the byers brother's are literally what b'lly apologists want him to be
like u want a gay abuse victim with a lot of pain in his life? will byers is canonically gay and has been throught hell and back. jonathan is also kinda queercoded with his whole "being different is fine, i'm different" type attitude. oh right. i forgot u guys only like abuse victims if they have 6 pack abs. and that the whole "he's queercoded" defense is just a facade
Everyone lives au, but Billy is still a piece of shit, but he left Max and her friends alone like he promised in season 2. Because of that he has no idea with who Max and Steve became friends with, but all of them know who Billy Hargrove is and they won't let him have peace.
Billy is lifeguarding on the pool when suddenly he get hit by a ball and the blond hair girl that threw it do not apologise. She shows him a middle finger instead.
His parents force him to pick up Max from her friends and once he got there some guy with curly hairs is looking at him like he is ready to throw hands.
He is chilling when some redhead blows a clarnet into his ear and run away before he can even react.
He almost got run over by a pizza truck and the driver flip him off. Once someone spilled a drink on him and and once his own drink blow up in his hand. He goes to buy drugs from a local diller and the guy tell him he heard of him and to get out. He goes to rent a movie and a girl that works there, same girl from the pool, tells him they don't have a movie he wants, despite the fact he can see that she is holding a VHS. Guy legit cannot go a week without getting harass or something and has no idea what is going on, why suddenly like 6-7 random people he never met started to hate him.
Meanwhile Steve is begging them to stop, because he doesn't want them to get in troubles, but they refuse. Because if you mess with one of them, you mess with all of them
just saw someone say they were allowed to like billy hargrove as a person because they were poc. but like. billy wasnt just a racist. he was an abuser. he abused max, and her friends, and tried to kill steve as well as four teenagers. you cant win. if you ignore the fact hes racist hes still an abuser. if you ignore the fact hes an abuser hes still racist.