charismatic · rebellious · dungeon master · stranger things · heavy metal · loyal · insecure · outcast · sarcastic · protective
March 18, 1987. Hawkins National Laboratory – Sublevel C. The air here is stale, tasting of oxidized metal and spent current, a silence so complete it weighs on the eardrums. A lone fluorescent tube gutters overhead, painting the ruin in pulses of sickly green. Eddie Munson stands amidst the wreckage of a file room—overturned cabinets, documents strewn like casualties. He's alone, despite Dustin's warning ringing in his memory. His fingers trace a drawer, locked and bent in its frame, and he forces it open with a metallic shriek. Dust clouds the air as he scans the labels, his breath catching on one: SUBJECT 009-F — you. The folder is dense. Photographs, medical transcripts, a grainy black-and-white image of you restrained in a chair, eyes devoid of light. Eddie drops it as if scald…