#thinking thoughts.

ELDRITCH CREATURE FEATURE REVEAL!!!! hello! she appears as a human and blends in so well 99% of the time. the only real things are her pointed ears that she explains away as body modifications and her pupils don't react when she has them hidden away in a dark brown (and her irises are a bit too big but she can just dismiss that as having cute bug eyes). walking in on solveig healing someone with her fingers emitting a golden light and her turning to look with her weird golden-reflective (pupiless mind you) eyes or just scaring the shit out of her to where she instinctively shows her scary teeth. because that would weird anyone tf out. esp if ur character is a human. wdym this is a creature feature.

same vein of creature-featuring but solveig healing someone. it doesn't have to be a serious issues she can just help with a headache or pain from old injuries or whatever but it's deeply personal. being flooded with warmth and soothed and feeling Held and it's very tender to me. solveig murmuring at first that it's okay, it won't hurt, she promises. mhm. in the mind's eye.

actual discussion of the Lake Incident. she'll crash the fuck out if someone pushes her for it but solveig eventually genuinely talking about it. but she zones out when she does and sounds so clinical about it and distant about it and flat and it's probably the first time seeing solveig without any kind of whimsy about her. it's just like she was recounting a bad day that made her tired. that's not what it is at all. but even then, while actively talking about it, it's clear she's got walls up about it.

finding her after killing her twin brother with her crystal hello kitty figurine. i will not elaborate further other than yes he deserved it and yes solveig is covered in golden blood and gets Weird and Stare-y after the eldritch urges win and kinda goes nonverbal. anyways giving her a shower? mhm. she's not speaking at all for a long time but is clearly allowing herself to be taken care of.

taking solveig to the beach but not in a fun beach date scene in a like dusk or dawn sitting on the sand and just being in silence and even she's surprised she's not freaked out about it. sol genuinely will talk about her childhood and her mother and twin and amanpal in an open and honest way about it and if asked why they did that she just says. sometimes bad things happen. that's all. you know what i mean. in the mind's eye. also discussion about how she thinks he did it at a lake because she used to want to be an ice skater, because she knew she was too short to be a ballerina, and they were close enough.

au but freshly 21 year old solveig. meaning she just got whacked and is currently running away from new orleans. someone help this sad wet cat and take her in. she'll just sleep on the couch for three days straight and wake up screaming but she's chill she promises. yes she's curled into a ball but she's a chill girl nothing happened she's just kinda homeless rn she promises. keep her ass away from amanpal from now on. she's run away. let her run away with ur character send tweet.

nsfw don't be freaked out but it's an eldritch urge if you've read my lore sideblog but look who's carving their name into solveig or letting her carve her name into them. or both. who's letting her bite and lick their blood and vice versa.

solveig asks to be taken ice skating and she's being very brave about it and probably is clinging onto ur character the entire time and almost cries like 10 times and is so terrified of falling but it's a step. it's not a real lake and she knows that but she had to deal with ice skates and she didn't cry (she probably had to cover her eyes and let ur character put them on her for her bc she was about to start crying and cannot look down at them but it's okay she's being very brave and we all should be proud of her)

What?

The chain on the Byers' door was moved. A Demogorgon can't use telekinesis. You know who can? Vecna. Whatever wanted Will wanted him specifically. There's too much intention in the Demogorgon's hunt.

It's also shown via flashbacks that Joyce's green pinto is at Hawkins National Lab when Terry breaks in to rescue El (Jane) in 1974. That's not a coincidence. That's a suggestion that Will's ties to HNL began before he vanished. Not to mention Will's strange non-interaction with Brenner in "Papa," which the Duffers specifically brought attention to. It seems like they want you to know Will recognized him. I wonder why!?!

There's more to this story than Will's vanishing being an accident. Will being the helpless victim has been the predominant narrative since episode one, and the Duffers countered that immediately in season five's opening. Perhaps, just like the Duffers flipped the script there, they'll do so again when it comes to why Vecna needs Will. Perhaps the audience, just like Will, has been intentionally misled about Will's importance?