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Love the way Will's powers are revealed via accepting himself and by thinking of his most cherished memories of his loved ones. Meeting mike for the 1st time, Joyce complimenting his RAINBOW ship, and Will building castle byers with Jonathan (after their homophobic dad left). All of these memories were mentioned in the s2 shed scene-which broke Will from his possession. It's also similar to how El thought of a happy memory to strengthen her powers and initially send Henry into the void ( she thought of a her bio mom saying 'i love you' ). Love is the answer (and recalling happy memories of being loved heightens their powers).

Robin's speech also mentions tapping into your inner child , the opposite of the "we're not kids anymore..." fight MIke/Will previously had in s3. And Mike said he "doesn't believe in coincidences" anymore . In s4, his (love) pep talk about El's powers didn't work : max got harmed, and the town ripped into pieces. But Mike's pep talk to Will (about his powers) was correct and ended up being inspo for Will being a hero.... and protecting everyone in ep 4.

Will *breaks the limbs of the demogorgans just like vecna broke the limbs of his human victims*. Also this episode being called "the sorcerer" a name Mike dubs Will with.

Dustin (& co) vs. Ted Wheeler

I’m not actually too confident on the possibility of this happening, but there a couple interesting points that points to Will possibly losing his left hand.

There is this screenshot from 2x02 where Will’s sleeve covers his left hand:

And this image where granted it is a bit unclear, but Will’s left hand also seems to be covered by his sleeve.

Potential Parallels

Jonathan has an Evil Dead poster in his room. In Evil Dead II, Ash Williams saws off his hand with a chainsaw after it has been taken over by an evil spirit.

Lately @bylrndgm and I have been exploring some parallels between this show and Twin Peaks. In TP there is a man named Mike who is missing his left arm. He cut his arm off in order to free himself from an evil spirit.

(RIP Al Strobel)

The Left Hand of Vecna

The Left Hand of Vecna is an item in DnD that is, quite literally is the severed left hand of Vecna. Eddie even mentions in his campaign that Vecna is missing his left eye and left hand. Granted this could easily just be foreshadowing for Vecna’s fucked up Freddy Krueger hand.

According to the Forgotten Realms Wiki, “The Hand was a desiccated, mummified left hand. In order to use its powers, the wielder needed to cut off his or her own left hand at the wrist and press the Hand of Vecna against the remainder of the arm. The artifact then magically grafted itself onto its wearer and became a functioning limb.”

Honestly, I’m not super confident in this theory nor do I necessarily think that it will happen, I just found it interesting that there was so much supporting evidence and wanted to line it all up here.