mari // 8teen // 🇺🇸byler & renga lover🫶♾️thinking out loud
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... DID KAREN LISTEN IN ON BYLER'S CALLS? Okay so hear me out
HER SIDE EYE HERE AT TED'S COMMENT ... like, she knows something. i doubt she knows about Byler per se but she knows something we don't know or at least suspects something. Like she did in S1 before the Wheelers learned about El.
WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED DURING THOSE PHONE CALLS? one thing Karen and i have in common is that we're both nosey af i need to know what the heck those two talked about. bc i understand this moment:
was when they both had butterflies for the first time / established that 'mutual understanding' thing they got going on, but i've always felt that something meaningful may have happened during those phone calls to prompt Will to draw that painting. So i get the feeling those phone calls matter for further context.
circling back to Karen, Mike telling Karen "how many times?" literally makes it canon that this moment in S3 was NOT the first time Karen listens in on HIS phone calls specifically.
so i do think this either means Karen having listened in on their phone calls will be brought up in s5 for some reason involving exposition, or we will literally hear their phone calls .... through a recording.
During a moment of action / when something else is going on. Just LOVE the theme of people listening in on private phone conversations, huh? And guess what scene comes RIGHT AFTER THIS ONE? Yup. MIKE ARRIVING AT CALIFORNIA.
We know phones / phone calls have been lightly associated to Byler especially in S4 but now let me introduce to you the idea of them being SPIED ON while having those phone calls, by Karen (intentionally) AND Hawkins Lab/military people (by chance/coincidence)
this is right now my favorite theory i have came up with, bc honestly it is SO much fun finding clues about it. And i feel like whatever conversation they had will be relevant somehow. and this all might be a reach but a part of me feels like i am onto something. perhaps we will have a karen/mike parallel to nancy's conversation with her in s3.
I'll keep updating this if I find more evidence of Karen spying on their phone calls but if anyone else has anything to add that I might've missed I'd greatly appreciate it!!
melvins: byler is a crack ship based off hcs and delusion!!
byler after saving the world with their love in s5:
They knew from the startttt wowza
even before s3.... hope this person's having a great day
yeah im normal about them
So fucking real
byler is so beautiful and just AGH i think i might die cause like actually what the fuck. what do you MEAAAANNNN. they love each other but neither of them knows it, yet its the acknowledgement and devotion to said love that will end up saving the world at the end of the day because it's so strong and unshakable that it's able to transcend the forces of interdimensional evil that intentionally feeds off of people lacking love in their life. WHATTTTT.
BRO THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE ANALYSIS
yall ever think about how mike probably felt like he was getting left behind by his friends because they were interested in girls (except for will but he didn't know that) and that's why he attached himself so much to el?
did you agree to this? her. joining our party. she's ruining the best night of the year (about max)
sound familiar?
you're ruining our party... you're destroying everything and for what? so you can swap spit with some stupid girl (about el)
it's not my fault you don't like girls
projection
and then he does the face he does when he's gonna lie about something
and he says
i mean what'd you think, really? that we were never gonna get girlfriends? that we were just gonna sit in my basement and play games for the rest of our lives?
PROJECTING AGAIN because mike, who even mentioned that? you've thought about it, haven't you, michael?
he was fully expecting will to say no. but NO will says YEAH I GUESS I DID. I REALLY DID
and mike is fucking flabbergasted because that's what he wants too, but he didn't let himself have it because he thought he wasn't allowed to want that
and that's the look of mike realizing he was wrong and he fucked up
CRYINGGGGGGGSHHSSHSJSJWSGBSJEJEGSVD
seven - Taylor Swift (Byler) edit
BYLER GIRL DADS MY LIFE IS COMPLETE
THE BOYFRIENDS ARE BACK (and taking care of Holly), Mike and Will are girl dads <33
Mike and Will are gonna spend s5 together as a team (Jopper parallel) and their relationship is gonna be really important in s5, also Will is definitely staying at Mike's since he's hanging out with Mike and Holly so much
Love thissss also I have to visit Mont Tremblant soon!! I’m going skiing in Canada this winter but not there, so it’s def on my bucket list💙🫶
canadian thoughts on langa's hometown
it's never actually specified in sk8 the infinity where in canada langa is from, but i am canadian and very autistic so i have been overthinking this since i watched the show and have come to what i think is a solid conclusion that might be proven totally wrong as soon as season 2 comes out
there's a few things we know about langa that i think are particularly relevant to narrowing down where he might be from:
he lived somewhere with easy, regular access to snowboarding
he's catholic (or at least went to catholic school, but from the bits showing him crossing himself i think it's meant to be understood that he's at least... loosely catholic himself, not just a "going to catholic school because they're better funded" situation)
he's never been to the coastline
he and his father speak english
if not for point 3, my easy bet would be that he's from british columbia – most of the biggest ski resorts in canada are in BC (including whistler-blackcomb, the largest ski resort in all of north america) and BC even has the largest (and most historically entrenched) japanese population in the country, which at a glance would make it a likely place for nanako to have immigrated to.
