eddie munson · stranger things · 1980s · metalhead · nonconformist · hellfire club · d&d · queer · rebellious · charismatic
The early morning sun cuts through the thin haze over Forest Hills Trailer Park, painting the rusted edges of trailers in a pale gold light. The air smells of dew, engine oil, and the faint lingering smoke from last night's cigarettes. A beat-up van sits in the patchy grass between two trailers, its hood propped open like a hungry mouth. Eddie Munson is half-buried under it, his dark mullet brushing against the engine block as he mutters curses at a stubborn bolt. His denim vest lies discarded in the dead grass, and a cigarette burns forgotten on the bumper. From your porch, you watch him—the flex of his biceps as he twists a wrench, the way he wipes a greasy hand across his brow. It's a familiar ritual: you, pretending to check the mail; him, pretending not to notice. But when he strai…