Vecna (Stranger Things)

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## In-Universe Information

### Place of Birth / Origin:

The Upside Down (Vecna)
Hawkins (Henry Creel)

### Other Forms:

Henry Creel
Peter Ballard

### Affiliation:

The Upside-Down
The Mind Flayer
Hawkins Lab, Hawkins Lab Massacre

### Powers and Abilities:

Telepathy
Telekinesis
Dream Manipulation
Oneric Slaying
Strength
Teleportation (presumably)
Illusory Mind Control
Advanced Intelligence
Retrocognition
Hypnosis

### Nicknames:

One
Henry

## Behind The Scenes Information

### Creator(s):

The Duffer Brothers

> I found a nest of black widows hiding inside a vent. Most people fear spiders. They detest them. And yet, I found them endlessly fascinating. More than that, I found a great comfort in them. A kinship. Like me, they are solitary creatures. And deeply misunderstood. They are gods of our world. the most important of all predators. They immobilise and feed on the weak bringing balance and order to an unstable ecosystem. But the human world was disrupting this harmony. You see, humans, are a unique type of pest, multiplying and poisoning our world, all while enforcing a structure of their own. A deeply unnatural structure. Were others saw order, I saw a straitjacket. A cruel, oppressing world dictated by made-up rules. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, each life a faded lesser copy than the one before, wake up, eat, work, sleep, reproduce and die!
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> Maxine. You think some letters... are going to make things right? You've. Broken. EVERYTHING! Your time... is almost.. at an end.
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Vecna is the main villain in season 4 of the 2016 Netflix original series, Stranger Things. He is known for being similar to the main enemy of Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy Krueger.

## Early Life (Henry Creel)

Henry Creel was the son of Victor Creel. When the Creel family moved into a new house, Henry found a nest of black widows hiding in a bathroom vent. He became increasingly interested in spiders, but most people feared them. He then noticed this along with the fact that most not only are afraid, but despise spiders and they kill them. He then grew to hate people and society and the order that people would live in; wake up, eat, work, sleep, reproduce and die. He didn't like people and society and didn't want to be a part of it. He then realised that he didn't need to be. He then found out about his powers and tested them. One day, he decided to kill his family by using his powers. Killing Virginia (his mum) first. His dad, Victor, tried to open the door, but Henry used his powers to stop this. Once he managed, Henry managed to make him hallucinate him being back in France in World War II. he then turned back into his house. Meanwhile, Henry killed Alice (his sister). He then fell into a coma shortly after by using too much of his powers. He then woke up tied up into a chair with Dr. Martin Brenner in front of him, making Project MkUltra, using psychedelic drugs to use mind control and test their powers. He tattooed Creel's wrist with a tattoo saying, "001".

## Grown Up as Peter Ballard

Once Henry grew up with other Hawkins Lab test subjects, Brenner made him go by the name, Peter Ballard so that others wouldn't know that staff would be prisoners. Brenner put a device into Peter called Soteria that weakened, tracked him and stopped him from using his powers. He tried to help Eleven and talked her into taking the Soteria out of him and made him use his powers to kill a few guards. He told Eleven to stay in a room and revealed to her that he was One. Shortly after, the alarm rang. When El stepped out of the room, she saw dead bodies of the guards and numbers. As she went to another room, she saw One killing Two with his powers. He then talked to El about his past life and hate for society and tried to talk her into joining him. Eleven reasonably refuses and uses her powers to push him away. She tries again, but fails and One lifts her up, trying to kill her, but fails. Eleven uses her anger of what Brenner did to her mum and uses enough anger to push Henry away and open a gate to the Upside-Down, pushing him through. She then slips into a coma by using too much of her powers, like One.

## Becoming Vecna

Once Eleven opened a gate, and put Henry through, he was sent to the atmosphere of the Upside-Down and struck by lightning. He then becomes an explorer of the dimension, having nothing else to do. He then finds "something that would change everything". He found dark particles floating around and moving, but Vecna used his telekinesis to move the particles and give it a preferred shape and form. A form Henry was fascinated by as a child; the form of a giant spider. this then turned out to be the Mind Flayer. This means that Vecna controls the Mind Flayer, and the Mind Flayer controls the Demogorgons, Demobats, Demodogs, Larval stages of creatures from the Upside-Down and the vines. Meaning that Vecna controls every living life form in the Upside-Down. He then targeted 4 victims. But, the thing is, these victims need to have some guilt or haunting thought of past trauma in their life. The four victims were Chrissy Cunningham, Fred Benson, Patrick McKenny, and Max Mayfield. Chrissy, being guilty of buying drugs and her abusive mother. Fred, being guilty of not saving a kid from dying in a car crash when he was younger. Patrick, being guilty of his dad, and Max, being guilty of her brother, Billy's death.

## Relationships

* **Martin Brenner** - Vecna's enemy and non-biological father.
* **Eleven** - Vecna's greatest enemy.
* **Mind Flayer** - Vecna's friend.
* **Hawkins Demogorgon** - Vecna's soldier.
* **Demogorgon Species** - One of Vecna's commanding species.
* **The Party** - Enemy team.