do you ever think about the fact that throughout the entirety of stranger things we’ve always seen mike practically shout his love for will from the rooftops by throwing his everything into believing, protecting, and helping will no matter the stakes, and how a majority of byler moments are initiated by him, and how will has always loved him back quietly despite being the one canonically confirmed to be in love, and how will is almost always on the viewer’s right in iconic byler moments but in season four we find him on the left in what used to be mike’s spot because their “roles” have switched AND when we’re taken out of the viewer’s pov and put in jonathan’s pov we see jonathan Come To A Realization here because while mike has always made it clear how special will is to him and how different their relationship is, will has always managed to keep the true depth of his feelings a little closer to his chest and it’s only when he publicly takes up that support role that mike has played for him previously that the audience is purposely made to realize, too, how romantic it truly is, because coming from mike everyone might have thought it was his usual overzealous theatrics but when the same tenderness and earnest love comes from will they realize oh. this is... this is actually something more. this is how they are this is mike and will like nothing has changed and no time has passed but it’s now that we realize just what it is, and now that will is starting to slowly but surely come out from this curtain he’s hid behind his whole life and voice that yes he loves mike of course he does he’s always loved him and loves him in precisely the way that mike expresses he needs to be loved there is simply NO conceivable way that they can come out of this hellish slow burn miscommunication trope not in full acknowledgement and eager acceptance of this love they have for each other and have always had and always will !!!!!!!!
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I have said this before but me being self proclaimed number 1 Ryoma fan and that being possibly literal-bc even if this bro had fans before me I might’ve simply done the most for him by talking about him so much + being the first to write fics that are in depth studies on his trauma across canons-I gotta say if there’s one other character I rotate a lot that isn’t him it’s probably Kei. (Shocking it’s not Hayato even if I do think about him too- but it’s usually associated with Ryoma bc gays 🗿)
I’m not even exaggerating when I say Kei would be my favorite and only isn’t because she doesn’t exist in many other canons yet my brain rotates the endless possibilities of how to incorporate her. I’ve already written a fic where she’s in shin vs neo verse which worked surprisingly well but I’ve been thinking how universally she could appear in other things. (Whether it be fitting her into a idea of a possible Go team in New or just a new canon completely) I think what I’ve narrow it down to is that she could be like- in Michirus role? Like she’s the supporting female who isn’t a pilot but helps out the real occasionally which I think would align very well especially with the original manga role she has of being Hayato’s assistant. And even if Hayato isn’t grandpa mode yet he still very much is in Saotomes position at that point. Not sure if she’d Hayato’s biological kid to further parallel Saotome and Michiru given well Hayato already adopts the Go team and his wife is irrelevant LOL.
I have no idea if I’ll ever write this specific idea but I’m still- rotating it cause this is such a easy way to get around “picking between Sho or Kei as the 2nd pilot” since both of them can still exist even if one doesn’t get to pilot, idm my supporting females. (Granted there could always be like- plot line where Sho gets hurt so Kei is temporary pilot but I can’t remember if Getter ever really did this since “once your hurt your ass is basically replaced” lol)
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In the Stranger Things debate between "Mike and Dustin should've gone to the tournament" vs. "Lucas should've gone to Hellfire" it feels like people are forgetting that LUCAS HAS BEEN AT EVERY OTHER SESSION OF THE CAMPAIGN! It's why they needed a substitute, because Lucas has been showing up.
He wanted to be there. He has invested just as much time as everyone else did. And the ONE TIME that he couldn't make it work with basketball, everyone dropped him. The one time it was something in his life that he couldn't reschedule or just choose not to show up to, no one else even tried to figure it out.
Sure, Eddie and the Hellfire crew didn't care about sports, but they cared about Lucas. They all had plans to be together that night and even though Lucas was supposed to sit on the bench, they all could've gone to the game anyway. Sat together and had fun because they were hanging out, even if it was at a Basketball tournament, and they would've even gotten to see Lucas play at the end in a surprising and exciting moment for him.
Yeah, they would've had to re-plan their schedules to make another night work, yes, Mike was going to be gone for the next week and some of them were graduating that year. But it was Spring Break. They had MONTHS left to have fit the end of the Venca campaign into. What? Did Hellfire have no plans to do anything else for the rest of the semester once they wrapped up that story?
They could've made it work. They just chose not to.
I've seen stuff about how "Lucas was moving away from D&D to be popular". He wasn't, he was doing both while trying to protect himself. He was still playing D&D, but he was just also trying sports and being friends with his teammates.
Yes, he was trying to align himself less with the nerdy stuff publicly, because (in case we've all forgotten) he has been relentlessly bullied with the rest of them for it and the previous school year he was literally targeted by Billy before he went after him to attack him for being black. He was nearly the victim of a violent hate crime had Steve not been there to help enough that Max was able to scare him off from that point on.
For Lucas, gaining popularity isn't just having cool friends and going to parties. It is a layer of protection that would've made him (and his sister) less likely to be hurt or killed for being a black kid in a 1980's, overwhelmingly white, small-town in Indiana.
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