Projects self all over Deaf Steve:Ā
He wants to be a writer, but after getting made fun of by his English teacher, he never tells anyone about this.
He was born Hard of Hearing with progressives loss. Ā By kindergarten heās profoundly deaf, but crappy parents just stick him in mainstream school and hope for the best. Ā They live in a small town so resources are terrible and Steve scrapes by with his horrible bulky hearing aids until he just abandons them because being cool is better than sound anyway.
He learns ASL because heās got one speech therapist who actually learned about the Deaf community, and it sits in his brain so much better, but it makes switching from ASL to English hard and everyone thinks heās dumb.
His teachers have written him off.
He starts writing out of spite- learning to turn sentences into lyrical, poetic prose that feel like water rushing over smooth stones whenever he reads them. Ā But he doesnāt show anyone because when he goes over his work he still finds spots where he gets nouns and verbs swapped, and he drops articles and plurals are hard to remember, okay? Ā They just donāt make any SENSE in English sometimes.
And yeah his teachers were probably right, even if he never lets go of his petty dreams.
He gets a job working for his dad. Ā Itās all hearing people and itās hard and the end of the day heās exhausted in spite of the fact that itās not hard labor. Ā He naps a lot.
Heās still close with the kids he used to babysit so on some days he goes to visit Mikeās house and annoy Nancy who pretends like sheās not happy to see him now that theyāre just friends. Ā The kids have been MIA for a while and Steve finds out why.
He goes down to the basement and one of the prettiest men heās ever laid eyes on is sitting on a makeshift throne with a book propped up in front of him. Ā Steve canāt see his lips so he canāt make out what heās saying but whatever it is, he can tell the guyās really into it by how the boys are really into it.
His name is Eddie and he talks with his whole body.
When he notices Steve, he also starts throwing in some signs whichā¦
Steve will unpack that later.
Later, Dustin explains DnD to him. Ā Itās story telling, and it makes Steve feel things. Ā Heāll never admit to being interested. Ā Ever.
But he shows up more and Eddie invites him to sit and peek at his notes, and Steve starts making quiet suggestions behind the partition on his fingers once he realizes Eddieās not fluent but at least conversational. Ā Eddie looks at Steve with big doe-eyes and an expression of wonder.
He personally invites Steve back.
Together they start planning a campaign and when itās overāit lasts twenty-eight hours played over two weeksāEddie cups his face and tells him that it was beautiful thanks to Steve.
At some point, they kiss, because theyāre both so obviously in love thereās no point in hiding it anymore.
Eddie shows Steve his music, and Steve buys Eddie some really powerful ear plugs so Eddie can experience how Steve listens to it.
One day Steve suddenly feels like he canāt hide anymore so he shows up at Eddieās house and dumps a thumb drive in his palm and tells him itās stupid but he just wanted to share something.
Eddie disappears for two days, and Steve thinks yeah. Ā It was that bad.
Then Eddie appears with spicy chicken sandwiches in a greasy bag and throws Steve onto his bed and kisses the breath out of him before signing to him that his stories were the best things heās ever read, and the world should probably know.
Steve doesnāt think heāll ever actually pursue writing. Ā But he might write more for Eddie.
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