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He considered Bill his best friend:

Just for him to only see Eddie important to him enough to be called his friend:

That’s pretty much why I’m not a very big fun of Bichie. I just feel bad for Richie, he wasn’t even good enough to be friendzoned.

Eddie was called homophobic slurs just because he was seen as frail and weak and so “less of a man” by people like Henry. Eddie was an outcast because he was perceived as feminine and, at the time, that was a synonym of being queer.

Eddie wasn’t dealing with internalized homophobia, he was dealing with actual homophobia. It didn’t matter if he actually liked men, the things is that people in Derry believed so and because of that they made his life a living hell.

He liked Bill because he didn’t care about what people said about him or his sexuality, but treated him like a normal kid. EVEN RICHIE CLEARLY TREATED HIM DIFFERENTLY BECAUSE OF THAT.

That is why he was especially disturbed hearing Adrian Mellon’s story. HE COULD HAVE BEEN THAT GUY BEATEN TO DEATH BECAUSE SOME BOYS HATED QUEER PEOPLE.

So yeah, him being called slurs holds a completely different meaning in the novel than Richie in the 2019 movie being called the same things. Richie was a victim of homophobia because he flirted with men and Henry was disgusted by that, Eddie was called those names because he was more effeminate than your average guy in the 1950s.

Richie's hair would actually be auburn and Myra's/Sonia's strawberry blonde, BUT STILL EDDIE SURE LOVES SOME GINGERS. I know that red is your favorite color but calm down boy.

AND I ALMOST FORGOT THAT I HC BILL'S MOM TO EDDIE'S FIRST "CRUSH" AND SHE IS ALSO GINGER.

Like the exact first thing different from Georgie he remembered was Eddie saying thanks to him for saving him from the bullies, not even Beverly, just Eddie hopelessly thanking him. And then people act like if Bill didn’t value Eddie over the others.

Even before the story his life already sucked, his father was an abusive deadbeat that treated him like shit and canonically called him homophobic slurs and he was VERY bullied by kids in his grade, and yet he was always kind and generous with other. And let’s not forget the worst thing, HIS BEST FRIEND/CRUSH WAS MIKE WHEELER. That might be a curse on its own (jk).

He went through so much traumas already in the first season with being stuck in the upside down when he was barely 12 years old and literally went through what he could believed was hell and let’s not forget in what condition Joyce and Hopper found him, just to come back and being treated so bad by his classmates and having to live those traumas all over just to be called crazy and not being able to enjoy your childhood.

When he was calling for his mom to save him I was really about to cry.

Then also keep in mind that what happened to him with the mind flayer was clearly a metaphor of SA, JUST TO GET POSSESSED BY HIM. Maybe the worst thing is that he was still conscious while that thing used his body to kill people he loved and cared about. And let’s not forget the physical pain that caused, he actually felt like he was being burned alive btw.

Two childhood best friends who spend most of their time together.

One is little and seen as frail by people in his life (mostly because of the traumas he has endured), starting rumors at school about his sexuality. He also also completely obsessed by the other and sees him as this perfect person who can do no wrong to the point he would die for him.

The other is the leader of his respect group that is saw as the strongest, he takes all the problems in his hand, even if it gets to the point he can’t take it anymore and believes he is the one that needs to take care of the first character. He is VERY protective of him. He is also the one who falls in love with the female lead in the story, even if sometimes it seems like he still cares more about the first character than her.

While the similarities between Eddie and Will are pretty clear, even if Finn Wolfhard is the one to play Mike, Bill is ten times more similar to him than Richie (who is way more similar to Dustin btw).

And let’s remember who were the first one by Eddie and Will’s side when they got hurt? Who were the protecting them from the bullies? Who were the ones that always tried to confort them when they were scared? BILL AND MIKE RESPECTIVELY.

Henry and Eddie are nothing different than two different sides of the same coin. THAT IS WHY EDDIE KILLING HIM IS SO IMPORTANT TO BOTH OF THEM. I don’t mind Mike killing him, but Richie??? Like why???

Let’s back to the subject… Eddie and Henry couldn’t be more different, but yet shares so many similarities. Both are characterized by their abusive childhood that in both cases is defined by the emotional incestual relationship they had with their respective parent.

Butch doesn’t treat Henry like a son, but like a full grown man. He doesn’t hide his sexual life to him, he expects him to work for him, he doesn’t take care of him in any way, ecc… so Henry tries his best to fulfill that role and make his dad proud of him. And when that doesn’t happen he gets simply ignored or beaten.

Then there is Sonia, whose abuses I’ve already mentioned multiple times and plans to talk about them again. To summarize my other posts, basically she treats Eddie as a replacement of her late husband making sure he doesn’t leave her by being extremely controlling and by making him believe that he can’t live without her.

And that abuses reflect in how they act: Henry trying so bad to be that macho man his father wants him to be and Eddie having to depend on other.

What if it did that because it believed that Eddie was the only one able to make Bill come to reality?

WHAT IF EVEN IT REALIZED HOW IMPORTANT EDDIE WAS TO BILL?

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think Eddie was like a F student, he was smart, but for me he was never really interested in school. That’s why I believe he is the only loser that never went to college. Eddie was good with practical things or things where you need logic for, but NEVER book smart not because he wasn’t able, but just because he didn’t care to. I also like to think that he was good at public speaking, but sucked at writing, so most of the times he would just ask Bill to help him out when he had to do it and the other way around when Bill needed help with Maths.

Stan died because he was a coward and he didn’t want to fight his fears again. That doesn’t mean he’s a bas person, he’s meant to represent people who can fight evil anymore and simply get overwhelmed by their struggles to the point they choose “the easy” way out.

The one who sacrificed himself was Eddie, but he was happy doing so if that meant that his friends would make it. His death being only for shock factor in the movies makes no sense. Since the start pf the novel Eddie was sure that he wasn’t going to come back from Derry, but yet he decided to be there to fight IT.

I’m completely fine with the fact they made him canonically gay since his queer coding was very much there in the book, I actually really appreciate how that it was made canon. But this rant is only about him in the first movie, while that get explored in chapter 2.

SO MUCH of his personality was removed (something that unluckily happened to all the losers) to the point he is just straight up annoying because you can’t empathize with the character. IF I HEAR ANOTHER JOKE ABOUT EDDIES MOM I’LL GO CRAZY. I get that he says a couple of jokes even in the book too, but not to this point.

This is not only about him, but with the movie in general, it’s not just annoying but also weird since Eddie was being straight up abused and groomed by that woman. Not to be the one saying “but what about this male character trauma” but I bet that people would have called that out if he was saying those things about Beverly’s father.

Then why does he need to be an absolute asshole to everyone? Did the writers for the movie forget that Richie is the one that always keeps the group together in the novel? But I have to admit that Bill punching him is one of my favorite scenes… he deserved at least ones…

Another thing is that they removed his love for music and rock and roll as if that wasn’t one of the most important parts of his character. I can’t imagine a Richie that doesn’t love Little Richard or Buddy Holly. IT USED THAT TO HUNT HIM.

I understand they have to translate that to the ‘80, but I’m sure they could have made him obsessed with some musicians of the time. BUT THEY DID WITH BEN FOR SOME REASON???

He was just given the role of comedic relief who at the final battle ended up saving everyone.