For centuries, Alexei has walked the path of immortality alone. Everything changes in 1986 when he discovers four fresh-faced immortals in Hawkins, Indiana. Chrissy Cunningham, Steve Harrington, Max Mayfield, and Eddie Munson are equally surprised when they learn they share the same regenerative healing abilities. Fearing their inability to die may draw unwanted attention, they leave Hawkins behind them, but not before imprisoning Vecna at the bottom of Lovers’ Lake after realizing that he too possesses the gift of eternal life.
Under Alexei’s tutelage, the team become quite adept at fighting the battles others can’t, even if it means being riddled with bullets. Sparks fly between Steve and Eddie. They’ll just have to admit that they have feelings for each other.
Decades later, the crew is called back to Hawkins after a series of murders points to the reemergence of the Upside Down, which should be impossible. But not all in Hawkins is as it seems and they find themselves face to face with a new foe, a doctor who believes that he can use their immortality to further the scientific field of extending human life.
When Steve and Eddie get captured and the crew is struck by an unexpected tragedy, Max and Chrissy stage a daring rescue and will have to decide how far they’re willing to go to save their friends.
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They stay longer out on the porch, watching the rain fall in silence as if all their troubles will be washed away with it.
Azune is much older when he learns that there are multiple threads weaving this reality together. He hopes maybe in one of those, he’s still on that porch watching the rain fall with his father.
Azune, his father, and the lessons that follow him throughout his life.
assigning CR4 characters “the crane wives” songs!!
• thimble — take me to war (“take me to war, i dare you / i’ll be the sweetest thing / to ever scare you / give me a fight i can’t resist”) (“but i keep snapping at goliath’s hands”)
• wick — arcturus beaming (“this blinding light, this reckoning / there’s more to life than suffering / but there’s still time / it’s not too late / nothing will change until i change”)
• tyranny — scars (“we were fucked from the start”) (“was i born with a hole in my heart?”) (“but i couldn’t help you build it, and i dont know why”)
• kattigan — black hole fantasy (“even in my fantasy, i cant commit to believing / that I’ll get what i want, im afraid of what i want”) (“the months blur together / i watch the ceiling buckle / i wonder when it’s caving in”)
• teor — can’t go back (“you can’t always be trying to dig up / what you’ve already buried”) (“it’s not fair (when have you ever known the world to be fair?)”)
• julien — not the ghost (“if only i could break the chain of disappointment weighing me down / shake off the ghosts that whisper warnings whenever you’re not around / i won’t be afraid of all the things that i wanted”)
• thaisha — the garden (“put your ear to my heart, or set your teeth against my throat / give me something pretty to wear beneath my bloodstained clothes / my darling, the devil knows my name”)
• vaelus — time will change you (“someday / time will change you / you’ll leave behind what doesn’t move / time will change you / we all outgrow our roots”)
• occtis — turn out the lights (“a running list of all your doubts and your dead ends”) (“what good has ever come of it, what answers will you find?”)
• azune — scars (“all the love, all the kindness, all your best laid plans / couldn’t stop me from becoming the way that i am”) (“maybe born in a storm beneath an angry sky”)
• hal — allies or enemies (“now you’re not so quick to forget / are we allies or enemies? / this will be the death of me x2 / all is fair in love, and war / but i cant fight with you anymore”)
• murray — hard sell (“im one deep breath away from a breakdown / my nerves are wrecked and coming unbound”) (“is it me? is it really just me? does everybody have it together, or are we all just pretending?”)
• bolaire — say it (“haunted by your tenderness / you gave me a soft place to land / held up a mirror, and showed me what i’ve been / hiding from for years / was that just sleight of hand?”)
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Azune goes to give evidence with a handful of melted wax and half a letter, expecting to be struck down on the spot. Instead, he finds himself unmade in a different way.
Heavily inspired by this post and this post by @see-arcane, and this post by @annamaggs16 and see-arcane's tags in response.
idea: scene with two characters eagerly stripping each other clearly about to bone, but they keep getting interrupted by finding carefully concealed weapons in each other’s clothing, so they keep just unholstering, revealing and unstrapping increasingly ludicrous amounts of hidden guns and knives as the clothes come off, and it’s lowkey killing the mood a little
Alternatively: it's not killing the mood at all but it's totally making both of them giggle like they're twelve and possibly get lowkey competitive in a subconscious way about who has the most to drop.
The more that I think of it the more I'm seeing the incredible intimacy of letting someone know where you keep your backup knife.
Like my god, the trust involved in letting someone undress you and learn your secrets instead of popping into the bathroom to change where they can't see and hiding all your weapons under the sink
It’s not that there’s already a bunch of weapons hidden underneath the sink that makes it awkward so much as that there’s so many weapons hidden underneath the sink that they fall out of the cabinet with the unmistakable sound of a knife-alanche, and then the other person comes in like “I can explain!” and you’re just dead-ass standing there with your own armload of weapons like “I can also explain.”
Married version is shoving your hand in your partner’s clothes when you’re out of weapons because you KNOW where their spare is. Or wearing a weapon in a spot you can’t draw from yourself because its now spare storage for your spouse’s weapons.
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