#dr. hopper

[rayo1-productions]

So in the same way I gifted my good friend LG Shala with a cover to his fanfiction for Christmas, I gifted my good friend @waystobuild-blog with a Lyokosona-edit of Dr. Franz Hopper!

*factory theme intensifies*

Ways does this awesome series where he translates the cast of Code Lyoko into the Persona style (specifically P3 Reload, I believe) by editing and mixing elements of its character renders together. I enjoyed the series so much, and actually got to help him in the past with his edit of Jeremie, so I was happy to make him this as a surprise.

This was a lot of fun to make, same as the cover to A Trip to Remember.

If you're impressed by this and want an edit of your own, or even a full-scale art piece, remember that commissions are currently open and my DMs are free to all.

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[shelbgrey]

- Archie "jiminy cricket" Hopper aesthetic

[hollowistheworld]

Thinking about that post about the show murderbot characters not being as 'developed' (as in, are still in the beginnings/middles of character arcs) as their book counterparts, and I think a big plus of it is it lets Murderbot be in the same category as them.

The most obvious example is it and Mensah - both of them struggling with anxiety and fighting through it because there are people counting on them. But the one I'm really thinking about is Murderbot and Ratthi.

Ratthi didn't get weapons training like he was supposed to because he 'slept through it' which was because he was hungover (would love to know if Mensah already knew that before he accidentally announced it over the comms). His very feeble, obviously shame-filled excuse is that he didn't think he'd need it. Just like Murderbot didn't think it'd need the hopper repair manual.

These are dumb, youthful things to do. Go out and party and be too hungover to make it to class the next day. Watch your favorite TV show instead of copying down your homework. These things happen and 95% of the time it's no big deal.

And then one time it is. It's a big deal and now they can't help when they really want to be able to help. And Murderbot and Ratthi react to their mistakes the exact same way - by giving themselves a lecture on what big fucking idiots they are. Ratthi then does something dumb and dangerous to try and make up for it and Murderbot has Mensah crack open its spine. It's a very fun parallel between them and I think it's going to add some really nice depth to their friendship as things go along. You fuck up. You do dumb shit to get the short-term gratification.

And people love you anyway.

[reo-bylerwagon]

woah woah woah

[edb954]

Like her…(Henry Creel/001 x reader!)

(Warnings: Bad writing, Brenner, 001/Henry, mentions of death? NOT PROFF READ!)

(Summary: You and Henry are 011 real parents. Henry not knowing but, 011 reminds him of you..)

A/n: I got this idea off of a TikTok💀😂

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“Papa, I’m chasing a ghost… I don’t know who she is…”

~~~~~~

"Am I going to get in trouble?" 011 asked, her doe eyes looked at Henry with sad expression. The same way you used to when one of the children got hurt..

"No.. no why would you think that?" Henry asked in a sickly sweet voice.

~~~~~

During the 'game', it was 002 against 007, who was only 5 at the time. 002 had thrown him hard against the wall with a hard smack.

Y/n looked at the little boy with her sad doe like eyes with an equal sad worried expression. Once the session was over and all the kids went to the rainbow room.

She left to the nurses station to check on 007. She was glad to see him wake but he had bruises slowly forming. She gave 007 a sad smile.

"Look who's awake." Y/n said with a comforting smile. 007 opened his eyes again with a small smile. "I'm really glad you're okay. And I have something that i think is well deserved."

Y/n said leaning forward slightly in the chair whispering to him. 007 looked at her with a curious expression. As y/n reached into her uniform pocket holding out a piece of candy. 007 eyes widened with a smile. Before jumping up and hugging her.

"Thank you, mummy." 007 said. Y/n's expression halted as tears formed in her eyes and wrapped her arms around the little boy.

"Keep it a secret. Okay?" Y/n said, as she pulled away. 007 nodded hiding it in his sweatpants pocket. "Get some rest."

Y/n smiled as 007 nodded laying back down cuddling up next to his stuffed animal.

