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steddielations · 5 months
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Flight of Icarus lore dump:
Part 2 | Character List
- Eddie is a barback at the Hideout (rundown bar) where his band plays sometimes. He doesn’t sell drugs until the end. At 18, he moves in permanently with Wayne and starts dealing to help with the bills.
- Lots of people in town call Eddie “Junior” for his likeness to his dad and he hates this. He calls himself Junior condescendingly when he’s doing something that lives up to his dad’s criminal reputation.
- Steddie writers, when Wayne is conveniently absent from the trailer, he’s not always at work. He goes to a bar called the Attic on Fridays with guys that Eddie considers nice and upstanding.
- Eddie lives alone in his dad's house, but throughout his life, he’d stay with Wayne when Al disappeared. The first time, Eddie was 8, he fell asleep by the window waiting while he was left for days with little food until Wayne got him. At the start of the book, Eddie’s 18 and has been there alone for months. Wayne checks on him and brings him food. But Eddie is stubbornly independent, since 3rd grade he thought he could take care of himself.
- Eddie likes metal, but also rock, Chicago blues, country and bluegrass bc of his mom. His dad taught him guitar, but he learned to love music through his mom (Elizabeth Munson neé Franklin), who passed when he was 6. He still listens to her records, mostly Muddy Waters. He has memories standing on her feet dancing to that record. It brings him to tears once.
- Eddie’s dad Al is charismatic, Eddie calls it Munson Magic but doesn’t think he has it. “I inherited his hair, his van, and his guitar picks. But nobody’s loving Eddie Munson on sight.” Still, Eddie’s worst fear is being like his dad. Al only shows up to manipulate Eddie into helping him with schemes. Two of which get Eddie held at gunpoint twice and hit in the head with a shotgun. Al screws ppl over and gets their house burned down, with Eddie’s mom’s records.
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artbean · 5 months
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@eddiemonth day 20: cryptids/folklore
if i die today, it won't be so hard / everything scares me, but never the dark / stay acting brave, but i'm too faint of heart / to pull out the thorn in my side, or: an alternate cover for the upcoming eddie novel (version without text under the cut!)
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queenimmadolla · 5 months
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I also love that, to his very fucking foundation, his very fucking core existence as a human being—Eddie Munson is a simp, romantic and not remotely ashamed of it.
Truly, we’d all be his type and he’d trip over his own feet if ANY of us looked in his direction. And that’s canon.
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1lostsoul0fishbowl · 1 year
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Forget that icarus crap, I want a prequel about these people. Who are they? What drew them to Hellfire Club? Heck, tell me the story of how and why Eddie formed Hellfire in the first place.
We already know his band doesn’t take off in ‘84. Tell us something we don’t know!
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thefreakandthehair · 6 months
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@eddiemonth prompt, oct 1st: Parents | Runaway - Sword | Youthful cw: allusions to neglectful and alcoholic parent, police, incarceration [happy ending promised, as always!] read on ao3 | link to series on ao3
Eddie runs away from home for the last time when he’s thirteen years old. 
The ground beneath his feet is barely visible, barely felt against the worn soles of his too-small sneakers as he runs through the familiar trails of Hawkins’ forest. He’s run away before, usually sneaking out in the middle of the night when he hears the tell-tale silence of his father falling into a drunken stupor on the couch, but this time feels different. This time, he’s actually running, no backpack or hastily thrown together bag of essentials to weigh him down. 
He hadn’t had time, not with so many police cars showing up at once. 
His breath comes in quick bursts, just enough oxygen to carry him off the beaten path onto a path only he knows. It comes without markers or posts. Why would there be signs here? No one else needs the most direct route between Clyde Munson and Wayne Munson’s homes. A 10-minute run, quicker if he sprints like he is now, connects two different worlds and only one feels safe. 
Uncle Wayne has, for much of Eddie’s life, been home. He’s lived with him on and off for a few months at a time, sometimes after dear old dad had been hauled away by Officer Hopper again and other times, when he’d simply run away and his dad couldn’t be bothered to track him down. Eddie spent nearly a year with his Uncle Wayne after his mom died, a wonderful year where Eddie experienced an actual parent and got to figure out things he actually enjoys– fantasy books, D&D, music with intense virtuosity and aggressive guitar lines. He never should’ve gone back, but the guilt ate at him. Maybe it’ll be different, he’d thought at the time. Maybe he’ll care now. 
