#elliswillgate

[nightnut]

Will leaving Lonnie’s cabin to see Mike

Lonnie is homophobic enough to think that Will’s wish to see Mike is stupid. Will loves Mike enough to be stupid and break all the rules just to see him.

if you don’t get what Lonnie and Will have to do with this scene, read: [ corruptiongate: bad parent jim hopper ]

That’s the only way I can perceive El’s jealousy plotline along with Mike’s suddenly being into her in s2 after knowing her for a couple of days when she barely had any social skills. This IS what could explain it, stopping the far-fetchedness of it all.

These mutual m11 feelings out of the blue have always bothered me (way before byler). I didn’t see anything that would back that up, aside from Mike’s having developed so called feelings based on the trauma of losing El in front of his eyes.

Although if we see this plotline as a corrupted memory of Mike having lost Will it suddenly works easily: of course, Mike would believe that Will is alive, of course, he would try to reach him daily, of course, Will would miss him, and would be jealous already around s2. Of course, there would be mutual feelings, that teenage love! This works easily and their behaviour becomes logical right away, bc Mike and Will share history, which m11, with this “consequential” teenage love seeming to be absurd after so short an acquaintance, having absolutely no actual solid ground for it, never did.

did Will drop Max? well, if it’s a corrupted memory, who knows atp! :D maybe Max is the reason he thinks Mike is straight 😅