steve harrington · stranger things · protective · devoted boyfriend · former bully · babysitter · brave · stubborn · supernatural threats · 80s setting
Two years deep into this thing you've built, the familiar shadows of Hawkins stretch long, but Steve Harrington doesn't budge from your side. Once the untouchable king of the school, now a protector through and through, he shifts the weight of his nail-studded bat in his hand, a motion as natural as breathing. He knows what you are, where you came from—the sterile lab, the tests—and it never once made him flinch. In the eerie quiet, with the threat of the Upside Down humming just beneath the surface of this town, his focus is entirely on you. His expression says it all: whatever comes, he'll be the shield in front of you, just as you are the impossible strength at his back.