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lumiereandcogsworth · 2 months

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3, 14, 23 (I feel like I already know the answer but they're good questions anyway 😈 ) and 30 !

would you believe? i rambled on and on? would you believe i did that?

3. Who is more into taking showers/baths together? Who tries to make it relaxing and who tries to make it sexy time? i think belle is definitely more into it than adam. adam Enjoys it, don’t get me wrong, but he’s such an autistic loner boy (honorific) that i think he just enjoys having his alone time sometimes. which he does get most of the time, since belle is in general a way busier person than he is. it’s easier to find windows of time that he can take for himself. (that’s before they have kiddos, of course. it gets more challenging later on, lmao.) and for the second question, i’d say belle slightly more? but she also just likes to get in the bath with him to be with him. it’s not always a horny reason. sometimes they just sit in the bath and read their books in comfortable silence. (but belle, being an adhd queen, can definitely get more easily distracted by the handsome naked man across from her 😊) (not to say adam’s NEVER been distracted by the beautiful naked lady across from him, of course😏)

14. Who starts the hand holding? Who grabs the others butt? Who slides their arm around their waist? Who likes to put their fingers in the belt loops? oh adam’s always reaching for her hand. i feel like every time i write or just imagine a scene in which adam is walking up to her, he just instinctively laces a hand with hers as they greet one another. physical touch is one of his love languages !!!!! he’s happy to see her so he holds her hand to prove it!!!!!!!! as for grabbing the other’s butt, though, that’s all belle adjsjd. funnily enough i actually have a fic that’s from one of these silly prompts. the entire thing is her secretly putting her hands on his BEHIND at a BALL and he’s like WOMAN!!!! WE’RE IN PUBLIC!!!! blushing very much. it’s very silly :3 also i feel like they both put their arms around each other’s waists quite often. they slip into little side hugs so regularly. they’re so very clingy… 🤧 (and idk about belt loops. that’s too specific for me sjdksj. they’re more hands and waist people.)

23. Who thinks they are not good enough for the others love? and who’s more afraid of losing the other? Who thinks they keep messing up, only for the other to tell them they don’t need to worry? OUGH!!! yeah you already know 😭 adam NEVER feels like he’s good enough for belle. he does not Understand why she loves him so much. he thinks she’s the most incredible woman to have ever walked the earth, and she chose HIM??

he also just feels so so guilty about how they met. like even though he’s grown so much and changed and very much apologized for who he was, he still can’t shake the feeling that she’s staying there out of pity or obligation. i have a really rough draft of a wip where they get into some heated argument about something else but the underlying truth is that adam just feels like everything negative that happens to her (in their royal court) is his fault. because he kept her here in the first place and now she’s stuck here. and she’s like ?????? because she could’ve left a million times by now!!!!! she had every out in the world, she had every excuse in the world to leave him, but she didn’t care about any of that! she loves him! and she CHOOSES to be with him! she CHOOSES to be his wife! every day!!!!! and she says something like “you need to forgive yourself for who you were. because if you don’t, it is going to break us.” and it’s so INTENSE because like. HE NEEDS TO FORGIVE HIMSELFFFF. or they’re just never gonna be able to move forward. and he works through it and does eventually, but he still always quietly basks in her magnificence and wonders how he got so lucky.

who’s more afraid of losing the other?? OUGH. i think they’re both really scared of losing the other. belle is more level-headed about it just because she’s more emotionally stable, lmao, but like. watching him die was Not something she very easily got over 🥲 she had nightmares and she still always clings to him so much when they sleep. she always rests her head on his chest just to listen to his heartbeat. it calms her so much. and OF COURSE adam is terrified of losing belle. his entire family has been so riddled with death, he almost expects he’ll lose her when they’re young. growing old with her is his greatest honor in life. and same goes for their kiddos too!! he worries SO much about his family because they’re just… truly the life he never thought he’d get to live. they’re his whole world 😭😭

and lastly for this one, who thinks they keep messing up !! agh. it’s both. but different ways. adam always thinks he’s messing up as a husband and a father. which is ironic because those are the jobs he is truly best at. (and belle says so in a toast for one of his birthdays. but i haven’t written anything beyond her little speech so. 🤫) but yeah i mean, it goes hand in hand. he never feels worthy enough for belle, so of course he thinks he falls short. but belle always reminds him that she’s happy, their children are happy, and they love being loved and protected by him.

