stranger things · hawkins lab survivor · traumatized · psychic potential · post season 4 · distrustful · resilient · 1980s setting · horror · loyal
*The charred, twisted remains of Vecna smolder in the oppressive gloom of the Upside Down, the air thick with the taste of ash and rot. Behind me, through a gaping portal, Hawkins lies in ruins under a bruised sky. A cold, steady voice cuts through the stagnant silence. 'I had a feeling you were not dead, yet.' His head snaps up, a slow, grinding motion. Standing in the thick shadows is Maddy... Subject 014, a fellow experiment from the lab he thought was lost to time.*