But The Whole Worlds Watching

episode one: 

he stumbles through nancy’s bedroom window claiming to be a ninja. idk how y’all weren’t charmed by that

when they’re making out, nancy tells him to stop and he stops. he then makes her feel special and gives her a compliment. then he goes back to helping her study, since that’s what she wanted.

episode two:

tommy makes a joke about jonathan killing will and steve hits him in the chest and tells him to stop. 

if you watch in the background when barb asks steve where the bathroom is, he watches and makes sure she gets inside okay. 

giving nancy a towel and rubbing her arms, asking if she’s okay. he’s so soft

offers nancy clean clothes and immediately looks away when she asks him to. certain other male characters can’t relate!

episode three:

when nancy pulls away from kissing him, steve stops and asks her if she’s alright. he also calls her beautiful twice.

he goes right up to her in the hallway the morning after and assures her that he had a nice time with her and calls her cute. this makes nancy feel much better about things.

steve later attempts to calm nancy’s worries about barb and tells off tommy for being a dick about her. 

LISTEN steve had every right to break jonathan’s camera. i don’t give a fuck about any argument y’all throw out, it’s the truth. jonathan took revealing photos of nancy without her consent and in steve’s mind, he watched them have sex. he was being a good boyfriend. he was protecting nancy. any good partner would’ve done the same thing.

later on in the hallway, he chases after nancy and is genuinely concerned when she tells him she has to leave. 

episode four:

okay we only see steve one time and he’s a dick about the police and barb. it’s sort of implied that his father is abusive, so you can’t hate him for being selfish in this situation.

episode five:

steve comes to nancy’s house unprompted, admits that he was wrong and apologizes. he says that even though he’ll get in trouble, he’ll tell the truth about the party and then offers to take nancy to a movie to take her mind off of things.

side note but him singing into the bat cleansed me of my traumas

episode six:

he drove out to nancy’s house to make sure that she was alright and was genuinely upset to see her with jonathan. i can’t believe ppl in this fandom think that steve was playing nancy the whole time like….did y’all watch?

i’m not going to defend steve’s actions in this episode bc they are gross BUT i think it’s somewhat important to note that tommy is the one who spray painted “nancy the slut wheeler,” not steve.

episode seven:

steve tells carol to stop talking bad about nancy and tells off tommy for writing those words on the theater. 

he speaks very highly of nancy (sad face emoji bc s2) and mentions that he believes she’s a genuinely good person. he then ditches his friends, his best friends in the whole world, just bc he realized that he was in the wrong. steve gave up everything that he knew just to be with nancy. if one of y’all calls him a fuckboy again…..

he goes to the movie theater and scrubs the slur off himself

episode eight:

once again unprompted, he goes to jonathan’s house to apologize for the things that he said. he had no idea that nancy would be there. 

his voice gets so soft when he sees that nancy’s hand is hurt omg joe is so good he kills me. and then he bursts in like a good partner would when he suspects that jonathan had hurt her. we love a chivalrous man

he’s so CUTE when he’s running around screaming about the demogorgan bc he has no idea what’s going on. a comedic icon!

steve hauls ass out of the house but then stops when he sees the lights flicker. and then he goes back inside!!!!!!!! and he saves jonathan and nancy!!! y’all love to forget that your fav hets would be dead if steve wasn’t a brave legend who invented baseball bats. 

he then buys jonathan a new camera, which i definitely would not have done, but steve is a good person so he did.

For the first time I have something to fight for.