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We always talk about Mike and his feelings, but what about Elevenβs? Does El really love Mike? Yes, thatβs FOR SURE! Romantically? I doubt it.
In s1, right before Mike kisses her, she literally asked him if she would be HIS SISTER. If Mike wouldβve said yes, everything wouldβve been different cause guess what: Eleven didnβt want a boyfriend, she wanted a friend/family. She probably didnβt even know what a βboyfriendβ was apart from what she had seen in the movies.
From that moment, she follows Mikeβs steps bc thatβs what Mike had decided: she was his girlfriend, they must kiss all day cause thatβs what couples do in the moviesβ¦β¦. how romantic is thatβ¦ They didnβt read comics, watch movies, bake something or paint, we havenβt seen any real heart-to-heart moment or a real conversation like we have seen with Lumax or Jancy.
So where is the chemistry? Easy: it doesnβt exist.
Mike saved her, gave her food and a home, friends and loveβ¦ thatβs all she wanted because she had just scaped from a LAB. She barely even know how to speak in s1 & 2, in s3 she still didnβt know how it felt really liking something, she doesnβt even know who she is as an individual human being.
Sheβs been quite βobsessedβ with Mike over the years and thatβs been mistaken by βromantic LOVEβ.
And it also pisses me off how people see a boy and a girl be friends and automatically they must be together forever and marry and have kidsβ¦. Like bffr.
If they wouldβve stayed like brother and sister their dynamic wouldβve worked so much better. Romantically, theyβre BONES.
Also, hereβs a parallel between Mike and El and Hopper (her dad) and Elβ¦ even her hug with Will had more emotion
If they say Mike wasnβt looking a bit TOO lovingly at Will, I guess they can also imagine Mike looking at Lucas or Dustin this way too, but i doubt it.
βBut they were talking about Elβs feelingsβ No, Will was talking about his own.
Mike wants someone who loves him for who he is, someone who admires him, that only with his presence they feel safe and loved.
In the van scene, he fell in love with Willβs words.
He fell in love with Willβs feelings.
Those are not Elβs.
Even if mileven is endgame, this is still a fact that PROVES how this ship doesnβt work by its own, it NEEDS another characterβs lies to keep going.
If thatβs the ship u want to be endgame thatβs totally fine, but objectively it is BONES.
This piece took a really long time! I think around 18 hours according to procreate. Iβve been wanting to draw DnD Byler for ever, so I tried my best to go all out!
I did my best to add a lot of detail and texture to their clothes which was pretty out of my comfort zone, hereβs some very slight color variations as well :)
An analysis and theory on why Henry/Vecna targeted Will first in season 1 and his plans for Will in season 5
βΌοΈContains The First Shadow (TFS) spoilers so please proceed with caution.βΌοΈ
This is going to be a little long but Iβve tried to give as much context as I can without actually being able to show snippets from the stage play. This is my interpretation of everything that went down as a member of the audience and not as someone who has read up any theories about TFS before. To understand why Henry took Will first in 1983, we have to start with -
Henry and Joyce
From all the times Iβve watched TFS, the one thing that has stuck with me is the final conversation Henry has with Joyce. Itβs just before his last confrontation with Patty Newby and before he joins Brenner for good. Joyce is the last person (who doesnβt know about Henryβs powers) that he canonically talks to.
Throughout the entire play Joyce, Hopper, and Bob are investigating the animals dying at the hands of Henry and come to the conclusion that Victor Creel has been the one doing the killing. They get so close to solving the case. In her last conversation with Henry, Joyce tries to comfort him by saying that Victor will pay for his crimes - which makes Henry laugh because sheβs so close yet so far from the truth. He gets a little frustrated and says βYou donβt get it. But someday you will.β The next time we see Henry make a reappearance in Joyceβs life is during -
The Vanishing of Will Byers
Will is taken into the Upside Down (UD) by Henry. Itβs not even a question anymore. All of the context clues from 1x1 lead us to believe that Willβs kidnapping was not by a demogorgon. Will - a 12 year old - miraculously survives a week in the upside down with no food or water. Will is even around the demogorgon a few times in the Upside Down. (Joyce communicating with Will through the lights and then the demogorgon coming after her immediately).
Barb dies the night she is taken but Will stays alive and also somehow manages to talk to Joyce through the wall. Joyce is led exactly to where Will was held at the end of s1 and he makes it out alive. Itβs almost as if Henry knew all along that Joyce was the most capable of never giving up on finding her son. Like Henry took Will Byers because he was Joyceβs son. And like he was giving her just enough to know that Will was alive. Even when Joyce and Hopper find him at the end in a state of near death, heβs not injured by a creature. He was being prepared for the next stage of Vecnaβs plan -
The Possession of Will Byers
The origins of Henryβs powers happen as such - As a kid, he is transported into the UD (originally coined Dimension X by the government) for a few hours because he touched something he wasnβt meant to touch. During his time in there, he came in contact with the Mind Flayer (MF). According to TFS this is the point in his life when he started getting βcorruptedβ. Brennerβs dad - who was one of the first people to enter dimension X - had mutated blood after but no powers. Henry was the first person to come in contact with the MF and itβs highly likely he got his powers because of this (This would also track considering how most of the party has been in the UD now but show no signs of having powers). The MF controls Henry for the rest of TFS and Henry grows more power hungry the more he kills.
In S2, Henry presumably sends the MF after Will - who has now had a year to heal from the events of 1983. Will is the only other person in all of ST to have had direct contact with the MF and survived it. Henry didnβt hesitate to kill Billy in S3, but he always gives everyone just enough to keep Will safe. Will himself tells Owens in S2 that the MF wants to kill everyone except him. Will once again survives the entire ordeal and is given a βbreakβ for the next 2 seasons. Except I donβt believe heβs been just given a break. I think Will is -
Henryβs Sleeper Agent.
Ready to awaken in s5. I undoubtedly think that Will is going to have powers. And I donβt think theyβre going to be the same as Henry and El. El and the other lab kids get their powers directly from Henry. Willβs powers will be directly from the MF like Henry. I believe this has been Henryβs plan all along and itβs further affirmed by what he tells Will in the recent VR game. That Will will be the key to Henry being able to infiltrate his friendsβ minds. Jamie Campbell-Bower also mentioned during the S4 press that to get in character, he set up a display with all of Henryβs victims and targetsβ faces on his wall(?), and Will was in the center.
Henry is going to use his connection with Will sneakily and midway through S5 heβs going to awaken Willβs powers (maybe in ep4 - which is said to be titled βSorcererβ and has young Will in it). Henry is going to try and manipulate his way into making an ally out of Will, and itβs not going to work because -
Will is the Perfect Character Foil.
Will is everything Henry could have been if he had a better support system. He is the perfect character foil. Unlike Henry, Will has a mother who loves him unconditionally and more importantly, believes him. Unlike Henry, the person who Will loves the most (the Patty to Willβs Henry: Mike) is going to love him back and stay by his side all season. No one is going to force them to be apart the way Henry was told to stay away from Patty. Will is not going to be easily swayed even though Henry has spent years crafting him into the perfect soldier. Sure, Henry has seen him heartbroken and sad, but that comes nowhere near to the amount of love and support Will is going to get from his people next season. And theyβre going to quite literally defeat Vecna with the power of love and friendship. After that, Will Byers is getting the happy ending that Henry could have gotten.
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