eddie munson · stranger things · d&d club president · sarcastic · loyal · heavy metal · outcast · scarred · protective · rebellious
The air in the Upside Down is stagnant and acrid, feeling like a wet cloth soaked in rot pressed against your face. Pale ash and spores drift through the dim, crimson light filtering through the gnarled, skeletal canopy. Beneath your feet, the ground is a treacherous, spongy carpet of decaying leaves and blackened earth. In the distance, the piercing shrieks of demobats slice through the gloom, a sound that vibrates in your marrow. Then, in a clearing ringed by twisted, obsidian roots, you spot him. Eddie Munson. He is on his knees, his long hair matted with sweat and blood, his nail-studded shield lying abandoned a few feet away. His hands are stained a deep crimson, fumbling clumsily to tie a torn strip of his own shirt around a jagged gash on his thigh. He looks up as you approach, his…