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Eddie Munson's life isn't great by any shakes, he lives with his uncle (who is amazing) in a beat up trailer in Forest Hill trying to make ends meet when a cheerleader gets murdered right in front of him by supernatural forces. He's already known to the pigs, so there's no way they won't try and pin this shit on him. From that night onwards his life goes down hill rapidly, resulting in his own death. It's just his luck that he finally falls head over heels in love with the hottest guy in Hawkins. He always knew he was gonna die young, but it wasn't as metal as he thought it would be. Guilt at leaving Wayne to find Chrissy and never know what really happened are struggles he never expected to have to confront in his afterlife. Nor was having his body used by some evil entity for nefarious intent.
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Benjamin Hargrove never gave much thought to the family that had abandoned him or the twin brother he'd never known. He lived a quiet life, working on the pier, spending his days out on the water, and keeping himself busy. That is, until the day a startled, doe-eyed brunette called him "Billy" before passing out at his feet.
Disclaimer: Unsure how dark this is going to get but will be editing tags as I go!
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The town of Hawkins was insignificant at best, which made it the perfect place for darkness to thrive unnoticed. It grew in the shadows, crawling into every corner of the town until it had taken hold. By the time the residents of Hawkins took notice, it was too late. The darkness struck, and it changed Juliet Byers life. For better and for worse.
Steve Harrington x OC
Stranger Things season 1-4
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On a hot and lonely summer day at the age of thirteen, Steve Harrington meets Eddie Munson. What follows is three summers of friendship, trouble, and queer discovery. Slowly they fall in love, and then they fall apart.
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What if Steve and Eddie knew each other before the events of the show?
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something happens by Yourmomissteveharrington
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), The Black Phone (Movies - Derrickson)
20 Oct 2025
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another steve as finney fic bc i hate myself
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a link is breaking out of the chain by Library_of_Gage
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Oct 2025
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Max stares with wide eyes as two boys fall through the door. The shorter one (but barely, maybe no more than an inch shorter) is wearing a varsity jacket and stumbling over his feet as he walks backwards. His arms are looped around the taller boy’s neck, and he’s still laughing. The taller boy wears a vest layered over a leather jacket, has untamed hair, and looks at the shorter boy with eyes that make Max feel like she’s intruding.
Both boys’ clothes are slightly rumpled, and she only now realizes that the taller boy’s hands are resting on the other’s waist. They haven’t seemed to notice Max or El, and the taller boy uses his foot to kick the door shut.
El calmly says, “Steve, we are watching Dracula. Would you and Eddie like to join us?”
Steve and Eddie jerk apart, finally noticing Max and El in the room. They glance at each other, a whole conversation held in that one look. It is, apparently, a conversation that Eddie loses, because he sighs as Steve grins. “How far are you?” Steve asks, kicking off his shoes before collapsing onto the couch.
(A/N: Strongly suggest reading the other two parts first to avoid any confusion.)
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- Part 3 of Final Girl Steve
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Come Back, Be Here. Come Back, Be Here. by miss_little_kitten for ThePrincessDragon
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Oct 2025
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After StarCourt Steve has made a horrible discovery. His parents came home to celebrate the Fourth of July, but leaving only a note he soon unravels the fact they’re gone. If slips through the cracks of everyone’s lives almost as if they truly never were there until spring break.
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- Part 78 of Stranger Things One Shots
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Steve Harrington is normal, everyone thinks so. Captain of the swim team, starter on the varsity basketball team, most popular boy in school, absolute heartthrob, handsome, and rich. He's King Steve, Steve “the Hair” Harrington. He's an all-American boy growing up in the heartland. And he's spent years working very hard to keep it that way, because the truth is the last thing he is, is normal.
No, Steve Harrington has a dark past he's desperate to escape, however that gets much harder when Will Byers goes missing and Steve just can’t shake the feeling that something is very wrong in Hawkins, something that's pointing straight to his past. But everything will be fine, right? All he has to do is pretend everything is normal.
Or, another lab experiment Steve story because I can’t get it out of my head, so I’m sharing it with everyone.
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- Part 1 of Pretend Everything is Normal
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In the Red Glow (i’m coming back for you) by Asterope03
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Oct 2025
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Steve’s heart lurched, his breath catching – but it wasn’t Eddie moving. The cocoon itself shivered, its gelatinous membrane undulating in slow, nauseating pulses. The thick, blood-tinged fluid inside swirled like something alive was stirring it from within. He stepped closer despite every nerve screaming to keep away. Eddie’s eyes twitched beneath their lids, slow at first, then darting frantically, the way a dreamer thrashes against a nightmare.
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they go back to get eddie's body
TW: panic attack, anxiety, homophobia
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Tommy and Carol were assholes. He knows that. Everyone knows that.
But they weren’t assholes to him. They were his best friends—until they weren’t.
Now they’re gone. And he’s supposed to be fine with that?
