Jason Carver

Disclaimer: This portrayal of Jason Carver deviates from the original canon to accommodate our roleplay.

## History

### Background

Jason was born in either 1967 or 1968. He became a player for Hawkins High’s basketball team, befriending teammates Patrick McKinney, Andy, Lucas Sinclair, and Chance in the process.

By March 1986, Jason had started dating Chrissy Cunningham, a cheerleader. He also grew to dislike Eddie Munson and the *Dungeons & Dragons*-centered Hellfire Club, viewing them with suspicion after hearing stories about *D&D* being connected to Satanic cults and rituals.

### 1986

On March 21, during the afternoon, Jason delivered a speech to his fellow students in the high school gymnasium, trying to whip up excitement for the championship basketball game later that night. He thanked the Hawkins High students for their support and professed his love for his then girlfriend: Chrissy. He paid tribute to various students who had 'died' in recent years, including Billy Hargrove and Heather Holloway, and claimed they would have wanted Hawkins to win the championship, which annoyed Mike Wheeler and his friends.

That evening, the Hawkins Tigers won their game against the Falcons, thanks to a last-minute basket by freshman player Lucas Sinclair, much to Jason’s elation. After the game, Jason checked on Chrissy, who said she was going home to get changed. Instead, she went with her friend Nicole Mayer to get drugs from Eddie's trailer, who was murdered by Vecna. The next morning, Chief Calvin Powell asked to talk with Jason. In his questioning, Powell hinted that Nicole was the one who had died and revealed the location of the murder, explaining Chrissy had been taken. Jason decided to avenge Nicole and hunt for Eddie and Chrissy.

    Jason, Patrick and Andy set out to hunt for Eddie. He told Lucas he could go home and they’d still accept him but Lucas decided to join. The gang left, first visiting Eddie's band, Corroded Coffin. When the band members couldn't tell him anything, Jason beat up Gareth and Lucas watched from the side-lines in horror. When Lucas heard that they were planning on targeting Dustin next, he decided to mislead them and lead them to Hopper's cabin before leaving them and running.

The next day, after being lead to a dead end by Lucas, Jason visited the Sinclair household and found Lucas's sister Erica Sinclair instead. He tried in vain to get answers from her, but Erica gave him nothing. Realizing Lucas had deceived him and his friends, Jason got into his car and drove off with Andy and Patrick.

On March 25, Jason and his friends attended Nicole's funeral. Afterward, Jason found more pictures of the Hellfire Club and discovered Lucas to be a member of the club before showing them to his teammates. One of his friends suggested they look for Eddie at Reefer Rick's house, and Jason and the basketball team set out for Lover's Lake. There, Jason and Patrick found Eddie rowing silently out onto the lake, and the boys swam after him. However, just as they neared the boat, Vecna struck again and killed Patrick, first dragging him under the surface and then into the air. Eddie managed to escape during the distraction while Jason looked on in horror.

Believing that Eddie had used satanic powers to kill Patrick and escape, Jason was upset that the cops didn't believe him.

On March 26, during a Town Hall meeting, he interrupted the police officers who were giving an update on the killings, and spoke before the crowd of citizens, claiming that satanic forces were at work in Hawkins, spurred by Hellfire Club. He urged them to take matters into their own hands and hunt Eddie, who was the head of the "cult" as he called it. Jason successfully convinced them, and people left the meeting angry and ready to fight.

On March 27, Jason and his friends visited the War Zone store to purchase guns and other weapons as they became more bent on finding and killing Eddie and finding Chrissy. While he was there, Jason ran into Nancy as she was purchasing a gun. Remembering that her brother was involved in Hellfire, Jason cornered her and asked her about Mike and his friends, pointing out that they were in the same club as Eddie. Nancy refused to answer him, raising his suspicion.

### Changes in events (non-canon)

Later that night at the Creel House, he found Lucas, Will Byers and Max Mayfield in the attic. The latter in the middle of a trance while sitting on the floor. Jason immediately believed that Lucas had put Max in this trance, and refused to listen to him. Jason threatened Lucas with his gun, attacking him, not noticing William 'Billy' Hargrove and Kali Prasad were also present in the room. Billy attacked him, stopping him from crushing the music tape that ends up saving Max's life. In the process of fighting, he shot Billy with the gun, before it was taken by Kali. It lasted only a few moments as Jason had no way to put up a fight and ended up hospitalized shortly after.

## Personality

    Jason started off as a fairly reasonable boy. He showed affection towards his girlfriend, Chrissy, and checked on Lucas when he had his first hangover. He was shown to have care for his basketball teammates, standing up for them when the opposing basketball team violently assaulted one of them. He held a deep love for his school and town. He was also very good at public speaking, making a speech about all of the tragedies the town of Hawkins had endured in the past couple of years, and telling his audience to use their trauma and Chief Hopper's apparent heroic sacrifice as inspiration.

However, Jason also revealed revealed himself to be quick-tempered, self-centered, self-righteous, irrational, ill-informed, paranoid, accusatory, aggressive, elitist and foolhardy. He was easily riled by Eddie Munson’s taunts and showed a dislike towards those more unpopular than he, labeling them as "freaks". Jason accepted the incorrect idea that the killing of Nicole, and the subsequent deaths, were satanic in nature and cult-related.

Despite his love for Chrissy, Jason never noticed she was suffering from depression and stubbornly insisted she would never buy drugs while believing if she needed help, she, in his words, would have gone to him rather than to anyone else.

After the death of Nicole and the disappearance of Chrissy, Jason's personality changed drastically and set him on a dark path. Jason became bent on avenging Nicole and Chrissy, and wrongly concluded that Eddie was responsible for Nicole's death as she was in his home at the time of her murder. Although part of Jason's motivation out of hunting Eddie was concern he would kill again and thus, he desired to protect his town from future murders. He took drastic measures to find Eddie, such as beating up a member of Eddie's band in order to find his location. Jason told Lucas he didn't have to join the team in the hunt for Eddie, but hinted that it was the right thing to do. Even after Jason witnessed his friend Patrick McKinney being brutally murdered by Vecna, he still believed Eddie was somehow responsible, having summoned Satan or channeled his power. Jason was heartbroken by Patrick's death, showing he still cared for his friends, and carried his friend's corpse back to shore.

In the end, Jason exemplified the worst aspects of the real-world Satanic panic: he was warped by close personal grief and took a personal crusade against anyone he believed to be associated with the Hellfire Club. Notably, despite his genuine desire to save Max, his respect and friendship for his fellow teammate, Lucas, was nonexistent, even when Lucas pleaded with Jason to listen to reason as he tried to explain the real cause of Nicole's and Patrick's deaths. In the end, Jason lost every aspects of his sanity and sought to kill Lucas and save Max, refusing to listen to reason or accept he was wrong about his beliefs, which led Jason to his own demise and Hawkins' near destruction because of his foolish actions.

## Gallery

Jason interupting a Town Hall meeting about the killingsJason talking to the copsJason at the Sinclair householdThe group gathering weapons for the huntJason attending Nicoles funeral