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RE: Fireball him! Dungeons and Dragons, Stranger Things, and Other Nerdy Stuff
I like your interpretation! Having Will take action does give him agency as a character, and it probably plays out better than just having him and the other players sit around waiting for Mike to tell them what happens.
I like the idea of Eleven being the fireball in this interpretation, too. She is, after all, a powerful force to be reckoned with!
Is it really "Eleven" though? I'm a CompSci major and whenever I see 011 (0 kept intact), I consider it binary, which converts to "3" in decimal. It's really odd to insert a 0 before 11 if "eleven" is what's really meant.
Sure, there are arguments that point to the tattoo as a designation much like Nazi concentration camps, although in a laboratory/test subject kind of setting. It's just really weird that there's a 0 there. Do they intend to go until 999 and stop there? Since the 80s are the advent of the computer revolution, it could be an homage to that by the creators.
Anyway, yeah, that's how I interpreted it, since 011 is pretty much the only weapon they had against it. Sure the three teens tried to burn it at one point as well, but I guess their d20 roll landed on a miss.