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penny00dreadful · 2 months
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Been working on some art pieces for my upcoming D&D au and I’m so EXCITED to share 🥰
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Anyone know where to find a good sorcerer?
It seems more likely all the time that I am going to be killed by these idiots sometime between now and April 11th
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I've come to accept my fate but, if I possible, I would like to be revived, preferably by May 16th so I can see the first half of their story
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But if that's not possible, I will need to be resurrected by June 13th at the latest for the second half. Possibly earlier depending on when they come back
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xenon-demon · 10 months
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ALSO!!!! "hand me my shovel, i'm going in!"?????? heLLO? love that 🫶
okay this one is SO MUCH FUN once I've gotten through at least one Big WIP (either gravity or cheerscoops fake dating) I'm definitely coming back to focus on this one. The title comes from the song of the same name by Will Wood and the Tapeworms!
The concept for this AU is that Hawkins (circa 1986) is under attack from a local serial killer, but they have absolutely no idea. Why not? Because Eddie Munson, local necromancer, keeps resurrecting the victims before they're found and reported as dead. This is staying under wraps for now, as all the victims are people generally ignored by society; people from the trailer park, the local drunks, the disenfranchised. People who, post-revival, will generally chalk the whole thing up to a hallucination or a bad dream, but even if they did tell someone it's not like anyone would believe them.
Eddie, meanwhile, is growing increasingly frustrated with the fact no one he revives can remember anything about who did this to them. They remember enough to know it was a violent death (although Eddie already knows that from the state he finds their bodies in), but their memories are too fuzzy to know who did it - and memories of dying and being brought back fade pretty quickly, as a general rule. Eddie doesn't make any headway on figuring out who the culprit is until he brings back the killer's latest victim: Steve Harrington.
Upon being revived, Steve's immediate reaction is "why the fuck is Eddie Munson here, what the fuck is going on and also I'm pretty sure I died for a second there?" in that order. Upon explaining the situation, Steve agrees to help Eddie find who's responsible for these killings and do something about it.
This is kind of an S4 replacement/canon divergence in that Upside Down Shit has been happening since '83, but also it's very much not in that the Upside Down works differently here and things happened differently to how they did in canon (there's almost no government presence in this AU, for example). It's essentially purgatory/the halfway dimension between our world and the afterlife, so Will and El both have their own magical bullshit going on. Think of it as them being sorcerers (innate aptitude for magic) and Eddie being a wizard (learned magical abilities), yknow?
Send me an ask about my WIPs!
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Was tagged by the talented  @neonponders thank you 💜
It's not Wednesday but what do I care. Here is lil thing from some future chapter of I'd Sell My Soul To A Devil starts in a flash back and then moves into the present.
Warning for attempted flesh eating
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“Man do you ever shut up?” Steve huffs around the mouth of his beer, taking a big gulp from it before it spills across the ground as Billy throws himself onto him. “What’s your fucking problem?” Steve groans, head hitting the floor again as Billy shoves him down. His voice is low enough that even the folks occupying the front yard and the back cannot hear him over the pulsing music. They're in the shadows enough that it could almost pass for alone.
Billy is not sure, just wants to push down everything and forget about it for a while. Steve goes lax, giving up bucking him off with another groan from his pretty mouth. Billy will blame the weed and the beer he has not touched tonight if asked for a reason as to why he would do something so stupid as to make a move on a guy he fought a few short weeks ago. Who by all accounts cannot stand him.
Billy crashes their lips together, hands on Steve’s shoulders so he can feel when it is time to defend. He is not expecting the way Steve kisses him back just as hard, does not push away when arms snake around him dragging him down until Billy is laying on top of him. Billy gives into the heady urge to roll his hips down against Steve’s, rewarded with his mouth dropping open in a moan that he takes advantage of, tongue delving in.
The door slams open pulling Billy from the memory and right back to the kitchen where Steve’s teeth are making progress gnawing through his finger. Billy tries to rear back again but all that does is tear more flesh, and bruises his back as he hits the edge of the counter. He has panic soaring higher, sure he is going to lose that finger and resigned to it not wanting to hurt Steve.
“You can’t just let him eat you, idiot.” Eddie marches forward and grabs Steve by the throat, using the hold to shove him back so hard he knocks into the coffee table in the living room. 
