The Upside Down - Character
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the upside down.
it just takes, and takes, and takes.
it had taken.
and it took more.
one would be foolish to think it wouldn’t do so again.
alt; steve harrington struggles with processing the aftermath of the events at starcourt. he even struggles with processing the events that had happened before.
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chew your meat for you (pass it back and forth) by crybbybilly for gideongrace
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Jan 2020
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Steve thinks maybe he has PTSD.
He’s not clinically diagnosed, he can’t exactly go to a therapist and confide that he was kidnapped by evil Russians, that there’s blood on his hands, blood in his pool, that he saw a boy who was barely a man die screaming and bloody as he was ripped into by the Mindflayer until his body gave out.
It’s a lot to process on your own so Steve is pretty sure he has PTSD.
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- Part 2 of monster fuckin’
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Eddie moved his head the slightest bit, just enough for his eyes to peek around the curtain of his bangs to meet Steve’s own. They were glassy and white—blind like Max—and struck through with burst blood vessels, as if Vecna had latched on to his mind. Steve startles backwards but the fingers tangled in the denim held him there, iron and unwavering. He was suddenly no longer Eddie but a corpse, the corpse he’d left behind on the broken ground of the Upside Down, claw wounds from Vecna’s talons oozing black blood around his slack face.
Not a memory, this is wrong, Vecna never got to him, it’s a nightmare, wake up wake up wake up—
“It’s too late—” Eddie’s voice was unrecognizable and rasping, scraping through his rent trachea like the jagged teeth that had killed him, “—it wants you, Steve Harrington.” A shadow fell over them both; he only got the chance to form an impression of yawning wings stretched wide, of eagle talons reaching towards him, of wild blue eyes before it collided.
Six months later, and something hungry has crawled out of the gate into Hawkins.
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Before the Cold One, there was only Darkness. Darkness and Nothing. If the Darkness could think, it would probably have been very bored. As there was Nothing and No One to keep it company. But Darkness does not Think so it was not bored. It simply existed.
Then the Cold One came, and suddenly there was Darkness and Nothing and Cold.
The Darkness did not Think much about the Cold, as it was Darkness and Darkness had no thoughts… Except it wasn’t quite sure that it liked the Cold.
Aka: The Upside Down's point of view during Stranger Things.
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A collection of short fic for the 2023 whumptober challenge.
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- Part 2 of Whumptober
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through the fire of death (he will reign) by Dark_Skyes
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Jul 2024
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When it was all over - after Eddie’s funeral, after Max was declared stable but comatose, after the town cracked open like an egg - Steve collapsed.
When the doctor revealed that he was suffering from “Separation Syndrome” after being separated from his alpha so soon after mating, Steve knew there had to be some kind of mistake.
After all, the only thing that had been near his mating patch had been the demobats in the Upside Down, and there was no way that meant anything.
Right?!
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again and again and again (until we get it right) by Library_of_Gage
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Jul 2024
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The Upside Down decided to choose someone with a life that overflowed with those simple moments. It wanted someone who yearned for a new experience. It needed someone good (a person who felt a fundamental urge to do good things), someone who could be dropped in the middle of chaos incarnate, look around, and decide to fix it.
The Upside Down chose Steve Harrington.
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- Part 2 of Throwback Thursday
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She’s biking until she isn’t, and then, she’s face to face with something as she flies over her handlebars, and then she’s not Robin anymore.
The issue then becomes, when is she herself, and when is she something else.
Robin's the newest flayed in town. Her inability to shut up really isn't helping matters.
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- Part 42 of stranger things masterlist