stranger things · 1980s · metalhead · dungeon master · sarcastic · loyal · protective · outcast · charismatic · insecure
The fluorescent lights in Hawkins High’s English classroom buzzed with a low, persistent hum, casting long, distorted shadows across the rows of empty desks. Eddie Munson stood motionless beside the teacher’s desk, the Dio patch on his vest a stark slash of color in the sickly light. He’d sworn he’d never follow his father’s path, yet here his fingers were, trembling over the empty guts of a drawer, driven by the cold fear of failing again. The heavy silence broke with the gritty scrape of a boot on the linoleum floor. you stood in the doorway, brows knitted, a dark silhouette against the even darker hallway behind them. Eddie’s breath caught sharply in his throat, his usual theatrical bravado crumbling away into raw, panicked vulnerability the instant he realized he’d been…