What Would Billy Hargrove Do?

he/they | 1995 | pls send reqs & prompts I'm hungry

[wwbhd]

This is a blog of what Billy Hargrove would say/do; they are what-ifs, but-thens, and multiple other types of prompts that may describe him. Most, if not all, are not canon, just speculation. This blog was created for fun.

Rules/Guidelines:

• 18/21+ content, minors pls block the "hardgrove" tag

• there will be trigger/content warnings for NSFW posts, feel free to mute/block those with "softgrove."

• no discourse, no drama. antis will be blocked immediately.

[wwbhd]

NSFW: sexual content

Billy in That One Basketball Scene where he's sweaty and oiled up and only wearing short shorts, shoes, and socks, tongue poking out, dick swinging like nobody's business.

. . . . . Yeah, he goes commando 24/7.

[littlefoxgirlhere]

im still mad about how no one tried to tell billy about the whole upside down situation. like what if one honest talk could had changed his fate?

[wwbhd]

Staring with immense sadness at the beginning of the iconic Billy/Steve fight scene.

[demo-stapelia]

the way they established how the mind flayer likes it cold, thereby giving themselves an easy excuse to make each season happen during autumn/winter, and somehow still decided to have a season set in july and make the mf possess the cali boy out of everyone.

[wwbhd]

Billy has been used to all the heat in Cali, so when moving to Hawkins, the summer wouldn't bother him all that much, right? He can take the heat. In fact, he LOVES it. He would try to surf in the hot sun back home all the time if he could. (stares at Neil)

And when the mindflayer possesses him to do its bidding its all while the flayer is in the cold damp basement of the warehouse. While the flayer is physically strong enough to yoink Hargrove (and explicitly done at night), its not strong enough to walk outside in the day, aka direct sunlight. would insta-burn that bitch to a crisp, which is also where the fireworks and sauna stuff comes into play. this disgusting creature cannot stand heat because heat will cook, will kill.

with the theory being: day = heat = fire = easy death for the flayer, regardless of whether the weather is cold, there's still the suns directness to contend with. and when the weather is patchy (spring/autumn), the suns temperature and direct rays fluctuate throughout the day, making it a little too risky for the flayer to time possessions/captures/kidnappings all while shambling back to the safety of the warehouse basement. this is where Billy starts being used.

The first time Billy is under control, he's confused and dizzy etc, and its because the mindflayer is adjusting to his body. It's like a virus in which Billy's body is attempting to fight the pathogens invading his system - but there are none because it's a possession, an overtaking of his conscious. theres nothing physical to fight so Billy adjusts the only way he knows how when something hurts him (STARES AT NEIL AGGRESSIVELY): forced acquiescence, numbness, disassociation. ....... the perfect meatsuit.

Billy when first at the pool develops bubbling heat rashes, excessive sweating, bright and confusing rays of sun blinding him - this all being from a puppet-esque version of the flayers hand inside Billy (the flayer pumping whatever it is into his stomach being the essence of the flayers mind control, etc etc, digression into the flayers possession being an allegory of SA, insert here).

but as the flayer continues to get stronger in the basement, it also adjusts rather AGGRESSIVELY quickly to how Billy's body works. like the venom symbiote meshing with eddie, billys systems adjust around the flayer's false permanence while the flayer adapts to the outside world safely using Billys physical being as a cover/coat.

another part being that: since its summer time, that means every human is outside in the open enjoying vacation time, pool time, schools are being let out. prime meat pickings right there. humans dont stay outside during the cold months, and the flayer knows this from personal experience, having seen endless human nature scenarios with vecna/henry. of course it would be the summer where they pick out of the pile with pure joyous malice - where they not only find the strongest physical body to carry their commander (billy) but also the rest of the BEST apt soldiers to form the physical MEAT of the flayer. flayer needs more skin and bones to create itself. why not use the apex predator of earth to completely overthrow it and create the hivemind?

[starburned-and-unkissed]

fandom is also really annoying when you like a flawed character but one half of the fandom is like "they did nothing wrong" and the other part is like "they are the VILLAIN they suck they should be burned at the stake". like guys. please. can we not do this

[wwbhd]

not this happening in every fandom ever because people can't ever stop themselves from turning into a 2D chara themselves in order to fight/fawn over them. I'm gonna throw a god damn critical thinking book at their face.

[camaro-hargrove]

remember when joseph quinn said that eddie and billy would have been friends bc i think about it a lot

[ch-a715]

mind flayer billy？

[throatgoat4u]

still my favorite stranger things edit to date

(ik it’s not really like a full stranger things edit and more so a billy edit but wtv)

[rigginsstreet]

Thinking about baby billy growing up having crushes on other boys but knowing he can’t voice them or do anything about it so these feelings just stew and stew inside him. He’s not allowed to like other boys, to touch other boys but he knows he can fight them. That’s acceptable, apparently. So he punches them and pins them down and lets out all these other feelings that are stewing inside too but it’s never enough. He never feels better after.

And he moves to Hawkins and meets Steve Harrington and he’s just another pretty face billy isn’t allowed to touch unless it’s to bloody him up. So billy goads and goads until he gets what he wants and Steve’s finally willing to fight back and touch billy too, gives Billy the in to rough him up and pin him down and feel close to something he’s been wanting forever but knows he’s not allowed to have.

And he doesn’t feel better after. But it’s enough to get him through til the next one comes around. Until someone finally gives him the permission to have what he’s been wanting. Until someone finally tells him it’s okay. Until he doesn’t have his father breathing down his neck waiting for him to screw up again like he did once before, can’t go making that mistake again.

[wwbhd]

Billy's favorite color is red.

[ray111secretdiary]

I always thought it was blue

[wwbhd]

I love this as well- but also seeing as nearly his whole aesthetic revolves around that color in a way, because any time we see him he's wearing blue jeans, or that powder blue shirt in the Holloway dining scene, or the iconic jean jacket and pants outfit in his debut episode. 🥹❤️

[wwbhd]

Billy's favorite color is red.

[nicostiel]

[wwbhd]

Billy is in LOVE with the show "Supernatural."

Shut up it's canon.

[wwbhd]

Billy may need to wear prescription glasses, but that doesn't stop him from picking the bougiest yet most simple gold metal frames.

[wwbhd]

Billy stumbles across the "dark academia" aesthetic and immediately adopts it as his new adult style, especially for high-status events or dates. Dark colors, muted colors, satins, velvets, brown suits, dapper ghillie brogues, the whole shebang and all with a messy top bun.

[wwbhd]

Billy was born March 29th, 1967, making him an Aries.

Aries. Y'know. The ram? The horned goat?

You bet your ass he's gonna headbutt people when he gets into fights. You bet your ass he's not gonna pull ANY of his punches. You bet your ass he's gonna play dirty. You bet your ASS he's gonna bite you if you annoy him too much. YOU BET YOUR ASS!!!!!!

[wwbhd]

Billy has PTSD and severe arachnophobia from the mindflayer's possession.

I will not take no for an answer.