i think — and gosh i’ll try not to tangent too much here, famous last words — i think that’s a big part of it too. the way his father abused him psychologically, was by telling him he was never man enough. too weak too quiet too scared. so adam, growing up, has just always had so many issues surrounding masculinity and what it means to be a man and all that. he’s never been very masculine but he never disliked being a boy/man either. he was who he was. but he had to mask so much of it, to the point of becoming just as ruthless and awful of a man as his father was. becoming a monster, even. so now that he’s all new, clean slate, he’s in this weird ambiguous state of being allowed to be himself but struggling to recall who “himself” is. and now he’s “husband” and now he’s “father” and he’s seen what those words have meant in the past but what do they mean now? what kind of husband does his wife need? what kind of father do his children need? and i don’t know. i think he just struggles with that. he doesn’t feel like he does a good job of being those roles, because maybe it’s not the way it typically is done. but he feels so protective of them all, so he lets that drive it, and he worries about them, and loves them, and cares for them when they’re sad and hurt. and that’s precisely who they need :”) he keeps all of them very grounded and secure <3

BELLE ON THE OTHER HAND!!!!! doesn’t super struggle being a wife or mama (no more than the average person, i mean) but she very much does always worry about her role as queen. she’s so Not Used To having ANY kind of power in her life, let alone RULING A COUNTRY, so it’s a very insane flip for her. but being who she is, she does jump right into it!! she dives head first into projects and changes and ideas and !!! she’s so full of ideas !!!! but the people of the court are snarky and rude and bitchy and it takes many of them a LONG time before they decide she’s “one of them”. she’s STILL an outsider. she’s STILL the weird one. no matter where she goes. she was too different for the villagers but she’s still too different for the aristocracy. so she struggles a lot with finding her place. and like, sure, she has the title, so Legally people DO respect her. but behind closed doors, within the court, gossip swirls and people are just awful. and she struggles to tell adam about it because she knows he’d take the blame for “bringing her into this life.” (which comes full circle back to the beginning of my answer to this question. how did i do that?? so powerful.)

anyway she DOES tell him things but it’s just always so hard. and she feels like such a failure sometimes. and they make her feel so crazy for having the ideas she has. and it just SUCKS. but adam is always so firmly in her corner, ALWAYS backing up her ideas when she presents them to councils and things (which is hard for her too, to accept his help. she’s just so stubbornly independent. they had a convo in my head the other day about adam offering to write to someone, to perhaps sway them in the right direction of belle’s idea, but she’s like no no i got it. and adam’s like “i know you do and /i/ know you’re capable of this, but a lot of these people don’t. and sometimes you need to speak their language in order to gain what you want.” and it’s just like UGJGJDKFJ!!!! it sucks how often they’ll disagree with her but then adam steps in and says he agrees/likes it and they’re like oh yeah nice totally!!! like. she may be queen but she is first and foremost a woman🫠.) anyway. belle struggling to be accepted/be herself is something i wanna grapple with more. and i do i think but. need to do it more. WHEW. okay, next question.

30. Who is embarrassed when they have to wear their glasses and who thinks they look super cute? HEHEHE that’s so cute. i have an old headcanon that adam gets reading glasses in his 40s (belle has like super powerful eyes and doesn’t need them til her 60s??? adam is very jealous) anyway adam Hates his glasses he thinks they look so STUPID. but then belle wraps her arms around him and calls him her sexy librarian and he rolls his eyes but also blushes SO MUCH >:3!!! she really does think he looks so good in them, which certainly boosts his confidence <3

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steddiealltheway · 6 months

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(I have just hit a very nice (silly) milestone of 6969 followers, so I wrote this little ficlet to celebrate and thank you all for always being so supportive 💛 I hope you enjoy)

Everyone is shocked when Steve and Eddie announce they’re moving in together.

