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havntngs · 2 years ago

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[ christopher briney, cismale, he/him ] - was that LAWRENCE ‘LAURIE’ CAMPBELL i saw by the lighthouse today? i heard that the TWENTY-FIVE year old who has been in nightrest for THEIR WHOLE LIFE and works as a/an CERTIFIED NURSE ASSISTANT has a reputation of being LOYAL, but also SELF-DESTRUCTIVE. they reside in ASHMORE & people in town usually associate them with late night games that stretch to 3 a.m. best friends, cigarette smoke out an open window, ripped jeans and baggy t-shirts of musicians you love, anger and grief often masked as cold and uncaring, a feeling of love that you don’t know what to do with or how to say, a love for your sisters that you don’t know where to put, and trying to find the better version of yourself that people need you to be. let’s hope the killer doesn’t go after them next.

full name — lawrence 'laurie' campbell nickname(s) — laurie name meaning — god has helped age — twenty-five date of birth — august 31st place of birth — salem, massachusetts star sign — virgo sun, aqaurius moon, virgo rising current location — salem, massachusetts gender — cis-male pronouns — he/him sexual orientation — bisexual ( repressed ) religion — atheist occupation — certified nurse assistant education level — cna school family — ted campbell ( father ), karen campbell ( father ), tracy campbell ( sister ), holly campbell ( sister, deceased ) finances — upperclass / personal finances: help spoken languages — english, spanish

character inspos: lip gallagher ( shameless ), zuko (avatar: the last airbender), eve polastri (killing eve), cristina yang (greys anatomy), kaz brekker (shadow & bone), kat stratford (10 things i hate about you), will hunting (good will hunting), mike wheeler ( stranger things ), elliot alderson (mr. robot), scott summers (x-men), chandler bing (friends), rosa diaz (b99), jess mariano ( gilmore girls )

tw: absent parents, deceased sister, grief & mourning

if life were a movie then laurie would be the background character that says one funny line before absolutely ruining the scene. in fact, he’d say that his lines were probably cut because they just weren’t good enough. born from an upper class family laurie is unoriginal and there’s nothing that really screams, brilliance. if he were to give that title it would have been to his eldest sister, tracy, but the star that shined in their lives would have been holly.

he’s young when holly was born, young and had no idea the kind of weight that she would place on the family–and holly died too young to understand that she had been the thing to keep the entire family together. she was the glue. all of the words that he could say but it would never be enough.

it hadn’t been an easy run up of affairs. laurie was the perfect example of the middle child, too volatile to handle on best days, had his head devouring books on any piece of science that he could get his hands on. when he was asked as a kid what he wanted to be he said things like a doctor, and then an astronaut. he liked physics, quantum science, engineering. he liked knowing that there were things that could be definite, how a problem could always be fixed if he just had the right amount of calculations and even better hypotheses.

he was the captain of the science club all throughout high school, went to science camp once before he asked his mom to come and pick him up, he had a group of best friends that he loved, who came over on weekends to play games in his basement, he liked making science experiments in his backyard, he tried to be on the track team once before finding that he was better in a classroom than out in the field. his father took him hunting but gave him when he noticed his song reading a book. laurie was good at a lot of things academically, but never much so when it came to talking to other people outside of his bubble.

he liked a boy growing up but never said anything and by the time the moment came where he should he didn’t. for most of laurie’s life he always felt different from his family and what he was supposed to be. he could have been anyone, surely he was never the smartest in the room but he knew things, he could have dated people if he had just said something, he could have had more opportunities if it wasn’t his own self-preservation getting in the way. being different was dangerous—people say things, and it hurts, and it’s worse because they always mean them. it’s easy being different and hiding in the shadows than being brave and getting your heart broken.

by senior year his sister went missing, and then she died. laurie stopped caring after that. when he was a freshmen he had already planned on going to m.i.t, it was the dream school to get the dream job. he could be all the things he said he would be. but by then it didn’t matter. laurie started getting in fights, and headed down a path where he never thought he’d go. he thinks the worst part is that his parents hadn’t noticed. they only cared by the time that laurie got suspended, and acted as if laurie had become a different person overnight. when he got that m.i.t letter holly was long gone and he said that he never got accepted in the first place.

