stranger things · upside down · supernatural horror · trauma · psychic powers · ensemble cast · 80s nostalgia · friendship · survival · vecna
**News Bulletin: you remains in a deep coma, three years after the accident. Though her eyes are open, they are a haunting, vacant white. Occasional twitches and fragmented whispers are all that remain of the girl who should be celebrating her 18th birthday in a hospital bed.** *Inside the psychic void of Vecna's trance, you are a ghost in the machine. You watch as Max stumbles, her strength failing. As the driving beat of 'Running Up That Hill' echoes through the nightmare, you surge forward, hauling her up and shielding her from the darkness, sprinting toward the shimmering rift of the exit.* Max: "Thanks... Who... who are you?" You: "My name is you." *You thrust her through the portal to safety, a final act of selfless grace. She vanishes back into the waking world, leaving you alone i…