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Benjamin (Ben/016) Emerson

Full Name: Benjamin Phillip Miller Emerson

Nicknames: Ben, Steve calls him Emerson sometimes, and Robyn calls him Benny, which annoys him a little, but he lets it slide because it's Robyn.

Age: 14 at the start of Season 1. (Older depending on seasons)

Best Friend: Zoey Jones (My other Oc) and Gareth Emerson (His older cousin) Will Byers (possibly a trauma bond cause he was also stuck in the Upside Down, longer than Will was, as he disappeared a week before Will.) Because of his insecurities, he was made to believe that Billy was a friend and would go out with him to parties, coming back home or to Zoey's, Gareth's, or Eddie's trailer, at odd times after having been out at a party with Billy and having had too much to drink as an underaged teen. He soon realizes that Billy isn't a friend and that makes him closed off towards people as he doesn't want to feel bad again.

Family: He doesn't really talk about his parents and the Party, Eleven, Eddie, Zoey, Steve, Robyn, Jonathan, Gareth, and Nancy are more like his family than anything else. He looks at Robyn like an older sister even though they're a year or so apart. He also follows Steve around like a lost puppy and looks at Joyce Byers like a mom. His dad is always absent from the picture and his mom checked out a while back, leaving Ben feeling slightly abandoned. The only contact he really has with his dad is when he brings his grades home and his dad criticizes them and him, comparing everything he does to his older brother, Henry, who disappeared years before. Henry was the 'model' child while in front of his parents, a popular basketball star that got better than average grades and excelled at things without even trying, but when he was outside of their parents supervision, he was the complete opposite and it worried his little brother, even though Henry didn't treat him kindly either. Ben idolized his brother, the image of what his brother could have been. When his brother disappeared, it broke something in the family and Ben started secretly rebelling, and the only things that helped him through were D&D campaigns with his older cousin Gareth and his friend Zoey.