The fact that he’s running through the woods at full speed away from what could only be defined as a fucking siege with his dad at the center is all the answer he needs. There’s nothing he can do to help his dad– there’s nothing he should do, because he’s a kid at the end of the day and he never should’ve been put in this situation to begin with. 
Eddie shakes his head as he runs, shaking the thoughts from his brain as he hears the familiar, comforting sounds of people talking in the distance. He barrels through the tree-line into one of his Uncle’s neighbors who steadies him by the shoulders, checks him over quickly to find nothing physically wrong. 
“You alright, son? Looks like you seen a ghost.” 
Nope, just a nightmare, he thinks.
Eddie shakes his head and looks around frantically for Wayne, out of breath. “No, no, I’m– I’m fine. Is Uncle Wayne home?” 
“Eddie?” As though summoned, Wayne appears in the doorway of his own trailer a few lots down. Eddie shrugs out of the neighbor’s touch and runs toward the voice, the one that makes his brain slow down from the spinning wheel it’s been on since the first fist pounded on his dad’s door. 
“Wayne, thank God, thank fuck,” Eddie mutters as he runs into him, hugging him unabashedly around the middle. His fingers dig tightly into Wayne’s back, clutching the fabric of his familiar flannel and grounding himself as Wayne hugs him back. 
“I’m uh, I’m glad to see you, too, kid. Everything alright?” Wayne tone is questioning, rightfully so. He doesn’t know yet that Clyde’s been arrested and likely won’t get out this time, or that Eddie’s here to stay. 
Hours later though, after Eddie’s shared his side of the story and Wayne’s made him a mug of his famous hot chocolate, the police arrive. Officer Hopper assures Eddie that he’s in no trouble, that he didn’t need to run, that he’ll never need to run from Clyde again. 
“I know you’ve got a lot of your stuff still at the house. You got family around to stay with?” Officer Hopper asks, looking at Eddie but clearly asking Wayne. 
“‘Course he does, he’s here, ain’t he?” Wayne nods at Officer Hopper and Eddie catches the interaction. “My old van ain’t much– she needs some work– but should be enough to get us back and forth with your stuff, Ed.” 
The van is more than enough for the barebones possessions Eddie cares to bring: an old acoustic guitar that belonged to his mom, a worn paperback copy of The Fellowship of the Ring gifted to him by Wayne, and some clothes and odds and ends. 
Years later, after he runs again and somehow lives to tell the tale, he returns to what still stands of the trailer with Wayne. Most of their belongings are either destroyed or damaged beyond repair but it doesn't matter to Eddie. 
Home was never the trailer he ran to– just the family inside of it.
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pinkrelish · 5 months
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i finished Flight of Icarus at 4:30am last night, and really liked it! i thought eddie's characterization was on point, giving him depth and levels to how he treats others. he makes impulsive decisions, but not when it comes to his dad, because he's learned to be guarded around al munson. but he still caves to whatever his dad says because, despite convincing himself he's accepted his place in society, an unacknowledged part of eddie still seeks love and acceptance. his temper flares at wayne when he's confronted with any truth that scratches at the dream eddie has been presented, and that anger grows with wayne's constant forgiveness and love, but it's a comfortable anger because wayne's not going to abandon him. (hc) maybe eddie rejects this love because he views it as obliged because they're family. but his uncle stays loyal, without deviating. (/end hc) ronnie also receives eddie's resentment the more she looks out for him and calls him out on his shit, but he feels the guilt from that when he pushes her away instantly.
it's quite a sad book, even without knowing the end of S4. lots of things implode in eddie's face, and because the book is short, he comes into the version of himself we know him as in only the last few pages, so there's little time to see him happy. in fact, he's not often happy in the book. not for long. the tension when his dad is around sits in your chest, making home in the dread and anxiety eddie feels when he knows there's caveats to almost every good thing in his life and he's just waiting for it to get ruined—or for himself to fuck it up, as is the munson way.
overall, i enjoyed reading it and appreciated many of the details about places like the hideout, how eddie came to working for reefer rick, and small insights like eddie's mom and dad having one of those ceremonial wines corked on their wedding date.
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kimmberleeex · 5 months
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security blanket.
You watched Eddie as he played guitar at the foot of his bed. It was a lazy Sunday morning, he was in just his boxers and the way the morning sun shined in his room made him look so angelic in all of his bed head glory. You laid back in awe as you watched his fingers go up and down the fretboard of his baby.
