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For starters, the only reason I noticed this was because people were freaking out that something might be wrong with Will's arm since Noah covered it up in that recent bts. But when I went back to look at it, I was instantly confused by the fact that his watch was on his right arm and not his left.

Which brings me to another aspect of this that has been talked about, but not nearly enough. There was even a tiktok someone made (that I can never find when I'm looking for it), that speculates Will is somehow being guided by the mindflayer in s3. And they had the proof to back it up too imo.

They showed how it was Will who suggested they go to the hospital in s3, and not only that, but as he was saying this, he is isolated from everyone else on his own in the background. And this continues in the hospital, with Will not being included in shots that have literally everyone else, and when he is there, there is a huge shadow next to him, with there being visible distance between him and the others.

When I saw this I was obviously shook and wanted to dig into it a little deeper, bc if this is actually happening, there's gotta be more hints pointing to it right? And I discovered that it just so happens Will chooses a different arm to reach for his neck, at a very incriminating moment in the season...

Here we have Will reaching for his neck with his left arm in 3x01.

And here we have Will reaching for his neck with his right arm, seconds before saying He's back in 3x03, and for the rest of the season up until the finale...

While editing this, I came across something a bit terrifying, and so I have to share it now.

I was rewatching some of the cabin scenes, because I figured, if there's a lot of hints that Will is compromised at Heather's and at the hospital, then why wouldn't there be hints about it at the cabin as well. And obviously there is. The main one being that the mindflayer found them in the first place. How did it do that exactly? Not to mention Will's weird sort of glances at El as she talks about the mindflayer, but to be fair you could just write that off as nerves on Will's part. So whose to say that is definitive proof that Will is compromised?

I say this next sequence most definitely is...

Here we get a pan around the room as everyone tries to help block different points in the cabin that mindflayer might try to get in from.

And here we have Will and Lucas working together to block this window.

Then we leave Will and follow Lucas around the room as he continues the effort to prevent the mindflayer from getting in.

And this continues until we make a full loop back to where we started. The first shot we get after that long pan is of Nancy grabbing the gun off the table, with Will busying himself in the background by the bookcase, in that exact same spot he was helping Lucas a few moments before.

Now, sure, you could say that Will is just being thorough here. Maybe he just wanted to make sure the bookcase was properly covering the window. Because wouldn't it be a disaster if he hadn't made sure and the mindflayer ended up entering in through that exact spot???

Oh wait... It did.

Now idk if Will is aware of what's going on. I would think he's not doing this intentionally because he's putting everyone including himself in danger.

But what I do know is that it is painfully ironic that this is happening after Mike said in the previous season that they would not let this very thing happen. And now suddenly in s3, Mike isn't there to really be a 'we' with Will anymore, at least not until it's too late. At first it's mostly Will's fault because he brushes Mike off when he asks at the movies. Fair enough. But then it happens a second time, maybe worth mentioning to Mike now, but when Will turns around, Mike is running off with El. And finally at Castle Byers after the rain fight, which is literally the moment the mindflayer apparently decides that he needs Will again, which checks out based on the events that seem to be following here... It's kind of funny, in like a tragic way, but still comical nonetheless.

But anyways, back to wrist business. Here we have the last time Will reaches for his neck in s3, and thankfully he switches back to his left arm.

What a nice way to close things off. So at least we know he's no longer compromised and is free from any sort of spying, right? Right?...

How am I'm supposed to stay calm knowing they switched to putting his watch on his right arm now?? Knowing all of this?

I mean you can even take this back to the very beginning, when Joyce said that Will had a birthmark on his right arm upon identifying his body at the morgue. They don't show us, in fact they make it quite difficult for us to see because they give us a reflection of him from inside of the room as we look on at Joyce from the window on the outside. But it's implied the birthmark was there and Joyce was just still refusing to believe it was him anyways. Because if it wasn't there, she would have used that as an argument going forward, as that was the whole of her mentioning it in the first place.

And not only that, but there is an almost eerie focus on Will's wrists throughout the entire show, which is hard to ignore when looked at all together, especially in the context of all of this.

I already covered s3 pretty extensively before this, so let's just jump to s4.

S4 is sort of the odd man out compared to the previous 3 seasons. While it's hard to pinpoint any sort of consistency here, given that they're not even in Hawkins until the very end, there still manage to be some shots that center Will's arm in a way (specifically his right arm), that I don't know if I can ignore given everything that has led up to this, and what may still lie ahead.

This is low-key reminding me of how bylers geek out over the fact that Will used his right hand to use morse code and warn them to close the gate back in s2, and the fact that it was the same hand Mike held earlier in that season, when he told him that they wouldn't let the shadow-monster spy...