#hellfire hunters

So if you didn’t know, I am a mileven fan and writer. I want to be fully transparent about my intentions for mileven endgame because unlike the Brothers Duff I do not want to play both sides until the final chapter. But I do want to give Will his flowers and a compelling romantic arc that doesn’t just end in self acceptance and an epilogue boyfriend without throwing an OC in

So my question for you is:

My idea for incorporating this ship is to have Chance be a closeted queer athlete raised Christian struggling with the shame of his sexuality and possibly being tormented by Vecna. He would be a part of the Hellfire Hunters group trying to find the party. I see him changing sides during a moment of confrontation possibly because the other guys “take it too far” trying to kill the party members they find. Or this could be the moment Hawkins becomes apocalyptic with Chance getting injured and being helped by Will while his friends run away (or Chance, Mike, and others being attacked by demos and Will unlocking his powers similarly to the canon)

I wanted to go ahead and pitch to you all what I’m envisioning for the setup for this alternate s5 and what the party has been up to since s4.

There is a poll below to vote on whether you like it or not and as always I’d love to hear your thoughts on my ideas or any of your own in the comments, or you’re welcome to dm me and my inbox is always open! Anyway, without further adieu:

For 4-6 weeks, the town of Hawkins has been living under a government lockdown since an earthquake of unprecedented scale split the town in 4. In the heart of the town where the cracks meet is the center of the military operation led by Dr. Kay. Try as the federal government may, they have yet to find a working solution to closing to rift, instead building bridges to guide and monitor civilians traveling to different sections to seek various types of aid at local schools, the church, and the hospital.

Those that seek solace in the church find fear mongering, preaching the signs of the end times like the earthquake and the storms and epidemic that has followed. A handful of terrified teens who buy into the Satanic Panic and the belief that the Hellfire club had killed their friends in ritualistic murders to open the gates to hell itself are considering taking matters into their own hands again to avenge their leader Jason.

The government has been taking patients into quarantine for a strange new disease thought to be caused by inhaling the particles from the rift. In this lab, Dr. Kay assigned the captive Dr. Owens to studying these patients as he assisted her in the investigation on the girl she deemed responsible for all of the death and destruction.

What she doesn’t realize is that he already knows all of the people connected to El and is actively trying to subvert her from their trail. The only known associates she’s been able to confirm so far are the Byers family, whom the girl had lived with when she escaped to California. Dr. Kay has a hunch they and the girl are back in Hawkins hiding somewhere but little evidence to back it and few leads to follow.

The mass evacuation following the “earthquake” had left many homes abandoned all over town, leaving the party with a plethora of hideout options. Choosing carefully, they created a network of safe houses connected by the tunnel system, all stocked with food, medical supplies, and weapons, courtesy of their personal delivery man, Murray. To keep the feds off their trail, the Hopper-Byers family travels by tunnel from home to home only staying in each for a few nights at a time, always prepared for a sudden evacuation. These safe houses also serve as a network of home bases for Party Meetings to coordinate their investigation and operations.

Dustin has been using his Cerebro to track secret government transmissions for Robin to decode. With she and Steve’s new job at the radio station, Robin sends out her own coded messages instructing the group on meeting places and times. Nancy leads the investigations on Henry, the government, and all suspicious activity in Hawkins, tracking the stack of missing persons and using all gathered information to try to determine what is to come and keep the government from finding them out before they have a chance to stop Vecna. She and Hopper have also been training Lucas and Mike on how to shoot a gun while Steve and Jonathan teach the boys self defense with other weapons like the bat with the nails, but Joyce won’t let Will anywhere near the fight. El has been training, of course, her powers growing stronger with each day.

Each night, the party members take watch posts around town, some observing military activity and their work on the rift while others lookout for any supernatural activity or monster attacks in what remains of the Hawkins community, with their trained fighters prepared to intervene and aid citizens if need be.

The end of the world was coming any day now, and all the party could do is try to piece together Vecna and the Mind Flayer’s plan and prepare to fight an unbeatable foe while also trying to keep their town and their families safe.

When they have time in between trying to save the world, El and Mike spend as much time together as Hopper will allow, always complaining that Mike breaks her focus, though to El, Mike is the only safe space she has to take a breath, the only person that allows her to take that weight off her shoulders for even a moment.

Lucas spends his days by Max’s side in the hospital. The doctors say she’s full of miracles, after being clinically dead for over a minute and ‘naturally’ reviving without any medical care, her broken bones have healed unnaturally fast considering the severity of her injuries. Lucas is relieved Max is getting better, but El still can’t find her. And she’s been having nosebleeds lately. Knowing she started having them when Vecna first cursed her, Lucas feared her fight against him hadn’t ended the night her life did.

If you made it this far thank you and I hope you enjoyed my ideas for the setup going into this rewrite. Let me know what you think in this poll and the comments below!

And what if I said Stonathan endgame with parallels between them and Bychance.

Imagine a Hellfire vs Hunters confrontation where Chance tries to fight Will but gets his ass handed to him, then turning on the other basketball bullies and getting hit with something similar to Tommy H and Steve after his fight with Jonathan in S1 “You just got your ass kicked by Will Byers but you think you can take me/us?”