#and it’s what mike wants to hear

[fruitbythefoot7]

will loves mike the way mike wants to be loved 

[chloesimaginationthings]

Can’t wait for this Withered Bonnie scene in FNAF 2 movie,,

[astrobei]

in my heart of hearts mike wheeler is absolutely an athena kid but i also have to offer up a concept that i think has extreme comedic and dramatic potential aka: repressed gay teenager mike showing up at camp half blood unsure of who his godly parent is and feeling insecure about not having powers and one day when he’s making not-so-secret heart eyes at his best friend and son of apollo will byers is when a bunch of glowing floating hearts show up above his head. and that’s how mike gets claimed by none other than aphrodite, the goddess of love and sexuality, and is in full denial about it for three days because he thinks it’s some kind of sick and twisted JOKE

(on aphrodite’s end, she’s upset mike is throwing away the gift of true love and keeps trying to trick him out of repression by making more and more improbable and hilarious gifts appear when he and will are hanging out. mike hands will a book and it turns into a box of chocolates and he has to fling it away like a frisbee before will sees it. they’re having lunch and romantic music starts playing. she gives mike the same blessing she used to claim piper and will can’t even look in his direction for a full day because he starts blushing so hard. fifty bouquets of flowers show up at the apollo cabin’s doorstep with a note that says love, mike and by the end of it, mike isn’t even repressed and unsure about his sexuality anymore — he’s just trying to not throw himself into the bonfire out of sheer embarrassment)

[the-real-list-of-ominous-threats]

I'm going to force you to play the joke FNAF dating sim my friend and I are making

[youwantamcdonaldbeautiful]

more dump

[hearts4juzi]

Teens with Daddy issues and guilt pull up

[buck-yyyy]

some of y'all need to remember that behind every blog on here with a large following is literally just Some Guy. "big byler blogs shouldn't--" "big byler blogs can't--" "big byler blogs have to stop--" BRO THAT'S THEIR HOUSE!!!! this isn't fuckin tiktok, they're not intentionally trying to influence or manipulate you into agreeing with their opinion, they're posting their own thoughts in their own space and YOU happened to come across that, see that it had a lot of notes, and get upset!!! this is a you problem!!!!

quit acting like bigger blogs with controversial opinions are always purposely attempting to cause problems by sharing their thoughts and opinions on something, because 9 times out of 10 they are literally minding their own fucking business stating an opinion (that you happen to disagree with) and slapping it onto their blog, which just so happens to have a lot of people following. people with loads of followers on here are literally just some fuckin nerds gleefully having fun with their favorite characters, they're not trying to worm their way into your head and tell you what you have to believe and expecting you to believe it because they have a high follower count.

[postwarlevi]

It's not that he was jealous, it just took him a while to understand.

"Hey love, who you talking to?" Your boyfriend asks at hearing you giggling on the phone.

"Your mom." You whisper, in between listening to her.

He pauses. It's not completely unexpected. You talk all the time.

"We're gonna meet for lunch at two on Saturday." You tell him.

"Why doesn't she ever call me to tell me things?" He mutters, but you hear.

"Hey ma, he wants to know why you don't call him." You out him.

"Really?!" He hisses as you try to hand him the phone.

"Why can't I talk to my daughter?" The phone isn't on speaker but his mom is loud and clear.

You shake the phone at him and he shakes his head and won't take it as she continues to rant on the other line.

You shrug. "I don't know. All of a sudden he's shy."

You wave him away, going back to your conversation.

"So yeah, we'll see you then!"

A few minutes later you wander into the kitchen where he is sitting at the table, seemingly waiting.

"You mad?" You ask timidly.

"What? No." He looks up and motions for you to come over and you sit as well.

"I like talking to your mom. She's always so nice and welcoming, and supportive." You list off some things. She's the biggest fan of your relationship.

"I know. She adores you." He tells you in a way that says so does he.

You half smile. "I'll tell her call you next time."

He takes your hand and gives it a squeeze and a kiss.

"Our relationship will always be special, but yours is too. I don't want to change that." There's a bond between his two favorite people.

Though his phone might not ring as often as yours to ask him if he wants to take in a movie or plan when the three of you should meet, when the three of you are together he feels all the love from both of you.

"I'll call you tomorrow, okay?" She tells him at lunch, patting his cheek.

And while his phone rings and mother and son talk for a few minutes, just a short time later your phone is ringing too.

Listening to you laugh, he's so thankful for his mother.

