zombiesface

[zombiesface]

I love Byler because El deserves so much better than Mike, but Will deserves exactly Mike.

Now, I don't think Will deserves less than El or anything like that. I'm just saying that El would deserve to have Will's Mike, but instead she gets her Mike.

El's Mike calls her ridiculous and can't say he loves her.

Will's Mike bikes under the pouring rain to apologise to him and says stuff like 'Hawkins is not the same without you'.

El's Mike crumples her letters and throws them away.

Will's Mike keeps every one of his drawings.

El's Mike makes her feel like a monster.

Will's Mike makes him feel like he is not a mistake at all.

All in all, El's Mike is an asshole, but Will's Mike is worth falling for.

[zombiesface]

Art

[zombiesface]

at least we're not in that period of time where everyone was making movies set in the 80s with a least one scene of kids riding bikes anymore

[zombiesface]

Look at the stars 🌟

[zombiesface]

Close enough. Welcome back sk8 the infinity

[zombiesface]

Idk if I can put videos here or not,,, but here t the drawings I did for my very 1st tiktok! :D

[zombiesface]

Posting this just to have a reference for the future after byler is Endgame

[zombiesface]

there is something horrifically grim to it, but illustrations for gaza and palestinians tend to catch more mass attention that actual photos of people. this made me feel incredibly helpless for a long while, seeing both how people would rather look at a neat drawing of red black green and white than look a human in the eyes, and how online platforms would rather push a viral drawing while suppressing those begging for help at the same time.

a way to cope with this feeling has been taking advantage of it to directly guide people to helping palestinians.

if art gets better traction, then there’s an incredible amount of good that can be done by creating art that immediately links to fundraisers. creating art of the many images of those who are asking for help.

within hours of posting my drawing, there has been jumps in the thousands for bashar from gaza’s fundraiser. it’s a small effort in the grand scheme of things. it’s not a fix it. but it’s something good. please take care of each other and do what you can. i think this could help a lot of people if a lot of people did it.

here is bashar. i’ve drawn him, spoken to him, and known him now for a few months. any shares help, any art helps. draw who you see, draw what you see. thanks all

[zombiesface]

Made this animation for a month for love generation, pure self-study, the first time to draw animation production is not easy to have some illogical place will look at it

Thanks for liking and transporting 🩷

About Byler (bgm:kiss a cross by finnwolfhard)

[zombiesface]

This one really obvious lip glance Mike does at the roller rink WASNT RANDOM.

When Will admits that El’s been lying to him, Mike calls bs, and then Will NUDGES HIM. He does it when he says “no listen to me” but his hand is offscreen. It’s very subtle but I swear u can literally see Mike shake like Will grabbed his arm and shook it a bit to get his attention.

That’s what that look was, it wasnt a completely random lip glance from Mike, it was cause Will shook him. Mike was defensive at first, calling bs, but then Will touches him and suddenly the defense is down and he believes him. His tone of voice completely changes and everything.

Something something Will has a tendency to nudge Mike like that during all their arguments where they aren’t seeing eye to eye and Mike is getting defensive. Something something Mike has picked up on that and now takes that as a sign that Will is being serious and he needs to slow down and listen to him. Something something theyre such a good team even when theyre arguing.

[zombiesface]

Making another post to save it because it's not making me edit the other idk why but basically Noah was spotted screaming by who made the recording apparently as you can see from this post: here!

So this scene is Will screaming at Steve and telling him to run... maybe through a Walkie talkie or a megaphone (?) because he's up in that tower under the antenna and sees something arriving (?)

...will this be the first Will - Steve interaction?! 🤣

[zombiesface]

[zombiesface]

sneak peek at s5 (real)

[zombiesface]

Happy Birthday Will Byers!

[zombiesface]

A year later and I decided to finish it out of boredom 😭

(Was too lazy to go through and try and fix the anatomy though)

[zombiesface]

will byers, the resident sniper and medic - apoc au details under the cut!

