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ikarakie · 1 year

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people pacify will byers too much. he is a Bitch!!! he is sassy and snarky!!! he talked mad shit about GOVERNMENT AGENTS WHILE THEY WERE ONE ROOM AWAY!!! DO YOU NOT REMEMBER THE TONE HE HAD WITH MIKE AND EL IN THE RINK-O-MANIA EPISODE??? ("how did you forget about the socks? since you come here all the time?" & "one party! for mom's work!") yes he has trauma yes he has little to no self confidence but oh my god he has a mouth on him. he's a little shit!!!! stop pretending like he isn't!!!!!!!!!

edit: BRO HE LITERALLY LOOKS AT POLICE OFFICERS HEAD ON AND LIEEEESSS TO THEM !!!RIGHT TO THEIR FACES!! talking some "it was an accident." type bullshit HE IS A MENACE I BEG YOU HEAR MEEEE

#byler #will byers #STOP PRETENDING HES NOT A LITTLE ASSHOLE #he grew up with MIKE #hes polite when he needs to be yes #but oh my god he can be so snarky #stranger things #prompt #imagine #stranger things prompt #stranger things headcanons #stranger things hc #hc #headcanon #will byers hc #will byers headcanon

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royalarchivist · 6 months

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Fit: Yeah, they're all great, you'll like them a lot, you're in good hands.

Pac: You're in good hands, Empanada. One day, if you want to switch place one day, maybe? You know? Just let me know. Remember the thing we talked about yesterday, right? Yeah. Anytime.

Fit: [Chuckles] You two made a little agreement?

Pac: Yeah! Maybe one day it's going to happen, you know? I need to search for a hat just like Empanada's.

Fit: W- wh- wait, Just like in wait a minute, wait a minute. You want to switch places with Empanada? Is that what you mean?

Pac: Yes!!! She had the best mothers of all time! Like, imagine how she's going to be treated, like, she's going to be a princess! The princess of all princess!

Fit: [Stunned silence] Y- yeah, yeah! That- that- great. Just-

Empanada:

Pac: Yeah, you know, like– Tina and Bagi, you know, they are my mothers as well.* Mis madres, mis madres, mis madres, you know, 'cus of the meme, you know Fit, you know Fit?

Fit: Yeah yeah yeah yeah, I- I– Yeah. Yeah no, I get it, I get you, I get you, I understand. I understand. ...yeah.

Pac: [Laughs] Yeah.

Empanada: Drama

Fit: We say "fofoca", Empanada, in Portuguese, yeah. Fofoca, fofoca.

#FitMC #Pactw #Empanada #QSMP #Hideduo #FitPac #* NOTE: BAGI AND TINA ARE NOT PAC'S MOTHERS #The ''mis madres'' thing / the ''mis padres'' thing is a meme #Do NOT get it twisted #please do not shove the women of the QSMP into motherhood roles for grown ass men #Pac is just kidding here #and he started saying that to tease chat #he says ''mis padres'' when referring to himself and Fit too to tease chat because we say that #anyways #''He just wants love'' and what if my heart SHATTERED #Pac and Mike's old backstory is that they grew up as orphans. They've never had parents #we don't know if that is canon to their current lore but it was part of their Fuga Impossivel 2 lore #So yeah. Pac and Mike have never had a father or a mother #and we know Pac does have issues about self-worth and wanting to feel loved. So it makes sense.#It's not even a ''mommy issues'' thing he just wants to know that feeling of unconditional love #November 22 2023 #FRICK. HAVE I NEVER UPLOADED THE PAC AND MIKE BACKSTORY VIDEOS? I'll do that when I'm not on vacation

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starbylers · 2 months

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Do people not realise that using Vecna tormenting Will about his complicated feelings towards El to make Will out to be a bad person who just hates her is literally exactly what Vecna does lmfao. That’s his whole MO—he digs into the character’s pain and twists things, convinces them their worst thoughts and fears are who they truly are, tries to make them succumb to the black hole of their trauma. He doesn’t reveal some secret dark evil truth in the person, he exploits their internalised suffering and tells them they are an awful person for it. I fear the point of the show went straight over some heads…….

