#byler gate

Will's bullying for being gay being directed at Mike

El being described as a boy and Mike falling in love almost inmediatly and losing interest the more femenine she got

Mike saying "i'm taking you home" and bringing Will to his basement

"you see Michael? see what happens?"

"he's quiet today" "he's always quiet"

Mike perfectly remembering the first time they met and that being the memory that saved Will from Vecna twice but somehow when his girlfriend asked him about what he said in the cabin (him saying he loved her) he said he didn't remember because it was "so long ago"

Mike running inmediatly after Will to apologise instead of his girlfriend who just broke up with him

the rain fight mirroring a scene from a queer movie

"I bet him and Lucas are drowning in self pity" and "I was being a self-pitying idiot"

"only love makes you that crazy and that damn stupid" and "El's not stupid"

Mike inmediatly going to the woods to look for Will because he was afraid of him getting lost again

"crazy toghether"

their colours being switched whenever they drift apart from each other (S3 and 4)

El and Will both screaming for Mike's help but each time Mike only got to Will

"Max get away from the door"

Mike constantly noticing how Will is feeling and acting but not being able to notice El's feelings

the parallel from S2 where El finally comes back and the final scene from S5 "Sorcerer"

Mike compraing Will to Vecna and also telling El if Vecna's gone what could stop them from being toghether

Mike suggesting that the Byers lived with them and in fact proposing thst Will stayed in his room (this is al Nancy's book)

Rovickie, Lumax and Jancy parallels

"we're friends! We're friends" and "in the closet [at rink-o-mania] starts playing"

"what signals?"

the fucking painting

Mike's room being surrounded by queercoded decorations and having Will's binder tucked under his bed mesnwhile El's room is surrounded by things that she made about Mike

"you never say it" "I say it" and "I didn't say it" "You didn't have to"

Mike only being able to tell El that he loves her after Will mirrored his own feelings through her

Mike constantly repeating that Will's a sorcerer and not a wise because the sorcadin dynamic in D&D complements each other way better

the meaning of water in their most emotional scenes

Mike assuming Will's sexuality and feelings twice (projecting final boss)

"I need her to need me (Mike talking about El)" vs "We really need your magic up here (Mike talking to Will)"

Will did not say "yes" out loud when Mike asked him to be his friend, he just nodded but the fact that Mike says "you said yes" shows how he understands him

"what if you joing another party?" "not possible"

Mike's almost disgusted reaction to El's kiss and her telling him she loves him all this while the clost behind him is wide open

the "One way" sign first pointing at Mike's closet and in the epilogue pointing at the painting

Ted destroying Mike's closet

"the snowball turned into an avalanche"

the original script for the snowball dance

"I don't want you to feel like you have to hide anything from me"

"that's blasfemous" "try before you deny"

"even in the frame with Will she looks like she (El) is wearing his clothes but also just threw a dress on"

Robin's speech describing Mike's relationship with El, not Will (aka El is Mike's Tammy)

"when blue and yellow meet in the west"

the "byler coded song" that allegedly had never been used in a film before never making an appearance in the whole finale

purple rain being recycled as a mileven song even so the lyrics doesn't fit their relationship at all

Mike having a picture of a bisexual writter who allegedly dated his male best friend pasted to his wall right next to the painting

Mike calling the Byers tons of times while they were in Cali when it was obvious he couldn't contact El thst wsy because it was to risky, so who else was he calling?

Mike saying he was too self absorbed to notice Will's sexuality issues basically confirming the "it's not my fault you don't like girls" and "we're friends" scenes where just him projecting

Mike being so annoyed at Robin and Will hanging out that he broke the MAC-Z's bathroom pipe

the whole rink-o-mania set having blue and yellow

literally both of them almost crying at the apology scene from S4 after the fight at rink-o-mania

Heroes by David Bowie

"Smalltown boy" being in Mike's basement beats

when Mike got El flowers and told her "it was too much yellow so I picked some purple too" (Will's colour is yellow and El's is purple)

Will using mainly his memories with Mike to unlock his freaking powers

"are friends electric?"

the final scene in S3 where Mike goes to his mom after the Byers left mirroring perfectly the S1 scene where he found out Will was "dead"

Mike knowing Will's favourite song

(animation down below if you're curious :D All creds to the OG posters in Tiktok: @hoshistories)

“No”

“Then it doesn’t count”