Toomuchswagonme - Way Tire

New account! Gonna dump some of my recent art on here

How does the byler tag continue to grow when no one says anything 😭

Us in 2045 when byler is finally endgame

he looks like a hurt puppy i’m literally never getting over this

one of the things im sad about is that theres more fics of mike with abusive parents than will when will is the one with a canonical abusive dad that we still dont know the extent of said abuse

STRANGER THINGS 2 (2017) | STRANGER THINGS 4 (2022)

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which, you know, could mean nothing

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.