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OOC: assume a 100% chance of Stranger Things spoilers in the comments.

[ What's up, network at large? ]

So, after that disaster, I just have a question: Is anyone here from an actually normal, at least relatively not messed up, kind of place?

[ Honestly a serious question. Brought to you by someone from an absolute dumpster fire of a town. ]

Because aside from being home to everything in every HP Lovecraft story apparently, where I'm from is where dreams and ambition go to die, in the makeshift graveyards of its flat lands and corn fields. It's really great if you're looking for a quiet small town to raise a nuclear family and mind the business of everyone except yourself. Oh, and you'd better have an easily malleable attitude about it and enjoy your new home of a suffocating box, otherwise if you show even a hint of personality that doesn't fit into that idea — forget it, you're so screwed.

[ Is someone finally getting mad enough about her own suffocating box? MAYBE SO. This is how she's trying to light it on metaphorical fire. mic drop, truth bombs deployed, et cetera. ]

Which almost makes me wonder if the cosmic horrors are actually worse than everything else about it. [ It should at least be very close. ]

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[ she's never going to look at rats the same way now. she'd gotten some details from Billy -- not in depth and not much, of course -- but enough that those pieces now fully fit.

She almost wonders if she needs to be asking be asking who hasn't been possessed by something in some form (it might explain a lot), or how there's nothing to apparently stop that side effect. Because, if there's creepy science about alternate dimensions, there should be creepy science for anti-possessions tools. ]

And I guess that's how the mall became no more - once you guys were on to them, they had to cover their tracks and run back to Russia, because they got embarrassed by mostly high school badasses?

[Yeah, Robin probably wouldn't either, and she'd only heard of it second hand.]

Not exactly. See, that thing made a thirty foot monster, the Mindflayer like we fought on the other side of the portals here. It used Billy to try and get to the girl with powers. Dustin and Erika, they got us out, and we tried to escape the mall but the Russians were trying to stop us. And we got saved by the girl.

That's when the other showed up. They had been stalked by Billy to get the girl, and her powers were beyond strained so she couldn't defend us or her from the creature. But Hopper and Joyce Byers went underground into the base and were going to blow the gate stuff up, which is what ultimately destroyed the mall. And the creature was killed when the gate was destroyed.

[She sighs and looks down at her hands then.]

Before the end, El broke Billy out of possession, as he was trying to feed her to it. I don't know how. But he stood up. He faced it. He... tried to stop the thing. It...

[It killed him. Robin's shaking. She remembers it. The way he screamed his defiance. The way he had bled out. The way Max had shouted in grief. It was so bad. It was so damn bad. And Robin wanted to cry.]

The military came in then. They got us all out. They made sure the fire took the rest of it after.

Remind me not to not get on the wrong side of someone with anything in the mind powers realm. [ Again, more accurately. She's done it once already. ]

For what it's worth, it sounds like you all handled it the best you could with what you had at the time. [ It doesn't fix what happened, or anything like that, but sometimes the reminder is good. She also is still holding on to a few questions, about things that happened after she had her Vecna encounter, but they'll get there. Right now Robin looks like she needs a massive hug before any more talking. ] Do you take hugs?

It definitely wasn't your fault, Chrissy. You weren't reasonable to be targeted.

[But that's not all of it. That's just leading up to Chrissy's involvement.]

We thought we had it stopped then. Billy was dead, despite our best attempts. But we had peace, finally. Steve and I bonded, the Byers left for safety for Will, and so many other things happened because we thought we'd get to live our life again.

[Which hadn't happened.]

We didn't know anything was wrong until... What happened to you.

[ She hopes they do get to have that break back home sooner rather than later. A permanent break from all the weird shit, a chance to do what they want and not worry about what shoe is dropping next. ]

Definitely a 'going from zero to one hundred' kind of way to figure out something's off again. Sounds like that's The Hawkins Way now, which still isn't fair to you all.

[ It had been worse for them than her. She only had to deal with it for a few minutes before she died and didn't have to worry about anything any longer; they had who knows how long after to still deal with the bullshit. And in fact are still dealing with it back home. ]

Maybe a weird question, but I have to ask.. how you all dealt with Jason and whatever group he surely gathered up, because it sounds like he made everything more of a pain in the ass for you all than not. Steve's exact words about him were him going ‘completely psycho’, which isn't new - so I have no reason to disbelieve him, but still. I definitely missed that part, so I have to assume it was pretty quickly after my whole dying to a psychic monster thing. We just didn't really have the time to elaborate further, but I'm also guessing that means something to the effect of he either didn't like any explanation about Hawkins's weirdness over the years but still decided the best idea was to go find and fight a murdering, powerful psychic monster on his own with something as useless against it as a firearm probably is. Or wouldn't hear one, and instead tried to get the police to follow you guys around on suspicion of being batshit crazy by inciting panic or something.

