#my changes

Season 1

Season 1 remains unchanged, but with Jason and Chrissy apart of Steve's friend circle, and Robin is friends with Barb and Eddie's close with Jonathan.

Season 2 remains the same.

Season 3. Before I begin, I must say, my version of season 3 has Billy as the fucking monster he was introduced, he is a willing participant

Cut out the Russians entirely. My pitch is that Starcourt was one of Brenner's projects and that everyone who was loyal to him that survived, was relocated to work on the laser that opens the gate. So no Russians. Alexei however would be a scientist Brenner hired from Russia, hence why he's there in season 3

Billy's not a lifeguard, instead he would be a security guard at Starcourt, which he would use his position to abduct people to be flayed and give us easy access to a Billy vs Steve fight

One day, Billy would be contacted by The Mind Flayer. He offers him the chance to get revenge on the kids and Steve. Kill them one by one. Billy agrees, only on the condition that he be in full control while doing his work. We don't see who, but we know it's Vecna who Billy shakes hands with

The Mind Flayer would be underground of Starcourt

The mayor would be flayed, which gives Billy immunity and why no one goes looking for the missing people

Billy kills Neil right in front of Susan and promises that he will do the exact same to Max

Billy would be unapologetically racist to Lucas and Erica and abusive to Max, he would also be homophobic towards Will and tell him "The Flayer missed you, and wants to bring you back home"

Instead of a sympathetic backstory, we see first a happy family, but Billy changed. Started bullying kids on his own, got kicked out of several schools, killing small animals and this sends Billy’s mother away in horror and what causes Neil to be abusive towards his son.

I would however make Heather the only Flayed who is capable of coming back to being human, Heather is the reason why Steve and Robin are able to escape from Billy's rampage, oh and Heather would be Robin's friend

Hopper gets the call out and intervention he deserves. Instead of letting Hopper getting away with EVERYTHING. Mike properly explains to the gang what Hopper did, then Mike tells Nancy, Nancy tells Joyce and Joyce rips him a new one and what gets El to turn against him? Good ol Dr Owens has Hopper on tape, the deal he made to Brenner. El once again says "You…you are PAPA" and leaves with Joyce. Queue the intervention from my Hopper post, everyone yells at him, Hopper fights back and then threatens Mike and that results in Ted getting off his ass and punching Hopper and throwing him out the house

We do see Steve going to his car for one thing. Getting the bat out which Steve says to the bat “come to daddy”(shut up, this is for science)

Give Max a scene where she finally gets to return the pain Billy has inflicted on her life

When El loses her powers and Billy is about to bring El to the Mind Flayer, this is the opportunity to have Max and Steve team up. Max first breaks her skateboard over Billy's head, then use the shards and stabs him and then Steve bashes in Billy’s skull with the nail bat and Steve beating Billy to a pulp and finally knock Billy into the Mind Flayer’s mouth. This will give Steve his “finally won a fight moment” against Billy in the end and kill Billy. And give Steve a petty moment "try planting your feet now asshole"

Because of his ousting, Hopper sacrifices himself because everyone hates him and no, he DOESN'T come back

Joyce stays in Hawkins because she doesn't grieve over Hopper and recognizes her family needs their home

Terry and Becky moves to Hawkins. Terry helps Joyce take care of Jane, meanwhile Dr Owens gives Terry the help she deserves

Season 4

Chrissy lives, basically a "we liked her performance so much" that they just had to bring her back, so Eddie and Max finds Chrissy in an Upside Down type Xenomorph cocoon and saves her, which in turn leads to Eddie's survival

Max is not traumatized, but Susan is and Max spends the majority of taking care of her mother

Small plot of Steve and Heather getting together

Given that Will stays in Hawkins, he's apart of the Hellfire Club, however he DOESN'T show up tot he game as he wants to show support for Lucas

During the time skip, El gets homeschooled by Joyce and Becky, with strings pulled by Owens, El gets into the same grade as the party