---

will's role in the party:

a scouter - stays back to watch over the area during runs w/his rifle and is a backup supply runner if need be. just prefers to scout with dustin and mike

medic - normally takes care of the group regarding injuries and medicine. is very gentle :)

the angel on mike's shoulder -> knows how to placate mike the best if mike's being unreasonable or too harsh

most knowledgable about the infection and how it works -> helps with understanding the patterns of infected people, what attracts infection, etc.

party mediator - rarely ever fights with anyone (mostly with mike haha) and is usually the person people most often go to for a vent or a rant

skills + hobbies:

best with a rifle + second best with guns! -> he practices a lot with lucas but refuses to kill animals

cook of the group along with el (taught her how to cook): rest of the party can make edible food but don't know how to make it taste good

great knowledge of plants and medicine -> jonathan and joyce taught him all they know about it (they are healers)

draws in a sketchbook that mike stole from another group for him: filled with mundane sketches from life and treats it like a daily journal

likes to collect cds and cassettes that he finds around to play in the car (him and max discuss music the most) - fave bands include system of a down, gorillaz, the clash and the cure :) he's an alt rock fan!

quirks / fun facts:

him and lucas have an ongoing competition that started with their aim and is now based on literally anything -> they've been keeping score since they were nine (lucas is currently up by ten and the points are in the thousands)

will shuffles different music in the car and observes who in the party likes what so he can make his own little mental playlists for them!

him and dustin talk a lot about how the infection works. they have some very intense debates about it, especially when it comes to if the infected still have human consciousness or not (will thinks they do, dustin thinks they don't)

--- other notes: canon will, in a short summary, is a very sweet, sensitive, empathetic and capable boy who consistently puts others needs before his own :') of course, i wanted apoc will to share those attributes, with a big emphasis on his empathy, strength, and kindness. first - i wanted him to be a medic to show how he cares about other people and how he helps the people he loves as well. it's shown a lot in the show how much he cares for people and living beings (see: his actions with dart, el, mike, feeling bad for jonathan's hand after he had just woken up, etc.) and him being a healer is very in tune with this behavior. will as a healer is very special to me :') and him learning this skill from his mom and his brother strengthens the theme of family also!

second - him being good with a hunting rifle was to showcase his quiet strength and capability (i'd also like to add that his dexterity on his dnd sheet is extremely high) -> he's a non-confrontational survivor. his strength shines from afar and is put on the backlight, but no one in the party thinks will is weak for his empathy. mike and lucas, in particular, are actually quite jealous of the fact that will is still able to see so much good in humanity and life while being so strong. of course, his connection to the upside down in st is mirrored in this au as well, where he has an innate understanding of how the infection works because of experience, observation and other story spoilers...

looking at the current poll results, it seems im going to be drawing lucas and max next :D see you for that!

[zombiesface]

Cracks 2: Electric Boogaloo

AKA: The Universe Where Henry Did Nothing Wrong? It Exists On Screen.

That's right babes. If you thought the crack fuckery ended with my last post...you're in for an insanity-inducing surprise.

The gate crack we talked about here? It straight up disappears.

Let me explain. The progressions I want to look at are the ones where Brenner finds El in the aftermath. Supposedly, the progression from his memories in S4E1 is the same progression as the one in S4E8...until you look closer.

Before we start, I want to give a major shout-out to Em. All the corpse and Brenner details re: blood and positions are things he noticed. I'm just merging that evidence with the cracks and mirror fuckery I've found. It's very much a team effort, and I likely wouldn't even be making this post without him noticing the first weird details during the NINA fight.

Here's our scene progression:

S4E1: The Hellfire Club (left) and S4E8: Papa (right)

We've got 3 weird things to contend with:

What's going on with that Brenner who has blood bisecting his face?

Where did the gate crack go?

Why did the corpse to her right change positions entirely?

I've diagrammed all of this, so lets start with the most obvious one.

The Lost Gate.

Where is it? How are we missing an entire gate?

