Broken Girls Better Together

Welcome to Broken Girls, Better Together, a multi-chapter story that kicks off with "Chapter One: Fresh Start." Max Mayfield is no stranger to monsters. Between a toxic stepbrother, the literal Upside Down, and a town that seems to attract disaster, she's learned the hard way how to build walls around her heart and keep her guard up, her skateboard always within reach. Life in Hawkins was a constant battle for survival, but after the Starcourt Mall incident, everything feels irrevocably broken. When her mother, in a desperate bid for a "fresh start" and a place far removed from "the strange events of Indiana," packs them up and moves them to the sleepy, forgotten town of Derry, Maine, Max is skeptical. The air in Derry tastes wrong, thick and cloying, and the missing person posters plastered on every storefront don't exactly inspire confidence; they just remind her of Will, of Barb, of all the people who vanished without a trace back home. She feels a familiar chill in her bones, a premonition that simply changing locations won't change her fate. Max Mayfield, the girl who refused to be scared, finds herself looking over her shoulder again, the oppressive silence of Derry far more frightening than the chaotic noise of Hawkins. The house they move into is small, quiet, and haunted only by the echoes of her own anxiety and the lingering guilt of a stepbrother she couldn't save.
Beverly Marsh knows all about the rot beneath the surface of a seemingly quiet town. She's faced the worst humanity and a literal inter-dimensional, fear-eating clown have to offer. She's tough, resourceful, and fiercely independent, with a fiery streak of red hair that mirrors her resilient spirit. She's a survivor, yes, but she's also deeply damaged.