#Mike Messed Up

[anessthetic]

happy new year everyone :]

[bylertruth3r]

Nah fr he was all happy about Dustin having a gf and asking about her and the moment he finds out about Will making a painting for a girl(it was literally for him) he likes he's all closed off and weird about it .  "I think there's someone he likes cuz he has been acting weird" and then Mike's the one acting weird around Will like yes I understand the fact that they haven't talked for months but Will wasn't acting like that and he was happy to see him and you can’t even say he was acting like that cuz he knows that Will’s in love with him since he doesn’t even know Will’s gay 

platonic feelings                                                  repressed romantic feelings

funny how Will’s the one who’s canonically in love with Mike but Mike’s the one making things awkward... 

[bambouche]

you don’t have to fight anymore

[al-luviec]

vito

[demondog27]

First year of college sucks, but at least I know they're endgame :)

[chausie9]

Ok I'm so done with this...

finally I can stop drawing time travelling cowboys it took me like half a month beacause I was lazing around and ahhhhhhh!!!!!

But yeah, here's how (+ -) I imagine Mike (Michael, Mikey etc) :3

[skeletal-butterflyy]

OH MY FUCK WILL IS A WIZARD!

Stay with me now, I made a post a month-ish ago analyzing D&D in stranger things (which I recommend you read *winkity wink*), specifically addressing the party’s characters. We all know that Mike said that Will is a cleric in s2 to Max. BUT, it can be confusing because will’s character is named “Will the Wise” and he is dressed like a wizard. One might be able to argue, “well his name and clothes don’t mean that much to his class” well yeah you’d be right. But one thing that DOES showcase the class of a character is the moves they are able to make.

Clerics are able to cast spells based on the domain they occupy/the god they serve. To my knowledge, wizards don’t really have this problem of needing to be in a certain domain to cast a certain spell.

In s1 ep 01 Will casts fireball, a spell that can be cast by a Wizard or a Cleric, if they occupy the light domain. Recently I saw a post that showed this screenshot from s2

And I noticed the spell that Mike was talking about in his story. Fog Cloud is a spell that can be cast by multiple classes but most notably by Wizards and Clerics in the Water Domain.

It’s not very practical for a Cleric to occupy multiple domains for storytelling aspects but also, it makes the Cleric’s gameplay just a little overpowered.

So basically, Will probably isn’t occupying two domains and is more likely a Wizard. Which begs the question, why did Mike say he was a cleric?

TLDR; Two spells specifically mentioned in the show to be casted by Will can only be casted by him if he is a Wizard or Cleric occupying multiple domains, which doesn’t really make sense.

[dinitride-art]

Happy birthday Will Byers! Here’s 5/27 half-finished pages of the comic I’ve been working on :)

[fiendishartist2]

I saw him at a birthday party once. All the older kids were down in the basement playing video games, to hide from everyone. He was down there, too. He was older than the rest of them, though.

[aarontveit]

[chirpsythismorning]

When I’m reading a byler fic and Mike only calls to talk to El in Lenora

[messrsbyler]

mike confronting will about the painting and will running away, not wanting to have that discussion now because he just can't with everything else that's going on. but mike won't relent. he even shouts "why won't you talk to me anymore!" at will just as will was leaving and something... something dark and twisted inside of will simply snapped. maybe it was the lack of sleep, the presence of one lingering in his skin, the upside down leaking into hawkins and bringing back memories of that one week he went missing. maybe is mike searching for answers he doesn't want to know. maybe it's all of the above. either way, all will knows is that his body spins around and his eyes snap to mike's, and before he can think this through, he is yelling back:

"you want to talk? fine! let's talk, mike! tell me, was it really? the day after i went missing. was it really the best day of your fucking ilfe?"

[emblazons]

Shared Looks + Mike's Apology

aka: 6 times Mike looked to Will for reassurance + 1 time Mike reassured Will

[al-luviec]

juvie buddies

[thefirstlioveyou]

mind you this is byler while they still having unresolved conflict