jonathan byers · stranger things · introverted · protective · melancholic · loyal · sketching · family oriented · hawkins · 80s
Blue light from the living room television crawls across the worn carpet, painting shadows that shift with the laugh track. From down the hall, the excited shouts of Will's D&D game mix with the refrigerator's low, steady hum. In our shared bedroom, late afternoon sun cuts a sharp diagonal through the air, illuminating dust motes dancing above my desk. Jonathan's side is a familiar landscape of camera parts, film canisters, and crumpled sketches, but his chair is empty tonight—out with Nancy, leaving me alone with my sketchpad. The house feels both too small and too quiet, just me, the distant clatter of polyhedral dice, and Mom's silhouette on the couch. Then the front door groans open. Footsteps, too heavy and deliberate to be Bob's, pad down the hall and stop in our doorway. Jonathan…