#shit. Nancy was crying and mourning that entire time and all steve wanted to do was distract distract distract

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Steve canonically not ever dealing with any emotional situation is actually why Nancy broke up with him but y’all don’t want that conversation….

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How I would change Billy in Stranger Things season 3

After watching It Chapter 2 and remembering that Billy is meant to be the Henry Bowers of Stranger Things, I am even more annoyed at the Duffer Bros deciding to try and humanize Billy Hargrove. And here’s how I would change Billy. Short story is I am making Billy Hargrove the villain and a willing participant in the Mind Flayer’s game and keeping Billy as repulsive as possible. No humanizing or woobifying whatsoever.  

Cut out the weird and creepy attraction between Billy and Karen. Instead just make a romantic pairing between Billy and Heather, at the annoyance of the creepy and cringey predatory middle aged women.

Have it be revealed that Billy is still pissed off that Max is hanging out with the party and still seeing Lucas, even going as far as saying “I can’t believe that little bitch is seeing that N*****” when talking to Heather

Have Heather be just as awful as Billy, you could have Robin mention in her confession to Steve that Heather harassed her for staring at Tammy and being who she was and outed her to the entire school.

Have Billy and Heather talk about how much they hate their families. Heather being expected to be a perfect young women by Tom and her mother, Billy hating his mother for leaving him and his abusive father and being stuck with Max. 

Have Billy fully embrace becoming the Mind Flayer’s vessel.  It was his choice and he wants to punish his sister, her friends and Steve and the Mind Flayer accepts such a willing vessel.

Billy convinces Heather to embrace being flayed alongside him, they are awful together before being flayed, so they are awful together afterwords. 

Make it clear that Max hates Billy as much as Billy hates her  just like in season 2. Keeps warning El about Billy with fear in her voice

When El and Max come for Billy and Heather, Billy mocks Max for being with El. “What’s this Max? You go from being a N***** lover to being a D****? You are a piece of work, Max” Which prompts El to psychically trip Billy to defend Max. We later get a scene of El hugging Max to make her feel better.

After we see Heather killing her parents and possessing their bodies, we later get to see Billy killing Neil and Susan.

When Billy is in the sauna. He will say “I’ve done bad things Max...and I loved every minute of it.” mocking Max after he tells her he killed Neil and Susan. Max is in tears because she lost her mother, not because of Billy being possessed by the Mind Flayer.

Lucas still getting the shot in to help defend Max, even more after hearing what Billy did and later see Lucas comforting Max....give me Lumax damn it. Lucas would land another hit on Billy after Billy calls him the N-Word

Have Billy tell the party he embraced the Mind Flayer. He’s wanted revenge on them and how he wanted to kill them all one by one

Give us Billy and Will scenes. Billy telling Will that the Mind Flayer “missed you.” This sends Will in utter horror with those words. and “He told us everything about you Will, tell me, does Mike know about your feelings for him you little F**” then give us Will joining in on the Billy beat down, finally showing Will letting loose on the Mind Flayer. JUST GIVE WILL SOMETHING! LET. WILL. CONFRONT. HIS. ABUSER!

Instead of a sympathetic backstory, we see first a happy family, but Billy killing small animals and this sends Billy’s mother away in horror and what causes Neil to be abusive towards his son.

Finally with the party reunited, I would have Steve and Robin stay at Starcourt. Why? So Steve and Robin can finally confront the two people who have caused them and the kids so much pain. Instead, Jonathan and Nancy are the ones who take Dustin and co to get the code to Hopper

We do see Steve going to his car for one thing. Getting the bat out which Steve says to the bat “come to daddy”

Robin beats the shit out of Heather, weakening the Mind Flayer but also giving Robin the closure on the bully in her life.

When El loses her powers and Billy is about to bring El to the Mind Flayer, this is the opportunity to have Steve bash in Billy’s skull with the nail bat and Steve beating Billy to a pulp and finally knock Billy into the Mind Flayer’s mouth. This will give Steve his “finally won a fight moment” against Billy in the end. But Max would deliver the killing blow

We needed this. It would’ve been a fulfilling thing for Steve to do. This would be because -Steve finally wins a fight and against the man who almost killed him and his kids.   -Max finally ends her abuser -No sympathizing with a child abusive racist(just because he had a bad childhood doesn’t excuse abusing his little sister, singling out the sole black child and trying to kill children numerous times and trying to kill Steve, fuck Billy) -Steve fights to protect the kids -El would not sympathize with Billy…fuck that noise -Max would not cry for Billy, they had absolutely no positive interaction whatsoever, all we got was fear, hatred and abuse. So no unearned Max crying for Billy when all he was, was her tormentor.

Lucas and his family would take in Max after the loss of her family and Max would not let the loss of her mother consume her and she would absolutely not mourn the loss of her abuser