#stenbreddie

get this Stan+Eddie+Bill... Stenbreddie my dudes!!!

gasp whut oh no a ship without richie wtf

But seriously oh my god you guys. Thinking about this ship is amazing.

Bill be wrangling two neurotic dumbasses.

Eddie be wrangling two sensitive weepy dumbasses.

And Stan be wrangling two chaotic dumbasses!~

This is so long cause I think about this stuff way too much!!!!! Their jobs more or less follow the book, so sue me for not being very creative.

Living Situation

-There’s actually quite a few arguments about what they’re going to do after high school

-But ultimately they decide to stay together, move to Bangor, and rent a 2 bedroom apartment

-Stan and Eddie share a room cause they’re both neat and clean and courteous about space

-Bill and Richie share a room cause Bill is the only one who can handle Richie’s bullshit

-Stan is going to college for accounting. Bill is going for an English degree. Richie is working on a business degree. And Eddie… isn’t going to college.

-Stan especially tries to convince Eddie to take classes but Eddie says he needs a break from school (spoiler: that break turns into Eddie never going back to school)

-How do they make money? Bill sells short stories to newspapers and magazines. Richie works at a gas station. Stan proofreads (read: re-writes) college papers for desperate students under the table. Eddie drives a cab (”are you going to drive a cab for the rest of your life, Eddie? You should go back to school” “Its good money, Stanley”)

-Richie cooks most of the meals in the house cause Eddie is hopeless, Bill would just eat mac and cheese every day, and Stan is always buried under mountains of homework cause he takes on too many classes

-Stan and Eddie do most of the chores but Richie is in charge of washing dishes

-Bill is in charge of containing Richie’s messiness - i.e., throwing Richie’s trail of clothes from the front door to their room into a laundry basket, reminding Richie to do the dishes, and overall containing Richie’s mess to their shared bedroom

-Richie gets swept up in a college radio station and loves every second of it

-It takes convincing but after college, they pack up and move to California

-They start off in a small one-bedroom apartment in a bad neighborhood outside of L.A. and it fucking sucks. Stan and Eddie share the bedroom, Bill and Richie have their bed in the living room. So cramped.

-But their luck in California is crazy good. Stan lands an accounting job at a prestigious firm that handles high-end clientele. Bill sells some of his short stories to the right magazine and gets a call from a Hollywood producer about making a movie script. Richie gets a job doing late-night radio hosting at a local station. Eddie trades in his cab-driving for limo-driving.

-Richie absolutely calls Stan their sugar daddy cause Stan makes b a n k

-Goodbye, shitty one bedroom apartment. Hello, beautiful big house on a hill. They can afford to have their own space but Richie is too used to sleeping with Bill and wants to continue sharing a room. Eddie felt the same but didn’t want to say anything; but when Richie says it, Eddie is like “maybe Stan and I should just share a room too” and Stan thinks Eddie is seriously the cutest.

-It all goes uphill fast. Stan ends up leaving his job to start his own business and half his clients follow him from the start. Stan has weirdly good business sense and Richie is happy to help his boyfriend get started. (”look, Stan, I’m actually using my degree!” “Wow, Rich, I’m so proud /deadpan” “do you have to say it like that though?”) Eddie is inspired by Stan and starts his own limo driving business; Stan invests a lot of money into it but it goes well. Bill’s script turns into a really terrible movie that makes sooo much money, and he publishes his first novel that sells like hotcakes. And Richie gets an offer from another radio station about running his own show in prime-time.

Marriage & Kids

-Their lives spin into success so fast that its hard to actually… think about the future?

-But Stan can’t help it and writes down five-year plans that he hides in his dresser

-Eddie finds one of the lists while putting laundry away and sees things like “Marriage??” crossed out and “Kids?” with three lines drawn through it

-Eddie talks to Stan about it and Stan’s just

-”Its reasonable to think about, Eddie. I love you guys, I want to figure out our future but we don’t really have a conventional life, do we?”

