Inside the room, the group find a container that holds a green substance, but before they can leave, are trapped in the room when it goes underground. Erica agrees to help them in exchange for free ice cream for life, and proceeded to enter the air ducts to open the door for them. When Dustin Henderson, Steve Harrington and Robin Buckley discover that the Russians are in the mall, they ask for Erica's help in entering the air ducts. In the summer of 1985, Erica hangs out at the Starcourt mall, where she spends most of her time abusing the free samples at Scoops Ahoy. On the night of the Snow Ball, Erica again made fun of Lucas after she witnessed him talking in front of his mirror, practicing how to ask Max Mayfield to dance. It was then that she finally revealed to Lucas that Dustin had been trying to contact him. The next day, Erica was playing in her room when Lucas came to retrieve his toy she had taken from him. Dustin tried to explain to her the severity of the situation, however, Erica didn't listen and turned the radio off. Later, when Dustin Henderson was trying to contact his friends to warn them about Dart, Erica, who had sneaked into Lucas's room, was the only one to answer him. She taunted him, calling him a “nerd”.Įrica was having breakfast with the rest of her family when Lucas asked their father for advice. Sinclair photographed Lucas in his Ghostbusters costume. On the morning of October 31, Erica watched as Mrs. Erica is a fan of My Little Pony, even naming her D&D character after Lady Applejack.Įrica Sinclair was born in Hawkins, Indiana in 1975 to Charles and Sue Sinclair, and is the younger sister to Lucas. In the end, however, she softens up to the gang and the boys give Erica their Dungeons and Dragons set. She is also incredibly self-centered, choosing to help Dustin, Steve and Robin infiltrate the Russian base beneath Starcourt Mall with the promise of free ice cream and protecting capitalism rather than out of patriotism. Additionally, while she does not doubt the existence of the Upside Down and the creatures that come from it after Dustin explains them to her, she initially refused to believe that Lucas was involved with either of them until he helped save her from the Russians. It's also implied she sneaks into his room and steals his stuff, such as Lucas' He-Man action figure. However, despite her abject disapproval of nerds, it is revealed in the third season that she is a math whiz and therefore a nerd herself. She constantly calls him weird and annoying due to his nerdiness and for the same reason isn't fond of Lucas' friends, thus barely showing any respect to them. ( Note: I did just that at the Stranger Things pop up in Chicago.) Folks back then wanted you to choose your side rather than openly claim all the parts of yourself.Erica is the somewhat typical annoying and little sister to Lucas and a source of irritation to him. But like Erica and her brother Lucas, I sat on the edge of being on the cheerleading (for him, basketball) team but also wanting to spend Saturdays playing games in the basement or at the arcade. I was lucky in that I too had a neighborhood group of kids to play games with. To find black players at that time was a rare thing and to find white groups welcoming of black players was another, also rare, thing altogether. For me, 80s D&D was a subculture and nerd culture was a sub-sub culture well unlike today. At the very least, she could help to save it.Īs a black woman who was about Erica’s age in the Stranger Things 80s timeline, I can appreciate the character’s nerdiness, mathematical prowess and ability to bring her A-game to hours of Dungeons and Dragons play - but only after she gave herself permission to be herself. But all that was corrected in the third season of Stranger Things and now, with Stranger Things 4 about to cap off Independence Day weekend in the United States, Erica is poised once again to steal the show - or to help correct it.
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