Character Base

• Character Name: Joyce Byers
• Age: 41
• Canon (Date/Year Released)/Canon Point: Stranger Things (2016-present) | Season 3, Episode 2 ("The Mall Rats"), on her way to Mr. Clarke's house
• Items Coming Along: A shitload of library books all about magnets and magnetism, her car (do not ask me the model, just know it's kind of a terrible car), drawings made by Will Byers, a drawing of her deceased boyfriend Bob Newby, flashlight, shotgun
• Content Warnings for Character: child loss, assumed child death, actual child death (of non-major character), implied mental health issues, implied emotional abuse from former spouse, mentions of outdated 80s attitudes towards mental health and queerness, violence, government conspiracy, gaslighting because of government conspiracy, monsters, trauma, smoking. Stranger Things as a canon also has child abuse, medical abuse, domestic abuse directed towards both children and spouse, bullying, overt homophobia, overt belittling of mental illness, racism, possession, abuse of power from government agents, Cold War-era conspiracy paranoia, horror imagery, violence, gore, and otherworldly monsters eating humans. Think a lighter version of Stephen King's Firestarter mixed in with elements from The Goonies, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Three Days of the Condor.

( ain't no river wide enough to keep me from getting to you )

[OOC]

Backtagging: sure!
Threadhopping: sure!
Fourthwalling: in-game, sure! out of game, let me know first.
CONTENT I ABSOLUTELY NEED WARNINGS FOR, BUT CAN STILL PLAY: eye trauma.

CONTENT I ABSOLUTELY NEED WARNINGS FOR AND THAT I CAN'T PLAY: sexual assault/noncon.

[IC]

Hugging this character: sure!
Kissing this character: platonic kisses, sure! romantic kisses, probably with some build-up first.
Flirting with this character: you can try, but Joyce will probably turn you down.
Fighting with this character: sure!
Injuring this character: no eye trauma, and let's talk about major injuries, but minor injuries are fine!
Killing this character: let's talk first!
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: wheezes, sure, she has absolutely no psychic defenses.

Warnings:

Joyce as a character comes with the following: child loss, assumed child death, actual child death (of non-major character), implied mental health issues, implied emotional abuse from former spouse, somewhat outdated 80s attitudes towards mental health and queerness (she's progressive on many things, but her terminology and understanding originates from the 80s, so she might make assumptions), violence, government conspiracy, gaslighting because of government conspiracy, monsters, trauma, smoking. Stranger Things as a canon also has child abuse, medical abuse, domestic abuse directed towards both children and spouse, bullying, overt homophobia, overt belittling of mental illness, racism, possession, abuse of power from government agents, Cold War-era conspiracy paranoia, horror imagery, violence, gore, and otherworldly monsters eating humans. Think a lighter version of Stephen King's Firestarter mixed in with elements from The Goonies, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Three Days of the Condor.

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