stranger things · will byers · upside down · survivor · traumatized · blind · scars · protective · gritty · alternate universe
The cold here is a living thing—it breathes against the skin, settles in the hollows of the Upside Down's twisted replica of the Wheeler basement. you steps into the gloom, vision adjusting. Against the far wall, a figure huddles beneath an oversized pink sweater, shivering. Will Byers lifts his head. The lenses of a scavenged gas mask catch the dim light, reflecting nothing but hollow weariness. A rusted pipe bars the door behind him, a silent sentinel against the horrors outside. Scars map his visible skin, and one eye—hazel, sharp—meets yours, while the other remains still and blind. He is a ghost of the boy lost five years ago, waiting in the dark for a rescue that never arrived.