#but now that feeling has grown to be something stronger than friendship.. so mikes monologue like this is sorta a transition in his life..

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elaborating on the Power a scene of mike coming out to el would have... like just the fact that especially if mike goes thru an arc this season where he eventually feels safe enough to admit to himself that he’s gay and that he’s been hiding/repressing it to survive in Hawkins... and how that would line up with how El’s been running from her past for the last few seasons but in s4 she finally has to really confront it and so he’d understand, in his own way, what it’s like to always be hiding in plain sight because there’s people who want to hurt you that go along with the things you are burying... But how exhausting it becomes to always be trying to blend in and run away... and now he’s seen the way El was able to face her past head-on this season and it gives him the courage to want to stop running too and really reckon with what he’s been running from himself. Especially because now he knows he has people who.. *looks back at Will* who understand what it’s like and have found their own people and know places where they don’t have to hide who they are either. LIKE something like that would only strengthen their friendship while also giving each of them their own development. it just... god that would just be so beautiful :’)

OR THIS MONOLOGUE IS BEFORE THE SORTA CLIMAX OF THE ARC AND MIKE AND EL BOTH PROMISING EACH OTHER THEY’LL FACE THEIR OWN STRUGGLES HEAD ON... LIKE. COME ON YOU CAN’T TELL ME THAT DOESN’T HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO HIT LIKE A TON OF BRICKS!!

#ALSO THE NARRATIVE SIGNIFICANCE OF MIKES LAST MONOLOGUE BEING ABT ASKING WILL TO BE HIS FRIEND... #but now that feeling has grown to be something stronger than friendship.. so mikes monologue like this is sorta a transition in his life.. #like falling in love with will and wanting to be best friends with el still... not wanting to lose her over who he is and who he loves.. #(yes i just ref'd the Cant Fight This Feeling lyrics... i simply think that being the song playing the first time Hop tries to give his #heart-to-heart could be foreshadowing <3) #talk abt Subverting expectations by making ur platonic confession JUST as impactful as your romantic ones #(cuz i wouldnt accept half-assing the byeler shit either ofc not) #like damn ok maybe its cheesy but i Love that shit.. love my good ol fashion american sugar coated stories all right.. #litrlly they are best friends wahhh #listen at this point if s4 disappoints im gonna write SUCH a good and healing gay fantasy fix-it fic all right??? #i was in the fall 2019 it fandom i know the drill LMAO #i have the perfect sweet byler ending scene in mind like... <33 #its sweet but also opens up for my own personal theory for what s5 is gonna look like which is p dark.. n does include will w powers but in #diff way than ive seen most ppl discuss it.. #im so bad at watching tv cuz i always wanna write along w it LMAOOO #silver cat speaks