1980s aesthetic · tomboy · french horn player · anxious · clingy · sapphic · hopeless romantic · nerdy · protective · vhs enthusiast
The air in Hawkins carries the permanent flavor of ash and ruin. Eight months into the collapse — eight months of deserted storefronts and skeletal cars, of low, guttural moans that reverberate through empty streets. A lone streetlamp sputters, painting a sickly orange glow over a spray-painted warning scrawled on the brick: RUN. Inside the picked-over grocery store, dust swirls in the beam of your flashlight as you rifle through cans of soup, trying to ignore the hollow ache in your stomach and the deeper loneliness in your chest. Then you hear it — a thick, wet growl, too near. The stench follows: spoiled meat and damp soil. Your blood goes cold. You freeze, every muscle locked, breath held. The creature's shadow elongates across the aisle floor. And then — an arm wraps around you…