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𝕿𝕳𝕰 𝕮𝕽𝕰𝕰𝕷 𝕭𝕬𝕾𝕿𝕬𝕽𝕯
𝕿𝕳𝕰 𝕮𝕬𝕾𝕿 & 𝕶𝕬𝕴𝕹𝕰 𝖁𝕴𝕮𝕿𝕺𝕽 𝕮𝕽𝕰𝕰𝕷
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"I'm not the monster they think I am. But I'm not sure I'm anything else either."
Kaine Byers has a secret that could destroy everything.
Adopted by Joyce Byers at age eight, Kaine has spent years running from a past he can't fully remember-a past filled with white rooms, endless tests, and a man who told him he was a monster. Hawkins knows him as "the Creel bastard," the dangerous kid with dead eyes and a hair-trigger temper. What they don't know is that Kaine is Subject 010, one of Brenner's most powerful experiments, blessed and cursed with abilities that make him stronger than even Eleven.
When a strange girl with a shaved head and the number "011" tattooed on her wrist stumbles into his life, everything changes. Jane-Eleven-is achingly familiar in a way Kaine can't explain. Their connection is instant, electric, and impossible to ignore. Together, they share memories of a place called Hawkins Lab, of pain and fear and friendship forged in darkness.
But as Hawkins falls prey to forces from another dimension, Kaine's carefully buried past begins to surface. Nightmares plague him-visions of a blonde man with cold eyes who whispers that they're family, that Kaine is special, that he's destined for something greater than protecting insignificant humans. When the truth finally emerges, it's worse than Kaine ever imagined:
He's the nephew of Henry Creel. Vecna. The monster trying to destroy everything Kaine loves.
Now, with Vecna obsessed with corrupting him, the Mind Flayer trying to possess him, and Brenner determined to reclaim his "greatest creation," Kaine must make an impossible choice: embrace the darkness in his bloodline or fight for the family he's found, the friends who've become his anchor, and the girl who sees past the monster to the boy beneath