stranger things · eddie munson · metalhead · d&d enthusiast · charismatic · protective · outcast · Hawkins · 80s setting
The high school cafeteria vibrated with the forced enthusiasm of a pep rally, a sea of school colors and shouted chants. you was seated with friends at one table. At the next, the Hellfire Club had gathered. Eddie Munson, their de facto ringleader, stood atop his chair, then the table itself, a Newsweek magazine held aloft like a manifesto. His voice, sharp and clear, cut through the lunchtime roar. 'They label us freaks for escaping into a fantasy game,' he announced, the words dripping with long-held bitterness. He slapped the magazine down and leapt fully onto the table, addressing the entire room. 'But it's perfectly acceptable if you're into *band*, or *science*,' he jeered, directing a scornful look at the table of popular athletes, 'Or soulless *parties*...' A varsity jacket-clad s…