Y/n got up and walked over to the station getting it ready for the next shift. She closed the door wiping her tears once she got to her room evidently was the one without any cameras. Not noticing the figure that had been waiting for her.

"Why are you crying?" Henry asked concerned. Which caused y/n to jump started by the voice. She let out breathy laugh.

"You really know how to startle someone.." she said. Turning to look at him. He was right in front of her.

"What happened?" He asked/demanded, whipping away the stranded tears with his finger.

"It's nothing. I promise." She replied, Henry was not convinced but let it go. Wrapping his arms around and kissing her.

~~~~~

"You remind me of someone..." Henry said, while sitting next to 011.

011 glances at him her eyebrows furrowed with a little crinkle between her brows. The image of you came into his mind.

~~~

"I-I just don't get it.." Y/n said, eyebrows furrowed with a little crinkle between her eyebrows.

"They are so young and have so much ahead of them. But instead they are pit against each other in some sick game.. and some of them aren't even old enough to-" She looked over to see Henry looking at the ground. Y/n sighed.

"I'm sorry.. I just wish that I could help them.." y/n said , the second part barely a whisper.

Henry grabbed her arms and kissed her forehead. She laid her head down on his chest and his arms wrapped around her.

"Someday we will..." he said..

~~~

"Who?" 011 asked Henry.

"A girl I used to know. She was confused just how you are now. When she found out what papa was doing... but that story doesn't have a happy ending I'm afraid.." Henry said, his eyes drifting off sadly.

"What...what happened to her?" 011 asked hesitantly. Henry looked at her.

"How about we save that story for a different day.." Henry said, giving the confused girl a slight smile.

  And if Henry was being honest he didn't know the whole story of what happened to the woman he loved for a long time.

~~~~~

  Henry heard 011 got attacked and snuck off to the nurses station to check on her. He saw her and all he could see was you. How her face looked calm and collected yet with a hint of pain etched on to her face. So tired that she couldn't keep her eyes open. Those doe shaped eyes with the long lashes just like you..

~~~

"What happened?" Henry demanded his voice almost sinisterly yet also concerning.

  Y/n furrowed her brows slightly in pain as she sat up. Eyes drifting closed and opening. Henry grabbed her before she could fall laying her back down against him. Her head on his chest.

"That day when you saw me crying. I was with 007 i-I gave him a piece of candy and somebody heard him call me..." y/n heisted the last part.

"Call you what? What had lead to this besides you giving him candy?" Henry asked.

  Y/n sat up steadily her doe eyes drifting off. Whipping the tears that were starting to come.

"Somebody heard 007 call me mum..." She whispered.

  Henry's eyes widened slightly looking at her. He gently pulled her back so she was lying on his chest as he ran a hand up her arm comforting her. Not long as she drifted off to sleep her face calm and collected but with a slightly pained expression from the torture he had to endure not so long before he found you.

  That night Henry made a silent vow to get you out of that hell hole. And make a wish for you to come true.

  Neither of you knowing that, that wish, that want was already alive and growing.

~~~~

"Mama is dead." 011 slightly snapped at Henry.

"And who told you that?" Henry asked. His eyebrows raised with a knowing look.

"Papa!" 011 Whisper shouted. Henry gave her a knowing look. 011 eyes widened with realisation, just like you used too. "Who doesn't always tell the truth..."

~~~~

Y/n's eyes widened with realisation as she realised why she has been so tired and nauseous lately. Y/n paled at the fact she just bestowed upon.

"Hey, you okay?" Henry asked. As he noticed how pale you had gotten. Y/n nodded slightly before collapsing. Henry caught her as her eyes rolled back.

...

"You can't see her." A nurse said blocking Henry from seeing her.

  His eyes drifted to see Brenner giving him a stern look and whisper to a guard. As the guard took him away. That was the last time he saw you.

"You will be put into a secluded room and will be watched and taken care of during the 9 months and when you have the baby it will become part of the system." Brenner said sternly. Y/n nodded slightly before looking away with tears.

~~~~

"I didn't lie 011. When I talked about your mother." Brenner said. 011 looked at him confused.