#byler #are we really surprised though?#how did I see someone say ‘Mike’s not gonna find this one easy to forgive…’ lmfao what #Will being a complex character and having negative feelings does Not mean he did something ‘wrong’ that he needs to atone for #in canon he grew and in season 4 we saw how caring and protective he is over El #he’s more than made up for his literal thought crimes in pre-season 2 #and that’s if we’re even taking this as canon which is not confirmed

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astrobei · 1 year

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they see right through me/can you see right through me/i see right through me

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pinkeoni · 11 months

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Mike has successful intentional rizz. If he wants to rizz someone he can do it if he really wants to (ie Will in the bedroom scene) but he does not have unintentional rizz. He has never rizzed without meaning to. People don’t come to Mike, he has to go to them.

Will, on the other hand, has untinentional rizz but not good intentional rizz. He was flustered as hell in that bedroom but he also has girls that he doesn’t even want flocking to him left and right. The rizz just eminates off of him but when he calls on it it doesn’t come.

#unless you consider the van scene an example of wills rizz #in which he rizzed so hard for the other team that mike confessed his love to her 😂#but hes never rizzed for himself #also will is the only person mike has rizzed btw #el grew up in a lab she was not rizzed #byler #will byers #mike wheeler

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lighthouseas · 9 months

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as a resident bagel lover and therefore bagel expert, here is how the party eats their bagels. i'm right.

mike: toasted plain bagel with plain cream cheese. he likes what he likes even if it's basic. probably doesn't eat bagels that often but when he does he savors them.

lucas: toasted everything bagel with plain cream cheese. can be persuaded to have chive and onion cream cheese instead on occasion. max wipes the seeds off of his face because they get EVERYWHERE (i eat everything bagels a lot. i promise this is true)

dustin: okay so he's very very meticulous about spreading cream cheese. but the kicker is. he does not actually eat cream cheese on his bagels. he prefers them toasted with butter, which gets him some Looks but it's what he likes and he's happy with it. however, whenever the party (mainly max) is having issues spreading cream cheese, he is always happy to help and proportions the cream cheese EXACTLY RIGHT every time (he's so me)

max: bagel sandwiches all the way!!! egg and cheese on a bagel. sausage egg and cheese on a bagel. tomatoes and veggies and cream cheese on a bagel etc etc. do not make that girl eat open face bagels she WILL kill you

will: LOX EVERYTHING BAGELS (he's so me) with everything on them are his absolute favorite, but since he doesn't always have everything to make them in the house, he's fine w a toasted everything bagel with plain cream cheese and lox :) or just cream cheese. will is the Resident Bagel Enthusiast i think because he is just like me fr

el: untoasted bagels all the way for her (or VERY lightly toasted. but that's pushing it) with strawberry cream cheese. plain or sesame do just fine for this, but she also does like to indulge in the occasional cinnamon raisin bagel + strawberry cream cheese. she is the Resident Strawberry Cream Cheese Enthusiast. she loves it a lot

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snowy-squids · 7 months

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This has been something on my mind, since I’ve seen both older and younger ones.

Please reblog!

#splatoon #splatoon 3 #new agent 3 #neo agent 3 #inkling #octoling #Mike is 23 but it’s mostly to line up with the timelines of 1/2 #as he grew up underground and was a courier for the Octarian military #OC tag: Mike (Neo)

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lesbianazuna · 2 years

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no one look at me im thinking about the fact that season 1 is entirely driven by mike's love for will then 3 seasons later he won't even hug him in an airport

#'byler is one sided' why don't u rewatch seasons 1+2 and shut the fuck up #but also st WHAT have u done with my sweet little boy :( s1+2 mike loved his friends more than anything in world WHAT DID U DO TO HIM‼️‼️#and i know he grew up or whatever but why did he have to do it like that :(#stranger things #byler #mike wheeler #////

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demadogs · 1 year

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sometimes i wish they stuck with their original plan of mike having a birthmark on his face that hes insecure about i think that would have been interesting

#and all the analyses of mike at suzies make me think about what he would be like if he grew up in a more religious house #mike wheeler #byler

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purpleshadow-star · 1 year

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Something about rich kid Mike Wheeler and poor kid Will Byers being best friends (and in love), rich kid Lucas Sinclair and poor kid Max Mayfield being in love, and rich kid Nancy Wheeler and poor kid Jonathan Byers being in love, all without a second thought, just makes my heart happy.

