How To Get Killed Off In Stranger Things:

How to Get Killed Off in Stranger Things:

1) Be queer-coded but not queer (Will and Robin survive via Gay Plot Armor).

2) Be shipped with Steve Harrington.

3) Have a mullet.

4) Be an adorable woman interesting enough for her own narrative arc (Lookin’ at you Barb, Chrissy, and Heather). 

Missed opportunities/ HCs:

Erica, Eddie, Billy, Max, and Robin as the five major pains in Steve Harrington's ass

Robin and Billy judging h*m*ph*bes

Billy and Erica being the fashion police

Billy, Jonathan, Eddie, and Argyle getting high together

Robin and Billy being Will's gay counselors

Billy and Eddie arguing over the best Metallica songs

Eddie finding out that Billy listens to Blondie and Madonna

Eddie being a graffiti artist

Eddie and Billy screaming to ACDC in Billy's Camaro

Wayne helping Billy fix his car

Hopper helping clear Eddie's name

Billy and Eddie being each other's defense attorney and hype machine

Hopper helping Billy get a job

Eddie jogging up to get his diploma naked (with the words "This is my year Henderson" tattooed across his chest)

Eddie's hair accidentally catching fire when he lights up a smoke

Billy teaching the kids how to surf (he still has a key to the pool)

Billy taking pottery classes just so he and Steve can recreate that one Ghost scene with the pottery wheel (Eddie in the background playing Unchained Melody)

Steve taking Billy to the same high end salon he goes to

Steve wearing glasses

Erica, Max, and Eleven having a girls' night (with Billy, who pretends to be reluctant but is really giddy about being included)

Billy and Lucas playing basketball

Billy booing Jason during that ass speech

Eddie and Billy walking on cafeteria tables together

Billy being a book nerd

Billy has a knack for interior design (based off of Dacre hehe)

Eddie with a braid

Eleven and Max doing Billy's hair (it gets really long, like Eddie's)

Billy being self conscious about his ears (that's why he never tucks his hair behind them)

Billy being a big cuddler

Billy sleeping with a study guide under his pillow

Eddie copying off of Billy while Billy is copying off of Steve

Eddie getting a tattoo of the multiple choice answers to a test (only to find out the questions were not in fact in the same order)

Eddie doing homework on a unit that they went over three weeks ago

Eddie attempting a seance to have historical figures help him out with history

Eddie jumping on Billy's back (Billy's gotten used to it after a while)

Billy is a huge flirt, but when Steve turns the tables on him, he's undone

Billy giving Max and El rock n roll education (his eyes get all lit up, and he makes motions with his hands- that's when Steve really knew it was more than just a crush) + Eddie butting in just to argue with him

Eddie owning a pet lizard

Billy going to every one of Lucas's games (he cheers louder than Steve)

Robin letting the Party into Scoops Ahoy after hours so they can play D & D and eat ice cream

Jonathan giving Mike the "be nice to my brother or I'll gut you" talk (Billy, Robin and Max behind Jonathan, giving Mike death glares)

Eddie teaching Billy how to hot wire a car without hurting himself

Billy letting Eddie use some of his cologne (bc let's face it Eddie probably doesn't wear deodorant I'm sorry-)

Billy taking the girls to get their ears repierced, and they pick out earrings for each other

Eddie stealing Billy's clothes

Billy stealing Steve's clothes (the fabrics totally gonna tear, let's be honest)

Billy being really chubby when he was a kid, and trying to hide his childhood pictures from Steve and Eddie because he thinks they'll make fun of him (he has a fear that if he gets chubby again that they'll leave him, bc in his mind they only stick around because he's fit)

+Billy gaining a few (Joyce is a great cook, and Argyle brings him pizzas that taste like home) and hiding away in hoodies. Eddie and Steve pick up on this pretty quick, and they try helping him feel better in his own skin by offering words of affirmation that have nothing to do with physical features, and showing extra affection to the places in his body that he hates

Billy is ticklish

Argyle only makes good pizza when he's high (not that you could tell the difference between him not being stoned 😭)

Billy and Eddie burning down the old Hargrove house after Neil died (a mysterious death in which he was eating dinner and suddenly started choking)

Eddie being a true crime buff

Billy starting a self defense class (he has favorites)

Eddie and Joyce bonding over conspiracy theories

Hopper teaching Billy and Eddie how to barbecue

Joyce and Billy cooking together

Billy being the 80s' Gordon Ramsay

Billy playing football with the kids (Erica, El, and Max are on his team)

Billy being a referee for Erica's soccer games (hc that she plays soccer because she kicked that jock's ass)

Eddie, Steve, and Billy fighting over who takes the longest time on their hair (it's Steve)

Max singing the wrong lyrics to songs on purpose just to get Billy and Eddie riled up

Chrissy teaching El and Erica cheer routines

Jonathan and Nancy breaking up (bc Jonathan is gay for Argyle and Nancy is in love with Robin)

Jonathan and Steve becoming better friends

El deciding she and Mike are better off as friends, because she needs to work on recovering from her trauma (they both do)

Billy craving hugs (he doesn't know how to ask, and doesn't want to be a burden/annoyance, so he tugs on people's clothes or pokes them in the shoulder lightly)

Scoops Ahoy!

Eddies order is 1 scoop tangerine sorbet and 1 scoop mint chocolate chip with strawberry syrup…😐

Steddie comic commissioned by @/smrchildsadness on twitter❤️

They still need him. [insp.]

in love with the idea that eddie takes steve’s letterman jacket from him. he starts wearing it but you know, because he’s eddie, he customizes it.

if one thing is clear, steve is decidedly not the same person he was in high school. he’s practically done a 180. eddie recognizes this and he asks steve if he can do something with the jacket since he never wears it anymore and eddie is the only one who does, “go for it, eds”

with that, he fills up the empty spaces with badges and pins and patches and makes it a mix of eddie and steve. walking around with this jacket that is such a mix of them, eddies personality splattered across a jacket that reads harrington across the back

He's really just out here gazing lustfully at other men