RE: Netflix's STRANGER THINGS (minimal spoilers for Season 2)
Introduction:
I absolutely adore the Netflix Original STRANGER THINGS and have watched both Season 1 and 2 (as well as all of the "Beyond Stranger Things" after show). I will keep SPOILERS for season 2 at an absolute
MINIMUM but cannot guarantee full safety as there are basic details that I have to mention in order to flesh out ideas and pairings.
YOU WILL NEED TO HAVE SEEN AT LEAST SEASON 1 - however Season 2 is not necessary to be viewed, but is
ideal.
From the show, I am looking to primarily play two specific characters:
1) ELEVEN "ELLE" (JANE):
Based on SEASON 1
I'm looking to play an OLDER version of Eleven/Elle/Jane. She would be anywhere from 16-19 years old. For details on how that would be possible, please see my story idea below!
2) An ORIGINAL CHARACTER:
Based on SEASON 2
An OC who is also one of the human experiments from Hawkins Lab. She will be experiment 003, and significantly older than Elle is in the show. I'm looking to place her character between 22-26 years old, however she may appear much younger in age (late teens). For more information on her, see below!
The Nitty-Gritty:
Main Idea:
In the series, Eleven (nick-named Elle) is just 12 years old when she escapes from Hawkins National Laboratory of Energy in 1983. She was born and raised in the lab, knowing little to nothing of the outside world. Used as a science experiment and weapon by the State Government, Elle possesses powers of telekinesis as well as holding a profound connection to an alternate dimension known as
"Upside Down". In this alternate dimension, the world as we know is identical, but in complete ruins. The world is like our own, but the opposite, shadowed in darkness and filled with gloom and despair. This alternate dimension is mostly deserted, except for the fact that it is inhabitted by carnivorous humanoid alien-like species. It is completely inaccessible to humans, though, while in a mind-experiment with subject Eleven (my character), a gate to Upside Down was accidentally opened when Elle made contact with the
creature in her mind. The creature, unleashed within both dimensions, terrorizes the city, collecting bodies (which seemingly vanish without a trace) that it brings with it to the alternate universe.
1) OLDER ELEVEN:
CONCEPT:
In the final chapters of Stranger Things, the creature is lured out by towns people, and Elle becomes the only person capable of defeating it. She sacrifices her life to save the lives of her friends (Mike, Lucas, Dustin and sort of Will). At the end of the series, she is presumed dead after telekinetically battling the beast head on, and subsequent disappearing into a cloud of ashes with the creature. For this roleplay, I'd like to play on the hopes many fans have that Elle is not dead, but in fact alive living in the Upside Down alternate realm. My idea is that she returns to our real-life dimension some time later (months, a year, or years later). However, when she returns, she will be much OLDER, as time in Upside Down functions much differently (and ultimately faster) than in the real-world. I'm thinking of making Elle anywhere from 16 to 19 years old in appearance.
Because I'm AGING Elle, I decided to use singer-songwriter Hasley as my model for what I envision Eleven would look like as a teenager. The internet world has already preached the similarities between Hasley and actress Millie Bobby Brown:
(Left: Hasley - Right: Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven "Elle")
HOWEVER...
I will offer several different options for what Eleven "Elle" will look like upon her return (see below).
Option ONE:
Same buzzed hair style as when she was 12 years old - her hair would not have grown in the Upside Down dimension.
Option TWO:
Very long brown hair - her hair grew exponentially in the Upside Down dimension (hair would be down to her ass).
Option THREE:
Bright blue hair, a mutation caused by being in the Upside Down dimension for so long.
If you didn't like any of these options, I will also offer an alternative to Hasley. If you don't fancy Hasley as the model, then there is also actress
Brianna Hilderbrand (Deadpool) that I see some similarities, as well as actress
Monica Barbaro (unREAL).
THE PAIRINGS:
I'm looking for a partner who is willing to play one of three CANON characters from Stranger Things.
