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Mike: Why aren't you payinksjdkg attention to me?!!?!?1!!?
Will: Your girlfriend is being publicly humiliated...
They looked a little too excited for their friends breaking up
Will lays against Mike’s chest, feeling his steady heartbeat and trying to match it with his own. He’s not quite grounded, but coming back slowly, becoming aware of himself again. He hears Mike’s voice guiding him back to the world and feels the tackiness of sweat and tears on his skin. A hand (Dustin’s) gently rubs his arm and there’s another one (Lucas’s) on his shoulder. It’s quiet in the bunker, just four best friends helping one of their own recover. Will takes his time, breathing with Mike and focusing on the sensations and love surrounding him. His body is weak and exhausted, but he’s safe.
He blinks slowly and the world comes into focus, his best friends’ bleary eyes welcoming him home. They notice Will’s lucidity and gently fold him into a tight embrace, shielding him from the monsters both inside and outside his mind. He burrows into Mike’s shoulder and falls limp under his friends’ soothing weight, body succumbing to the adrenaline loss. The boys smile at each other. They’d do this a million times if it meant Will never suffered alone.
oh how i absolutely YEARN for a scene where the core four (dustin, lucas, mike, will) are all together and comforting will after he has a ptsd episode or whatever else. and it's just. a very quiet moment of them resting their hands on will's shoulder or just hugging him close, saying that he's okay, that it's okay. not invalidating him, not saying he's weak. just being understanding because only they REALLY know the full extent of everything he's had to go through (from lonnie to the upside down) because they've been there since day 1. and it's just. a cute quiet moment of boys being best friends and comforting one of their own who is suffering a great deal, because that's what the party does - they show up for each other. and they love each other so, so much.
Omgg this art is soo beautiful, soo elegant and is just looking like a wow 💖💖
Will in S3 and Mike in S5 😩💖💖💖💖💖💖
Random thought but
Can Will wearing green may be indicating that he has now fully over come of his internelized homophobia and now has fully accepted himself as gay?
Okay so I have already tried to upload this blog many times but looks like Tumblr has been checking my patience a lot. I swear to god if this doesn't upload this time....
Little reminder - people have already talked about these all things already I'm just putting them into lights again, incase u have any Byler doubt
Robin coming out to Steve scene
The song which was playing at that scene
This same song was somehow playing at this one particular scene aswell
Coincidence? But why with Mike and El if "M" is supposed to be endgame?
Also, these two scenes being parallel from season 1 and 4
Another coincidence? But why? Were Duffers trying to say, "Doesn't this Jonathan and Will scene look familiar!? Well it is parallel to Karen Mike scene!! Don't ask why but Mike is totally straight ☺️"
Onto Mike's monologue
Before proceeding y'all have to understand that this monologue was important, wether you see it from Byler lens or "M" lens
Watch this video carefully
Veins get tighter when he said those words to her. They were supposed to give her strength but they didn't. Those veins only became loose when he said "You have to fight" "fight!"
We had somewhat similar situation with Max aswell but the difference is that she gets flashback with everyone especially with Lucas. But El? No she doesn't.
They had perfect chance to prove us that we were delusional and M is actually endgame but they didn't. They could've given flashbacks like -
Mike doing El's makeup
Their first kiss
Mike calling her for 353 days
Them finally meeting eachother after long time in season 2
Their snowball scene
"I love her and can't loose her again" scene
Them meeting eachother at airport scene
But no they didn't. They had chance but they didn't. Yet we are the ones delusional.
Also these two scenes being parallel
Both Wheelers sitting on same side having soda cans near them and venting to Byers about how they can't say ily to their partners (+ Nancy and Jonathan are together now). Let's not forget about the Rockie scene where it was being directly paralleled to Byler van scene. And Vickie and Mike were on same position while on other hand Robin and Will were on same position.
This all doesn't make a bit of sense unless it is intentional.
M's can still yapp about how we are the ones delusional but these proofs are right in front of their eyes.
Stop!! You are making obsessed with your art and I'm becoming even more delulu 😭😭😭😭
California Dream🌅🌈
Guys a new Byler leak!!!!!
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Spoilers ahead!¡!¡!
That was El behind them btw
And when s5 happens, will is gonna get vecna’d and he’s gonna have a flashback to him meeting Mike on the swing set 😵!!
THEY ARE SO CANON, but also there is that crippling little bit of DOUBT.
Okay let’s go.
In season 4, El freaks out at the roller rink and we can't say that Mike reacts very well to that, which El notices by the way. Mike doesn't come near her, doesn't try to reassure her or hug her, he stays next to Will and watches her cry and shiver. On top of that, when they're at the table, he adds a comment that causes El to run away and accentuate his grief. He told her the next day “I was a little upset in the moment.” “I mean, it just was so crazy. It happened so fast.” but if we make the comparison with Mike's behavior in season 2 we realize that when Will acts strangely, that he is haunted and suddenly starts shaking, he never leaves and always stays with him, even puts his hand on his. And I think in this context we can even mention the scene "Crazy together" because here Mike doesn’t tell El that they will be crazy or monsters together.