“The fuck do you think you’re doing!” Billy snarls taking a swing at Eddie. How dare he hurt Steve.
“Saving your life, for fucks sake.” Eddie pushes him back as Steve climbs to his feet with a feral almost animalistic growl bubbling up. His eyes have gone darker, almost black as he shifts looking ready to pounce.
Billy’s heart is pounding, unsure of what to do. He does not want to have to hurt Steve but he does not look like himself right now, is not acting like himself. What did he bring back?
Tagging @edith-moonshadow @steviespanties @aeon-of-neon @dragonflylady77 or whoever else wants to do it.
This is the only harringrove fic I'm still actually working on at the moment since my desire to write for this ship has nose dived. Hopefully working on this will get me back into it 🤷‍♀️
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bound-vivisection · 2 years
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I love the idea of Steve being the person that brings Eddie back. Like after the demobat attacks he finds himself tied to the upside down similar to how Will is. Steve never accepted Eddie’s death and as he is becoming more accustomed to his supernatural side he accidentally brings back Eddie. Eddie however isn’t quite human anymore. Basically what I am saying is give me Necromancer!Steve, and Kas!Eddie.
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You Can't Kill Love
Author: @jellyfishloveletterghosts
Rating/Warning: Teen and up audience, referenced ED
Chapter Count: 1/1
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Chrissy dies and Eddie goes to Steve looking to bring her back.
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"Do you regret it?" Billy cocks his head and Eddie clarifies. "Do you regret Steve bringing you back?"
"Sometimes in the beginning I did. When everything was familiar and strange at the same time. Before we figured our shit out.” Billy’s voice is quiet as he hands over a lighter, taking a drag from his cigarette before blowing it out again, the wind catching it and twisting it. “I've never found myself regretting getting to be with him though, getting this time." His eyes shift back to the graveyard even though Steve cannot be seen down in the hole Eddie dug.
"Do you think Chrissy will regret it?"
Tags: Alternate Universe- no vecna, alternate universe- supernatural, Vampire!Eddie, Necromancer!Steve, reanimation, angst, fluff, mutual pining, alternating POV, one-shot, status: completed
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pogoboart · 2 years
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Ok I have this fantasy Frankenstein AU that me and my friend made for Weddie where Waylon is an elven necromancer who brings Eddie to life. There’s a lot of other weird details, like Waylon didn’t use a full brain and just split two and that’s what gives Eddie his ‘switch’ between the Groom and himself, aaand the magic wants to keep Eddie bonded to waylon so there’s some fuck or die dynamics, or I guess in this case fuck or rot?
I’ve considered writing a fanfic for it but I’m better at drawing than writing so, enjoy 😊
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libraryofgage · 3 months
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Been watching sooooo much say yes to the dress so.....
Steve and Robin are consultants and co-designers at Kleinsfeld. Robin especially loves designing and Steve really loves that moment brides find The Dress because they light up and he helped make that happen and it just makes him smile
Enter Eddie Munson, rockstar and definitely not in a relationship but at Kleinsfeld to find a dress he can wear for an upcoming music video that's a little corpse bride vibes re revenge and murder (dead bride raised by necromancer and given opportunity to get revenge on her killer ex)
Eddie shows up with the guys and Steve/Robin are their consultants (they can't be separated bad things happen like Robin knocking over a rack of dresses bc Steve isn't there to pull her back in time) and when Steve (knows who Eddie is, doesn't care that much, they get celebrities all the time) asks who the bride is neither blink at Eddie raising his hand with a shit eating grin
They just go right into the design/style/budget questions and Eddie is almost disappointed he didn't get to cause more of a scene lmao
Anyway Steve is the one helping in the dressing room and he's getting Eddie into this big dramatic ballgown when Eddie asks why he's a consultant
Steve inadvertently just rambles about helping brides and making them feel the center of attention and cared for and special during their appointments. He also talks about designing affordable but fashionable dresses with Robin since he has experience with high fashion and general design and she knows best about keeping costs down without making things ugly
Obviously Eddie Munson is immediately heart eyes listening to this guy describe all of this while expertly lacing a ballgown corset and getting clips in place so it fits right and before he knows it Steve is leading him to where Robin and the band are waiting
The guys are immediately all giving Looks (derogatory) but can't describe what's wrong until Robin looks at Eddie and asks if he's adverse to negative feedback
Eddie is like "???? No, I guess???"
