#jopper headcanon

[harringroveera]

Joyce: Well? Can we keep him?

[lorax-devito]

jopper headcanons (before s4 happened bc then jopper canon and all that but after s1)

hopper sees Joyce struggling to bring groceries to the car and runs over to help her

hopper helping Joyce when she’s low on money

Joyce giving hopper a card and flowers on his daughters birthday

El randomly asking hopper if Joyce is her mom in his cabin and hopper spitting out his drink and rushing to the Byers house wheezing ‘WHY DOES EL THINK YOUR HER MOM’

Joyce going up to hopper cabin around s3 time and teaching hop how to cook for el

[elhopper1sm]

Jopper x GN! Reader

Content warning: Large age gap (early twenties reader),mentions of food , eating, and substance usage. Reader has parental trauma.

Sleeping was always a hassle. Hopper managed to get enough money to get a large enough second bed to hold the three of you comfortably

Joyce was a major insomniac. Trying to get her to sleep at night was awful. She'd wake up in a cold sweat and be terrified. She didn't like disturbing anyone. So she'd usually stay in the bathroom or living room reading or playing crossword puzzles to keep herself occupied and not disturb anyone

Hopper always had a beer before sleeping. You could hear him snore as you slept on his chest drifting asleep slowly as you listened to the sound of your heart beat

Hopper always needed a large breakfast before work. You didn't know how to cook very well so you'd ask Joyce for help and she'd reassure you when you were feeling needy or insecure about not knowing what to do. She only had coffee for breakfast but you constantly told her she needed to eat more.

"I'm fine. I just need the coffee for work" She'd constantly but you'd get worried

Putting your clothes to dry in a separate room so they don't smell like cigarette smoke. It was an insecurity of yours

Hating being yelled at. Absolutely terrified you. Hopper was slightly more insensitive about it. But he got more aware as time went on.

Joyce was more mindful of your fear of having someone older yell at you. She'd hand you a stuffed animal and then let you rock yourself back and forth without thinking it was weird

They drank quite a bit. You spent a considerable amount of money on alcohol. You all tried to be mindful of how much you drank. But it was a serious problem for Joyce and Hopper

Reading with Joyce. It was the best feeling in the world. She was so sweet and she'd stroke your hair as she held you in her arms

Watching TV with Hopper was nice he'd tell the weirdest jokes and complain about everything humanly possible.

Fixing cars with Hopper and doing home repairs. He taught you everything he knows about home repairs and Joyce always made you bring a first aid kit in case you got injured

They both absolutely need to greet you before and after work and get frustrated when you don't.

Learning how to make special protein waffles for El so she can get as many nutrients as she can from her diet of Eggos and milk.

Will absolutely adore you. Mostly because you're not intimidating and demanding. You don't act like you have complete authority over him.

Jonathan takes forever to warms up to you but after a while. Seeing how absolutely smitten with you he warms up to and he being around his age really makes him like you more you understand hes a teenager and he needs spce you don't pressure anything out of him.

Finding out El has superpowers freaks the fuck out of you. But also scares you because what it means for her the constant worry she might be taken advantage of. You keep a shotgun on you at all times that Hopper taught you how to use

Hopper taking you to the shooting range is one hell of an experience. He has you keep a handgun on you at all times

Joyce and you team up with El and Will to convince which basically means beg Hopper to let the family get a cat. You both succeed

Turning down Joyce's puppy dog eyes is basically impossible.

[beep-beep-robin]

joyce byers would scream along to „the smallest man who ever lived“ and hopper would join in in a slightly scared but supportive way after hearing her from the other room and coming over to check on her, i just know it

[gayofthefae]

What was Joyce's conversation with Owens like? Like Sam "Mom? Pop?" "You two been together long?" Owens

"So we've setup your house, got the kids enrolled in school for the fall, how do we wanna say that you and 'Jane' are related? This is going to permanent so I think adoption is fi-"

"Step-daughter"

"Okay...you weren't married though."

"Well, I mean...you can do that, though, right? Like pull whatever legal strings, just write it down?"

"Well, yes, but-"

"Great! I'll go tell the kids. Thanks, Owens!"

