#mike wheeler protection squad

[bylerspookie]

why did no one warn me about the torture that comes with Mike Wheeler being your favourite st character

#mike queerler #mike wheeler #mike wheeler protection squad #byler #stranger things #byler nation

[willbyersbff]

mike's trauma is so fucking overlooked what do you mean this kid goes around with memories of being heavily bullied, of his dad simply just not caring about him, of his best friend being missing, of seeing said friend's alleged dead body, of being completely devastated by that, of jumping off a cliff without hesitation because of bullying, of figuring out his best friend had been kidnapped and taken to an alternative dimension, of being friends with a girl that he thinks ends up dying to save him, of missing said friend for almost a year, of being worried about her, of seeing his best friend get hurt and possessed, of again being afraid he would lose will and el, of being depressed after his best friend moved, of not being able to fit in at high school, of not being able to understand or accept his own feelings, of having to hear his girlfriend say that he did not understand what the bullying felt like even though he did and she completely dismissed his feelings, of feeling like he lost his best friend again, of being in the middle of a shooting, of having to bury a dead body, of clearly feeling as if he is not enough for the people he loves, and you're telling me he is OKAY with all of that???? nuh uh somebody check up on him and give him a hug and a safe space to cry right now

#mike wheeler #byler #stranger things #mike wheeler protection squad

[uselessnbee]

every time i venture outside of my little circle here on tumblr where we all love Mike and go like on tiktok or pinterest or something and see all the Mike hate and slander again i just need to come back here and say how much i love and appreciate my boy

everyone say i love you Mike Wheeler you deserve so much better

#it's so wild out there guys #i always forget people still hate this dumbass and i'm so surprised like are we really still doing this shit? #mike wheeler #byler #mike wheeler protection squad

[runninguplenorahills]

!!Rant incoming!! Because I truly think I’ve never seen something quite like this thing some people in the tag have with Mike Wheeler!

Mike expresses his insecurities about being worthless and not good at anything and Will builds him back up by telling him that he’s an inspiration to the party, that he’s their leader and therefore essential and important to every mission, that he’s the heart that holds the whole team together. Which is all true! Mike has an extremely distorted perception of himself and Will helps him too see who he actually is!

And what do the people in the fandom do? Make posts left and right about how “Omg Mike is only the heart for Will but Will is actually the heart of the party”, “Will sees Mike as a knight in shining armor while Mike actually holds a candle stick”, “Mike is not a knight, he’s the damsel in distress”, “Mike can’t fight for himself but that’s okay because Will is gonna save him”, “Mike needs to use his brain for once”, “Mike is incompetent”, “Mike wouldn’t be able to use a sword” “Mike wouldn’t be able to use a gun” “Mike can’t win a fight” etc. totally flipping it all around and creating this false narrative were Will is the one with the distorted perception of who Mike actually is!! YOU COMPLETELY MISSED THE POINT!!

In all of those polls that get created Mike always ends up being the butt of the joke because “Mike isn’t as muscular as Will so of course Will is better than him at absolutely everything”, “Mike is too dumb to be good at that”, “Mike is super clumsy so he can’t do that”. Or fanfictions where “Mike doesn’t know his way around Hawkins”, “Mike has no common knowledge”, “Will has to do everything for Mike because he can’t do anything on his own”. Which of course goes hand in hand with depicting Will as perfect as well as assigning all the “positive” attributes to Will while assigning the “negative” ones to Mike. And back to the polls, literally the only polls in which Mike wins are the ones where the question is who of the party members is most likely to be, like or do something and it’s either related to falling down or it’s a gay stereotype!! [which is a whole other problem!]

This general perception of the characters that has somehow formed, in which Mike is this total “cringe fail loser” who’s clumsy and stupid and needs everything to be told, who can’t do anything right and gets villainized for his oh so many mistakes, while Will is super over confident and cool, above average at every single thing he does and is always chill and doesn’t do anything wrong, is incredibly bizarre to me. THIS IS NOT AT ALL WHO THESE TWO ARE!!!! And the thing is, one of the many great things about byler is that Mike and Will are equals and treat each other as such!! Turning around and making Will stand above Mike totally ruins a big part of what makes this ship so good!!

