#hey homecoming queen — ♥ — opens & starter calls

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✮ — chrissy cunningham / hey homecoming queen

( secondary canon muse | source: stranger things | main verse: pre s4 )

a study in: so good at smiling for most of your life, perfect makeup to hide what's inside, pretty popular girl, sweetheart, suburban gothic (the horrors of your picture perfect upper class life instead of the monsters most fear), god save the prom queen (he won’t), he wants you with that white picket fence (to keep you on a shelf), canary in the coal mine (sacrificing the innocent), eating yourself from the inside out (and crying yourself to sleep)

( cc1 ) class of 86

senior year! you're that much closer to some form of escape. jason will get you out of that house. he has to. he's going to go to some college on a basketball scholarship and maybe you can go with him. cheer for his team in your cute little uniform and pray to god it fits every week just like you do now. momma still says all those awful things. withholds your dinner if you look at her wrong. you eat all you're served, those tiny portions so unlike the ones given to your little brother. he's a growing boy. you're growing too. or maybe you won't grow any more. your doctor's not sure you met your full potential. frankly no one thinks you've met your full potential. everyone at school thinks you're perfect though. the pretty popular cheerleader. everyone loves you. you feel so alone. so scared too. you lost one of your friends over the summer... things start getting scarier...

( cc2 ) gold rush

fandomless senior year verse. very similar to v1 but anywhere not hawkins in particular. still a small town girl. still dealing with her parents. has more hope of freedom and seeing the world. not depending on a boy to save her.

( cc3 ) i almost jumped in

post s4 chrissy. she's technically survived (barely), spending the season in the hospital after what they assume is her dead body is discovered by the way she seems so cold to the touch. she's spent all this time tethered to vecna's consciousness in the upside down. when she wakes up from her coma / is set free from vecna, she's haunted by every atrocity she watched unable to look away or turn her mind off. tortured by the way she saw others be destroyed like she was. she's not sure why she survived. she's not sure if she did survive or if she was just somehow brought back to life.

( cc4 ) stepping with your best foot forward

fandomless college verse. chrissy's in the modern era in college as a cheerleader. that cheerleading scholarship was her ticket out of her house and other than ocassional messages to her brother, she doesn't look back after she moves out. she hopes her father finds his voice. she doesn't count on it.

( cc5 ) never grew up it's getting so old

chrissy never got out of hawkins. she's still in hawkins, still with jason carver, still having to deal with her mother. at least her mom has less influence now that she's out of the house. no upside down in this verse, just- pain. suburban gothic the horrors are the people not real monsters kind of vibes. robin comes back to town after seeing the world. chrissy never really thought she could see any possibility but the one she's gotten caught in... maybe life doesn't have to be so cookie cutter after all.