A new HC, and something i'd like to attempt to draw at some point: Billy with powers
Post season 3, after being flayed, billy comes back with powers. But unlike Eleven, who projects her powers outwardly, Billy is faced with the problem of needing to reign them in.
It takes Eleven a surge of emotion to blast her powers outwards and push enemies away.
Billy suddenly finds himself with an invisible forcefield around him, and anybody who enters it begins to crumble and shatter and disappear.
The party can't figure it out. He looks calm. When they speak to Billy, he sounds calm. He behaves calmly and speaks leveled and evenly, but the forcefield stays like a fuck-you bubble all around him.
Until Billy breaks down.
When he cries, when he starts yelling at all of them and asking why they didn't help him, when he lets the reality of what he did to all of those people boil to the surface, Billy's forcefield lowers, and finally, people can touch him.
The force of smothering all his emotions, of burying everything down deep inside of him, creates its own little chernobyl in Billy's heart. It erupts out of him. Kills everything it touches. He'd been doing it for as long as he could remember that it just became his default, like a toxic mould creating noxious gasses that stopped anyone from touching him.
The bubble doesn't pop until Billy starts to emote, to feel. It's only when Billy lets himself feel that he gains control.
