okay but why did we get a miwi flashback that empowered will to get his powers, the sorcerer scene with mike telling will he had powers, and the hug right after the sorcerer scene with mike obssessing over will and being nerdy like "omg you have powers you are so awesome and amazing and i admire you so much!" but no byler.
why was mike directly tied to all the scenes related to wills powers?
why is mike the main fucking inspo for will's self-empowerment and we didn't get byler or at least any more byler scenes?
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will never get over how these two faces followed each other...
WILL WAS ABSOLUTELY STROKING MIKE'S ANKLE WITH HIS FOOT AND MIKE WAS ABSOLUTELY GETTING FLUSTERED. YOU CANT CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE. LOOK AT THEIR FACES AND HOW FAR WILL IS LEANED DOWN IN HIS CHAIR!!!!!
Here's a daily reminder if you suffer from Byler doubt: Byler will be canon. Good directors do not write slow burns that have been built up for four seasons and shut them down last minute. Good directors do not make the gay boy who has done nothing but suffer get rejected by his crush after building his crush up for four seasons. Good directors don't make all the scenes of their main couple improvised and parallel them to couples that have failed for no reason. Good directors don't parallel a potential couple to healthy, endgame couples for no reason. Good directors don't spend 12 hours on a scene with this potential couple (van scene) which involves an indirect love confession for no reason. Good directors tell actors to do things like this on purpose:
Good directors who pay attention to details wouldn't say to do all of this and put all of this into the show for no reason.
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like, the PHENOMENAL ACTING (finn wolfhard ate and left no crumbs), mike pleading with eleven desperately and screaming her name with pure torment, everyone else's reactions to eleven's sacrifice, and PURPLE RAIN IN THE BACKGROUND.
this scene was devastating and gut-wrenching. im just gonna pretend the kiss didn't happen. platonic elmike for life.
the way will is wearing no byler colors in the epilogue (besides for like, a very small amount of blue), showing that he has moved on.
and the way that mike is wearing lots/a noticeable amount of blue in the epilogue (both current and college years) showing that he has yet to move on from will
look if i cant have canonical byler then i can have mike regretting not making byler canon and will moving on and having a good life
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we didn't get byler, but we get mike with wills painting hung up in his room even after everything. after being confirmed to be in love with el and straight. mike still has the painting that was a symbol of wills love for mike and displays it in his fucking room during his college years. he displays the painting that is the reason mike was nicknamed the heart right by his desk for everyone to see.
mike wearing camo in wills coming out scene because hes hiding (his identity) in plain sight and wearing blue underneath because hes also hiding his feelings for will in plain sight (blue is his color for byler colorgate)
will wearing an orange sweatshirt because orange is a mix of red and yellow (red being vecna and yellow being wills color in byler colorgate) because his love for mike is being manipulated and contorted by vecna (hence the reason he is coming out). will wearing green underneath because its a mix of blue and yellow (mike and wills colors in byler colorgate) and it represents bylers love hiding beneath the manipulation and empowering will through his manipulation with vecna (thats how will gained his powers).
remember how we've seen bts for s4 where noah is at rink-o-mania in a different costume than the one he actually wears there?
and remember how we also got a bts photo of him in a stunt harness in that same costume?
i've seen a lot of people theorize over the last few years that these photos are because they filmed shots during s4 filming that are going to be used for vecna visions in s5.
but there's one thing that's always stuck out to me about this!
every time we see someone in a vision, they're always wearing the clothing they're wearing irl when they get vecna'd, even if they're in a memory.
now, if will get's vecna'd in s5, why would he be in clothing from s4 during the vision?
i definitely think this could be because we see a memory of will's from s4 at rink-o-mania that we haven't previously seen, and we see s5 will witnessing it, but that still doesn't explain the photo with the harness!
if s5 will is witnessing s4 will in a memory, anything requiring a harness (being thrown, lifted, etc.) would be happening to s5 will, not s4 will.
onto my theory:
this might be wishful thinking since i really want to see mike get vecna'd in s5 (i love him and want to see what the hell is going on in his head and think there's soooo much potential there) but i think these photos could actually be explained by a mike vecna vision in s5 rather than a will one.
we know from vol1 that mike is acting a lot kinder towards and protective over will than in s4, so i don't think it's that far of a leap to say that he probably feels guilty about how he acted during their time in california.
remember this scene from s4? where max is talking about her insecurities/shames and vecna puppets lucas to terrorize her?
and remember this one? where vecna-as-brenner breaks the fourth wall of the memory and starts talking directly to nancy?
because of all of this, i think that, potentially, we could get a scene where vecna uses mike's guilt to terrorize him by puppeting will to say horrible things to him, like we see with lumax.
now, remember that outfit we saw from the rink-o-mania bts? where does will wear that outfit?
the van scene.
i think there is potential for us to get a scene where we see mike experience/watch a different/his own pov of the van scene, then vecna-as-will turns to him and breaks the fourth wall of the memory to taunt him. this would then shift location to the roller rink (probably empty except them, like max's snowball memory), leaving vecna-as-will in his van scene outfit with a s5 mike at rink-o-mania.
this is also added to by the fact that the van scene took 12 hours to film. i definitely think that they were shooting additional things during that time, likely for s5!
i'm honestly not sure where the harness thing would come into play. maybe vecna would puppet s4-van-scene-will into doing something that would require a harness during mike's vision, though i can't conceptualize what that could be lol. but i just can't see a use for it if will is the one experiencing the vision!
this is all pretty far-fetched and would require a crazy amount of forethought, planning, and insane composite shots, but the duffers are the duffers and i wouldn't doubt them tbh
(also, i don't think this will actually happen, but on the very slim off-chance it does, i'd like it on the record that i predicted it.)
so many funny characters on post volume two byler tumblr. we've got:
bylers who are completely unshaken and confused by the drama
og finale byler truthers who quote the duffer's korrasami tweet fourteen times a day
fan art and ao3 bylers keeping us satiated with fix-its
bylers who are fully in the depression stage of grief and are taking a leave of absence
bylers who are in the bargaining stage of grief teaming up with bylertwt to prove cutgate real
pissed off bylers who are angry at the very idea of cutgate and just want the band aid ripped off
hopeful bylers who are literally too afraid to reblog any theories out of fear of jinxing it
angry duffer hating bylers who are fully prepared to boycott every duffer project from now on and place some kind of spell on them
sad duffer hating bylers who can't believe just how bad the writing has gotten
ex shawn levy glazing bylers who are literally too stunned to speak
"everything is political" bylers who are concerned about the state of popular media if this ends up being bait and are blaming the whole ordeal on late stage capitalism
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mike wearing camo in wills coming out scene because hes hiding (his identity) in plain sight and wearing blue underneath because hes also hiding his feelings for will in plain sight (blue is his color for byler colorgate)
will wearing an orange sweatshirt because orange is a mix of red and yellow (red being vecna and yellow being wills color in byler colorgate) because his love for mike is being manipulated and contorted by vecna (hence the reason he is coming out). will wearing green underneath because its a mix of blue and yellow (mike and wills colors in byler colorgate) and it represents bylers love hiding beneath the manipulation and empowering will through his manipulation with vecna (thats how will gained his powers).
