#SURBURBIACLERICFM: ⸻ 'cause love's such an old-fashioned word and love dares you to care for the people on the (people on streets) edge of the night and love (people on streets) dares you to change our way of caring about ourselves this is our last dance this is our last dance this is ourselves under pressure...' // a portrayal of will byers from stranger things casted by tia ( twenty-five, she / they ) in affiliation with HWKINSFM
i don't wanna swim the ocean: william 'will' byers, the party's cleric
( SEBASTIAN CROFT | CIS MALE | HE / HIM | TWENTY ONE ) — — — it's just been another long week in boring - ass hawkins. isn't that right, WILLIAM BYERS ? shit, i guess they can't hear me over SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO by THE CLASH playing through the headphones of their walkman. it looks like they're gonna be late for STUDIO ART as a UNIVERSITY STUDENT AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON. did you know WILL has been in hawkins for TWENTY ONE YEARS ? yeah, their family and friends describe them as EMPATHETIC, but i've seen them be WITHDRAWN too ! i would also say they remind me of paint / charcoal stained hands and clothing, d&d dice slowly collecting dust, hairs standing up on the back of the neck, and passions that have been abandoned, but is that weird ? i guess nothing's too weird for this little town, huh ?
the basics
full name: william jacob byers
alias(es), if any: will the wise, the boy who came back to life, zombie boy, the spy, cleric
age: 21
date of birth: 22 march 1971
hometown: hawkins, indiana
current location: hawkins, indiana
gender: cis male
pronouns: he/him
romantic orientation: homoromantic
sexual orientation: homosexual
occupation(s): art student at indiana university bloomington, and part time worker at radio shack
the physical appearance
faceclaim: sebastian croft
hair type: wavy
hair color: brown
eye color: hazel
height: 5′8″
top five on his personal playlist
should i stay or should i go by the clash
when it's cold i'd like to die by moby
under pressure by david bowie and queen
space oddity by david bowie
let down by radiohead
the story behind him
(information subject to change, kind of lazy rn so lmao, i apologize)
born march 22, 1971, will was the son of joyce and lonnie byers, and the younger brother of jonathan byers. as a child, will was quite compassionate of others, giving a crying little girl in the sandbox at the playground his tonka truck, despite him knowing his mother couldn't afford to buy another one for him. he was also very sensitive, having nightmares from scary movies and his mother's impersonation of a witch when he was five. will was extremely close to his mother and brother, but not to his father. lonnie would say that he was queer due to will's sensitivity and interests, while also calling him slurs. because of this, jonathan became a much larger role model for him than their father. around this time, jonathan introduced will to "real music", bestowing a mixtape that included the clash song "should i stay or should i go", a song will became quite fond of. ultimately, joyce and lonnie divorced, resulting in lonnie moving out. joyce, jonathan, and will remained at their home in hawkins, indiana, along with the family dog, chester.
the day their father left, jonathan and will spend the rest of the day building a fort for will called "castle byers". they followed will's drawing of it as their blueprint. it took a long time to build due to will's incapability to hammer the nails, missing every time. despite rain beginning to fall, the brothers didn't care and proceeded to build the fort. they later had gotten sick for a week afterward.
around 1976, will started kindergarten, attending the same class with mike wheeler. mike didn't know anyone and was lonely until he noticed will alone on the swings. mike walked up to him and asked if he wanted to be his friend, to which will agreed. he eventually met lucas sinclair, due to him living close to mike.
in march of 1979 was also when will celebrated his 8th birthday. though he received many star wars toys from his friends, he was especially happy to be given a 120 crayon set by his mother. he used every crayon in the box and eventually drew a large, original spaceship he called a "rainbow ship". joyce took it with her to her job at melvald's, proudly proclaiming that her son drew it to everyone who came into the store, much to will's embarrassment. in fourth grade, around 1980, dustin moved into the neighborhood and soon joined the friend group.
will and his friends would often gather at mike's house to play dungeons & dragons; this hobby was developed as early as 1979. on one occasion while playing the game, the party had escaped into the sewers, where there were insects. the group was still on level one. will cast fog cloud and saved the whole party. the four boys had a great relationship with their science teacher mr. clarke, and they were members of the av club he ran. they would take part in the annual science fair, winning first place almost every year. on one occasion when the boys biked together, will fell off his bike and broke his finger and cried. in 1982, joyce brought him tickets to see the horror film poltergeist after changing her mind to let him see it.