And it’s just especially frustrating with Mike, not only because people totally undermine who he is and what he’s capable of, but also because we have this scene of him opening up about feeling useless, worthless and overall like he can’t do anything right! We have this in the show!!! And Will gives him a truly wonderful, emotional, heartbreaking love confession in response to build him back up! The point Will made is: “This is who you are, Mike, and that’s why I love you so much!”, and not: “I love you so much and that’s why I see you this way”!!!! As I said, if you honestly believe that Will is the one with a distorted perception of Mike, and not Mike, then you completely missed the point! And quite literally, you too have a distorted perception of Mike Wheeler as a character!

Again, I’ve truly never seen something quite like this!! Mike expressing that he feels like he’s worthless, Will proving to him that he’s not, and the fandom turning around and going: “Well actually, Mike is worthless and everything Will said about him is only how he sees him.”

And all this while Mike Wheeler is canonically super intelligent and capable, solving problems left and right, coming up with the best plans every season and always ready to fight!!! Everything Will said about Mike is objectively true! He is a an exceptional leader! He is inspiring to everyone in the party! He is getting and holding the whole team together! This is all canon!!!

But I guess some of y’all are watching a different show….

Of course I’m well aware of the fact that everyone interprets and sees characters differently and has their own headcanons. But in this case people are completely disregarding what is explicitly and obviously shown about the character in canon to push a worse fanon version!! People are making the most bizarre and out of character statements about Mike Wheeler and the whole tag will applause them that the takes are so in character, even though they’re clearly not! They quite literally mostly directly contradict with what we know about the character in canon!! And somehow there are still people who think the show is gonna pick up on the made up version!! This widely accepted misinterpretation of Mike’s character is insane to me because people actually think that it’s canon even though it pretty obviously is not! It’s incredibly bizarre, especially because the fanon version is clearly so so so much worse than the real, canon Mike Wheeler!!

And it’s so ironic seeing this happen so much in the byler tag specifically because we are supposed to be the ones on Mike’s team! We’re the ones criticizing melvins and the ga for undermining Mike’s character, all while there are some of you who do the exact same thing.

#i know some of y’all are joking when saying stuff like that #but it’s just not actually funny #it’s more frustrating than anything #byler #lenora rants #mike wheeler lover protecter and defender first. human second #mike wheeler protection squad #mike wheeler

[jazz-penguin]

The theory about Mike being Vecna's main target in S5 seems really plausible, if we consider the fact that Vecna needs Will to be weak so he could use him, while Mike makes Will stronger.

In S1 Dustin says Mike's never late, but we see him constantly being late at the beginning of every season, something about the time?

Something about Nancy seeing him dead in her vision.

Also, this tweet.

I think you all owe this boy an apology 😁

Mike is the Heart after all.

And even redditors are onto something.

💀💀💀

The Duffers really said they are not going to kill Mike, right? Right??!

#byler twitter #byler analysis #byler theory #byler #mike wheeler #mike wheeler protection squad

[eatmehuckass]

i NEED more content on wet cigarette not like having dirty nails reading glasses tiring hair up load of problems sweater internal homophobia wearing freak mike.

I NEED this man to HURT. I NEED him to sob. I NEED him to BREAK.

#mike wheeler #byler #will byers #byler fanfic #stranger things #mike wheeler i know what you are #mike wheeler angst #mike and vecna #mike wheeler is autistic #mike wheeler protection squad #jealous mike wheeler #mike wheeler being vecna’d #petty mike wheeler #mike wheeler needs a hug #mike wheeler defender #mike wheeler is a cringefail loser #mike gets vecna'd #gay mike wheeler #mike wheeler please get vecna'd #mike wheeler x jake

[messrsbyler]

mike hunches the way he does because he has to carry all the weight of his unrecognised trauma

#i will die on this hill #if i had an enemy it would be people who take mike at face value and think everything is okay with him #that he’s just a toxic boyfriend and friend #if you think like that i hope the next orange you eat is dry and biter and that you eat it right after washing your teeth #i said what i said #byler tumblr #mike wheeler #stranger things #im part of the MWPS #Mike Wheeler Protection Squad

[counting-stars-gayly]

Analysis: Mike Jumping Off a Cliff in S1

Because it’s all I’ve thought about for the past few months.