And is just even more confused when Robin goes, "No. Really, think about it."
So when he says it's fine Robin pushes Steve forward and tells him to let loose. Eddie is surprised cuz Steve is so sweet? How could he possibly be mean? And then Steve just holds nothing back like "the color washes you out, that beading makes your chest look uneven, the ballgown is actually a horrible silhouette on you because you just look uncomfortable having so much dress hanging off you"
And he says it all with this little popped out hip and slightly pursed mouth and raised eyebrow and it's so so bitchy and Eddie is fucking in love okay, he's gone, he needs to make fun of other people with Steve immediately
But also he's a gremlin so he's like "can a guy even look good in a wedding dress tho, like, does it matter?"
And Robin immediately jumps in like "of course it does you plebian especially if you want the music video to be any good"
This leads to Eddie and the guys not believing them so Robin and Steve share A Look and they do love proving people wrong so they're both like "bet" and tell Eddie to wait there
Cue them grabbing a sample dress (click to see what I'm thinking literally this is such a pretty dress holy shit) from their collection, putting Steve in it, and then showing it off
Eddie is dead. Immediately. Steve's arms? His legs? His chest? His confident little smirk as he spins in front of them?? 4 braincells dead and 28 injured in Eddie’s head
Anyway he literally ends up on his knees begging Steve to be in the music video, Steve agrees cuz he thinks Eddie is hot and funny, and CC fans lose their shit over the bride and his dress in the music video, especially when he and Eddie kiss at the end after the revenge murdering
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captainkirkk · 3 months
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✩ WEEKLY FIC ROUND-UP ✩
All the fics I’ve read and really enjoyed in the past week-ish. Reminder: This list features any and all ratings and themes. Please look at tags and warnings on ao3 before reading.
Untamed
All Old Things are New Again by The Feels Whale (miscellea)
Full-time necromancer and part-time cam boy, Wei Wuxian, finds himself unexpectedly homeless. An enthusiastic patron comes to his rescue.
Conversely:
Immortal Cultivator Lan Wangji has been waiting a long time for his deceased husband to be reincarnated again. In retrospect, he should have anticipated that this is how it would go.
DC
myself and this body that they stuck me in by misspickman
"Oh,” Bart says with a hint of surprise in his voice. “You look so pretty.”
“I look like a girl,” he rebuts. He's not sure why he's even continuing this conversation.
Bart, blissfully unaware of Kon's internal crisis, shrugs and says, “Well, I think you'd make a lovely girl."
when I see myself, I always know where you are by suzukiblu
"There's no point in killing Superboy," Match says reasonably. "It's not like you'd care if he died."
"The Agenda thinks I wouldn't care if Superboy died?" Superman asks incredulously, just staring at him. "Why, because he's a clone?"
"Because I reported back my interactions with you when I was pretending to be him," Match corrects, puzzled by the vehemence of the response. "And also the lack thereof."
"What?" Superman says, still just staring.
Stranger Things
smoking guns (hot to the touch) by fivecenturiesverse (+ podfic)
Sure, they've saved the world, but the best part of that really is that it doesn't end there and in a town where everyone thinks he murdered a girl, he's at least got Steve Harrington and Robin Buckley. It's really not his fault he accidentally starts living at Steve's house, he was invited, after all. There's a mystery too, about Barbara Holland and Steve's pool.
“Your boner is digging into me,” says Robin, and Steve snorts a tired sort of laugh.
“I don’t have a —”
“You do, I can feel it. Gross.”
“Okay, but it’s only a little one,” he says in a small voice which sounds like he’s impersonating someone.
“Are you ever going to let that go? I peed a little bit when the Russians got the torture devices out, okay?” She sounds amused, though.
Eddie jolts. “Russian torture devices?”
Robin carries on like she didn’t hear him but Steve catches his eye and he’s grinning. “How do you even have a boner dude? You were definitely having a nightmare I know your twitching means a nightmare… Did you have a boner over Vecna?"