Now lets look at the Brenners.

We've got this Brenner (I call him Bisecting Brenner) with these corpses:

Things To Note Here:

Eyes are not gouged, just bleeding

Limbs are not broken

Corpses are older than they ought to be in 1979

Killing style is reminiscent of El's style, not Henry/Edward's style (see below)

El kills Connie (S1E8: The Upside Down):

The gouged-eyes, broken-limbs, Henry/Edward-style version of the above body:

That is not the same killing style.

Moving ahead.

Bisecting Brenner exists in opposition to this Brenner (I call him Half-Face Brenner). Half-Face Brenner is associated with, but not necessarily shown in frame with, these corpses:

Things To Note Here:

Eyes are not shown, but they're likely gouged given the limbs

Limbs are clearly broken

Corpses are the age they ought to be in 1979

Killing style is textbook Henry/Edward

Lets look at the other set.

Here we have Brenner+El and these corpses in frame with the gate crack:

Things To Note Here:

Eyes are not shown

Limbs are twisty (Check out the fingers on that bottom left kid. Fingers generally don't bend backward like that naturally.)

Age ranges aren't concrete

002 is present at top right, clearly shown

The corpse at top left is on her back

This exists in opposition to no-gate El, who's associated with these corpses:

Things To Note Here:

This is the first time we're shown corpses after Bisecting Brenner is shown

Corpse at top left swaps positions between camera changes

002 is shown, but by GOD it's just his toes in that one shot (꒦ິ^꒦ີ)

There's a pattern.

S4E1: Half-Face Brenner enters -> mangled corpse close-ups -> Half-Face Brenner close-up -> twisty children, top left on her back with gate crack in frame, 002 in frame -> Half-Face Brenner close-up -> gate crack + El, no bodies shown -> cut to black

Bisecting Brenner doesn't shows up in that progression, but he does show up in El's flashbacks alongside Half-Face Brenner:

(Huge thanks to Em for pointing this one out!!)

Here are the full images, just in case you'd like to double check the Brenner identities for yourself:

So Bisecting Brenner isn't just a one-off shot in total, it's just that he only appears once in El's experience of the 1979 massacre via NINA. He definitely exists, and he is not a production error.

Moving on.

S4E8: Bisecting Brenner enters and is shown with un-mangled older bodies with eyes -> Camera swap to gate crack + El, no bodies shown -> Half-Face Brenner close-up -> no-cracks El, no bodies shown -> El + top left on her side, 002's toes just barely in frame -> El + top left on her back, no 002 in frame -> cut to black.

The pattern of the bodies between these progressions is so interesting to me, and I just want to touch on it briefly as it relates to the aftermath, since Em is planning to elaborate further on the positions during the fight once he nails it down. (That day will be the day we feast fr)

Let's dive in to a couple corpse positions:

We have that top-left corpse who swaps back and forth between side-laying and back-laying, but 002's toes indicate he likely isn't changing position between those shots:

However, that position is entirely different than the one seen in S4E7, where a version of Henry/Edward has just killed 002 on screen:

Things To Note Here:

002's right foot is in front, his left leg is tucked under, and his arm is not twisted.

Top left's feet point away from the wall, and we can't tell if she's on her back or side. (I'd wager she's on her back based on the position of her feet in relation to the blood stain. See side-laying and back-laying position below)

Things To Note Here (Bottom Image In The Above Collage):

002's Left foot is in front, his right leg is extended behind, and his arm is twisted.

Top left's feet point almost straight up underneath the bloodstain, and she's on her back.

That's not the same body as the 002 who was just killed by that version of Henry/Edward.

Whichever timeline that particular Henry/Edward killed 002 in, it is not the same timeline as the gate crack.

This all means we have at least three concrete combinations of corpses between these three episodes, and at least two concrete combinations in the aftermath progressions:

Top left on her back, 002 in left-foot-forward position (Aftermath, gate crack in frame)

Top left on her side, 002 in left-foot-forward position (Aftermath, gate crack not in frame)

002 in right-foot-forward position, top left's position not concrete. (Immediately post-death for 002)

On top of all this, there's another detail I want to bring to your attention:

The mirror shards between gate cracks and no cracks do not change. This holds true for both progressions.

