#byler married couple

[willthezombieboy]

That's because they are

They look like a married couple look at them

"then betty said that her front yard was bigger than ours-"

"thats nice honey"

[will80sbyers]

literally stop looking like boyfriends if you don't want to get shipped together like what the fuck

[longstoryshqrt]

excuse him if he’s stressed, he’s a married man

[total-serene560]

A little teaser from Chapter 3

currently posted fic below the cut:

[chirpsythismorning]

u know what? I'm a Willel twin truther now, Mike being in love with El's twin is much better than Mike dating his cousin LMAAO

LMAOOOO a win is a win

[pizzaboat]

"Yeah... I did. I guess I really did."

Will slaying that "totally not breaking up" argument in season 3

[groovinrightalong]

Started a new fic that nobody asked for🫡

It’s not posted yet but I’ll let y’all know when it is! I wanted to do Mike and Karen stuff because honestly ANY of the Wheeler relationships are so fascinating to explore and I also was listening to fifties music and decided I wanted to write about Karen being Mike 1.0 (aka, a repressed gay teenager in love with their friend)

In other words, Mike finds out that the odd trend of Wheelers falling for Byers is, in fact, genetic.

(Joyce and Karen fic>:3)

Is this interesting would people read it

[lighthouseas]

the duffers should let me write the stranger things spinoff because i have so many ideas for it

[unsurebazookacore]

sorry I know this isn’t exactly the the point of the post but kinda, cuz like this scene is literal proof that the “I love you on your good days, I love you on your bad days” line was about Will not El because here’s them on their good days:

and here’s them on their bad days:

but yeah no, mike’s monologue was deffffinitely about el 👀

honestly this shot tells me everything i need to know about the love triangle

LOOK AT HIM AND WILL. THEY LOOK LIKE A FUCKING MARRIED COUPLE DAWG COME ON

mind you their fight happened maybe 10 minutes ago. and they're already attached at the hip. no personal space. like there are so many ways they could've positioned them to make it look less like mike and will are a duo and el is alone, or that mike and will aren't automatically cool after the fight, or that mike was more concerned with being there for el. they didn't have to make mike and will stand that close they just didn't

if mike really loved her on her good days and bad days he wouldn't be standing with will, who he just had an explosive fight with. he'd be at that table with her comforting her, because even though it was a 'bad day' for her and she really messed up he still loves her and want her to know he's there and on her side. instead he stuck with will and left her all alone and never once implied he was on her side and would be there for her through it. he left her to feel like a monster. if you love someone, and you know you love them, you simply don't do that.

[longstoryshqrt]

gay ships for gay people

[bylertruth3r]

“i need you Mike and i always will”

“i’ve been so lost without you”

“and you know Max,Lucas and Dustin they’re great, they’re great it’s just.. it’s Hawkins it’s not the same without you”

“i feel like i lost you or something”

“i think it’d be better if we’re a team” (which parallels “we make a pretty good team”. Jopper parallel)

“you make me feel like i’m not a mistake at all”

“without a heart we’d all fall apart even me, especially me”

“do you remember the first day that we met? i had nobody i had no friends i just felt so alone and i saw you on the swings and you were alone too and ..i asked.. i asked if you wanted to be my friend and you said yes.. you said yes.. it was the best thing i’ve ever done”

“what if you wanna join another party?” “not possible” (is the "let's start a new party, you and me" about them? probably and it might be how Mike asks Will out after he tells him about Hellfire)

“hey Will if we’re both going crazy we’ll go crazy together right?” “yeah, crazy together” (which parallels “only love makes you that crazy sweetheart and that damn stupid”. Jancy parallel)

"we could just stay in the basement and play dnd and nintendo for the rest of our lives" "yeah"

also Finn in a s2 interview basically implied Will is Mike's light and in the van scene when Mike's staring at Will he's bathed in sunlight like in the couch scene which was probably from Mike's POV

[lizbetlovesbyler]

ex milkvan ride-or-die shipper and i am convinced the majority of modern day milkvan shippers are people who didn’t watch the show until it became super popular in 2022 when s4 was coming out.

like, there is a difference between binging all four seasons of a show and having years of wait between each one.

the time between each one gives you time to reflect on what you might see next season. as a milkvan truther after watching the first 2 seasons of the show in 2018, i was super excited for season 3 because we could see mike and eleven finally be together after their sweet reunion in the s2 finale.