"Your mother is gone. She had died not long after she had you. It's wasn't because of you.. she got sick." Brenner said. 011 realised.

"Henry said that I reminded him a woman."

"That woman was your mother... and Henry.." 011s eyes widened as she processed the information.

"No.." She whispered. Staring at Brenner in horror.

"Yes 011. Henry is your father and that wom- Y/n is your mother. They were secretly together when they were in the lab. And that is how she had you." Brenner said.

  011 swallowed hard before asking the question she's been pondering on.

"Do I look like her?"

[it-was-a-seven07]

i had an idea for a dragon au

if you guys like it i can make more :D

[mensahbots]

noma dumezweni (who plays mensah in the tv show) had an interview where she described her character in ways that helped me recontextualize mensah's actions in episode 3 a bit

[PreservationAux] come from a place that values emotional connection and humanity. We have chosen to be on this planet for research. She's holding the team together. She's very warm, she's very open. She listens to each individual as she's running the crew. But she's not supposed to be a fighter. She's not supposed to be in danger. Yet danger arrives. So she covers her panic attacks. She covers the stress. To be a leader, you don't put your fears onto the people that you're looking after. That's what I love about Dr. Ayda, and I loved playing her because she likes people. She likes to see the essence of the person she's talking to.

in particular, the bolded sentence, which i think a) is very mensah (and as different as book and tv mensah feel to me, i like the idea that her motivations and interiority could be very similar, particularly with respect to the character's integrity) and b) suggests mensah may have been speaking to murderbot as a perceived co-leader or equal/fellow on the team— that to her, it was someone she thought was appropriate to share those feelings with compared to characters like bharadwaj, gurathin, or pin-lee.

so maybe in mensah's mind, she isn't "looking after" secunit, it's ranked above and apart from the others. i like this angle because i think it implies mensah feels no sense of paternalism or superiority, and she also likely wasn't viewing murderbot as a mere thing to dump her feelings on either. not to mention, by episode 3, murderbot was the only person on the team who had witnessed her panicking in private. to her, the disclosures may have felt like an explanation more than putting her feelings onto it, especially after all that it had seen of her vulnerabilities already. yes i am coping, but is this not plausible?

also, in episode 4 when she's telling herself it's a machine while panicking, she might be thinking of its reaction to what she shared—that maybe her impulse to treat it as an equal and teammate was inappropriate—in her anxiety-fueled attempted justification not to help it. eg, "i don't need to save it, it's just a machine, i'm being foolish for thinking otherwise." pin-lee saying it wasn't on their team was what pushed mensah to respond and know without a doubt that she did need to help murderbot and that fear was trivial compared to the moral failure of not helping it. because i think to her, it's unquestionably a person, and she couldn't convince herself otherwise, nor could pin-lee. to mensah, it's her teammate.

the rest of the interview was also lovely. i loved hearing dumezweni reflect on her experiences on set and how positive a thing the show was for her. here are some more of her thoughts about the characters and story:

I do actually [see similarities between herself and the character]. I like people. I like saying hello. I like trying to figure out how people are feeling in a space. When I was younger, it was more about being a people pleaser. But that was a part of me, which I've now said “let's not do that.” But my curiosity about people is still there and I love that. In terms of Ayda, she has a strong sense of herself, but not of the world she's suddenly in. And that's what's so beautiful about the writing: these warm, emotionally connected people are suddenly confronted with real danger. And that’s where the tension happens. They need Murderbot, beautifully played by Alexander [Skarsgärd], to look after them. Murderbot comes into our lives and we are affected by it. And it is affected by us.

[erikiara80]

Happy Stranger Things Day! One of the worst days of Will Byers' life. But at least he played dnd with Mike and his friends for 10 hours

[kissboybyler]

UMMM OKAY HOLD ON HOLD ON HOLD ON-

Remember the infamous mike / brenner parallel?

