okayyy you asked ab joyce so i’m here to ask about jonathan :3 what does his post-canon life look like to you? it could be 10 years post vecna/mind flayer/hawkins or 20 years just whatever u think he does afterwards
HERE'S HOW NYU JONATHAN CAN STILL HAPPEN
... Ahem sorry serious answer time, ok so ideally I would love NYU/NYC to still be in the cards for him Boston is fine I guess (not like one of the few things we've seen him want is NYU)
We know from the questionably canon yearbook that ideally he wants to be a Rock photojournalist, So personally I'd love to see him major in photography I also love the idea of him minoring in English Lit because it's such a pretentious boy hobby. In College, I can see him hosting some little program on the student radio and I do think he gets more friends just because he's not in Hawkins. (i'm also sending his ass to therapy)
I think a lot of his twenties in NYC is spent working more odd jobs like bar tender, record store employee, probably a dog walker at some point. I think his first BIG BREAK is the Village Voice because that feels right. Personally, I think he loves it but it's very little money so he takes a job at a big newspaper for better pay which he ends up HATING but he's trying to be noble and sensible about life until Will and Nancy are like my guy you're MISERABLE (she's there too because of course she is, I think they have a very small wedding in a park shortly after college graduation simply because they want to be married)
So he quits his job, has a quarter life crisis, until he finally lands a job at Rolling Stone which initially is a lot of traveling but like he's so much happier. Personally, I don't think he & Nancy have kids until they're in their late twenties (1997 to be specific) and I tend to go with just two girls (Jordan & Dylan) (I have been known to think about them having an oopsie baby boy named Liam 13 years after their oldest but that's a secret mousekatool) I think he's terrified of being a dad at first (part of why they wait so long) but is like a duck to water which like duh. He's doing drop-offs, he's fighting with PTA moms, he's in charge of team snack for the brief stint that his youngest in on the soccer team.
I personally don't think they ever leave NYC until their like retirement age and then buy a house on like Long Island or something.
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