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OOC INFORMATION

Player Name: Hannah
Contact: muttonchops
Other Characters Played: None!

IC INFORMATION

Character Name: Eddie Munson
Canon: Stranger Things
Age: ~20
Canon Point: His death in 4x09, “The Piggyback”
Inventory: His garbage can lid shield and his homemade spear [ x ]

Personality Questions:

What is your character's worst fear?
Most of what we see of Eddie exists as a snapshot of him at an especially heightened level of anxiety, well above the baseline, and understandably so. He just watched a girl die, he’s wanted for murder, and he just discovered that his small town is way more cursed than he thought. He’s scared of everything, jumping at shadows, nervous, quick to label himself as a coward, beating himself up for running away.

Although he’s high-strung and hard-wired to become this person under the correct circumstances, one can assume that in his every day life, he isn’t always like this. At the end of the season, he faces his fear calmly, refusing to run away like he did the previous time. After that, what’s left to be frightened of?

I’d argue that right now, his worst fear is the chance that he might come across a situation in which he becomes that person again. Something that scares him so much that he just can’t face it and runs away again. In a word, fear itself.

Would your character ever kill someone? Under what circumstances?
Eddie is considered “scary” and a “troublemaker” in his small town. He drives too fast, sells drugs to high schoolers, plays his music too loud, plays super scary tabletop roleplaying games. Season four is largely about him being falsely accused of multiple murders, because the town believes he’s capable of it.

But Eddie is the furthest thing from scary. While he’ll poke and prod at people who think he’s doing Satanic rituals in his uncle’s trailer, he still makes a genuine effort in his life to not be the person that the town wants him to be so badly. He’s kindhearted and caring and only wants to help in any way he can, only putting his more criminal knowledge to use when it can help the rest of the group. Like his uncle says, killing “just ain’t in his nature”.

But under the correct circumstances, I believe he could kill someone. If someone he cared for deeply was in trouble and it was the only option available to him, he would do it. He wouldn’t be happy about it, it may be on impulse, and it would eat him up forever afterwards, but it’s something he could be pushed to do.

How will this character adjust to life in Syndication? Is there anything that will be particularly difficult for them?
At this point in his young life, there’s not much that can shock Eddie Munson. The last week alone has introduced him to the concepts of alternate dimensions, people with superpowers, mutant bats, and the idea of Steve Harrington actually being a pretty cool guy. He took all of that in stride and accept it in an instant, so why should Syndication be any different?

For all of Eddie’s anxiety, he’s not freaking out over the idea of these things existing, he’s freaking out over the fact that they’re scary. Chances are that he’ll throw his hands up and huff and puff that of course he died and ended up in an empty town with brand new horrors! Of course he did. Oh, look! There’s even a lake. Would hate if it had something totally freaky at the bottom which there definitely is.

That being said, he should ultimately adjust pretty well. He’s already well acquainted with the otherworldly and he comes from a freaky small town himself. Syndication doesn’t seem far off outside of the lack of locals and animals, and he should adapt socially as well. Eddie is genuinely good with people, especially the type of person who doesn’t “belong”. Eddie hates conformity and believes in just being himself, and he has a certain knack for collecting the fellow freaks, black sheep and outsiders of the world and shepherding them into a place they feel as if they can belong.

If he struggles to adjust to anything, it will be the concept of his own death. He’d essentially accepted it and chose to sacrifice himself, so having that ripped away will be a little jarring and difficult to accept.

Does this character think they are a good person?
“Good” and “bad” are terms that are a little too black and white for Eddie. Does he believe he’s a bad person? Not like…murderer bad. Does he believe he’s a good person? Well…he’s no angel. Eddie believes he’s a decent person. Sure, he sells drug to high school kids to make a living, but he also shepherds the freaks and black sheep of the world to a place where they can feel as if they belong. No one else is going to do it in small town Indiana. He pokes and prods at the type of people he doesn’t particularly like, but he has enough of a heart to stop and comfort an obviously distraught Chrissy Cunningham. He’ll hot-wire and help to steal and RV, but only when the people helping him need that skill put to use. It’s obvious from the way he speaks about it that it’s a skill he doesn’t care to use otherwise.

All that to say that the answer to his question is technically yes, but with the caveat that he acknowledges that he’s not all good. No one really is. He’s being realistic.

Powers: None whatsoever. But he does have great music taste and doesn’t that almost count?

Suitability:
Honestly, just his vibe alone. What’s a creepy borderline Scooby Doo ghost town without an anxious metalhead? Eddie got a grand total of 8 episodes in a five-season show and while he’s a fully realized character, I’d like to see how much further he can be taken in a somewhat similar setting to the one he came from. Also, like…it’s set in the 90s and I think he needs to be informed of just how much bigger Metallica got after he died…Someone tell him about how Jethro Tull beat them out for the Grammy for best metal album in 89….

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