ME AFTER REMEMBERING LUCAS CANONICALLY HAS GOTTEN DRUNK?????

when lucas gets praised for “learning his lesson” after season 4 it always rubs me the wrong way because like. he literally did nothing wrong in the first place

mike wheeler in season 4: head full, many thoughts (not telling you though)

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Will “William Byers” and Mike “Micheal Wheeler” will kiss in stranger things season five btw

Just curious

Why do you ship mileven over Byler?🧐

will is mike's wife

and to my dad, I’d like to apologize. for the person I am turning out to be. for the person I will never be.

for my heart. for how it writhes and bleeds. for how it loves.

sometimes I hate it too.

I can't remember who made the post (whoever it was, let me know), but I'm thinking about how someone said El and Will both represent the different sides of fight or flight trauma responses. El is fight. Will is flight (or I guess freeze/flight).

El was taught to use violence growing up. Which is why her first instinct when looking danger in the eye or when she's upset about something is to typically get violent. I mean, we saw it when she threw Lucas off of Mike, when she melted those lab people's brains, when she threw those waffles and that book at Hopper and hit him with the couch, when she threw Max off her skateboard, and etc.

These are the two most recent examples.

El represents the "fight" aspect of fight of flight.

Will on the other hand has been shown time and time again to flee or freeze when faced with dangerous or upsetting situations. (And the two times he did stand his ground and "fight", he got kidnapped and possessed...so it makes sense for him to want to not fight anymore and to run). I mean we saw it when he ran away from the "Demogorgon" (before trying to fight and getting caught), he spent all of his time in the Upside Down running and hiding, he ran away from the Mind Flayer MANY times (obviously before following Bob's advice and getting possessed), and etc.

And two of his most recent examples is when El was getting bullied. He completely locked up.

Will represents the "flight/freeze" aspect of fight or flight.

I don't know...I just think it's interesting that Willel are on different sides of the spectrum when it comes to trauma responses and how they deal with dangerous or upsetting situations.

Byler hands?

ps: I have the headcanon that Will lives with his hands stained with ink, because I live with my hands stained with ink so he will too.

Noah Schnapp photographed by Mark Seliger for CAP 74024 Magazine. Noah wears Celine