M!ik
Iruma's Bloodline Ability by SpeedOfSnake
"Of course!” Asmodeus took the bait. “I am talking about Iruma-sama's ability to wipe the minds of his enemies.”
...Iruma had the ability to do what now?
...
Asmodeus believes Iruma has a bloodline ability, and Iruma tries to figure out why.
Star Wars
Back Where We Belong by thiswildheart
"Obi-Wan," Anakin breathed, and the dread crystallised into heartbreaking terror.
Of course. He should have known. Maybe he had known, but been too afraid to look it in the eye.
Not the kids, not Padmé, but someone as dear to him as they were. No wonder he'd been so sure his family was in danger.
(The war is over and Palpatine's gone, yet traces of his intended empire still threaten Anakin's family. Anakin will not fall again, but he's prepared to use everything the Light can offer to get his brother home.)
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cinematics123 · 8 months
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Buck: (slamming open Frank’s door in his office) WHO DID IT?
Frank: woah… Buck? Let’s calm down. What are-
Buck: Who hurt Eddie? You have to tell me. I’ll kill them.
Frank: Oh… Buck. It doesn’t work like that. Some of the people who hurt Eddie hurt him by dying. You can’t kill them; they’re already gone.
Buck: Then I will get a necromancer to bring them back so I can kill them again! I will hurt them for all eternity for hurting Eddie!
Frank: it’s not just other people… Eddie is fighting demons of his own…
Buck: Then we can stop at a church to get holy water and I’ll fight his demons too. I’d fight Satan himself for Eddie.
Frank: Buck… one of the “demons” Eddie’s struggling with is… his sexuality.
Buck: Fine! Then after the cemetery and the church, we will go to the store and pick up some condoms and lube and help him explore his sexuality as much as he wants to. Hell, I own a whole cock ring collection and a ring cutter.
Frank: You would help him explore his sexuality…?
Buck: If he wanted? Sure. All day, every day, top to bottom, every which way and then some.
Frank: ok then, let’s switch your plan around. Let’s start at the store. Get the condoms and lube and maybe some more there. You and Eddie can explore each other and find what works best for you. Then in maybe a year or two, you and Eddie can stop by a church to get married, holy water and all of you want it. And after a long and fulfilling life of love together, you and Eddie can be buried together in a cemetery for all eternity.
Buck: Wow. You’re good at this psychiatry stuff. But can I still blow shit up at least?
Frank: No.
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penny00dreadful · 1 month
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Heyyy
I accidentally went down a rabbit hole for the devotion art, and I was wondering if you filled out character sheets for the boys and if so, would you be willing to share them??
No worries if not in either way!
The stat blocks need not exist, not do you have to share them even if they do.
Hello hello! Thank you for asking! I actually did fill out character sheets for the boys at Lvl. 3, Lvl. 10 and Lvl. 15 for my upcoming D&D AU, Devotion.
And then I put them down and now I can't find them again to share 😭😭😭
But I DO HAVE AN ANSWER FOR YOU! And I do have the few notes I could find. I saw your reblogs about Eddie's Lvl. 10 stats and you're so right, his health is really low 😬 BUT I have an in universe reason for it! 😅
When I was filling out their stats and figuring them out, I knew I wasn't going to be building them to min/max them, you know? Like I wasn't going to level them up the way one might usually with a character they are playing. Like I wasn't gonna say:
There might be battles up ahead so I need to increase their stats here and here.
Instead I went more in the direction of:
At this stage in Steve's life, he's 16, he thinks he's hot shit because he's got his expensive gold armor and he's at the start of his story arc so, for example, his Wisdom is very low (-1) at Lvl. 3 and he also has NO experience in combat of any kind, he's only fought when in training, never in a real world scenario.
Then as he gets up to Lvl. 10, he learns, he grows. He's 21 year old now. He's become more wise to the ways of the world, he's learned to fight, his weapons have changed, he's gotten stronger. He's at a +0 for his Wisdom now as he's learned more of the world outside his small town.
It's the same story for Eddie. While I don't want to say too much because of potential spoilers, I can tell you he has the 'urchin' background sooo... 😬😬😬 That might give a hint. 😅 But as a Lvl. 3 Bard at 17 years old, growing up in the poor part of town, he doesn't have a lot of access to the kinds of benefits Steve had growing up. Y'know, sometimes you gotta busk to eat and sometimes you go home empty handed.
