bylerlᢉ𐭩ver

they know smth for sure—)

u see how easily everyone, including will and el, are roller-skating except for mike. it’s probably his first time or one of his firsts, but the thing is, we know will and el haven't skated that much either before, but unlike mike, they're pretty good at it.

mike himself says he is “so bad at this”. and hear me out. i think this scene describes the state of their internal love feelings at the moment. like will and el have no problems in skating, considering the fact that they’ve probably been there just a couple of times; they’re very stable. while mike is obviously struggling.

maybe it will be vice versa in s5…..?

so, they’re ACTORS, they obviously play their characters the way the directors want them to. of course, the actors can improvise, add some details by themselves, but it wont go on screen without the directors’ approval after all. so if we saw some ambiguous moments in character’s actions (im specifically referring to mike’s glances at will’s lips, arms etc) it would mean that directors TOLD the actor to do it or they considered it fit the story/character.

we already know that there are many parallels between stancy and mileven as well as jancy and byler. and first of all we need to understand why NANCY couldn’t say steve that she loves him, and to do this we need to go back to that legend scene with jancy getting murrayed, specifically paying attention to what he is saying to them about their internal conflicts.

first one will be jonathan:

speaking to him murray says that jonathan’s trust issues are directly connected to his relationship with dad. nancy herself confirmed that.

and NOW we’re moving to nancy’s part (cause it’s honestly the most interesting one for me).

describing nancy he NEVER EVEN MENTIONS her parents. but why? maybe its only because of her own self acceptance. she is afraid of what other people think of her and that’s her main problem. she is trying to convince herself that she does have romantic feelings for steve when in fact it’s not true because she is already in love with jonathan.

and now let’s talk about byler.) byers and wheelers siblings have so much in common as we all well know. they’ve been raised by the same parents so they have pretty similar models of relationship. nancy and mike’s key problem with building a healthy relationship is not because “they’ve never seen love between their parents” but because they think that it’s possible to make relationship work without deep connection between love partners. karen married ted back then because it was beneficial for her and she was able to accept ted knowing that she would be safe and provided with all her needs to build a family. it was her priority - family - it was her own choice and that’s why it was successful.

but times goes on, her children were born in a different time already, still homophobic and conservative but with more braveness to force that stereotypical life living rules. and now it’s harder for them to live like their parents. they really try to but just can’t do it because they know that they do have the rights to live how they want to, not how everyone else does. all they have to do is to accept themselves for who they really are without worrying what other people think of them. they’re different and that’s okay. it’s their power not their weakness.

SO IN GENERAL, it’s about the fear of being judged. it’s about contradiction of who they want to be and who they need to be.

edit: i forgot to mention that i’ve noticed one cute little detail. in the first jancy kiss there’re blue pillow and yellow blanket in nancy’s room if that makes sense:)

like it was soo obvious that you didn’t even have to dig deep to understand it.

like i rewatched these moments from the end of s4 and i see it a bit differently. only now i noticed that mike started to get more determined about defeating vecna (and angry as well i guess) listening to will who is talking about his connection with mf/vecna. he is clearly scared cause he knows for sure that something worse is going to happen.

mike, at this point, begins to feel more protective towards will because he understands that will will be in danger again and will suffer the most.

in this certain moment mike gains more power to fight back. now he knows this is not the end and they haven’t won vecna yet. and now he realises that he has to stand by will’s side, as always, no matter what. mike assures will that it will be them who’ll stop everything.