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He’s kinda hoping that he’ll wake up a lip reading expert one day but it hasn’t happened yet, but it’s fine.

Most of his friends talk at him instead of with him, so it’s okay if he misses some of the finer details. He doesn’t think he’s missing much until -

“Dating?” He asks. “You’re dating someone? Who?”

Eddie pauses and looks at him. His mouth moves to say, “You.”

“Me?”

“I asked you out a month ago,” Eddie says. “You said ‘sounds great.’”

“Oh,” Steve says, realization dawning slowly. “Yeahh, that’s what I say when I can’t figure out what you said.”

Eddie gives him a look like he’s bugging out, “What do you mean? I said it to your face.”

“Well, yeah,” Steve nods. “Lip-reading isn’t like, a science. It’s hard sometimes.”

“Why are you reading my lips?!”

“Because I’m deaf!”

“You’re deaf???” Eddie asks. He looks exasperated. “Since when.”

“Since before I had a boyfriend,” Steve replies, nudging him. “Sorry. I didn’t really tell anyone about it. I still have a boyfriend, right?”

“Yeah. Of course,” Eddie says and then curls his hand into a mimic of a telephone. He holds it to his ear before bringing his hands together into a gesture of a bird.

Steve frowns, “Don’t call Robin.”

He gets a K, an O, an R, and so and so until he can rearrange the letters to spell S K U L L R O K.

He never finds the C and thinks maybe it’s a clue to who is sending them.

He thinks briefly when he’s hiking out to Skull Rock that maybe Chrissy Cunningham was leaving him the notes. She’s been smiling at him in the hallway more lately, but no.

No.

He definitely made a mistake coming out here. He’s probably about to die because - “Harrington? What the fuck.”

“Finally,” Steve groaned from atop the rock. “About time, Munson.”

“Did you - Are your little friends planning to jump out and attack me?” Eddie asks, scanning the horizon. “Or is this some eleborate way to ask for drugs?”

“Why would I bring my little friends to the make out rock?” Steve asks, making a face at the thought of bringing Dustin up here. “Gross.”

“Why would you bring me here?”

“Oh,” Steve says, realizing that - “I don’t know. Just bored. Figured you were good at word puzzles.”

Eddie just stares at him and Steve stares back, unashamed and unabashed. Eventually, Eddie sighs, “What is the significance of leaving out the C?”

“I forgot the C? Damn it,” Steve swore and then shrugs, “Whatever.”

oh ellie is for sure a brat. even in general she has always been a brat.

funny enough, when i was first into the games and still had the ideology that ellie was a strong, confident top. it was actually my friend who wasn't in the fandom like that introduce me to the idea that ellie was a brat and not a top. i didn't believe her at first but when you go back to the weed den scene you can see her bratty vibes.

"can i ask you a question?"

"i dont know can you?"

or all the times she pops her hip and crosses her arms, in joel's house when talking to maria, her hip pop at the theater talking to dina, or in the theater she pops her hip walking to tommy and jesse.

her rolling her eyes when talking to maria and putting her hand up to sassily to get maria to stop pressuring her about her and joel.

but even with abby, she was so quick to fold and allow abby to dominate her. in the theater when abby comes up shes so quick to do everything abby asks of her, and almost cowers in abby's confident, dominating presence.

i can see how people still believe ellie is a top, i had the same thoughts too. but when you really think about it, she doesn't give off dominating traits. even when dina so obviously liked her back, ellie didn't do anything to make any moves. she stayed to herself in her own little dorky crush fantasy. even after they kissed at the party, ellie still didn't believe dina liked her and still kept to herself. dina initiated all the flirting and took lead in a lot of it, basically making ellie a nervous blushing and shy mess their entire patrol. and even at the weed den, dina had to take lead, asking her about the kiss. and even then, ellie was still shy and second guessing everything, not really open to talk about how the kiss made her feel. dina, once again, had to initate a kiss and make the first move for everything, while ellie followed in her steps.

ellie may seem very dominating in the sense that when she's mercilessly on a killing spree in seattle/santa barbara, but in her relationships she's the exact opposite.

But one thing human babies are really good at - often within seconds of being born - is asking for help.

As we mature and gain new skills - vocabulary both verbal and written, gestures, facial expressions, and so forth - the way we ask for help changes. But babies have just one way of asking for help - filling their lungs with air and wailing. And they're right to do so! Their needs are unmet and they cannot do a damn thing about it except request assistance.

One of the rare moments after work they both have enough energy to go outside and do anything they go for some food and a walk in the park. Jinx starts feeding the squirrels and crows some of the bread off of her leftovers while they take a moment to sit on a bench.

She's secretly trying to amass an animal army to bring her shiny objects and money. It's a plan she guarantees will work if they do this frequently enough. Vi catches a personal moment when Jinx is caught up in the antics of the animals to just stare at her with her big old lovestruck eyes. For all intents and purposes, Jinx hung the stars and the moon for Vi's personal night sky.

Jinx loves Vi just as much and Is just as obsessed. Codependency, never heard of her. Does she abuse the fact that Vi is built like a brick shit house and can be incredibly intimidating? Yes. Is she a little shit that pulls annoying ass pranks and then hides under her sister's protection? Maybe!

Jinx thinks it's incredibly hot when Vi puffs out her chest and makes people back down without having to ever lift a fist. (She doesn't like to see Vi bruised even if she wins). She loves Vi the most in their quieter moments alone, when she's soft and she lays with her back to Jinx' chest and lets her play with her hair.

She loves her when she just wakes up in the morning with a stupid (adorable) look on her face that lights up when her eyes focus enough to recognize Jinx. She loves her stupid boy-like jokes and sense of humor and her headstrong attitude when it comes to fixing just about anything.

Vi: It hasn't changed since the last time I said it.

Jinx: Please Vi. Tell me again.