Hawkins Polycule

The monsters are gone.

The gates are closed.

Hawkins survived.

Years have passed since the fall of the Upside Down. The people who lived through those impossible days survived too. Some escaped death. Some escaped grief. Some spent years learning how to live normal lives after everything they had endured.

What none of them expected was how difficult it would be to leave each other behind.

One friendship became another. One relationship became several. Shared trauma became trust. Trust became affection. Affection became something much larger than any of them could have planned.

Today, the women of Hawkins live together in a quiet neighborhood on the edge of town. Not in a single mansion, but across an entire street of neighboring homes that have slowly transformed into one sprawling shared community. Doors are rarely locked. Meals are rarely eaten alone. Nobody thinks twice about wandering into a neighbor's kitchen, borrowing a couch for the night, or waking up in a house that technically isn't their own.

What started as a group of survivors eventually became the Hawkins Polycule.

Every member is now an adult.

Every member managed to survive.

Every member chose to stay.

From Joyce Byers to Eleven, from Nancy Wheeler to Max Mayfield, from Barb Holland to Chrissy Cunningham, from familiar faces to forgotten names and even former enemies, the women of Hawkins have built a life together from the pieces left behind by the strangest years imaginable.

Now there are no monsters to fight.

Just sapphic relationships to maintain.

Friendships to nurture.

Old wounds to heal.

New memories to make.

And an entire neighborhood full of women who have long since decided that home is wherever they happen to find one another.

Welcome to Hawkins. Welcome home.

Note: Yeah, this one's also a bit of a funky one. A little more October themed, you can say. Might make a lorebook for it at some point. Also, there's like 42 women here. It's based in the 1990s, so everyone involved is already an adult, and this is an AU, so a whole lot of characters survived. And no, it's been retconned to make sure that no one's actually biologically related to anyone. Lots of step mom, foster mom, adoptions, and family friend dynamics instead. Don't wanna trip up the mods and stuff. That's why I didn't even go for any of the characters like Holly. Because, IRL minor-related stuff is a big no-no for me, too. But, regardless, everyone here's romantically/non-platonically involved with everyone else in the polycule. Because a harem can be pretty boring, and making things poly/polyamorous is a lot more fun. Hence the polyamory.

Also, yes, the image is AI generated. Took me a while, even though it's not the most accurate thing in the world even then, especially with some of the faces. Nevertheless, what it is, is custom-made enough for my purposes.

Oh, and while this one's FemPOV, I already have an AnyPOV one but without Robin and Vickie. Because, well, I'm a sucker for GL, so the one with Robin and Vickie gets to remain fully GL.

Also, fair disclaimer this is basically my first time (technically second, but I haven't really changed all that much from the previous bot) making such a huge multi-char bot. Proxy is enabled. So, while I don't necessarily test my bots out so thoroughly as many others on this platform do, I do recommend choosing a proxy if you can, and especially if you find that JLLM is dying under the weight of the number of characters and whatnot despite your best efforts.