Lowkey the bravewise movement pmo bcs it feels like ppl are using it yet again to shit on Canon Mike. Let me clarify that I'm obviously not talking about everyone and not the concept of the Mike's switching itself, but more about how ppl are using it to be as spiteful as possible towards Mike YET AGAIN. The same way they were with Richie/Boris/Mikhail/Chance/Cartlon/Fanon Mike/ and now Paladin Mike x Will (who sadly gets reduced to a shy soft gay boy in those) Bcs why cant you just enjoy those without pushing down on Mike. Atp just admit that you dont like Byler and it's characters but just the idea of two charas that are obsessed with each other. In comparison, I rarely hear ppl talk about Mike x Cleric Will bcs that would mean actually engaging with the real Mike.
just because it's controversial to say doesn't mean it's wrong. there are a bunch of self proclaimed solo will stans in this fandom that ship byler purely because that's what will canonically wants but then absolutely do not get entire mike's character and because of that they shit on him. why do you even bother with engaging in the ship if you dislike one side of it? i never understood this mindset.
ship will with random guys all you want, they are so flavourless to the point where they are more of ocs than actual characters, i'm not stopping yall but stop saying you ship byler then when you truly do not. and stop tagging it as byler either, when it has nothing to do with them.
as i said before, s4 fandom has done irreparable damage to perception of mike's character. we know that and we see that happening. however everyone's beloved will is also severely mischaracterised, maybe not to the same degree - as a lot has been revealed about will explicitly not subtextually - but it's definitely noticeable enough. will would have went to the party in the epilogue if not mike, yada yada. "will you were done so wrong by the authors i'm sorry :(" and then they say he listens to top 10 songs on the current charts... do you actually know what character are you talking about? i sometimes feel like i'm only one of the people that does not project on those characters and try to look at them through analysis of canon material only.
i have seen comments on tiktok from their fans about how they love bravebyers but hate wisewheeler for some reason and it tells me enough. do you like byler or do you like your ooc soft boy will x finn wolfhard looking guy?
it drives me crazy because true byler's dynamic is so complex and so interesting. there's no fault on each side really, they're just very deeply affected by the world they live in. both of them have flaws, both of them have trauma and struggles that they process in different ways - that's what makes them compelling. the other side of the same coin kind of thing. and their flaws both work in favour and against them. they're always either too early or too late to things. i can understand why it's frustrating on the surface level (i feel like it's supposed to make us feel this way), but i like the version where they are dragged for so long because they have a crucial part in the main plot way better than them getting together without Any Problems (as if that's any realistic).
the thing is, even in s5 without CG mike wasn't proven to be a douche bag who treated both will and el bad for zero reason. it's your own assumption. just like the assumption that mike is straight. because when you look at what story has shown us it'd be really hard to fit a straight mike there, lol. and it's not just his "hidden" queercoding but simple story writing. does everything have to be spelt out for you to understand it? i get that for CG non-believers the story might seem a bit different, but even so, mike is shown to be more as repressed while mlvn scene is not even real, so as much as it must hurt not to see byler become canon there, it does not overwrite anything that has been built up so far.
i truly don't understand how you could blame a teen boy for experiencing comphet while growing in a homophobic environment with zero support around him (and it's not like will was making it any easier to him in s4 and s5) - just because he did not have a happy ending himself? so you decide to replace him with a fantasy version of himself that's not actually him? as if will would want that too?
eh, i don't know what is with this fandom and their screwed perception of the characters they claim to love so much...
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