I am adding Chrissy's little brother and making him Will's boyfriend. I was inspired by the Hellcheer visual novel whatwefoundthere where their interactions inspired me, they gave the little brother a name, Matty

Everything else happens as it did

Season 5

No school and no "everything is back to normal" vibes, it's the apocalyptic feel season 4's ending promised

Will has a Vecna vision that Vecna won. He kills his family in front of him. His friends are being tortured and Eleven dies and The Mind Flayer has completely brought the Upside Down on the Upside Up. Will was helpless to stop them. This prompts Will to stop being a helpless bystander and take action. He willingly decides to become the Spy and try and flip the script against Vecna

Sullivan is the main human villain with Dr Kay as his right hand, he wants to kill Eleven and Kali, harvest their blood and create their more controlled subjects

Henry being super fuckery manipulative and abusive towards Will and Will kills Lonnie whether he did it of his own accord or under Vecna's influence is left to mystery

I would actually make the play The First Shadow matter. Basically, uniting 3 generations. The parents, the teens and the kids, just needing the proper screentime to balance them out. Cause really, why even have a play if you don't utilize the characters Henry knew?

Hopper is brought back as Kas

Proper emotional reunion with Max and El

El and Kali fill everyone in on the plan, but Joyce and Becky talks them out of it, even more to convince Jane not to do it? Dr Owens returns with a very much recovered Terry. They all make a plan.

The final battle actually has Demogorgons, Demobats and all that jazz

Vecna is actually harder to kill

Same pitch from my original wishlist, with Everyone realizing what Will was trying to say, and with Joyce, Jonathan, Jane and Mike embracing Will for who he is and with Vecna's hold over him broken, Jane, Kali and WIll together end Vecna and with Henry powerless, Hopper kills Henry for good. Hopper takes the time to apologize to everyone, admits he was wrong and hopes they will learn to forgive him, Hopper can either disappear and pass on or stay and learn to be better and earn everyone's trust.

With Henry dead, the Mind Flayer's hold over dimensions is destroyed, the door to dimension X is shut for good

Sullivan and Dr Kay are prepared to kill everyone and Owens comes in with a convoluted, but convincing argument. With Henry, the original Progenitor dead. It's fair to say the blood in El and Kali is useless. El tries to use her powers, but nothing moves. Kali insists the same that nothing happens. And before Sullivan orders their execution anyway, a general beyond Sullivan's rank appears and orders him to stand by and presents a presidential order and like that everyone is cleared.(hey look the one time where Reagan isn't a cunt)

When Sullivan and Kay leaves, El looks to Kali and she winks

With society slowly rebuilding itself, everyone has an impromptu graduation, everyone, plus El graduates, Eddie flips the bird as he always wanted and makes out with Chrissy when it's her turn

Dustin and Suzie are still together, and no one suddenly goes conformist

Will and Matty attend their first Pride in 1990

VIckie is there with Robin, Steve, Nancy and Jonathan, Eddie and Chrissy and most importantly, Robin is NOT Breakfast Club'd

Post-Show

Jane, Mike, Terry, Becky and Kali live in Iceland together by the waterfalls. Mike becomes a writer, Jane helps abused and isolated kids and Kali is looking to find her family.

Lucas is a Basketball coach and helps out with the community. Max is a Social Worker.

Dustin and Suzie majors in Robotics.

Will is a Gay Rights Activist and has an Art Major

Steve settles down with Heather and has the family he's wanted

Nancy went to Emerson and became a journalist

Jonathan went to NYU, the college he always wanted to go to and becomes an Indie filmmaker

- Changing Felicie White's name to Sheila Ivy "Shelly" White. Shelley was (allegedly) a deleted daughter of Snow White, and the name Felicie is being repurposed for someone else.

- So, apparently, in Descendants 3: The Villain Kids' Guide for New VKs, The Huntsman is mentioned, and is in Auradon (which also blows my theory on why he would be on the Isle outta the water :(, ) so Blanche Graham is now an AK. I'm thinking I'll use Sophie Turner as her new fancast.

