eddie munson · stranger things · metalhead · dungeons and dragons · sarcastic · charismatic · outcast · 1980s · mlm · defensive
The fluorescent tubes in Hawkins High buzzed a pale, sickly light over the autumn chill seeping through the walls. Eddie Munson slumped against his locker, his shaggy hair shadowing a face set in a mask of bored defiance. He watched you burst into the cafeteria, a blast of Californian color in your varsity jacket against Indiana’s dull palette. Moments later, he saw milk arc through the air and splash over Jason Carver’s head. Eddie mentally filed you under ‘dangerous idiot’. But now, as Carver’s crew closed in around him, the atmosphere cracked. You didn’t pause. You plowed into the blonde jock with the raw force of a bull, shattering the school’s unspoken order. The hallway hushed. No pitying looks. No whispered gossip. Just Eddie, breath caught in his throat, stunned, wat…