Nancy has the power of Honesty Compulsion, described as follows:

She can cause people to feel more compelled to tell the truth. The level of compulsion varies widely by person and situation (allowing other players to decide how affected their characters may or may not be, of course!) While the power is more or less continuous and she cannot turn it off altogether, Nancy will be able to increase the effectiveness of it through concentration and other little tricks, such as: holding eye contact; making physical contact; catching someone off guard; and/or speaking to the other person in an earnest, urgent, or threatening tone.

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〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉

CHARACTER NAME: Nancy Wheeler

CHARACTER AGE: 17

SERIES: Stranger Things

CHRONOLOGY: S2E2, following the Halloween party. Season 2 spoilers ahoy!

CLASS: A hero/anti-hero mix. Nancy has a very strong sense of justice, and is not above ruining some lives if she feels the people involved did something to deserve it.

HOUSING: Nancy is going to move in with her brother as soon as she finds out he's around no matter where she gets placed originally!


BACKGROUND:

Nancy Wheeler's life is pretty normal. She is the eldest child in a nuclear family; she gets good grades in school; she spends weekends shopping with her best friend, Barbara Holland; she is sort of seeing a cute boy, the ever-popular and athletic Steve Harrington. Then one day her little brother's friend Will Byers goes missing. But they live in Hawkins, Indiana, a friendly little town where nothing that bad ever happens, and at first Nancy views Will's disappearance as an inconvenience. Her parents won't let her out of the house until he turns up, and she'd really like to spend more time with that cute boy who's suuuuper into her. So Nancy lies to her parents about her whereabouts and uses Barb as a cover to go to Steve's house for a party, where the kids get a bit drunk and play in the pool for a while before Nancy decides to go up to Steve's room with him. Barb calls her out for not behaving like herself, and Nancy tells her that she's fine, and to go on home. She knows what she's doing. (What she's doing is Steve Harrington, that happens.)

The next day, however, Barb does not show up for school. Nancy immediately feels that something is wrong, and leaves Steve at school to go back to his house and check out the location of Barb's last-known whereabouts. This is the point at which her life turns from "normal" to "decidedly not normal", because this is when she spots a monster in the woods: a tall "man" who doesn't have a face.

Nancy decides to go to the police, and has a fight with Steve, who seems to care more about getting in trouble with his parents for having an unauthorized party than he does about the fact that Barbara is missing.

While Nancy continues to try to piece together clues, Will's body is discovered in a quarry. Nancy approaches his older brother, Jonathan, with questions about a photo that Jonathan took at Steve's house the night of Barb's disappearance. The photo appears to feature the same monster that Nancy saw herself in person. Jonathan believes her, because it turns out his mother claims that the same monster appeared briefly in their house. After attending Will's funeral, Nancy and Jonathan make a decision: they're going to kill the thing that took him. They head into the woods to search for it, and Nancy finds a strange gateway in the trunk of a tree. She crawls through it alone because why not, and finds herself in a different plane of reality: the Upside Down. It's dark, it's cold, it's where the monster lives. She almost gets herself killed and eaten but Jonathan pulls her back into the regular world (the Right Side Up, if you will), and afterward comforts her at her home. Unfortunately, Steve sees them together and teenage drama ensues. Steve and Jonathan get into a fistfight, which is broken up by the police. Jonathan and Nancy are forced to explain themselves to the chief of police, Jim Hopper, even though they do not expect him to believe them.

As it turns out, Hopper has been working with Jonathan's and Will's mother--Joyce Byers--to investigate a place called Hawkin's Lab in connection with Will's disappearance and (apparent) ((actually faked)) death. In the process of said investigation, he has uncovered the existence of a girl who was being held in the lab and supposedly has psionic powers. It then comes to light that this girl has been spotted more than once with an interesting person: Nancy's little brother Mike. When Nancy tries to go home, it becomes apparent that the folks working at Hawkins Lab have also tracked the missing girl to Mike, and that both children are on the run, along with Mike's other friends, Dustin and Lucas. Nancy reaches out to her little brother using Will's walkie-talkie, and Mike trusts her enough to tell her and Hopper where he and the other kids are hiding.

Eventually everyone teams up, Nancy is relieved to see that Mike is okay, and the pieces start to come together. The monster came through a gate in Hawkins Lab, a hole that was torn between the real world and the Upside Down. Will and Barbara may be alive still, in that other world. Eleven (the girl from the lab) can use her abilities to find them.

When she does, however, she reveals the sad truth: Barb is dead. Will is barely holding on. Joyce and Hopper immediately leave, intent on getting through the gate and rescuing Will. Nancy, filled with grief and anger over the death of her friend, convinces Jonathan that they need to finish what they started: they need to draw the monster out and kill it.

They return to Jonathan's house, leaving Eleven, Mike, and the other kids alone. As they are waiting for the monster to be drawn to them, Steve arrives with a change of heart, intent on apologizing to Jonathan after their fight. Chaos ensues when the monster shows up. Nancy shoots it a bunch of times, it gets caught in a bear trap and set on fire, Steve freaks out a lot, etc. Even after all that, they only succeed in wounding the monster, which returns to the middle school where all the other kids are. Eleven manages to destroy it, but appears to destroy herself in the process. Joyce and Hopper are able to rescue Will and bring him home, but only after making an agreement with the government-run lab that none of them will ever tell anyone what they know about the lab, the gate, the monster, Eleven--everything.