And before all that he says “I don’t really understand” which means he needs El to talk to him to understand. Let's a parallel with the dialogue he has with Will next: Will says “I didn't say it” and Mike answers “You didn't have to” (and besides an “emotional and tender” music is just playing after this precise sentence mmmh) unlike El, Will doesn't need to say anything to be understood by Mike, here's what to remember.
New analysis:
S4 ep5: Mike and Will talk when they're sitting on the car, in addition to being a parallel to other scenes like the one with Jancy for example, there's the “emotional and tender” music again, and Mike says “I should've explained myself. Maybe Eleven would've taken me with her and things would be different.” “I didn't know what to say” yet it would have been easy to know what to say, he had to tell El that he loves her and long before that moment, and maybe nothing of that would have happened; and explain WHAT Mike? There shouldn't be anything to explain, Mike loves El and tells him so or he doesn't (at least not romantically). Especially since in episode 4 he says “if I would’ve said that thing” so he KNOWS basically what he should have said.
Then Will continues by saying “Sometimes I think it’s just scary to open up like that.” he mainly talks about himself and his feelings for Mike but he adds “Because, what if... what if they don’t like the truth?” and Mike nods at that exact moment, meaning he agrees with that sentence. Except that if Mike tells El he loves her, El would be happy so why wouldn't she like it? What I mean is that the only truth Mike could tell about his feelings that El wouldn't like is that he doesn't like her (and maybe he loves someone else, you know what I mean?)
When Mike arrives in California Will is happy and wants to hug him but Mike is distant. A lot of people said it was because he realized that he missed Will a little too much and that he feels a little more than friendship for him, that's why he doesn't get too close to him and is embarrassed. But what if it was also because he was jealous and hurt? At the beginning of the previous episode, El writes to Mike “Will is painting a lot” “Maybe it is for a girl? I think there is someone he likes” and Mike is not at all ok with that, especially when he sees that Will took his painting with him. That's why he has a hard time getting in touch (literally and why he rarely speaks to her while he's gone) with Will.
In the van Will says “We could just play D&D and Nintendo for the rest of our lives.” And Mike answers “Yeah. Totally.” smiling, and even if he looks depressed I don't know if you realize it, but there is still a remarkable development: in season 3 he said "we're not kids anymore. I mean, what did you think, really? We were just gonna sit in my basement all day and play games for the rest of our lives?” He wasn't for it at all and was hurtful, whereas now he's ok with it and HE SMILES and we keep seeing him smile even when the focus isn't on him, look, I'm not lying !
did you see the end of season 3? I mean, did you really see it?
Hopper says “But, lately, I guess I’ve been feeling... distant from you. Like you're... you're pulling away from me or something” as the camera slowly approaches a sad Mike. Then the first image and sentence that follows is “I miss playing board games every night” tell me who Mike spends his time playing with until late at night? Will.Tell me when was his last real smile? When Will told him there's not possible he could want to join another band to play with them. And when Mike takes a last look at the house before setting off on his bike, who do we immediately see in the next shot? Will. Always Will. And after? Again Mike, returning home and falling into his mother's arms. This scene means nothing to you, really? Yes, that's exactly what happened when Mike thought Will was dead.
You can tell me it's a coincidence, I don't believe it.
So the "I hate who I am" proves that we are actually in Will's pov from the beginning and no doubt that the script of the last episode will prove to us that the change of pov is done at the end of it- here, to announce that Mike's thoughts will be more front and center in season 5 because, you know, Mike has everything in his hands, Will is going to be in danger again and Mike is the only one who can realize that is HE who must to save him.
They are the same. And if Mike is the same as Will that means Mike loves Will, right? Both would like to grow up but they can't, they are afraid.
"Growing. Changing. And I guess... If I’m being really honest, that’s what scared me."
Look at the light on their face (and around them) one side is blue, the other side is yellow.
"When blue meets yellow in the west"
Need I remind that they are for the first time together in the west?
(oh and their clothes are also almost entirely blue and yellow)
Then, remember the previous scene: Mike says "I asked for vomit green and I got vomit green" and looking at Will "Isn't that awesome?"
Blue and yellow make green.
Do I need to explain more?
I was rewatching season 4 and noticed this: did you see that the arrow is yellow? And that Mike gets it on the forehead? Forehead ! (Mike is the heart and Will is the soul ofc (and Mike's soul maybe))
Oh and the arrow can also be a reference to Cupid, you know?
