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We all know that Mike has a “Will” voice…

But did anyone else realize that Will also has a “Mike” voice? Like it makes me so happy thinking about them 🥺

Miwi makes my heart so happy…

So does Byler, but that inner child energy coming out in fics, just really makes me sappy, alright?

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I know we’ve analyzed this scene over and over again, and someone else has probably pointed this out, but I thought this was interesting.

Will has blue behind him.

Mike has blue and yellow (and green) behind him. And yellow in front of him.

I know we’ve figured out the blue & yellow = Mike & Will and Byler = green.

(I’m also looking right at Mike’s “I asked for vomit green and I got vomit green.” And green = blue + yellow together [byler])

But, I thought it was interesting that the blue light is next to Will, because the boy he loves is right in front of him. Will is wearing blue. He’s talking to Mike, and the blue is there because he’s thinking of Mike and he’s upset over being a third wheel. (Who wouldn’t be?)

Then, we have Mike.

He’s wearing a bluish purple shirt and yellow over it. Just like the flowers, yellow is overwhelming the purple… I wonder why?

The lights behind Mike’s head and in front of his head kind of clue us in on what the characters are thinking about. Mike is thinking about Will as indicated by the single yellow light between them, (because that’s the thing… somehow, Will has always been between Mike and his failing normal relationship with El), and Mike is also thinking about his relationship with Will differently. The lighting is telling us directly what Mike is thinking of… and that’s why he’s so thrown by the “And us?”. Because Will just wants to know where he stands, he thinks that he can live with it if he just rips the bandaid off and moves on from Mike. But Mike took the “And us?” As something more, as if he’s thought of his friendship with Will as something more…

And I think it’s funny & interesting that after this fight, Mike’s wardrobe shifts. And Will’s does too.

This is the aftermath of the roller rink incident. The colors are definitely muted here, they were loud at the roller rink, but here? The colors aren’t as full force, there’s some yellow in Mike’s flannel and there’s some blue and green on Will’s polo. I think the colors are muted here because of the fight, but it’s still showing that they’re thinking of that fight through the clothing itself.

But once Mike and Will have that heart to heart… the loud colors are back again. The clothing isn’t muted anymore, and these are the outfits that they wear for the rest of the season.

I know that the teal shirt was custom made and designed to look different in certain lighting, but what I started thinking about, was the blend of colors and lighting from before.

Blue and green make dark teal, but yellow lightens it up… meaning that Mike is thinking of being with Will in a relationship (blue and green make dark teal) but you need equal parts of blue and green, and equal parts of yellow and green, to make the teal on Mike’s shirt. (Meaning that I think Mike has come to terms with his love for Will and his feelings shifting from friendship to something more by the end of S4. They still have a lot to talk about and discuss… but there’s also a span of 2 days that we didn’t get to see as an audience.)

But Will hasn’t let himself think of being with Mike as an honest option, after the painting. He ripped off the bandaid, he’s trying to allow himself to move on and give up hope that Mike will ever love him in the same way. . . Which is why I think, his shirt is mostly yellow with blue patterned in lightly. And maybe, if they plan to continue with the color theory, we’ll see some changes again in season 5.

But… I keep thinking that Mike’s monologue was a veiled response to Will’s veiled confession in the van… and it would make sense, because they’ve been using El as a cover for every argument (and almost every conversation) in S4. Mike even uses his fight with El to talk to Will about their fight from S3.

I’m just saying, I think early S5 established or almost established Byler is something we could be looking at.

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Hey so. . .

Why does the track Lay-Z-Boy play twice in season 1?

It plays here when Mike is showing El the living room.

But the track Lay-Z-Boy also plays here? After the funeral, when Joyce remembers a memory. She's joking with Will, in this scene:

And it's almost as if this kid has never had more than a 12 pack box of crayons to color with. . . because the main colors he uses here are blue, yellow, red, green, brown, gray, and black (from what I could see in the scene)…?

But that’s just coincidence, right?

Just like this kid doesn’t know that fireworks. . . aren’t. . . suckers? Will is about 14 at this point, right? Now, why would he be asking if a firework. . . is sweet? He actually means it literally here.

If you look for it, there are scenes where Will is just as - if not equally - as clueless about things (you’d think he would have experienced living with Joyce) as El is . . .

Like this clip where Jonathan reminds a possessed Will about building Castle Byers. . .

(and as a comparison, we already know that Lonnie is good at hitting a nail on the head. . . because he fixes the hole in the house in S1. . .)

So, why would Lonnie - the man dead set on teaching his boy(s) how to take on toxic masculine roles (to the point that he makes Jonathan kill a harmless rabbit at the age of ten), not teach Will how to hammer a nail in to keep a board in place?

It's all a little suspicious if you ask me...