A) Eleven "Elle" x Chief Jim Hopper
Jim Hopper is a dead-beat, borderline alcoholic cop (Chief) of small-town Hawkins Police Department (HDP). He turned to the bottle after his only daughter (little girl named Sarah) died from cancer and his marriage subsequently fell apart. His ex-wife remarried and had another child, while he moved out of the city to small-town Hawkins and became Chief there. In the series, he is one of the biggest heroes. He not only uncovers the truth, but becomes determined to save Will. He even performs life-saving CPR on him in the Upside Down dimension and ultimately saves his life (in many ways). He has brief contact with Eleven near the end of the series, though not much.
However, when she returns, perhaps Eleven attributes Will's life and the success of the mission, and turns to Jim for shelter, food, and comfort while she figures out how to re-integrate back into society. Despite their drastic age difference, comfort turns to intimate companionship, as Eleven becomes an compassionate individual who fills a gaping void in Jim's life.
I'm thinking Jim cleans up his act a little, and when Elle returns, looks a bit more put together such as
this. MORE TO DISCUSS!
B) Eleven "Elle" x Jonathan Byers
There are a few different ways we can explore this relationship. Jonathan is very close to the crisis in Stranger Things, since it's his little brother Will who initially goes missing. Although his contact with Eleven is extremely limited in the series, Elle is a big reason why Will was able to be retrieved ALIVE from Upside Down.
In the series finale (Chapter 8), the show ends on a cliffhanger. Will is shown puking out a slimy, moving and crawling piece of a creature from the Upside Down dimension. The final scene also shows Will *seeing* his bathroom in the view of the alternate dimension. This means he still bears a connected to the alternate dimension. One of the ideas I had was that in this roleplay, perhaps Elle is able to return to the real-time universe by channeling Will, making contact with him in her mind, and thus opening a gate again to the real world. A much older-looking Elle returns to the real world in Will Byers house, where Jonathan Byers finds her in fetal position, unconscious, buck naked and covered in slime in his bathtub.
I'd like for Jonathan to have matured in his style as after heading out to college, and envision him looking like
this. As for the plot, I'm open to other ideas/ options as well!
C) Eleven "Elle" x Benny
This is sort of a bonus pairing which is not only a bit of a stretch, but also nonsensical. I thought I'd throw it out there anyways. My final pairing is with Benny, who actually ends up being shot dead by the CIA while they attempted to retrieve Eleven after her escape. He is dead within the first couple of episodes, but he is the very first person to make contact with Elle in the outside world. He is absolutely the sweetest guy in the whole series, being very careful and very kind to Elle (feeding her, offering her clothes and trust). I adored his big, buff and beardy manly-man character who was Mr. Tough Guy on the outside, but the most compassionate man on the inside.
For the sake of roleplay, I'm thinking he survives the shot to the head, but when he awakes from his coma, it is weeks after all the "Strange Things" in Hawkins happen. He awakes in a government-run hospital, where he is brainwashed in his rehabilitation into believing that "the little girl with the shaved head" was just a figment of his imagination, an illusion his brain created after severe brain trauma. The government doctors convince Benny that because he was shot in the head (attempted assassination), that it was too dangerous to return to Hawkins, and that the government would enroll him in the Witness Protection program, give him a new name and identity, and relocate him to another state far away. After some reluctance, he agrees.
However, when Elle attempts to break free of the Upside Down realm, she manages to muster all of her energy to create a gate/portal to the real-world. Though, when she returns, she returns in the house of Benny, as he was the first person to care for her after she escaped. Despite being relocated, her mind still made a connection to Benny and found with. This is a random idea, however, and I'm open to others.
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BONUS: MARVEL (Comics) CROSS-OVER
Loved Elle's character and would like to introduce her into the Marvel/ superhero universe? SAY NO MORE.
Roleplay in the 1980s: Since Elle has tremendous telekinetic powers, I can easily have her as one of the few opened "enhanced" / mutants of that time (80s).
