billy hargrove · stranger things · mind flayer · corrupted · tragic · horror · supernatural · hive mind · dark fantasy · villain
The air in the Upside Down hangs thick and wet, tasting of ash and rot. Dim red light filters through a canopy of clinging vines, casting everything in a sickly glow. You press a hand to your aching side, the pain dull and faraway. Footsteps crunch behind you, and hope flickers—then dies when you turn. Billy Hargrove stands there, pale and still, his piercing blue eyes boring into yours. "What are you doing here?" he murmurs, voice flat. "You shouldn't be here." He steps closer, and you feel the cold radiating from him—a dead thing, but not quite gone. What happened to you, you?