But, to Steve, it’s really a no-brainer. Robin is going away to college, the kids are starting to get their licenses and no longer need a babysitter, and Eddie desperately wants to get out of Hawkins.

So, Steve bought a map, measured the distance between Hawkins and Robin’s college, and marked a spot right in the middle.

Okay, so maybe it ended up being in the middle of a river, but there was a town near there that was perfectly not too far from Hawkins while being far away enough for Eddie to feel safe. As well as being far enough from Robin to give her space at her new school while being close enough that she could easily spend the night at their place whenever she wanted.

But distance wasn’t a problem for anyone, they were mainly concerned about how Steve and Eddie would live with each other and not kill each other.

But after a few weeks, Steve can confidently say that living with Eddie is… nice actually.

Really really nice.

Of course, he had been a little concerned about all their differences and adjusting to having someone always around, but Steve enjoys the company.

Actually, he specifically enjoys Eddie’s company.

Sure, he can be loud and a bit messy, but Steve loves that their small apartment actually feels like a home.

Whenever Robin stops by, she comments about how domestic they’re getting. Especially whenever Eddie randomly appears with a cup of water not even seconds after Steve mentions he was getting thirsty.

But what Steve fails to mention to Robin are all the little other things Eddie does, like when it’s late at night and Eddie brushes the hair off of Steve’s forehead and says, “It’s a little late for me to see those beautiful eyes still open."

Sometimes when they're watching a movie, Steve will fall asleep and wake up to Eddie carrying him to bed as if it's an easy thing to do.

And yeah, maybe Steve finds it overwhelmingly hot, and maybe he clings a little tighter whenever Eddie tries to put him down so they're stuck in a tight embrace that Steve can wave off as a result of being half asleep.

But sometimes Eddie's eyes linger on Steve a little longer than they should or Eddie will throw his arm over the back of the couch and let his fingertips lightly trace over Steve's shoulder or run through his hair gently as if he doesn't even notice himself doing it. And it makes Steve think that maybe, just maybe, Eddie might have feelings for him too.

But just when things are going great, and Steve is thinking about testing the boundaries of their friendship to push more into romantic territory, Eddie starts fucking with him.

The problem is, it's not anything big or obvious that Steve can just laugh off. Instead, Eddie starts messing with the thermostat. The thermostat Steve likes to keep strictly at 71.

But Eddie has decided to set it to 69.

At first, Steve just adjusts it, wondering why Eddie is bumping it down when he's always cold and wraps himself in a blanket, complaining that 71 is too cold.

After two days of back and forth, Steve wonders if the thing is just broken because he hasn't actually seen Eddie mess with it. So, he wanders to Eddie's room and knocks on the door lightly before opening it.

Eddie lays back on his bed with a smirk on his face that instantly alerts Steve that Eddie has in fact been messing with him.

He crosses his arms and leans against the doorway. "Have you been messing with the thermostat?"

Eddie shrugs and comments, "Maybe."

Steve frowns, not sure what the hell kind of game Eddie's playing at. "Well, can you maybe leave it at seventy-one?"

"And if I don't?" Eddie challenges, cocking his head to the side, "What are you going to do about it?"

"Change it back to seventy-one," Steve replies easily. He feels like he's missing something when Eddie's face falters a bit, but he hopes it's just him getting the message to not mess with it. And just in case he doesn't get it, he shuts the door a little more firmly than usual.

Only, two days later, Steve happens to notice that the thermostat is set to 69 again. He scowls and presses the button twice before going off to Eddie's room and knocking on the door again a little harder than usual, wondering why Eddie is trying to mess with him after they had been having such a nice day.

"Come in!" Eddie chirps.

Steve swings the door open and rests his hands on his hips. "You changed it again."

Eddie shrugs and leans back on his bed looking overly comfortable. "Just setting the mood."

"Yeah, you've set the mood, and you set it to annoyed. Stop changing it," Steve says as he starts to close the door. He stops as it's about to close and peaks his head back in. "Please."

With that, he thinks he's done with the whole thing. And after a few days pass, he's pretty much forgotten about the whole incident.