You could tell he was lost in thought as the music that he played turned softer, more soulful. You could see the pain behind his eyes and it made you prop up on your elbows to get closer to him. When he didn’t notice you move, you sat up fully and wrapped your arms around his waist, hugging him from behind. You rest your cheek on his back and murmur in his ear. “What are you playing, baby?”
He offers you a soft smile and with a soft voice to match he replies, “It’s Muddy Waters. It was on one of my mom’s favorite records…” His voice trailed off as he remembered his mom.
You rub his back to provide him some comfort. You know he doesn’t talk about her much because it’s too painful. “She had good taste..” you whisper back. He nods his head slowly, getting lost in the soulful rhythm that he was playing.
“She really did…she said her records were her plane tickets…” His voice continues to trail off as he recollects the fond memories of his mother.
“She would be so proud of you, baby.” You place a soft kiss on his shoulder blade, the sincerity in your voice causes Eddie to smile.
“You really think so?” His voice is so soft and gentle, almost like a child.
“I know so.” You kiss the back of his head as he finishes his soulful tune. He turns to look back at you.
“Thank you, I really needed that.” He smiles warmly at you. “She would have loved you.”
You can’t help but smile back at him. You take a gentle hand and cup his cheek, kissing his soft pink lips delicately. You rest your forehead against his, closing your eyes and relishing in this sweet moment with him. He continues, “You always know just what to do and say that makes me feel so secure and safe. You’re kind of like a blanket.” He chuckles warmly. “You’re turning me soft, angel.”
Suddenly, you wake up and you’re alone in bed. And you remember that Eddie is gone. His funeral is today and you have to say goodbye to the love of your life. The man who sacrificed himself to save a town that hated him. Your tears spill from your eyes and soak the hair behind your ears as you stare at your ceiling.
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fyeaheddiemunson · 5 months
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ddeadly-succubus · 5 months
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Dorky metalhead loser Eddie who gets no bitches>>>> flight of Icarus Eddie who seems to get all the bitches
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corrodedbisexual · 1 year
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An accurate representation of the Eddie fandom following the book announcement
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starrystevie · 1 year
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waiting for october 31st with baited breath and anxiety
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steddielations · 5 months
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Flight of Icarus lore dump part 2:
Part 1 | Character List
- Wayne has a green thumb. He reads Gardener’s Weekly magazine. It doesn’t say what he grows, but it says he buys vegetables from the store so I’m going to say that gruff old man Wayne has the prettiest petunias in the whole trailer park.
- Eddie sneaks into the Hawk with his best friend Ronnie to watch action movies and thinks Snake Plissken, Han Solo and Conan the Barbarian are cool.
- Eddie talks for hours about the intricacies of Elven politics in Tolkien.
- Eddie read comics as a kid and hid them all over the house "like a little squirrel" under the bed, behind the nightstand, under the rug. Wayne found his Uncanny X-Men in the freezer between stacks of tv dinners. Also, "Hellfire Club" comes from these X-Men comics.
- Floor time! There's a part where Eddie is literally just lying on his back on his bedroom floor counting down from a million. When Wayne comes home, Eddie army crawls on his belly to the doorway to see him.
- Eddie reads Gormenghast paperbacks, gothic fantasy novels. It mentions that Wayne saved them from the house fire along with Eddie’s guitar. It never says how/when Eddie originally got his guitar.
- Eddie says lots of cc’s original songs have D&D references. It's implied that he writes them. One is called “Fire Shroud” after a spell
- Eddie is called Freak King at school and Munson Junior or just Junior around town and he hates all of it
- Eddie talks about having anxiety a lot and it's implied he has had panic attacks in the past
- Eddie is the lead singer and guitarist of cc. He started the band with Ronnie specifically because it was required to participate in the school talent show.
- Neither Wayne or Al graduated high school. When Eddie (temporarily) drops out, Al celebrates.
- Eddie doesn't cook. He doesn't even own a spatula. The smell of cooking in their house actually shocks him and gives him a deep longing for family meals, which Al uses to manipulate him
- Eddie jokes about being into Saturday Night Fever and strikes the pose a couple times.
- Eddie knows how to hotwire and how to pick locks. Al taught him this at the age of ten. Eddie is "disgusted" with himself any time he does either of those things.
- Eddie "drives like a monster" when he's upset about something.
