Lowkey Imagine That After The Byler Scene, We Get A Shot Of El Looking In The Mirror And Smiling At Herself

Lowkey imagine that after the byler scene, we get a shot of el looking in the mirror and smiling at herself while finally feeling "pretty"

(This smile, also creds to @elhoppers)

El's arc of "pleading with the wrong people" in s4 (Byler analysis)

There's a pattern in season 4. El's learning the difficult lesson that you can't always rely on other people to be what you want them to be:

There was no point in pleading with Angela to prop up her lie to Mike. There was no point in appealing to Vecna's humanity. There was no point in hoping that Mike would be a boyfriend who'd make her feel loved.

El had huge issues of feeling worthless and like "a monster" in s4. With such a low opinion of herself, she kept looking to others to solve problems she needed to take on her own.

That's why Mike's "love confession" -- after she had confronted Dr. Brenner for being the real monster -- was so against her ACTUAL arc in s4. She had confronted the source of her self-loathing, her abuser (Dr. Brenner). She was learning to love herself instead of pleading for love and kindness from others.

There was no happy-couple resolution for El and Mike after the "confession," because she now had a different view of what she wanted from her relationship with Mike, if she still wanted one at all:

By the end of the season, El doesn't need Mike the same way she did before (exactly what Mike had feared).

She is in a different place now. And so are Mike and Will:

-teambyler

Byler Proof { mirroring main stream ships / tvd edition }

Can we talk about how el, will and mike are a classical love triangle?? Its so obvious its emberassing atp. I call it a simple "the vampire diaries" situation, a girl (in st pov mike) is introduced to a new love interest (st pov, eleven) they fall in love and spend time together, however, the love interests brother (st pov will) is the girls, possible new love interest (aka mike) , the girl and her possible new love interest, spend thier time searching for current love interest, however, they slowly fall in love (exactly what s4 of st is). It is THAT simple to paralel byler.

Edit :

If u didnt get the ref, here it is ;

The girl - mike

Love interest el

Possible love interest : will

(Also its the fact the girl and possible love interest are canon in s5 of tvd)

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Its the way everyone would ship byler if will/mike was a girl and the other a boy

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