Mike Is Out Here Raising His Eyebrows And Checking Will Out While Giving Him The Biggest Heart Eyes And

"To love is to suffer greatly at the hands of your desired and to rejoice in their arms. Love is foolish hope for hopeful fools, in which passion cycles to and from nightmares and dreams. And thus, loving is the greatest burden of all."

Lovers Lake (circa. 1986) ❤️

Heavily inspired by this post by @spoodersrus ! Mike is doomed by the narrative. Sorry pal

((Closeups under the cut!))

Imagine being kidnapped, possessed an tormented just for one of your biggest problems be a dude named Mike

Byler kissing

I love to draw "kiss" mini-comics. and haven't drawn them for a huge amount of time.

feels so odd to be posting art from wintertime when it's 80F outside

unpopular opinion: i really sincerely feel like nobody would give a shit about lucas (besides the black ppl i hope) if he wasn’t w max

ON GOD MY NIGGA CADE. THE FANDOM STILL DOESNT GIVE 2 SHITS ABOUT HIM AND HIS FAMILY UNLESS ITS ABOUT SHIPS. WE NEED MORE LUCAS SINCLAIR CONTENT AND IN GENERAL MORE SINCLAIR FAMILY STUFF

Dragons and Tigers

So I know it’s well established that Will has been associated with tigers since pretty much season one. First it was with very similar tiger stuffies with El and Sarah (This is still something that I’m wondering why exactly they made that initial connection between the three of them.) It adds to my belief that El and Will are tied in some way, and that Hawkin’s Lab may have more involvement in Sarah’s sickness/care/death than we were originally led to believe. But I digress.

And then in season four tigers are everywhere in relation to Will.

First we see it when he’s introduced:

Then we see it all throughout his room:

I am sure there are way more instances I missed, but these are just a few examples. There is also the fact that Hawkins school team are the tigers.

Anyway, from what I’ve gathered I think that Vecna (or his great evil) is represented by the dragon.

I think that it’s interesting that Will chose to draw the party fighting a dragon. And so I did a little light research into it with the thought okay, so how are dragons and tigers related? What’s the significance of the symbolism? And then I came across this:

And this really stuck out to me because a lot of theories revolving around Will potentially having powers have him as light vs. Henry’s darkness, creation vs. destruction etc. So if Will is connected to El in some way or ends up having powers I really am starting to think that he (or him and El as one) will be the tiger. I think that’s what the connection between him and Henry is. They are two sides of the same coin, yin and yang. That is why he can never escape him. But as of now things are out of balance because Will hasn’t realized his full role and significance to his connection to the Upside Down and Henry. So I truly think that there will be something in season 5 brought to light that tells us he is the “key” to bringing equilibrium back to the Upside Down. He can heal what Henry has destroyed. He can bring balance back, and reset the Upside Down to it’s neutral state.

But because of this significant connection to Henry, I think there’s going to be some sort of temptation or trickery. Some sort of darkness pulling at him that he’ll have to overcome. I think that Henry will try his damnedest to use his self-worth, sexuality, and trauma against him. I think he will use Mike against him as well.

It also makes me wonder if Will x El’s “Wonder Twin” connection ends up being what we’ve all been hoping it will be maybe together they are the “key” or “The Tiger.” And that’s why El hasn’t been able to succeed against Henry as of yet.

That man has plans. Byler related plans.