#ch: will byers

[samgelina-jolie]

[wyatthaliwells]

Stranger Things 2x02 - "Trick or Treat, Freak"

[marthaskane]

We're family.

STRANGER THINGS (2016- ) ↳ Stranger Things 4, Vol. 1

[st5-bylaurien]

Will Byers

[amazingspidermans]

if my homophobic mother thinks will is in love with mike then nobody has any “platonic” leg to stand on

[twilightdriveintheatre]

s04 e01 // THE HELLFIRE CLUB

[cursedtcwn]

Closed starter || @cleryc​ ||

     Curiosity fills her veins as she walks through the aisles of a store that Joyce had taken them to. She’s no stranger to the decorations and the lights of different colors housed in boxes, but the tradition falls upon her. She does not understand what the true meaning of the holidays are, as every time one has happened, she has faced her monsters in the Upside Down. She has fought the bad guys and won, despite ending herself in isolation.

     “Christ..mas.” She says the word; once, twice, three times as it falls around in her mouth. It’s strange, despite saying it again and again, but it’s meaning has nothing for her. There’s no hold on it. Nothing comes to her in an emotional stand point. Still, she reaches out, running fingers carefully over a plate with a turkey upon it. “Thanks...giving.”

     Gaze shifts over to her found brother, Will, and she offers him a smile. The smile is warm and caring and welcoming, always wanting  him to know she’s here. She loves him. He is her family and she would be lost without him. “What does it mean?” There’s a small tilt to the left side of her head. She wants to know. Wants to know what the emotional connection is. Wants to know what it means to him.

     “What are the tra-trad-traditions?” The last word is a struggle for Eleven, despite how far she has come in her learning. Despite how far she still has to go, she wants to know. Wants to quench her thirst for curiosity, as she’s heard Dustin say in the past and she knows that Will can explain it to her.

[hawkinsborne]

@byersthecleric​ asked: “why won’t you tell me what happened?” / for El! Meme I can’t find || Not Accepting

     She's calm now. There are no more tears cascading down her cheeks from her light gaze. She had kept it together until they had arrived home but the moment she had crossed the threshold, the flood gates had broken and she bolted straight to her room. Now she sat, her back against the headboard, her knees pulled to her chest and her legs around them. The teddy bear lay beside her on the bed that was no longer made, blanket thrown back down towards the foot of it and Will? He was beside her and his question had been the only thing that had broken the silence that had settled once the soft sound of sobs had stopped.

     What had happened? What HADN'T happened? Ever since they had moved to California, all Eleven wanted to do was make friends. She wanted to fit in and experience being normal. She wanted to know what it was like to not be different and with the loss of her powers, she had thought that perhaps it would have been easier. It wasn't. In fact, it felt even worse now that she felt so distant from who she truly was inside. Without her powers, she didn't quite recognize the girl who looked back at her in the mirror and the feeling of being lost? It hadn't gone away. No matter how much time had passed.

     "Angela." She breaths, saying the girl's name slowly, gaze not moving to look at Will. She felt shame. She had wanted nothing more than the popular girl in their class to like her but no matter how hard she had tried. No matter how friendly she had been, Angela was nothing but mean to her. What a dumb mouth breather. Why did Eleven care so damn much? "She won't stop!" Each word is sad slowly. Pronounced easily. The dictionary had helped. Being in school had helped, but it hadn't changed anything. Not really. She was still a freak.

