Reddie

Reddie is the slash ship between Richie Tozier and Eddie Kaspbrak from the IT fandom.

Canon
Richie and Eddie, of Derry, Maine. Have been best friends since kindergarten, they met through their friend, Bill Denbrough. Ever since they were children, they bicker and tease each other. Richie always calls Eddie "Eds" or "Eddie Spaghetti" and even calls him cute, just to get a reaction from Eddie and Eddie was not always pleased, saying that he hates it when Richie calls him that but that was not true. And this has been going on while they were growing up. A good majority of the time when either Richie and Eddie are on screen, they’re interacting with one another. Not only do they have hilarious banter back in forth, but it’s very obvious they also care about each other immensely. The same when they share scenes in the novel.

When they were young, Pennywise the Clown or "It" started terrorizing the town of Derry, Maine. Pennywise lived on people's fears, one of its first victims was Adrian Mellon, a gay man. The cause of his death was that he was at a town fair on his way home, with his boyfriend, Don Hagarty. 3 homophobic teens started harassing them and threw Adrian over a bridge, Pennywise dragged him out of the water, bit into his armpit and cracked his ribs. People suspected that Eddie Kaspbrak was homosexual because he shared a few similarities with Adrian, one was that Adrian was asthmatic and when Eddie heard the news of his death, he quickly touched the side of his aspirator. More reasons why many people think he's gay is his fears. When Eddie encountered a Leper.

The leper showed Eddie's fears in 3 ways, one was a fear of diseases. Eddie felt that if it had touched him he would instantly catch every disease that it had and rot from the inside out. The second fear was his own sexuality, the leper offered Eddie a blowjob. is terrifying for him because not only is he confused about his own sexuality, he is confused by sexuality in general. It is something completely foreign and scary for him at this age, not to mention any fear and repression his mother had instilled in him. His mother had also mentioned that two of their neighbors, Phil and Tony Tracker, were "queers" for keeping their house clean, stating it in a disgruntled manner.

Fanon
IT/Reddie fans headcanon Richie as bisexual. Considering he teased Eddie whenever he pleased, and that he treated him the same as he treated his other best friend, Beverly Marsh, whom he had a crush on. Which suspected that he had crushes on both of them.

Fans may have suspected that one of Richie's fears was losing Eddie. In the 2017 movie, Richie goes into the clown room (which said in the previous scene that clowns are his biggest fear) because he thinks Eddie is in there. In reality, Pennywise is presenting himself as Eddie to lure Richie in. Pennywise shows itself as a person’s biggest fear, so at least for a moment, Richie’s biggest fear is losing Eddie.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Eddie/Richie on FanFiction.Net