-Eddie doesn’t know what he wants in the marriage or kids department either but he convinces Stan that they need to talk to Bill and Richie about it before they let too much time go by

-Its hard to get all four of them in the house at one time since their lives are so crazy but they eventually manage

-Bill has been thinking about that stuff too but Richie’s like “??? we’re basically married already? I pack you all lunch every night and Eddie fell asleep watching a movie with me yesterday before 9, we’re married”

-gay marriage is still illegal in California, as Eddie points out

-Stan says they could just do a ceremony and wear rings

-Richie: “are you guys proposing? how sweet”

-”Beep-beep, Richie”

-but Bill is blushing as he tells them that San Francisco does domestic partnerships for same-sex couples, if they were serious about it

-”We’d j-just have to decide who wants to be w-w-with who on paper”

-Bill almost never stutters anymore so Richie holds his hand to try to calm him

-Some couples have a romantic engagement story but they have a serious discussion about it and decide fuck it! let’s get domestic partnerships!!

-there’s a lot of back and forth over who is gonna “marry” who but eventually it settles on Bill with Eddie and Stan with Richie

-all four of them get simple matching gold rings tho

-Richie still goes by Rich “Trashmouth” Tozier on the radio but he changes his legal name to Richard Uris-Tozier. Stan throws out all his business cards and prints them up again with Stanley Uris-Tozier. Richie talks openly about his wonderful husband who nags like no one’s business. If someone tries to call Stan his partner, Richie’s like “You mean my husband.” Richie also jokes on the radio about his husband’s boyfriends, but they can’t be more open than that in the late 90s / early 2000s - being gay is one thing, being in a relationship with 3 guys is another.

-All of Bill’s books are printed under William Denbrough but he changes his legal name to William Denbrough-Kaspbrak. Like Stan, Eddie’s business cards say Edward Denbrough-Kaspbrak and he goes by that name everywhere even though its a mouthful. Bill talks in interviews about his husband Eddie. When particularly good interviewers ask about his living situation, Bill always manages to laugh it off somehow.

-Kids don’t come until later cause they all disagree on what they want to do. Stan wants kids. Richie doesn’t. Richie is scared of being like his dad, who was neglectful at best. Bill wants kids but he also says he can live without them, he has three beautiful husbands (yes, Bill calls of them his husbands at home) and he doesn’t need more to make his life complete. Eddie is on the fence, his opinion changes day to day.

-but eventually Richie comes around and “fine, let’s have kids - if I’m a shitty dad, you’ll all make up for it”

-They all assure Richie he’s gonna be a great dad but now they have to figure out ?? how???

-Adoption is a difficult process and if their relationship status comes out, it could be a disaster. So they decide surrogate mother is the way to go. They find a lovely lady who signs a bunch of non-disclosure agreements and Bill’s gonna be the biological dad cause they all agree Bill is amazing

-Surprise! Surrogate mommy comes back from her first ultrasound with news that she’s gonna have twins

-The plan was to have a second kid sometime in the future but wow? twins? and its two girls, who they name Georgia and Ava

-Richie is panicking cause girls in the house but he bonds with those babies like no one’s fucking business

-Bill might be the bio dad but they all love those girls like their own. During the baby and toddler years, Bill stays home with the girls during the day, Richie stays up with the girls all night. Stan and Eddie help where they can but they both have businesses to run.

-the girls are still young when gay marriage is legalized in 2013 but they’re like “DADS, YOU NEED TO GET MARRIED”

-so fuck it. they’re gonna get married to their domestic partners and make it more official. joint wedding anyone? their girls are a little old to be flower girls but they’re flower girls anyway. no one’s seen Ben, Bev, or Mike in years but they show up to the wedding and Eddie cries.

