#will byers is the main character

[infinite-orangepeel]

[buckbeforeyou]

Im rewatching s4 of stranger thing and I just started thinking about how fucking scary the upside down coming to earth is. I know it’s scary for anyone and everyone but I can’t imagine how TERRIFYING it is for Will!

The Will who lived for what, no doubt, felt like an eternity in the upside down trying to survive day by day only really living because of the hope he could go back home and the hope SOMEONE he loved would find him. The Will who became a spy in the real world, possessed by the darkness he thought he escaped, the darkness he wished to never see again. The Will who gained so much trauma from all of this finding solace in his family and in the real world and now that real world is becoming his worst nightmare and the people he loves are in the most danger.

[teambyler]

Will the Hero

Where Will was once a scared little boy...

... he now looks evil in the face as a young man.

Noah's latest pic only confirms what we already knew, that Will is the focus of the season and probably gets targeted by Vecna.

But ALSO remember this is the season where Will fights for himself.

He protects his mother Joyce:

And as Ross Duffer says:

Will's "emotional arc" and "coming into his own as a young man" kind of HAS to mean:

Coming out

Using his connection to Vecna to be a hero

Finding love! (his connection to Mike is part of his hero arc)

The show has made Will suffer and made the audience him most to have a happy ending, to make him the central hero of s5.

Somehow, Will's selflessness and capacity to love -- those things he's kept CLOSETED -- contrast to Vecna and contrast to conventional portrayals of male heroism.

Bring on season 5!

-teambyler

Also see: "Will's likely arc in Season 5"

[strawberrybyers]

the footage we got today had so much will byers in it,, he really is the main character of season 5 i love winning

[noahschnappinfs]

it started with will byers and it’s ending with him.

thank you noah schnapp for putting so much of you into this character and bringing him to life one last time.

[xwiseheart]

i think about these two pictures a lot

[will80sbyers]

screaming from happiness... PLEASE BE TRUEEEE !!!!!

[gayofthefae]

Will haunting the narrative as both the innocent who was wrongfully destroyed AND the one that got away.

Season 2 Will impacting everything Mike does from that point forward just as much as Will's death impacts everyone.

El thinks of him when she confronts Brenner about the mind flayer, we know things like that. But Mike also thinks of him when he tells El he loves her.

They're all thinking of him. The last time they saw him.

The way he was never the same.

But Mike is thinking about the last time he saw him.

Losing him.

The way they were never the same.

(The way he can't get him back)

Yes, Will's disappearance changed everyone's trajectory forever. But he also changed Mike. He also made Mike's personal and romantic life impossible to return to after him.

He haunts more than just the people who mourn his death.

(The sole purpose of Mike's season 2 separation from El in the first place is so that he can never truly go back after Will)

[sillylittlerock]

s5 do jonathan byers justice... let him solve some mysteries with nancy... let him talk to his mother and brother and sister... let him have lines...

[randomthingzzzzzz]

Stranger things 5 episode 7 title : Bridge. Will is the bridge between the upside-down and the real world. He is the connector between the two. WILL IS THE BRIDGE .

[pumpkinrootbeer]

TikTok bitches want to talk about haunting the narrative AND THEN NOT MENTION THIS QUEEN

[greenfiend]

I wonder if art will imitate life in ST5…

Will we see lies, misinformation, hatred, and bullying directed at Will under the guise of “social justice” and “protecting Hawkins”?

Will those “fans” be forced to look into a mirror and see how ugly their reflection is?

[teambyler]

Season 5 will be as much of an acting challenge for Noah as Season 2 was! Yet MORE confirmation that season 5 will be centered on Will, and Noah gets to show his acting chops! Who knows what awful/beautiful/intense/emotional stuff the season will put Will through?

I'm so excited!

-teambyler

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[strawberrybyers]

i think it’s going to be really funny when byler becomes canon and everyone who called us “delusional” and said we are watching the show way too deeply will have to admit that they were wrong. they’ll have to admit that everyone that worked on stranger things actually cared about every detail and that will byers is the main character and that his love story with mike has been the driving force for everything all along.

[noahschnappinfs]

i just love how the article about stranger things day by netflix starts with will and ends saying the day is a homage to will.

don’t let people trick you into thinking he’s not important. it started with him and it ends with him!

[carolperkinsexgirlfriend]

Steddie Upside-Down AU Part 96

Part 1 Part 95

Mom makes him go home when he starts dosing on Steve’s hospital bed. But it’s okay because she kisses Steve’s cheek before she leaves, and Eddie and Wayne stay parked by his side. 

The connection’s easier now. It’s like all that time straining for Steve has snapped something into place. He can feel them all the time, a warm buzzing in his chest. He wonders if he runs hot now. If the warmth will diffuse through his whole being, make coats obsolete even in the dead of winter. 

