ok in the aftermath of rewatching the castle byers scene— imagine lucas and mike showing up to will’s house and not finding him inside. imagine what they must have thought at first, the panic that must have set in when they remembered the last time will biked home from mike’s house, in the dark, and didn’t make it inside. what they must have been thinking and how they must have felt from the time it took to get from the byers’ front porch to castle byers— just will, will, will on loop in their heads. the relief that followed when they found him. maybe mike’s first instinct was to run to him, to hug him, to say “oh, thank god you’re safe,” before he remembered what had just happened, twenty minutes ago. the guilt mike felt, maybe, thinking about if something had happened to will again, and the last thing mike had said to him was—
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hey hey hey. wait. real quick. can we talk about the spies are forever lighting.
curt is red (he wears a jacket with the red stripes for a good amount of the show and, in one step ahead, the boat he uses is red)
owen is blue (he has a cool-toned wardrobe and uses a blue boat)
in all of curt’s flashback scenes, the lighting surrounding owen is purple. a representation of the time they shared together, their relationship.
for a majority of the show after owen’s death, the lighting is cool-toned (a very pale, icy blue). this demonstrates the amount of control owen still has over curt’s life, even in supposed death.
especially in one step ahead—it gets very blue there.
when they’re on the staircase, the only lighting is stark white. except for a ghost of purple on the wall between them—a ghost of their relationship.
when curt shoots owen, the purple disappears and the lights go entirely red. curt taking back his life. curt moving on.
after this, the lighting is pretty much all warm-toned.
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ok i have been thinking a lot about how sirius ended up with grimmauld place, and im going to rant about it under the cut
so, the most likely (imo) (with jkr kind of in mind) theory is that yes, sirius was disowned officially, but he still has the last name black. since all his cousins are married into other families, when regulus died the house went to sirius automatically as the "last black" despite his being disowned, since there were no others with the last name living. sirius being the og heir probably strengthened that.
the second theory, which is also quite possible, is that the inheritance was going to go to either bellatrix (eldest) or narcissa (eldest with an heir), but sirius (probably with help from dumbledore/moody/possibly bill) managed to override it sometime during GOF. if that's the case, though, it seems odd that the house was seemingly abandoned before the order/sirius moves in.
my favorite theory though is that sirius was never disinherited at all. maybe he was bumped down behind regulus, maybe not, but he wasn't taken out of the will entirely at any rate. and okay, here we're getting into like - conjecture and headcanon territory, so yknow, fair warning.
we know that sirius was a lot of things that a pureblood family would value in an heir - charismatic, confident, talented in magic, intelligent. regulus on the other hand - well, we dont know much about him in terms of his talent for magic, though it can be assumed he was reasonably intelligent since he figured out the horcrux thing, but we do know he was a lot more predisposed to following rather than leading. where sirius was confident in his own beliefs, ready to make his own path, forward-thinking, etc., regulus was happy to idealize and follow voldemort.
obviously, this is why sirius split from his family - their beliefs did not align. but despite that, siriuss personality lends itself a lot better to being the head of a great house. reguluss loyalty to voldemort could have been a good thing for the black house, sure, but if voldemort failed it would be ruinous, and throwing all of one's weight behind one leader, one plan, the way regulus seemed to be doing isn't really the mark of a great leader.
this is 100% conjecture, but id argue that the blacks were in decline, both in money and power. despite an enormous amount of pride in their house and generally giving off an old money vibe, the black vault is never referenced as particularly grand, and they only have one house, and a townhouse in a muggle area at that - grand, but nowhere near somewhere like malfoy manor or the other country mansions pureblood families of status seem to favor.
it makes a lot more sense for orion, from an objective point of view, to leave everything to sirius. regulus was unlikely to make their house into anything great, more interested in worshipping someone else, but sirius had real potential, and if the blacks fortune and power was dwindling, it makes more sense to put the future in the hands of someone more adaptable, who might be able to turn things around instead of being stuck on one path. blindly following someone else doesnt really lend itself to greatness, or potential.
here i think its also notable that siriuss parents were never death eaters. they agreed with voldemort, sure, but they never threw their weight behind him. that, i think, is the old money pride talking - they thought of blacks as being akin to royalty, and royalty does not let someone else take the reigns, tell them what to do, etc. even if voldemort had succeeded, leaving the inheritance to regulus would make their family successful only as long as they remained attached to voldemort, comfortably under his thumb. leaving everything to sirius would be a risk, but the potential payoff would leave the blacks at least with their pride intact, independent. which, yknow, maybe a bit insane, but again - old money pride.
i also think that in general sirius being a golden child who went astray when he went to hogwarts is a lot more interesting (and plausible) than him being the family scapegoat from the jump. hes the heir! and again, hes all the things a family like the blacks would look for in an heir! i dont think their family was ever particularly, like, healthy, but the narrative that sirius was abused and hated from a young age doesnt make all that much sense to me. and in ootp we see glimpses of sirius having a complicated relationship with his family, especially his mother, which hints more at a bond gone sour than outright hatred.
all this to say that sirius was a much better heir than regulus, politics aside, and i think orion and walburga may have seen that, or at least been unwilling to let their wayward perfect heir go completely, and left him on the will in some capacity.
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Hang on wait. Probably been said already but I'm watching the stream so it's on my mind.
I think it's something to say how Gabriel's two phases work in both of his boss battle. Judge of Hell (3-2) starts out with his very uptight, arrogant monologue- he has a role and purpose to fulfill. He truly believes that he's going to win this fight. And then, when V1 proves it can put up a fight, he gets pissed. +Enraged, phase two, he's going to destroy this pile of scrap. And then he loses.
He loses everything. His divine light has been severed. All that remains is perfect hatred. Apostate of Hate (6-2) starts with one of the best pre-boss monologues I've ever heard and then it's right into Enraged. Because Gabriel is already fucking furious. This worthless machine has taking everything from him and he's going to make it pay. There is no reason to be calm and ordeal, this machine just needs to die.
Then the fight goes on, same as last time, and Gabriel starts to learn. This fight against the machine shakes his entire faith and he enjoys it. He loves the fight. He's laughing, he's enjoying it, he's having a grand old time because for the first time ever he's fighting for his own will. Not God's, not the Council's, but his own will. The anger gives way to glee and he returns to his normal form in Phase 2, no longer enraged, but enjoying it.
And then he's defeated for the second time and all he feels is relief. Everything he has ever known, his faith, his loyalty, has been shattered. His will is now, and will forever- or, at least, for the next few hours he has left to live- be his own. All he feels is relief.
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El probably feels a whole different type of alienated bc she doesnt even have a childhood to miss. Most of the st characters dont want to grow old and are scared of being adults because then itll be the real world and they cant always hug their mom.
They have a pre-s1 happiness they can return to and think back on. This has been els whole life. She has never been without the lab, without her powers, without the upside down. El doesnt know what there is to miss about being a child and being held and running around holding hands with each other until you fall down. She didnt finger paint or make cookies with her parents from scratch. She didnt get gifts for holidays or go on vacations or get a wound patched up and kissed afterward. She has nothing to miss about the white walls. All she does is look ahead at her future and hope itll be good then. She definitely would feel jealous of the childhood she didnt have but she isnt capable of feeling nostalgic for an easier time because its never been easy for her
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