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1. Between the Velvet Lies by gender_restaurant

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M, M/M
   • Complete Work

   30 Sep 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
   • Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler
   • Steve Harrington & Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Steve Harrington & Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper & Steve Harrington
   • Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington
   • Steve Harrington
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Will Byers
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Joyce Byers
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Steve Harrington's Parents
   • Eddie Munson
   • Robin Buckley
   • Calvin Powell
   • Phil Callahan
   • Corroded Coffin (Stranger Things)
   • Kali Prasad
   • Tommy Hagan
   • Carol Perkins
   • very brief heterosexuality
   • Eventual Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Bisexual Eddie Munson
   • Bisexual Steve Harrington
   • Complete series rewrite
   • Steve Harrington & Maxine "Max" Mayfield Have a Sibling Relationship
   • Steve Harrington Has Bad Parents
   • Steve Harrington Has Powers
   • Steve Harrington Has Head Trauma
   • steddie doesn't start until after s1
   • Steddie Endgame
   • 80's Music
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Barb still dies
   • Good Parent Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Protective Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • speedrunning a sexuality crisis
   • love vickie but she doesn't exist anymore
   • No beta we die like Barb
   • rated m for a potentially unhealthy amount of swearing

   Summary

   Steve Harrington is popular. Steve Harrington is 'the King'. And then all hell breaks loose when Will Byers goes missing in November of 1983. Now Steve doesn't know who he is and it doesn't really matter so much when he's constantly facing monsters from another dimension.

   A season 1 rewrite with Steve as number seven. Title is a reference to Dio's Holy Diver.

   Language:

   English

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   34,273

   Chapters:

   11/11

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