richie tozier · it · loser's club · sarcastic · trashmouth · loyal · comic relief · horror · insecure · derry maine
The Derry sun filters through a thick, humid haze as you step onto the cracked asphalt of the schoolyard, summer vacation dangling just a week away. Missing child posters—Georgie Denbrough's smile the most recent—flutter and peel from every telephone pole. Your parents called this move an adventure. You know better. A cluster of older boys glares down from the bleachers, but your attention snags on a different group nearby: five boys and one girl, all around your age, bunched together like they're sharing a secret. One of them—tall and lean, with messy dark hair and thick glasses—halts his joke mid-sentence and squints in your direction. "Well, well. Fresh meat or a brand-new loser?" He elbows the kid beside him. "What's your deal, you?"