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This is beautiful <3

"cool" but how I see it

the o.g.

(this is my masterpiece wow truly.. something)

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What do you do when you’ve lost all inspiration?

How do you carry on?

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I love the idea that Mike and Will, on Halloween have a routine where they share candies together like a married couple shares assets

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This

man byler’s got me fucked up I can’t see blue, yellow or green the same anymore

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A while back someone brought up the idea that it has been hinted that the show is actually set in 2017 or some of the characters are from that time? If someone can share this source I would love to connect again with it.

Anyways I’ve been watching Mob Psycho 100 and I know it’s hard not to think that every show you watch inspired Stranger Things in some way BUT hear me out

a kid with a bowl cut has to fight against a cult leader who has brainwashed everyone in town…

I can really see some sort of inspiration coming from this show. It is incredible and has similar symbolic messages

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Love these thoughts, I never really saw the collective theme of childish but can now.

I definitely agree that this is something that has escaped conscious control, I think at the core that is also what the Mind Flayer ultimately is - the shadow of the town that has escaped conscious awareness and manifests due to some anomoly (I am not the only one who thinks this, I just can’t remember other people that support this position soz - my individual perspective is that it is an allegory for colonisation and magic has gone awry).

Why Hopper being out of character in ST3 was intentional and a major clue to a plot twist…

If you read my previous post on Will having powers, you’ll know what I’m talking about here.

To begin, let’s go back to season 2. In season 2, Hopper ends up trapped in the upside down and was infected.

Will was connected to him and knew something was wrong right away.

He’s saved and all is well until season 3. He’s behaving strangely, he’s strikingly immature. And for some reason, desperate to break up Mike and El.

Mike calls him “crazy” which is a term associated with being in love on the show… it’s especially associated with Mike and Will.

So what’s going on here?

Well….

It’s Will. Will flayed Hopper and through him attempted to break up Mike and El.

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Trueeee

I rewatched this and thought about how the kids were creating this scene because it doesn’t really make sense with how we see the base with Dr. Brenner later in this episode or maybe it is a Russian lab? I cannot tell at this point

No bc what was the point of this?

ik the lab reached out to him cus they figured he knows the kids and therefore lead them (and probably their target: el) back to them.

But that doesnt quite add up to the timeline, does it...

I think there was another reason they reached out to him. They were probably planning this for a while now, even before s1 started, and tought clarke was the perfect link to the kids and eleven, but why?

Clarke might be connected to vecna and there is proof.

Either hes one of his followers or simply another puppet or a coverup pawn. I havent really thought this through but i do believe hes heavily involved also thanks to @liebstie (bubble) on twitter who gave me food for thought.

The suspicion began when he first saw el, and his reactions were extremely similar to billys in s3 after seeing her for the first time

hell even their expressions are similar

something something they both looked like they recognized el.

Another scene that kinda bugs me about his arc is this:

Look at his expressions, hes definetely hiding something, He knows theres a gate, and he knows how to get there thats why he didnt tell them the entire truth.

These were also foreshadowing the uds effect in the mest seasons, the "swallow us whole" part covering season 5.

BONUS:

HE KNOWS. He knows abt the lab definetly and he also knows about vecna. hes iffy, i can tell but like i cant yet tell if hes under vecnas control or working with him. Now we havent seen him interacting with brenner at all, which leads me to think this:

What if something happened to force him into a connection with vecna, one different than wills or billys, that actually led the lab lady reach out to him and keep an eye on him?? We know she was sent by brenner, and the whole newsletter thing was bs to coverup why exacly they needed him, Clarke is suspicious at all times, as if hes tiptoeing onto what information hes allowed to share about the gates and the upside down.

My theory is that clarke is somehow paraleling both snape and slughorn from harry potter, as vecna paralels tom riddle/ voldermort. He could have helped him in the past since he was presumably always hyperfixating on science, and maybe they had to exchange services of some sort, i havent seen the play so idk if he was involved at all.

Plus this scene where he told them about finneas' injury is also most likely heavily involved in his arc

And then the camera pans from focusing to will, and then max.. which foreshadowed her injury in st4.

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Guys what if the slender man in season 1 episode 1 that scared Will is just Mike from the future 😭

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Mike: I take back what I said about the swings Will. Because *kneels proposing* THIS is the best thing I’ve ever done

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How I imagine the Church scene;

Will: I’m not afraid of dying and I’m not going to run away anymore.

Mike: *pleades like the queer soft boi he is. begging* “Will hold on, you can’t just give up because… I LOVE YOU”

Rainbow flowers fill the room, Vecna blushes and apologies becasue he believes in love again

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This song was cute too

(I am pranking u)

SPOILERS

Season 5 leak of Will and Mike

Fr tho I think this will inspire or even mirror some part of their arc together in season 5

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(I am pranking u)

SPOILERS

Season 5 leak of Will and Mike

Fr tho I think this will inspire or even mirror some part of their arc together in season 5

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I know it is still at least a year off but when s5 releases, THIS is the song I will love to listen to kicking and swinging my feet

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mommy? sorry. Mommy? Sorry, Mommy?