[mxrvelouscreations]

‘They…they turned me into a monster.’ // Will @ Joyce

“No sweetheart...” Joyce couldn’t help but pull her son in close, her heart sinking at his words. Will had been through enough in his life, he had gone through literal Hell and back. The last thing he needed was for kids to make fun of him because of it. Holding him tight, she rested her head on top of his, wishing that she could protect him from the rest of the world. “You’re not a monster Will. Don’t let anyone tell you that... “

[dcbicki]

someone said hopper needs to drag will around hawkins by the scruff of his neck like a vecna detector to see if he beeps and honestly that's the best idea yet

[v-i-r-i-d-i-a-n]

(I’m using caps, I am not upset JUST PASSIONATE)

This is an Eleven character rant/study, I have a really hard time putting my thoughts into words so I’m sorry if I talk in a circle a lot but I am simply ranting

Y’ALL DONT GET IT

ELS CHARACTER ARC DOESNT MAKE SENSE IF SHE STAYS WITH MIKE

AND IM GONNA TALK ABOUT IT BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE A LOT OF Y’ALL FORGET THAT IF BYLER DOES HAPPEN SHES GONNA PLAY A BIG PART IN THE STORY CUS YK SHES MIKES GIRLFRIEND AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP HAS TO END FOR THAT TO BECOME AN ACTUAL THING

From the moment we’re introduced to El we know that her character arc is about personal freedom, being free, being her own person, she escapes from the lab where she has no freedom and has never had the ability to make her own decisions, that is THE FIRST thing we learn about El; Is that she is searching for freedom. We know El has never had the chance or has even been given the right to choose what happens in her life. We learn that throughout season one, with her being uneducated on the simplest things, not knowing what privacy is and in the end not really wanting privacy, and then she “dies” finally choosing something for herself.

Even in S2 we see her yet again, being in a situation where she does not have freedom. Living with Hopper was like a prison, it reminded El of living in the lab, it reminded her that she did not have control over her life, THAT YET AGAIN the government was deciding what she could and couldn’t do. Even if not directly, the reason Hopper wouldn’t let her out of the house was because the lab was actively searching for her. El didn’t have freedom when living with Hopper.

And then we see her finally choose something for herself, she leaves the house despite it not being safe because she doesn’t want to be controlled anymore, she wants to have freedom. And then someone see’s her and Hopper yells and takes away the ONE THING that connected her to the outside world and she runs away. To be free, to try and finally get some answers for herself. To have the freedom to create her own opinions on information she doesn’t know yet.

And then we meet Kali, and it’s the free-est El has probably EVER felt in her entire life. AND THEN Kali manipulates her, and tries to get her to do something she doesn’t want to do. SHE YET AGAIN DOESNT HAVE TRUE FREEDOM BECAUSE SOMEONE ELSE IS TRYING TO DICTATE HER LIFE, TO USE HER AS A WEAPON

IN S3 SHES ABLE TO SEE MIKE AND GET OUT OF THE HOUSE SOMETIMES BUT SHE STILL ISNT FREE BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT SHE REALLY ONLY SPENDS TIME WITH MIKE AND MIKE ALWAYS COMES TO HOPPERS HOUSE WE KNOW EL DOESNT KNOW WHO SHE IS, THAT SHE DOESNT TRY AND DISCOVER HERSELF FOR AT LEAST 6 MONTHS AFTER THE EVENTS OF S2

El’s arc in S3 is, again, about self discovery (freedom), finally having a sense of being able to make her own choices, trying to figure herself out as a person, OUTSIDE of Mike and Hopper. Figuring out what she likes and doesn’t like and how to have fun and how to be a kid with Max.

EVEN IN S4 EL HAD A TASTE OF FREEDOM AND THEN GETS SWEPT AWAY BY THE LAB ONCE AGAIN. WITHOUT LEARNING TRULY WHO SHE IS YET

Now I know a lot of Mike and El shippers would argue that being with Mike was something that El actively chose on her own but you have to understand how their relationship even came to be to know that’s absolute bullshit

El didn’t know what a friend was when she escaped the lab, and I can tell you FOR SURE that she didn’t understand what Mike meant when he kissed her. Maybe on a surface level, but not really fully understanding it all, I highly doubt Papa taught El ANYTHING about relationships. So this idea of romance was thrust upon her when she had no real idea what it was

The only understanding of romance El had was that of the shows she watched in Hoppers cabin, and we all know that was a dolled up fantasy version of love, but it’s the only example El was ever given, so even if she didn’t fully understand love she thought that was what people did. I don’t know if El ever loved Mike, or if it was hormones, or just simply because she thought “oh, this is what people do. This is what Mike meant. Well, it doesn’t seem too bad. And I’m supposed to do it right? That’s how I’m supposed to act? That’s how people act. So that’s how I will act.” And maybe El did really like Mike, or maybe she confused friendship for love. That I’m not really sure.

