Hellcheer

"Chrissy, this is for you."

- Eddie doing justice over Chrissy’s death.

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

Canon
In the first episode, we see that Chrissy has been having strange visions in which she hears a voice calling her name. Of course, we know it's Vecna ​​who's been haunting Chrissy, but the show doesn't confirm 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. Maybe it's because she doesn't want to become another "freak" for the people of Hawkins. Either way, Chrissy starts looking for drugs to overcome her fear, and that's where she interacts with Eddie. At first, Eddie offers Chrissy her standard stuff, but she asks for something more robust. That’s when both of them started talking and getting to know each other better. Later Chrissy asks Eddie if he have ever felt like “losing his mind.” to which Eddie jokingly replied, “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 Eddie she thought he would be scarier, which Eddie tells her he thought she would be scarier too. Then 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, on the other hand, tries to wake Chrissy up, thinking she's having some kind of stroke. Vecna ​​then tells Chrissy that her suffering will soon end, and so he possesses Chrissy's body and kills her in the most brutal manner. Unfortunately, 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 in the series, this ship quickly gained a large following, especially in social media, since their forest sequence was highly praised for the chemistry between both characters.

Many fans were disappointed by Chrissy's death, wishing the show could have explored the character and her relationship with Eddie more in depth instead of killing her after she was introduced. Fans of this pairing also point out that they feel like polar opposites but they were both non-judgemental of each other in their scenes together. The Duffer Brothers, the creators of the show, have mentioned that 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.

The actors of Eddie and Chrissy (Joseph Quinn and Grace Van Dien) have confirmed they both did have a small mutual crush on each other. Joseph had said so on an interview, while Grace had confirmed it on Twitter.

On AO3, Edssy is the most written ship for Chrissy and the second most written for Eddie.

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Trivia

 * Joe 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. In the same interiew, he also said that the scene in the woods with Chrissy was his favorite from the series.
 * In a interview with TVLine, Matt and Ross Duffer, the creators of the show, have both spoken of their regret over Chrissy’s death early in Season 4, particularly after shooting her scene with Eddie. They explained that they had already killed Chrissy after shooting the drug-deal scene in the woods, Matt adding that the scene came alive in a way that was just so beautiful, and so much of that was thanks to Joe and Grace. They also said that Joe was doing a lot of stuff spontaneously, and the reactions of Grace to it were amazing. They were impressed by the audience's reception of the character, and they want to do other projects with both Grace and Joe in the future.
 * Joseph Quinn and Grace Van Dien, Eddie's and Chrissy's actors, 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 posted on her Twitter account the hashtag #eddissy in reference to this ship. She also humorously replies to user villanelles on TikTok that the ship name is Edissy instead of Creddie.
 * 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".