TW: suicide mention

(Sorry if everything I’m about to say has already been said.)

Mike jumps off a cliff in episode six. At this point in the story, the majority of the town thinks that Will died by falling from the quarry, and it’s possibly been implied that Hopper originally thought Will jumped rather than fell.

Mike, however, knows Will is actually alive, and he’s dedicating all his time to finding him. He even befriended El solely because he thought she could help him find Will.

Then he got into a fight with Lucas, and their argument, at its core, was about Lucas thinking that Mike isn’t doing enough to help Will. Now, Lucas won’t talk to him.

After that fight, Mike got mad at Eleven and yelled at her, which drove her away. This means he currently has no way of saving Will, and on top of that, El, whom he’s made it his job to protect, is now wandering around, by herself, while people are trying to hunt her down and kill her. It’s likely that he feels he’s failed two of his friends, and to make matters worse, someone else he cares about even blames him for one of these “failures.”

When Troy tells Mike to either jump off the cliff or watch him hurt Dustin, Mike is at a point where he feels that he has no one else he’s capable of protecting. From his perspective, Dustin is the only person whom he can actually help, and keeping others safe is his one purpose. If he can’t save Will or El, he has nothing to live for, but if he can save Dustin by jumping off that cliff, he has something to die for.

Mike also doesn’t even try to negotiate with Troy; he makes no objections. It takes him less than nine seconds to decide to go along with it. Then, he walks slowly toward the edge of the cliff but doesn’t come to a stop until he’s on the edge, and he waits there for twenty seconds before jumping. Based on his body language, I think he hesitates not because he’s still deciding whether he’s going to jump but rather, because he’s scared. I also think the fact that he didn’t try to come up with an alternative to himself dying is a sign that at least part of him actually wanted to die — that he wasn’t just doing it because he felt he had to.

Now, the fact that this scene takes place at the quarry, of all places, is obviously significant. It could have happened anywhere in any way — Mike didn’t have to jump off the same cliff everyone thought Will fell/jumped from, toward the same water they’d found Will’s “body” in. But the writers wanted it to be clear that Mike jumped primarily because he felt guilty for not saving Will and that while other characters tried to make it seem like Will’s “death” was an accident, Mike’s own death would have been on purpose — a suicide. Hopper’s lines to Joyce, “Our working theory right now is that Will…crashed his bike. He…made his way to the quarry, and, uh…accidentally fell in,” were designed to contrast Mike’s purposeful jumping from the cliff. The audience is supposed to wonder why a twelve year old boy was so willing to kill himself.

Speaking of the police’s theory of how Will died — if it had been correct, and if Mike had died too, the boys’ deaths would have almost completely matched up. Both Mike and Will would have abandoned their respective bikes in the woods to run from a posed threat; both of them would have gone straight to the quarry afterward; both of them would have fallen/jumped from the edge, and both of their bodies would have been found in the water below. These parallels would not exist if they weren’t important.

Bonus: the camera shots after Will and Mike (and Dustin) leave their respective bikes parallel each other:

Additionally, in season two, episode one, Ted says to Mike, “So, if your friend jumps off a cliff, you’re gonna jump too?” He’s paraphrasing a common expression because he has no actual fatherly wisdom to give, as per usual, so I initially thought this was a throwaway line only meant to remind the audience how useless he is. However, while the line does serve that purpose, it’s not a throwaway from the writers; it has a point to it.

Mike knew, when he jumped off the quarry, that Will himself hadn’t actually jumped or fallen from it, but regardless, it’s plausible that, at the time, he was thinking about Will and the fact that Will’s fake body had been found there. And if Mike had died that day, the town likely would have assumed he did it because he wanted to “join” his friend by dying in the same way he did.

“So, if your friend jumps off a cliff, you’re gonna jump too?” is intended to remind the audience that Mike has some major issues that have yet to be resolved.

