Student at Hawkins High School and the idiosyncratic leader of the Hellfire Club, a fringe school society oriented around D&D. He is an electric guitar player, friend of Dustin, Lucas, and Mike. His mother Elizabeth died of an illness, father Alan taught him how to hotwire vehicles from a young age. He moved with his uncle Wayne in a trailer. Full-on nonconformist metalhead. Initially came off as intense, pushy, scary but was revealed to be kind, open-minded, comforting, and a jokester.