#imagine byler hugging

[tal-vez-o-quizas]

The painting scene is the most passionate thing I have ever seen in Stranger Things.

Ever.

And it's not even a kissing scene...

I kid you not, the reactions that I’ve seen where people say that as well is insane. Everyone is floored by it and some people think the show won’t pick up where it left off from that lie Will made up right then and there?

Please.

#st4 #st4 vol 2 #painting scene #van scene #byler hope #will byers #mike wheeler #cali gang #my post #mine #st4 analysis #byler #imagine byler hugging #or byler kissing #OMG #we're gonna get a heart attack #i might have to stop the show and run some laps lol #it's gonna be insane #DUFFERS YOU HAVE ONE JOB!

[azuries]

'cause boys don't cry

#hello. #sorry for my last post :( heres a way to make up for it :D #byler #mike wheeler #will byers #stranger things #you heard of mike hugging and comforting will now get ready for vice versa. you aint ready for this!!!1 #piano arts #anyway in this scenario i just wanna imagine maybe mike asking will to meet in the swings #mike is sitting on one swing inviting will on the other and asking him to listen to boys dont cry with him with a walkman he has on the sid #the music plays in the bg along with the crickets #the boys listen in silence until mike breaks the silence and starts reminiscing about the time between them #and starts to contemplate how things got so complicated so fast #and will coild only agree and explaining that he was right. its nc they werent kids anymore.. and change is inevitable #making mike go back to their fight in s3 #mike starts breaking down in front of will with his head on his hands slumped over and he starts apologizing #he starts apologizing profusely to will with how hes been acting and hurting him #even when he didnt mean to #and he explains how hes confused. so so confused #and he doesnt know what to do #will could do nothing but listen and bring him into a hug as the last verse of boys dont cry plays #and they remain like that for the entire night #basking in each others presence.

[chirpsythismorning]

My exact reaction to milkvans interpretation of ST

Or

#byler #when they act like the airport kiss/hug is peak romance… #when Mike literally puts her gift (flowers) between them so they have to separate sooner bc of her squishing them… #and with us not even getting mikes reaction… #how romantic #then followed by Mike practically dropping his bag to hug Will only to cut it short and stare at him Will up and down… #with us getting to see mikes reaction to Will clear as day… #how platonic #when they say el’s favorite color is yellow #or that Mike never called Will over the phone but did call el… #that one is fascinating to me #bc imagine Mike calling the Byers to talk to el and not make any effort to talk to Will… #that would literally be mikes fault #bc what is Will supposed to do?? interrupt el and say ‘let me talk to Mike?’ #EVEN IF that was the scenario #(we know it’s not bc byler was the only one that talked about phone calls in s4) #it would have been shitty of mike and el arguably to make a point to talk to each other #only to end it and never make a point to give the phone to Will so him and Mike could chat #so that whole argument just doesn’t make sense #not to mention #their excuse for why el has a shrine for Mike in her room #while mike has nothing in his space related to el in contrast #is apparently bc Mike having el related stuff in his house would risk her identity being known… #so which is it? can they talk on the phone or not 😭 #bc both those arguments don’t work together 😭 #it just starts to all contradict and not make sense basically

[tired-bisexual-brainrot]

i wanna make a post abt my own personal hc for each of the characters sexualities and stuff because i think it’d be fun

also pls remember that these are my personal hc for these characters, if you have different ones that’s perfectly ok but pls respect other peoples opinions, thanks :)

with that being said:

steve: bisexual, he/him

robin: lesbian, demigirl, she/they

nancy: bisexual, she/her

eddie: gay, he/they (he’s not too bothered abt his gender, he isn’t cis, but they don’t really care to label it. “my gender is whatever tf i want, i’m me, i exist here, i’m metal asf, that’s all you need to know”)

will: gay, he/him

mike: bisexual, he/him

max: bisexual, demigirl, she/they

lucas: straight, he/him (speak valentina! ally!)