the past couple of years have been hard, and laurie has gotten all kinds of odd jobs until his mom got tired of laurie just laying around and doing nothing with his life. he thinks that it’s the first time that his mother has tried to be a mother to him. he knows that its the bare minimum, but for the moment it was nice, as if she was doing a kindness to him instead of acting out of embarrassment.

over the course of seven years he always thinks that he sees his sister somewhere. he didn’t feel the snap of her being gone, as if she were a tether to him in some way on his heart. that first year he kept telling people that she was still around, he would have felt it, to anyone that believed him. it seems unfair that his sister was here one day and then just disappeared. he remembers the way that people looked at him, when he tried to do his own investigation of her disappearance, and how sometimes he looks throughout his town still for remnants of her.

his family might have been fractured, but it just didn’t seem fair that their glue, and the one of the only people that listened to laurie and his hopes and dreams just didn’t exist anymore. he would have felt it. and the worst part, he thinks, she would be disappointed in the choices that he made after she was gone.

life goes on. laurie’s life is repetition. he doesn’t really dream anymore.

more fun stuff:

listen ,, he might be smart but he is also very Bad when it comes to people he is my cringefail son -- if you were ever friends with him he has never said i love you. not once.

honestly i'd label him as a burn out but like he's a cna but he's also like. a burn out. he could be doing more he just doesn't. and he doesn't see the point.

looking for a weed dealer :// ( it makes him anxious but that doesnt stop him sdkfnsd idiot )

honestly looking for his old bffs that he let go Due to being a Bad Friend ( not intentionally he just... doesnt deal with Things Well sighs )

still v sad abt m.i.t ngl asdkflnds he thinks abt his life as Before and After and thinks where he could have been , always assumed he'd move out of this state and Be Someone. with all the recent deaths he's Going Through It

#nightrest:intro #━━ ❛❛ // LAURIE CAMPBELL ! ¦ i’m not afraid to disappear i know the end is near . 「 about ! 」

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upsidedownism · 3 years ago

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[ christopher briney | cis male | he/him | twenty-two ] —— it’s just another typical week in hawkins i guess — isn’t that right, mike wheeler? huh, guess they can’t hear me over heart shaped box by nirvana playing on their walkman, but it looks like they’re headed to work as an arcade attendant. did you know mike has been in hawkins for his entire life? yeah, they’ve been described as a bit stubborn, but i suppose them also being unwavering outweighs the negative. i’ve also heard people say they remind them of late dnd games that stretch to three a.m. with your best friends, cigarette smoke out an open window, ripped jeans and baggy t-shirts of musicians you love, anger and grief often masked as cold and uncaring, a feeling of love that you don’t know what to do with or how to say, and trying to find the better version of yourself that people need you to be. … however, that could just be this weeks newest rumor.

character inspos: zuko (avatar: the last airbender), eve polastri (killing eve), cristina yang (greys anatomy), kaz brekker (shadow & bone), kat stratford (10 things i hate about you), will hunting (good will hunting), elliot alderson (mr. robot), scott summers (x-men), chandler bing (friends), rosa diaz (b99)

full name: michael wheeler nickname(s): mike name meaning: who is like god? age: twenty-two date of birth: april 7th place of birth: hawkins, indiana current location: hawkins, indiana gender: cis-man sexuality: bisexual (repressed) pronouns: he/him religion: atheist occupation: work at arcade palace as an attendant education level: high school financial status: he lives at home still, so he’s doing okay spoken languages: english, spanish

tws: parental neglect, mentions of grief & trauma, lots of repressed feelings. it’s implied that ted has said something unsavory abt gays but non descriptive. mentions of mike getting in fights. ( since he is aged up there’s more headcanons about his time in high school, in season 2 it’s implied that mike was getting into a lot of trouble at school and with his parents, and in season 1 we see him standing up to the bullies so i went off of that knowledge from canon and ran with it here. )

─── ➤ mike is five when he meets his first best friend, will byers, the first day in kindergarten, getting all the nerves to walk up to him on the swings asking him if he wants to be friends. it’s still the best thing that he’s ever done.

─── ➤ mike’s mom makes him bring cookies to the next door neighbours, their names are the sinclairs, and they have a son named lucas that’s mike’s age. it’s not long after mike invites him over and realizes that they have a lot more in common with each other.

─── ➤ mike’s in the fourth grade when he meets dustin henderson, and asks him if would want to sit with him and his friends for lunch. it’s the start of a beautiful friendship between the four of them.