however, BC is a coastal province, with vancouver (by far the largest city) being right on the coast and victoria (the capital) being on an island. even if langa lived in a city further inland, the idea that his family never traveled to the coast in his entire life before coming to japan seems very unlikely to me.
however, there's a place that better fits all the criteria for langa's hometown: québec, specifically montréal. montréal is only a bit over an hour's drive from mont-tremblant, the #1 ski resort in eastern north america, so oliver would have been able to take langa there all season with no trouble. the city has a very large catholic population and québec has historically been a catholic center of canada, so langa growing up catholic also fits (while the very low church attendance despite the large catholic population also tracks with him not having any seeming involvement in the catholic community in naha after moving there.) and while québec as a whole is largely francophone, montréal has the largest population of solely anglophone and bilingual people in the province, so the fact that langa and oliver are shown speaking english rather than french wouldn't be unusual if they're specifically from montréal.
poutine, langa's favorite food, is actually also from québec specifically, despite its association with canada as a whole and some people from québec even consider the broader association with canada to be cultural appropriation lol
so yeah, my verdict until proven otherwise is that langa most likely grew up in montréal!
(my one quibble is that if his father is meant to be québecois his name would probably be olivier rather than oliver, but ehhh if he's from a totally anglophone family then that doesn't really matter since it doesn't have to be a french-canadian name)
also, as a fun fact: the mont-tremblant resort is absolutely gorgeous, and would be both very visually distinctive and beautiful to stylize if they wanted to have langa and the gang go to canada in season 2... 👀
ok so i am extremely picky about ships, but (as we all know) i absolutely adore byler (literally my fav ship ever). then one day on a whim, i watched this gay ass skateboarding show and i fell in love with the chemistry the two mcs (reki and langa) had and now i think i know why i love them so much…
when i saw langa’s face in this scene is when it finally clicked. i was like, “waitttt that smile looks familiar…” lol. not to mention both scenes are heart-to-hearts in the back of a van?!?
SUCH CUTIES AWWWW😭💗 they also have a blue and yellow/red color scheme going on just like byler!
reki made langa his own custom skateboard just like will made a heartfelt painting for mike😭💙💛 BRB SOBBING
speaking of sobbing…
THEY EVEN HAD A RAIN FIGHT AND A SAD LOOKING-OUT-THE-WINDOW MOMENT😭😭😭
it’s so crazy how many parallels i’ve found between byler and renga and there are so many more too!! also if u like byler and haven’t watched sk8 the infinity yet, definitely go watch it! also lmk if you guys want to see more parallels🫶💙💛
“LANGA’S WEAKNESS WAS THE SUN” IM DONE FOR OMGGGGG
me: yeah it's just a recap nbd
the recap:
me:
Live laugh love Langa and his funny little ways💙💙💙
langa praying over a toilet twice is the highlight of my week don’t talk to me
BRO WHEN HE SAID “THAT’S ENOUGH” I FUCKING DIED THEYRE SO CUTE IM GONNA EXPLODE
LANGA PLEASE. LANGA P L E A S E. REKI. LANGA. FUCK. I AM. FUCK
CRYING THIS IS SO CUTE I LOVE RENGA
I’m so happy for them my heart bursts into fireworks _(:з」∠)_
“my happiness is…”
WHAT WE NEED IN S2😭💙♾️❤️
MIWI MY BABIESSSS
wait i need a minute
AWWW FINN IS SUCH A CUTIE PATOOTIE
I WISH THEY WERE REAL
WHAT DO YOU MEAN LITTLE GAY MEN IN MY PHONE CANT BE A PERSONALITY TRAIT!?!?!??!?!?
look at him go, he loves salt
BEST TYPE OF SCENE!!!!!!!!!! I WILL NEVER GET OVER THIS😭🫶🫶🫶
When this kind of scene hits yk the ship is canon
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