Steves Awful Stuffy Parents Who Never Cared What He Did So Long As He Maintained Their Image As The Harringtons

Steve’s awful stuffy parents who never cared what he did so long as he maintained their image as The Harringtons come home early because something weird and terrible is happening in Hawkins and they should make an appearance and find their son in the living room, COVERED in grime and blood with a bat of nails by his side and a skinny messy haired metalhead boy on his lap SURROUNDED by kids calling him mom 

As much as I love Robin or Dustin being the first person to find out about Steve’s bisexuality and crush on Eddie, I uh… personally kind of want it to be Max. It’s Steve picking her up to meet up with the party at the arcade, but he’s been over at Eddie’s trailer all day. She’s seen this, so she makes a joke about thinking he’d never pull himself away from his boyfriend so they could go, and Steve, who has been in some heavy confusion as of late, makes an instant remark about how he likes girls clearly, “I date girls! I dated Nance!” Max just shrugs. She tells him she figured he was bisexual or something from the start because he had a kind of “vibe” and sometimes looked at Jonathan a little weirdly. Steve has absolutely no time to process that second half of that sentence because he’s trying to work out the label bisexual. Max doesn’t push. Doesn’t try to question it or him. She’s smart. She’s really, really smart, and she grew up in California, where things were a tad more open-minded. Not to mention that she can read people very well from spending so many years on the alert, searching for warning signs, so she notices the very moment that Steve goes just a touch too still and casually throws out some story about how she used to have a neighbor. This sweet old man who was bi and used to date this woman who looked a lot like Goldie Hawn, but now he’s got an ex-surfer for a boyfriend who lives with him, and they have like 3 dogs together and used to sneak her sweets whenever they had big block parties. The realization kind of settles smoothly over Steve, and Max can see the moment when all the tension drains out of him. They don’t talk about it for the rest of the drive. They don’t bring it up after that, and Max kind of forgets about it until a few weeks later when it’s just her and Steve again, and he very shyly pops up to inform her he’s now dating Eddie, so “Thanks, kid.” She proceeds to sit smugly (and proudly) a few weeks later when they tell the rest of the party, who collectively lose their shit for a variety of reasons, mostly ranging from “But Steve, Eddie? Seriously? STEVE?” to “I can’t believe you guys have the gall to go out and not buy me ice cream as a thank you gift considering I’m the entire reason you two ever became friends in the first place!” It’s pretty nice after that, all in all, except for the fact that Steve is somehow convinced that Max lives on her porch now just so she can catch the sight of him sneaking in and out of the Munson trailer and hold it over his head, and holy shit does she. 

Eddie: I have very high standards. I only fall in love with graceful-

Steve: *stumbles into the room, knocking over a vase, startling two cats, and landing flat on his face*

Eddie: …

Eddie: I want that one.

Dustin: *smacks his head* You can’t date steve!

Eddie: Why not?

Dustin: Because! He’s my mom!

Eddie: So?

Dustin: SO!

steve gets roped into playing a session of dnd & jokingly calls eddie “eddie the fair” since he claims that because eddie isn’t banished anymore, so he needs a new title and dustin makes a fake gagging noise after staring in shock briefly and eddie is just. staring. at steve. this happens before they’re together and it throws eddie even deeper into his gay crisis tm  it’s steve’s revenge for the big boy comment

i feel like at one point eddie kissed steve and freaks out and thinks steve will get mad at him but steves just like "it's cool man" and it doesn't even occur to him to have a gay crisis until later that night when he's lying in bed and he's just like "wAIT-"

bonus if he then shows up at eddies house despite it being super late at night (or early in the morning) and when eddie opens the door he's like "you kissed me" and eddie just looks at him like 'was that not already established?'

modern hawkins has pretty shit internet