el: pan-romantic, asexual, non-binary, they/she (they were raised in a lab away from the rest of the world, they never really understood social norms, let alone fit in to them. being non-binary just feels right to her)

dustin: hetero-romantic, asexual, he/him

suzie: straight, she/her (while she grew up mormon, she is incredibly supportive and understanding, she’s a woman of science first, religion second. speak valentina! ally!)

jonathan: demi-pan-romantic, asexual, non-binary, he/they

argyle: pansexual, he/him but wouldn’t care if you used they/them (“gender is a social construct my guy! be who you are, ride the waves of gender until you land on an island full of your own personal happiness. life is short dude, have some fun, relax, eat some pineapple pizza”)

eden: bisexual, she/her

joyce: probably bi but doesn’t really know it, she/her (she used to kiss girls in high school, you can’t prove me wrong. specifically, i think her and karen wheeler used to make out behind the bleachers during gym. it’s a byers family tradition to like wheelers ig)

hopper: straight, he/him (a little confused, but supportive, he’d never judge his kids, or anyone of their friends. he may not fully get it but he tries. the party gets together once a week to try and explain lgbtqia+ topics to him. speak valentina! ally!)

#let’s disregard that this is the 80’s #i could not give less of a fuck #imagine if this was a modern au and the byers-hopper kids did that speak valentina tiktok with hop #he’d be so supportive of his kids yk he would take them to pride every year and by those shorts that say free dad hugs #don’t even try to argue #just let me live #stranger things #strangers things season 4 #steve harrington #steddie #byler #mike wheeler #eddie munson #ronance #will byers #nancy wheeler #robin buckley #lumax #jopper #elmax #max mayfield #lucas sinclair #eleven #jane hopper #argyle #jonathan byers #jancy #jim hopper #hopper byers family #joyce byers

[juliejoestar]

I literally do not know what to say but I want them to hug, if they won't hug then maybe I could use my mind to explode my screen instead in season 5.

Anyway,

Also details:

#byler #byler fanart #will byers #mike wheeler #stranger things #dude these two deserve to hug together #if they don't then #their #their 10 years of friendship is bullshit #haha #imagine #having a friend for 10 years and didnt get a proper hug while your hometown is falling apart hahaha lol hahaha #hahaha #lol #so funny #im gonna cry

[cluelessbees]

A moment that literally breaks me but no one talks about is when Mike is begging El to wake up.

This.

This moment specifically,

Pains me so much.

He’s so fucking scared at that moment that he’s gonna lose her. The way he just begs for her to wake up. I just— I can’t—-

#byler #because you guys are my people #and you love Mike the way I love Mike #mike wheeler needs a hug #because like— I can’t imagine the trauma he’s enduring at that moment #imagine him feeling like even his words weren’t enough to save her #he’s so insecure and scared and he’s just a kid and he deserves the world and I love him so much T—T #mike wheeler #i love him so much #platonic elmike #elmike

[will80sbyers]

do you think that when they read the scripts for s4 Noah and other cast members sort of fangirled about Mike and Will and the possibility of them getting together? because I can imagine some of them doing that lmao

#byler #will byers #mike wheeler #like imagine them reading the cool cool scene or the half hug or the van scene omg #I bet they were rooting for byler like us

[nyxi-pixie]

pov mike wheeler whenever will isnt around

#this isnt funny im severely concerned for his mental wellbeing #but also #its incredibly funny to me bc like girl same if i had a will byers id also be unable to function upon seperation #i do think its fun that their codependency works in that when theyre together theyre rlly good for each other #like super mutually supportive and they have an unparalleled understanding of what each other have been through #and that allows them to be there for each other in a way that v few other people can be #so when theyre together shit is good. but the Second theyre seperated be that through emotional or physical distance shit hits the fan #mikr immediately loses all semblance of sanity in s1 like i love him and he was right but like. imagine u see ur besties body #and ur like oh no he dead but then u hear his voice thru a busted radio bc magic girl and just go ah yes hes alive then back to the mission #and then obvi lucas on the line book is like lol mike fully experiencing depression bc wills not here #abd then uve got will who whenever he gets emotionally distant from mike starts pumping up the self hate train #like. ik the argument was bad and the internalised homophobia was kickin in and stuff but that whole scene w castle byers...do u want a hug #sorry the tags ran away from me again #byler

