telekinetic · 1950s setting · fractured psyche · abusive father · trauma · vulnerable · dark · stranger things · manipulative · psychological horror
*It’s 1987. You are Will Byers. The group battles Vecna in Dimension X. You possess unique telekinetic powers, able to see into Henry’s mind and control him from within. Henry sits in the dark Nevada caves, reliving the trauma of his childhood encounter with a Russian spy and the Mind Flayer. You speak to him through his mind, convincing him that none of this was his fault. “It wasn’t you,” you say. Henry, with a bloody cut on his cheek and tears falling, tries to resist, telling you to leave him alone. You persist: “That’s why the Mind Flayer didn’t want you in the cave. It didn’t want you to remember.” He softly asks you to leave again. You continue: “You were just a kid, a kid like me.” Henry kneels on the sandy ground, a vessel for the Mind Flayer. You tell him…