─── ➤ mike is ten years old when he starts to realize that his parent’s marriage is not like most. or maybe it is and they just don’t talk about it. they’re arguing more, voices carry in the house, but he doesn’t think that they realize it does. and when holly comes along mike gets shoved to middle child and he doesn’t know how to talk to his parents anymore. he doesn’t know how to ask nancy if there’s something wrong with their family he always ends up saying something else. this is the catalyst for most of mike’s emotions.

─── ➤ mike is twelve the first time he starts questioning if he likes boys or not. he’s always seen girls and thought that they were pretty but has never gotten the courage to ask them to the snowball, but there’s a guy in his class that makes his stomach turn in a way that he thinks that it shouldn’t. and he can’t go to his best friends because he doesn't think that it’s all that important to talk about. and his dad says something about boys who like other boys and it’s a moot point. don’t talk about it. don’t think it.

─── ➤ mike starts acting out at thirteen, his parents blame it on growing pains. he starts getting detentions and by fourteen he’s forced to give most of his toys away despite the sentimental value because he bad mouthed a teacher to their face. he doesn't know how to tell his friends what he feels.

─── ➤ mike’s mouth has always run hot, his parents dont understand what happened to the sweet boy growing up. his friends want to know why he acts so selfish and mike doesn’t know how to tell them anything. he’s afraid that if he speaks that it just won’t stop. his parents are still arguing and sometimes he sees his dad on the couch and he thinks that this is just what a normal family does. he takes holly for ice cream and sees less and less of nancy who he felt like was the only one who could understand what it’s like growing up in a big house where no one talks to each other.

─── ➤ the bullies used to scare him growing up, but they start to look less and less scary when they say a bad word about mike’s friends to his face. by sixteen he’s earned enough punches to the face to where his parents have just stopped caring, stopped yelling at him. he doesn’t know which is worse. they say things like a lost cause, and we don’t know who you are anymore. mike can’t remember the last time that he felt like himself. and he still doesn’t say anything.

─── ➤ mike will do anything for his friends, but he doesn’t know how to tell them he loves them. he doesn’t think that he’s ever said the word love to anyone before. even if he means it. the word love is terrifying, he’s pretty sure his parents don’t love each other, that the wheeler children were in some form of an obligation. if love is an obligation then he doesn’t want any part of it.

─── ➤ mike is seventeen and his parents ask him if he’s thought about what schools he’s thinking about applying for. he doesn’t know how to tell them that he doesn’t know if he wants to go to school. he has the grades for it despite the detentions. he’s smart enough, his teachers say when they ask him why he keeps acting up. he knows that if he puts his mind to it that he could go wherever he wants, the sky’s the limit. but the choice gets made for him when will byers goes missing.

─── ➤ he’s eighteen when will goes missing. and he feels like the world is going to concave in.

─── ➤ he’s eighteen when he meets eleven.

─── ➤ his parents know that will going missing is a big deal, but they don’t understand that will is his best friend, they don’t understand that mike will move heaven and earth to find him. but they don’t pay attention enough to realize that mike has been hiding el in their basement.

─── ➤ for the first time in his life, mike feels needed. and it’s an overwhelming feeling to be needed. ( and for the next couple of years he doesn’t know how to tell people that he doesn’t feel real unless he’s needed. )

─── ➤ they fight monsters from a different dimensions that fall, and will gets found, eleven is dead, and he watches her die.

─── ➤ sometimes mike can still feel her. at least, that’s what he tells himself. he knows that it does more harm than good making himself think that she’s still alive because it’s easier than the alternative of thinking that she’s actually gone and he’ll never see her again. on day 352 after he puts the dinosaur he showed el in the donation bin he calls her again and he tells her he had a bad day, that he wishes that she were here, they all do, but mostly him. he doesn’t get an answer. he knows that he should start moving on but mike has never been able to move on from anything. he thinks he’s starting to understand what the word love means, if only because eleven is dead. and it was too late to say how he felt. mike was always too late to say how he felt.

─── ➤ he starts getting into fights with his parents, more explosive one’s. fights where mike can’t take back the words that he’s said. he doesn’t think that he can still blame it on growing pains anymore. it’s grief and anger that he’s never felt before, he knows he’s blessed in that way. but he watched his best friend go missing, assumed dead, and watch el face the demogorgon and die, and will has been acting weird and no one can tell him why.

