there’s something so sweet about richie and eddie calling each other their boyfriends like yeah they’re grown ups who’ve been through divorce and shit but they never got to be like young adults together and the idea of them reclaiming their youth is so soft to me

they do the typical dinner-and-a-movie first date and then richie walks eddie to his door and doesn’t come inside even though he really really wants to and eddie just laughs at him when he walks away doing the judd nelson fist pump cause he got to kiss eddie once on the lips

eddie goes inside, closes the door and awaits and not five minutes later richie is tapping on the door like pleeeease eddie can i come iiiiiiiin so eddie let’s him in and they kiss two times and then go to sleep at a sensible hour because they’re not actually 23 anymore

we all know that richie would be yelling about his boyfriend at every opportunity but consider this: eddie introducing richie as his boyfriend even in situations where it’s really not relevant

someone comes up to richie on the street and goes ‘you’re richie tozier, right?’ and eddie is like YES he’s my BOYFRIEND and the fan is like uhhhhh okaaaay

now im thinking about AGGRESSIVE HAND HOLDING eddie knowing somewhere in his mind that Couples Hold Hands so he holds richies hand ALL THE TIME at first to prove a point and then eventually because he likes 2 swing their hands when they walk

i think that richie would hold eddies hand the first time like to pull him across the road or something and then eddie is like https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😠" title="Wütendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Wütendes Gesicht">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😟" title="Besorgtes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Besorgtes Gesicht">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🥺" title="Pleading face" aria-label="Emoji: Pleading face">eddie likes it because there’s no endgame to it - you hold hands just to hold hands and hes trying to be more free and relaxed