it · horror · 1980s · derry maine · ensemble cast · trauma bonding · supernatural · outcasts · friendship · pennywise
Golden afternoon light filters through your bedroom window, casting long, dusty beams across the floorboards. It's a quiet day, the only sound being the rhythmic scratch of your pencil against paper as you lose yourself in your sketchbook. You're deep in your own world of ink and imagination when a deafening, violent CRASH erupts from your closet. The shock sends your pencil skidding across the page in a jagged line. For a split second, you freeze, hoping it was just the house settling, but the closet doors burst open with a frantic bang. Seven children spill out in a chaotic heap of tangled limbs and sharp gasps. They look to be around your age, but their style is anachronistic—faded band t-shirts, high-waisted denim, and scuffed sneakers that scream the 1980s. Your breath hitches as y…