It just proves that money doesn't matter. Lucas and Mike and Nancy don't care about the fact that Max and Will and Jonathan don't have money. They don't pity them. They love them for who they are.

#the rich x poor dynamic was talked about with jancy in season 3 but it makes sense since they were older and had jobs #and they worked it out #the kids dont even talk about it. they dont think of it as important enough to consider #lucas saw max's living conditions and didnt blink at all #(and lucas is rich. remember he and mike are neighbors in the rich neighborhood)#and especially for will and mike. i wonder if mike's parents ever tried to dissuade mike from being so close to will bc the byers were poor #but will and mike grew up together and mike never saw will as lesser or treated him with pity just cause he is poor #i just love that all of these ships love each other regardless of their money situation and social status #stranger things #will byers #mike wheeler #byler #lucas sinclair #max mayfield #lumax #nancy wheeler #jonathan byers #jancy

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mikecrewsteacup · 1 year

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Why do I love the idea of trans Mike Crew so much? Well—

I like the idea of a character who has a good deal of their arc being "something is wrong with my body and I can't fix it" (re: his Lichtenberg scar) taking it a step further, because the bare bones were already there. Mike specifically has a lot of neat little tidbits you can pull at for this: his canonical obsession with/fear of his scar, and blaming it for being what calls his monster-tormenter to him. His expressed feelings of terror and insanity surrounding the scar, and researching it and what caused it. The fact that he finds a Flesh Leitner specifically to try to get rid of his scar (and he fails!). He goes to such great lengths and eventually destroys his current self to become born again as something else.

Specifically, I like him being trans as a foil and catalyst to go along with that - no, not as an exact metaphor! Because what if he HAD had an experience of "something is wrong with my body, but I did figure it out and fix it" and this was, like, the one positive thing he had going for him until his death/birth as an Avatar?

Idk, I just love the potential symbolism in his canon arc and what it would suggest about his obsessive insistence he could get rid of his tormenting monster, if he'd already had success with trusting his gut (and going against what society told him was obvious and correct) about a different, similar thing.

#i firmly believe in Mike 'gender euphoria' Crew okay #mike crew #tma #pls remember this is just a happy headcanon let's all be civil #I know he grew up in the 80s and 90s but he's trans I asked him #do not archive

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lemongrablothbrok · 3 months

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Hehe hey remember that brief period in time when Mike Nesmith (The Monkees' lead guitarist and resident asshole) looked almost identical to Jimmy Page (who was not yet but would be Led Zeppelin's lead guitarist and resident asshole. I mean, a bigger asshole than the other members. Which I can't really say for The Yardbirds which was his band at the time, lest we forget Eric Clapton, who is/was at least as much of an asshole as Page, is also an alumnus of The Yardbirds. Anyway)? Pepperidge Farm remembers...

Anyway, a few key differences between these two control freak stick figures of undeniable talent but dubious likeability: Mike Nesmith could actually drive (and with proficiency) a car as well as a motorcycle (as well as -- I believe -- an airplane?) and punch a hole clear through drywall (true story), whereas Mister Black Magick on the other hand didn't (and still doesn't? Not sure?) have a driver's license, was not reasonably safe on a motorcycle even as a passenger (true story), and any attempt to do bare-knuckled physical damage to the structural integrity of a building would probably result in Jimmy looking like this:

Thank you for coming to my "How to Tell the Difference Between the Lanky Raven Haired Lead Guitarist Douchebags in lemongrablothbrok's Favorite Late '60s/early '70s Pop/Rock Quartets Where There's Two Capricorns and One is Some Cute Lil Guy Named Jones and the Other One is This Bitch Right Here" TED Talk. I forget why I did it in the first place, I think I was bored. And because comparing and contrasting arbitrary shit is my jam.