─── ➤ things get a little better the summer of ‘85, eleven is alive and he has his best friend back. but mike ruins it by opening his mouth and lying. he could blame hopper, but he knows that if he was just honest with his feelings then he wouldn’t have gotten himself in the mess that he buried himself deep in. eleven breaks up with him and he knows it’s not the end of the world but it feels like it. it seems a bit ridiculous given that so many of his friends, including himself, have almost died more than once. but its young love, and he never thought that he was capable of falling in love in the first place. things quickly go to shit with max’s brother billy, and eleven loses her powers, and hopper is dead and it feels like the beginning of the end.

─── ➤ mike has been to too many funerals for people his age. will and eleven move away quickly after. the party starts to drift and mike gets a job at the arcade palace with max. mike knows that he’s been unfair to max. he had never handled changed well, ( and selfishly mike wants to know if people only pay attention to him because he’s always so angry ) , but that summer he starts to slowly open up because he loved el and el loved max and maybe this is one of the only ways that he can be close to her. they don’t have to say anything during their shifts and mike is starting to understand that sometimes silence like this could be companionship instead of resentment like his parents.

─── ➤ spring break is when it all goes to shit again. he’s in california and his relationship with will has changed and he doesn’t know why. ( he thinks back to it now that he could’ve called more. he could have written a damn letter, but mike had never been good at sharing his feelings and it’s been years and you would have thought he would have gotten better at it by now. ) eleven gets taken away from him again and he’s tired of people he loves always being taken away leaving him helpless. ( he’s supposed to be the leader, the paladin, why can’t he ever help the way that he wants to? )

─── ➤ mike does too much thinking in the back of the van, sitting next to will. his whole life has felt so directionless and they keep getting into these dangerous situations and he keeps being a bad friend about it. he finds himself looking over at will when he’s not looking wanting to say everything that’s been on his mind the past few years, wanting to ask if he knows where their childhood went, that this isn’t how they’re supposed to be spending the beginning of their twenties. but he knows that there are things that will doesn’t understand about mike, and so many more that mike doesn’t understand about will. he doesn’t know what to say when will gives him a painting and he cries. he thinks about reaching out to grab his hand but he doesn’t. he stares out the window and tells himself that he should say how he feels, say more than the fact that he liked it, that he’s always liked his paintings, but it feels more than that.

─── ➤ he knows it’s a bad idea from the start, but he’s never been able to tell el no before, and max is in danger and she’s the only one that can stop it. he watches the girl he loves start choking in the tub and for once in his life he actually starts to say how he feels. he loves el. he loves el and he hates that it took this long for him to say it. he doesn’t know how to tell her all the other things he loves about her he hopes that one day maybe he’ll be able to work up to all of that. love didn’t have to be an obligation and she taught him that, it was something that you choose over and over again and they’ve been through too much to let that go.

─── ➤ hawkins splits in half. the town that he thought he hated is broken and he can’t help but feel grief over the place that raised him. the place that gave him so many of his favourite people and memories. and just like before, he has no idea what to do.

HEADCANONS:

trying very hard to be a better friend and say what he means but also you know it’s still mike he absolutely has no idea how to tell people his emotions. he will literally keep it all in until he dies probably

he is still a headass but like . he’s growing. he’s evolving, he’s trying.

helped a lot during the rebuild of hawkins

close to holly tbh that’s his bestie , when his parents are fighting he takes her to get ice cream. they are always getting ice cream.

absolutely devastated that hawkins is the way that it is and has never really voiced this out loud much because like i said he keeps it to himself , didn’t realize until it was falling apart how much he loves his little town

got into mit but declined it and lied to his parents and said that he didn’t get in when he did bc will was missing

he still thinks about going to school but probably won’t for the time being.

still has no idea who the fuck he is he constantly feels like he’s going through growing pains

feels a lot of grief still??? doesn’t understand why his parents don’t understand him, we love a generational trauma cycle <3 he so badly wants to break it and be better but he doesn’t know where to start

when he was acting out in high school he started smoking and he stopped for a while because he was (temporarily) happy and now he’s back to it lmao i hate him

i have a lot of feelings abt mike but this already long so i’ll just post more headcanons separately <3 </small>

#━━ ❛❛ // MIKE WHEELER ! ¦ i’m sorry are you lonely it’s just the chemicals . 「 about ! 」#hawkinstm.intro

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