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Why was it called "Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation"? That name describes only one plotline.
Should've called it "A Tragedy of Jin Ling's Uncle". Covers pretty much all of the main plotlines.
Steve has a bit of anger issues and a problem with repressed trauma, so i thought it would be so funny if he had got vecna'ed and talked back at vecna like if the mf can't just kill him on the spot.
I just imagine Steve being done with all his bullshit villain talk and calling him a manchild freddy krueger wannabe who is so full of himself even when he has been defeated for three consecutive years by literally kids and teenagers.
Anyway, something something, here is something i wrote about it that i never finished.
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And okay, Stress Steve didn't know how not to say things; he just gave away whatever thought he may have, it didn't matter if it was venomous or vulnerable, but most of the time just works to embarrass himself saying out loud his dumb thoughts, he just talks and, oh boy, he talks.
Stress Steve didn't know when to shut up. Steve would say that he could be a Robin 2.0, but it was more about what he said than how much he talked (or rambled in Robin's case), which was more than he liked to admit.
Now, Afraid Steve wasn't much of a talker; he was more of actions, from freezing in place to just move. He gave barely any thought to what he would do, but he did. Maybe just a few seconds, but he analyzed and thought about it.
Contrary to popular belief, he did think before acting, probably not enough, but he didn't have time to do that (Robin would– and did– argue with him about it).
The point is, when Upside Down shit happens, Stress Steve and Afraid Steve kick in, so he has a weird combination of saying dumb shit and doing even dumber shit, like when he was literally yelling at a child, that child was Erica, and she didn't even bat an eye, but still, you can get the point.
[Insert Steve and Vecna's talk]
So now not only he has Stress Steve and Afraid Steve in his system, Angry Steve has joined the mix, and… listen, Steve is trying really hard to be a better person, he really is, scout's honor, but he knows that he can hurt people with his words.
He would see the deepest insecurity and sore spot he could find and spit in it to make the other bleed, make them hurt, and if he couldn't find it, he would instead make them snap. Yeah, he is trying to stop, but it is a part of him that it doesn’t quite go. It's in his blood. His DNA, or whatever.
He knows himself (he had to know himself if he wanted to be a better person– he doesn’t dare to think he can be a good person, just better, never good). That’s why he tries to just have Stress and Afraid Steve around when shit hits the fan because in the first round, Angry Steve appeared, and everyone knows how that went (I'm sorry Jonathan, I did deserve that punch). So Angry Steve is most of the time locked in a cage, deep down in some part of the still healthy brain that Steve has left.
Anyway, that doesn’t matter now, because Angry Steve has come out and is ready to spit at anyone who crosses his path, and maybe Stress and Afraid Steve can keep him on a leash, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t there. Steve is just lucky enough that the one who crosses his path is Vecna.
How good is his luck that the moment he wants to make someone angry just like him, the other one is a monster from another dimension that has quite literally his life in his hands and can kill him in any moment, ha.
Just his luck.
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“Steve, What did you do?”
"I may or may not have called Vecna a Freddy Kruger wanna be"
I love Steve has bad parents as much as the next person AND i eat that shit up in every fic i read, but, but– i saw a tiktok with those "what creature is watching you depending on your month" slideshows, so now i have the image of Steve having some shadow parents stuck in my head.
Therefore, now i had to add that to him having bad human parents but at the same time some shy, protective and loving shadow parents.
He doesn’t consider the Harringtons his parents anymore; excuse me, his parents are those shadows that seem to stare at your soul with their bright, pure white eyes and none existent characteristic features apart from their silhouettes. Thank you very much.
He loves them.
So every time someone asks Steve about his parents, he has to make mental gymnastics about if it's OK to talk about the shadow ones or if it's a situation where he has to lie through his teeth about the biological ones.
Steve is just happy to have someone who cares about him and goes to see his games and recitals (because you can pray Steve plays the piano away over my cold death hands) even when no one apart from him (and a few unlucky ones– Eddie, i'm looking at you) notice them.
I wonder how that might work; the party must have their own theories about Steve's parents; none of them it's about them being literal shadow creatures/ entities, though.
I think most of them think they are neglectful; no, they’re not; you just can’t see them because they don't want Steve's friends to freak out.
After the fight with Billy, Steve needs someone to wake him up and take care of him for a bit; he said his parents would do it, but every time someone goes to check on him, he's alone. And Hopper gets suspicious because he doesn’t remember the last time he saw the Harringtons.
Also, Billy starts having so much bad luck and can not stop seeing these shadow figures everywhere; it's probably just his imagination and a bunch of coincidences.
Why is Steve so calm about monsters? It has nothing to do with his parents being literal shadow creatures, ofc. And if in the middle of fighting demodogs he got some help, nobody noticed it.
I just– imagine the party's reaction when they found out? Gold.
Robin is the first to meet them, ofc, following the whole party and then Eddie realizing that "THEY WERE YOUR PARENTS????" When he processed enough the fact that yes, he wasn't seeing things in the corner of every basketball game he went to stare at Steve.
Who else is thinking that all the neighbors are not really evil people? This includes Home in some way? Idk. It seems sort of cliche if it was just straightforward villains since most "cartoon characters in horror are either placed in evil or good." But in all honesty, I think how they could all be morally complex instead of being simply labeled.
Something something you’re having a lazy day with toji and you’re watching horror movies. You get scared by a scene in one of the movies and you basically jump into tojis lap.
Toji just looks down at you in his lap and just chuckles, wrapping his arms around you and holding you tight. You continue watching the movie with zero care now, feeling all safe in tojis arms.
Eventually the movie isn’t even on your mind anymore because toji was trailing kisses down your neck distracting you. You shift a little in his lap, feeling his hard on below you.
“The movie scaring you baby hm?” Toji ask you once he reached up to your ear.
You can’t even respond to him, just letting out a small whimper when toji goes back to kissing down your neck. It doesn’t take long for the both of you to have your clothes off and on the floor while toji is laying over you on the couch. Toji as you bent over with your ass up, pushing your panties to side and slowly pushing into you.
You let out a loud moan but it gets covered by the scream thats let out in the movie you forgot about long ago. After a few seconds toji starts to quicken his thrust into you, gripping your waist hard enough to leave bruises you’ll find in the morning.
“Don’t worry doll, i’ll get you screaming like that in a few”
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a/n: should i expand on this???
What if Kokichi loved Maki but Maki still loved Kaito