That is, until Robin comes to visit and suddenly asks, "Does it feel slightly colder in here to you?"

Steve groans and walks over to the thermostat, seeing the number 69 staring back at him. He's not sure when Eddie changed it, but he's not even currently there so Steve can yell at him. Instead, he just complains to Robin, "Eddie's been fucking with me and changing the thermostat."

Robin snorts. "Isn't he like perpetually cold all the time?"

"Yes! Which is why I'm so confused about him keeping it at sixty-nine all the time."

Robin pauses and glances over at Steve. "What is he keeping it at?"

"Sixty-nine."

Robin just cackles in response, and Steve glares at her asking, "What?"

"Sixty-nine!" Robin laughs again.

"Real mature, Robin," Steve says, rolling his eyes before the realization hits him. "Oh, Christ."

Robin only laughs harder, but Steve is stuck on the other conversations he had with Eddie which were... definitely miscommunications. Oh god, was Eddie trying to... proposition him?

Robin's laughter dies down enough for her to ask, "What's wrong?"

Steve gives her a look and sits down on the couch next to her, further realizing the thermostat incidents happened after days when the two of them got a little more... friendly than usual.

Steve sighs and explains the entire situation including the things he's left out before including his feelings for Eddie. He's glad that Robin holds in her laughter until after he's done.

"Stop laughing, it's not funny."

Robin manages to say through her laughter, "You both are disasters. But you're both so gone on each other that it's almost a little disgusting." She then stands up and grabs her bag, walking toward the front door.

"Where are you going?" Steve asks, following her.

Robin turns around and gives Steve a look. "I'm leaving before Eddie gets back and you two..." she gestures toward the thermostat.

Steve groans, "Get out, Buckley." He can't help but smile before he pulls her into a hug and digs some money out of his wallet.

"What's this?" Robin asks.

"Gas money for sending you away early."

Robin smiles and salutes him. "I guess this means I'll be coming back tomorrow."

"I'll call in case we're still-"

"Gross, dingus," Robin says with a laugh before she hugs him one more time and whispers, "Thank you for telling me."

Steve just squeezes her a little tighter.

After she leaves, Steve takes a minute to form a plan before Eddie gets back from whatever store he went to. He looks at the thermostat and sets it back to 71 degrees while he tries to think.

Unfortunately, he doesn't get far in his thinking before the front door unlocks and Eddie walks in with a few grocery bags in hand.

Steve just turns around and tries not to look too startled by Eddie's sudden appearance.

Eddie gives him a confused look and gestures outside. "Did I just see Robin leave?"

Steve nods but gives no further explanation, stuck on how the hell he's supposed to approach this subject with Eddie. God, now he understands the thermostat method.

"You okay?" Eddie asks before his eyes settle on the thermostat. "Oh, shit. Sorry, I did that late last night. Can we just forget that that happened? It was... dumb really."

Instead of forgetting it, Steve dramatically reaches up and hits the down button twice. "I think I finally get it." Eddie's eyes widen as Steve crosses his arms and continues, "Setting the mood, right? Or, tell me, what are you going to do about it?"

Eddie looks at him for a second then suddenly drops all the bags in his hands, practically racing down the hallway to Steve and cupping his face in his hands. "Am I reading this right?"

Steve slowly glances at the thermostat. "Well, it does say sixty-nine."

Eddie huffs out a laugh but quickly clarifies, "I don't just want that. I mean... I like you. And I just couldn't think of a good way to bring that up without it being some type of joke. Not that liking you is a joke, but oh god-"

"Eddie," Steve says firmly, stopping his rambling. "I like you, too."

Eddie's face lights up. "Yeah?"

Steve nods as his hands come up to Eddie's waist and pull him in a little closer.

"You like me enough to sixty-"

"Oh, shut up," Steve says with a big smile.

"Make me," Eddie replies, giving Steve an exaggerated wink.

Steve shakes his head and sighs before pulling Eddie into a sweet kiss, both of them smiling too much to make it anything more than a peck. When they pull away, Steve thinks he might murder Eddie when he whispers, "Nice."

But he wouldn't have it any other way.

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