you ran to beat the devil and you laughed

Everyone in the group is important. That should obviously be the take away. The losers club is so special because they're able to beat these supernatural forces without any powers or anything special. They simply have each other which is something IT doesn't have. They all bring something to the table that no one else can even if it isn't explicitly shown/explained.

The Losers Club + Alone Together

The woman who he saved has made a public statement now following his death that I thought some people might want to read 💔

He had a career, he got married, he had kids. He was trying to address the things he once used drugs to escape from. But he also had serious mental health struggles. He wasn’t perfect, he was ‘problematic’ at times, but he was also very unwell and spoke openly about how he frequently questioned his own reality. He was paranoid and nervous. Certain fanbases didn’t help with that, leading him to largely leave social media to take care of himself and focus on his family.

I don’t know what he’s gone through very recently, I stopped keeping up some time ago, but I’m saddened to hear that it ended this way after all he’s survived up to this point. I feel sad for his wife and young kids. And I feel sad for him.

IT: CHAPTER TWO (2019) dir. Andrés Muschietti

Stan: …that’s a map of all of Derry

on one hand, we have bill denbrough, himbo extraordinaire, having absolutely no idea why mike is always the first one to sit next to him when they see horror flicks, and why every time they do he offers bill the last piece of his candy or the best part of his popcorn (at the top, where there's the most butter). he thinks nothing of it when stan is always just a little bit too eager to help him with his math homework (even though bill sucks at math), or when bev or ben offer to buy him a pepsi every time they pass the drugstore. he doesn't even get why he's the only one who can get richie and eddie to stop bickering with just an eye roll and a "guys, grow up." he doesn't understand why their cheeks flush so red, or why they both seem much more embarrassed than when any of the other losers tell them the same thing.

he knows that, whenever the losers are insecure or afraid of something, his words of affirmation will carry the most weight. stan is nervous about doing a presentation for class? bill reminds him of all the other times stan has been able to talk for hours on end about something new he's learned. richie is self conscious about his glasses and awkward growth spurt? bill tells him that he's never looked better.

this goes double for when bev or eddie are afraid that they're not strong enough to stand up to their parents or after mike and ben have spent the day running from henry bowers. bill is like a steadying hand on the group, making sure that they all know that he believes in them. that it doesn't matter what the world thinks of them because they have more strength than they can ever imagine.