Hellcheer

"Chrissy, this is for you."

- Eddie doing justice over Chrissy’s death.

Hellcheer is the het ship between Eddie Munson and Chrissy Cunningham from the Stranger Things fandom.

Canon
In the first episode, Chrissy has been having strange visions in which she hears a voice calling her name. It’s Vecna who's been haunting her, but that’s not confirmed this until the end of the episode. Chrissy doesn’t want to tell anyone about her nightmares, even if Max tries to confront her at school. Chrissy begins looking for drugs to overcome her fear, which is where she interacts with Eddie. At first, Eddie offers her the standard stuff, but she asks for something more robust. That’s when both of them start talking and getting to know each other better. Chrissy asks Eddie if he had ever felt like “losing his mind” to which Eddie jokingly replies, “On a daily basis.” Eddie tells her they have met before, which Chrissy completely forgot, but then remembers him from middle school, making both of them share a smile. Chrissy tells him she thought he would be scarier, to which Eddie tells her he thought she would be scarier too. Later that day, Eddie takes Chrissy home while Max watches them from a distance.

Eddie starts looking for what Chrissy asked for, but unfortunately, Chrissy becomes possessed by Vecna. Chrissy tries to run away from Vecna, but the devil doesn’t let her get away. Eddie tries to wake Chrissy up, thinking she’s having some kind of stroke. Vecna tells Chrissy that her suffering will soon end, and so he possesses her body and kills her in the most brutal manner. Eddie had to watch Chrissy's mind and body being destroyed as Joyce breaks the doll she receives from Russia. Afterwards, Eddie became traumatized over Chrissy's death and guilty for not having been able to help her.

Fanon
Despite Chrissy’s death and the fact that she and Eddie interacted for a very short time, Hellcheer quickly gained a large following. The forest sequence is highly praised for the chemistry between both characters. The duffer brothers confirmed that the forest scene was meant to show Eddie as a safe space. Many fans were disappointed by Chrissy’s death, wishing the show would have explored the two’s relationship more, instead of killing her shortly after being introduced. Fans of the pair also point out they feel like polar opposites, but they were both non-judgmental of each other in their scenes together.

With Chrissy and Eddie's Main Ship Name, Fans have used at least 4 ship names used as their main one. Hellcheer being it's Number 1 most popular Main Ship Name, Edssy being it's 2nd Main Ship Name, Eddissy being it's 3rd Main Ship Name and Edissy being it's 4th Main Ship Name.

Though many in the fandom are turned off by this ship cause of Chrissy being 17 and Eddie being 20-21. With Chrissy being only 17 and Eddie being a legal adult. Many prefer to ship it as Platonic or ship it as them being in a Queerplatonic relationship

On AO3, Hellcheer is the most written ship for Chrissy and the second most written for Eddie. Though with the ship Steddie with it being both Steve and Eddie's first most written ship it does overshadow Hellcheer, although many Steddie fics do include Platonic Hellcheer in it's fics.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

TUMBLR
 * Hellcheer posts on Tumblr
 * Edissy posts on Tumblr
 * Eddissy posts on Tumblr
 * Eddissy posts on Tumblr

TWITTER
 * Hellcheer posts on Twitter
 * Edissy posts on Twitter
 * Eddissy posts on Twitter
 * Eddissy posts on Twitter

Trivia

 * The Duffer Brothers, the creators of Stranger Things, have mentioned they wished they hadn’t killed off Chrissy so soon into the story and instead they could have written more scenes with Eddie and Chrissy, as they didn’t expect the chemistry between the two to be strong.
 * Joseph Quinn and Grace Van Dien, the actors of Eddie and Chrissy, have said they both might’ve have a small mutual crush on each other in their opinion. Joseph had said so on an interview, while Grace had on Twitter
 * Joseph Quinn, Eddie’s actor, said in a interview that he would have loved if there was a world in which Chrissy and Eddie become a couple. During the same interview, he also states the scene in the woods with Chrissy was his favorite from the series.
 * Joseph Quinn and Grace Van Dien, the actors of Eddie and Chrissy, have both posted matching stories of a fan art of Chrissy and Eddie with the caption "Class of 86" and "In another universe" in their Instagram accounts.
 * Grace Van Dien, Chrissy’s actress, posted on her Twitter the hashtag #eddissy in reference to this ship.
 * Netflix Geeked had "edssy fan acc" in their bio at one point.
 * Grace Van Dien, Chrissy's actress, posted a photo to Twitter with Joseph Quinn, Eddie's actor, calling her and Joseph "Hellcheer".