Mscryptix - So Beautiful You Overflow

man on the chubby steve agenda, eddie likes to tease how how spoilt he is; tubby rich boy yknow

I'm probably always going to lean more chubby Eddie in my preferences, but I do like the idea of spoiled rich boy stuff 🤤

Sure was nice of Albo to give us a long weekend on this, the upcoming anniversary of the death of Meatloaf’s career in Australia. RIP King.

Seen a few people saying Steve’s bisexual awakening was Jonathan Byers punching him repeatedly in the face in a dirty alley.

I mean that moment was for sure a signal to change his ways, and all power to those people who HC this, but *my* Steve’s bisexual awakening was Jonathan grabbing & hauling him bodily out of the way of Upside-Down danger, using his injured bleeding hand, then being sheltered protectively behind both Jonathan and Nance, all safe and sequestered away in one of the Byer’s bedrooms.

1979 Hair posters, art by Bob Peak

Steve’s taken up swimming recreationally again. Just doing laps and really, the trauma of feeling vulnerable in the water during the whole vecna thing, the water being a place he thinks of as *his* element (swim captain and all) he just has this urge to get back into it, for himself, and for a whole variety of reasons

He’s dropped some speed and stamina since high school and ehh he’s not really concerned about it and not super serious about it but thinks okay hey could be an idea to pull out some of those older high school training workout routines to build up his strength in the water, just doing it casually in his spare time

So Steve just running through his weight sets, doing push ups, sit ups, etc etc exercise

Well of course Eddie makes sure to be around - Steve, breathing heavily, sweaty, most likely shirtless, his hairy beefy muscles flexing? fucking try and keep him away.

Not that it’s hard - Steve likes background noise so is generally doing this all in the living room with the TV on in the bg. So Eddie just lays out “some” snacks for the show, rubs his hands together in anticipation, and parks himself on the couch, ass down feet up, ready for his visual and literal feast

It’s a new experience for Eddie, watching Steve exercise. Eddie never went to a single high school sporting event in his GD life, so never saw “The Hair” in his high school sporting heyday, but wow, Steve is so focussed! He knows Steve said he’s just mostly doing this for fun but once he starts a workout - Steve is competing with himself, pushing himself with his own challenges & goals, handsome face all furrowed up, eyes intense. He gets in his own world

Well Eddie thrives on watching Steve, but likewise, Eddie thrives on attention.

So Eddie decides he’s also gonna set himself some challenges.

Namely how long does it take to completely break Steve’s concentration til he pounces on Eddie like a sweaty animal.

He’s even got his own list of set plays:

Like Eddie will make sure to shift his pants to under his belly at the most opportune times - caught him stopping & staring just 30 seconds into bicep curls, Munson, new personal best

He’ll wear a low cut top, and lean forward for more food and push his tits together to create a taste of cleavage when the time is right - Eddie’s learnt through trial and error that the time for this is when Steve’s moved onto sit ups (get right in his line of sight and watch Steve noticeably linger on the sit up, then be on his back suspiciously longer for the down part)*

Then Eddie starts getting more creative, devising a character he likes to get into - After all, Eddie will not pass up a chance to be a irritating melodramatic character-acting ham. So he cooked up a strange athlete-gone-obliviously-soft caricature he plays up.

Now, Eddie definitely has no illusions about his lifelong lack of athletic prowess, Eddie’s never even pretended to be interested in sports for a second, both him and Steve know this, which means the stretching of the absurdity of this persona is part of the fun for Eddie

And the deeper and sweatier Steve gets into his workout, the more the visual combination of Eddie just sitting plump and pretty and ceaselessly eating himself out of his clothes vs the honestly inanely unhelpful “tips” he’s giving Steve, seems to rile up Steve in all the right ways

Eddies just lazily glutting himself, pizza box sat on his lap/belly, a bucket of fried chicken lined up for follow up, and between bites he’ll start offering Steve some helpful pointers. Mouth full, cheeks bulging, soft creamy lower gut inching further into his lap as the workout session goes on, really playing up the condescension, he’ll go for faux realism at first “idk man, form there looks a bit harsh on your lower back, if I were you I’d lower my shoulders a bit for that one” “…thanks Eddie”

But the longer Steve goes without breaking, Eddie will just start saying more and more nonsensical shit like “Might want to get some leg swing action in there for a real burn” when Steve’s doing like, lateral raises. But just saying it with so much unearned self assured bravado, while spreading his chunky thighs suggestively, to allow for more belly room

He’ll work in ridiculous stories of his own made up high school athletic achievements (“*chewing* what’s this exercise called again Stevie?” *breathe* *grunt* it’s a bent over row Ed.” “Oh yeah old bend over rows. Those ones’ll pay off, found all those bend overs really helped me get in the right shape for that ‘85 championship game.”)

He’ll say how he used to do things when he was “out on the field/track/pitch”, he’ll attribute his advice back to the “wise words” of his “coach” who’s name and sporting specialty seems to change on a whim, and the advice ends up being almost incomprehensible to someone who actually knows what they’re doing like Steve.

He’ll “absent mindedly” jiggle his belly while going on these “trips down nostalgia lane”**

Still something about the easy way Eddie just keeps on marathon non-stop stuffing himself the whole time, snacks getting more and more gratuitous, and the teasing criticism & the unmerited confidence of his coaching, which becomes more and more breathy the fuller he gets

All from the mouth of someone who hasn’t gotten up from the couch the whole time, except to lean forward to grab more food from the coffee table …..just..the delicious contrast gets Steve so hot under the collar. Steve never thought he was into jocks, but a jock gone soft is a whole new world he hadn’t thought about

Steve’s personal bests fluctuate week to week, workout to workout, but his progress getting back into a steady swimming routine is averaging an upwardly linear progression.

Eddie however will happily report that he beats his own personal time record every session

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*interlude here at the asterisk - Maybe this is under negotiated at first - but Once Eddie’s made sure, and is completely confident Steve knows Eddie’s not seriously meaning to undermine his workouts, that he knows Eddie is really happy Steve has an outlet and happy he’s combatting his PTSD in healthy ways, Steve assuring him he doesn’t mind it one bit, enjoys the teasing, enjoys the pretence even that he’s not enjoying it, the irritation all for show and ultimately part of the game and honestly Eddie giving him a “happy ending” is his new favourite part of exercising, that’s when Eddie feels free to get more creative

**And actually Steve’s gonna maybe need to tell Eddie to tone it down in future with the comedy act coz his rouse of playful irritation at points is getting hard to keep up, coz man Eddie is just so soft looking, stuffed full and being so irritatingly cute - which leaves Steve at points leaning dangerously to breaking his now designated character of “interrupted in-training athlete” and getting the giggles - which would be fine in another scenario, but not exactly ideal or easy to maintain while holding weights or certain positions

Hahaha i love this 🏋️anon, this gives me Ian doing situps while Mickey tosses bills at him energy (if you watch shameless)

I also love that it gets to be an outlet for both of them. Steve feels more confident, likes getting his muscle mass back, helps him feel useful and just ready for anything. Eddie gets another outlet to be a creative weirdo. Nympho boy loves regular sex, but weird roleplay sex where he gets to play a character? Uh, yes please.

The contrast is obviously hot and the game of getting Steve to say "fuck it" and fuck him, beautiful. There's so much here and I feel like I'm not doing it justice of telling you how on board I am and I know you have a follow up but just i love this.

Also Eddie being like "Who needs free weights when you have a sexy fat ass boyfriend to toss around. You want a workout? I'll give you one, big boy 😈"