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I just watched a walkthrough of the stranger things vr game, and..

MIKE’S VOICE BEING THE THING THAT CAN OPEN A PORTAL WHEN WILL IS VECNA’D ???????????????? SO IT IS HIS FAVORITE SOUND ???

I just love it !!!

#mike wheeler #will byers #this is hurting my heart!! augh!!!!

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can't wait to see will byers scream and cry and throw up in season 5. right guys

#stranger things #stranger things fanart #will byers #will's crayon box

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Oh, so somehow because Im cis Its ok to force me to pee my pants?

Yes

#el hopper #right? right.

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the will b grind never stops unfortunately

#will byers #he looks so tired... canon!

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do you believe in autistic byler:

yes mike is

yes will is

yes they both are

no neither of them are

submissions are open:) send us an ask!

#will byers #mike wheeler #how do more people not think will is autistic???? #how is 'neither of them are autistic' winning?????? #you people are crazy /lh

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i am an easy-going, cute, and suffering-oriented person

#will byers #:'D

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william

#stranger things #stranger things fanart #will byers #will's crayon box #so sorry i haven't been around. been hyperfixating on other things #take this will and enjoy him haha

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WILL BYERS + THE ILLUSION OF SAFETY/THE SAFETY OF ILLUSION by ROXANE GAY

#will byers #oough...

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Explaining WillEl's Narrative Duality— With Charts!

Today I want to talk about the duality of Will and El's storylines and how paralleled the two are, and to help explain I've drawn little diagrams! (or, me forcing everyone try and read my handwriting)

This will probably be a multi-part post, but I'm going to start with season one since it is the easiest to explain, but also looking at just season one gives a good incite into where their individual arcs are heading.

First, let's start with the narrative backbone— Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey

The Hero's Journey is literary cycle that Joseph Campbell proposed all stories follow. Now whether or not all stories follow it is debatable, but ST actually follows it to a T.

I've simplified it for the sake of this post, but the general gist of it is that the hero starts off in the Known World, or the "Normal World," and then "crosses the threshold" into the Unknown World, or the "Realm of Monsters" as I'm calling it on my little chart. The hero then ends the cycle when they make the return journey back to the Known World with the knowledge they have gained.

Pre-season one, El and Will are sitting on opposite ends of the chart, Will lives in the Known World and El lives in the Unknown World. This will make more sense as I continue explaining.

I guess it's important to note that parts of the Hero's Journey is meant to be transformative based on the work and character that it is applied to. The Unknown World here is the known world to El, but from an audiences perspective her world is the unknown one, thus why I've placed her on that side of the chart. Will and El both follow the same steps of the chart in the same order, but whether they are in the Normal World or Realm of Monsters is different.

Once season one begins and we have our inciting incident, both characters cross the threshold onto the other side of the chart. They basically switch sides. El escapes the lab entering the Normal World and Will is taken to the Upside Down, or the "Realm of Monsters"

We see a lot more of El's story then we do with Will's, but for most of the season Will and El are basically living out opposite arcs. I think if you consider Will having powers, this is especially true.

El is a girl with powers who is learning how to navigate the conventions of the normal world.

Will is a normal boy who is learning how to navigate his powers in the unknown world.

If El is going to survive in this new environment, she has to learn how to dress and act like a normal girl. She has to learn what normal girls wear and what a friend is and how to make promises, all things that kids in the Known World, like Will, are already familiar with. On the other side of this chart, if Will is going to survive his new environment he has to learn how to use his powers. He has to learn how to control the lights so that he can communicate with his mom, something that kids in the Known World would not know, but that kids from the Unknown World, like El, would know.

The climax of season one is when their respective "monsters" are closing in on them. The Demogorgon (Vecna) gets closer to Will and Brenner gets closer to finding El.

Will and El then end the season on opposite ends of the chart once again, having both made their return journey.

(Of course, the story doesn't end there, but this is the resolution that is offered for the first season)

Like I suggested towards the beginning of this post, I feel like examining their respective storylines in this way could help predict the projection of their arcs in season 5, and what the core of their arcs are actually about.

An important aspect of The Hero's Journey that I didn't illustrate on my little chart is "Master of Both Worlds" or the step toward the end where the hero is a master of both the Known World and the Unknown World. This is a step that we haven't quite seen yet with neither Will nor El.

This goes along with my post here where I speculate the conclusion of Will and El's arcs, which includes El becoming her own person outside of being a superhero and Will becomes the chosen one. Considering that Will started off in the Known World and El started off in the Unknown World, the goal for each character has to be about mastering the opposite realm. Will is likely going to become a master of the Upside Down and his powers, and El is going to come into her own person outside of her superhero identity.

#will byers #el hopper #loving the diagrams here!! it really helps display the parallelism between them

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I just realized Will’s phone is blue and Mike’s is yellow. I am never escaping the delusions.

#prev i think it's just the yellowish lighting of the house!!

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bylers are so sensitive i could just

#mike wheeler #will byers #waaugh this is so sweet <333

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⚠️ WILL BYERS APPRECIATION POST ⚠️

one reblog = one hug for will byers

#will byers #this post must be reblogged by everyone

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If you had to make every single Stranger Things character a Muppet but leave one character human, who would you choose? And inversely, all human, one muppet?

#in the stranger sings parody musical will is a puppet among humans #which is fitting of his characterization in that musical to be sure. aside from that idk lol

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will byers and your beautiful big eyes you will always be loved by me

#will byers #david is so real for this

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happy birthday, will!

#stranger things #will byers #will's crayon box #haven't drawn will for you guys in a while #also fun fact: i'm gonna see gaten matarazzo in person today!! #he's come back to broadway and i'm seeing him in sweeney todd :D

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okay hghghhh sorry i haven't been that active on st tumblr lately so i don't know if i missed something but... why are people shipping creelarke?? like where did that come from??? /genq

#wise words from will #byler #<- i know you folks would have a good idea of what's going on hhghghh

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We talk about everything Will went through but I don't think we truly grasp the severity of everything he went through some times.

Like Will died...he literally died. He had to be given CPR. And even then, when he woke up, he was probably severely malnourished since he didn't have access to food or water for a whole week. And his body temperature was most likely bordering on hypothermia level since the UD is cold as hell and he was, once again, there for a whole week.

Not to mention, when giving someone CPR, you practically HAVE to break some of their ribs and their sternum in order to even reach their heart. So Will most likely had broken ribs too (especially since Hopper was the one doing the CPR and he is like 100 times bigger and stronger than Will and he was POUNDING on Will's chest). And the poor kid was probably exhausted. Like the most exhausted someone could ever be. Can't imagine he got much sleep while running for his life in an alternate dimension.

Will most likely had broken ribs, was malnourished, and had severe fatigue and lord knows what the spores in the UD did to his lungs or the lasting effects they've had on his body. And he also is now connected to the UD. He has some creepy supernatural connection to it. And that is just the physical stuff. That isn't even counting the emotional and mental trauma he has now after that week.

And then the kid was plagued with "episodes" for an entire year after that where he was randomly thrown into the place that tormented him and he would have to revisit the trauma he endured from it. And then he was POSSESSED and had to have the MF burned out of his body. And then he was treated like crap by his friends for a whole summer. And then he had to be uprooted from his life and moved across the country. And now he's having to deal with coming to terms with his feelings for Mike and his sexuality (while in a violently homophobic small town in 80s Indiana). And this isn't even counting the abuse he's suffered from his own dad and the kids at school.

Like...this kid has been through so much and I just want to wrap him up in bubble wrap and tuck him away in my closet so I know he'll be safe ☹️💔

#will byers #for real