Mike Wheeler and Will Byers as renaissance portraits
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Byler hands?
ps: I have the headcanon that Will lives with his hands stained with ink, because I live with my hands stained with ink so he will too.
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The flickergate theory is real and no one can change my mind ✨
Heard about @bylerween2023 and was compelled to draw something last night
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old doodle that i planned to finish but i never did lmao byler are so absolutely That Fucking Couple everywhere
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"The Sensitive Kid" pt 2/5 (prev/next)
The inspiration of this one is the scene where he walks to school in s2 ep3, subtly looking to the sides and head down as he is surrounded by the other students. I tried recreating the feeling of paranoia and constantly being watched, haunted by non-supernatural things and lonely. The microexpression Noah Schnapp delivered in that scene and similar ones was truly masterful.
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“My life started the day I found you in the woods.” Mike’s speech has always confused the shit out of me. A lot of fellow byler shippers disregard the speech as being disingenuous or that Mike was lying for the sake of saving El in that moment but it never read that way to me.
I’ve always kind of just ignored the speech as a whole because I couldn’t figure it out. To me, it felt like what he was saying was real but it wasn’t coming off in the correct way.
However, I realized something about El recently that made the speech make SO much more sense. El is the physical manifestation of hope. El made everyone believe it was possible to find Will, El stood up to the bullies, El is the only reason Mike didn’t kill himself when jumping off the cliff, she gave Hopper hope for the first time since losing his daughter. El is hope.
If El is hope then that means Mike is talking about hope in his speech. “My life started the day I found you in the woods” isn’t a fuck you to Will. It’s not negating the fact that that was the day he went missing. It was the first time Mike had any hope after one of the most hopeless days of his life. El didn’t just give hope that he could find Will but also, that he could DO something, that when Will came back it would be different, no more bullying, no more shitty dads/family, Will and Mike would be safe because Mike now had someone powerful on his side.
His life started that day because for the first time he thought maybe he wouldn’t have to worry about his friends life. The speech isn’t about who El is, the speech is about what El means to him.
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