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Twelvegate master post coming soon - and in multiple sections, because for some reason this dang theory has gnawed on my brain for long enough and I need to get what I’ve found with @chirpsythismorning out in a couple of posts.

I’m gonna start with S4 and work down to S1. Because S4 has the most twelve & twin symbolism.

Basically, there’s a lot to deep dive into. And it’s all in the details(literally. It seems like there’s so many hints in the background.)

And getting yet another separate post are the inconsistencies, because I know there’s a few holes in this theory too.

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I was just cleaning my room because I finally had the energy to get it done…

But I’m gonna need an epic/dark version of In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins for one of the Stranger Things S5 trailers? Like, that song but done the way they did Separate Ways?!?

Wishful thinking, but I think it would be kind of fitting.

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The Demogorgon got Will, the Mind Flayer got Will…

Pfft… what’s next? Vecna’s gonna get Will too?

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My brother bought me a stranger things calendar for 2023…

Does someone want to tell me why Eddie looks like Conan the Barbarian?

And why we get Mike basically making schoolgirl crush eyes at Eddie in the cafeteria?

Are they implying something a bit gay here…?

(For all intents and purposes I am absolutely joking, but I thought it was funny that I found that reference in a calendar)

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GUYS HEAR ME OUT!

What if mike’s monologue wasn’t him saying what he thought El wanted to hear. . .?

What if it was Mike saying what he thought (and knew) Will wanted to hear (using El as a cover?)

Will’s “El, we’ll fix it together,” meaning a little more than “we’ll fix the diorama together” = Will trying to “fix” Mike and El’s relationship (but it fails)

El never needed to hear that Mike loved her. She needed him to show it.

Mike has been showing that he loves Will since season one.

He’s never once told El that he loves her before the monologue and the two barely know what one another enjoys as a couple. But as friends? Mike showed El compassion, he was friends with her and taught her about the world outside of the lab… he only came to the conclusion that he should like her as something more than a friend, after other characters, like Lucas and Nancy, brought it up.

Max, on the other hand, shows El that she loves her. They do things together, figure out what it is that El likes together. El knew that Max loves her and that she [El] loves Max. El knows that the others love her through actions, because to an extent, actions [force] have always been used against her.

But Will… he needs to hear that Mike loves him. Because words have been pitted against him through slurs and verbal beratement. Will knows that the others love him through their actions, but he needs to hear it to believe it… he’ll let himself hope that the others care, but he’s the person that needs reassured and told that he is loved.

[Which is a small part of why the heart to heart with Jonathan is so important! Will doesn’t seem to believe that he is loved until he is verbally told/reassured.]

And, even though Mike has shown that he loves and cares for Will in previous seasons, it never became inherently romantic until the end of S3 after Mike lost Will physically and emotionally. (Besides, they do say absence makes the heart grow fonder.)

Both Mike and Will have used “El” as a placeholder for every argument - and confession, that they’ve had in S4…

So what’s to say the monologue isn’t meant for Will?

Will, who ends up closer to Mike than ever in the last few scenes of Episode 9?

They finally look like they’re on the same page facing what lies ahead.

Besides that… the only part where Mike isn’t lying to El is the part where he tells her to fight. That doesn’t disregard that Mike is still actively lying to El… but Will used El to lie about his feelings for Mike, so what’s to say Mike hasn’t also been using El to lie about his feelings for Will?

And now El knows that neither one of them has been honest with her. She would be more upset with the lying than the fact that her brother and her ex-boyfriend are in love with one another. (And we know that lying is a major theme in S4. We see it with almost all of the couples- minus Jopper.)

And we know that Will is at least a bit of an unreliable narrator. . . So he’s viewing Mike’s monologue to El as “He’s in love with her and he will never feel that way towards me.” when in reality, that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Anyways… What do I know? I could just be delusional. I literally had this thought while talking to my cousin about twelvegate earlier today.

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Rewatching Stranger Things S1 again… and Mike says “he [Will] put himself in danger to protect the party,” (by using fireball) to Lucas over the walkies… so, it’s very likely we could get something like this in S5.

I’ve been re-watching S1 and the fact that Joyce mentions that Will is missing and then it cuts to the lab… curiouser and curiouser.

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EVERYONE

Stop what you’re doing!

Actually don’t. I can’t tell you what to do.

But AMBER MY BEST FRIEND THAT I LOVE SO VERY MUCH IS ON TUMBLR!

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You really hit a new low when McDonald’s is the only hangover cure that works on you… and any other food makes you feel like throwing up…

In short, I am never having alcohol again. It’s 2 pm on a Saturday. I hope everyone else is having a good day! I’m watching Zaboomafoo with my cat while I ignore the pounding migraine that I have.