- Blanche's role on the Isle, as well as the Rachel Zegler face claim, will be taken by Eve, the deleted concept version of Evie. I've renamed her Ivelisse "Iva" Reyes, and she's the daughter of the Evil Queen and Magnifico.

- Apparently there's gonna be a new Anastasia kid in the new trilogy, but unless I really like the direction they take with her, I'd prefer to keep Anthony as an only child. So, Anastasia did have a daughter, but she died as an infant. (If I like the new girl, I'll change it to say she was kidnapped and found later on. Having my cake and eating it too.)

- Giving Ally and Jefferson a new sister, in the form of deleted character idea Amelia. She was born just before D1, so I'll also use that as a reason why neither Alice or her partner were at the Mad For Tea shop in Wicked World; they were both on parental leave.

- Changing CJ's name again, this time to Charlotte Jessica, so her name matches her mother's.

- Changing Smitty's name from Smith to Seymour. Dunno where he got Smitty from now, but I like Seymour better.

- And on that note, I initially had the older Smee twins being alive, but the more I think about it, the more I think I need them to Not Be Around by D3 XD. So tragically, I think Smitty and Smirky gotta die now.

- Changed Malignant's nickname from Nettie to Nat. Cause that makes more sense (and sounds better).

- I just can't stop killing off characters XD. Hunter de Vil is unfortunately on the chopping block, and while I'm not killing Ivy off, she is going to be ejected from the narrative for quite a bit. I just cannot figure out what to do with them, especially in regards to their cousins.

- Speaking of, I decided to utilize Ella, another deleted concept character, as my oc Cristina's dead twin sister. Yeah, another dead character, sue me. Ella's death is now the reason why Crissy no longer lives with the de Vils.

- I'm gonna change Diego de Vil's fancast to Reed Shannon, which solves a few problems with the de Vil family tree that I'd created for myself, and gives me incentive to ship him with Mad Maddy (because Reed Shannon characters always need a problematic, semi toxic, blue haired girlfriend in their lives XD.)

- Since I'm using so many deleted characters, I decided to use Vanessa (concept character,) and Urson (idea character,) as Uma's older siblings. But I renamed Urson Uriah. Oh, and they both die before canon as well.

- Gil's mother, Laurette, was found tragically murdered, and Gaston remarried to her sister, Claudette (who is the mother of his first bastard child, not-so coincidentally) because apparently according to one of the books, Gil has a step-mother.

It would be an easy explanation to have the town of Newt be cannibals and instead of Leatherface suddenly having new family members, he goes to known associates of the family, "neighbors" if you will.

Leatherface somehow survived and is taken in by the Slaughter Family's "Neighbors" the Sawyers.

Chop-Top is the family member who's taken alive.

Those neighbors would be Tex, Alfredo and Tinker.

Leatherface would have severe burns from the grenade and a hole in his stomache.

And instead of Sally, it's Stretch, cause Sally is institutionalized.

Stretch and Benny would work together to save Michelle

In the Next Generation. An easy fix is that.

Leatherface is in the Grandpa role. Gunnar Hansen would return to play him.

The whole "Illuminati" conspiracy is just the town conspiracy of the town cannibals.

There would be a side plot of Stretch meeting Sally. She fills her in on everything that happened. Lefty's death and the cannibal town of Newt.

The new Leatherface is the daughter from TCM3 and instead of being cringey and awful, she is completely and utterly unhinged and enjoys it more than Bubba ever did. The best part? She's takes her doll's name, Sally. The final mockery of the one who got away.

Vilmer and W.E are the other members of this new family with the Mayor of Newt as the matriarch and she bares the conspiracy for all to hear. Claims that "cannibalism is the trade and life stock of this town. Always has been. The Slaughter Family was the backbone, they inspired the rest of us."