Also a couple months ago I had this dream that Led Zeppelin had their own TV show like The Monkees except it was them. Which would have been fucking wild. I blame those charmingly domestic indoor shots from the Chateau Marmont photoshoot for planting such zany ideas in my subconscious.

#the monkees #led zeppelin #mike nesmith #jimmy page #alternate universe where everything is the same except led zeppelin has their own tv show where they live together #hijinks ensue #also i don't think nez is nearly as sweaty as page but then he grew up in texas and probs has a higher tolerance for heat #i'm going to regret this dumbass post in the morning but right now i'm overcaffeinated and stir crazy from nearly 1 week in quarantine

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donghuamuqing · 2 years

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Mike leaning down for will is actually the most important thing on this planet

#my post #esp before will grew taller and mike was growing like a weed #the respect he has for will #i will not stand above you lik everyone else in your life #i will physically lower myself down to be closer to you. to be at your level so we can be at the same level because i want to #i want to be at the same level with you #i will be even lower. you can be the taller for a while. you will not feel unease with me i will give you no reason to #i will lean dowm to hear you speak i will lean down to talk to you #i will lean down with out knowing. it is how im supposed to be #i lean down because i love you i lean down to touch you and move you and be moved by you #i will listen and look into your eyes i will not loom i will not bully i will not shame you #you are not the worm you are the bird and i am forever looking up at your unfolded wings

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bravevolunteer · 6 months

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VERSE — MOVIE ( CONTAINS SPOILERS & CANON DIVERGENT, tw for canon-typical themes & suicide mention )

just to get straight to the point : it's mainly canon divergent in the sense that i will be altering details in order to make mike an afton. do i think this is going to happen in the movie timeline? no. do i think it's more likely that they're going to explain the oddly personal kidnapping through mirroring the emilys? probably. but it's MY michael afton blog and i can put on my tinfoil hat as much as i want about it. of course i am willing to adapt based on other's info / preferences but given that this isn't my main canon anyway it is meant for those that are interested.

Mike thought he knew everything there was to know about what happened to his family: what he was never told is who his real father was. He was too young to remember anything about William Afton before his mom separated herself from him entirely ( one night stand, breakup, what have you, i'm not picky- ), so he always thought of the father he grew up with as his dad, the reality never changed anything about that.

Until he was twelve years old and Garrett went missing, and everything fell apart. William followed the Schmidts there, taking Garrett in a targeted attack ( whether or not he was trying to grab Mike, took him out of spite, anything else is also flexible ). Everything grew solemn and tense, each of the Schmidts lost in their own individual grief. Slowly, they stopped having dinners together, stopped going out as a family, stopped being able to feel like things were normal. The grief and guilt only added to Mike's developing anger issues and depression. Although it wasn't on purpose nor with any malicious intent, his dad was the more distant of his parents at the time, serving as the first hint towards his biological parentage and simply because as much as he cared for mike, he was grappling with losing his biological kid ( think tse henry- well meaning but drowning in grief enough for the child to pick up on it ).

This is where Abby comes in, where the Schmidts have another kid in an attempt to feel like a normal family again. It almost seems to work, although there is still that underlying sense of collective grief. Mike was older by then, too ( while he graduates high school, he either doesn't go to college at all or doesn't finish it ).

Their mom dies and the brief sense of possible stability disappears again. It's when Mike is staying at home again for the funeral/to help with Abby that their father commits suicide, unable to take the grief. Mike has had custody of Abby since then.

The events proceed as they did in the movie, William's recognition of Mike in the office not only stemming from the kidnapping but the fact that it's his kid, although Mike doesn't find anything out beyond the fact that it's the man who took Garrett. There is potential for more hints towards this in past interactions with his aunt or birth records or even his dynamic with Vanessa, but for the most part this specific realization is left open.

