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will calling the kids vessels, saying that the party goes to melvalds for milkshakes when it was only a diner in the 50’s (henry's time), will repeating constantly that vecna's name is actually henry, downplaying his own abilities, sharing a birthday with henry and having the same exact stance as henry during the scene with robin on the roof....

william byers get behind me immediately.

mmmsoggy-cereal

Vecna already has Will.

Yeah, it kind of sucks to hear, but I just realized this.

When Will came out, he was talking to his friends about the happy memories, how he hasn’t changed just because he’s gay. This is so amazing, but then he mentions something weird. One of the memories was something about the party getting malts at Melvald’s.

(Look at that smile :3)

If you don’t know,

Melvald’s General Store is a store in downtown Hawkins that his mom, Joyce, works at. There’s no malts at Melvald’s.

Ok so, uh—what?

I did a little more digging and I found out that, get this—Melvald’s used to be a malt shop in the 50’s, around the same time when Henry Creel was in his prime. He used to spend time there with Patty Newby.

(Joyce Byers actually used to work at the malt shop too.)

Then I remembered, what did Vecna say again?

“you will be my spy one last time.”

Yeah, that spoiled my dinner…

Me rn:

(Can’t take credit for this one, my coworker gave me the idea. 💀)

monsterkill--er

THE WAY I SCRUMPT, MIKE YOU'RE IN DANGER BRO

These are two parallels from EP7 of S4 and S5. I just realized that Will’s coming out scene happens on a checkered floor, which makes all the characters look like players on a chess board.

One, aka Henry, aka Vecna, aka Mr. Whats It, manipulates Eleven to conduct the massacre at Hawkins Lab during a game of chess. The piece he steals from her is a knight on A6, just like the 6th of November, the day of Vecna’s plan to collide worlds. Mike’s D&D character is a paladin, aka a holy knight.

This sets up that Vecna’s grand plan involves stealing Mike, the brave knight, from Will in order to manipulate him, and everyone else, so he can win. Mike is so getting Vecna’d or targeted (again), and to hint it here during Will’s coming out scene? It has to be about Byler and toying with Will’s love for Mike.

By the way, “endgame” is originally a chess term, as in checkmate. Lucas says “that’s endgame” when he, Robin, and Mike talk about Will being trapped in Vecna’s mind, knowing his secrets, and Mike saying he’ll “stay with Will,” in the same location, on the same checkered floor.

THE WHOLE SET IS A "BYLER ENDGAME" JOKE. OMFG.

I'm willing to bet everything Vecna underestimates Mike's love for Will, "And when he does, it'll be the last mistake that son of b*tch ever makes." CHECKMATE.

piningbyyler

I'm ready to show him I'm not afraid anymore.

slashergirlnancy

steve harrington:

kitkat9400

This is so buzzy to me

obriy

stranger-rewrites

interesting theory sent to me by a friend

all credit to the original poster on twitter i did not make this up. @strangestjane

valiantturtleballoon

Oooooo, Im liking this theory

tryingonametaphor

thinking about will being framed as the exotic matter with an x over his heart, and his heart (mike) being the builder of the bomb set to destroy the exotic matter.

eightfifteen

Not enough noise about Lucas’ pleading to keep Kate Bush playing despite the demos coming in. Not enough noise about his little anguished face in that moment. Not enough noise about them all deciding okay. for Max.

valiantturtleballoon

THIS!! WAS JUST GOING TO MAKE A POST ABOUT THIS. LUCAS ISN'T GETTING ENOUGH PROPS!!!!!! DON'T SLEEP ON THE SINCLAIRS!

#stranger things #lucas sinclair #lumax #max mayfield #st

bebx

ST5 SPOILERS BELOW.

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I need someone to Gif the bit in Stranger things when Robin's telling Mike that Mrs Wheeler did the laundry and Mike's just looking at his mum like Holy Shit!

Cause I just ADORE the tiny nod she does in response like "yeah, this is who I am now. This is just what I had to do"

MAMA WHEELER IS SUCH A BADASS.

#netflix #stranger things #st5 vol 2 #st5 spoilers #karen wheeler #cara buono #would take bullets demogorgons or nail bats for anyone from stranger things #st5 #Now we know that Nancy gets it from her mama #I mean there was never really any speculation that she got it from her Ted #but still - proof!

So, final stranger things theories before this show we've all bonded over comes to an end.

Spoilers below if you haven't caught up with Vol2 of ST5. Proceed at your own risk.

Ok, so you know they cut away in Henry's deepest darkest memory stops right when he opens the briefcase. Do we think that's when he first gets his powers? Like whatever was in that suitcase was something taken from the creature in this other dimension? Cause we know Brenner was working on all this wormhole stuff? So my theory is they opened the wormhole, got hold of some creature that was living in the Abyss and then started doing experiments. Then the scientist ran away with a vial of this blood or whatever it was, perhaps the black dusty smoke stuff that gets into people. Anyway, that's when it infects Henry. Now, cause Henry was always a little messed up he started using the powers for evil things unlike El. But then Brenner finds him and starts doing all the experiments on him and then we find out that his blood is what went into Eleven. So the cycle continues. So what if, Henry/Vecna is just trying in his own very messed up way to do what Kali is saying and end the whole cycle of people being used for experiments and fucking up multiple generations. So he wants to rebuild the world and either have control so he can stop the government from doing these experiments or rebuild the world in a way where the government never knows that these people/powers exist? Or because he's a bit messed up, he wants to rebuild the world and make everyone powerful? And maybe he already got to Kali and that's why she keeps trying to talk Eleven into sacrificing herself. It might also explain why Noah said Vecna was misunderstood.

Also, are Henry and Vecna two separate entities or one and the same? When does he go from Henry to Vecna? Is Vecna a creature he takes control of when he needs? Is that why Will can take control of Vecna but not Henry. And when Henry was saying Get out, it wasn't get out of his mind, it was get out of Vecna's cause they couldn't both be in there, taking control?

I don't know, all I know is that it's fun to theorize and there's a part of me that's sad that that part of experiencing the show will be over but I'm also quite excited to see how it ends.