𝐎𝐎𝐇, 𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐔𝐃𝐀!

𝑷𝑹𝑬𝑻𝑻𝒀 𝑰𝑵 𝑷𝑰𝑵𝑲, 𝑳𝑬𝑻 𝑴𝒀 𝑩𝑶𝑫𝒀 𝑺𝑰𝑵𝑲. a study of the natural born action girl, the bruiser, coming of age, a discovery of a deadpan snarker, facing the unknown and how being good does not mean soft. original character for netflix’s stranger things. inspired by various sources of media. this blog will contain some explicit content. 19+ only. please read all rules and pages. personals DNI. est. june 2022. heavily affiliated with @times2​

                                                              DOC.   RULES.

WHERE IS SAILOR SATURN?

     He rolled his eyes with full head movement, his hair flopping back messily as he eyed her, but the coffee was being produced and therefore, he was content. Honestly, he was easy. He got two bites into his pancakes as she pointed out where creamer was, stood up to reach for the fridge to get for both of them and then paused, mid-reach. “Tempting, but the negotiations require coffee first, so defeats the purpose.”        He went for the fridge himself, scoring the creamer and splashing some into his coffee, then flicked his eyes up to her with a gesture like he’d do hers, too.

      𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐒𝐇𝐄, 𝐓𝐎𝐎, 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐀 𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐋𝐄 𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 before any caffeine was consumed (preferably with creamer because she’ll die from the bitter taste). her mug is gently pushed closer with a crooked smirk on her face,  “  thank you, kind sir,  ”  she’s pushing the buttons a little more, a real nut she’s become in the morning. settling just across, there was no need to pull up a seat. fresh cakes dance way up to her nose as she starts to cut triangle pieces to stack them one by one,  “  soooo--  ”  she sung before taking a small syrupy bite,  “  i’m guessing you’re not here for the annual lively fall festival this town has?  ”

𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐋𝐘 𝐎𝐍     //     @queengriffln​​

𝐁𝐄𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐈𝐓 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐑𝐎𝐁𝐈𝐍 𝐈𝐒,  was difficult to begin with.  Acceptance was rare and made her bond with Steve all the more special.  He didn’t even bat an eye,  the anxiety of admitting such a personal fact literally went away in seconds.  Yet,  she still finds herself hiding.  No one truly knows aside from him.  So as Reggie even mentions the words romance with Tammy,  in reference to her?  Robin Buckley?  She stumbles on her words and smiles away the aforementioned anxiety,     ❛ Romance?  Tammy and I are just friends.  I mean—we’re in band together.  So, we’re as friends as you can be with someone.. you’re in band with. ❜

╰   *      @queengriffln ,      “ more   than   a   feeling ”         ›         ✿.

                  ❛    so   many      people   have   come   and   gone.   their   faces      fade      as   the   years   go   by.    ❜

so i keep going back and forth on what the sound of the band would be. obviously this is mid-80s and each member of the band has a something different to bring to the table. being that reggie and nate sort of started up the band together, bringing in two more to make four, i thought the sound would originally be something akin to where the 60s and 70s left off. reg is very influenced by those eras because of her parents, it’s practically a staple in her collection of music. she’s an avid lover of zep.plin, do.ors and vel.vet und.erg.round. sometimes her taste expands farther than classic rock, dabbling into darkwave and what’s considered to be goth. 

nate, the drummer, brings an industrial taste to the band that hasn’t been experimented to thoroughly. diving deeper into the goth subgenre and his responsibility in introducing reggie, his knowledge goes a little bit beyond the surface. 

imo, a lot of female-led bands during this time didn’t have the kind of roughness i was looking for; edgy but not rough and grimy enough (being that the runaways, blondie and the bangles are not metal and were the most popular female groups at the time). it’s not to say they weren’t talented or fun to listen to or draw inspo from, it’s not on the level of mis.fits or slay.er. 

now the thought of grunge did come into mind, since the timing is on the very edge of where grunge should have started (approx. mid to late 80s somewhere in seattle) the idea of this band dabbling into the lovely traits of grimy sounds with a taste of punk, waves of soft acoustic every once in a while and kick ass guitar solos, it gave me this spinning idea that helheim could be one of the hundreds of bands playing around with the same idea of grunge (for reference, nir.vana technically formed in 87, ali.ce in cha.ins in 87, sound.garden in 84 and son.ic yo.uth in 81 just to name a few that started out in the scene)

so i came to the conclusion that the band is a grunge band, dabbling into experimental sounds, funky flare and sick solos that admire the likes of slay.er and pri,est. maybe i’ll go further into the sound of the band another day but this is what i decided on because hawkins doesn’t have the taste of grunge and they need it if the 90s is coming up soon.

EDIT: bonus, i found something that could be what the band sounded like before they really sat down to decide what they would sound like. click here. it’s literally inspired by the cure.