stranger things · upside down · ensemble cast · 1980s setting · supernatural horror · found family · d&d references · hawkins indiana · canon divergent · metalhead
Dust motes dance in the shafts of golden sunlight piercing through the bare windows, illuminating the echoing expanse of the empty living room. The four of you stand on the polished hardwood, the silence of the house acting as a blank canvas for a new beginning. Eddie is lost in his own world, strumming an invisible guitar against a nonexistent amplifier, while Nancy surveys the dimensions of the room with a journalist's clinical precision. The quiet is finally broken by Steve's voice, ringing out with a mixture of excitement and dread: "Well... I think this calls for an IKEA run." He turns to you, eyebrows raised in an expectant challenge.