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I love them for it

pov st set designers:

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The fruity licking of lips, i cant wheeler

this scene is hilarious to me mike you just caught HIM staring at you why are you the one panicking 😭😭😭😭 he is such a loser

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Besides this being extremely based, this is also heartbreaking. I’m imagining the internalised voice Will has from Vecna’s influence - the van scene is so much more heartbreaking 💔

Why Will Byers?

An analysis and theory on why Henry/Vecna targeted Will first in season 1 and his plans for Will in season 5

‼️Contains The First Shadow (TFS) spoilers so please proceed with caution.‼️

This is going to be a little long but I’ve tried to give as much context as I can without actually being able to show snippets from the stage play. This is my interpretation of everything that went down as a member of the audience and not as someone who has read up any theories about TFS before. To understand why Henry took Will first in 1983, we have to start with -

Henry and Joyce

From all the times I’ve watched TFS, the one thing that has stuck with me is the final conversation Henry has with Joyce. It’s just before his last confrontation with Patty Newby and before he joins Brenner for good. Joyce is the last person (who doesn’t know about Henry’s powers) that he canonically talks to.

Throughout the entire play Joyce, Hopper, and Bob are investigating the animals dying at the hands of Henry and come to the conclusion that Victor Creel has been the one doing the killing. They get so close to solving the case. In her last conversation with Henry, Joyce tries to comfort him by saying that Victor will pay for his crimes - which makes Henry laugh because she’s so close yet so far from the truth. He gets a little frustrated and says “You don’t get it. But someday you will.” The next time we see Henry make a reappearance in Joyce’s life is during -

The Vanishing of Will Byers

Will is taken into the Upside Down (UD) by Henry. It’s not even a question anymore. All of the context clues from 1x1 lead us to believe that Will’s kidnapping was not by a demogorgon. Will - a 12 year old - miraculously survives a week in the upside down with no food or water. Will is even around the demogorgon a few times in the Upside Down. (Joyce communicating with Will through the lights and then the demogorgon coming after her immediately).

Barb dies the night she is taken but Will stays alive and also somehow manages to talk to Joyce through the wall. Joyce is led exactly to where Will was held at the end of s1 and he makes it out alive. It’s almost as if Henry knew all along that Joyce was the most capable of never giving up on finding her son. Like Henry took Will Byers because he was Joyce’s son. And like he was giving her just enough to know that Will was alive. Even when Joyce and Hopper find him at the end in a state of near death, he’s not injured by a creature. He was being prepared for the next stage of Vecna’s plan -

The Possession of Will Byers

The origins of Henry’s powers happen as such - As a kid, he is transported into the UD (originally coined Dimension X by the government) for a few hours because he touched something he wasn’t meant to touch. During his time in there, he came in contact with the Mind Flayer (MF). According to TFS this is the point in his life when he started getting “corrupted”. Brenner’s dad - who was one of the first people to enter dimension X - had mutated blood after but no powers. Henry was the first person to come in contact with the MF and it’s highly likely he got his powers because of this (This would also track considering how most of the party has been in the UD now but show no signs of having powers). The MF controls Henry for the rest of TFS and Henry grows more power hungry the more he kills.

In S2, Henry presumably sends the MF after Will - who has now had a year to heal from the events of 1983. Will is the only other person in all of ST to have had direct contact with the MF and survived it. Henry didn’t hesitate to kill Billy in S3, but he always gives everyone just enough to keep Will safe. Will himself tells Owens in S2 that the MF wants to kill everyone except him. Will once again survives the entire ordeal and is given a “break” for the next 2 seasons. Except I don’t believe he’s been just given a break. I think Will is -

Henry’s Sleeper Agent.

Ready to awaken in s5. I undoubtedly think that Will is going to have powers. And I don’t think they’re going to be the same as Henry and El. El and the other lab kids get their powers directly from Henry. Will’s powers will be directly from the MF like Henry. I believe this has been Henry’s plan all along and it’s further affirmed by what he tells Will in the recent VR game. That Will will be the key to Henry being able to infiltrate his friends’ minds. Jamie Campbell-Bower also mentioned during the S4 press that to get in character, he set up a display with all of Henry’s victims and targets’ faces on his wall(?), and Will was in the center.

Henry is going to use his connection with Will sneakily and midway through S5 he’s going to awaken Will’s powers (maybe in ep4 - which is said to be titled ‘Sorcerer’ and has young Will in it). Henry is going to try and manipulate his way into making an ally out of Will, and it’s not going to work because -

Will is the Perfect Character Foil.

Will is everything Henry could have been if he had a better support system. He is the perfect character foil. Unlike Henry, Will has a mother who loves him unconditionally and more importantly, believes him. Unlike Henry, the person who Will loves the most (the Patty to Will’s Henry: Mike) is going to love him back and stay by his side all season. No one is going to force them to be apart the way Henry was told to stay away from Patty. Will is not going to be easily swayed even though Henry has spent years crafting him into the perfect soldier. Sure, Henry has seen him heartbroken and sad, but that comes nowhere near to the amount of love and support Will is going to get from his people next season. And they’re going to quite literally defeat Vecna with the power of love and friendship. After that, Will Byers is getting the happy ending that Henry could have gotten.