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Will see it. He’ll be next with Mike I’m sure.

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sobadbad

Maya Hawke as Robin Buckley STRANGER THINGS 5 vol.1

kitkat9400

Insane parallel

byerswheeler

so we were right about robin clocking them in less than 5 minutes after witnessing them together

nowmemories

gif from @mikesbasementbeets

justlikeheavenbyers

A real Byler never speaks ill of my baby

gayofthefae

!!!!!! A REAL BYLER IS A BYLER FOR HER TOO AND WOULDN'T BE AS MUCH IF IT HURT MY BABY !!!!!

justlikeheavenbyers

“Quick! make the lesbian character say ‘I like dick’ and then pan over to Mike and Will’s reactions”

ab0g1arka

Okay listen up because this one got weird even by my standards but also?? It kinda makes sense and I am Concerned™️.

So. You know the scene in Stranger Things Season 1 when Will Byers is running from the Demogorgon and falls from that tree? Yeah. That one. The one where he lands flat on the ground like a LEGO piece in a vacuum and somehow survives with zero broken bones.

What if he didn’t actually survive?

Hear me out. He fell from, like, a thirty-foot tree. A twelve-year-old child. No superpowers. No padding. No “I took gymnastics once in second grade so I know how to roll out of a fall.” Just— splat. That’s it. Game over.

So my theory is: Will Byers actually died that night.

And the only reason he’s still walking around Hawkins, making awkward heart eyes at Mike Wheeler, is because Vecna resurrected him.

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Now before you come at me with your “Joyce and Hopper revived him with CPR” and “they found him in the Upside Down and saved him,” okay, yes. You’re technically right. But what if that CPR only worked because Will’s body had already been… altered?

Like. Think about it. Vecna sends the Demogorgon to capture Will. He tells it — and I quote from my brain — “Bring me the boy, alive.”

But the Demogorgon, bless its slimy little heart, messes up. Will dies. Vecna’s like, “Oh great. Now I have to do this myself.”

So Vecna uses those weird Upside Down particles — you know, those floaty, spooky snowflake things — to rebuild Will.

Basically necromancy with extra steps.

And here’s where it gets worse:

Will doesn’t come back as just “Will.”

He comes back as something else. Something halfway between human and Upside Down. He’s technically alive, but his body runs on those particles now. His cells are like, “hmm, delicious interdimensional spores, my favorite.”

That would explain so much:

• Why Will can still “feel” the Upside Down even when he’s back in Hawkins.

• Why he gets those weird chills when Vecna is near.

• Why his hair has never once looked like it belongs to a fully alive person (sorry, Will, but the undead bowl cut aesthetic is real).

And if the Upside Down ever gets cut off completely from the real world — like, if the gang succeeds in closing every gate — Will dies.

Because he’s not just connected to the Upside Down.

He’s powered by it.

Vecna didn’t just curse him. He rebuilt him.

Will Byers is basically a sentient Upside Down battery trying his best to live a normal Midwestern teenage life while everyone around him plays D&D and ignores the fact that his soul is a different color now.

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So yeah. That’s my theory.

Will Byers died, Vecna resurrected him using the particles, and now the only thing keeping him alive is the exact same evil energy that Hawkins is trying to destroy.

If the Upside Down goes, Will goes.

Conclusion: Will Byers is the horcrux nobody asked for.

And honestly? At this point, if the Upside Down ever collapses, someone better tell Will to just pull a Harry Potter, walk into the void, die for the plot, and then come back because love or whatever said “nah, you’ve still got trauma left to unpack.”

strangeronance

oh yeah... it's all coming together

iolesbookshelf

Actually Lucas Sinclair is a green flag and I don’t say that often about characters.

He is a realistic character. He makes mistakes. He apologizes genuinely. He cares deeply about his friends. He still loves Max but doesn’t pressure her. He just wants her to know.

Lucas Sinclair deserves much more love than this fandom gives him.

skywalkeryuri

this is how we could’ve prevented order 66

riomocu

Silly doodle I love them so much T^T , it's endearing, can't wait to make more fanart of them this days hehe

bylerworld

i love this scene so much because joyce's face as hopper complains about mike is so telling of how confusing she thinks this is because for all the time she's known mike, he's been nothing but the kindest and biggest sweetheart to will so she's like...."mike?! will's mike?! there's no way..."