Emerson Anne Buckley is 18 years old, and she's not going to stay in Hawkins, Indiana for the rest of her miserable life. She has much bigger aspirations: ballet school in Chicago, being invited to dance for the New York City Ballet, and moving her way up to principal dancer. She'll become a success story-someone her younger sister, Robin, and their parents can be proud of. However, the best laid plans too often fall apart. When Em's dreams are shattered and it's looking like she'll be forced to stay in a life she doesn't feel she fits into, she becomes listless. To make matters worse, she stumbles into something really, really dangerous the summer after her senior year of high school. Something deadly. Something monstrous. Emerson Anne Buckley is 18 years old, and she may die in Hawkins, Indiana. *** COVER BY: me! Post-Stranger Things S2-ST5 Steve Harrington x OC (very very veeeery slowburn) Started: 06/30/25 Completed: ??/??/?? *** DISCLAIMER: THE RIGHTS TO ST BELONG TO NETFLIX, THE DUFFER BROS, AND UPSIDE DOWN PICTURES. I JUST OWN EMERSON, HER FRIENDS, AND ANY OTHER ORIGINAL PLOTLINES YOU SEE!

UNDERWORLD | ❝One summer can change everything.❞ Cath, Daphne and their friends are in for a 1985 they will never forget. The tides of change are rocking their lives, as the inevitability of growing up dawns on them. Childhoods packed away, the summer tastes bittersweet as they try to live under the sunshine and forget their worries. But it's a summer to change everything. Friendships, love and loss. Even the very weight of the world. It seems the Upside Down cannot be outrun, especially as it invades the lives of the townspeople more viciously and personally than ever... can anyone make it out without being forever changed? ( extended summary inside ) stranger things: season 3 | multiple OCs & ships BOOK 3 of THE HAWKINS REJECTS SERIES © starryeyedturtle

girls like us don't get to choose our battles. STRANGER THINGS [ ˢ¹ ⁻ ˢ³ ] [ multiple ocs ] [ started : july 27 2020 ] [ published : january 14 2021 ] [ ended : n/a ] stunning cover by -trilxgy © kamalaskhan

WHISTLEBLOWER | ❝It only gets stranger.❞ Hawkins has never looked back on the events of November 1983. They know the surface-level story. 'The boy who came back to life.' Will Byers is alive and well, while the futile search for Tonya McCarthy and Barbara Holland continues. But for Cath, Daphne and their friends, their reality is quite different. Hidden under shady confidentiality agreements are secrets of dark human experiments, other dimensions and the lost souls in there. By the November of 1984, a year later, there is barely anything left inside them to be eaten up by guilt. It is only a matter of time before cracks start to show... ( extended summary inside ) stranger things: season 2 | multiple OCs & ships BOOK 2 of THE HAWKINS REJECTS SERIES © starryeyedturtle

PARANORMAL | ❝Nothing is stranger than believing.❞ Cath knows a thing or two about Will Byers. Daphne, on the other hand, knows virtually nothing about Tonya McCarthy. Still, none of that changes the fact that both of them have up and vanished within days of each other, sparking unprecedented concern in their sleepy little town. Hawkins will never be the same, that's for sure... but was it ever that simple? Was it ever as comfortably predictable as Cath preferred it, or as painfully mundane as Daphne made it out to be? Piece by piece, the sisters may be proven wrong as the missing persons lead the trail to a case much larger - a head-splitting world of secret government experiments, inter-dimensional monsters and telekinetic powers. ( extended summary inside ) stranger things: season 1 | multiple OCs & ships BOOK 1 of THE HAWKINS REJECTS SERIES © starryeyedturtle