“It’s like they were destined for an alternate dimension.”
@emeraldzephyr
Em | 33 | They/Them | Lover of Stranger Things, Baseball, Hockey, Bioware, D&D, Fantasy media, and general nerdy chicanery. Find me on AO3 as emeraldzephyr https://archiveofourown.org/users/emeraldzephyr/works @emeraldzephyr on TikTok!
I primarily post about Stranger Things (specifically Steddie), but there may also be some Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Cosmere, Baseball (Texas Rangers/Chicago Cubs), Hockey (Dallas Stars), or other fandoms that make guest appearances!
📖 All my fics are uploaded to AO3!
📽️ All my edits are uploaded to my TikTok!
#emeraldzephyr is my Tumblr tag for my writing and edits.
Steddie Big Bang: Slaying Dragons in the Dark
Rated E | Hurt/Comfort
Steddie Bingo: Round 4 Bingo Card
Beta Projects:
On the Dust of Running Dogs, written by @nophwrites
Lost Tapes of the Upside Down, written by @felixir-of-moths
☀️ Burnin' For You (18+)
Rated E | 6,436 words
♾️ Senza Fine (18+)
Rated E | 3,873 words
🎞️ Late Night Double Feature (18+)
Rated E | 7,078 words
That's Baseball, Baby! Series
⚾ Glory Days (They'll Pass You By)
Rated T | 19,254 words
🎸 Put Me In, Coach! - Sequel to Glory Days
Rated T | 9,958 words
Hop Into Spring Mini Bingo - Complete!
⚔️ Ye Olde Meetcute - Prompt: Mud
Rated T | 3,544 words
🍰 Sweet as Sugar - Prompt: Sugar
Rated G | 1,416 words
⚾ Let's Play Two! - Prompt: "You Really Love Me!"
Rated T | 2,061 words
🗺️ Navigating to Niagara - Prompt: "It's His Tone, Right?"
Rated T | 2,628 words
👾 Unconventional - Prompt: Normal Guy Steve
Rated G | 3,090 words
Mixtape Madness Mini Bingo
🛻Drive - The Cars
Rated G | 1,033 words
🍿Chosen Ones - Megadeth
Rated G | 3,591 words
Stranger Things Edits
Hot for Teacher - Van Halen | Steve Harrington
Die Young - Black Sabbath | Eddie Munson
War Pigs - Black Sabbath | Stranger Things Heroes and Villains
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Written for the @steddiebingo Mixtape Madness event!
"Eddie, is this fucking song about weed?"
After a long day at work, all Steve needs is to chill out with a nice joint and some good music, courtesy of Eddie. There's only problem - weed makes him insanely horny. Surely that won't be an issue, right?
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Steddie KingScoops mischief, silly headcanon for co op gaming~ (there are some spoilers here for BG3 but honestly it's Been Out A While Yall)
Steve remembers he's had BG3 on the backburner for a while now but hearing Eddie talk about Hellfire has got him kind of pumped.
He finds out it's multiplayer and both celebrates and mourns because 1. Eddie can play it with him, but 2. he has to talk Eddie through Computer Things which is a fucking nightmare.
They manage to get things set up so Eddie has his own webcam tucked in a corner of Steve's stream, Eddie talks Steve through classes in a very "play what makes you happy, we can figure out balance later, Chat say we get other party members" way.
Steve ends up as a dragonborn ("dragons are pretty cool... Oh shit I get a TAIL?!" cue the furry/scaly allegations. "Don't worry Stevie, I'd still love you if you were a wyrm" Steve knows the meme but not the nerd alteration, so is confused. Eddie thinks he's quite funny actually, and Chat got it so he feels Vindicated.) and picks Rogue because he's sneaky like a ninja.
Eddie makes a tiefling bard based on his first ever D&D character, and he might have picked the Dark Urge origin without mentioning it beyond "Oh what's... ooohhhh sick."
"what's that Ed?"
"I get a lute [looks at the camera🤫]" (Chat: 👀👀👀👀👀)
Eddie gets very excited about the opening cutscene (and honestly everything else in the game) but he tries not to yap over it and gushes when they're released into gameplay.
Naturally they both giggle like school boys over the doors being sphincters.
Eddie suggests "rescuing" Us from the head it is trapped in, because "it's what my little brother would do." Steve Understands This Reference. Dustin is very giddy next time he sees Eddie. (in Hellfire Dustin's character raised a hellhound called Dart, I have a ficlet for this somewhere but it's not Done).
Steve has a moment of "oh hey Ed, is the voice the DM? That's what you do! You're the sexy voice in the sky." Eddie lets out the worst laugh and Steve loves it.
Eddie discovers he can just play his lute for shits and giggles whenever, so when Steve is chatting, doing an ad read, or running actual ads, Eddie puts himself in the some weird spot visible on stream and starts strumming (at some point he actually grabs his accoustic guitar and plays along, picking what he can out by ear and improvising a duet with himself, playing by ear is something Steve didn't know Eddie could do before now so that's Pretty Cool).
