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steve rlly hates that he didn’t just let max drive his car that last time she asked

okay so listen, my steve is canon compliant to st time lines while also being heavily headcanon based, he has wonderful lore, & growth that i personally adore exploring at it’s core ( not bc of the duffers but bc of what keery has done with source material & how i’ve decided to interpret it as ). his fandom is this fandom, i write him in this fandom, he’s not my oc, but he is my version, my son. i absolutely will rp with different fandoms, st characters based in different fandoms but all i ask is that when we do, you give me some insight to where our characters relationships would differ / where you see the vision. i am going to require heavy plotting for all interaction going forward, i think that’s safest for me. i lean heavy on my affiliates for my portrayal & that will continue. this is my safe space & i want to enjoy being here & my dash is genuinely good, but if anyone feels the need to softblock / unfollow bc they are just looking for some random steve to fill a void / don’t agree with the choices i make for him, please do ! i am selective & will continue to be more so. that being said, please feel free to message me to get some actual stuff going !! :)  

i hate to say it, i do, but modern steve def uses snapchat as a main form of communication 

idk if anyone has seen a hating game but there’s a scene where the guy says that he’s the one that girls fuck with before they end up with the guy they are supposed to be with & that’s stevecore

sometimes i just think about how baby steve accidentally flung himself down some stairs bc crawling backward made sense to him

the “kids” can get as annoyed as they want with steve, & how he refers to himself as the babysitter but it doesnt matter how old they get, they will always be under his protection / care. 

steve isn’t sure that it was an “unambiguous sign of love” for him that had nancy jumping into the lake. she’d do it for anyone she cared about, that’s who she is, she’s brave … she always just jumps ( he admires it about her even if it drives him crazy ). but when she did that, kept looking at him the way she was, eddie’s questioning of what happened to them. it was the crawling forward moment that steve really realized that his love for her was still there ( eddie’s nudge was his  ‘   oh.  ’  moment ).

to bounce off lane, steve does try to move on from nancy, multiple times through their splits. meeting robin, them giving him the advice to be himself with women, he starts dating but then gets lost in it, he starts a lot of meaningless flings & just goes on dates to go on them / bases things around sex because that’s uncomplicated, it’s just sex. very few of them does he genuinely enjoy himself. he’s trying to replace what he knows he had & he compares everything to it. when they break up while she’s at emerson, he goes to someone he knows has baseline feelings for him ( it’s safe, he’s really not putting himself on the line to risk being hurt again ) & he really does give it a try, but it always comes back to nancy. that dream he has ? the one he’s had since high school … it doesn’t change, & that most important part remains, for steve, it’s always gonna come back to nancy ( he still thinks they can make it ). so if there’s a chance he could get her back ? he’s eventually gonna crawl toward that endgame. he’s gonna stumble along the way but … wouldn’t exactly be steve if he didn’t. 

in modern steve is in a group chat with joyce, karen, claudia, sue, & susan & when they ask where their children are steve says with him even if they aren’t & then has to text them all & ask where the fuck they are & what they’ve gotten into now 

for the record … steve doesn’t always enjoy that he’s so hopelessly in love with nancy. it’s frustrating to him at times, that he feels like he has all this unconfined love to give her & it’s just there & it stays & he doesn’t understand it but he knows it. it’s a genuine part of him. he feels pathetic about it sometimes, that he’s still like this for his high school sweetheart & she’s off with some other guy, that he knows it’s always gonna be her for him & there isn’t someone else who could compare. he’s tried to move on, to get over it, but he can’t, he knows what he wants. she’s hurt him & he’d let her do it again. & don’t get me wrong he loves loving nancy when he gets the chances, she’s an amazing woman & he thinks so highly of her, she’s strong, & fearless & driven & stubborn & kind & everything good to him, but he gets frustrated at himself for being in love at all. 

robin tells steve that they are ambidextrous & he tells them that’s awesome, he thinks frogs are pretty cool too

one thing to count on steve for is that he’s gonna show up

#it doesn’t matter how little the event is or how big it is#if you’re important to steve he’ll be there#robins band concerts ? always there#lucas has a game ? steve’s there#dustin needs a ride to hellfire ? steve drives him#he just wants to make sure there SOMEONE is there so none of them ever feel like he did growing up#so only if he’s the only one there he doesn’t care#he’ll show over enthusiasm and be obnoxious and it’s prob embarrassing but#he’s there#even if he wasn’t asked

it’s not that steve wants to die, not in the slightest, it’s just that he thinks of himself as sort of the odd man out in the group & that it’d be better if it were him instead of someone else 

#idk im just thinking about it#hes very self sacrificing and its not that he doesnt care about his own life#but its that he cares about everyone else's lives much more than his#he just has no concept of the fact that he means anything to people too but#i dont have time to deal with that rn

steve stops by the arcade sometimes to check & make sure that no one has beat max’s score