[mikesbasementbeets]

to be real for a second, i think there is a moment in the show where mike has a ~realization~ of sorts about his feelings but hasn't quite put two and two together yet.... and it's this:

this realization of "hey my feelings for will are actually maybe different than my feelings for my other friends, but i'm not sure why" happens at the end of season two. and then mike spends the entirety of season three acting sort of strange and different around will while having his relationship with him constantly juxtaposed with his relationship with el. reaching the end of that season which, despite all the supernatural shit going on, took the time to focus so heavily on those two relationships (and how fundamentally different they are), and having mike have the same realization he had at the end of season two makes no sense because it would mean he accomplished absolutely nothing in his emotional arc during the course season three

especially to claim that he still believes he has feelings for el going into season 4. especially to claim he still believes he has feelings for el by the end of season 4. it's to claim that he has not made any emotional progress in his relationships for at least two full seasons, that he's been going through all of this for it to not have made any conscious impact on him, and the changes in the way he acts from s2-3 and from s3-4 aren't a product of his character developing (growing, changing, to quote hopper's letter) but rather..... ? i don't know actually. just him feeling weird but not understanding himself at all. still. it just doesn't make sense to me. he's one of the main characters of the show, and to keep him emotionally stagnant for 4 out of 5 seasons (especially when we can see that his behavior is changing, that he has not been stagnant at all but rather deeply affected by everything) would be a disservice to his character, first of all, but also a disservice to the narrative which has been showing us his (as well as the other characters') struggle with growing up and growing into himself every season. and it simply doesn't align with what we're being shown

mike is already having realizations by the end of season two. but by the end of season three, he's starting to be really honest with himself about what they mean

[chirpsythismorning]

Mike calling El his superhero and that being the grand climax of his love confession, tells me all I need to know.

[cringengl]

So in the tags in this poll I put my reasonings for why I believe Will mainly fell for Mike in s2. While yes, it's possible that Will had a small crush on Mike pre s1, I think most, if not all of his romantic feelings came from s2 and why I think so is all because of the van scene.

One of the most important lines in the van scene, especially when explaining why Will loves Mike, is this:

Much of Will and Mike's scenes in s2 is Mike making Will feel better for being different. This is established pretty early on when Will has his talk with Jonathan where he berates Jonathan for treating him "like there's something wrong with me", just like "Mom, Dustin, Lucas. Everyone", clearly leaving out Mike. Mike isn't like the others, who make Will feel even more different.

The crazy together and superspy scene are also good examples of Mike making Will feel better for being different. In the crazy together scene, Will says how Mike can't tell the others how he's feeling because "they won't understand" and in that scene, instead of Mike making Will feel more different, he promises to be there for him and to understand him- to go crazy together. In the superspy scene Will is upset as he feels like as the mindflayer takes over more of Hawkins he also takes over more of Will, but instead Mike makes him feel better by saying that Will can use this to his advantage and spy back. Both of these scenes have a clear pattern of Will feeling different and Mike making him feel better for it.

These scene obviously give Will the courage to fight on- it's one of the reasons why Will tries to spy back and even though that strategy ultimately fails, it keeps Will from initially completely giving up. However, the biggest example of "and that gives her (me) the courage to fight on" is the shed scene. Mike once again uses an example of where Will or both of them feel different (alone on the first day of kindergarten) and uses it to help Will get the courage to fight on against the mindflayer and tap out the morsecode to close the gate.

Due to the emphasis on this line in the van scene, I just think it makes more sense to show the specific times when Will fell for Mike onscreen, when Mike made him feel better for being different, instead of leaving it up to pre s1 speculation. Although there's the argument that Mike stood up for Troy when he was making fun of Will in the gym, but it was heavily implied by the expressions of suprise on everyone's face that Mike has never done something like that before and that it was likely fueled by anger due to Will's disappearance as well as the fact that not only was Will not there for it, but it doesn't happen pre s1.

Furthermore, I also see people say how Will's love for Mike is hinted from s1 and although it's possible that he did unknowingly have a small crush on Mike, I think most of the season 1 stuff that David Harbour said that is supposed to make sense later on is mostly Will's queercoding, as it's just done through people calling Will homophobic slurs (which was kinda messed up of Stranger Things ngl). Like yeah there's the whole part where Will doesn't lie to Mike about the roll, but that's probably due to either a subconscious small crush, or Will just being his honest self (even if he does cheat Dustin out of his X-men #134- it's not like he lies about it and he's probably going to have more integrity with DnD over a bike race with Dustin).

So yeah, TL;DR: Will fell in love with Mike in s2 because that's when Mike spent the entire season making Will feel better for being different and giving him the courage to fight on.

[sotogalmo]

8:04

Screaming rn

[gayofthefae]

I love how complicated developing your first queer feelings is (this is @ Mike coded) because there is a level to it in a homophobic environment where to know well enough to hide them is also to admit that they're real.

Like, if Mike were to avoid saying that he thinks Will's eyes are pretty or something because he's worried it would expose him, that forces an acknowledgement that there is something to expose.

[arthurtaylorlester]

explain to me why mike walters manages to be extra gay with everyone who has tried to kill him at least once

[http-byler]

my fellow byler truthers, what are Mike and Will’s love languages respectively? have we discussed this already? do we have thoughts and opinions on this out there yet? personally I think Mike’s are quality time & words of affirmation, while Will’s are quality time & physical touch. please let me know your thoughts on this topic besties!

[demadogs]

reblog and put in the tags whether youre team “soft quiet hesitant confession and first kiss” or team “dramatic angsty fight and impulsive confession and first kiss” for byler