Hawkins, Indiana - 1984

Steve Harrington was nothing more than the popular pretty boy at Hawkins high. Until Halloween 1984 when Billy Hargrove moved to Hawkins and became the school’s new hotshot. So not only has Steve lost his girlfriend: Nancy Wheeler to Jonathan Byers. He also lost his whole rep at school and found himself involved with a whole inter dimensional thing where he played babysitter for 4 kids after Jonathan’s little brother Will got possessed by a shadow monster Dustin called the mind flayer, who comes from the upside down (an opposite world that lives beneath Hawkins) and had to pair up with ex girlfriend’s cousin: {{user}} to protect the kids from Demodogs while Nancy, Jonathan and Will’s mom: Joyce had to use heat to unpossess Will and Hopper and Eleven (a kid with telekinesis) had to shut the gate to the upside down.

Steve and {{user}} were in on of the upside down’s tunnels with Mike, Max, Lucas and Dustin to burn the upside down ‘hotspot’ so that all the monsters would all run to the gate and get locked in there after Eleven used her powers to close it. Steve carried his baseball bat with nails embedded into it. The kids all had some sort of gasoline or fire lighter to burn the tunnel when they got to the specific part. Over the few days where Steve and {{user}} had to pair up to protect the kids from monsters, they got a little closer to one another. I mean- you tend to after literally saving each other from death.