merry_magpie
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“Sure thing, kiddo.” Don said.
KIDDO?
“It’s a nickname,” Caroline explained. “Until we give you your real name.”
That made sense. He had to be called something.
KIDDO ACCEPTED
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Steve Harrington is an artificial lifeform created by his two "parents," Dr. Don Harrington and Dr. Caroline Harrington in the spring of 1966. His objective is to learn through experience and prove his creators hypotheses about neutral networks correct. In 1983, he decides to start adding his own objectives.
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- Part 1 of Robot!Steve
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Steve creates a few new traditions with his family - the family he's built from scratch in the last year - despite the Upside Down & his own monstrous secrets lurking in the background.
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Steve and Robin make a bet that if she asks Vickie out over Thanksgiving Break, Steve will have to ask Eddie out. Fluffy first dates for Rovickie result.
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- Part 21 of Robin and Mr. Wolf
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Wolves and monsters were things from fairy tales. Although wolves were usually monsters in fairy tales, in this story, wolves were the good guys.
Robin tries to make sense of her relationship with Joyce and Hopper between seasons 3 and 4.
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- Part 18 of Robin and Mr. Wolf
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Steve barely survived imprisonment, torture, and the Battle of Starcourt. He was left with too many slowly healing injuries, including one to his brain. He hated having to be babied and cared for while he recovered from his concussion. It might be the brain damage speaking, but a lot of the symptoms don’t make any sense to him. What does an increased risk of impulsivity even mean? On top of all that, the more he talks to Robin, the more he starts to question his sexuality.
He gets a crash course in the complications and side effects of a concussion when he’s down to his last hundred dollars and desperate to figure himself out. He goes to Eddie Munson’s trailer, hoping to score some weed and seduce the possibly gay drug dealer, but concussions are a real bitch, and instead, he ends up paying Eddie all of his remaining money to give the guy a blowjob.
That one moment of misunderstanding and poor impulse control starts a year-long back-and-forth between the two men; as Steve comes to understand his sexuality, Eddie comes to realize his worth, and they learn what it means to get what they want.
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Steve's No Good, Terrible, Kinda Perfect Boyfriend Eddie by merry_magpie
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Dec 2024
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A series of short stories that began as a short series for #stobinmonth 2023. The original four stories were posted for the corresponding day of Platonic Stobin Month, but are ordered chronologically in the series. Then the series got wildly out of control. For 2024 I am posting one story a month. Every story is placed in chronological order when the story is posted.
Platonic Stobin is the central focus of the story, but Steddie and Rockie are romantic relationships that develop later in the series.
This AU focuses on Robin meeting Steve as Steve at Scoops Ahoy and as Mr. Wolf in the woods during the summer of 1985. She slowly becomes friends with both of them and then season three happens. Then season four happens and stuff starts to go radically AU.
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Gelatinous Cube Monster Steve Harrington by merry_magpie
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 May 2024
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Robin’s never been regular. Her period, that is.
(Not that she’s particularly ordinary herself either, but… well, that’s a subject for another day.)
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So Starcourt was a mess. And Steve? Yeah, Steve is a mess. But he has Robin and he has his friends, and he has... a cat? Sure, the hot metalhead he keeps running into might hate him and he flinches when men get too close now- but he's got this.
Really!
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Will's first attempt at tarot reading is a disaster. The only reasonable response is to have him try again with the slightly older crew. With their superior rationality, general level-headedness and overall stability, what could go wrong?
Steve tries to pick up the pieces, and learns a thing or two about himself along the way.
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11 Dec 2024
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Steve's parents always locked their hearts in a safe in his dad's study at night.
For as long as Steve can remember, he watched them do it, pulling their hearts out of their chests and tucking them away in the safe in an easy, practiced motion - like a dance, like something they did without even thinking about it.
He liked it, liked watching them move in unison. It made him daydream about his own partner in the future, how they could move in sync with each other, anticipating each other's every movement and not having to say a thing to know what the other wanted.
Even his parents’ hearts were similar. They were both the same pale pink, bisected with only a few silver scars, and though they didn't quite beat in unison, it was close enough that Steve's young eyes didn't notice the difference.
“One day,” his dad always said. “When you're old enough, your heart will go in here, too. When you're trained to be separated from it, when you're grown up.”
Steve wanted to be grown up more than anything.
But his heart never looked like theirs.
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Or, Steve's journey in letting himself be folded into a family of his own making, and finding the kind of love that will last forever.
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He had never been one to panic, and after fighting monsters all through his teen years there really wasn’t much that could phase him at this point, but Steve froze the second the words left his kid’s mouth.
He had practiced for this, he had prepared. There was a sizable stack of index cards somewhere collecting dust in a desk upstairs, a perfect speech about love and blood and what does and does not make a family.
But none of that mattered now. Now he was a butterfly pinned to a board, stuck in place staring down a question he could not fully comprehend the answer to.
"Are you my dad, Steve?"