#joycemikegate

Smut is fun, but I want to go crazy with your world building (please).

You guys are the creators who are putting in A LOT of time and effort and need more platforming.

this fucking shot

ngl, the second I saw it for the first time, I was sure these hands are Mike’s hands. and don’t try to even convince me it wasn’t implied this way.

bc why did they even take this shot in the first place? to show Will being unconscious? we don’t need anyone’s hands for that in the frame. and that’s completely another story if these are Mike’s hands. or if this should seem like Mike’s hands but not be them? these very hands that unidentifiable whether it is a man or a woman touching Will’s face, wrist covered with a blue checkered sleeve.

I felt gaslit after I saw this for the 1st time, and any time seeing it again, mixed feelings are mine companions.

before I feel like being about to explode on this, I’ll leave here my conclusion: Joyce substitutes Mike for a reason. And the reason is: it IS Mike originally in the majority of Will’s scenes that he shares with her. But he’s been erased from there, and will be put back in his place (which is right next to Will).

cg is speaking for me, plus I’m manifesting HARD.

gosh, I’m so pissed bc of how cruelly we were robbed; even with cg, I still can’t stand looking at this shot seeing its idea CLEARLY. I need Mike Wheeler’s hands all over Will Byers to be once fully healed just from this one scene, and no less!!!

Don’t you see anything weird in this sequence? 🫠

Why does Mike look so nonchalant like he doesn’t even know that Will fell? And no one tries to hold him back? Joyce substitutes Mike. That’s why.

(those are either 2 time-lines in one sequence 🙂‍↕️ or an illusion substituting the og timeline, bc the consequence is just broken right in the middle)

look how they simultaneously react, start running, and then we hear Mike calling Will but we see Joyce, and Mike vanishes from the picture!!

I think he doesn’t react in the sequence where Joyce substitutes him bc he’s not [there], he is Joyce, so when Mike!Joyce is with Will, the whole shot with Mike and the kids is not that real, more like decoration for the theatrical stage. This also could explain: 1) Joyce\Mike’s hands in 5x06; 2) another 5x06: Mike “stays with Will” but does absolutely nothing; 3) Joyce & Will in 5x08 truck

Joyce mantaining the tradition to be paralleled with Mike (I wonder why) I mean, the stripes??

* I know why: bc Joyce substitutes Mike’s place in Will’s life

In the epilogue we have three characters wearing purely purple, let me introduce them to you:

but only Erica wears it as her second option, the first one looks like Will’s Truman’s shirt:

for Mike and Joyce it’s their first ones preceding Joyce’s jacket and Mike’s graduation gown (however, I’m not sure whether her jacket can be considered “the 2nd outfit” bc of her purplish sleeves?)

and then we know that Mike’s 3rd look is his basement blue shirt; but I’m still not sure whether Joyce has a different one, the lighting in Enzo is quite dark, so it seemed that her cardigan is maroon, but probably it is still the same one.

Nevertheless, Mike and Joyce still have two things in common: 1) they’re the only characters whose first epilogue appearance is accompanied by purple shirts and 2) they both have a near-woke-up scenes:

The tropes hint that after such facial expressions a revelation should follow. The same tropes claim that if it hasn’t proceeded yet, the feeling of eeriness will become even denser until it finally happens after all (if your characters are not the 80s slasher’s inhabitants, of course…)

If it’s true and purple doesn’t mean that these characters are dead (which could also be in an option for Joyce having just one? piece of clothes, and another one being associated with funerals; however, if Joyce wears black, than she is a grieving person at someone’s funeral, not the deceased one) then Hopper most likely is, especially with phrasing things this way.

(The theory also aligns with El being alive bc Mike question reality in which she’s dead, while Joyce question weird wording of here-alive Jim. Then the opposite truth must be correct one)