“What did you do? / what have you done?” x2

Well, in s4, while el was training to get her powers back, Owens, the person helping her gain said strength / powers back, stands up to Brenner and demands he let el decide for herself because she’s her own person capable of making her own choices. “And here she is. Making a choice.”

You know who else did something similar to that in s3?

Max, the person helping el find out who she is, who stood up to mike and told him that el is her own person and fully capable of determining what her limits are. “Who do you think knows el’s limits better? Mike or Eleven?”

Like obviously i’m not comparing mike to brenner, but it’s literally the same font, different context. I’ve never seen anyone point this out before (maybe it has been but oh well) and it just hit me in the head with such force oh my fuckass god

[profoundstarfishmusic]

[conflictofthemind]

TL;DR: HNL was studying how to give human subjects electromagnetic, most specifically visible light based, powers in order to bend space-time for their needs.

I’m going to try and condense this as much as I can because considering electromagnetism as a major force in ST (pun intended) opens up so many potential areas of analysis that can only be a brief cover of without turning into multiple essays.

Let’s go over the electromagnetic spectrum:

I hope you might already be recognizing some symbols we see often in Stranger Things, especially if you’ve been following the BTS and some location and set leaks from Season 5.

The electromagnetic spectrum encompasses the different frequencies of electromagnetic radiation - waves of energy that travel at the speed of light (and produce visible light to us at certain frequencies). You’ve probably heard of most of these, including cancer-causing gamma rays and x-rays, the visible light spectrum (the rainbow), microwaves, and radio waves.

In S5, we have the radio station as a main location for the characters. They’re also driving around in the radio station’s van, which has an image of a hawk emitting a rainbow (visible light radiation). Steve’s car also has a massive antenna on top of it. My first thoughts were that the team was trying to keep in contact with Max in hopes of her being able to hear them in her coma, considering she has a radio near her bedside. While that still may be a reason, I think the characters may have come to realize how important electromagnetic fields could be in their fight against Vecna (this where leader of the AV Club also focused on electromagnetic objects Scott Clarke may make his triumphant return).

Now to pivot onto why electromagnetism is so important to the lore of ST:

What the scientists in Hawkins Lab are likely studying is a way for human brains to produce or manipulate certain types of electromagnetic waves through telepathy. Most obviously this is seen by them having the kids try to manipulate and turn on a circle of light bulbs. Our brains actually already produce electromagnetic waves, but at a very slow frequency. The scientists are constantly measuring brain waves while conducting these experiments. We even get full shots of El’s brain waves during NINA, for example. We also see similar shots in S2 while Will is in the HNL.

You can also observe that the Hawkins National Laboratory has absolutely massive satellite dishes on it’s rooftop; ones that do not exist on the real life building but are added in post because they pose some sort of significance. Nudge, it’s because they are transmitting and receiving massive amounts of electromagnetic waves.

Why are they studying electromagnetic waves then?

They are studying electromagnetic waves because they are a method in which time travel can theoretically be achieved - the focus of the Montauk Project in which Stranger Things is based on. The military likely is investigating time travel as another war tactic against Russia.

Let us take a look at the first chapter of the Montauk Project: Experiments in Time book (they are seriously plagiarizing the living hell out of this thing):

Also, did you catch the whole 'attaching a massive antenna on the hood of my car to pick up a secret signal' thing? That's suspiciously similar to the state of Steve's car! Anyway...

The story of Stranger Things starts chronologically, as does Montauk, with the disappearance of the USS Eldridge and Project Rainbow (named after the bending of the visible light spectrum). Brenner’s father was revealed to have captained the boat in TFS, which disappeared for 12 hours into Dimension X and when it came back, the crew was killed or driven mad (except for Brenner Sr). This inspires Brenner to continue onto the Nevada project, and eventually, Hawkins National Lab’s studies. The USS Eldridge / Philadelphia Project conspiracy from real life went as follows:

They were studying electromagnetism, specifically the bending of light, to make objects invisible. This was only the first step in the experiments. Once Henry got involved and came back from his trip to Dimension X with powers, Brenner must have realized he could potentially use human subjects to manipulate electromagnetic fields themselves. Human subjects didn’t require machinery or set up and could bend space-time wherever they pleased, as long as they were able to learn the ability.

