#reddieloves

@constantreaderfool: “I would LOVE to hear more of shoulder angel and demon reddie PLEASE”

thank you so much for taking for taking interest in my headcanon it means a lot!! 🥰 i’ve had this au on my mind for quite a while but i’ve never gotten around to writing it, so i’m glad people wanna hear about it hdjshdj

@reddieloves suggested that it actually be switched around and eddie could be the demon and richie the angel which i love!!! i definitely considered this when i first started thinking of the au and i think for now i’ll go with it :)

eddie’s the brave type and i think that would have him pushing stan to do risky things that could definitely have some negative consequences but in his opinion, the thrill is more important than the possibility of something going wrong so why not go for it? richie’s a lot more cautious, and he usually just chastises eddie gently because he’d rather be nice than argue, but he can’t help going into a strop when eddie starts to get a little flirty or just tries to talk about random things like the different diseases he’s heard of with him to take his focus and distract him from his responsibilities

the real loser in this scenario, though, is stan. he has to deal with them for every waking moment, they only quieten down at night to let him sleep and sometimes he thinks that they forget they’ve even got a job to do—they talk all through his classes and bicker when he tries to have a conversation with his dormmate—he just feels thankful that everyone can only hear their own angel and demon because god he thinks he must’ve gotten the two who were the absolute worst at their jobs and that’s not a dramatic statement at all

when stan is maybe twenty one he starts to notice that occasionally he’ll wake up to find eddie crawling back up onto his shoulder and lying down as if he’d been there the whole time, but stan doesn’t really know where he’d be going. richie and eddie usually just lay down on his shoulders and stay quiet to let him rest or they go to sleep themselves just to pass time, not that they need it. i think he’d let it go the first couple of times but when he manages to undeniably catch him in the act, he asks eddie where he keeps going and not surprisingly, eddie refuses to tell him anything—richie stays quiet as stan interrogates eddie, but stan supposes he wouldn’t know much about eddie’s devious antics anyway

one night he decides that he’ll pretend to go to sleep so that he can find out where eddie’s going and it actually works, maybe fifteen minutes after stan’s eyes close and his breath evens out eddie’s climbing off of his shoulder and he thinks he can feel his feet quietly pattering across his chest? he’s not too sure, but then he hears—

“eds, we’re going to get into trouble for this.”

“but that’s the fun part, rich.”

“no it’s– i mean– i know trouble is your whole thing but you know that’s not what i meant.”

eddie sighs and richie continues—

“this is the kind of thing you’ll actually be punished for.”

stan cracks his eyes open just enough for him to be able to see that eddie has in fact moved over to his right shoulder where richie sits, and he’s holding one of richie’s hands in both of his own and kissing the back of it gently

“i won’t try to tempt you anymore if it makes you uncomfortable, rich, just say the word.”

omg 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 that makes me so happy!! tysm for telling me this 💓