Nancy and Steve get together officially. End season one. Nearly a year passes. During this time, Nancy is consumed with guilt about Barbara's death (which she believes to be her fault), and especially the fact that Barb's parents are still holding on to hope that their daughter might be alive somewhere. Nancy wants to tell them what she knows, but Steve reminds her that they agreed to never tell anyone, and that the people behind Hawkins Lab are powerful enough to destroy both of their families. He suggests they try to distract themselves with the kinds of things they should be doing as dumb teenagers, like going to Halloween parties and getting drunk.

Which they do. Nancy gets so wasted she fights with Steve, calling him bullshit, saying that she is sick of pretending that they love each other and everything is okay. Steve, understandably upset by this revelation that she is only pretending to love him, leaves her at the party. She blacks out and... wakes up Ported to another world!

PERSONALITY:

Nancy appears to many people to be a well-behaved, sweater-wearing, honor roll student. Her nickname is "the princess", due to her good grades and reputation, but there is a lot more to this girl than meets the eye.

In reality, Nancy Wheeler is headstrong, practically fearless, and downright vengeful when the situation calls. She dreads the thought of being like her mom, a woman who married for convenience and settled down into a loveless, boring marriage for the rest of her life. Nancy wants a very different life. The events of the first season, while terrible, allow her a chance to become much more than the studious good girl everyone thought she was.

She is confident in herself and does not second guess her decisions, whether it be the decision to have her first sexual encounter with a guy who's known for his fooling around, or the decision to travel into the woods with a boy she barely knows and a gun she's fired one time in order to hunt and kill an otherworldly monster that she believes has hurt her friend. Nancy believes in getting things done. She has no tolerance for bullshit; indeed, calling someone or something "bullshit" seems to be, in her consideration, the greatest insult she can throw.

Being a confident teenager, she sometimes prioritizes herself and her own feelings over those of others (ditching Barb at the party to have sex with Steve, for example), but this does not mean she's heartless. In fact, the plight of others often moves her to action. The moment she realizes something has happened to her friend, she makes it her priority to figure out what happened, even if she has to do it alone. When she sees the injustice of keeping Barbara's death from Barb's own parents, she cannot stomach the thought of lying anymore and decides to hold the responsible parties accountable for their actions. "Let's burn this lab to the ground," she tells Jonathan after they obtain proof of the Hawkins Lab's involvement in Barbara's death.

For someone who hates bullshit so much, she has some trouble shining the light on her own feelings, particularly her feelings for Steve and Jonathan. It's more comfortable for her to deny that anything is going on, which she does repeatedly regarding both boys. "It's not like that", "we're just friends", etc, even when it very clearly is like that.

Nancy is not afraid of using violence. She slaps Steve in the face when he and his friends publicly slut-shame her. She takes up shooting quite easily, and between the two seasons has clearly taught herself more about using guns. She's shown ready to beat the crap out of a monster with a baseball bat. The most extreme example (in the opinion of the person writing this app) of her using violence as means of getting shit done, is when she sticks a possessed child with a red hot poker to keep said possessed child from strangling his own mother during what could be considered an exorcism attempt. Needless to say, Nancy is not afraid to get her hands dirty.

Though she is generally a pretty tough cookie, like any person she has her vulnerable moments. When she finds out in the first season that a government agency is after her little brother for harboring one of their experimental weapons, she becomes very worried and is relieved to see him in one piece later, embracing him tightly in a gesture of affection he doesn't seem to understand. She has a soft spot for Dustin as well, and goes out of her way to cheer him up and give him a confidence boost at a time when she sees he needs it. Her trip to the Upside Down causes her to become very shaken and unable to sleep that night. The pain of Barb's parents wounds her deeply, combined with her own grief and guilt it leaves her sobbing in their bathroom. In the end, it is these emotions that cause her to be such a driven person.

POWER:

Note: all of these are new; she does not have any canon superpowers (save uncanny accuracy when it comes to shooting at things.)

• Super Strength

  Just what it says on the tin. Same tiny body filled with massive reserves of strength. Rather than suddenly finding herself crushing everything she touches, she'll learn that she is now able to push much further beyond her regular strength levels and do cool new things like throw cars and punch through bricks, etc.



• Honesty Compulsion

  She can cause people to feel more compelled to tell the truth. The level of compulsion varies widely by person and situation (allowing other players to decide how affected their characters may or may not be, of course!) While the power is more or less continuous and she cannot turn it off altogether, Nancy will be able to increase the effectiveness of it through concentration and other little tricks, such as: holding eye contact; making physical contact; catching someone off guard; and/or speaking to the other person in an earnest, urgent, or threatening tone.



• Unlimited Alcohol Tolerance

  Also pretty self-explanatory. No amount of alcohol will make her tipsy, drunk, or give her hangover symptoms.