Mess that you wanted

The boys he knows:

Steve sitting at Eddie’s kitchen table while Eddie shows him a lovingly hand painted miniature.

“so this is a demogorgon.”

Steve, staring at a two-headed baboon: “mm. No it’s not.”

“what? Yes it is!” Eddie is outraged. King Steve shows up out of nowhere, barges into Eddie’s trailer acting like he knows the place, asks a million questions about d&d (which Eddie didn’t even realize Steve Harrington knew existed), and then refuses to learn anything about it!

“no, see,” Steve says, grabbing a spare character sheet; he draws right on it, ignoring Eddie’s outraged squawk. He draws a big daisy with teeth all over the petals.

Eddie looks at the drawing. Looks at Steve. Looks at the drawing.

“that’s a demogorgon,” Steve says.

“no it is not.”

Like yes sure he’s got confidence and self assurance and he is good at sweet talking, and clever playful flirting/banter, but I needdddd more of him just being a dork and a big big nerd!!!!!! He runs a high school dnd club and makes the members wear matching t-shirts for goodness sakes!!!!!!!!! That boy is a loser in the most endearing version of the word!!!!

I need to see him fumble more in fics and nervous ramble and get flustered!!! Like he’s all talk when it’s him dishing it out and trying to get under Steve’s skin or see him blush, able to be especially confident when he’s sure Steve is fully unaware and he doesn’t realise that this could ever Be something and does it purely for a little fun, but the second shit starts to get thrown back at him he has absolutely NO idea what the hell to do with himself. He just like short circuits sometimes and any quippy response gets fucking thrown out the window and his head gets filled with static.

Let him get all freaked out but in a good nervous way when shit starts to get serious with Steve, when they kiss for the first time he is sooooo scared but so so so excited but also overthinking it so bad!!!

I love experienced and seasoned seduction professional Eddie Munson as much as the next time believe me, there is totally always a time and place for that, I would just love to see more of him characterised like This too!!!

He wakes up first, panics, and tries to peel himself off before Eddie notices. He’s convinced Eddie’s going to think it’s suffocating and too needy. So he spends a week trying to sleep "normal." On his side with a respectful distance. He’s miserable with that.

Then one night Eddie wakes up to Steve bolt upright at 3am from a nightmare, breathing hard. Before Steve can even apologize, Eddie just rolls over, yanks Steve down, and manhandles him back into a intertwined position, and just mutters into Steve’s hair saying

"Cut that shit out. You sleep better when you’re on me, I sleep better when you’re not doing that weird hovering thing. We’re both winning here, Harrington."

Steve who just goes, "...you don’t think it’s too much?"

Some of these rumours are just rumours but Steve is spinning nothingness into verbal gold and the people are eating it up. They love to hear what the King has to say and spread news like wildfire.

Sometimes though, sometimes Steve knows actual secrets. Things he doesn't spread, things he knows are delicate and dangerous and best kept close to his chest until he really needs them. Like that Tommy cheated on Carol with Sally from the cheer squad and she made him try on her panties. He only uses that one to keep Tommy in check, when Tommy smells blood in the halls of Hawkins High and his fingers itch to be closed into a fist and smashed into someone's face. No, the secrets Steve keeps are his real power.

How perfect that one Eddie Munson doesn't just deal drugs but dabbles in secrets as well. He might be loud and ever-present on the cafeteria tables but he knows how to make himself invisible too, knows hiding spaces and little nooks where you can catch all kinds of shenanigans. So he delivers the secrets to Steve and in turn, Steve keeps his jocks in check and away from Eddie's little sheep. It's a good deal, a perfect one even.

But just for insurance Eddie also has dirt on Steve that could put him on the high school guillotine quicker than he can say Marie Antoinette and Steve knows one of Eddie's secrets that could end up in everyone getting out their torches and pitchforks. It happens to be same secret: that they kiss every time they do their little exchange, that they fuck when Steve's parents aren't home or Wayne is at work, that if they were anyone else this might be considered dating.

He has fun for a few months but the whole ‘pretending nothing happened’ thing is getting old so he complains about it to the obviously (to him) gay metal head that only comes to the frat parties to deal. He doesn’t even know the guys name but he’s a little drunk and kinda sad so he just blurts out of nowhere “being a slut is fun and all but I kinda only wanna be a slut for one guy and then taken out on dates and shit, all romantic like, you know? But all the guys here just act like nothing happened after they’re done with me 🥺”