#I could tighten it up by making Steve Nancy’s ex-husband

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Help I’m taking the “all the older teens are in their late twenties in 1983” AU seriously again, even though it consists of like three ideas and a bunch of rubber bands. So far:

Nancy is a divorced single mother (of Holly) trying to eke out a career in journalism in her hometown;

She and Fred Benson are toxic work besties so she’s kind of taken on Fred’s one-sided vendetta against staff photographer Jonathan, whom he finds arrogant (not entirely unfair) and lazy (pure bullshit);

Will is the son of Jonathan and Chrissy, conceived and born when they were teen runaways at the same sketchy hippie commune in the early 1970s, but they haven’t seen each other since Will was a baby because Chrissy’s parents basically kidnapped her and she was too scared to tell them she’d had a child and she went back to a “normal” life, shortly afterwards Joyce managed to track down Jonathan (who’d run away from Lonnie while she was hospitalized for a nervous breakdown) so he just went back to Hawkins with a baby and a bunch of alienating experiences. Hugely traumatic all around, and now Chrissy has moved to Hawkins with her husband Jason.

Steve is dating Nancy but also going through a whole Company thing.

I don’t know if the UD exists or if other genre-y stuff is happening or if it’s just a very tonally weird romantic comedy.