[r4bbitman]

My best friend who's never seen Stranger Things talking about the characters 😭😭

[queenie-ofthe-void]

Re-reading Gideon the Ninth and can't help but make it Stranger Things (based on vibes)

Spoilers for The Locked Tomb

Second House: Necro Joyce and Cav Hopper

Space cops. Close with the Third, Fourth, and Fifth houses.

Third House: Necro El and Cavs Max & Lucas

Personalities do not match their book counterparts AT ALL. But I like Elumax together, and everyone would think Max would be a necro too for how strong El is.

Fourth House: Necro Will and Cav Mike

Near inseparable. Fraternal relationship with the Fifth.

Fifth House: Necro Nancy and Cav Jonathan

Very parental-sibling like responsibility for the Fourth. Their strengths are historical research and asking the right questions.

Sixth House: Necro Dustin and Cav Robin

All brains, sass, and loyalty. Brutally efficient, and are the first to get the Ninth to open up. Alliances with the Ninth.

Seventh House: Necro Tommy and Cav Carol

I mean... this is practically my favorite stommy with jealous steddie trope I HAD to put it in here.

Eighth House: Necro Jason and Cav Billy

Self explanatory. Deep hatred of the Ninth. Religious zealots and bigots.

Ninth House: Necro Eddie and Cav Steve

Our main characters! Everyone thinks they're a cult. Difficult to get along with at first, but fiercely loyal and underestimated by the upper houses. Golden eyes and black eyes. Eddie knows puzzles and Steve knows people. Iconic weapons. Self-sacrificing. Extremely bitchy. One cannot die and the other becomes a monster who forgets who they are.

We do bones, motherfucker!

[mynameis-noe-body]

Okay so — time for Stranger Things' Headcanon: dad Jim Hopper edition.

James "Jim" Hopper was born around 1941/42, follow me on this. He went to school with Joyce, same year, right? And we know they are around 40 in Season 1 — it's 1981/82.

Let's say he left for Vietnam right out of high school, he's barely 18, just a boy. But he spends five of the worst years of his life fighting in a foreign country, breathing shit and stuff. He's 22 when he comes back — 1964.

Joyce gets married the same year, to Lonnie. They are definitely not going to be happy, and Jim knows that. They have been friends, good friends years before. So, he's not really surprised to find about his old friend unhappy marriage. They spend and awful lot of time talking about that, but there's nothing she can do, come on — she's a young woman, just married and even though she fights her husband every day she still believes there's something that may be saved. That's when she gets pregnant with Jonathan — 1966.

Jim is 24, he just started into Hawkins Police and damn, the uniform dresses him good. Chicks look at him, and he likes that, he can't deny. At the same time, things for Joyce keep getting harder.

Things go slowly and difficult, and even boring sometimes. Nothing really ever happens in Hawkins. And people talk — better saving the appreance, right?

It's 1967 when, one summer night, Joyce is exhausted. Lonnie hasn't come back yet, and she knows she won't see him before Monday night, that's just how her weekends usually go. She's lonely, and tired, Jonathan is finally sleeping and she need a break. Jim calls to check on her, just to say hi or something. She invites him over. "God, I need a beer and a cig, Jim. You don't know how tired I am."

He comes later, six cold beers and a pack of cigarettes. (Maybe even some weed, for old time sake.)

They drink, and smoke. And laugh. And smoke, and drink. They don't know exactly how it happens, but it happens. They wake up still half naked on the couch next morning and they swear it was just one night, and they'll forget about it. He leaves, and life goes on.

Lonnie comes back home, Jim meets his wife some time later. And when he gets married, they live on the other side of Hawkins for some time, before New York. It's not a big city, and somehow the two of them just slowly becomes... strangers. Up to the point she doesn't even know...

And surely he cannot imagine Joyce's pregnant.

She keeps telling herself the baby's Lonnie's. It cannot be another way around. In 1968, she has a girl.

Jim is 38 when he comes back to Hawkins — it's 1980. He hates to watch the happy family; he knows Joyce isn't happy at all, but that girl. Sarah would have been 9 and Joyce's girl is just a little older, a 12 years old spitfire. Funny little thing, she is. And she hates her father to the guts. Everytime she can, she leaves the house, running into the woods. Her older brother tries to keep her but it's just — she's wild. A little rebel.

