#hellshee.txt

will byers main characterism is delicious

byler + joyce scenes are everything to me

harry potter / will byers parallelism continues

mike wheeler back as the party's leader who cheered

vecna calling will "william" is insane i love it (ALSO GET A JOB STAY AWAY FROM HIM)

JANCY I LOVE YOU

love triangle byler mil*ven narrative present (mike and eleven talking, camera panning between them, will and the cleradin pieces)

will getting hugged by everyone HE IS SO LOVED

(this is gonna be a little messy because i'm trying to put it all into one place without a clear timeline)

📌 byler will happen in vol. 2. i've said this a million times before but i firmly believe it will not be pushed to the finale. i think they will kiss in vol. 2 and i think it will be in episode 7.

i also predicted no kiss for mileven in vol. 1 a month before vol. 1 came out based only on what we already knew about mileven's arc throught the seasons and the vibes of the teaser/trailer while “leakers” were talking about a kiss in episode 1.

📌 i think #basementgate could be very real. there are a lot of basement references on the WSQK and a direct reference to the canon will & mike scenes from s5e1 and s5e2.

"grab a cup of joe or a nice fizzing pop and lock your basement door so no one can interrupt your groove"

it's also a part of the house not destroyed by the demogorgon attack and it’s been used in the promo and the duffers consider it a very important location for stranger things

#WSQK basement references ⬇️

a very big shout out to everyone who worked on and took the time to write in this WSQK doc ❤️

also the references to a good signal. "the basement is the place to hunker down. get that good signal. so while you *make a move downstairs* [...]" + robin’s "when a signal comes in too strong, it overloads the whole system" and byler with the radio tower between them.

📌 i think byler will gonna be in the UD at some point and get out through or somehow be at lovers lake. i firmly believe in will byers fake death (hp reference, parallel to s1 fake death) and there's a lot of water as feelings symbolism in s5 especially.

they could do a parallel to will’s fake death from s1 except (lovers' lake instead of quarry bc it has a UD gate). they also moved lovers lake closer to the wall and there’s water safety mentioned for shock jock but that doesn’t mean there won’t be water stunts in ep. 6, 7, 8 too

whether they actually go through the UD gate in lovers lake or just have a scene there, i don't know, but i think it will show up.

📌 i think byler will have a church scene too. some say mindscape but i think physical too.

📌 i think el will go in will's head in ep. 5/6. she'll look for the kids vecna took because now they know will has a deeper connection to vecna and they’ll think there's a chance that through that connection el might see beyond the wall.

will is not passed out immediately after s5e4's but he might struggle w the effects. it would be unrealistic for him to just be completely fine right after it, especially since we know vecna baited him into unlocking his powers so vecna definitely has a plan to use him.

📌 and speaking of vecna we will likely get a byler scene where they'll parallel patty and henry. will's scared of his connection to vecna but mike, esp after that s5e4 shot of his face, will encourage will and tell him he's not scared.

patty to henry: "i'm not afraid, kiss me!"

📌 and since every day we get new confirmations of how tied will's and henry's stories are, and a big confirmation that henry's birthday is the same as will's, then birthdaygate is already partially confirmed. no way they made henry's birthday 22 march for no reason.

📌 ell will not be with the boys and max in the epilogue. i'm hoping she leaves with kali, but what i do know is that she won't be with the boys and max. rooftop scene is both foreshadowing the end of mileven's relationship and el not being there at the end.

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this is pretty much confirmed when you add the set leaks of mike+hopper in the epilogue. notice the last crusade showing - came out in 1989. these are epilogue leaks. and el missing is probably the biggest reason why finn repeatedly describes the end as bittersweet.

some say el bones and honestly who knows but i always said no to el bones.. i hope for her and kali to leave together, but also… the two people with fake death scenes in s1 are will and el and i keep thinking of hopper's "a second to spare"

📌 i think steve works at the bar in the epilogue based on a WSQK reference. the two bars referenced in stranger things and on wsqk are the hideaway (where dr. owens gave hopper the adoption certificate for jane hopper) and the hideout (where eddie's band played sometimes). we know they filmed at the red martini lounge in georgia. we know will, mike, nancy, steve, lucas and dustin were reported to be in the scenes filmed at this location.

clip and pics:

and jonathan deciding to try to shield will from their father and their parents' fights. and will being obviously verbally abused by his dad stil says "it's fun to go with him sometimes" because he wants that approval and he wants to appease him.

and then jonathan saying lonnie made him kill a rabbit to make him a man and that maybe his parents loved each other at one point but he wasn't around for that part.

the idea that lonnie made jonathan kill a rabbit but couldn't teach him how to tie his own tie is so fucking sad.

idk man the byers are so tragic to me, esp in season 1. there's this kid who's bullied, who's called slurs even by his own father, and this older brother whose a loner and who blames himself for his brother's disappearance and who has people at school whispering that he's the one who probably did something to his brother.

and this single mother who works hard and is struggling to the point that jonathan is barely in highschool and also has to work sometimes. and joyce loses her son and believes he's alive and everyone thinks she's crazy including some of the cops. "kid's missing, man. show a little class."

add to this that will is gay too and i think it's so important that he shares that first moment of acceptance with jonathan which is so drastically different than what he would have had to endure with lonnie around. i think it was so important for will to know that jonathan accepts him as he is. and now i'm also thinking of jonathan being around when lonnie would say shit about will too. fuck, i'm gonna cry.