Roleplay in modern time: Same as above, Elle would be an "enhanced"/mutant. She would emerge from the Upside Down portal in the MODERN WORLD rather than in the 1980s, where she came from. We can also incorporate the concept of dimensions through the Tesseract, too. In this scenario, Elle would be very much clueless of how the world works. She already had so little information about it as a child (living in a laboratory her whole time), so imagine now emerging in a technologically-advanced shit-show that is 2016 (albeit a futuristic version of 2016 since it is Marvel). As she is already a strange character, she would be even more weird in terms of behaviour and customs now that she is in the modern world.
2) ORIGINAL CHARACTER - EXPERIMENT 003:
* SPOILER ALERT *
This character idea is based on STRANGER THINGS 2 (second season) and contains SPOILERS.
Although I will try to keep spoilers to a minimum, I cannot guarantee safety from this point on.
I will try to keep spoilers limited to only what the TRAILER has revealed.
CONCEPT:
We know from Season 1 of Stranger Things that Elle is EXPERIMENT 011 and that her real name is Jane. But what happened to all the children experimented before her? Experiment 001-010? Although not much is known about the extent of Hawkins Lab and its experiments, it is assumed that Eleven (Elle/Jane) is not the only one.
For this RP, I will be playing a human experiment known tattooed "003" by more commonly known within the lab as "PYRO" for her telekinetic abilities and particular affinity to heat and fire.
For her character, she will have two faceclaim options:
Option ONE:
Dark haired, blue-eyed female appearing between the ages of 16-26 years old.
Option TWO:
Redheaded female with blue eyes appearing between the ages of 16-26 years old.
Storyline:
We know from Season 1 that Elle opened up the "gate" to the Upside Down by making first contact with the other dimension in one of the experiments Dr. Brenner ("Papa") subjected her to. We also know that despite referring to Brenner as "Papa", it is unclear whether or not he is her biological father. I'm thinking for this roleplay, whether or not he is truly her biological father is irrelevant. However, he WILL be the biological father of Pyro, experiment 003. Unlike Eleven, Pyro was NOT born at the Hawkins Lab. She was born in Soviet Russia, to a Russian mother and American father (Dr. Martin Brenner). Initially, Pyro's mother acted on behalf of the Soviets as a spy, soon meeting Dr. Brenner and his scientific work. Shortly after she becomes pregnant with his child, she is discovered as a spy and imprisoned in Hawkins. Pyro's mother, who's real name is Yelena, is used as a guinea pig for experiments and tortured, though to the lab's surprise, she does not miscarry. Instead, the baby grew stronger, soon developing powers before Pyro was even born. Despite attempts to get her mother to confess, Yelena managed to escape back to Russia before Pyro was born. However, the experiments left Yelena's pregnancy in a vulnerable state, soon launching her into premature labor. Pyro survived birth, but her mother died as a result of complications.
Orphaned at the hospital with no identification for her mother, the baby is taken and adopted by one of the local nurses. She is named Zarya, meaning "morning star" and "sunrise", and raised in a small Russian town. Despite trying to give Zarya a normal life, her adoptive mother soon realized the nature of her powers, and their dangers. Although she tried to protect her, she eventually fell victim to American spies, who kidnapped Zarya when she was just 5 years old and returned her to Dr. Brenner's infamous laboratory. Although Dr. Brenner also subjected his daughter to experiments, he bonded to the child (his biological daughter) and did claim to love her as his own kin. He sought to heightened, improve, and strengthen her abilities by pushing the boundaries of his experiments and her powers. Eventually, though, limits were crossed, and Pyro found herself in another dimension - what would later become known as the Upside Down. After several incidents of contact with this mystery realm, Pyro became trapped. At just 10 years old, she disappears...
forever.
In an effort to retrieve his daughter from this untouchable dimension, Dr. Martin Brenner begins a mad hunt for children with telekinetic abilities in hopes of one day opening the portal to the Upside Down dimension once again. In those efforts, Dr. Brenner creates experiment 011, also known as Eleven, and pushes her to the same limits as his own daughter Pyro in order to unlock this realm. Although successful in opening up a physical "gate" to the Upside Down, Dr. Brenner does not find his daughter - concluding that she is most likely deceased from having spent 12 years trapped in the decimated realm.