When Jim finds her the first time, running all alone in the street, crying an ocean, he immediately recognizes her. Jim takes her to the Benny's Burger, gets her a hot dog and fries, and a coke. She keeps talking, and talking, and talking — about her family, school and all the things no one in her family seem to care about ("Lonnie's fighting with Johnny, and mom's fighting with Lonnie and no one ever see me. This is good, can you buy me more sometime?")

He feel in love that night. He didn't get to be a father to Sarah... but she desperately needs one. So he talks to Joyce and keeps telling her it's alright. "Listen, that's a mess, I can see that. But I'm glad to help. If your daughter needs a safe place... just, you know where to find me."

And she does find him. The girl spends half of her nights at Jim's, mostly when her father comes home drunk enough to take it out on her, too. Jonathan is tough — he really doesn't want to deal with an old Chief, nor to be saved from his own father. But she's just a child.

Jim buys a VHS player. And a second toothbrush. She is small enough to take the couch. He can't cook to save his life, but finds out he's willing to learn — she can't eat pizza every fucking night, for god's sake. He helps her with math homework. Teachers are used to him coming to pick her up at school.

She calls him dad at school, speaking to her classmates. They know her as the Chief's daughter. Joyce doesn't mind explaing, she's done with keeping the appearance. "Jim is my dearest friend" she says, buying grocieres at the store, her youngest running around the shop, showing her the last pack of coloring pencils he wants for his next birthday. "He's always been there for my girl, and she just loves him like a daughter would."

He calls her peach. She's fine with it. And she should be at that age where kids get embarrassed by their own parents, but she jump out of his Hawkins Police pick-up with such pride before entering school — he couldn't be happier about that.

He lectures her about that danger of drugs, and alcohol and boys at the beginning of her first high school year. Now she's embarrassed. "I'd rather talk with mom about that, if you don't mind..." he nods, silently. "But thanks anyway, I love you too, dad."

It's the first time she said that. Jim doesn't get any sleep that night. He hadn't realize just how much he cared about her — it wasn't a matter of blood anymore, she was his daughter. Not Sarah, not a sort of surrogate for his own loss — his kid. She was her own person and he loved her.

He teaches her to drive. But she definetly improves with Jonathan, he can't be really patient about it.

She loves her brothers, really — they are just different. Like, there is something, somewhere... she can't wrap her head around it, but it's there. They are family just not the same family, perhaps. There is Joyce in her eyes, and in her smiles, but nothing of Lonnie. Even though she can see his nose on Jonathan's face, and his lips on Will's. The way he used to walk, bouncing around just like Johnny does. And the way he used to hums rock music, sometimes — just like Will's habits. She does not. None of this. She's quiet, and loves old movies, and checkered shirts, and coffee. No coffee in the Byers house, but tons of it in Jim's trailer.

And it all comes around when she gets a fever. Appendicites. Joyce and Jonathan rushes her to the hospital, they call him from the public phone. "Peach's getting operated right now — please, can you come?"

He's never left the Police station faster. And the doctors say they need blood — "Type 0 is rare. We don't have any bags available at the moment, but she needs a transfusion to recover as quickly as possible" the doctor explains.

Thank god Jim's there because the next day, when she opens her eyes, she asks about him too. He's slept in the hospital room, Joyce says, in case she woke up. But then, the doctor delivers the complete blood tests. They made sure about blood type compatibility and everything else, even though it was predictable — after all, she is his daughter.

And that's where all the knots come home to roost. Jim turns pale. He and Joyce exchange an eloquent look. He swallows. "My daughter — sure, but you mean that I... that we..."

Everything goes back to that 1967 summer night, to those beers, a joint shared on the sofa. Life couldn't get any stranger, right?

[oliveramblesalot]

i’m currently making a stranger things overwatch slideshow and i am having so much fun, i’ll post it when im finished

[foreverautumn89]

@rainingongallifrey

Stonathan at the Jopper wedding, Stonathan proposal and Stonathan wedding I talked about doing is just headcanons just to remind you. I don't want to disappoint if you expect a story and its just headcanons. Don't hate me.

