FULL NAME: William Thomas Byers
NICKNAME(S): Will, Will the Wise, Zombie Boy, The Spy
DATE OF BIRTH: March 22, 1976
HOMETOWN: Hawkins, Indiana
CURRENT LOCATION: Derry, Maine
ORIENTATION: Homoromantic Homosexual
RELIGION: Protestant Christian if he had to put a label on it but he can count the times he’s gone to church on one hand. He isn’t sure if he believes in God necessarily as he believes in Something. He knows for a fact that there’s More beyond what we know as reality but he’s not sure if there’s such a thing as heaven or hell or if there’s just More.
POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Independent
OCCUPATION: Student, Movie Counter Bitch at Blockbuster
LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: Will lives with his mom Joyce and older brother Jonathan.
LANGUAGE(S) SPOKEN: English
ACCENT: Mild midwestern accent
TATTOOS: He doesn’t have one yet but he’s been planning on getting one of the x-men insignia because he’s literally a giant nerd. He just won’t get it while he’s living at home.
CLOTHING STYLE: Hand me downs from Jonathan, typically lots of flannel and loosely fitting jeans. Every great once in a while he’s got a graphic t-shirt that’s got some nerd thing on it- Ghostbusters, X- Men, Star Wars, etc.- but for the most part he wears solid color shirts under his flannel ( they’re cheaper ). Will looks kind of like he rolled in a thrift shop clothing pile and walked out to go to school a lot of the time.
USUAL EXPRESSION: Will tries to be more aware of his expression, keeping almost always a mild but pleasant look on his face- slightly upturned mouth, face clear of lines that would suggest anything else occupying his thoughts than whatever is being said to him and his eyes attentive. If he doesn’t pay attention to what his face is doing, more often than not it’ll settle into a deep almost brooding expression.
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS: Will just generally looks unwell with the dark circles under his eyes and pale skin. He has a thick, round, quarter-sized scar on his left thigh where Nancy burned him to banish the Mind Flayer.
NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
SLEEPING HABITS: Will is a night owl, he stays up until two or three in the morning easily and constantly lives on three- five hours of sleep. He makes up for that on weekends though, filling his Saturday and Sunday with naps. When Will finally falls asleep, he doesn’t have trouble staying that way-- if anything he’s a pain in the ass to get back up once he falls asleep.
EATING HABITS: Will eats like shit. Not in like what he eats but in the fact that he just doesn’t eat very much. After coming back from the Upside Down, smells and mouth feels of most foods made him feel sick, making eating more an exercise in choking things down. He’s gotten better about it but he still doesn’t eat much, picks at his food more than anything. He mostly lives off black coffee, crackers and cigarettes.
EXERCISE HABITS: Will rides his bike to school most days and that’s the extent of his exercise. He would never lift weights or run or anything like that just out of the sheer embarrassment he’d feel when his noodle arms gave out or if he couldn’t run even a quarter of a quarter of a mile without stopping to hack up a lung thanks to his smoking habit.
EMOTIONAL STABILITY: 5-7, fairly middle of the road. Most of Will’s emotional instability has been shoved down so far that no one will ever find it ( or at least so he thinks ). He’s not someone people immediately think of when they think ‘strong’ but Will is fiercely protective over his friends and family and can withstand an enormous amount of pressure before cracking. Even once he cracks, he’ll still fight like hell to keep it together.
SOCIABILITY: Will is fairly middle of the road with sociability. He likes to be around people and hates to feel excluded or forgotten but he also needs to have time to himself. He does best either one on one or in the big group- in smaller groups of two or three, he ends up feeling like a third wheel.
BODY TEMPERATURE: Ever since the Mind Flayer possessed him, Will has run a few degrees colder than normal. He craves warmth and always keeps one of Jonathan’s old hoodies with him tucked in his backpack.
ADDICTIONS: Cigarettes. He’s been smoking since he was fourteen and smokes enough to rival his mom and Hopper. He can easily go through a pack a day, depending on how stressful the day itself is.
DRUG USE: Recreational/Medicinal Marijuana use. Look, Will doesn’t know that he’s self medicating. All he knows is that when he gets high, he doesn’t have the dreams and the nightmares and the Now Memories that seem so very different from when he was connected to the Mind Flayer ( Now Memories he doesn’t want to explore too closely to see where the source is ).