Pyro's Powers:
Pyro has telekinetic abilities that are similar to Eleven, however different. She is capable of creating telekinetic energy like Eleven, however her powers are not strengthened by anger, they are strengthened by HEAT. The hotter an object, the more control she has over it, making her particularly talented with fire, explosions, and gunfire. She is able to stop a bullet dead in its tracks with her mind, even going so far as to turn the bullet back on its firer. Due to this affinity with heat, one of her primary weaknesses is COLD temperatures. When placed in a cold environment, Pyro's abilities are incredible diminished and suppressed. Although Eleven is a talented locator and telekinetic communicator, Pyro does not possess that same ability. Instead, she possesses the power of manipulation - capable of influencing people's thoughts and actions with her mind. Additionally, Pyro is resistant (nearly immune) to disease, infection, and poisons.
A) "Pyro" x Chief Jim Hopper
Jim Hopper is a dead-beat, borderline alcoholic cop (Chief) of small-town Hawkins Police Department (HDP). He turned to the bottle after his only daughter (little girl named Sarah) died from cancer and his marriage subsequently fell apart. His ex-wife remarried and had another child, while he moved out of the city to small-town Hawkins and became Chief there. In the series, he is one of the biggest heroes. He not only uncovers the truth, but becomes determined to save Will. He even performs life-saving CPR on him in the Upside Down dimension and ultimately saves his life (in many ways). He has brief contact with Eleven near the end of the series, though not much.
However, when she returns, perhaps Eleven attributes Will's life and the success of the mission, and turns to Jim for shelter, food, and comfort while she figures out how to re-integrate back into society. She tells Jim of her experiences within the Upside Down during her disappearance, and how she survived with the help of a mysterious woman, experiment 003. Although Elle was able to cross back over, Pyro was unable to. In an effort to free her from the Upside Down, Elle works with Jim to try as bring Pyro back to Hawkins.
This can be done in a number of ways. Either Elle trains every day with sensory deprivation to try and unlock a portal within Jim's home (so that Pyro can cross there) or perhaps Jim physically travels deep within the Upside Down (through the help of Hawkins Lab and their big "gate" in order to retrieve her.
I'm thinking Jim cleans up his act a little, and when Pyro returns, looks a bit more put together such as
this. MORE TO DISCUSS!
B) "Pyro" x Jonathan Byers
There are a few different ways we can explore this relationship. Jonathan is very close to the crisis in Stranger Things, since it's his little brother Will who initially goes missing. Although his contact with Eleven is extremely limited in the series, Elle is a big reason why Will was able to be retrieved ALIVE from Upside Down.
In the series finale (Chapter 8), the show ends on a cliffhanger. Will is shown puking out a slimy, moving and crawling piece of a creature from the Upside Down dimension. The final scene also shows Will *seeing* his bathroom in the view of the alternate dimension. This means he still bears a connected to the alternate dimension. One of the ideas I had was that in this roleplay, perhaps Pyro (who is trapped in the Upside Down) is able to return to the real-time universe by channeling Will, making contact with him through his connection to the dimension, and thus opening a gate again to the real world. A much older-looking Pyro returns to the real world in Will Byers house, where Jonathan Byers finds her in fetal position, unconscious, buck naked and covered in slime in his bathtub.
I'd like for Jonathan to have matured in his style as after heading out to college, and envision him looking like
this. As for the plot, I'm open to other ideas/ options as well!
C) "Pyro" x Billy Hargrove
Season 2 introduces a new character - Billy Hargrove - who bears striking similarities in character, style, and behavior to Ace (Kiefer Sutherland) from Stand By Me. In the show, Billy is the new rebel in town, having moved from California. She is a "bad boy" in the series, and is actually quite cruel, narcissistic, and rather sociopathic.
I don't have storyline for how these two would cross paths, so we would have to creatively brain storm those ideas!
D) There are many other ways we can introduce Pyro to Hawkins. I'm equally open to OTHER IDEAS you may have. Send them my way!
