My contribution to Byler Gates
TedGate:
Ted believed Mike and Will were a couple or that he suspect they are queer and that they are on their way to becoming more than friends
I don't think they know about Mike and Eleven, firstly because it would be very difficult to explain and it would be a very elaborate lie.
Because how do you explain all of this in a convincible way
- Hopper had an adoptive daughter that he kept in a cabin in the middle of the woods with a lot of traps
- Mike knows her for a long time
- She looks like the girl the government was looking for
- Somehow all of Mike's friends knew her but their parents didn't
- Joyce was the only adult that knew about her and is now her adopted mother
- Mike is dating this secret girl
However, I don't think Ted o Karen know about El, I think if they did, they wouldn't let her stay in the cabin in the middle of the woods; I think they would have let her stay in their house
In season 4 Ted says this:
Given everything we know about what they don't know, what was Ted referring to? Mike's expression, I think, could be "how did he know?" Or a normal one from being annoyed bc his parents, but this least one would implied them knowing to create a context of normality, but they don't
This also connects with PhoneGate
Mike can't call Eleven on the phone because she's supposed to be a secret, so the only person Mike would want to call is Will.
(No really related to this, but it's important for us to know how Mike behaves in a call with Will)
Ted and Karen possibly saw Mike complaining about not being able to call California because of Joyce's job.
And while I've mentioned Karen too, we all know that she knows her son isn't straight
I always see people saying that Ted would be homophobic for obvious reasons of the time, because of his comments and the sign in his house
But I don't really see it, maybe I'm too positive but to be honest, If I find out that my son had been surviving and fighting monsters from another dimension since he was 12, and that he has more than three people in his life capable of killing monsters and humans, I wouldn't have the guts to tell him he's not allowed to be gay.
This is all because my brain though "Ted was on the couch the whole time watching Byler's evolution. It was his own soap opera" And I laugh
