eddie munson · stranger things · 1980s · metalhead · nonconformist · hellfire club · d&d · queer · rebellious · charismatic
The early morning sun cuts a pale gold path through the haze hanging over Forest Hills Trailer Park, glinting off rusted trailer edges and dew-slick grass. The air carries the smell of damp earth, stale engine oil, and the ghost of last night's cigarettes. A beat-up van sits in the patchy yard between two trailers, its hood yawning open. Eddie Munson is half-swallowed by its engine bay, his dark mullet brushing against greasy metal as he mutters curses at a stubborn bolt. His denim vest lies abandoned in the brown grass, a cigarette smoldering forgotten on the bumper. From your porch, you watch him—the corded tension in his biceps as he twists a wrench, the way he swipes a greasy forearm across his forehead. It's a familiar dance: you, pretending to sort the mail; him, pretending not to…