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here when i was 13 but im back billion years later for byler canon and jane independent arc obvi
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finn wolfhard u are so loved btw
Not him hitting a pose while being burned alive
good evening. here is your reminder that mike's first words upon seeing eleven were, "that's not will." go forth with this as you will
okay not to be corny but i feel like byler is the shows portrayal of that large scale “movie love”. here’s what i mean,
lumax is a great portrayal of real love. it’s grounded. even when they encounter obstacles, max and lucas don’t give up on each other. they don’t rely on grand gestures to prove their love.
jancy/stancy is a typical (not a bad thing) television love triangle. nancy goes back and forth between steve and jonathan throughout the show. it generates discussion in the audience.
jopper is a classic portrayal of two characters who you basically know will end up together in the end. you see it all the time in movies. they dance around each other until they finally realize and accept their feelings for one another. even when joyce was either bob, the audience was hoping that she would end up with hopper.
dustin and suzy are a juvenile and lighthearted portrayal of young love. they aren’t a major focus.
mileven is a teenage relationship that just doesn’t work. it’s a train wreck. sometimes it’s supposed to be comical and sometimes it’s supposed to be frustrating but more than that, it’s unserious. and it directly contrasts,
byler. the relationship that has been building since season one that will tie the entire show together. it is the culmination of the shows core themes and message. it’s the logical conclusion of a story that has been anti-conformity since day one. mike and will have been put through through so many classic romance tropes. they’ve fought, they’ve risked their lives to save each other, and their relationship has been treated as “different” and “special” since the beginning of the show. every season has an intimate byler storyline that separates the two of them from other characters. byler is the stranger things love story and i do believe that it will play a key role in defeating vecna.
for all its similarities and parallels to the other romantic couples on the show, it is also inherently different. no other couple encapsulates the heart of the show quite like byler does and there’s a reason they left the “reveal” for the finale. byler has always been the show stopping love story of the show, not mileven.
sometimes i forget the reason will wanted to play dnd so bad was probably because he missed most of his childhood being possessed and burnt and kidnapped. i love him will byers happiness era 2025 PLEASEE
goddamn it. I was already theorizing that Will's actions are going to be subconsciously manipulated by Vecna, and these statements are very congruent with that idea.
this person also 'debunked' Bychance ( though the way i see bychance, it's not meant to be a long-term or endgame plotline where Will and him are portrayed all lovey-dovey, and this person being vague about 'some aspects' being right also kind of makes me raise by eyebrow. ) so for now, i'll carry on with bychance bc as is, it is what makes sense to me.
however, this aside, i'm not fully on board with trusting leakers whether i like what they're saying or not until i see the show with my own two eyes ( or official things such as teasers, trailers, etc ) because these CAN be inferred ( like i did ) if you have a decent understanding of the show.
in fact, upon a rewatch of S4EP4 i noticed some 'parallels' between Viktor Creel and Will--as in, both of them being The First Survivors of Vecna in their own right.
( adding my own quick drawing here bc i literally thought of this by the mention of 'snappy dialogue' in the leaks )
but let's say both this person and i are correct--then yeah, will is going to be in need of some type of coping mechanism, ( and the chances of it being unhealthy are high, since I REALLY doubt the show will picture him going to therapy and it actually helping him, or doing other stuff like meditation, journaling, etc. not to mention i don't think he'll be drawing this time like i explained in this post )
if he just pushes on putting this amount of weight onto himself without anyone intervening or even knowing how to help ( like the bit about the birds suggests ), he'll drive himself straight into vecna's arms. as a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure that's what Vecna is expecting. he won't have to move a muscle when it comes to Will, not really.
and i fucking HATE the goddamn implication of vecna needing will for something still bc the mental picture i get is really freaking violent and wish i could delete it from my subconscious. the leaker mentioned something with fire. and it can be fire or whatever it is but i get the feeling it has something to do with causing will extreme pain. ugh.
so a bychance arc ( or whoever, honestly. atp just give my boy SOMETHING to help alleviate the weight he's carrying ) feels fitting to me as some sort of 'training' for his self-worth and whatnot as he faces off against vecna.
its so frustrating knowing i have 0 control over my favorite character's destiny and it is stressing me out so bad i'm going to need therapy myself by the end of this. ugh
but still, im staying strong on my stance about bychance until the Actual Show comes out.
Mike constantly trying to call Will but never writing him actually makes a lot of sense.
Letters are tricky. They force the writer to consider the relationship between them and the person they’re writing.
Picking a greeting forces you to evaluate the level of intimacy between yourself and the recipient. There are “rules” to writing salutations. Use this for your girlfriend, that for your mother, that for your teacher, etc. “Dear Will” has different connotations than “To Will” or “Hey Will”, or like, “To whom it may concern”.
It’s the same with closings: “Love, Mike”? “From, Mike”? “Best regards, Mike”? I mean, Mike and El literally argue about this. There are expectations for which specific words to use with which specific people depending on the situation, relationship, and topic.
Calls are different. They’re much more like normal conversations, where words are said but the exact phrasing is much more flexible. There’s less worrying about how a specific sentence will be received because there’s less room for that sentence to be pulled apart for its implications.
Basically, Mike wanted to call Will instead of writing him because writing letters would force him to clarify their relationship via a greeting or closing… which would force him to confront his feelings. Ha.
also I’m personally a huge fan of the idea that Mike has a bunch of half written letters to Will that he gave up on because they were too revealing— to himself
So glad I get to experience homosexual desire. One life and thank god I'm not straight
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