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they assume we hate el because we want to “take mike away from her” when we’re all just like. free my girl

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We ALREADY know one of Will's powers in Season 5, and it will lead to conflict for Byler

The show literally told us a power that Will has at the end of Season 4:

Will literally thinks and feels what Vecna thinks and feels.

It is almost certain that this is what's going on in the trailer:

Vecna is furious and he's about to attack the people around Will. Will not only feels his approach but also KNOWS HIS PLAN, and he's warning them to RUN.

This is no mere tingling of the neck. Will literally can know Vecna's thoughts.

This is Will's crucial role in the party in Season 5. It's a direct continuation of what Will felt in Season 2:

Mike saw it is a strategic advantage against the Mind Flayer:

And it'll be one of the KEY CONFLICTS in Season 5. Mike understands the advantage of using Will's connection against Vecna. But using it is extremely dangerous: they all remember what happened when Max served as bait. Mike does not want anything to happen to Will. Leader Mike knows that using Will is tactically correct, but Mike the Heart doesn't want to. (And as @byler4vida corrects me, he WON'T.)

But we all know WILL is prepared to sacrifice his own well-being to help Hawkins, whether Mike likes it or not.

His sheer determination to sacrifice himself for the greater good might in fact be the occasion for Mike to confess his love.

However things play out, all the arrows point toward the following: Mike and Will's decision to be "a team" to save Hawkins and Mike and Will's love and concern for each other will be AT ODDS, and lead to some of the key dramatic moments of Season 5.

-teambyler

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mike don't stop ur the groom

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I'm quite the artist i know

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If Mike Wheeler isn't supposed to be gay why did the director direct him to be gay and why did the writers write him to be gay and why did the set designers design his bedroom to be gay and why did the costume designers design his clothes to be gay and why did they make his boyfriend gay

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The Roller Rink scene (S4) is a parallel to the Halloween scene in S2?

So we all know about the Roller Rink scene, the one where Mike and Will get into an arguement and basically Mike blames Will for “ruining” the whole day. Now while rewatching S4 the dialogue reminded me of the arguement they had when Max joins them for Halloween.

Now the reason I am bringing up how these scenes are similar is because of how people have analyzed the Halloween scene. People have theorized that Mike didn’t want Max to come because its a reminder of how different he feels towards girls then the rest of the party (Dustin, Lucas, and he thinks Will feels something towards Max too)

Mike is mad that Will is keeping things from him specifically about a girl. What is Mike mad about in the Roller Rink fight? That Wills keeping things from him. I kind of think that he’s mad about Will keeping his painting (who he thinks is for a girl he likes) from him aswell, and that would parallel the reason Mike’s mad in the Halloween scene aswell. Mike’s mad that Will’s keeping things from him, and also because some of the things he might be keeping from him could be about a girl again.

He might feel upset that he’s being reminded again that he doesn’t feel the same ways towards girls as the rest of the party does. That’s why he lashes out on Will in both scenes (In a similar way I might add?)

Anyways I just wanted to share this, see if anyone picked up on it aswell? Is this something or am I just going crazy in this byler drought. I don’t know if anyone has any thoughts about this let me know 😞

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how I’ll be sleeping on New Year’s Day after byler endgame

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how life will feel like when the toxic and homophobic members of the ga stop watching stranger things because byler is finally canon

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When milkvans say,"bylers hate eleven" or something along the lines of that, they're 100% projecting. They want us to hate eleven because they hate will so much. They view will as someone who gets in the way of their ship and think that we must view el as someone who gets in the way of byler. Hence these toxic mil*vens think bylers are people who hate el.

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The fate of Hawkins falls into the hands of two homosexual teens

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Just realized that Will slept over that night meaning that he stores his wizard costume at Mike's house

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we bylers now have both lawyer and phsycologist openly declare they're shipping byler and defending us🏋‍♀️

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I HAD BYLER DOUBTS SO I BLOCKED GRACIE ABRAMS

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i love how fast "i say it" "you can't even write it, mike" gagged mike like he shut up real fast 😭😭😭

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I feel like I've cracked a code.

The reason Mike's fighting with everyone in Season 3 is simple - he's fighting with himself.

We see him frustrated with pretty much everyone. Max, Lucas, Hopper, El, Will. He pulls faces, he feels entitled, he doesn't want to admit he's wrong with the El situation, he lies and picks fights, and this is where pretty much everyone in the ga agrees the Duffers 'ruined' his protective character. To me, as someone who studies psychology at a degree level, this is pretty clearly displacement of anger and anger as a defence mechanism.

We see it as a defence mechanism during the garage fight when Will confronts him and questions the integrity of his and El's relationship ruining the party. It could be said that Mike's angry at Will for doing this, but to me, he feels threatened. Externalised anger can come out as a response to feeling threatened, in this case displacing some of Mike's anger at himself onto Will. In the first part of the season, before the garage fight, we see a build-up of this displacement - mostly focused on Hopper who also makes Mike feel threatened, because he's questioning his relationship with El. Mike knows it's wrong, he knows he's pretending a little bit. So when he's questioned by Will, who is the subject of his shame and pain, his anger comes out at full force, truly showing exactly WHAT he is mad about. At himself.

Being queer <3

Examples of displacement I usually use to describe it are: Someone might lash out at a coworker after a stressful day because they are actually angry at themselves for not managing their time or workload effectively. A rich mean girl targets and bullies those at school who have it worse than her, because she has a bad home life, which she feels shame about.

Mike is using displacement to direct anger at people who make him have to confront how he feels about himself, since he's not ready to focus his anger or mind onto the real target, which is too shameful and painful to think about for him. That real target is not liking girls.

So when Will exhibits what he views as the same behaviour he wants to show, then he displaces the anger at himself onto Will.

If he's not allowed to feel good about not liking girls, then nobody is.

He does it again:

If Mike feels like someone else is ruining the integrity of his relationship with El (Will), then he wants El to know that she shouldn't be letting anyone ruin them.

He does it in season 2:

If Mike blames himself for El's disappearance, and feels like he's been lying, then he wants Hopper to feel like he hasn't protected El, like he's a liar. (He's literally crying because he's guilt-ridden you fools).

If he doesn't feel content, then nobody should be.

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just remembered “I asked the duffers and they said it’ll pay off”