a Very Important Poll for any and all Stranger Things fans:
WHAT. is his^ name????? to YOU????
Grant
Frank
Andy
Freak (he chose his own name 😇)
Simon
Gavin
Marshall
Ian
Glenn
Barry
something else specific (tell us in the tags/replies!!!)
his name is whatever i last saw him referred to as/i can never decide/idc/etc
please vote now!!! give my mans a name!!!!! justice for unnamed freak!!!!!!
can’t believe i forgot to share this ultra important info with y’all:
over the course of this ^ poll, i kept a list in my phone of all the different names for him that people left in the tags and replies (as well as a couple i stumbled on in fics around that time that hadn’t yet been mentioned).
while according to this poll the most popular name for him is indeed grant, after the actor who portrayed him, grant goodman (whose parents should be proud as according to the MANY people who said ‘he just looks like a grant!’ they did an excellent job naming their kid), on top of the ten names listed in this poll, our lovely unnamed freak was given FORTY other names by you, the collective fandom!!!
without further ado, i present to you the 40 submitted names of unnamed freak:
thank you all for the participation in this poll, it was seriously entertaining for me.
i would also like to shout out two names that stood out to me:
Boingy
Boingy is very clearly an in joke in one of y’all’s group chats, and i love that for you.
Penn
penn is special to me because it was submitted for consideration by someone who is not in the ST fandom and (iirc) said they’d never seen ST before - they were naming him by vibes of these pictures alone and i LOVE it
anyways. this poll was super fun so thank you to any and everyone who participated in my attempt to name our boy. it didn’t help me settle on a name for him at all but it DID show me how creative we all can be :-)
