so more on if steve was a swimmer but now steddie too because im simple: so steves had a lot of water related trauma post-season 4 (barb dying in his pool, getting dragged underwater and lowkey drowned/suffocated), so i imagine he has a bit of a hard time swimming after all that. i imagine that he was like “i gotta get over this whole trauma thing to go to college” and maybe he ends up talking about this w eddie. also, maybe eddie can’t really swim (yes, he got to the bottom of lovers lake that one time, but that was controlled drowning idk), so then steve is like “what #weird. i can teach you!” so then eddie learns to swim and helps steve get over his trauma enough to return to competing and training and they fall in love:)

also: eddie doesn’t end up going to college but him and steve get an apartment together in indie while steve attends and swims there. eddie probs still plays w his band and works during the day

i imagine some things steve ends up never being able to get over again would be going deeper than like 12 ft, wearing fins and drag socks because they feel like they’re pulling him back/down.

I present all with my head cannoned Steve Harrington.

Didn’t go crazy over this drawing since I was focusing most on getting the idea across but ya

So, I like to imagine that over the course of the year following season 3 and through season 4 he was actually working on applications, swimming, and building up a recruiting profile for coaches and stuff. Because he deserves to go to college.

I headcannon him being a sprinter for freestyle and fly- would be just off any NCAA cuts in them I think. Because let him be good at something. I based his times off of the NCAAs 1989 which was coincidentally at Indiana university.

50 free Y: 20.3, 100 free Y: 44.6, 200 free Y: 1:37.7, 100 Fly Y: 48.7

Also drew him cuz I may be slightly obsessed on this at the moment