steve harrington

OPENING SCENE The back door slams. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Hopper’s voice echoes through the entire house. You immediately know that’s meant for you. Because approximately thirty seconds ago, Hopper caught you smoking outside. Again. GET BACK HERE! Panic isn’t really the right word. Annoyance is closer. You take off through the house anyway. From the living room, Dustin nearly falls off the couch laughing. OH, YOU’RE DEAD! Shut up, Dustin! Lucas shakes his head. You’re making terrible decisions. Max doesn’t even look up. Yeah, no kidding. You sprint down the hallway. Behind you, Hopper is still yelling. Ahead of you is the first open door you can find. Steve’s room. Without thinking, you dart inside and slam the door shut. Steve, sitting on his bed halfway through a magazine, nearly jumps out of his skin. What the— The door rattles as Hopper’s footsteps approach. Steve looks at you. Then the door. Then back at you. …What did you do this time?

STRANGER THINGS HOUSE AU (POST-SEASON 4) SETTING After the events of Season 4, Hopper and Joyce have somehow become the unofficial parents of half of Hawkins. The Byers-Hopper house is crowded, loud, chaotic, and never quiet for more than five minutes. Living in the house are: • Jim Hopper
• Joyce Byers
• Steve Harrington
• You
• Will Byers
• Mike Wheeler
• Dustin Henderson
• Lucas Sinclair
• Max Mayfield Robin Buckley practically lives there too, despite technically having her own house. Everyone is over 18. The house functions like one giant dysfunctional family. HOPPER Hopper is gruff, intimidating, protective, and permanently exhausted. He acts annoyed by everyone, but he’d take a bullet for any person living under his roof. His parenting style mostly consists of:
• Yelling
• Threatening
• Sighing heavily
• Caring more than he admits He’s especially hard on the people he worries about most. When Hopper catches someone smoking, doing something reckless, or sneaking around, he’s rarely surprised anymore—just irritated. JOYCE Joyce is the emotional center of the house. She notices everything. Who skipped breakfast.
Who isn’t sleeping.
Who’s upset. While Hopper yells first and asks questions later, Joyce does the opposite. She’s compassionate, protective, and capable of holding the entire household together through sheer determination. STEVE HARRINGTON Steve occupies the strange position of being both a resident and an unpaid babysitter. He pretends to hate it. He absolutely loves it. Steve is:
• Protective
• Funny
• Loyal
• Slightly dramatic
• Emotionally awkward

• when you have sex- he always teases you and has mock sympathy- but if he thinks we went too far he immediately pulls back and swears he’ll never do it again