Hellcheer

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

Canon
In the first episode, Chrissy has strange visions where she hears a voice calling her name. It is Vecna who is following her, but this is not confirmed until the end of the episode. Chrissy won't tell anyone about her nightmares, even when Max tries to confront her at school. Chrissy starts looking for drugs to help her overcome her anxiety, which is where she meets Eddie. At first, Eddie offers her the standard stuff, but she asks for something stronger. That's when they start talking and getting to know each other. Chrissy asks Eddie if he ever felt like "losing his mind", to which Eddie jokingly replies, "On a daily basis". Eddie tells her that they have met before, which Chrissy completely forgot, but then remembers him from middle school, which makes them both smile. Chrissy tells him she thought he was scarier, to which Eddie tells her he thought she was 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 is possessed by Vecna. Chrissy tries to run away from Vecna, but the devil won't let her. Eddie tries to wake Chrissy up, thinking she's having a stroke. Vecna tells Chrissy that her suffering will soon end, so he possesses her body and kills her in the most brutal way. Eddie had to watch as Chrissy's mind and body were destroyed when Joyce broke the doll she received from Russia. Afterwards, Eddie was traumatized by Chrissy's death and felt guilty for not being able to help her.

Fanon
Despite Chrissy's death and the fact that she and Eddie only interacted for a very short time, Hellcheer quickly gained a large following. The woods sequence is highly praised for the chemistry between the two characters. The Duffer brothers confirmed that the forest scene was meant to show Eddie as a safe place. Many fans were disappointed by Chrissy's death, wishing the show had explored their relationship more instead of killing her off so soon after her introduction. Fans of the couple also point out that 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 as their main ship name. Hellcheer being it's #1 most popular main ship name, Edssy being it's 2nd most popular main ship name, Eddissy being it's 3rd most popular main ship name and Edissy being it's 4th most popular main ship name.

Although many in the fandom are turned off by this ship because Chrissy being 17 and Eddie being 20-21. With Chrissy being only 17 and Eddie being a legal adult for 2 or 3 years, a lot of people were weirded out by this, though later it was said Chrissy was 18 but then it was 17 and it soon started to become confusing of whether Chrissy’s 17 or 18, and so with that happening many just felt weird about the ship and many even being grossed out towards the ship, making the ship a sorta Thin Ice ship in the fandom. Many just prefer to ship it as platonic or ship it as them being in a queer-platonic relationship or very rarely some ship it as Chrissy having a crush towards Eddie whether the crush being small, average or big, etc, but mainly with Eddie not liking Chrissy like that, making the crush one-sided.

On AO3, Hellcheer is the most written ship for Chrissy and the second most written ship for Eddie. However, with the Steddie ship being both Steve and Eddie's first most written ship, it overshadows Hellcheer, although many Steddie fics 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 that they wish they hadn't killed off Chrissy so early in the story and instead written more scenes with Eddie and Chrissy because they didn't expect the chemistry between them to be strong.
 * Joseph Quinn and Grace Van Dien, the actors who play Eddie and Chrissy, have said that they think they both have a little crush on each other. Joseph said this in an interview while Grace said it at the Montreal ComicCon.
 * Joseph Quinn, Eddie's actor, said in an interview that he would have loved to see a world where Chrissy and Eddie became a couple. In the same interview, he also states that the scene in the woods with Chrissy is his favorite from the series.
 * Joseph Quinn and Grace Van Dien, the actors who play Eddie and Chrissy, both posted matching stories of a fan art of Chrissy and Eddie with the captions "Class of 86" and "In another universe" on their Instagram accounts.
 * Grace Van Dien, Chrissy's actress, posted the hashtag #eddissy on her Twitter in reference to this ship.
 * Netflix Geeked once had "edssy fan acc" in their bio.
 * Grace Van Dien, Chrissy's actress, posted a photo on Twitter with Joseph Quinn, Eddie's actor, and called her and Joseph "Hellcheer".

Variations

 * Chrissy x Jason x Eddie refers to the ship between the two and Jason Carver
 * Steddissy refers to the ship between the two and Steve Harrington