#superache is will byers coded

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SUPERACHE AS WILL

will byers from the hit show stranger things

MOVIES — this song is purely about wanting a romance like cliché movies. you love someone who doesn’t love you back and everything you thought was real was actually all just in your head. will and mike had the strongest connection but as they grew older, mike started to distance himself which left will realising that nothing will ever be the same as it used to be.

PEOPLE WATCHING — will is definitely a person who wonders what it’s like to be deeply in love with someone who reciprocates the feelings. he’s never dated anyone in his life, so he has probably spent so many years watching perfect couples sit in cafes and share coffee, or for example watching el and mike always running off together. he can’t help but fantasize about what it must be like to feel that emotion.

DISASTER — i personally think will feels that typical fear when you are not sure if your friendship going to work or not, specifically with mike since he is in love with him. he is full of doubts, he wishes he could just let himself go easily, without worrying too much about it, but the truth is that he doesn’t want to risk his feelings getting found out and for the friendship to be over, with the pain that it could bring.

BEST FRIEND — straightforward, mike and will are best friends. they love and care about each other very much. even if mike doesn’t reciprocate wills feelings (he definitely does) he would still support him in everything because that’s his fucking best friend.

ASTRONOMY — this song is about that slow, painful, often denial inducing process of growing apart from somebody, like how mike and will have drifted from each other. that particular moment when all of a sudden will looks at mike who he has loved for years and realise he no longer knows him, same the other way around too. that they exist on two different worlds now. no blowout fight and slamming doors and showing up on doorsteps while it’s raining, just a gradual decaying of love with nothing left to do to stop it from slipping away. there’s no explanation, nobody to blame.

YOURS — listening to the song, it’s pretty much self explanatory. will is in love and those feelings are ‘unrequited’ on mike’s half. he thinks he has absolutely zero chance with mike because it’s the 80’s and mike is ‘straight’.

JIGSAW — this song is about changing yourself to fit someone else’s expectations. will his entire life has been known as the ‘queer kid’ or ‘f*g’. even though he hates baseball, he still wanted to go to spend time with lonnie. when he moves to california, nobody knows him and he’s actually never picked on but he’s still not happy because now his sister is the one that’s getting bullied. he doesn’t try to stop them because what can he do? he’s obviously frozen in fear from the trauma of past bullying and abuse.

FAMILY LINE — lonnie was an awful father to will, most likely an alcoholic from what we saw in season 1 and definitely picked actual physical fights with jonathan. he called will ‘queer’ and ‘f*g’ which is probably traumatising for a young child, especially when that person is supposed to love and care for you. i feel like he still hasn’t healed from the trauma and hasn’t really had time to with all of the upside down shit turning his life literally upside down.

SUMMER CHILD — will has a tendency to hold his true feelings inside, as if he cannot express joy. He needs to open up his heart and dedicate more energy to his own happiness instead of focusing on other people.

FOOTNOTE — what we are actually met with here, most simply premised, is a case of ‘unreciprocated’ love. the song is actually about how conan gray is in a relationship but the partner does not take him seriously because it’s more of a sexual relationship which would definitely not be the case for will and mike.. for obvious reasons.

MEMORIES — will is so in love but he wants to distance himself from mike because he doesn’t want to ruin their friendship because of his feelings. he is still giving him advice with el. he wants to stay away as there’s ‘no reason’ to give hope that they’ll be able to be together. mike and will’s relationship is so on and off that he’s just worn out and wants to seperate from mike for a while to try and move on and make sure mike doesn’t stick the band-aid back on.

THE EXIT — the person will is in love with has found another girl (obvious). the lyrics do read as if conan is taking on the role of a female, i.e. upset because his romantic interest, is “staring at a girl who is not (him)”. in other words, as illustrated in the first verse, just recently everything was all amazing between the two of them but then it’s as if mike suddenly lost interest or more specifically became more smitten with someone else (el).

i really enjoyed making this as i’m a massive conan gray fan and will byers kinnie. this also took me forever to write and i hope it was accurate enough 😭