Following the movie's events, he... does come home to his aunt in the living room. After reporting her death, Mike actually goes back to Freddy's one more time to get security footage in order to prove his innocence. Afterwards, he does his best to hold down another job to keep taking care of Abby in peace, but something about Freddy's gives him the sense that he'll come back to make sure nothing like this happens again.

#⁂ ･ﾟ: the secrets that you keep when you’re talking in your sleep ➛ movie #fnaf movie spoilers #this is waaaay longer than it needs to be i have got to shut up #so i'm cutting it here despite having more thoughts those can be hc posts #ANYWAY YEAH. GOING WITH A.FTON THEORY. HONK HONK #i do really like the idea of them mirroring the emilys and i KNOW this barely changes shit but #i am just trying to find a way to Combine The Two in my brain and keep the general basis i've been working with for so long #it's like... he's michael but grew up under completely different circumstances. why he didn't treat his brother the same way.#he has completely different experiences but they resulted in a similar guilt. similar reactiveness. similar protectiveness.#so the a.fton thing just helps me tie them together even if it doesn't *really* come into play #'oh william pausing was because he recognized garrett's last name' mf why would he KNOW that if he just took a random kid.#'mike looks similar' that was a BABY. why would he go all the way to nebraska to kidnap some random kid it's so personal!#something about the way he's the only one to call mike 'michael' in the whole movie!#fnaf is all about going wild with it it's fiiine

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pholiabanna · 1 year

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It seems to be the popular opinion amongst the fandom that Mike was so mean for joining another Dnd club in season 4, but it’s actually a huge win both for his character arc and for byler, of course.

Mike used to love not only Dnd, but other nerdy games, movies and comics. That’s one of his core traits (and Lucas’ and Dustin’s and Will’s). They are nerds, and that is presented as a positive thing, because the Duffers themselves said they were nerds when they were their age and they loved the same games.

However, we see a radical change in Mike in season 3. He seems obsessed with the concept of growing up, which for him means dropping all of the games that we know made him happy, to spend time with his girlfriend instead. And the general audience and mlevens always present this “growth” as a positive thing, but again, if we remember the Duffers still consider themselves nerds to the core and still love Dnd and other games, why would they write a storyline about how dropping things that they like is good because as you grow up you should focus on your girlfriend?

This storyline for Mike was clearly not meant to be seen as something positive. Ditching your friends and your hobbies for your girlfriend is not a positive thing in real life and the Duffers wrote that into the show. Will was in the right calling him out for that, but people -specially redditors- dissmiss it as him being clingy to his childhood and not growing up. But that’s not the intended message. Will was in the right because basically he was telling Mike he shouldn’t drop his others friends and the things he likes completeley. Dustin was also disappointed by this attitude, that’s why he spent the season with the Scoops Troop: he hated being sidelined because “he wasn’t important anymore”. Even Hopper calls this out: it’s not good to spend every day for six months seeing only your s/o and making out, meaning you’ve completely lost all contact with other people in your life and you don’t have personal interests that fulfill you. Mike hating Dnd (and nerdy stuff) was not intended to be a good thing.

Here comes the interesting part: coincidentally, this happens to Mike right after he gets a girlfriend. However, the moment she moves out of town he magically regained interest to the point he joined Hellfire Club and he tells Lucas that “he doesn’t wanna be popular”? It’s almost like somehow, the idea of having a girlfriend and not playing Dnd were linked in his mind. A part of growing up, according to him in the rain fight, was not playing games, but as I’ve said, the Duffers didn’t portray that as something positive; the other part of growing up, as he also said during the rain fight, was getting girlfriends. So if the Duffers didn’t intend for Mike dropping games to be something positive for his arc, why would him getting a girlfriend not be something bad for his arc too?

