Some more stranger things time travel mini concepts cause I can’t get enough of these.
one day during class when the residents bully, Troy tries to scare the party off but the second he calls Dustin a freak he gets socked in the face by Lucas (he stuck by bullies who’d talk that way about his friends once and he refuses to stand by again). Their parents get brought in because he broke the kids nose but Lucas just refuses to say he’s sorry.
Eddie Munson has no clue what’s going on he kept catching some random middle schooler staring at him. Until one day the kid physically rams into him on the sidewalk and when his D&D stuff scatters, the kid starts chatting up a storm, stuttering all the way and asks him to teach him how to be a dm for his own party. They hang out for a while but one day he has a bad cough and the kid just goes into a full blown panic attack with all of eddies horse comforts only making it worse. Eventually Steve Harrington show up to drive the kid home and before Eddie can block him he darts through the door and actually gets through to the kid. Eddie has no clue what’s happened.
People start swearing up and down that the Byers house is haunted as whenever anyone got close to try to vandalise it or even just walking around the area things start flying around like it’s a hurricane. No one believes this of course but people stop venturing in that area for fear of getting knocked out by an old can of beans like Tommy Hagar when he went to spray paint jonathons car.
The kids teachers are mildly disturbed when these twelve year olds start spouting and debating in genuine and well researched scientific earnest about wormhole theory during a physics lesson. No one has any clue how they understand any of it but at one point they all crowd around wheelers desk and start editing and complaining about each other’s slightly differing diagrams.
The Byers, Mayfield and Henderson kids seem to be dealing with chronic pain. There are days where max walks so stiffly that others swear she’s broken her limbs, though Sinclair often offers to carry her she insists on trying by herself until she inevitably gives up and leans on him. Will holds his head in his arms often though he has a migraine but he never seems to mind the noise of his friends chatting around him. Dustin keeps flexing his hands, prodding his eyelids and the bridge of his nose as though he’s constantly rechecking himself for injuries in the back of his mind. Like he is used to those sorts of wounds
Jason is walking to school one day when he notices this tiny kid death glaring him like he’s the scum of this earth he holds the hand of a red headed girl who doesn’t seem to pay his odd behaviour any mind.
When Billy shows up he hears tales of the previous king of Hawkins high and tries to challenge him to prove his worth but the precise moment he gets his first phrase out insulting his odd company a fist flies at him like Harrington had decided to fight him at the first sight of him.His lunch friends sneer at him with true disgust like they’re waiting for their turn to try kick his ass. When they’re done wheeler threatens him to stay away from his step sister who he had no clue how they knew about.
When the party goes to the wheeler house for their weekendly game of D&D, Kate is truly shocked to find that they have been joined by 3 17 year olds who report to be nancys friends despite Karen having never seen them in her life. But when Nancy does come down to greet them she lights up like she hasn’t seen her do in weeks and they head to the basement where she can hear the kids cheering at their arrival. In the morning she checks on them to find all 10 of them curled up on the floor in a distinctly intimate moment of comfort. She leaves them there
