#au where they don't forget after leaving derry

[kingdowager]

college age reddie!! they should've been at the club (together) saw posts for the reddiesance 5 year anniversary and had to draw them. rotating them in my mind

[firstmatedville]

Okay i wanna expand on this au so:

- the event of IT take place in 1985 and the events of ST2 take place in 1987 instead of the canon timelines, which place the losers at around 15 when Jane finds Kali

- three months after defeating IT and bev leaving, the remaining losers are struggling to settle back to normal in Derry and they're all thinking it but it isn't until Richie makes a joke about running away that they all realise it's what they want to do

- so they pool all their money together because they can't stay in this town a moment longer and leave in the dead of night, spend half their money on bus after bus trying to get as far away from Derry as possible

- and once they've eaten that much into their money they figure they have to stay put for a while, and they sleep rough until Kali comes across them and is like "hmm these kids probably need help"

- Axe is mad because wtf they don't need a bunch of kids around but they prove themselves pretty quickly and how the fuck did these children learn to fight so well

- and they just end up staying? It wasn't planned but it happens. The six losers start to slowly forget about IT and it scares them a lot but it gets to the point where they can't remember Derry much at all so why would they want to go back?

- but Ben can't forget about Beverly. And then by some fucking miracle, this kid who Kali calls her sister turns up with the batshit crazy ability to find people, and Ben might just have a chance

- so Jane finds Beverly, and everyone's memory of her is fading by the day and Richie can't even remember what colour her hair was at this point so they have no time to spare and they take Jane, who wants to find Mike but at the same time wants to help these boys who treat her like a sister, and they find Bev.

- at first she doesn't remember them, and it may be down to the fact that they're two years older and have been thrown headfirst into the whole Street Punk Look, but Stan shows her their palms and so many memories come rushing back

- they take Jane back to Hawkins and there's no Richie/Mike scene but jane tells them how much her friends would love them and how much she'll miss them and Don't Forget Me Too Okay and there's tears but they say goodbye and they go back to their gang, taking one Miss Beverly Marsh the whole way with them because why would she want to be anywhere else but with her boys?

- the Losers being a group of badass survivors on the streets protecting themselves from the world because this may not be Derry but they've learnt that if they want to survive they have to do it together

Stranger things/it crossover where Kalis gang includes the losers club, a bunch of kids who turned up one day and told her they needed somewhere to stay and who have clearly been through some bad shit so she let’s them cause hey, they might be useful and they fit right in