[ the worst part of all of this is that eddie is just convincing enough that steve actually, almost, buys into it. eddie says what's in here and steve feels himself frown a little, not quite believing him, but then he just keeps talking. and talking. about...guitar players? steve doesn't know either of the people that eddie uses as examples (and that much is pretty obvious by steve's expression alone) and while part of him thinks he could follow the point, steve gets caught up in the details of it. ]
Are you comparing playing the guitar to using magic? [ there's a beat, and then steve leans back just a hair, because wait, actually, hold on- ] So you think that anyone can do it, but some people are just better at it than others. That is what you're saying, right?
[ because steve could probably make that work. he's not good at a lot of stuff, but he's good at some things and pretty okay at a lot of others, and that can maybe be enough.
wow - good talk, Eddie, steve actually kind of got there in the end. sort of. but now they're talking about things steve actually knows, so. ] Nah, man. You strike with a sword too. I've seen it. [ he has not, not really, but don't take this away from him, eddie. don't do it.
the question has steve pausing, though, initially confused that eddie has to ask at all. but then he blinks, and he remembers - eddie's still pretty new at all of this. or, not this, necessarily, but the stuff back home. the upside down. and that's kind of hard to remember, for whatever reason. that they haven't been doing this all together for years now. that up until, what, just a couple of months ago? eddie munson had lived his life pretty...well, against all odds, normal. ]
Venca's little like, pet things. [ he's just drunk enough not to feel weird about it, putting down his cup and trying to gesture as much as he can to give eddie visuals. but steve is also, you know, drunk - so it's hit or miss. ] They're like- okay, so there are the demogorgons- Henderson and his friends named it that. They're huge, like, bigger than a person-sized, and Nancy and Jonathan and I killed one at Jonathan's like, three years ago? My junior year, so your...I don't know. First senior year? They don't even have faces which... [ steve shakes his head, like he's trying to get rid of a memory. ] And then you have the demodogs- kinda the same thing but younger. And they run around on all fours. Henderson actually raised one as a pet for a bit there which got us all into some shit, but it kind of worked out in the end? I guess. We ended up torching the rest of them because going at them one at a time doesn't really work when there's a whole pack... And. Yeah. Then... [ how does one even explain the giant meat suit spider thing that destroyed the mall. steve instead decides to not go into that. ] Those I guess are the ones where I had the bat. The others were more the girl with superpowers.
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Are you comparing playing the guitar to using magic? [ there's a beat, and then steve leans back just a hair, because wait, actually, hold on- ] So you think that anyone can do it, but some people are just better at it than others. That is what you're saying, right?
[ because steve could probably make that work. he's not good at a lot of stuff, but he's good at some things and pretty okay at a lot of others, and that can maybe be enough.
wow - good talk, Eddie, steve actually kind of got there in the end. sort of. but now they're talking about things steve actually knows, so. ] Nah, man. You strike with a sword too. I've seen it. [ he has not, not really, but don't take this away from him, eddie. don't do it.
the question has steve pausing, though, initially confused that eddie has to ask at all. but then he blinks, and he remembers - eddie's still pretty new at all of this. or, not this, necessarily, but the stuff back home. the upside down. and that's kind of hard to remember, for whatever reason. that they haven't been doing this all together for years now. that up until, what, just a couple of months ago? eddie munson had lived his life pretty...well, against all odds, normal. ]
Venca's little like, pet things. [ he's just drunk enough not to feel weird about it, putting down his cup and trying to gesture as much as he can to give eddie visuals. but steve is also, you know, drunk - so it's hit or miss. ] They're like- okay, so there are the demogorgons- Henderson and his friends named it that. They're huge, like, bigger than a person-sized, and Nancy and Jonathan and I killed one at Jonathan's like, three years ago? My junior year, so your...I don't know. First senior year? They don't even have faces which... [ steve shakes his head, like he's trying to get rid of a memory. ] And then you have the demodogs- kinda the same thing but younger. And they run around on all fours. Henderson actually raised one as a pet for a bit there which got us all into some shit, but it kind of worked out in the end? I guess. We ended up torching the rest of them because going at them one at a time doesn't really work when there's a whole pack... And. Yeah. Then... [ how does one even explain the giant meat suit spider thing that destroyed the mall. steve instead decides to not go into that. ] Those I guess are the ones where I had the bat. The others were more the girl with superpowers.