Maybe... Maybe you aren't brave. I don't know. ❰ which he can easily believe is true because robin and eddie...they just don't know each other, let alone who they are as people. and robin knows how it feels to be patronized — what can she do, give him some insight about his personhood when before the events of the last few days she barely remembered his full name? it's an endeavor designed to fall on deaf ears.
but what makes her sad is that she does know that eddie is brave. he saved the entire town in perhaps the sickest way possible; she's no where near a metalhead, but she can appreciate a victory brought about by rad instrumental skills. eddie can't know, though, because to let the cat out of the bag would be doing him such a disservice right now, truly a kick while he's already down. ❱
What I think is just that...people like to sell us short. Because Hawkins is this town where everyone just sees you once and they know who you are, and what you're going to be, and how they should think of you— And it's totally crazy, but that's just how it goes. So if they sell you short, and then you sell yourself short, there's just so much short-selling going on.
❰ feeling ridiculous, she makes a sort of motion with her hands as if that will tie all of her thoughts together neatly. robin doesn't give rousing emotional speeches, let alone to eddie munson. with a calming breath, she concludes. ❱ What I mean is that you did it. You believed us, and were totally on board with what most people would think was just totally psycho nonsense, but you did! And you jumped in, and you helped Steve, and if you didn't have some kind of bravery somewhere inside of you, then maybe you would have just kept running after we found you and wanted nothing to do with any of this.
❰ with that, she rubs at her face some more, sure that she's spilled more than enough tears to soak it again. her hands come back drenched, laughing as she examines the damage, as well as at the lamest way to get across some semblance of what she was trying to say, suddenly coming to her. ❱ — Also, if you were trying to not be cowardly, 'brave' is the antonym for that. Soooo according to English linguistic rules, I'm basically right.
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but what makes her sad is that she does know that eddie is brave. he saved the entire town in perhaps the sickest way possible; she's no where near a metalhead, but she can appreciate a victory brought about by rad instrumental skills. eddie can't know, though, because to let the cat out of the bag would be doing him such a disservice right now, truly a kick while he's already down. ❱
What I think is just that...people like to sell us short. Because Hawkins is this town where everyone just sees you once and they know who you are, and what you're going to be, and how they should think of you— And it's totally crazy, but that's just how it goes. So if they sell you short, and then you sell yourself short, there's just so much short-selling going on.
❰ feeling ridiculous, she makes a sort of motion with her hands as if that will tie all of her thoughts together neatly. robin doesn't give rousing emotional speeches, let alone to eddie munson. with a calming breath, she concludes. ❱ What I mean is that you did it. You believed us, and were totally on board with what most people would think was just totally psycho nonsense, but you did! And you jumped in, and you helped Steve, and if you didn't have some kind of bravery somewhere inside of you, then maybe you would have just kept running after we found you and wanted nothing to do with any of this.
❰ with that, she rubs at her face some more, sure that she's spilled more than enough tears to soak it again. her hands come back drenched, laughing as she examines the damage, as well as at the lamest way to get across some semblance of what she was trying to say, suddenly coming to her. ❱ — Also, if you were trying to not be cowardly, 'brave' is the antonym for that. Soooo according to English linguistic rules, I'm basically right.