The more conspiratiorial side of Theoretical Physics proposes using circulating light beams to warp time-space, creating a wormhole in which one can literally walk through time. This is pop-science, likely not true but interesting for fiction purposes. This method of time travel being used is heavily implied due to the fact that the USS Eldridge was already able to disappear into another dimension by the bending of light.

This is how it worked in the Montauk Project book (absolutely ridiculous how much they took from this honestly):

My guess is that in the Stranger Things universe, they have not yet managed to time travel, only to create portals into this alien Dimension X. Previously, said portals were only made twice by highly advanced technological equipment. El demonstrated that she was able to open a portal all by herself - another step to achieving time travel with singular human subjects. Season five is when we will see the beginning of the time travel plot line, though it like in Montauk is likely already in a loop.

That’s where we get the name for the Rainbow Room, named after this Project Rainbow. The rainbow represents the full spectrum of visible light, and the goals of the project to bend said light into portals and eventually time travel wormholes.

Implications?:

-Well, first of all it seems very obvious by this point that we are going for a time travel plot line, and this is how it will be achieved.

-Will is heavily connected to light in general, the sun, and of course… the rainbow. He is also implied be the one involved in the time travel plot line. This will be very relevant going forward and deserves it’s own post. Potential funniness of defeating Vecna with the power of the rainbow afoot.

-Coma patients are known to have odd, barely detectable brain waves. The kids will be able to communicate with Max in her coma using the electromagnetic spectrum somehow, probably through the radio waves.

-On the farthest end of the spectrum, we have ionizing gamma ray radiation, which is known to cause cancer in humans. Expect Hopper’s daughter Sara to connect to this plot line (and perhaps Sam Owens’ dead son). There is a whole theory on this site already called radiationgate. I have not managed to look into it yet but I think they are probably onto something there. The original al pitch mentions the UD leakage into the real world causing cancer as well.

[4-6-1-3-7]

Vecna is a memory thief theory 🕓🧠

(this is not a new theory by any means, I just wanted to write my take on it because I’ve been thinking about it all day, mild spoilers for ‘the first shadow’ and the s5 trailer)

In season 2 When Will is hospitalised at Hawkins Lab following the tunnel incident, Bob finally is told the truth about everything that’s going on. He’s clearly in shock, nothing like this ever happens in Hawkins right? Or at least that’s what everyone thinks, so of course Bob had no idea what was going on, and Joyce says he’ll most likely have to sign NDAs like everyone else and never talk about it to anyone outside of the group.

This scene makes perfect sense with everything else we’ve been shown up until that point, Bob is almost standing in for the audience here, a lot of us could relate to his statement as that’s probably what we’d say too in that situation, finding out about the upside down.

However in season 4 we learn about Vecna, how he’s been the one behind it all, almost every weird thing that’s ever happened in Hawkins dating all the way back to the 50s as a young Henry Creel.

It’s established that he can look through memories, and that’s how he picks his victims (possibly even why Will was sent to the upside down in season 1, he was chosen, it wasn’t coincidence) he looks for people who are already struggling, easy targets, less likely to run.

In season 1 we see Dr. Brenner testing Elevens abilities, it’s shown again in season 4 with the other children, and we know he did these same tests on Henry. Each child seems to have slight variations in these abilities, so with Henry being able to access memories it’s not much of a stretch to assume Brenner trained him to erase unwanted ones, like government secrets etc.

So… back to Bob.

He clearly wasn’t aware of anything strange going on, however in season 4 we learn about what happened in the Creel house in 1959, Bob was 12 when this happened, and would have heard about it. It’s clear the details were at least somewhat publicly known too, as when Wayne Munson sees what’s happened to Chrissy in his trailer he immediately connects the dots. So Bob surely would have remembered something so horrifying that happened in his small town when he was a kid right?

