the whole "steves dream was forced on him by his parents" is just the latest step in not letting steve be steve. his character is only about what he is to other people, he cant be his own person with his own dreams and interests.
he's not really interested in sports, his parents forced him into it
he was never really friends with tommy and carol, his parents chose them for him and made him be friends with them
he doesn't like the clothes he wears, his mom buys them for him and forces him to wear them
he doesn't actually like the bmw, its just the car his dad forced on him
he never wanted to date nancy, his parents pressured him to ask her out because it looked good for him to be dating the smart, ambitious, but not too out there or wild eldest daughter of an upper middle class family
and now he never really wanted the winnebago dream, it was the idea forced on him by his parents
just because steve isn't a carbon copy of every other character, doesn't mean his dreams and ideals and interests were forced on him.
some people seem to think that because steve is the "stereotypical" rich jock (at least on the surface), his personality is somehow less valid than the other characters.
i hate it so much, because so many people who claim to love steve only love this fanon version of him that is barely recognizable next to canon steve.
itβs just so fucking ridiculous at this point.
that thing is not steve!!!
i honestly believe that the reason people arenβt just acknowledging the fact that theyβre writing an oc is because they want the attention that comes with writing steddie. doesnβt matter how shit the fic is, or how out of character, someone will shovel that fucking slop in.
i also think itβs driven by this weird self-victimisation and villianisation of jocks. influenced, of course, by eddieβs terrible speech. that he later ended up retracted. because he grew as a person and realised he was wrong. but i guess some people missed 1/4 of eddieβs scenes.