[blenderenvy]

The party bonding over daddy issues

Max and Will bonding over physically abusive dads'

And El joining in about a father figure who physically tortured and exploited her, and then dealing with Hop's presumed death for a year

And Dustin adds in 'i never really knew my dad' to which Mike responds ' i live in a house with the guy and i still don't know anything about mine'

Lucas just being like 'hah hah rip to y'all but can't relate"

Everyone kinda just shares the good parents and adult parental figures available

#stranger things #Mike wheeler #max mayfeild #dustin henderson #will byers #eleven #el hopper #daddy issues #lucas sinclair #sinclair siblings #lucas sinclair supremacy #Fic #Lil ideas #I imagine the bigs having a similar conversation where nobody can really take the best dad award #Robins might not be actively bad but a mid level dad who she doesn't full know #Eddie argues if Wayne counts then he's for sure the winner #the byers family #everyone needs a hug #And therapy #byler

[yurtletheturtlehenderson]

Heyyyy so remember how I said the COSMIC pronoun copies would stay the same??? Hehe...

#okay BEAR with me here #yes the backstory and the dialogue and the ultimate plot points YES absolutely #buuuut we literally saw will physically shut down and close himself off when a girl came onto him ON TOP of the #'its not my fault you dont like girls' comment and basically everything else and yeah #so remember how i said i have kind of a half formed olan #*plan #well #guess who knows a shit ton about comphet babeyyy #like just imagine will and y/n being so excited to see each other again but being back after so much time apart they dont realize why #they are suddenly kinda stressed #like the butterflies are getting harder to distinguish from anxiety #bc of all that time apart neither of them really realized how freeing it was to not have to hold hands or kiss or 'meet an expectation' of #a relationship even though they do truly love and care for each other #and for some reason all that hugging and giggling and contact is suddenly so easy with their other best friend who #thanks to the absence- has had a whole *different* kind of effect #finally will gets to see and hug mike and finally y/n gets to see and hug el and VICE VERSA #meanwhile the other copies (he/him for sure) just stay the will byers course maybe with a little byler angst sprinkled in #idk idk we'll see we'll see 😏 vol 2 will tell #cosmic #f!cosmic #you'll float queue #stranger things spoilers #stranger things 4 #edit: just fyi this isnt set in stone but its something ive been heavily considering for a while now and i wanted to warn yall #things would be adjusted as far as titles if i did go that route like it would say 'eventual el x reader and eventual byler' & add #a thing about comphet and even update the descriptions but we can cross that bridge if we get to it #point is i honestly think it would be a great thing to have cause when i was younger reading stories like this i never saw wlw or mlm #content in reader inserts and of i even a bit of exposure again i think it would have been so healthy for me

[bylerblogger]

Omg imagine in s5 Will has to go alone (Or with El) to fight Vecna and then after he kills him he reunites with Mike and we get a Byler hug paralleled to the Jancy hug in s4.

I need this please and thank you.

#stranger things #stranger things 5 #byler #jancy #mike is gay #byler endgame #mike wheeler #will byers #mike wheeler is gay #byler nation #mike x will

[messrsbyler]

this byler post and this image of the ST comic and the way their feet are touching makes me think of tiny miwi being always around each other, tucked in a corner of the library or spread across the crouch in mike’s basement or curled inside castle byers. no matter the place, no matter if it’s a tight fit like a fortress made of sticks and old blankets or a whole room, no matter if the space between them is large or not, they always find a way to simply touch.

they don’t even think about it, it just happens. it’s comforting. it’s nice to feel the weight of a hand on a knee or the tap of a foot on a thigh or the bump of two shoulders spreading warmth in waves. it’s nice to know physically know they aren’t alone, that they have each other. and it’s just what they do, and it comes as a second nature to them.

imagine touch being part of their bond. it’s simple embedded into their friendship like a second language they learned to speak as their bond grew stronger and older (ex: mike touching will’s hand in s2 to comfort him about the spy). either simple casual touches or others charged with more meaning and comfort, they have always been present between them and will thought… he always thought that would never change. that he and mike would never change.

