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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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Read Ch 146
Ranked my #1 favourite fic of all time
*SPOILERS*
Favourite chapters:
- Ch 39: Post-S2 Steve lays out a perfect cover story and the Party sees a glimpse of how his mind works
- Ch 51: Steve and Kali party. Steve lets loose, has fun, gets drunk, shows up Billy and talks to Nancy
- Ch 68: Steve and Robin high on drugs during and after the Russian bunker
- Ch 71: Steve showdown with the Mind Flayer in the mall. "I was going to kill you, but now I think I want to keep you.”
- Ch's 73/74: Post S3 Owens showdown about custody in front of the Party. Threatens with Kali. Cathartic fight with Jon
- Ch 90: Terrifying Neil into leaving town for Max
- Ch 96: First interaction with Lucy Lindholm, his real mother, in the grocery store
- Ch 102/103: The kids find out he's Seven
- Ch 120: Mean girl Steve comes out again as he eviscerates Murray at the dinner table
- Ch 126: Reveal of being 007 to Owens
- Ch 133: Vecna lures Steve into a trap in the woods and taunts him with Max, making him burn out
- Ch 137: Second half specifically. Steve absorbs Max and gets drunk (slash evil?) on powerEvents changed from canon post-S4 so I remember plot:
- Everybody knows about Steve being 007 in the main cast (102). Steve told Owens to get information and to appease his old need for validation from the lab - to prove himself as not weak or diminished, like his file claimed (126). The parents also know everything (131/138). Sullivan also very likely knows he is 007 (144).
- Massive gate lines in Hawkins have opened (130) for all the monsters to unleash on the town. Democreatures have started killing civilians and the town has seen them. Most Hawkins citizens have evacuated, and there is a large military presence unrelated to the lab, led by Lt Jack Sullivan who believes El has caused everything. Their goal is to kill Vecna in the hopes that killing him will destroy the Upside Down, as it's all a hivemind. Vecna first seen after S4 finale (112) when personally attacking Steve (133), then next time when he attacked Dustin (137).
- Max is awake in hospital but her emotions weren't right due to Vecna "killing" her (~115) - he partially absorbed her soul/life force, which Steve saw when Vecna attacked him (133). Steve then took Max's soul into himself (137), before returning to her body. She is now fixed. Military is interested in her.
- Eddie survived and is clear of all charges, with Steve framing Jason as the killer. Jason is still dead.
- Lucy Lindholm is Steve's biological mother that he accidentally got in contact with again, and she's been reaching out a lot. She has a feeling that he is her son (James). Steve is afraid to get close in case her family gets targeted.
- Steve and Nancy are back together after 1.5 years apart (since season 2). Nancy and Jonathan broke up a few weeks before.
- Elisabeth and Richard are Steve's adoptive parents. Steve forced himself into the family when he escaped with powers but that's had bad long-term effects on his parents' psyche. They've now divorced after Elisabeth went to rehab. Elisabeth has left Steve the house.
- Kali broke Eleven out of the new lab, not Eleven doing it herself. She shot Brenner but he survived - hasn't been seen since yet. (113)Unresolved plot lines:
- The tapes
- Sullivan wanting El
- Sullivan knowing Steve is 007
- Sam Owens knowing Steve is 007
- Brenner being alive
- Steve not signing the NDA's post-S1 and S2 - might be concluded
- Joyce being Vecna's spy?
- Vecna as a whole
- Eddie's innocence
- Nancy exposing Hawkin's poor conditions
- Steve getting drunk and evil on power
- Lucy Lindholm
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The Sugar Plum Fairy Eats People by SunriseMod
Fandoms: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan
29 May 2021
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“Hey there, cutie.” Historia smiled sweetly, tucking a long strand of blonde hair behind her ear. She tilted her head as she locked eyes with the man in the car. An older gentleman. Balding. A bulging beer gut. “Want to catch a movie? I usually charge fifty, but how about a super-duper special discount just for you?” A wink. “Forty sound okay?”
A ‘movie’, she called it. In the event it was a pig in civilian clothes. The man grinned with rotten teeth.
Historia Reiss will do anything it takes to survive.
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An old woman finds a young man on her farm, injured and unsure of how he got there. Very quickly she realizes that he's worse than she thought. He doesn't even know his name.
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You always get back up (and I'll catch you when you fall) by SuperHeroTiger
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
27 Nov 2020
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Peter Parker always gets back up. But sometimes, he falls, and it hurts, and he breaks. Thankfully Tony Stark is always there to help pull him back to his feet...
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Irondad Whumptober 2020
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Excerpt from Day 15 (Possession):
Those cold, white lenses snapped up to lock onto Tony again, narrowing like a hunter who had spotted its prey, and the man felt his heart drop into his stomach with realisation.
This wasn’t his kid anymore. This wasn’t Peter.
The sorcerer -that bastard¬-, he’d done something to him to make him wild. Make him violent. Tony could see it in the way that the boy’s breaths had grown ragged and the muscles under his suit flexed with raw strength, strength that Peter had repeatedly confessed he was afraid of ever letting out of control. There were no smiles, no quips, no “Did you see that Mr Stark?!”
Instead there was a husk of the boy Tony once knew, crouched on the ground and rearing for an attack- an attack on him
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- Part 2 of My Enemy, My Destiny
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Pieces of a Shattered Mind by Astro_cat13
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), Captain America (Movies), Iron Man (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
28 Sep 2020
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Peter could still remember going to the Stark Expo, riding on his father’s shoulders so he wouldn’t miss anything. He remembers his mother’s smile as he rambled about how incredibly amazing all the inventions are, how one day he wants to be a scientist just like Mr. Stark.
Peter remembers the overwhelming joy that rushed through his body as he peered through the eye-holes of his Iron Man mask and watched Mr. Stark appear onstage and introduce these insanely awesome drones to the public.
He remembers how quickly that joy turned to horror as the drones started attacking the crowd.
And now, sitting on the floor in the cold HYDRA cell that he was supposed to call his home, Peter can remember being saved by his hero.
It turns out that was one of the many terrible things to happen that day.
Because what’s the point of staying alive if your life is hell anyway?
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