-they always intended to have another kid with someone else as the dad but that never happens, Georgia and Ava are all they need

-honestly their household is a disaster

-One of the girls screams “DAAAD” and gets up to four “WHAT?”s yelled back

-Georgia is a wild little animal but Ava is a sweetheart, tho she will follow her sister’s lead

-Ava likes to distinguish between her dads, so she has Dad - Bill, Daddy - Eddie, Papa - Stan, and Pop - Richie

-but Georgia just calls them all dad or papa

sorry this took so long!! not really what you’re looking for either, sorry. but pls send me more hc requests guys

-all the losers know richie has a bad home life but he doesn’t like to talk about it so they don’t know much details

-eddie has the best idea of what richie’s parents are like cause richie shows up at eddie’s house in the middle of the night a lot when he’s upset

-richie sometimes blurts things out but most of the time he just crawls into bed with eddie and they hold each other until they fall asleep

-richie has to sneak out the next morning before mrs. k wakes up but no big deal, eddie tries not to worry about it cause richie’s usually back to a good mood when they next meet up

-but sometimes if its really bad, richie can’t use humor as his coping mechanism and he’ll just be quiet the whole day

-on one such bad day, eddie quietly tells bill and stan that richie spent the night with him too, they know enough to realize richie’s having a really bad time at home

-bev, ben, and mike are just as worried about richie but bill asks them to let him talk to richie first so the three of them make an excuse about helping ben at the library and bug off

-bill gets his boyfriends to agree to video games in his bedroom, thinking that’s gonna cheer richie up at least

-except it doesn’t, richie just hands off his controller to eddie after a few minutes

-”you guys play, i’ll just watch” basically the weirdest shit richie has ever said

-bill is gonna set down the game to talk with richie but stan beats him to it

-stan gets richie to curl up with him at the head of bill’s bed, reasoning they can watch bill and eddie play

-except that stan also pets richie’s hair and softly asks if richie wants to talk about things

-”i’m fine, stanley”

-stan accepts it but eddie can’t handle that, like “you slept in my bed last night”

-bill thinks that’s gonna get a snarky response from richie but richie just shrugs

-”sorry it bothered you”

-eddie is just ??? what the fuck

-”c’mon, r-rich,” says bill, “you can t-talk to us about en-en-anything”

-game is completely forgotten as bill scoots over to put his hand on richie’s knee

-eddie is kind of frustrated; “you know it didn’t bother me. but something is bothering you, we just want to make sure you’re all right, dipshit”

-”i’m fine”

-except this time richie’s voice cracks a bit on the words and stan never stops petting his hair and there’s an uncomfortable moment where they all think richie might cry

-eddie kind of hopes he’ll cry because it might make richie talk about it

-but the moment passes and richie tries to get off the bed

-tries cause stan grabs richie and drags richie back against his chest

-richie isn’t happy about that but stan took him off guard

-”you don’t have to tell us anything and you can be upset if you want to but i love you. so at least understand we’re going to worry about you.”

-stan isn’t usually comfortable with i love yous so it makes richie kinda freeze up

-eddie wants to push richie to talk about the problem but eddie’s also getting what stan is saying so he keeps his mouth shut

-bill agrees with stan; “n-no one is gonna p-push you to t-t-talk about anything, rich. y-you can just w-watch us p-puh-play if you w-want. b-b-but we’re gonna worry when y-you’re acting w-weird. if you w-wanna talk, we’re h-here. if n-not, we’re h-here. okay?”

-”okay”

-richie doesn’t want to talk, he really doesn’t. but he lets stan hold him and he watches bill and eddie go back to the game when they realize he’s not gonna talk

-and at the end of the night richie kisses each of them goodbye and tells them they’re the best boyfriends ever

-they’re gonna worry about him still but they’ll just have to be there

-richie climbs into eddie’s window again that night

-eddie isn’t really surprised, just makes room for richie to crawl in bed with him

-”don’t wanna talk about it,” richie mumbles as he curls up against eddie