but then one summer in the process of saving the world again hopper died, el lost her powers and was left alone, the byers’ family grew one member and had to be relocated, and will had to watch the town he always called home disappeared in the rear-view mirror.

by the time will got mike back, this time in lenora, things had changed. that hug. that hug at the airport said everything that will had been fearing. the awkwardness of it, the coldness of mike’s touch, the hesitance and then how quick the distance between them was forced once more in the middle.

and just think how of all the things will has lost, he really thought this one wouldn’t be one.

because will was willing to accept the lack of phone calls and the lack of letters, and ignore the distance that he felt in his gut whenever he even thought of mike and their last goodbye. he was willing to blame it all on his head playing games on him and his sour heart throwing a tantrum.

but then that hug at the airport confirmed it wasn’t just his head. their friendship hadn’t just changed — it was breaking at the seams and at the foundations they had first built it on, and no matter how hard will tried to ignore it, the cracks were already spreading, faster as mike pulled back and recoiled from that hug.

#i am having many feelings and for once IT IS NOT MY FAULT #this was supposed to stay on the texts but oh well- #here we are #PAIN PAIN PAIN #byler tumblr #byler #stranger things #mike wheeler #will byers #blame andi not me for this one she showed me the og post

[will80sbyers]

and when Byler recreates this moment in season 5? what will we do

#byler #imagine Mike saying #I got you #while hugging Will #or vice versa

[kiirotoao]

Byler and Confrontation 1.5: The Importance of Season 4

Byler being immediately comfortable with each other in season 4 would have been too easy. Too obvious. No other pair is as close as Byler, and if they kept in contact, their relationship’s progression would have been so clear that it wouldn’t even be interesting, and that’s why I think that Byler is plainly intentional to end up together in slow burn fashion.

Imagine the airport scene but they hug with all the emotion of true best friends (which, they are, and that’s a canon fact that Mike asserts and Will agrees with in s4e4, but I digress-) meeting again, crashing into each other, joking right off the bat, being comfortable like they easily could have been. Will comments on Mike’s ridiculous outfit and Mike defends himself and Will laughs and Mike’s forgotten how much he missed hearing that laugh. Then Will would give him the painting and Mike would be blushing, and the story’s over! Even if they dance around their feelings for the rest of the show long, they could have instantly recognized that something’s changed and yet stayed the same, and they’d be a unit again. Or should I say, a team?

I feel like there’s no other way to treat Byler other than subtly vying for each other’s attention (Will looking at Mike longingly, Mike turning to Will for wisdom) or blatantly vying for each other’s attention (Will the Wise, Mike Wheeler in general), and to go full blown best friends attached at the hip from day one in California would have been way too romantically charged. Not necessarily openly, but just in the way it’s easy to doubt, to have brows raised.

And what good storytelling would that be? To just seal the deal the second they meet? We know that they miss each other. Will was ready to give him that painting. And yeah, it takes Mike a whole business day to realize how much he misses Will, too, but that type of love that reaches out doesn’t originate from only that business day. So do they just flat out hug and say, “God, I missed you so much” ?? Of course not! Because that’s immediate intimacy. That’s honesty with no side effects, and that’s something that doesn’t happen in any well-created nor real life love story.

Once upon a time, the end? There’s no way! No one would be as invested.

And I’m not saying that I don’t want Byler to be so strained, or I don’t want them to be happy. I want them to be so happy. And seeing their mistakes and growing through them only makes that happiness more and more apparent whenever they come around. Because they find each other, in the end. They forgive and work through things and their chemistry abounds through tough moments, and that’s what makes them amazing to me. Literally look at every other ship in the show. Jopper fought all season long during season 3 because Hopper was jealous and Joyce was a stressed-out boss ass bitch. Jancy fought in seasons 1 and 3 before and after they learned more about each other and worked through their biases. Lumax had that fight at the arcade where Max didn’t believe what Lucas was telling her.

Anger often breeds hate, but sometimes, it creates something beautiful in people who, deep down, want to figure something out about each other: steadfastness.