And then a returning Chop-Top as the guest of honor.

An aged Bubba makes happy cannibal noises at his brother's arrival.

"Far out Bubba, you're the new Grandpa!"

Chop-Top tells Bubba and the new Leatherface "it's time to kill the fucking bitch"

Stretch comes to the rescue and blasts the family, killing W.E, Vilmer and head cannibal Mayor.

While the new Leatherface chases after Jenny and Chop-Top proclaims he's gonna finish what he started all those years ago.

…and Bubba finally finds the strength to get up. He even puts on the old Pretty woman mask and takes his old chainsaw. They won't get away, not this time. "dog will hunt" as his brother always said. This is for Nubbins. For Drayton and for Grandpa.

They chase Stretch, Jenny and Michelle throughout the town. The slaughterhouse, the old Slaughter farmhouse and the mental hospital where Sally is waiting for them.

It ends with Jenny and Michelle double teaming killing the younger Leatherface, Sally shoots Bubba in the chest with a shotgun and Sally saws his fucking head off and finally, Stretch kills Chop-Top

"Any last words?"

"The saw is fami-" Stretch shoots him in the head.

Stretch, Michelle, Jenny and Sally all leave from a safe distance. Stretch gets a call on her walkie talkie from Benny

"Are you safe? over"

"Yes, I got Michelle and the latest survivor and even Sally. We're all at a safe distance to watch the fireworks over"

"Good, over"

and Benny presses the button and suddenly the entire town of Newt blows the fuck up. A result of Benny planting C4 all around the town of Newt and finally ending the Cannibal town.

End of franchise

This is a neat way to end the series, or at least the original timeline Cause

the original timeline never declines in quality.

Leatherface stays consistent in the first three movies, passes down the saw to his adoptive daughter and returns for one final massacre

All the survivors return for one final confrontation with the town

Chance for All-American Massacre to happen

One big family reunion

If you are Earthborn, you are both members of the 10th Street Reds

If you are a Spacer, Leng and Shepard's families served together and Shepard and Leng were childhood friends

If you are a Colonist, Leng was Shepard's childhood friend and was in the rubble with Shepard

If you are a War Hero, Leng was wounded as Shepard held off the Batarians during Elysium. Leng's survival and stand against the Batarians attack on Elysium caught Cerberus' interest.

If you are Sole Survivor, you both survived an ambush on Akuze. Only Leng wasn't taken to be experimented on. Leng was recruited into joining Cerberus for his survival. Cerberus convinces Leng that the Alliance left him for dead and so did Shepard. Leng's sense of betrayal and human supremacy leads him to joining Cerberus

If you are Ruthless, you and Leng slaughtered the Batarians on Torfan without mercy, The sense of ruthlessness inspired Leng's cold hearted exterior and human supremacist beliefs and led him to Cerberus.

Where do we go from here? Replace Jacob with Kai Leng. And the books would be his ventures with Cerberus(but less as a cringe tryhard) Jacob ultimately added to nothing. He's so fucking boring and unlikable and turns into the stereotypical black guy who cheats on you.

Kai Leng's motivation when it comes to Cerberus would be this. I would say he was a young man who wanted to serve the human race and the alliance but when he saw that the politics of the Alliance kept holding him back from doing the right thing or the greater good,  he saw that Cerberus was the only ones helping humanity.

Remove the cyber ninja aesthetic and combine Soldier, Adapt and Engineer to make him a Cerberus super soldier.

As for Kai Leng. A Leng who has personal history with Shepard has potential, plus Leng being indoctrinated with Cerberus human supremacist beliefs, but also somebody with a moral conscience when it comes to the missing human colonists, somebody emotional that you could agree with or understand, contrasting Miranda as a starting squadmate.

