the Upside Down forever (his books, his DnD stuff, his guitar.) Everything that wasn't on Eddie when Steve carried him into the ER, gone.
So naturally Steve starts giving him things. Handing Eddie back those little outward markers of who he is.
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The kids convince Steve to take them all to a Renaissance Faire and LARP event.
Steve has more fun than he admits.
And then Steve has a LOT more fun than he admits.
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After tales of Russian bunkers, too many scars for kids under twenty, and that whole incident with the armed mercenaries, Josh and Maisie really thought the kids from apartment 4B couldn’t possibly get any weirder.
That was before the interdimensional portal opened in their hallway.
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- Part 2 of 4B ‘verse
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Eddie wakes from a nightmare about the bats. Again.
About a week ago, Steve Harrington gave him his number with instructions to call if he needed anything. Said number is tacked on Eddie's wall under his Anthrax poster.
555-9878
-Steve H.But it's 3:17 a.m. and Eddie probably shouldn't call. Definitely shouldn't call.
(Eddie calls.)