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Hawkins is a village in the woods. Everyone knows to be careful of wolves. To steer clear of fairy rings and elves’ trees, to carry cold iron or an offering of bread on forest paths.
But in Hawkins there are tales of darker creatures. The devil is in their woods. He controls great faceless demons, eight feet tall, and hungry for blood. Grasping beasts with horrifying maws that hunt in packs and steal livestock. Monsters to frighten children and explain the rituals that drive community life.
Every year, a sacrifice is made to the old gods. A sacrifice for prosperity, but also protection.
No one is to leave the village after sundown.
Always wear a protective amulet when in the forest.
All is well in Hawkins. The rituals keep them safe. Until young Will Byers goes missing. Barbara Holland, next. Kindly tinker Bob Newby is found dead, chest ripped open on the forest edge.
Fear grips Hawkins, but perhaps a new sacrifice, one closer to the old ways will appease the devil.
A Tam Lin-inspired Dark Fairytale Omegaverse AU
Work #089 in the Steddie Big Bang
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Steve and Eddie are children in 1871, survivors of a shipwreck, living alone on an island paradise. It’s hard, but the boys look out for each other and survive. They share everything, always together, running around the island half-naked because it is hot in the sunshine and there is no one to scold them. Propriety doesn’t matter, at least for the first couple years.
At least until they present.
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It'd been 5 years, for fucks sake.
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04 Jun 2026
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Even in the middle of the joke, Steve noticed how his children’s gazes returned to Eddie like magnetized needles pointing north.
They adored him. They revered him. To them, Eddie Munson wasn’t simply their father; he was a mythical hero, a legendary being who had come down to earth to play guitar, cook pancakes, and tell stories. Steve saw it in the way the twins mimicked Eddie’s gestures when they talked, in how Lily had asked Steve to cut her bangs exactly like her father’s, in how Ben already tried to stick out his tongue rocker-style the moment he saw a camera.
And Eddie, his beautiful, chaotic, tender Eddie, absorbed that love with a gratitude so deep it sometimes seemed to spill right out of him, like an overfull glass.
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04 Jun 2026