🫣

PS: Also working on the family camping trip that includes Stonathan/Stoncy/Jancy which is one major factor in what is taking the wedding ones so long to post. Plus there is a lot going into the weddings ones and Lonnie shows up to start shit so of course its taking longer.

[thecharliechip]

My ST sexuality headcanons and ships!

Sexuality HC's:

Steve:

(Demisexual, Demiromantic, Bisexual)

Eddie:

(Gay,Aroace)

Max:

(Bisexual, Polyamorous)

Mike:

(Gay/MLM) Eleven:

(Lesbian, Aroace)

If someone isn't here I don't have a sexuality head cannon or they already have a cannon sexuality.

Ships:

(OBVIOUSLY BYLER <33)

I ship El and Max and also Lucas and Max but not El and Lucas. Does that make sense?

I love them but I also think Nancy is pretty independent!

And of course I ship these two!

Who doesn't ship them?

It's such a funny ship idk I just see so many funny posts that have gotten me to fall in a rabbit hole

[elhopper1sm]

I am a Hopper is a massive sub in the bedroom truther. Like outside hes all tough and likes to take control. But this man loves bossy women. Like absolutely adores bossy women. Like he is obsessed with femdoms. Like behind closed doors he just loves being submissive and being bossed around. I feel like this is canon. I may be wrong but I have a feeling

[dwobbitfromtheshire]

The image in my head of the family dinners at the Hopper Byers once Hopper finds out that Steve is his biological son. It's funny if Nancy broke with Jonathan, Hopper's adopted son, only to get back with Steve, his biological one. The awkwardness of Hopper inviting Steve and his new girlfriend over, not knowing it's Nancy. The awkward silence is what's funny, and Joyce is just trying her hardest to start the conversation between them all. Meanwhile, El and Argyle are happily talking, not realizing there's any tension at all because they're too invested in their own conversation, but also, Joyce still doesn't know that Jonathan is actually high but Hopper does though.

[catherineav]

putting it out into the world that my inbox is open to stranger things headcanons especially Jancy and Jopper and Hopper-Byers fam.

we love a collaborative headcanon session okay?!

[jazy3]

I have this headcanon that the reason Hopper hasn’t apologized to Marissa the librarian or any of his other one night stands is because he was trying to get a date with Joyce and didn’t want to give them the wrong impression. I’d love to see some kind of follow up on that post-saving the world in Season 5 when it’s well established that he and Joyce are together publicly. Like maybe he brings them flowers and apologizes?

[everly98]

Evelyn Rigby Bauman

“Hi there! My name is Evelyn Rigby, a sixteen-year-old girl from Chicago with a rather unconventional background. I happen to be the biological daughter of Murray Bauman, who, despite his eccentric and sometimes foolish nature, is my father. Unfortunately, after the death of my biological mother, I found it challenging to accept him as a father figure.

So, I temporarily moved in with the Byers family, Joyce and Jim Hopper, and their three children: Jonathan, Will, and Jane. Jane, in particular, always amazed me with her childlike wonder, as if she had been sheltered from the world. Staying with them helped me cope with my grief and adjust to my new reality. It also introduced me to their group of friends.

I'm an introverted teenager who prefers a more masculine look, sporting jeans and oversized t-shirts. Despite my initial aloofness, I'm actually a highly sensitive and compassionate person. I despise all forms of bullying, discrimination, and inequality. You could say I'm a bit of a feminist.

I find solace in Gothic and classic English literature (although I secretly enjoy romance novels too). I love playing the bass, reading comic books, pulp novels, and superhero stories. I have a slight fascination with crystals, particularly amethyst. When it comes to music, I'm into classic rock from the '60s and '70s, but I have a soft spot for ABBA and a passion for karaoke.

My all-time favorite movie is the cult classic musical, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," and I have a crush on the English actor Tim Curry. However, my true weakness lies in ghost stories and haunted houses. I can't get enough of them.

So, that's a little glimpse into who I am, Evelyn Rigby. An introspective and sensitive teenager who loves diving into the realms of music, literature, and the supernatural.”