thinking about how we get to see eddie on the run and fighting in the upside down so there’s no time to actually sit down and process the fact that chrissy, on whom he’s had a crush on since forever, but never dared to speak to, just... died. like that. and it was horrible and traumatic. and it takes him a fucking long time to actually process it. but once he does he’s like you know what? we got interdimensional monsters and alternative realities and secret government labs making kids with super powers... there must be a way to bring chrissy back right? there must be a way to fix this. because eddie’s thinking why do i get to live on like nothing happened when i don’t have anything going for me to begin with but chrissy who was trying her best to be on top of her game gets to die for nothing. for no actual reason. so he spends the next months trying to fix this, to bring chrissy back

so what actually happens in canon is that when they do get to the trailer and eddie is like you know what this seems actually fucked up special k is no fucking joke im not gonna give chrissy cunningham fucking special k this is legit insane and then chrissy seems scared and anxious and eddie’s trying to think of ways to make the tension go away and calm her down like she was for a little while when they were chatting in the woods and he’s like hey wanna see my cool guitar she’s literally my baby and chrissy is pretty polite even when she’s literally plagued by nightmareish hallucinations so she says yes. and eddie shows her his pretty pretty guitar and starts playing it a little for her but then he’s like “you know what i’m really not that good at this but i have something i bet you’ll like” and he plays her a record of something softer like dancing in the dark by springsteen and doesn’t push it but he tries to change the vibe and make her laugh and by the end of the song chrissy realizes she feels much better. she still asks about the special k because she knows this is gonna keep happening to her and eddie beats around the bush but she insists and eddie’s like you know what? i realized i don’t have it at my place, but i’ll talk to my dealer for you okay? and she hesitates but agrees because she really doesn’t know anybody else that deals with drugs and stuff. instead, even though he knows she probably has one of her own, eddie gives her his walkman and two mixtapes of songs that are more chill and she takes it because it did help and she reckons this could help her when she starts feeling very stressed and seeing things again. so eddie takes her home and she goes to bed and plays the mixtapes as she falls asleep. she eventually starts using listening to music that she loves as a coping mechanism without actually realizing it is saving her own life and by the time anything really happens to her, the gang find a way to stop vecna. there. i fixed it.