So this poor fucker is STARTING OFF at a +0 Constitution.
Which... doesn't get better. Because his situation does not get better.
There is a reason he multiclasses into Wizard, and it is very reflective of his story in the show. Like, in a sense his situation gets better, he has his people around him, but he also ends up leaning into the freakishness, hence the School of Necromancy.
But none of this is conducive to growing up healthy. So by the time he is at Lvl. 10 at 22 years old, he's still at +0 Constitution because... well... because there's only so much one can do. Regular meals and a constant training regimene is not something he had access to for the longest time.
(And listen, as someone who's favourite character I played was a School of Necromancy Wizard who was the most glass of glass canons, I feel you, Eddie 😅)
So like, he's got 3d8 HP when he's at Lvl. 3 and I believe he rolled fairly high with his +0 and I think he was at 21. Then he took 7 Wizard levels (still at +0) which was 7d6, leaving us with ~30 HP gained.
So I suppose, long story short, I am approaching these stats from a storytelling perspective, rather than trying to buff them up for any future battles, you know? Along with a little bit of homebrewing or just straight up ignoring some things that I need to.
Like as a DM, if something needs to be ignored or overlooked to make the story more entertaining to my players, I'll do it. The Rule of Cool is always in effect with me. 🤣
So I kind of see it as me being the DM of their story, but of course, rather than me being the DM and them running off in the opposite direction I want them to, like my players so often do I am also the author, and I know exactly what direction the story is going to go in and what's going to happen and what their motivations are.
I dunno, it's a really fun thinking exercise and it has allowed me to get so deep into their characters.
Anyway I am SORRY this explanation has gone on so long and I've gone so far in depth when you probably just wanted something short and sweet but I love talking about this so, I took the opportunity and ran with it. 😅
So here's the notes that I found on their character sheets on scattered scraps of paper 😅 (and I know some of these might not line up with what's supposed to be done, but isn't the main point at the end of the day to have fun? 😊)
Eddie Lvl. 10:
Keen Mind Feat STR: -1 DEX: +1 Con: +0 INT: +3 WIS: +1 CHA: +3
Steve Lvl. 10:
STR: +3 DEX: +0 Con: +2 INT: +1 WIS: +0 CHA: +3
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harritudur · 2 years
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“you can’t spell necromancer without romance”
undead!Chrissy x vampire Kas!Eddie 🪦 🦇
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rebelspykatie · 10 months
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that green light, i want it 
Part 1
Eddie keeps hearing strange sounds coming from the woods. Whispers on the wind that sound like chanting. His job as an overnight groundskeeper for the local cemetery doesn’t pay him well enough to deal with supernatural shit. He's convinced the woods are haunted, and asks Wayne about the history. 
There's only one tale of a girl who died. A recent disappearance that felt more like an urban legend. But it’s one that keeps people from wandering too far into the depths of the mysterious forest. Eddie didn’t know the girl, only knew of her. Everyone in Hawkins knew who she was now, though.
There's something there, ghostly or otherwise. Eddie knows he's not crazy. And then the bodies start moving. Graves disturbed and taken apart, even while he's on duty. He's lucky he hasn't been fired, but he fixes them before the sun comes up, cursing the fucking ghosts or grave robbers, or whoever is making his job more difficult. 
He feels like he's in an episode of Scooby-Doo. There's no trace of whoever's doing this, no foot prints or trail. Until one day he spots a flash of light out of the corner of his eye. He's moving towards it even though his brain is urging him to run the other way.
At least he has enough sense to duck behind a tombstone when he gets close enough to make out what's happening in front of him. But he almost wishes he couldn't see. Because right there, is a zombie. A corpse come to life and talking to a man. That’s worse than ghosts.
He wants to scream, but it's caught in his throat. Like a dnd campaign brought to life, this man must be some kind of necromancer, holding this corpse together with sorcery and communicating with it like an old friend. The names Barb and Nancy drift across the space to his ears.
When he tears his eyes away from the living dead, he notices the man, beautiful and glowing in the magical essence twisting around him. There's a green glow seeping from his fingertips, passing between him and the body hovering in the air. It's reflected in his eyes.