- Eddie smokes cigarettes occasionally. Weed is mentioned a lot in the book but it never says anything about Eddie smoking it or doing any drugs. He either doesn't smoke much or he hasn't tried anything yet in the book. Also, he’s just now meeting Rick. But It’s pretty clear after everything he went through why he would start
- There's lots of mentions of PBR and Bud Light. Though Eddie says he doesn't like to drink after his shifts at the Hideout (where he's a barback). He mostly drinks off-brand Big Buy soda in the book (he calls it "pop")
- Eddie's parents were married on March 12th, 1966. The date is inscribed on the bottle of their wedding wine. Eddie asks what kind it is and Al says they only had 'red or white' kind of money
- Al breaks out the wedding wine (to manipulate Eddie, you guessed it) it's red wine and Eddie really, really likes it
- Eddie went to War Zone with his dad for supplies for the truck heist (spike strips, coveralls, etc)
- Eddie's band played Exciter by Judas Priest at the talent show. The song was only approved because they emphasized the "priest"
- There was another (?) talent show in Winter of 1981 where Eddie's band played "Prowler" and they were kicked off stage halfway through because the song was considered Satanic, and the PTA visited all their parents for trying to convert everyone to Satanism.
- Eddie imagines hitting his dad twice. Once with a glass bottle and once with a metal wrench. (He should've- oops who said that)
- The only hug Eddie gets in the book is when his dad first comes back, Eddie knows it's the first step in his cycle of showing up, using Eddie and leaving, but Eddie still accepts the hug and feels guilty for enjoying it.
- It's implied Eddie gets close to tears a couple times in the book, but the only time they actually spring up is when his mom's favorite song (from Muddy Waters) comes on in the truck radio while Eddie is doing the heist with his dad and feeling awful about it. Eddie has several flashbacks of dancing with her to this song, it seems like his happiest memory that he always returns to.
- Whenever Eddie is doing what his dad wants (hotwiring, charming a person into their plans) he puts on what he calls his "best Al Munson smile" and he's terrified that it will eventually take over his whole face. There's a part at the end where Eddie is sitting in a jail cell and says "All I want to do is tear my face off. If a new one grows in it's place, maybe it'll make me a different person. Someone who isn't such a complete fuckup."
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itswhatyougive · 7 months
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Something that's been bothering me is a small detail in ST4 set design, specifically Eddie's trailer.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's the only place I remember seeing prominently displayed laundry baskets full of dirty clothes, both in the Right Side Up and Upside Down versions of the trailer.
I keep thinking back to Eddie's pointed comment to Jason Carver in the very first episode of S4, about basketball being a game where you "toss balls into laundry baskets". They drove that line home even further by having Dustin repeat it back to Eddie at the cafeteria table.
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It's giving me this nagging feeling that Jason and Eddie have more history than we're led to think.
Eddie said it with such bitterness and anger, loud enough that he wanted Jason to take the bait, which he did.
The latest chapters of Hellfire in ST Puzzle Tales also reinforce the fact that Eddie is very very touchy about basketball and the basketball team. He calls it "gross" and he doesn't even want to see Lucas wearing his basketball jacket. It seems oddly "personal", this chip on his shoulder about basketball and Jason.
Do they have some kind of shared history? Is it meant literally, do the laundry baskets have some kind of significance? The Upside Down version of the trailer is stuck in 1983, is it possible three years ago or more Jason used to come over there for some reason? Or is it a figurative thing?
Part of me thinks that new Eddie Munson book that's coming out will have something about Jason in it. Flight of Icarus is set in 1984, so possibly after whatever history he and Jason had. Eddie would be a senior (first time) at Hawkins High School and Jason would've been a sophomore.
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wheels-of-despair · 1 year
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THEY BETTER GIVE THAT FREAK A FREAKIN' NAME
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(oooh what if they let all the Hellfire dorks record their dialogue for the audiobook?)
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eddiemonth · 7 months
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Hello, all! We’re @thefreakandthehair (aka writy Lex) and @nostalgicbones (aka drawy Lex) and we’re joining forces this spooky season as lexes-who-host-fanworks-events to bring you: Eddie Month!
We have 31 prompts, songs, and traits for you all to take inspiration from to make art, writing, edits—whatever you can conjure. The key component is that it must center on Eddie Munson from Stranger Things. Other than that… let your imagination run wild!
The prompts will be released in batches throughout September (the 3rd, 8th, 13th, 18th, and 23rd) so you have a chance to simmer on each prompt and cook up ideas before being presented the next. The first week’s prompts, centering on loved ones and history, can be found here!
