#rn he’s on brenners ship

[a-little-unsteddie]

🪐 gimme gimme gimme

hi frien <3 ty <3 here is some human!steve

Each wall was featureless, aside from the panels. There was light coming from <i>somewhere</i>, but there didn’t appear to be any visible source. Steve stood, even as his body protested the movement, and walked the perimeter of the room, determined to not give into the temptation of just accepting his fate as a prisoner.

Eventually, Steve had to give into the exhaustion that was taking over his aching body and laid on the cot and pulled the thin blanket over his body. As he fell asleep, Steve hoped that maybe when he woke up, he’d be back home and this would be some fucked up nightmare.

Unfortunately, the next time he opened his eyes, it was to the same monochrome cell that he’d been in when he’d fallen asleep. He realized that at some point while he’d been asleep, the aliens had come and replenished his food and water, which he supposed was a blessing, even if it meant that he had been vulnerable during that time.

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[henrysglock]

Hi! You said I could ask you questions if I had any (I’m sure you explain stuff I’m about to ask in other posts but I don’t have the time to go through alll of them rn SORRY IF IT FEELS REPETITIVE TO EXPLAIN)

So I read your big timeloop post (super super cool post btw LIKE OMGGG MY BRAIN IS BRRING) and you mentioned some stuff that I don’t rlly know about (guessing it’s TFS stuff) anyways! I wanna know what you’re talking about because I wanna make sure I fully understand everything you’re talking about. And I’m sure I could look some of this up but I’d prefer hearing your thoughts/personal takes on it because it helps me understand stuff better

Anyways I was wondering if you could explain more about “The Attack on Mr Newby” ? As well as tell me what we know about Brenners dad so far? you explained quite a bit of it in that post- I’m not sure if you covered it all, and sense Brenners dad seems to have to do quite a bit with his motives I wanna know as much as I can abt him

ALSO whose inmate 58361 and what purpose did they have in the story? Was it just someone Henry killed to appease the MF?

Okay yes!! Absolutely. Buckle in. So the attack on Mr. Newby was an event in The First Shadow. Patty and Henry are in the Creel attic using his powers to search for her mother. Midway through, the Mindflayer attacks and possesses Henry/puts him into a vision. Hearing Patty's distress, Mr. Newby comes up to help. He ends up being the target of Henry's powers (while he's possessed, much the same as it was with Prancer earlier on). Although Henry fights the Mindflayer off (with some help from Definitely Not Patty), Mr. Newby loses his eys and breaks several bones falling through the attic floor after he's dropped when the possession connection is severed. He later tells Patty, who was completely convinced that Henry did all of that of his own accord out of malice, that she has to save Henry from the Mindflayer because he was fighting it/it wasn't his fault at all.

All we know about Brenner's dad is that he was the captain of the USS Eldridge, which was the ship in the Philadelphia Experiment. It vanished into Dimension X when our Brenner turned 15 (October of 1943...yes, on our Brenner's birthday), and Captain Brenner was the sole survivor. He returned to our dimension with an altered blood type (the same weird blood type Henry has...which sounds like a development that came about when he went missing in a Nevada cave system about a year before moving to Hawkins, around the same time that he began having hallucinations and violent tendencies from the Mindflayer) that caused his body to reject all transfusions of normal blood types. We're not given a reason that the blood type changes after exposure to Dimension X, just that it happens. Captain Brenner told our Brenner everything he knew about Dimension X, and succumbed to his injuries shortly after. Evidently, our Brenner didn't like his father very much, given that Captain Brenner tells us that our Brenner told him he hates him. However, Captain Brenner's disappearance and death is, supposedly, our Brenner's motivation irt Henry and the lab kids: Finding someone who will let him into Dimension X so he can solve the mystery of what, exactly, happened to his father.

Inmate 58361 was a prisoner that Brenner brought in for Henry to "feed" on, since he surmised that Henry gains strength from killing Vecna-style after hearing about the animals. Henry refuses to hurt 58361, and Brenner makes a pitch at him about how animals can't consent to testing the way people in the prison system could. Fucked up, huh? Anyway, all this happens after Henry agrees to break out of HNL to meet Patty at the school play so they can run away from Brenner together. Henry, still resistant to Brenner's demands that he kill and worked up by Brenner's psychological tormenting (the hollering, the insults, the Everything), lashes out to escape. 58361 gets caught in the crossfire as Henry goes after Brenner and the guards (though mind you—Henry stops short of killing Brenner or the guards, despite EVERYTHING). 58361's eyes go, which we can see in the bloodstains on the sack over his head when the attack happens. This makes him super important, because it shows that Henry's natural killing style is not Vecna-style. It's actually far more similar to El's style that we see in ST1 with Connie and the lab goons, which has major implications about what we see in the massacre irt One's kill-style. tl;dr: 58361 was meant, by Brenner, to be a food sacrifice to the Mindflayer/Henry. Henry refuses to kill him, but ends up hurting him by accident while trying to free himself from the lab.

Whew. LOTS of stuff. Saw the play 4 times in person (and like 5 more times on tape...for legal reasons this is a joke) and it's STILL a lot to take in especially when it comes to fitting it into filmed canon.

[hwanswerland]

stranger things spoilers for season 4.2 ahead

ehhh idk what to think about this finale tbh, at least not plot wise. what i do know is that the will/mike/eleven dynamic was fucked and not in a good way, poor will deserves better. that was so homophobic of the writers actually, and I don't even ship anything here, I really get why people are mad. will in general giving of "unneccessary side character vibes" fucking rip my boy, i hope you get your chance to shine and heal and everything. also the thing with robin and her girl felt...cheap in a way? idk can't describe it but eh. when they were talking at the end they kind of felt like the same character which is just lazy writing imo

the steve/nancy/jonathan thing was also so fucking unneccesary imo but that might just be my hate for love triangles speaking, as well as me getting annoyed that seemingly every character (especially when I like said character) ever needs to have some sort of love interest. i mean it made sense in the earlier seasons i think but really, bringing that particular thing back? not a fan.

eddie's death was so random and did not make a lot of sense narratively, the whole "i'm not a hero and always running" and then him dying because he suddenly had a change of mind or whatever? and for what? for everyone to still hate him and everyone but dustin to never even say his name despite him being a part of their team? and once again i'm not even invested, that's just observations i remember rn bc 4 hours was just too long for me to remember a lot rn lmao, i need some time to reflect

at least freaking brenner is finally dead, even though i still don't agree with how he wasn't framed as exactly the asshole that he is. it was better these two eps but all of volume one i was going like ???? WHY ARE THEY FRAMING HIM AS BEING KINDA MISUNDERSTOOD MAYBE NOT BEING THE REAL BAD GUY? yeah idk, his and els relationship was also off somehow imo

from what i saw the cast/writers idk saying about it i expected a LOT more deaths and especially the main cast dying, not that i'm complaining that they didn't but...yeah

soooo yeah not being overly invested bc of no 1 relatable character already being dead does have it's perks :| i imagine this was disappointing for a lot of people