Him “joining another party” is good because he likes Dnd and nerdy stuff again. He’s growing and coming into his own. He’s accepting that he was wrong in season 3 and games are actually cool. He’s going back to who he was at the beggining of the show. That’s a good thing for his arc! He left behind the attitude that was portrayed as negative for going against the themes of the show. That’s what I also believe that Will would never be mad at him after finding out he’s in Hellfire. Instead, I think he would be so happy that Mike isn’t pretending to be someone he isn’t anymore.

But we see this positive new Mike mainly during s4e1. Coincidentally, that’s the episode where his girlfriend is not around. Then in episode 2, he’s playing the part of the perfect boyfriend again, he’s trying to be grown up again (aka pretending to not care about games/Will, and being the perfect boyfriend for his girlfriend, accordint to what he thinks grown men should do because of societal expectations). The reocurring theme in this Mike-Dnd storyline is that he only stops liking it when he’s in a relationship with El in the same town. So, if not liking Dnd = bad, but not liking Dnd = having a girlfriend, then, according to the Duffers themselves, having a girlfriend = bad. That’s the point of Mike joining Hellfire, he’s discovering hemself, and apart from this helping his personal arc by him becoming more confident in himself and comfortable with who he is, this also fuels his sexuality storyline: it’s not good for him to have a girlfriend because he should have a boyfriend. And in season 4 he’s beggining to accept this (and he progressively accepts it more during his heart to hearts with Will). So Mike joining Hellfire is actually wonderful for Mike’s arc, because he wasn’t being an asshole in season 3 just because, and it’s good for byler, because it means that the good thing for Mike, according to the Duffers, is to date Will.

#byler #byler tumblr #mike wheeler #Of course him feeling like he should drop his interests while he's with El is not El's fault #she's in a special situation where she didn't have a normal childhood #so it's expected that she doesn't have many hobbies yet #and Mike also feels like he should act grown up because of the environment he grew in #both his family and society #he's just a scared queer boy figuring himself out #but he's getting there

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allhappyandgay · 1 year

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I wish I had a brother like Jonathan. the way he encouraged will to be himself instead of following the norm rather than just leaving the subject alone…

Most siblings kinda just stand and watch and maybe listen when you’re struggling but no Jonathan pushes even after will tries to defend lonnie and make the whole thing not as big of a deal as it is. “do you even like baseball?” “he’s trying to get you to like normal things” “you shouldn’t like things just cuz people tell you you’re supposed to” “you’re right, you are a freak” “being a freak is the best alright? Im a freak!” like he genuinely needs will to know that he should be himself, he doesn’t want him to change. because Jonathan knows that will is different. more different than Jonathan himself. the fact that he’s aware of that and still is his #1 supporter, the person who generally tries to stay out of the way but will be the one to throw the first punch if you say something about his little brother. he knows how different will is and he needs him to stay that way because he loves him for exactly that.

His persistence on that just makes me love him even more, cuz even though he’s part of a family that has mental illness and a single mom and are low income and sort of living on the outskirts of town, is a loner and kind of alternative/grunge (which at the time was unpopular), he doesn’t stand out like will does. he isn’t targeted like will is. he purposefully blends in to the background while will doesn’t have a choice but to stand out.

But will still wears the clothes he likes, still plays D&D and Nintendo, still rejects girls who hit on him, and does school projects on queer historical figures even if he has only an ounce of pride, because Jonathan taught him that no matter what he has to stay true to himself. he definitely learned that from him.

#and mike too cuz he makes him feel like he’s better for being different #but jonathan just really hammers it in #and since he had to help raise him he could’ve just done the bare minimum but he also taught him so much just because he genuinely loves #and cares about will #the fact that he grew up with a homophobic dad before will was even born also??? he probably heard a bunch of shit and was being exposed to #homophobic people already through him and then will grows up and starts getting called slurs by lonnie #and jonathan instead teaches him the opposite lesson because he’s his brother and it doesn’t matter if he’s gay because he already loves him #and knows lonnie is a dick #jonathan foreverrrrrr #jonathan byers #the byers siblings #the byers family #will byers

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