Steve is Stunned every time Eddie Dark Urges, he's got no clue why it keeps happening, Eddie plays innocent like he's not either being railroaded by No Options or Intentionally Choosing Violence.
He's very Expressive though so Chat Always Knows even if Steve is always distracted with his own inventory. Chat Keeps His Secrets.
"Jesus, Eddie what did you do?"
"I don't know maybe my dream guardian is evil?"
"Robin's gonna KILL us, she's literally in love with that bard!"
"Maybe it's like Highlander and there can be only one (bard)."
"So what? If I was a bard you'd have killed me?"
"Who can say, maybe? Do I look like I've played this game before?"
I can't remember if Everyone Sees The Durge scenes in co-op but we'll pretend they don't see the initial moments of Alfira's death just the party reacting etc, so Steve can be Deeply Confused whilst Eddie practices his acting skills and Chat ScoopsKEKW incessantly. Also Eddie getting the blame for a murder he did do but didn't do intentionally is Quite Amusing to me in retrospect.
"Hey Stevie, did you get the weird gremlin come to you in the night to tell you to do evil shit or was that just me?"
"Eddie, what the actual fuck? Are you making this up?"
"Yes, obviously 🤫"
Chat begs Steve to let them guide them to One Thing because they think Eddie will love it, they also tell Eddie to temp spec 1 level into Wizard to Buy-Learn One Scroll.
They guide Eddie to Shovel, Eddie fucking loves Shovel.
Narrator: A Handsome Young Man
Eddie: comparrative to what exactly?
Steve: He looks dirty and not in a sexy way.
(it's my AU they'll be G*rtash haters if I want them to be, and I do).
"Hey Steve you should join this conversation with Halsin, it seems important."
"Oh okay, wait what's happening here?"
"I'M GONNA FUCK THE BEAR!"
"EDDIE!"
"I like my men hairy, they don't get much hairier than LITERAL BEAR!"
"Eddie please, I'm gonna get banned, oh my god."
Durge's Reveal happens.
Steve: What the actual fuck, oh my god, you're evil?!
Eddie:
Eddie is occasionally caught puffing away at a KingScoops branded weed vape pen during these streams, Steve gave it him when he visited one time, they were a sponsor deal.
As always (or at least when I remember) this is under "#Steddie KingScoops" if you're new to this AU and wanna see the rest.
steddie being Platonic Besties. steve gets it in his head that he needs to learn how to braid hair for his next gf and eddie is clearly the perfect model for him to practice on (steve refuses to admit that he just wants an excuse to touch those pretty pretty curls that he can't stop noticing lately). eddie, who's been secretly in love with his straight boy best friend for ages now, is suddenly in a whirlwind of heaven-hell where everytime they hang out, eddie ends up sitting on the floor in between steve's legs while steve plays with his hair. it only takes a couple attempts before "learning to braid hair" turns into massaging eddie's head and playing with his curls and steve gently scratching his short nails along eddie's scalp. eddie manages it for a few weeks until one night he's had one too many beers and a couple too many tokes and finds himself melting into steve and moaning softly as the man pets his hair. he doesn't even realize he's pitching a tent until steve laughs, soft and equally as cross-faded, and mumbles "want me to take care of that too after i'm done with your hair?"
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I love the idea that in KingScoops AU at first Eddie uses Jeff's desk to stream with Steve, even after his face reveal and he gets his own little webcam spot on the overlay.
It's a standing desk, usually Jeff lowers shit down before he goes to work but maybe this time he's left it up and Eddie's like "this is fine I can stand." except there are a few things hindering this.
he stands up almost all day at work
he is very stoned
he is Eddie.
Eddie is the slouch king, the master of prawn pose, and A Very Sleepy Boy after a few hours happily puffing away either at the vape Steve gave him or actual joints.
A few hours in, without saying anything, Eddie literally just disappears out of frame, Steve is locked in and Eddie is still yapping away and shooting at shit so it takes some pressing from Chat for him to realise and ask about it.
Eddie groans miserably and appears back in frame briefly to futz about with the camera (its a chaotic mess and Steve turns it off the second it gets Motion Blurry, says he'll put it back on when Eddie says he's settled).
"All good now, Stevie."
The cam comes back on and it's just a downward angle view of this:
Is he comfortable? Honestly, no.
Does he care that he is not comfortable? Also no, he's an hour off of ditching the chair entirely and lying on the floor tbqh.
Can he see the screens? Who can say. (he can, "yeah I moved the game to the top half of the vertical monitor, can't see what I'm shooting at but I can see that I'm shooting, win win." "not how that works Ed..." "works for me...")
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Steddie Bang 2026 Project Reveal! I’m so, so excited to announce my Gilmore Girls-inspired omegaverse kid fic w/ single parent omega Steve and rockstar Eddie and Second Chance Romance! Beyond thrilled to be paired with @sheepsart (artist) and @midsummer-semantics (beta) for this! 💜
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