Hopper is waiting for them in the waiting room, El burrowed into his side. She looks wan, and tired, drooping into her extravagant coat, eyeliner running down her cheeks like she’s been crying. Something inside him twists when he looks at her.

Before he can untangle that knot of emotion, Hopper stands up, both hands slapping against his knees first the same way Mike’s dad does before he gets up from his recliner. “You ready to go?” he asks, not looking away from Mom. 

When Will glances up, Mom’s smiling up at Hopper in a way he doesn’t want to think about. The adults talk quietly in front, leaving El to stumble tiredly along beside Will. She’s staring at the side of his face. Will can’t bring himself to look back. 

“Steve,” she says, sounding the word out and making it longer like it still tastes foreign on her tongue. “He is okay?”

When Will gets up the courage to look over, her eyes are big and worried. He smiles at her helplessly. It’s almost funny how innocent she looks; like she’s a bunny dressed up in punk clothes. “He’ll be okay.”

She smiles, small and close lipped, but it still beams out of her like the sun. Will tilts his head to the side and tries to see what Mike sees in her. He wants to hide her in Castle Byers, build a fortress around her, and keep her away from all the lab people for the rest of her life. 

Is that howMike felt, hiding her in his basement, giving her frozen eggos and keeping his mouth shut? 

But then her lips thin and she looks forward again. The feelings vanishes. It’s just El, hia friend, despite how much of Mike’s attention she’d snapped up just by being herself. 

“I’m glad,” she says, looking at Hopper’s broad back as she takes two steps for each one of his. 

It’s quiet after that, the way it always is after; all of them too brittle and bruised and bone-deep tired for conversation.

Hopper’s truck rat-a tat-tats itself to life in the hospital parking lot. The radio croons out something quiet and thrumming until Hopper reaches over to shut it off.

El’s heads smushed into the window, vibrating against the pot-holed roads of Hawkins.

Will’s so tired he’s wide awake. 

He watches the familiar buildings of Hawkins flicker by. It's been a long time since knowing his surroundings brought any comfort. 

Monsters could live behind every door, every tree, every smiling face.

He’s not sure any of them will ever feel safe again. 

Will closes his eyes, locking the scenery out so he can focus on the bundle of warmth in his chest. They’re still huddled together, two sparks merging in his chest. 

The past couple days have been a necessary violation of Eddie’s private feelings. He’d bared them all with love confessions and grasping hands, trying to pull Steve back from the edge of immolation. 

He’s not even sure Steve knows, hopes he does. Steve deserves to hold that love delicately between his palms and choose what to do with it. 

He won’t crush it, even if it’s unreturned. He’ll hold it gently like he always does.

Will doesn’t realize he fell asleep, or that they’d arrived home until he’s in free-fall. It feels like one of those falling dreams where you wake up solidly in the middle of your bed, but this time he really is tumbling, only Jonathan’s arms keeping him from hitting the gravel. 

“Are you okay?” he asks shakily as he pulls Will into his chest, holding him tight enough to hurt. “I’m so sorry.”

“Oh, sweetie,” Mom murmurs, wrapping them both up in her arms, chin landing solidly on Jonathan’s shoulder, sandwiching Will between their bodies. “Everyone’s fine, right Will?”

Will murmurs his affirmation, feeling groggy and confused in the light of day. 

“I was with Nancy,” Jonathan whispers. “I was just with Nancy, and you were–I almost–”

“Shh,” Mom cuts him off, reaching up to cradle his face and smile up at him. Will barely catches the edge of his watering eyes from his restricted vantage point between them. “Everyone’s fine.”

“I should have been he–”

“Jonathan,” Mom interrupts again, sharper this time. “Everyone is fine. You deserve a normal life.”

“But Will–”

“I’m fine!” Will cuts in this time. 

Jonathan pulls back, looking down at him with worried, droopy eyes. “And Steve? Mike said he was possessed.”

Will feels that bundle of warmth in his heart, lets it shine through his smile as he looks up at his brother. “He’ll be okay.” As Jonathan droops with relief, Will feels his smile turn cheeky. “Eddie will never let you forget that you were on a date while we were fighting monsters, though.”

Jonathan closes his eyes, pained while Mom laughs. 

It’s not until they’re walking toward the front door that Will notices the lack of demo-dog bodies. There’s still puddles of black oil-slick blood, but everything else looks normal. Who covered their tracks? The lab? Hopper?

He settles down for the debrief, pillowing his head on Jonathan’s shoulder as Hopper’s even tones flit through his brain. 

Maybe familiar places no longer hold any comfort, but Jonathan’s bony frame is enough to lull him into a peaceful sleep.

Part 97

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