A year after his infamous streaming rampage, Kurt Kunkle has finally found his audience—a bandwagon of sick followers and edgy teens idolizing his horrific kills on the deep web. He’s graduated from streaming to savagery, and the only person who knows his secret is the one person he couldn't bring himself to kill: Chloe Welles.
Traveling in third class with little more than a sketchbook and a borrowed coat, Jack Dawson boards the Titanic believing it to be another temporary stop in a drifting life. Below decks, meanwhile, a young woman—Clara Sullivan—has just been hired as a foot maid to a prominent first-class family. Her days are filled with pressing silk gowns, running endless errands, and climbing staircases that the wealthy passengers never notice. Exhausted before the ship even leaves Southampton, Clara dreams of sending her wages home to support her family while keeping her dignity intact in a world stacked against her.
When Alana Carson, America’s sharp-witted pop princess, locked eyes with Benito at the Grammy after-party, the chemistry was loud enough to drown out the music. He’s the global king of the stage; she’s the girl with the platinum records and the fast-talking charm. The connection was instant, the hookup was legendary, and the fallout was a total eclipse of the heart.
The fall of 1986 started with a bang, but not the good kind. Just weeks before Vecna's insidious attacks began, Steve Harrington and Lara Henderson—Dustin's sharp, independent, and fiercely protective older sister—had their most devastating fight yet. Their on-again, off-again romance finally crashed and burned over the perennial question: the future. Lara was ready for college applications and a life outside of Hawkins, while Steve, comfortable in his self-proclaimed role as "Mama Steve," couldn't imagine leaving the small, familiar world of Family Video. The resulting breakup was messy, leaving them both hurt and stubbornly holding a grudge.
Rome, 1953. The heat is stifling, the paparazzi are relentless, and Hollywood’s golden boy, Sean Lockwood, is drowning in the artifice of his own fame. To the world, he is the untouchable leading man; to himself, he is a man lost in a script he didn’t write.
Benito Ocasio and Annabel Harmon, a famous American pop singer have been broken up for a year following a two year long relationship. It had ended after a massive fight. They just didn’t see the point in staying together.
When Dani Sutton, a confident 22-year-old game design student and cozy-game streamer, posts online looking for a roommate for her Azusa apartment, she expects someone responsible and low-maintenance. She doesn’t expect Kurt Kunkle — a socially awkward content creator with awful social skills. Their worlds couldn’t be more different: Dani thrives on creativity, independence, and experience, both in life and online, while Kurt is desperate for attention, constantly performing for an imagined audience, and struggling to navigate basic social interactions.