and then…they literally break up in the first 2 episodes 😭

all my expectations flew straight out the window. i remember sitting there like “oh…wait what?” not necessarily disappointed (probably idk i was like 13) but super confused. even when they kissed at the end i hated it because it was just such an awkward kiss omdsssss😑

fast forward 3 years then i’m 16 and in a lesbian relationship and milkvan is just not hitting any spots. can’t remember what my expectations were for them, but i hated their reunion and didn’t have high hopes for them after that. (high hopes looked at the “i love you” scene, laughed, and left forever)

it was after vol2 was out and marinated when i started to see byler for what it was, because much like milkvan itself, each new season broke down all the expectations i had for them whilst byler only thrived.

binging all four seasons completely in one go strips this kind of trial and error experience away from you, you’re less likely to have grown accustomed to the writing and predict what will happen next time. (not suggesting bingers who joined in 2022 and post cant have picked up on byler too, it’s just a bit more difficult for the average person so pat yourself on the back if that’s your experience)

hence why i see so many new milkvans claim s5 is gonna be the season where they’re finally the power couple we thought they’d be back in 2018…and they weren’t.

“they’re gonna get married and 🤫 and have superpowered babies!”…what in the muthr fokc?

the only power they ever had was the power of heteronormativity

still love their pairing, but they’d be so much more powerful as friends like they were in the beginning

[mirkwoodsuperspy]

7 byler moments where i felt like i was intruding (not including the fanart of them kissing on my homescreen that makes everyone watching me on my phone feel like they are third wheeling):

(not in any particular order)

the hospital scene where mike lay his head on will's chest. an intimate moment that was over quickly, but still just subtly earth-shattering

the married couple argument in season 3 while el and max were in the bathroom. you cannot convince me that lucas did not feel uncomfortable

that moment after "cool." "cool." where they were just gazing at each other with tears in their eyes, only to be interrupted

"it was the best thing i've ever done." because seriously, the eye contact, the tears, they baring of the souls?

"you're the heart". no, not the van monologue time, im talking about the other time. will's hand on mike's back. mike's frantic look at will, when he forgot everything else, just oh, he's beautiful. the moment will repeats himself and there's so much to be said on both sides, but mike turns away with that heartbroken look on his face

the hospital scene in season 2. just. everything.

"not possible." the smiles and the wistful lights. the implications and the thoughts in the silence. the longing.

yup, that's it. i know i missed all the iconic byler moments, but those were beyond making me feel like i was intruding, far beyond. (behold the power of two teenage boys).

[meatydraws]

Older Byler For Day 3 of @bylerween !!

I like to think that they would be that one married couple that goes all out for Halloween (both having vastly different ways of showing it wardrobe-wise)

Bonus in undercut

[twoelectrichearts]

My mom and I are currently watching a show together called Miracle Workers. We checked it out because Daniel Radcliffe is a part of the cast. It’s a pretty unique show, each season is set in an entirely different environment and the actors are the same, but they play different characters. I don’t think I’ve ever watched a show like it. Anyways, we’re on season 3 and boy oh boy, I wanna scream because I just got done watching episode 3. So there’s this character named Ezekiel who’s in love with his best friend Prudence. Prudence is married to this guy named Todd. Their relationship is absolutely horrendous. I literally don’t understand how they even became a couple in the first place. Maybe they’ll explain how later, but wow it’s toxic with a capital T. Todd even asks Ezekiel if he should stop fighting for something that will never work and if he should let her go. You know what Ezekiel says? That he shouldn’t give up. That he should try and make it work. That he should tell her how he feels. And you know what Todd says? That he’s not good with words like Ezekiel is. So you know what Ezekiel does? He says he can write something for him to read to her.

Ugghh… sweet, selfless, dumb dumb Ezekiel writes exactly how he feels about Prudence, how she’s his best friend, how she’s the most amazing woman he’s ever met, how he promises to always be by her side, and that he loves her. He assumes that Todd must feel that way as well. I mean, they’re in a relationship. They’re freaking married so he must feel that way, right? Yeah, no, he doesn’t. It literally doesn’t matter that they’re together and married. Their relationship is garbage. They’d be broken up if Ezekiel wasn’t selfless to a fault. He saved their relationship with that letter. He saved their relationship with his feelings that he disguised as Todd’s. Sound familiar? But did he really save their relationship? I can guarantee you that their relationship isn’t going to last. There’s no way in hell that we’re supposed to be rooting for Todd and Prudence. That was clear from the beginning of the season, but even more so now that Ezekiel’s love was added to the equation. Why make Todd and Prudence an unbearable couple and have Ezekiel in love with Prudence then? Oh yeah, because we’re supposed to be rooting for Ezekiel and Prudence to end up together. Anyone who watches this show would be able to see that. I swear, the only reason why some people don’t see that with Byler is because they’re both boys. If Byler was a straight relationship everyone would be eating it up. I can just look up to see if Ezekiel and Prudence end up together, but since I’ve agreed to watch it with my mom, I won’t spoil myself. I know that they’re getting a good ending anyways. Daniel Radcliffe’s characters are always in love with Geraldine Viswanathan’s characters. It’s always a good ending for them. There’s no reason why this season would end differently. But yeah anyways if Byler doesn’t end up together, it’d make ZERO sense. I cannot make sense of them not ending up together. I’ve tried and I can’t. It’d be beyond horrible writing. They made Mike and El’s relationship so bad, they made Will in love with Mike, and they made Will “fix” their relationship with the painting and monologue where he disguised his feelings as El’s. Again, if Byler was a straight ship, everyone would be rooting for them to end up together.

