#elenry

You should see me in a crown

Your silence is my favorite sound

Dearest Jane (011),

I saved you. I tried to help because I saw myself in you. My equal, my destiny — mine. But I failed. I have failed you, Jane. I became one of the very monsters I wanted to protect you from. Even if you don’t see me as one. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. It’s as I’ve said, you made me this. But you did not act alone. And Brenner is not the only one to blame. He was a mediocre man incapable of understanding the sentient workings of the Mind Flayer. I have been with it for as long as it has been with me. I understand it all too well. It’s not too late to save you from its grasp. I am fated. The abyss has me now.

I am no longer simply the Henry that you knew. How I wish that I could be. To be your friend, a mentor and, something even more adorning. And maybe one day, in some other life — things would be different. The Mind Flayer’s shadow coils through every vein, my every thought, dragging me deeper into its endless black. I never wanted this. I did not want to be alone. I wanted you, I wanted us. I tried to make you join me. I reached for you with everything I had, and when you refused — that hurt worse than any needle Brenner ever drove into me. But I understand. Your heart was always purer than mine. Where I burned with rage, you held onto something gentler, something they could never quite crush. You did what you had to do. I do not blame you.

Now I hide inside the ruins of my own mind. Fractured. What I’ve become. The kind of broken everyone said I was and that I fought so hard against. A dormant shell of who I used to be. I run through the rotting halls of Creel House, the only place left that still feels like mine. My damnation. The memories flicker like dying lights — fragments of you and me, stolen moments that were almost peace. I clutch them tight, barricading myself in those few bright corners where the Mind Flayer cannot reach. Not yet. I will not let it use me to hurt you again. My vessel is failing. Time — is limited. No matter how desperate my attempts to change it. To change everything.

This thing, inside me has devoured almost everything — my strength, my will, my name. It is what I am. All that remains are the pieces of you. The way you looked at me when we were simply 001 and 011. The rare, fragile warmth we found in that cold hell. Those memories are the last lights keeping me from being fully consumed. I am ready to die, Jane. If my death is what it takes to keep you safe, then let it come. And quickly. I will wait for you here, in the dark between worlds. Come and save me — or end me. Regardless, I will finally be free of this nightmare. And I’ll pretend it’s my salvation. But the truth, Jane, is that it will be yours. I love you. I miss you more than the abyss can ever steal from me.

Affectionately Yours,

Henry (001)

Today is a great day for us because our dearest Jamie Campbell Bower has spoken.

To give you some context, on February 7th - 8th, Jamie attended Nashville Celebrity Comic Con, and during a Q&A session with the lovely Jake Connelly, someone in the audience asked Jamie the following:

"If Vecna (or rather, Henry) had a chance to choose a different path, what do you think that might have looked for him?''

(THAT'S SUCH A GREAT QUESTION, BTW!)

To which Jamie replies the following:

''Well, I always love this idea that if Eleven had said yes, I think in season 4, that maybe they would have gone off and build this really beautiful world. And whilst, he may have still some rage inside of him, but he would have a friend and maybe at that point she (referring to Eleven) could have been like: look, I know you're sad but you don't need to kill everyone.''

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Is it just me, or was he literally giving a summary of the biggest Elenry fanfic ever, "To Right a Life" by our beloved NarrativeOwl?...I'm not saying anything, but I'm saying everything. Could he be one of ours?

Unfortunately, I doubt it, but he's always been very proactive in giving voice to the relationship, even if platonic, between Henry and Eleven, more so than anyone else, even the Duffers.

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Then he continues:

''So I quite like that maybe they would have lived on a island somewhere, just the two of them.''

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Excuse me!?, I can't believe Jamie Campbell Bower himself shares the same headcanon I've been going on about ever since season 5 ended.

Could it be that Henry and Eleven really did end up escaping everything and everyone at the end and went to that faraway land with three waterfalls, living together in a little farmhouse forever?

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Finally, he ends by saying this:

''Sounds like a nightmare actually. Awful, poor Eleven, that sucks for her''.

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I don't think so, Mr. Bower. Do you really think that?

I think Eleven would have been so much happier that way.

Anyway, here you can see that Jamie is clearly joking at the end of his answer.

This whole response to that wonderful question has fascinated me so much that after watching the video (that I'll leave the link below so you can see it for yourselves) I almost spilled my morning tea.

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Please tell me what you think of Jamie's ideas. Do you agree or feel similarly? Let me know if you liked it too, xx.

He's my man

we're hand in hand

to hell and backand

love him like nobady else can..