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I'm OBSESSED with the idea of Connor Bowers being a reflection of everything Eddie could have been had he been a worse person. Eddie could have so easily ended up like Connor, he could have constantly made the fact his mom is a nut job everyone elses problem. He could have acted like a douche bag with out consequence because its hard to be sonia kaspbraks son. He could have thrown any of his friends under the bus just to make his mother happy and save himself. He could have, but he didn't because Eddie is a good kid despite all his issues. That's also why Connor works so well as a foil for richie, he is the version of Eddie that would hurt him if he revealed his feelings. Connor embodies the worst of eddies internalized homophobia and Richies insecurities about coming out.

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What about a Hanbrough/Reddie Enchanted AU? Like Mike is Giselle but instead of being cinderella adjacent he's more like Belle. He spends most of his days in the village singing/talking to his farm animals and obsessing over books. He's always talking about fantastical evil forces (like cosmic horror clowns!) And he can see his own clothes. Derry is basically your typical whimsical village with monsters and junk, and for the most part Mike is totally content with his same old life until a prince finds him.

Then Richie is Prince Edward but he's more of a flynn rider disney prince or aladdin, because he's always making sly quips and has a bit of an ego on him. Cannon richies gamer skillz are translated to actual skills in fighting monsters. He also enjoys singing his feelings, although all of his songs are more friend like me than once upon a dream. He rescues Mike from a troll living under a bridge and then the two are gonna live happily ever after as Disney princes until some one comes along and ruins it.

Evil queen greta and her little rat assistant Henry are very determined to ruin mikes and richies happily ever after. She banishes mike to the real world and sends henry after him. There in NYC Mike meets Bill, a struggling writer who is preturbed by this crazy man in extravagant prince get up. Bill doesn't have any time for this, he's trying to get his newest book off the ground and he's stuck raising his seven year old brother Georgie all by himself. He takes pity on Mike and decides to let him stay with him for a bit (mostly cause georgie insists they help him) but he quickly starts to lose patience with him due to Mike's strangeness.

He keeps ranting about magical forces and "the power of loooove". He acts like he can talk to animals (cause he can), he sews clothes out of his curtains, and he always says weird whimsical stuff like "My hearts with you bill, no matter how it turns out.". He's driving him absolutely crazy, but also he maybe kinda sorta actually might be falling in love with him.

Bill already likes some one else tho, Eddie, a no nonesense risk analyst he met through a mutual friend. Mike is nothing but supportive in Bills attempts to woo him (georgie isn't, he thinks eddie is no fun and his brother could do better), but its kinda clear Eddie and Bill might not actually be compatible. Then when Richie comes to the real world looking for Mike he finds himself surprisingly taken with Eddie. And coincidentally, he also realizes after going on a date with Mike that maybe you should actually have similar interests if you're going to get married.

Ofc everything turns out all happily ever after with Eddie & Richie running away together to get married in fairytale land, and Mike staying with Bill so he can open a book store. Even though Mike drives bill nuts he can't help but feel smitten by his belief in things like love and the power of friendship, while Eddie thinks Richie's wild nature is both amusing and lowkey kinda hot. It's a sharp contrast to Bill's more serious and nervous nature. Opposites attract and all that <3.

Also i feel its important to note mikes actor already played a disney princess before. Chosen Jacobs played a male version of cinderella in the movie sneakerella.

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I genuinely hate Maturin so much. Like i'm not playing. There are CHILDREN engaging in SEXUAL ACTIVITY in the SEWERS because thats the only way they can find their way out, and you're just gonna fuckin SLEEP THROUGH IT???

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This is what every Bowers Gang member X female OC pairing looks like to me.

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One thing i find really interesting about Henry Bowers is how he's treated IRL. you know how its common in the IT fandom for people to forget Stan and Mike? Henry is like that but for the entire IT franchise.