Eddie wonders if the glow has a warmth, like a fire, it's green flames illuminating the surrounding area. When the light dies out and the body is lowered to the ground, the man looks sad, silent tears crawling down his face and chest heaving, visible even in the pitch black night. 
He doesn't know this man but he wants to reach out, not just from curiosity about whatever the hell he just witnessed, but to make sure he's alright. Just when he thinks the man is going to go back to the woods, he turns around and looks directly at the place where Eddie's hiding.
Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five | Part Six | Part Seven | Part Eight | Part Nine | Epilogue | AO3
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I'd Sell My Soul To A Devil (To Bad What He Wants Is You) 
The junkyard is the perfect place to take out aggression. No one comes by unless they are looking to do the same or illegally adding stuff to the piles of unwanted rubbish. Despite the place being unsanctioned even the school and town services use it as a dumping ground.
Billy swings one of the old wooden bats that live here, taking out his anger and aggression on some old car pretending the light he just knocked off is Eddie Munson's head. Max is somewhere close but out of sight, he can hear her laughing as she beats something with her own bat.
It helps. Destroying inanimate junk gives him a release for his pent up anger left from his meeting with Eddie. He is stewing over the offer. Over what Eddie wants in return for helping him get Steve back. It is bullshit he does not want to think about. Thinking about it makes Billy’s hands tighten on the bat, barely noticing the sting of a splinter embedding into his palm from the worn handle as he takes another swing.
Sweat builds on his skin, curls dampening as the sun slowly shifts overhead. Billy beats on the same car over and over again, aims for the same spot until the door is so cave in that even if it wasn't rusted shut it would not open. His shoulders ache and he has built up a thirst by the time he lets the bat drop from his hands. He is still angry but thirst wins out over continuing to try and shape that rusted car into something unrecognizable.
Max is waiting on the hood of a rusted out bus with waters resting to her right having grown bored of destroying stuff long before Billy. He is apprehensive as he approaches and her eyes bore into him as he lifts his shirt and uses it to mop sweat from his brow. She pulls a disgusted face, he can't blame her all he managed to do was push he sweat around a little, his shirt just as drenched. 
He knows she is going to start needling when she holds a water bottle out to him. He takes it cracking the top and downs half of it, still under her watchful gaze. He has to hand it to her, she did manage to resist for longer than the twenty minute minimum Billy gave her.
He leans against the bus she is sitting on and takes a breather in the shade it provides. Max gives him a few moments to catch his breath before barreling right in, “you going to tell me what's got you in a tissy, what’s got your panties in a bunch?”
Read the rest on Ao3
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undreaming-fanfiction · 11 months
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Sorry for being gone for so long, I haven't been feeling great both physically and mentally, so that was awesome...anyway:
Look, Eddie wasn't that picky when it came to companions. He wasn't much of a catch either - as a bard, it was already expected of him to cause chaos, but with his choice of songs, the result was less of a bardic inspiration and more of a "turn everyone against each other" or "make everyone extremely horny". Which...actually worked when they needed to avoid combat, but by ancient gods, he didn't need to see that group of orcs going at it.
Anyways. Eddie wasn't picky, but Steven Harrington was becoming a bit too much for him.
First: he was a rich kid. Eddie was a proud trash raised in a cottage that barely held together and he had no patience for people who never washed their own laundry (not that Eddie did, well, not too often, but still).
Second: he was effortlessly handsome. Annoyingly handsome. Bad hair day? Steven fucking Harrington didn't know those. His moles were placed in perfect places. Eddie had nearly invisible freckles and his only moles were - embarrassingly enough - near his groin and if you squinted hard enough, looked like a daisy petal. So uncool. But uncool was a word Steven Harrington apparently lacked in his vocabulary.
And third...this. Just...all of this.
Eddie didn't want to think of himself as a prejudiced person, he really didn't. But there were two things he didn't like in this world: lawyers and necromancers.
And Steven somehow managed to blend both of those into a horrible combination that just. Fucking. Worked.