But I do know one thing, and that’s that being in a relationship is not healthy for El. Even at this point El doesn’t know who she is as a person, she’s still figuring it out. She’s still searching for that freedom her ENTIRE arc has been about.

And I know a million people have already talked about how Mikes arc surrounds needing to be needed, and that, at its bare bones, is not healthy for El. She does not need him. Maybe at first she did, in S1, when she had just escaped from the lab and needed some sort of guidance, but it was the same way she needed Max, she needed someone to guide her through the basics of being a person..But she does not need him now.

At least not in the relationship type of way. I THINK MIKE AND EL COULD BE REALLY GOOD FRIENDS. But it’s not healthy for either of them to stay together.

Because El needs to find herself outside of someone else, outside of Hopper, outside of Joyce, outside of Max, outside of Mike.

And being in a relationship does not allow her to do that.

Might rant about how Mike staying with El also doesn’t work for him as well idk

I WROTE THIS INSTEAD OF DOING SCHOOL SO SORRY IF ITS RUSHED

[samgelina-jolie]

Stranger things + Texts

[marthaskane]

EL HOPPER & WILL BYERS

STRANGER THINGS (2016- ) ↳ 4.08 Chapter Eight: Papa

[amazingspidermans]

mike telling el the best day of his life was when he met her even though that was also the day will (WHO WAS RIGHT. THERE.) went missing and was kidnapped by a literal monster from hell dimension…… absolutely fucking vile

[wyatthaliwells]

Halloween in Hawkins 🎃👻 Stranger Things, Season 2 (2017) | “MADMAX” + “TRICK OR TREAT, FREAK”

[cursedtcwn]

Closed Starter || @cleryc​ || From Eleven

     Halloween. It was a holiday that she had only heard of once she had left the confinements of the lab. Brenner never taught them of these holidays that people celebrated outside the walls they all grew up in. When asked about snow, he simply replied that it was something that happened in the season of Winter, depending on the place one lived, they got snow and if they lived in a different place, they had sun and warmth from it's rays.

     Eleven had longed to partake in these holidays after she had heard about them. Halloween. Thanksgiving. Christmas. Even hearing about one called Valentine's Day had intrigued her. They were new experiences, something she desired to understand. To go through at it's fullest and whatever was attached with it. Christmas outside of the lab? The first one? Spent in a snow covered forest, having learned to find warmth when and where she could, Hopper would leave food for her in a box, one that she could open from the Upside Down and be able to survive until her escape.

     When Doctor Owens had moved her to live with the Byers family, Eleven had wondered once more if she would get to experience these holidays that she had once heard about. She wondered if the Byers celebrated them or perhaps they had different things to celebrate? Either way, she wanted the experience. Wanted to see them in their full. Wanted to partake in their livelihoods they could offer.

     "We care...this?" She questions with a raise of an eyebrow. She's sitting at the kitchen table, one that is thoroughly covered in news papers, with two large pumpkins sitting atop it. A third was sitting upon the bar that connected this room to the kitchen. There were tools in front of her with bright orange handles, the likes of which, she had never seen before and she was filled with curiosity.

     She shakes her head, picking up the serrated knife and looking from it to the pumpkin, a slightly tilt of her head to the left as she tries to understand what exactly she was meant to do here. "You go first." She nods to Will then, a small smile finding it's way over her features. "Then I will follow."