[groovinrightalong]

Alright, as promised, here are some ✨married Byler/Byler dads headcanons✨

A little preface that this is specifically for my transmasc Mike headcanons, so it’s not necessarily canon compliant, it’s pretty much just MY older byler AU so if it’s not your cup of tea you can just scroll along. Brief mentions of being a seahorse dad and a heads up right now that transphobia will get you an IMMEDIATE block:)

Now that that’s over with!

-Mike and Will get married at some point in the early 90s. Mike doesn’t get his birth certificate changed until some point in the 2000s, so legally he’s considered female, and you better believe they take advantage of it. He’s like at least three or four years on hormones by the time they get married but they’re just like :D yes we’re a straight couple I love my wife :D

-Bonus points if Will wears a dress for the wedding

-They get a dog pretty much as soon as they move in together. Will loves dogs (Mike’s more of a cat person but he adores the way Will’s face lights up when he sees them) and she’s probably a birthday present from Mike to Will. They like to joke that she’s their child, they bring her along to family picnics and events. Joyce and Jonathan are obsessed with her, she reminds them of Chester.

-Mike grows up to be an author! He makes a decent living between selling his books and a gig working at the local library, and Will does some graphic design. He doesn’t particularly like how regimented it is, he prefers doing art for the love of it, and he gets his chance when they’re early to mid 40s because Mike’s books start to get really popular and they can live off that income. Will then pretty much just does the art for the covers and works as a freelance artist. Gloats about being a trophy husband.

-They spend the first decade of their marriage just being the cool uncles for Jancy’s kid, always stopping in for surprise visits because they all moved to a bigger city within a decent distance from each other. Mike likes to buy the kid gifts he knows will piss off his sister, like water guns and play dough that’ll get stuck everywhere. He’ll sneak them candy, pick them up from daycare to take them out for the day. He’s a nuisance.

-Will aids in the schemes, but obviously he’s Jonathan’s baby brother so he’s the good one and Mike is the bad influence😇 And then the kid learns their first curse word from him when he accidentally slips up in front of them and he never hears the end of it.

-He’s really soft and happy with them though, and Mike obviously notices. Mike’s sort of iffy on if he wants any kids but he can tell Will does even if he won’t say anything.

-They adopt their son in like early 2002/2003. His bio mom was really young. They keep in contact with her, send her pictures and updates. His name’s Sam! (Short for Samwise. Because they’re fucking nerds.)

-They end up with two kids. Their daughter’s only six or seven months younger than Sam because hey y’all testosterone is NOT birth control. She pretty much looks like a mini Joyce, her name’s Gwen. (Gwenevere. Like I said, NERDS.)

-Their kids kind of have a similar dynamic to Will and El because they’re so close in age, they’re always in the same grades, etc. People jokingly call them the twins.

-Nancy takes her revenge by doing pretty much the same thing Mike did with her kid with the twins. She’ll sneak them treats, get them sugared up when they’re at her house then send them home. Sam thinks she’s the coolest person EVER (much to Mike’s horror)

-Gwen’s nonverbal. As a toddler, Sam talked for her pretty much all the time. She never said her first word, was really quiet and reserved, and it worried them obviously. But then they were like, oh wait, let’s try sign language (Mike has times where he’s pretty much totally nonverbal too so they already know a decent amount) and as soon as she figures it out she’s talking to them all the time. She’s super high energy and between her and her brother, they get into a LOT of trouble (Mike’s first gray hair comes in when he’s like 34😭)

-She also has a bit of a sixth sense! It’s mostly to do with the supernatural (which isn’t really an issue since the gates are all closed now… right?) but sometimes she’d react to something right before it happened and it would freak her parents out. Will has it too, but he’s so used to it now that he doesn’t really notice it? And Mike’s just like oh well that’s just how he is it’s not weird. It’s a… lot freakier when it’s a toddler.

-(Bonus!! Jonathan, Nancy, Mike, Will, and the kids all have the last name Hopper. Hop adopted Jonathan and Will and they changed their names to match him and their mom and El because FUCK Lonnie.)

I have lots more thoughts but this is going on really long and just🫠 Yeah. Byler dads.