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runninguplenorahills · 1 year ago

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The saddest thing about this is that Will doesn’t even like baseball. Like, the baseball games aren’t the fun part at all and Will would definitely rather do anything else (like going to the arcade) than going to a stupid sports game. But he just goes along with it because it’s the only way that he can spend time with his father. That’s why it was fun to go for Will sometimes. And that makes it even worse that Lonnie didn’t even care.

“It’s fun to go with him sometimes” Will probably liked going to baseball games with his dad more than Lonnie liked having to take his son along with him

#i think we as a fandom don’t appreciate what jonathan tells will in that scene enough #sure we appreciate it a lot when it comes to the gay coding #but i don’t see people actually appreciate what jonathan says here in the actual context of what’s happening in the scene a lot #this is difficult for will #lonnie is incredibly abusive #that doesn’t exclude him being nice sometimes though #we see it with joyce when lonnie comes back for will’s funural #and obviously lonnie is a piece of shit either way #obviously he’s more often abusive than nice #but it’s these nice moments that make the abuse victim stay #and will is a child and that’s his father #and the abuse doesn’t make him stop wanting to spend time with his father #because sometimes #sometimes it’s fun to spend time with him #sometimes lonnie was nice to him #and while that niceness Never changes that lonnie actually doesn’t care about will #it still influenced will #tricked him into thinking that maybe lonnie does care deep down #and the fact that lonnie was usually abusive doesn’t have the desired effect at all #because instead of seeing that his abuse outweighs his niceness #the bare minimum niceness felt so much bigger and more important due to the fact that will didn’t get a lot of it #that’s what makes will still want to spend time with his father despite the abuse #but jonathan clearly doesn’t think like his little brother when it comes to lonnie #jonathan sees lonnie as the abuser he is and his father’s nice moments don’t trick him into thinking otherwise #and what jonathan tries to show will in that scene is that lonnie doesn’t care despite the fact that he takes him to spend time with him #that lonnie doesn’t care despite the fact that he does spend time with will sometimes. despite the fact that it’s fun to go sometimes #what jonathah essentially does in that scene is to show will that lonnie doesn’t deserve to be of importance to him #that will shouldn’t listen to lonnie. that he shouldn’t care about him. because lonnie has done nothing to deserve that #and you can see that will is hurt by that. he’s obviously conflicted #nonetheless he really needed someone to tell him that and i appreciate jonathan immensely for trying to make will understand this

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