He's the secondary antagonist of one of the most famous horror books ever written by one of the most famous authors ever, he's been in two big block buster movies and a very popular mini series, and the book he's from has been analyzed to hell and back, and yet... nobody ever talks about him. I'd walk up to houses on halloween with full on IT decorations and say i was dressed as henry bowers and people still wouldn't know who i was. I have seen IT parody after it parody and only IT live at the rockwell does anything substantial with the character. In the nostalgia critic it chapter 1 review henry bowers gets literally 3 lines despite being a very prominent figure in the movie. There are entire blogs on this website that are dedicated to analyzing everything about IT and Henry's hardly ever mentioned. I watched a 3 hour long IT analysis video and henry was mentioned literally ONCE through out the whole video.

Idk why it's like this, henry's a very scary and complex character. He's interesting to discuss because of how real and tragic he is. He's also ridiculous because hes a 12 year old who threatens people with knives. Yet typically, the only times i see henry mentioned is as a collective of other stephen king bullies. It's weird.

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The year is 1958. You are a hard working farmer and veteran. Your wife abandoned you because you hit her a couple times. The only black family in town is deliberately trying to ruin your life and nobody believes you because you're white. Your only son is gay and autistic and he won't quit that shit no matter how many times you beat him. You suspect he can't read either but you're too drunk and too lazy to actually check. The kid is so ugly and awful you can't even sell him. You fought for this country and everybody has the audacity to tell you not to say slurs. Nobody buys your produce because you're white and when you point that out they give half assed excuses like "Fruits not supposed to come off the branch rotted like that" and "i think the pesticides you use have been linked to infant death".

You might be the only sane man left in Maine. 😔

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And now, a very niche meme:

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Henry Bowers has three dads, Butch, Pennywise, and Stephen King himself, and not a single one of them want his stupid ass.

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I'm fascinated by what could have potentially happened had Henry succeeded in killing all the losers. Aside from the obvious of Pennywise never being defeated, and assuming IT doesn't kill him because he's a fantastic scapegoat, imagine how big the fallout of this would be.

Henry would be found out almost immediately, if not from his own incompetance then from IT deliberately luring the cops to him so he'd be arrested. He'd either be sent back to the ward for the crimimally insane, or, worst case scenario, Henry's crime might be so heinous Maine would consider bringing back the death penalty just for him. The version of events told by the media would be that Henry is a lunatic who committed a string of murders when he was a young child, then broke out of Juniper Hills and committed another string of murders. The timeline wouldn't match up at all, given that people were dying before Henry broke out, but the media wouldn't focus on that.

This case would probably make national news (at least for a little bit) given that Bill Denbrough, Beverly Marsh, Richie Tozier, and Ben Hanscom were super famous individuals and them all dying together would be an insane story for the public. Of course pennywise covered things up, but these aren't just abused kids or bums who live in alleys. Bill and Richie have an actual fanbase, Ben was on magazine covers, and Bev was a well known fashion mogul. I can only imagine how messy things would be if Tom and Audra died too and the media added them to Henry's list of victims. Audra was a famous actress/model and Tom was Bev's business partner. This shit would have been everywhere.

The goreyness of the case would bring a lot of attention to Derry and I imagine with how insensitive Derry can be they'd use this in tourism. Before this all they had to make people come to Derry was the canal days, so i'm sure sombody would be eager to capatalize on it. The tourism boom would probably cause Derry to be a little gentrified and thus bring more people to Derry than ever before. It would have a plethora of new meals and probably eat more than it'd ever dreamed it could.

Henry would become a pop culture figure, much of the same way we see people treat Jeffrey Dahmer or John Wayne Gacy. IT would love all of that attention because the more people focus on how fucked it is Henry killed people the less people focus on Derry as a whole. Of course there'd been tragedies in the town before, but none of those victims had been famous, and besides: this is the 80's/2010's, the way media sensationalized things would be a lot worse with the prominince of TV/the internet.

There'd probably be some documentary made about Henry's life using what little information they could gather around town. Nobody had even seen henry since he was arrested and nobody talked to him before, so it was basically gaurenteed anyone who got interviewed was lying for attention. There might be a terrible movie made about him at some point, similarly to how in Carrie the black prom incident got a movie that sucked. Henry would probably lack the ability to understand how famous he'd gotten, if not be totally ignorant to it. A few people would get mad that Mike Hanlon and the other numerous victims of Henry who weren't famous get no attention. Tik tok would do it's tik tok thing. True crime crush community girlies would have a field day with young pictures of Henry (especially in the 2017 continuity).