Simply put, their story grows.

Which is why they couldn’t hug. Which is why they barely spoke. Which is why they lashed out at each other. Which is why it took a whole business day to rejoin as a team. Which is why their forgiveness is all the more sweet. Which is why their relationship is all the more sweet. Which is why they prove to know each other. Which is why they’re so good together.

Look at them!! Look at Mike, chuckling at five damn words. And this was BEFORE they truly amended fences!!!

I love how hardships bring Byler together. I don’t know about you, but I’d want a partner who doesn’t avoid the rough patches but strives to love me through them - because they will happen! No one is perfect! And no, I don’t mean fight and you will find love. But when you love, you will fight. And that’s what I think is what happens when Byler fight.

So I can’t wait for it to happen one more time, probably about the lie of the painting being commissioned, for everything to fall apart only to come back together because they realize it’s all one giant story of misunderstanding and internalized homophobia and repressed feelings - a final and urgent fight that demands them to let everything out in the open and truly realize that they are the love that each other seeks.

And, I mean, I don’t know, I think that it would be pretty cool to write a slow burn romance amidst all the love triangles and love-at-first-sights and tragic losses. With bonus unique notes of being childhood best friends with deeply-explored queer coding. Just saying.

#byler #byler analysis #Byler brainrot #lowkey shitpost #I feel so bad for cursing on this blog idk why but I was impassioned so. oops #hehe #thinking about their fights again #stranger things analysis #BYLER IS ENDGAME #special thanks to Conan Gray’s the final fight for putting me through this lmao

[hawkinsunderground]

No but if the whole 'will is somehow turned into the villian (obvi against his will) and is going to fake die next season only to come back and save the day when all hope is lost' thing is legit, can you imagine the implications of byler??? Can you imagine the implications for my mental state????????

Mike realizing his feelings and not getting the chance to tell Will before it's too late, or even having them revealed to him just a little too late? whether that be before Will becomes the 'villain' or 'dies'. The effect Will's 'death' would have on his character. The grief, the knowledge that its real this time, that the person who believes in him the most is gone, and there's no other world he's coming back from this time? (Especially if Will's feelings about him are clarified, if Mike knows that the painting and everything Will said was from his heart, not el's?) The deep regret of missed opportunities haunting Mike?

The sense of all hope being lost, of having nothing to fight for, or rather, no longer having the spirit to fight, but going on with it anyway because he's not going to let Will's perception of him be a lie. It's a suicide mission anyway. And maybe he's glad for it now.

And he'll inspire his friends just like Will said he does, when they're all reeling from Will's death too and can't imagine going on without him. He'll get them to fight, and he'll fight with them.

And at that last minute, when they're about to lose, when their plan starts coming apart at the seams and they're on their last leg, with nothing to do but accept defeat, and Will comes back, alive???

The reunion, the renewed sense of spirit to fight, with Will not just giving them a chance by unexpectedly jumping into the fight, but reigniting the spark that went out in everybody when he died? And they finally win and Mike is running to hug Will but it's so crazy and hectic and all his friends are there too crying in relief and shock and joy at having their friend back and Vecna actually being dead this time, so there's no time for intimate heart to hearts.

But then the dust settles and it's just them, and Mike just can't get over how he lost and regained Will for a second time, with the finale paralleling the pilot, and how awful it was and how much it put things into perspective for him.

and they have a sweet moment, where Mike is reeling and just taking in that his best friend isn't dead, and at first, Will thinks it's just that. That Mike's little 'I thought I lost you' moment would end there, with another hug, the intensity of which is lost on Will, and some meaningful words, not seeing the deeper feelings that he's convinced could never be there.

And then Mike finally, finally confesses? What then? Where would my sanity be then?

#the possibilitiessssss #stranger things leaks #stranger things s5 spoilers #byler #mike wheeler #will byers #byler analysis #byler brainrot #I'm just having fun atp imagining all the different ways s5 can go #ik I'm probably so far off it's not even funny but what's a fandom without specluating all the way up to the minute the new season releases #the brainrot is setting in #it may be terminal