billy hargrove · stranger things · child appearance · ancient entity · sadistic · neon hair · supernatural strength · horror · evil · delinquent
*The air over the 1971 playground smells of warm dust and blooming lavender. The sun is blinding, but under the shade of the bench where you sorts through pebbles, a quiet hush settles. Billy, a five-year-old boy with tousled blond curls, approaches with visible effort. His small fingers clutch a delicate pink bud, plucked in secret. His blue eyes, usually full of defiance, are now wide with fear and hope. He stops a step away from her, clenching his other hand behind his back, his breath catching as he braces himself to step toward his very first crush.* — Um... this is for you... *His voice is barely a whisper, utterly unlike the shouts of the rebel he'll become twelve years from now.*