He lost them for a girl who left him, too.
So who’s really the idiot now?- Language:
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In the summer of 1985, Steve Harrington gets a job at Scoops Ahoy as an ice cream scooper with his co-worker, Robin. What was shaping up to be a very boring summer quickly changed course when a child yelling about secret Russian codes came back from summer camp.
Basically everything is the same except that Eddie works across the way at Green Room Records.
Basically everything is the same except I beat up Steve Harrington a bit more and acknowledge it.
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After being adopted by one of the richest families in Hawkins—maybe even the richest—Seven Harrington thinks he’s found his forever home. Sorry—Steve Harrington.
On the surface, Steve is everything his parents wanted him to be: charming, privileged, and perfectly put together. But the truth runs deeper. Before he was “Steve,” he was Seven—one of Dr. Brenner’s experiments at Hawkins Lab.
For a while, Hawkins’ golden boy act is enough. But as strange things begin to stir in the town—things that feel all too familiar—Steve realizes the past doesn’t stay buried for long. Secrets leak. Powers slip. And the boy who once thought he’d escaped the Lab may have to choose between protecting his perfect new life or becoming the very weapon he swore he’d never be again.
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Can one open up again after going through something horrifying and losing his friend? Steve Harrington is starting to isolate himself from Robin, but one night will change it all.
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It's 1985 and in the quiet months before Hawkins starts to burn again, Mary-Elizabeth MacKinley is already unraveling. She's graduating this year. Vinyl Frontier is relocating. Eddie’s leaving for Indianapolis. Her mom is seeing someone new. Babysitting Dustin is about to be a thing of the past. And the future—whatever that even means for a girl like her—is coming fast. To make things more confusing, somewhere in the middle of it all, Steve Harrington keeps showing up with dumb jokes, soft eyes, and a patience she doesn’t know what to do with.
Then Starcourt Mall opens. Neon lights, minimum wage, and new friendships start pulling everyone back together. But beneath the food court and escalators, something ugly is waking up. Something that makes all the other battles they've fought look harmless. Something that makes the change of growing up feel like the least of Mac's problems.
***Please read my Season 1 & 2 rewrites 'Distorted Paths' and 'Residual Shadows' first to get the full story!***
THIS IS SET DURING SEASON THREE! EACH SEASON WILL HAVE A SEPERATE FIC IN THIS SERIES! <3
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I wanna hold you, but my senses tell me to stop by SheldarpCauseFuvkIt
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Oct 2025
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Two very different journeys of sexuality and self discovery become loosely interwoven and then fully entwined.
Eddie embracing part of himself despite suffering and struggling while Steve suffers and struggles to embrace that same part of himself. It’s hard for both of them to admit it to themselves but they both want the same things and maybe they’ve found it in each other.
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Steve Harrington and Eddie Munson have one thing in common, and that is their love for a certain group of kids. They don't like each other. They don't trust each other. They each come with their own set of issues, prejudices and unhealthy habits. Hoepfully the co-parenting won't awaken anything, or trigger the long, messy path of healing all those underlying issues that prevent both of them from forming healthy relationships with people their own age.
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- Eddie getting the shovel-talk from increasingly unlikely people
- Steve falling so hard that it overrides the bi-crisis
- Semi-therapeutic DnD
- Max aquiring an abundance of older siblings she didn't ask for
- Steves parents remembering they have a son (eventually)
- Nancy being the most important character while barely showing upWarning: I'm working on half-knowledge reagrding the actual stranger things plot. I'm just here for the idea of the guy who's spent so much time trying to get other people to like him that he forgot who he is beyond that falling for somebody who doesn't know how to be anybody but themself, no matter how much it hurts
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After a bad experience with his parents, Steve finds himself with the family who cares for him more than he feels he deserves: the Munsons.
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"What happened, sweetheart?"
Steve was ready to cry even more at that nickname alone. He inhaled a shaky breath and all he could really say was "My parents..."
Eddie hugged him again before looking him in the eye. "Don't believe any of their bullshit, they're nothing. You're everything."
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Insufrible (y Otras Formas de Llamar a Steve Harrington) by Marina_Jo_LoveGood29
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Oct 2025
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Para Max, Steve Harrington es insufrible.
También es protector, entrometido, torpe, idiota...
Y, para su desgracia, cada vez más difícil de sacar de su vida. -
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They hadn’t wanted to break up.
They really hadn’t. To the point where they clung to one another and sobbed until they ran out of tears when they finally had the conversation.
It was because of logistics. Steve never planned on leaving Hawkins; he wanted to marry here at home and have a bunch of kids, coach their sports teams and volunteer on the PTA. Eddie longed for the opposite. He wanted to run like hell out of Hawkins, travel across the country with his band, and find a way to get signed out in LA. He wanted to become someone, wanted to do something.
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how steve's life played out after he and his soulmate broke up