ALCOHOL USE: Will doesn’t drink normally just because of how he remembers Lonnie being when he drank. In a social situation, he’ll have a couple of drinks here or there ( as if he’s had a ton of opportunity to do so ) but he’s never been drunk.
POSITIVE TRAITS: Creative, Empathetic, Honest, Soft-Spoken, Amicable
NEGATIVE TRAITS: Naïve, Closed Off, Timid, Secretive, Self- Sacrificing
GOALS/DESIRES: Will would love to go to art school. He doesn’t want to try and become some artist whose art hangs in a gallery-- the thought of being an artist for a comic book is the Dream. He’s not sure what he wants otherwise. He wants to be happy. He isn’t sure if he wants a big family or anything, maybe just himself and a dog and someone else to talk to.
FEARS: Being out of control- Will’s greatest fear is not being in control of himself, like when the Mind Flayer possessed him. Nothing is more terrifying than the thought of being trapped like that. Small spaces- that feeling of being trapped that comes with them. Rejection- there is a part of Will that is convinced that if he ever admitted his sexuality aloud that the ones he loves the most would be the first to reject him and it’s the being alone and abandoned that is what scares him the most.
HOBBIES: Art- drawing/sketching specifically but in the last four years he’s become quite the painter. He’s recently started getting into watercolor. D&D- he hasn’t played since they left Hawkins, not knowing where he could find a party with a better DM than Mike ( though he briefly considered asking Bill, who wrote good stories but who stuttered, making the thought of a long campaign seem endless ) but he’s excited to get back into it now that Mike is with the rest of them. Shooting- Hopper takes Will down to the shooting range and they shoot together. Will learned how to shoot from his mom ( perks of living on the outskirts of town in the forest: having to learn how to shoot a gun ) but it’s Hopper that’s helped hone the ability. It started out as a way to help Will feel more in control in the wake of the Mind Flayer but ended up being an every other weekend event. Will likes shooting well enough so long as it’s just a paper target, he mostly goes because he likes spending time with Hopper.
HABITS: Will is always moving in some small, almost annoying way. His leg bounces, his pen or fingers tap, he’s always moving in some way. He bites his nails- yes, he knows he shouldn’t but that hasn’t stopped him yet. Smoking. Chewing gum to help curb the craving to smoke.
WEATHER: Will craves sunshine. This kid gets the worst Seasonal Affective Disorder like he needs sunshine to live. Even though it’s sometimes very uncomfortable, he sort of relishes in the discomfort of being outside the hottest days of the year and just soaking up as much sunshine as he can. Someone get this boy some Vitamin D3 clearly there is some deficiency.
COLOUR: Will loves all the colors but if he had to pick one it would probably be yellow.
MUSIC: Will’s taste in music is largely influenced by Jonathan so lots of rock music- The Clash, The Who, Pink Floyd, The Ramones. He and Jonathan share a joke about ‘liking Kenny Loggins’ but Will has a small soft spot for Loggins and other soft rock alternatives.
MOVIES: This will come as a surprise to literally no one but Will is a massive sci-fi / fantasy nerd. He loves Star Wars, Ghostbusters, Tron, but his absolute all time favorite movie is Willow.
SPORT: Will is so incredibly unsporty it’s not even funny. He’ll go to the games or meets to see Mike H. or Ben but that’s only to cheer on his friends not because he actually enjoys the sport itself.
FOOD: Karen Wheeler’s Lasagna and banana pudding
ANIMAL: dogs. all dogs. any dog. all dogs are good dogs and need pets from Will Byers.
FATHER: Lonnie Byers, mechanic at a used car lot in Indianapolis
MOTHER: Joyce Byers, receptionist at City Hall for the Water Department
SIBLING(S): Jonathan Byers ( older ), Jane Hopper ( not technically but if you ask Will, he’ll tell you Jane is his sister ).
PET(S): a dog named Chester
FAMILY’S FINANCIAL STATUS: lower middle class though definitely more comfortable than they had been in Hawkins but with his mom and Jonathan busting their butts, Will wanted to be able to contribute however he could hence the job at Blockbuster.
ENNEAGRAM: Type 9 also called The Mediator
HOGWARTS HOUSE: Ravenclaw
MORAL ALIGNMENT: Lawful Good
