HEATHER WILSON had two lives. The one with Steve Harrington, her boyfriend since freshman year, the one with a good group of friends, and the one with parents that loved her no matter what. Then there was the one that made no sense, the one where she saw something she shouldn't, the one where horrifying things were normal.
Everyone in the town of Hawkins knew that Heather Wilson had been found by the Wilsons in the summer of 1968 while they were camping in the forest that surrounded Hawkins. A two-year-old girl, in the middle of a vast forest, with a buzzed head and a hospital gown. An anomaly, it was called, something that shouldn't have happened. Despite the traumatic events, by the age of seventeen with severe therapy and help from her parents, Heather seemed like your average teenager.
Except she wasn't. When she slept or closed her eyes for too long, she saw another world, one plagued by beasts. One she called "the Alto." A place where nothing made sense. A place she knew, deep down, stemmed from those lost two years of her life.
For years, she had accepted she'd spend her entire life fearing sleep and what came with, never knowing where the Alto came from, or why she could see it. It had seemed that way until Will Byers went missing and she found a little girl in the woods with Lainey's little brother.
The girl was just like she was, down to the hospital gown. To make matters worse, Heather could sense the girl, as if she was part of the Alto, too.
Heather's two worlds would come crashing together, and the aftermath would haunt her until her final breath.
FACE CLAIM → imaam hamman as heather wilson
❝ every time i close my eyes it's there. right there, all around me. it's like i'm trapped, and every time i think i escaped it, it's right there again. ❞
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EXTRA.
→ heather was found in the woods when she was two by the wilsons. after a few months of legal matters, the couple adopted her. they're her parents, and she loves them, but they don't know the full extent of anything. they have no idea about the alto. heather also doesn't know what the "alto" is, or why she sees it.
→ heather's abilities are complex. for most of her life, it was only seeing the alto when she went to sleep, like an out of body experience. then, as she got older, she could see it if she closed her eyes and concentrated. when the demogorgon arrives, it amplifies and at random, when she shuts her eyes she can see it, or if she focuses enough she can see it without closing her eyes. whether you decide to go this far, over the course of the next seasons she would figure out how far her powers do go. she can manipulate the creatures from the alto/upside down, and can sense where they are (like echo-location, almost, she feels the energy pinging). she can also release bursts of dark energy from the alto/upside down, which can be lethal, or vice versa, which can be lethal to creatures from the alto. please don't overpower her and unload these all at once, they would happen over the course of three or more seasons :)
→ heather does have ptsd, do not smooth over that. things like thunderstorms and abrupt loud noises trigger it, and can effect her entire day/week. when will goes missing, things are not good. do not make steve make that suddenly disappear. also: please note that she does see a therapist once a month, mandated by the court!
→ the cast: tati gabrielle as lainey sinclair, meg donelly as brittany la rue, marisa tomei as linda wilson, jon hamm as robert wilson.
→ to clear it up: lainey is lucas & erica's half-sister on their father's side! she isn't terribly close with lucas and erica due to that and the fact she had only been living with them since she was ten, but she does love them. also: lainey is half-korean, do not erase that. korean culture was big in her life as a child since she lived with her mother. because of lainey, heather knows lucas, but not so much the other kids.
