richard&edward

🔪it: TEENAGE! the losers club

All of the things we’re taking ‘Cause we are young and we’re ashamed Send us to perfect places All of our heroes fading Now I can’t stand to be alone Let’s go to perfect places

The little annoying, asthmatic, hypochondriac, Fanny pack wearing boy, who was bullied for his petite stature and asthma, who’s mother let him believe her overprotectiveness and control over his life was love, who was lied to and told he was sickly just to keep him submissive to her, never knew or saw love outside of the Loser’s Club.

Then he moves away and forgets all of them and marries a woman who is a literal carbon copy of his mother. He thinks the only way someone could love him is if he’s subservient and needs to be taken care of.

But Richie doesn’t love him because he’s small and weak, he loves him because he’s annoying and loud and funny and wears goofy clothes and talks a mile a minute and is actually so, so brave and so protective of his friends and has the biggest heart.

He loves the boy who freaks out over the possibility of having to amputate a waist and screams to an Eldritch demon that he’s gonna kill it before soccer kicking it in the face and who stabs Henry Bowers through a shower curtain after being stabbed in the face. Richie doesn’t love Eddie for who Eddie thinks he should be; he loves Eddie for who he is.

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