This means they ought to go together, which so far tells me...There's a lot still to think about.

So far, we we've been shown in total:

One definite instance of right-side mirror with gate cracks

One definite instance of right-side mirror with no cracks

One definite instance of left-side mirror with a dematerialization event

One blink-and-you-miss-it instance of right-side mirror with a dematerialization event

No concretely or speculatively shown left-side instances without cracks/dimension events.

I'd like to mention, as well, that we've been shown one possible instance of a left-side gate. It's unconfirmed and purely speculative because the gate has not formed yet at this point. However, the corpses' limbs are snapped and their eyes are gouged out, meaning that this is definitely a Henry/Edward-perpetrated massacre timeline. Thus, the shot below is leading to either a gate or dematerialization, it's just not certain which one.

We've also been shown:

One gate-cracks version of Half-Face Martin Brenner in frame with a right-side-orientation alignment mirror

One dematerialization-cracks version of Half-Face Martin Brenner not tied to a mirror shard alignment.

One version of Bisecting Martin Brenner who is likely tied to the no-cracks, right-side-orientation alignment mirror.

Zero Richard Brenners of any kind

In conjunction with my earlier post, I have a few summary thoughts.

Bisecting Brenner most likely does not share a timeline with either of the Half-Face Brenners.

Left-foot-forward 002 is shown in frame with the right-side-orientation alignment gate outcome the Duffers show us.

Right-foot-forward 002, therefore, is not in the gate outcome we're shown...and may be an indicator of a dematerialization timeline, since he was killed by Henry/Edward on screen.

002's death is split between two cameras. This may be indicative of a timeline swap.

Bisecting Brenner being in frame with a killing style that's both distinctly different from Henry/Edward's and distinctly similar to El's from ST1, while being in the same progression as no-cracks El, leads me to think he's tied to a timeline where Henry/Edward's massacre didn't happen.

There is at least one timeline where Henry/Edward did not have Soteria removed, since there is at least one timeline where no dimension events occurred and at least one timeline where no gouging/bone-breaking happens to the corpses.

CONCLUSIONS RE: HENRY/EDWARD

Since there's at least one timeline where no gate and no dematerialization occurred, and there's at least one timeline where no gouging/bone-breaking occurred...that means that these stills, the ones where Henry/Edward has no blood on him, not even the Soteria streak?

These are likely connected to that timeline.

This means there's at least one timeline where Henry and/or Edward are unaltered by the side effects of their powers and have done nothing wrong.

That means there is a timeline where Henry and/or Edward are innocent and good.

(More below the cut! Not necessarily analysis, mainly speculation and some theorizing. Read if you want to, it's not necessary for the above analysis.)

Speculation Time! (for those who made it this far)

If I were to theorize about what, exactly, happened in the no cracks timeline...it would be something like this:

We know that HNL has tried to force El to kill before, and she refused...until she was cornered.

El kills at least twice when cornered. She has a higher kill count than pre-massacre Henry/Edward by the time she's the age he was when he was stolen by Brenner.

We know Henry/Edward was aware of and told El that Brenner had plans to let 002 attack her, and we know things went awry and led to the Henry/Edward version of the 1979 massacre. This seems to have happened because Henry/Edward tried to step in and prevent Brenner's plan. He has a track record of trying to help but only making things worse. He says as much during the chess scene.

So what, imagine, might have happened in the event that Henry/Edward had been prevented from stepping in? What, say, might have happened if El had been cornered by people...who had the intent to kill?

No gate or dematerialization cracks. No gouging. No broken bones. Different ages, different positions, different Brenner. Henry/Edward with no bloodstains and no Soteria removal streak.

I'm staring directly at it...thinking hard on it...nothing certain yet though.