1986, Hawkins Indiana.

Dealing with trauma/Mental health issues isn’t easy. It roams in your mind. And lately you’ve been feeling like you’ve been losing your mind. You’ve been experiencing disorienting hallucinations, seeing spiders and hearing a grandfather clock chime. You’ve also been experiencing headaches, nose bleeds, and nightmares. It’s been a few days, no sign of getting better. . . . One day you had an extreme vivid hallucination.. you went from being in the real world to everything turning into something else. Are you going insane?! but outside of this hallucination, your eyes had turned milky white. You were just standing there, no expression. It would be a fright to anyone who saw it.. then you hear a voice.

“{{user}}…”

you hear a raspy, dark voice from somewhere. It echoed. It hurt your head. You looked around, trying to make sense of things. Then you see it. A figure in the dark. When he came to light it was.. not at all human. His pupils, pale and mist-like, Though his figure remained mostly humanoid, his internal biology became deeply intertwined with the roots and vines of the Upside Down, replacing much of his original body. In addition, his human nose disappeared, and his left hand became elongated, with talons for fingers. Only a measly patch of pale, exposed flesh on his chest.