[ Both of those would fit the description of ‘completely psycho’, she's pretty sure. ]

Basically, I'd never be okay with myself if I didn't ask which brand of completely psycho you guys unfairly got from my more direct circle, because they have no chill, among other things, like the inability to have decent personalities.

[ There's a lot of flawed logic ("logic") for once here in her attempt to piece together more stuff. For starters, she can't help but feel like whatever it was that they'd been subjected to had been both partially her fault (because if she didn't die, then they wouldn't have had to deal with it in the first place), and partially on her to answer for because of her associations with said group (some sort of guilt by association type of thing), and also partially to make sure she's able to show she's really not as much of a loose cannon as the group she's hung around with for the past few years or assumed to be as such. She'd hate if that reputation clung to her too. And secondly, the reason she didn't guess the obvious one out of the ‘completely psycho’ scenarios is she's assuming that when you get killed by a thing like that -- which on top of something like Vecna being something that exists to begin with, is ALSO from a nightmare alternate version of Hawkins -- your body probably doesn't exist anymore in the real world because of ✨✨weird magic bullshit✨✨. And the fact that Hawkins has had a missing people problem anyway over the last few years, so what's another one in that long list? They're always assumed dead, and sometimes do turn up actually dead later. So of course it could happen with her too. ]

[Oh god. Robin doesn't want to talk about this part. This is the worst part. She'd been intending to brush over it.]

Chrissy... You were attacked in Eddie's trailer. He ran off screaming in fear, so you were found the next day by his Uncle. And the cops did the cop thing and also interrogated your boyfriend.

How do you think Jason reacted? Especially given how most people at school see Eddie and his club? Especially given no one would ever believe you were there to buy drugs?

[It was a witch hunt of the worst sort. And Jason... didn't survive it.]

Honestly? I had some hope that death by weird supernatural horrors meant your body just kind of. Vanished. Probably into whatever hell dimension the thing came from, since Hawkins is apparently a sci-fi movie where no one alive or dead catches a break now.

[ Now it's her turn for another drink. ] Definitely would have been worth every broken bone in my hand to punch him in the face for being like that about it, though. [ She's just saying. The him in question being Jason, obviously. ]

Here's hoping for the future, you guys befriend someone who can communicate with the dead so that any future mysteries of missing or murdered people of Hawkins doesn't turn into even more of a mess. [ Look, with all the weird things going on there, coming across someone with that ability probably isn't THAT far fetched as far as potential possibilities go. ]

Sadly no. Well, apparently in the first year or two yes, because they were hauling people into the upside down. But that wasn't what happened with you and the others. So Eddie had to hide from the town, but especially from Jason and the basketball team.

[And it nearly got Max killed. Had likely helped get Eddie killed. It was bad.]

And it's not even over yet.

Given the options, I think the first one would have been better. They're both terrible, but.. [ she means in the sense if it HAD to be one or the other for her, she would not have picked the way it went for her. ]

So what happens when it is? Over. And I guess I mean for you specifically — [ since Robin is the one she's taking to right now, she's the one she asks about ] — because you better be telling me your plans are to move far away and never look back. [ somewhere she can be okay and away from everything that had happened there. ]

I don't know.

[Robin sighs and shakes her head.]

Sort of hard to think about the future when the world is falling apart around you. When people are dying. When you don't know how anything is going to work. Plus I can't afford to move, not without college. And leaving Steve behind would be hard.

Also totally fair. [ It's not like there's an answer that's clearly 'right' or clearly 'wrong' with the question. ] I think it'd be the only thing keeping me sane, thinking about what to do after, just any shred of positivity or hope in a situation so lacking of it.

[ When you're not accidentally on team 'ignorance is bliss', that is. ]

I suppose we haven't really thought about it really ending. Not yet. Until we stop Creel, I don't think I can think about the future.

[And will she after? She doesn't know.]

As long as it involves scenarios as far away from that one as possible, I'll hope you get whatever that one is. [ She quickly smiles; if anyone deserves the good ending of whatever fresh hell the universe is tossing at them, it's everyone left in Hawkins. ] At least I guess there's this place? When it's not having said stuff follow you here. [ what a caveat. ]

There is this place.

[A place where she can see Chrissy, and Max isn't in a coma, and Eddie is alive. Small things that add up to a lot.]

Yeah, when it's not following. Which was so bullshit. But hey, I reinforced my throwing arm, right?

[ small things really do add up. for better or worse, but thankfully at least in this case, it's for better. ]

Your throwing arm will be unstoppable now, so watch out, everyone. [ She nods slightly. ] Remind me to hide behind you next time if that happens again. [ mostly joking. ]

Hide behind me?

[Robin looks really flustered by that statement.]

Uh, you might be better with Steve for that. He's really good at fighting.

What? You just said it! And nope, no take-backs, I'll take a reinforced throwing arm over a bat if I had a choice. [ this seems like better logic to her ok. ]

Yeah, I guess. Because I'm further back. But if it comes up again, I'll do my best to help protect you.

[Because in her books it's as simple as that.]

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