Posting will begin October 1st, and run throughout the month until the 31st. Late works will be accepted, the timeline is just for fun!
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eddiemunsonsmum · 5 months
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My thoughts on Flight of Icarus/Eddie's portrayal in the book vs the show.
Flight of Icarus SPOILERS!!
Was explaining the book to my husband and I think I finally nailed how I feel about the way Eddie was written/Why I feel that way.
So, without offending anyone, hopefully. I’m pretty sure like 90% of the Eddie fandom relate to the “freak” experience. Being a loser or nerd. The weird kid. The one that gets bullied because of their interests or there is just something “different” about them. (neuro-divergence or being queer as quick examples)
If not those specific aspects of the Eddie we perceived in the show. Perhaps you relate to having a hard or tremulous home life. Bad parents, financial strain, food insecurity Etc. 
Nearly all of us relate to Eddie in some if not multiple ways. He’s one of us. He made us feel seen and heard. He felt approachable and… regular. Like a normal dude that we would be able to make friends with. He had a normal and very human reaction to the horrible things he witnessed in S4. He had big feelings about the situation and wasn’t afraid to let them out in frustration, anger and sadness. 
(which for a lot of us neuro-divergent people tends not to be a choice. It just happens)
We saw him act this way repeatedly throughout the show. So reading the book… It felt to me like it was written by someone that thought Eddie’s life experiences made for an interesting story in theory but she had never felt those things in practice. I could be wrong. I know very little about the author. I’m also absolutely not saying that people can only write about things they have personally experienced or that anyone writing lives they haven’t lived will write them badly. 
What I’m saying is that I personally felt a lot of Eddie’s inner monologue and dialogue did not reflect the way someone actually living his life would feel. He is very self-depreciating. But he had a lot of crappy things happen to him in a short span of time and majority of his reactions to them boiled down to “oh well, moving on” 
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Serious Spoilers. Stop Reading if you haven't finished it.
He stared down the barrel of a gun repeatedly, watched someone get hit by a car, placed himself in very dangerous and stressful situations repeatedly, had his house burn down, lost his Mother’s last precious belongings, used his bare hands to stem the bleeding from someone that was shot in front of him, begged his Father to stay; literally saying “I need you” and then watched him walk away, he lost his dream, best friend of 10 years and the girl he liked. All without a single tear? Barely a mention of how he felt beyond his heart hurting while he was finding out his Dad lied. Then a few days later (I think? Was it days or weeks?) he’s got enough drive and energy to blackmail someone?? That’s not the Eddie we saw and related to in S4. 😅
I felt there were multiple opportunities for the writer to branch into Eddie’s emotional intelligence and/or perhaps even neuro-divergency and the struggle to regulate yourself under stressful or sad situations. Which again, Eddie in S4 seemed to struggle with. Something a lot of us related to. But it felt as though she was scared to give him too much personality in any direction besides sarcastic. Even then, he doesn’t really come into his own as the sarcasm king until the end of the story.
It felt safe. Like she played it in a way that she knew the majority of the audience would at least be okay with. But in doing that, she failed to recognise the reasons those 90% of us I mentioned above, love Eddie. This book to me, felt like it was written by (for lack of better wording) a “mean girl” that was pandering to and trying to make money from “the freaks”. Eddie’s thoughts and feelings were watered down and did not reflect the Eddie that Joe gave us at all. 
I’m in NO WAY saying that she should have taken my or even the majorities headcanons into consideration or that any author is obliged to change their plot, character etc to pander to the masses. What I’m trying to convey is that I feel like she did that anyway. She watered Eddie down to try and make him palatable to a wider audience. But she didn’t bother to do any research on what the wider audience wanted or liked. Which makes it come across as a very obvious cash grab. She was oblivious to the fact that 90% of her audience already loved him for who he was and accepted him wholly. So she changed him (or perhaps didn’t change him and went with what he was supposed to be before Joseph changed him) because she wanted 90% of the fandom to buy the book and basically failed to realise we were going to buy it anyway and now we’re all disappointed. 
Hope this makes sense. Again these are just my thoughts and feelings and I’m aware I could be wrong and others might not feel the same. I don’t want to argue about it in my inbox. I am someone that struggles to keep thoughts inside my head and I process things better out loud or written down. So if you don’t agree, scroll on please and take this as an open journal post. 
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