#a lot of ted’s lines have more meaning than they originally seem to #it’s the one thing he’s good for #mike wheeler analysis #stranger things analysis #st analysis #mike wheeler #byler #(not really about byler but you guys like Mike Wheeler analyses so have one more) #mike wheeler loves will byers #mike wheeler my beloved #mike wheeler protection squad #mike wheeler defender #mike wheeler defense squad #mike wheeler kinnie #stranger things #st1 rewatch #st s1 #st s1 rewatch #st2 #st s2 #stranger things parallels #st parallels #byler parallels #ted wheeler #mr wheeler #the party #the og party #finn wolfhard #the duffers #duffer brothers

[mike-wheeler-faggotry]

Hot take but s3-s4 mike isn't different from s1-s2 mike. Y'all just ignored the signs of mental illness until it started affecting people other then himself. He threw himself into the quarry fully expecting to die in season 1, he was explicitly self-destructing in season 2 with the breaking rules, he just went the natural progression of that behavior with breaking his relationships in seasons 3-4.

#mike #posting about the prick #mike wheeler #mikewheelerdefenseclub #mike wheeler protection squad

[bylerspookie]

Will Byers and Mike Wheeler haters will fall

#will byers #mike wheeler #byler #byler is real #stranger things #byler is endgame #byler is canon #byler nation #mike wheeler defense squad #mike wheeler protection squad

[willbyersbff]

mike never gave up on trying to find will. mike never once tried to stand up for himself and go against troy for bullying him but the second troy offends will, mike pushes their bully for their entire school to see completely unbothered by the possible consequences that would come with it. mike has told will that if they're going crazy, then they'll go crazy together. mike could have distanced himself from will when will was possessed in order to be safer but he stood by will's side the entire time. mike has said that befriending will was the best thing he's ever done. mike biked all the way across town to will's house under pouring rain to sincerely apologize to will for being in the wrong and you all wanna tell me mike doesn't deserve will? oh, hell no! not on my watch!

#byler #will byers #mike wheeler #mike wheeler protection squad

[uselessnbee]

i feel like Jonathan and Mike are a great representation of the whole "people care about mental health until you're showing your symptoms and they're ugly"

(apparently i'm really pissed so this turned into an angry rant)

the fandom hates them and talks about how their characters are ruined and how they miss the old version etc when they're both just traumatised boys who's been bottling up their emotions for so long and now they have to deal with the consequences

Jonathan has been both physically and mentally abused since he was a child, he had to help to raise his little brother, has to work while going to school because they need the money and then the whole thing with UD happened, he literally had to go casket shopping for his little brother while he thought his mother is slowly losing her mind jesus christ that is so much trauma and he doesn't have anyone he doesn't have any friends he only has Will but he's still the big brother and he won't "burden" his little brother who's dealing with so much shit already himself. and Nancy. he has Nancy. Nancy with whom he's distant now after moving to California. Argyle is literally his first and only friend. he never had anyone who he can vent to. who would listen and comfort him. who would help him deal with all the shit. he's been bottling up and burying his emotions down down and yet some of yall are hating him for the way it makes him act and he tries to cope with them

Mike had been bullied his whole life, he's lost Will so many times already, he's lost El, he's seen people die, he's seen what the UD shit can do to the poeple he loves and add to it all the internalised homophobia and all the shit god he's just a kid and already has so much trauma and his parents don't even know so he can't talk to them about it. he never talks about his own feelings. he just represses them he bottles them up he burries them deep down and won't let himself feel them. the only person he can talk to is Will. Will who he loses over and over again. Will who he's distant with right now and feels like he lost him yet again. Will who makes him feel the way the society tells him is fucking wrong and he can't talk to him about it. his mental health is so fucked up and makes him act like a jerk because that's what fucking depression does to you. the way depression makes you act is ugly. and yet some of yall are hating him for it. for being a kid who is trying to cope and survive while battling his own trauma and the demons it left him with

yes they are just fictional characters but there's a reason why some of us see ourselves in them. it's because they're relatable. the way they handle they're trauma and cope is relatable. and you would see that if you would watch the show with your eyes actually fucking open