Henry would become a well known person to arm chair diagnose, the kind of killer you write research papers and books about. There'd be plenty of books about Henry too, discussing his fucked mental state and proposing theories about why he did what what he did, a lot of which based on offensive and outdated views of mental health (ie: homosexuality being a mental disorder).

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I have this really stupid idea where Richie has a hawaiian shirt that magically changes pattern and color according to his different emotions. When he's in love it turns bright pink with florals all over it, when he's sad it's blue with black wilting leaves, when he's happy it's yellow with that pattern you see on all those 1980's arcade carpets, when he's disgusted it's green with dark green splatters, ect.

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A lot of bowers fans hc Henry as autistic (me included) so i'm imagining Henry having a HUGE special interest in Donald duck because he has that nightlight of him in the book. He loves Donald specifically because Donald used to be in a lot of military cartoons and he thinks that stuff is cool. He also thinks it's funny how mad he gets at times and how he's always second fiddle to Mickey and gettin wacked around. Sometimes if Henry is good the Juniper Hills staff will put on a Donald Duck cartoon on the TV for him. His favorite era of Donald is definitely the 80's/late 70's since that's when he grew up. I bet a part of him feels soothed seeing him interact with huey, dewey, and louie. seeing a usually angry jerk character be so soft with young children probably fills the void for him :(.

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Butch: Money's been real tight around the Bowers household, so today we're at the annual Derry blood drive because sometimes, as a man, you gotta do some desperate things to make sure somebody can still put food on the table.

Nurse: So you're saying your teenage son consented to giving three full pints of his blood??

Henry: *looks to Butch visibly terrified*

Butch: *death stare*

Henry: YEP YEAH MHMM YOU GOT IT UHUH UHUH!

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Hey Bowers gang fandom, I just found this picture and uhhhh- how we feelin?

This is from the TV show the pradeeps of Pittsburgh in which Nicholas Hamilton (Henry's actor) plays a guy named Stu Mills. At one point there is a big party and Stu decides to wear his mother's wedding dress to the event and his parents are suprisingly accepting of it. His mother says he looks wonderful and his father says he looks just like his mother. Stu himself says "it does make my pecs pop, doesn't it?". The fucking difference stark between Stu Mills and Henry Bowers is so funny i could cry.

But anyways, Henry Bowers in a wedding dress... ya'll go crazy with this!!

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My friends keep making jokes about the political alignments of IT characters and it's got me wondering how the bowers gang might actually vote in an election.

I know a lot of people think Henry Bowers would be a trump supporter but i honestly think he wouldn't vote. I think he generally lacks the capacity to understand complex politics and doesn't give a shit about the world enough to vote. With that being said tho henry is still a racist bigoted fuck so i wouldnt put it past him to think trump was cool. I'm not sure if Butch being conservative would make him like trump more or less tho.

Belch makes me feel like he'd lie to his friends that he's gonna vote red then vote blue instead. It's not cause i think belch is secretly some woke progressive liberal underneath, i just imagine Belch's politics skew more blue because of stuff like healthcare.

Patrick does not vote because he knows it doesn't matter who the president is, because he controls everything. Whatever policies the president makes are gonna be his policies so it doesn't matter.

Honestly with vic i think it could go either way, book vic seems intelligent and moral enough he could see some of the flaws in the conservative party, while movie vic feels more conservative.

Connor Bowers just votes for whatever people tell him to. He doesn't have any interest in politics and he generally doesn't put much thought into his actions. Whoever his family tells him to vote for he votes for.

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There's something so Hallmark movie coded about Hanbrough. Like oh?? Your a big time famous writer whos struggling to come up with endings for your books and is currently having miscommunication with your partner? Well why don't you go back to your crappy small town and go on a whimiscal bike ride with a simple librarian you were childhood friends with.

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Genuinely we are so lucky Richie was a kid in the 50's/80's because he would not have been able to handle diary of a wimpy kid books or captain underpants.

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Since book henry bowers has a flat top, 1990s henry bowers has that stupid greaser hair, and 2017 Henry Bowers has that mullet, the only natural conclusion is that if they ever make a 3rd IT adaptation set in the 2000's Henry's hair will look like this: