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kendalroys · 10 months
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and then, I left some Eggos out in the woods, and you came into my life and...for the first time in a long time, I started to feel things again. I stated to feel happy. Jim and El Hopper in Stranger Things (2016-)
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findafight · 1 year
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Okay but Joyce doesn't like Steve au that's juxtaposed by Hopper having accidentally adopted Steve but neither of them know the other's strong feelings towards Steve.
Joyce is eyeballing him all suspicious and the like. She doesn't trust him around the kids, is wary when Will talks about how he's actually pretty cool, and that Dustin is totally obsessed with him now. She greatful for his help with...whatever he did with the Upside Down stuff, but still. She knows his reputation. And her opinion doesn't change until post season 4 (despite a very frosty exchange she had with Claudia Henderson about maybe...being careful about letting Steve hang around Dustin pre S3) because suddenly Steve is like. Always at the house she shares with Hopper. She's ticked at first, because why is this random boy in her house? Hanging out and watching baseball with her daughter? And when she mentions why Steve is there all the time, at one of the seemingly rare times Steve isn't eating dinner with them (she thinks a date was mentioned, and she refrained from scoffing at how typical it was for Steve to have a date and probably not call back) El and Hop look at her like she's crazy.
Because Hopper is no longer afraid to admit his fondness for Steve. So much so that Joyce's distain for the kid throws him way off base. The whole time Joyce has been side eying Steve Hopper was sitting there smiling like Steve :) good kid :) he helped El with her hair after Kali. :') Talked about how to accept things you've done that make you feel guilty while working to make up for them and grow to be a better person :) always putting himself on the line to protect those kids :) wrote to El all the time while she was in California so she knew he was still her friend :) glad they have him. Glad El has him :)he called her Ellie last week that's cute :) unfortunate taste in men but apparently that's a family trait so I will deal with it :/ my son :')
So they're both going "why wouldn't he be?"
And Joyce barrels on like "well, he's always here and he and Jon are barely speaking-"
"Woah that not exactly...Steve's fault..."
"and he's closest to Dustin of the kids, not Will."
"not my fault I was dealing with possession when Dustin, Lucas, and Max had their special Steve adventure" (El pats his shoulder in sympathy)
"and now he's missing dinner for a date. just don't get no one else thinks it's weird!"
El frowns "it's their two-month anniversary."
"huh?"
"him and--his date. They have been dating for two months. It's special."
"El, you don't even know her name...I don't think it's that-"
"yes I do! He told me. But asked me not to tell. Right Will?"
Will nods. "They want to keep it quiet. Not ready for everyone to know? I don't know who it is but that's what Steve said when we asked. Robin definitely knows too."
"so why'd he tell El?"
"and me. He told us together."
El rolls her eyes "because he is my brother?"
Hopper's face scrunches in a smile, proud and warm.
"El, we aren't his family..."Joyce is trying, she is! But she isn't fully understanding exactly what's happening or everything in winter/spring 1985.
El looks mortally offended by this. "yes we are. Steve was my brother first."
And Joyce has to reckon with the fact that maybe she's misjudged Steve a little, if El and Hop are getting so defensive over him....
Part 2 part 3
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ikarakie · 1 year
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i think el would team up with hopper to test mike when byler get together. she loves mike, yes, but she loves will. he's her brother. her little brother. and she knows first hand that mike can be kind of a dick sometimes so she wants to make sure he's getting as good as he deserves. and hopper never liked mike to begin with, (not as a person, but as a romantic partner for his children), so he's so on board.
they both give mike crap whenever they can. el constantly asks will if mike is treating him well, that she'll happily move all the furniture in his room slightly to the left with her mind if he's misbehaving. hopper imposes the 3 inches rule, and gives will good-natured grief about picking mike of all people. "seriously, kid! of all the nice boys, you go for wheeler?!"
obviously they quit it after a few months, only after they're sure mike isn't just playing around with their will's feelings. will finds it endearing, to know that he's gained these new family members that care for him so deeply. mike is rolling around on the floor in frustration by the end of it because goddammit he just wants to kiss his boyfriend! to have some goddamn alone time with him!!! why does he live in a house of anti-mike psychopaths!!!!!!!
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aflawedfashion · 2 years
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Stranger Things 4x09 | El realizing Joyce came back with Hopper
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userchappell · 7 months
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oh, my favorite trope? yeah, the emotionally constipated adult man with a lot of trauma that shuts himself out from society and then he meets a teenager who changes his life, whether it's for the worse or for the better. yeah, that trope
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booksandpaperss · 1 year
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el finding light in her familial love for hopper vs. Mike finding light in his friendship with and romantic love for Will <3
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stevesbipanic · 3 months
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They walked
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So they could run
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gayofthefae · 2 months
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I just realized one thing beautiful for El about her relationship with Hopper and how she would view it. Once, during their fight, he calls her a "brat", but that's the worst he's ever gone. Never a monster. And in that fight, he sees her at her worst. Then she runs away and comes back looking different without telling him. And after all that, the exploding windows, the lying...he still loves her. He's seen what she would call her "monster" side and still loves her. He is the first person she truly shows to that level in that season 2 fight and he stays.
There's also something as I say this about how he calls her a "brat" and his language with her. Similar to how Will still uses the collective proper noun/name "Mom", even when he's mad at her - there are certain things not revokable, not in their vocabulary. Even when he's mad at her, he still calls her an insult you would only use on a child. She is never anything more than a 13 year old girl to him: not mature, not a weapon, not a superhero. She's just a child. Whenever he sees her he calls her "kid". When he's angry, the worst he calls her is a brat: an annoying child, but always a child.
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lady-celeste25 · 1 year
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El dying next season.
Lucas bursting in the hospital door and Max turns to him to ask where El is cause she promised to come see her after. She’s blind, she can’t see but she only heard one set of footsteps. Lucas breaks down in the floor.
Will going into shock so bad he can’t breath and Jonathan has to get him to try to breathe.
Hopper has to bury his daughter again.
Mike not leaving his room for weeks until his mom tells him to get ready for the funeral.
The Party leaving an empty seat the next DND session.
Joyce actually losing a child.
Nancy staring at the dirty blonde wig and blue windbreaker in her dress-up box
Jonathan having to throw away all the pictures he took of her because he just can’t look at them anymore.
Will sitting at her grave reading.
…….
Sarah and El finally get to meet each other
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prfctmxxnlight · 2 years
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I told myself that they needed me.
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But that wasn’t true. That’s a lie.
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I needed them.
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el: i haven't slept in seventy-three hours.
max: eighty. democratically elected leader of insomnia.
billy: bitch, it's been ninety for me. i'm going for an even one hundred.
hopper: you guys are fucking terrifying.
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findafight · 11 months
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See. The thing is, the key factor to me for having Hopper accidentally becoming a father figure for Steve is that, with the rare exception, it MUST happen post El dad-ifying Hop, and post Dustin brother-ifying Steve. That facilitates both El and Steve hanging out and going wait...I can...collect these guys?... Hmm. And secretly seeing each other as siblings. All while Hopper gazes on in dawning horror at the realization he has the urge to ruffle Steve's hair and call him champ. That's the dream.
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howtobecomeadragon · 1 year
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sad-endings-suck · 1 year
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✨cinema✨
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niceboyeds · 1 year
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starting to think that one of the reasons Uncle Wayne and Hopper are so comforting to me is because i grew up with a Lonnie as a father. Wayne and Hop took in kids that weren’t theirs but love them unconditionally and would do anything to see them safe. they truly care for them and i crave that.
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hopperscabin · 2 years
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Stranger Things season 3 x Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix parallel
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