#this went out if hand so i'm gonna delete it later #but for now i'm still pissed and i feel like some people need to see it #anyways #both jonathan and mike are just traumatised boys trying their best to cope and survive #and they don't deserve the hate they get #and i really hope they both find happiness like they fucking deserve thank you very much #until then i will protect them from yall with my own bare hands #jonathan byers #mike wheeler #mike wheeler protection squad #byler #blue's 'Mike's extreme defender' ramblings

[runninguplenorahills]

Ooohhhhh the block button of people saying that Will deserves better than Mike looks so good 😍

#please stfu #this is byler #by-ler #ler as in wheeler as in mike wheeler #we’re here for him too #will deserves mike and mike deserves will #because they both deserve the best and they’re the best for each other #and they want each other! #mike wheeler protection squad #byler

[jazz-penguin]

After today's post of @theonebyler about Mike not being able to say that thing to El I was finally inspired to write my opinion about how Mike feels about his girlfriend.

I believe he fully realized that he was not in love with her between S3 and S4.

Maybe he even realized something about Will too, that would explain his awkward behavior in the airport, but this post is not about it.

I think Mike realized that he is not in love with El and that he was thinking about breaking up with her during spring break.

The first reason why I think so is because of his expression when Ted reminded him about the "sweetie pie". Looks like Mike was not particularly happy about their future meeting.

Look at his face. To me Mike's impression here didn't look like he was just rolling his eyes at Ted. I think he imagined what an unpleasant conversation with El he was going to have.

The second reason why I think he was going to break up with her is his suspicious desire to please El in everything. Like this is your favorite color, these are your favorite flowers, blablabla. Wait, don't kiss me for too long. You're squishing your present. Like he was feeling guilty and therefore was trying to be extremely nice to her. Mike from s3 was different.

After the whole situation with Angela happened Mike was not only disappointed with the fact that El lied to him, but he also realized how unhappy she was and that a possible break up would destroy her. To break up with El while she lived happily in Cali is one thing, but at that moment it just wasn't the right time. Mike didn't lie to her and didn't say "I love you" only to please her anyway.

He has principles, y'know.

Mike indeed is afraid to lose El. What if she doesn't like the truth and doesn't want to be his friend anymore?

That also explains why Mike's smile faded when Will said that El commissioned the painting for him.

And after all that these cruel Duffers still make Mike lie to her only to save her life. I hope El realized he was not telling the truth, otherwise he's screwed. At least until they talk about the painting.

Many people feel sorry for El for not being loved by her boyfriend and for not having enough emotional support from him. And I deeply sympathize with Mike, because he tried to do everything right, tried not to hurt El, not to lie to her. But he had to do this anyway.

#mike wheeler #mike wheeler i know what you are #mike is not in love with el #byler #russian bylerina here sorry for possible grammar mistakes #mike wheeler protection squad

[eatmehuckass]

Okay so we know mike pulls more guys and will pulls more girls, so does anyone know a fic where will’s jealous that mike keeps on being flirted with and where mikes jealous wills being flirted with? ( not of each other but of the people that are flirting)

#mike wheeler #will byers #byler #byler fanfic #stranger things #gay will byers #gay mike wheeler #gay mike truther #jealous mike wheeler #jealous will byers #oblivious mike wheeler #mike wheeler please get vecna'd #mike wheeler is autistic #trans mike wheeler #mike wheeler protection squad #mike wheeler needs a hug #the babygirlification of mike wheeler #mike wheeler i know what you are

[significant-ace-nnoyance]

this image makes me want to tear up every building on the planet HES LITERALLY ABOUT TO CRY TROY WE ARE GOING TO HAVE WORDS

#I AM LITERALLY SOBBING TO THIS BC LOOK AT HIS EYES OMFG #I WANT TO EAT GLASS #LOOK AT THE FUCKING HURT IN HIS EYES WTF FINN DID NOT HAVE TO SLAY THE GAY PAIN SO HARD?!?! #MIKE U ARE LOVED I LOVE THAT U ARE GAY DONT LISTEN TO THE HOMOPHOBES PLEASE U DONT HAVE TO REPRESS IT #gay mike wheeler #mike wheeler protection squad #byler #bc yall will get it *sobs*