my personal ronance thoughts going into the finale and why everything seems to be pointing to ronance endgame/canon
i’m going to start this out by saying i really don’t think robin and vickie will be together through the epilogue. i still do think vickie’s not fully safe, even though she stayed behind with max. but going off of her staying behind, we finally have nancy, who’s no longer in any relationship with the boys (wooooo), and robin is finally in the same space as nancy and is without vickie around
also, i tried to like vickie and her and robin together. i really did but god, there is just so much that’s just… wrong. all they’ve really done together is lie, argue and get annoyed at one another. robin even explained it all to her, and yes, i know it sounds like a made-up fantasy story, but things had openly been happening for over a little over a year, the ground split open and there was spores in the air, they all saw, so i find it insane that she couldn’t even entertain the fact that robin was telling the truth until after the demodog appeared.
this brings me to vickie insisting that robin was a drug addict and robin denying it several times, only for vickie to just keep going with that insane theory of hers (despite robin having had explained why she took the drugs). and then vickie saying it in front of the military while robin was being pulled away???? that was insane. robin was so openly annoyed by it all. the flopping on the bed because vickie just didn’t listen to her and also the throwing her head back when vickie was like “she’s in recovery!” robin was just about done with her and i feel bad for robin because vickie just doesn’t listen to her. in a way, it paralleled jonathan and nancy (though jonathan and nancy were at least less chaotic about it most of the time)
(robin and nancy actually listen to and try to understand each other and that is so so important)
and then when they’re all together, who does robin sit on the arm of the couch, instead of standing with or sitting by her girlfriend??? the girl she’s been eye-fucking with since s4
i do also think nancy might be vecna’d if they’re truly bringing back barb’s body. and robin definitely knows nancy’s favorite song. like she knew holly’s favorite song without needing any details. and we know from one way or another that nancy and robin hang out a lot. my thought is robin will be the one to pull her out of the curse and they’ll have some heart to heart after that (as it usually goes with them and nancy almost dying). and i do think they’ll bond and comfort each other, especially if nancy tells robin about barb and robin finally reveals she used to be friends with barb as well
jonathan, we now know, HATES pink (so much so that he just gave her sweater to goodwill instead of giving it back to her??? that’s a whole other thing though). and robin is the only other character in the show who chooses to wear pink, like nancy (vickie doesn’t count because it’s the uniform) and she she and nancy wear the same/similar shades of pink at the same time nancy and vickie parallel each other in the candy stripper dresses
nancy had such a lack of reaction to will coming out, but she looked like she was thinking hard about something. i really do think that’s not just placement and stuff i think that was purposeful. especially with her being near robin in that moment
natalia and maya have been moving extremely interesting lately. maya always says to not take what she says completely seriously, and they’re under strict nda’s, so they literally can’t spoil anything in interviews, which means they’re probably to some extent lying because it does make the interviews more interesting to hypothetically talk about what you wanted rather than the love triangle talk. plus, they never even fully deny it either
this event last week, which i think is when the cast got to watch the finale episode together, outside the duffer brothers and the group pictures, the only two who paired to get photos together were natalia and maya. it makes it funnier knowing maya was busy and didn’t do interviews and then came back and only ever paired with nat
natalia has been saying nancy’s “trying new things” is also heavily queercoded in it’s context. even when the duffers say it when they confirm the breakup. she needs to figure things out and try new things
and then there’s natalia’s post from last night
not only did nat give maya photo credits but she also tagged her in the actual photo. now, when it’s charlie, nat tags him 99% of the time and i honestly don’t think that is charlie. it just doesn’t look like him. and i do find it interesting that she both have maya credits and then tagged her in the actual photo and then nobody else
i still think it’s either ronance endgame or they’re both bones, those are really the only two options, especially seeing as neither of them have epilogue photos at all. charlie has at least seen bts
if they go the ronance bones root i see it like this. if nancy dies first it’s to protect robin and if robin dies first, nancy is fighting tooth and nail to stop it and fails and then gets herself killed recklessly trying to avenge it
but i genuinely hope and believe it’ll end and they’ll be in boston or exploring some new place together as a couple or just platonically (that’s a win for us ronancers either way)
EDIT: when nancy and jonathan are having their moment and admitting things and nancy admits she needed space. jonathan then says “space to be with someone else”. and who was she paired with most of s4??? robin
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