#Glitter’s st s5 predictions

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alternative s5 theory: Holly goes missing, Mike wants to go find her but the Party advises him not to until they have a solid plan for defeating Vecna. He sneaks out and gets Will to come with him (“we should be a team” from s4,) and they go to the Upside Down with no luck. They come back, everyone’s mad, Mike and El talk abt the Upside Down and Vecna and how worried Mike is (this is post breakup). El is trying to say she’s not mad at him for caring so much, and Mike talks abt how he always feels like he has to fix everything bc he’s scared of losing things and ppl he cared abt and him not being able to stop it. He brings up their relationship as an example, and that the reason Holly being missing is hitting him so hard (aside from being his sister) is that he felt like he doesn’t have to keep everything together himself after she commissioned the painting (bc it showed El still loved him, even if the painting would’ve been done before their fight). El says “what painting?” And Mike tells her abt the painting, where she reveals she didn’t commission anything. Mike confronts Will, where he says that friends don’t lie and that they can’t be a team if Will lies like that. Mike asks him why he’d lie like that and Will confesses and says “I know you’d never love me the same way. So the least I could do was make sure the relationship with the person you loved wasn’t ruined and that you would be happy. That’s all I’ve ever wanted.” Will walks away and they don’t talk for however long it takes until the Party goes to the barn. Robin sees smth is off between them (bc they can’t do the task they’ve been assigned to do) and so she talks with them in the barn. Then some stuff happens, they fight with Vecna, and Will gets fully possessed and trapped in the Upside Down. The rest of the Party escapes, and losing Will makes Mike both reflect on what Will rly means to him and he gets rly frantic abt saving him (the fear of losing things I mentioned earlier). Robin helps him realize that he lives Will and he confesses once they save him from Vecna. This won’t be the final battle in the series, but when the final battle is over, they get together officially (this is when the Byler kiss would happen).

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Here's my theory: We saw the cgi thing of Dustin, Jonathan and Nancy falling in a car, presumably to the Upside Down. This is backed up by recent pictures of Jon and Nancy in a car, wearing similar outfits to the cgi and to when they first went hunting for the Upside Down in season 1. My thought is they get trapped in the Upside Down by Vecna (The Vanishing of ***** Wheeler -> the missing Wheeler is Nancy), and Mike and Will go to look for them (Will b/c his connection to Vecna, he decides looking for them is worth tyhe risk). They get ready to do so in episode 4, prepping at the Radio Station (pic of Will released on his birthday w/headphones). Here, Mike and Will have a heart-to-heart w/Robin, and Mike and El have a talk abt their relationship (the leaked vid). They leave in the night (the night shoots we saw in Millie's Insta and from the vid of someone saying "you need to run"). While in the Upside Down, they find everyone and get them away from Vecna safely, but smth happens (maybe he loses his headphones/doesn't have music/angsty byler Upside Down scene stops the music's effect) and Vecna gets ahold of Will. He starts getting possessed and everyone starts fighting Vecna/calling out to Will. Will tries to fight it, but gets weaker and weaker. Here, Will grabs Mike by the throat (the "grab him by the throat we heard in the night shoot vid) and tells him "you need to run." Mike refuses, but Will begs of him to do it, and so he does. This is where we might get a confession (either from Will as his final words before full possession or Mike promising Will he'll be back for him). This is where we'll have the rumored second time skip (for angst); this will also give Mike's feelings to develop if he hasn't confessed/realized already. This will lead to him coming up w/a rly risky plan for getting Will out, which will lead to a s3 parallel to when he said he loved El (everyone's telling him it's too risky, he's saying he'll do anything to get Will back b/c he loves him) and convinces everyone to get on board (the leader Mike we've been told will make a comeback). The last few episodes are a fight in the Upside Down, either the series or a big fight before the final battle ending with them getting Will back. Mike holds him gently, and they say smth along the lines of "it's rly you/are you rly here?/I'm here/I didn't stop until we found you" and then they kiss. Then byler is one of the main things (aside from love for the Party and his friends) that keeps Will immune from Vecna (if there's still a final battle) and they defeat Vecna. Yay happy ending!

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wait wait wait okay Holly Mike and Will are biking, Will and Mike turn away to talk which turns into an angsty argument, Holly disappears and gets Vecnad, now Mike is more vulnerable (feels more responsible on top of internalized homophobia, along with Holly being missing, guilt that he never spent more time with her maybe?) then later on he gets Vencad (scene with him and Will and Jonathan, showing Will from little/current Mike’s pov), Vecna uses all this to get Mike, Will saves him and then he gets Vecnad