Eddie was strumming on his lute and watched Steven open a bag full of old bones, yet another unlucky trader, adventurer or whoever had died in the woods before them. He placed them carefully on the ground, arranging them - admirable knowledge of anatomy, Eddie would give him that - and muttered an incantation. Green light, weird whooshing, some sparkles, yadda yadda and the skeleton reassembled itself. It sat in front of Steven and they started working in hushed tones over a pre-prepared contract. Eddie could only make out phrases as "a work opportunity," "being dead must be boring," "do you have any family that could use a percentage of the spoils from this quest" and the best of all, "no pressure, if you'd rather be left alone, just say the word." From what Eddie had seen in last few weeks, very few of them did say the word, and if they did, Steven would honor his word and bury their remains where they desired.
It was a really decent thing to do and Eddie hated himself for even admitting it.
One discussion about details ("do you want to be only reassembled when needed or would you like to accompany us the whole time?") and a bony signature later, Steven carefully stuffed the newest party helper (Arthur, Steven made sure to remember all of their names, another fucking decent thing!) in the bag and stretched himself next to the fire.
Eddie couldn't help but glare. That fucking guy. Built like a fighter from carrying half of a cemetery on his back, pretty, rich and for some reason also awfully nice and moral. Eddie wanted to barf.
"You know," smiled Steven and Eddie's traitorous stomach did a triple flip with a botched landing, "I love seeing you like this. Calm. Strumming those slow melodies. You look really pretty, too." He laughed to himself and turned onto his back, staring at the stars. "Well, you look really pretty all the time, especially when you're trying not to be bitchy, but these times you look the prettiest."
Eddie almost dropped the lute. Almost swallowed his own tongue as well. "Are you trying to kill me, Harrington?" he sputtered. "Don't you have enough to resurrect?"
Steven just shook his head, smirking. "That's a thought. But no. Breach of ethics - I'm pretty sure killing someone to resurrect them wouldn't make them want to join me. Plus, I was thinking less of a "fight for me" and more like "fuck me, possibly date me" - interested?"
Eddie stared at him with large eyes, moving his lips without any sound. "Uh...well, sounds good to me," he said, not very intelligently, but his brain was chanting kiss those moles pull that hair shut him up kiss him like right now maybe. "Do you...have a contract for that?"
Grinning, Steven - no, Steve, he asked to be called that several times and maybe this was the right time to give in to his wish - pulled Eddie to the ground with him. "For you? I'm sure I can draft something."
When Gareth, Robin and Chrissy arrived back from their supply run the next morning, they found Eddie and Steve curled against each other, fully clothed but very obviously satisfied. Robin just snickered and whispered to Steve that she wanted details, all the dirty, sticky and scandalous details, but Gareth just rolled his eyes. "And here I thought you disliked the guy when you said "Fuck him," he nudged Eddie as he unpacked healing potions.
Eddie closed his eyes and hummed a new melody that came to him with Steve's touches and gentle words. "It was open for interpretation," he laughed and reached for his lute.
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shiftylinguini · 7 months
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Fic: right-side up (Steve/Eddie)
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
Tags/warnings:  Fix-It, Eddie Munson Lives (again), Vomiting, Mild Blood, Descriptions of Nerve Pain, Resurrection, Claustrophobia, coming back to life has one hell of a hangover, Off-screen Necromancy, flashes of Witchy Steve, References to Period-Typical Homophobia, First Time, Hand Jobs, Life-Affirming Sex, the age old question of: "how soon after you resurrect someone is too soon to hit on them?", no amphibians were harmed in the making of this Munson, showering, Caretaking, Hurt/Comfort
Wordcount: ~13.8k
Notes: Big thanks to @candybarrnerd for knowing me very fucking well and sending me the Tumblr post which inspired this, to @moonflower-rose and @silveredsound for politely and graciously listening to me wang on about this ship, and to @gracerene for proofreading my junk even though she doesn't go here ❤️
Additional warnings: the claustrophobia tag refers to a description of waking up buried in the ground, as well as discussions of the processes of death. This is also from Eddie's POV as the resurectee. Take care!!
(I've also fucked about with some canon such as the Creel house being a place any of them would ever have obtained a book from, we love to hand-wave logic here)
Summary:  
"Holy shit," Eddie says. "Ta-fucking-da indeed, Harrington. Who died and made you king of the necromancers?" he says, almost impressed.
Steve snorts, quietly. "You?" he says, and that shuts Eddie up.
On ao3 here
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