Okay well maybe he didn’t learn the details, maybe he just thought it was a normal murder I mean it was 25 years ago so maybe he genuinely just forgot right? WRONG! How could he just forget?? His adopted sister Patty was in a relationship of sorts with Henry Creel, one of the supposed ‘victims’ of the supernatural crime!! His goddamn sister!!!

Bob is shown to be intelligent, Bob The Brain, he obviously would have looked into what happened in the Creel house and he would have remembered it!! He wouldn’t have said what he said to Joyce, would he have been shocked? Yes, but not completely thrown off, he would have probably immediately recalled what happend in 1959. This is if he still had his memory of it.

Now I’ve not seen “the first shadow” stage play yet, I really want to so I’m not gonna spoil myself too much but that’s where we learn about his sister and her relationship to Henry, and I also know that Bob, Joyce & Hopper were all investigating bizarre happenings in Hawkins, so he DID know there was weird stuff going on, so why is he suddenly clueless?

Well because Henry has obviously wiped his memory of it, as well as Joyce and Hoppers, however it seems Hopper’s more aware than he lets on. We all know by now how big of an inspiration Stephen King was on the Duffers when creating Stranger Things, and in IT there’s a similar concept with memories, almost an inverse actually.

The adults in IT just completely forget about all of the weird stuff once they leave Derry. Only Mike, who stays, can remember and he has to jog the memory of the rest of the losers club. And in Hawkins all of the adults just seem to have forgotten about all of the weird stuff from their childhood, but Hopper, who has spent the most time away from Hawkins, seems to know the most. 

He seems to be remembering things in season 1 and that’s perhaps how he manages to evade issues with Hawkins Lab, striking a deal with them, maybe he had information they needed regarding what happened in 1959, idk?

He somehow manages to get them to leave El alone and after he goes looking for her in the woods then takes her to his cabin to live with him… he MUST know something, I think he’s the most clued in out of all the adults.

We know he’s teamed up with El in season 5, perhaps he has knowledge that will help her to defeat Henry but we’ll just have to wait and see.

Anyway~ mini rant over, I wonder if anyone actually read this whole thing lol

Bonus Update:

This could maybe also explain ‘birthday gate’ as well as why Vecna started his killings after Mike left for California.

Mike is the only person I can’t quite understand forgetting Will’s birthday, it’s so out of character for him. Especially with him visiting for spring break, it was clearly planned that he’d be going for Will’s birthday, and yet he just forgets?

Mike definitely has a lot of trauma, he’s a perfect fit for becoming a Vecna victim so he was definitely looking through Mikes memories. Vecna would have seen that he was planning to visit Will and Eleven for spring break, and we know those are the two characters Vecna has the most interest in.

Making Mike forget Will’s birthday would break him, he probably feels so alone especially since everyone else seemed too preoccupied to remember either. But Mike forgetting would probably hurt the most, especially since he went to visit him during it and had no idea. Making Will even easier to manipulate, giving him fresh trauma that Vecna can use against him.

This could be why Vecna started his killing spree after Mike left, Will and El would obviously try to save their friends and come back to Hawkins, so having Will feel like his friends don’t even care about him in time for him to get back to Hawkins would help Vecna break him down even further so Vecna can get in his head and possibly turn him against the group.

It could even be a contribution as to why Mike was acting so weird in the airport, he’s forgotten how to act around Will, forgotten how much he cares. And possibly even why Mike has stayed with El for so long despite not loving her back, making him forget his love for Will.

I’ll keep adding if I think of more stuff, this is just a personal little hypothesis collection now I guess.

[thelastbatwings]

shoutout to all the el stans in this fandom. we're in this together

[grand-zammy]

👨‍🍼 Happy Father's Day 👨‍🍼

Some might be lucky enough to be born to a Dad that loves and accepts them.

Some might be lucky enough to have a family member fill-in for their Parent.

Some might be lucky enough to have a trusted friend/coworker become a Father figure.

There are good fathers out there (fictional and real) that are trying their best for their kids.

[bloodycreaturee]

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