Through the course of ME2, he would grow on you as the rest of the squadmates of ME2 did. His loyalty mission would be centered around our background. If we're a War hero, we hunt down the Batarians who survived Elysium. If we are Sole Survivor, we hunt down the Alliance officer who led their squad to Akuze. If we're Ruthless, we deal with Batarians who want revenge for Torfan who plan on giving human hostages to the Collectors. Throughout their talks, Shepard can convince Leng that Cerberus is wrong and eventually Leng's loyalty with Cerberus begins to wavers, especially after TIM sends them to be ambushed in the Collector ship.

Leng started completely loyal to Cerberus, but when he works with Shepard he sees that Cerberus is wrong, but stayed loyal, but also loyal to Shepard. When The Illusive Man asks Shepard to give the base over and when he/she refuses, he asks Leng to force it. This is where Kai Leng finally stands up to Cerberus. Kai Leng all his life, all he wanted to do is serve and protect humanity. He sees that the humans of the Terminus Systems were proceed into becoming a human Reaper and was horrified and when the man he looked up to for years says we should use what killed the humans, he gets the message we should sacrifice humanity and the costs of uplifting humanity. Kai Leng has had enough. He sees through the illusion of Cerberus and with Miranda tells TIM to fuck off and he stays loyal to Shepard.

Between the events of ME2 and ME3, when Shepard betrays Cerberus, they realize that Kai Leng is probably the strongest link between Shepard and themselves, and try to use him against Shepard. Not as lucky as Miranda, TIM does not want to lose Leng so he captures and indoctrinates Leng, making him an agent, and reprogramming his mind to become somebody he was not before, working mindlessly for TIM, as his first lieutenant in combat, much like Bucky Barnes, we have an emotional connection to Kai Leng before seeing him as a villain in ME3.

The first time we'd see Leng in ME3 is on Earth. We see this lead Cerberus Phantom in a unique mask stalking you and Anderson. And as we're leaving Earth, we see Kai Leng killing Anderson. With Shepard swearing revenge.

Throughout ME3, Leng would be stalking Shepard. Causing trouble as we encounter Cerberus. Trying to kill Eve, activating the bomb on Tuchunka and the attempt on the Council.

He would become the same Kai Leng that we all know and hate but we would be able to sympathize with him more.

When we finally confront him in Priority Citadel, we face him and omni-slash his mask off. We get the reveal. Shepard is shocked, Leng hesitates after hearing Shepard utter his name. Maybe in the Cerberus coup on the Citadel, if his loyalty mission was completed in ME2, he would not kill Thane, out of respect of a former squadmate, and regain conscious thought again for a brief moment to spare him. 

It would also help to explain his inexplicable plot armor. Rather than surviving against the onslaught of Shepard due to plot reasons, he would not be killed, as Shepard still sympathizes with him, and doesn't want to kill him, sparing him and letting him escape, or not being able to fully focus, hoping there's a little bit of the real Kai Leng still in there.

Of course this would lead to multiple outcomes towards the end of the game. He could either be recruited back or un-indoctrinated somehow, but for a good plot he would only be able to turn good again and rejoin the squad way too late in the game, maybe in the last third of the game, like Legion in ME2. Bonus points if you can romance him as Femshep, would still make a better romance carrying on to ME3 than Jacob.

Otherwise, he would have to be killed and could not be saved. I don't think that convincing him to commit suicide like Saren or TIM would work, because it would be too similar to the TIM suicide not too long, and would lose impact because of it. He would have to be fought and killed one last time in combat, and have a tragic end most likely.

If we saved Kai Leng, he would've been transported on the beam. Depending on your reputation and war readiness, Leng can break through the indoctrination and kill The Illusive Man or Leng kills himself, which distracts TIM and Shepard shoots The Illusive Man. If Leng broke through and killed TIM, he apologizes for killing Anderson and being unable to control himself. If you were just friends they hug, if they were LI, they kiss. Leng's fate would be either being aboard the Normandy to put Shepard's plaque on the memorial or finding Shepard's body and bringing him back and then we'd get Shepard putting Anderson's plaque on the Normandy.