Also I just wanna make notice that Will was not getting bullied in Cali. In fact he even had people show interest in him. When Angela and co approach their table at rink-o-mania they donât even take a look at Will, they definitely are aware of who he is but they donât spare a look.
He is not a target anymore but the problem is that he continues to hang around Eleven who is now the target of the whole school, like he once was. He could have a âchanceâ at being normal and having friends but heâd rather stay loyal to her because he knows exactly how she feels and because he loves her so much. Heâd rather sacrifice his happiness than hurt someone he loves.
So keep his name out of your mouth when you say he hates or even dislikes Eleven. He loves his sister and does everything he can to make her feel like normal and not a mistake. Something he has never felt in his life.
We love an unbothered king. Seriously though how jobless must people be to hate the actors for just shipping the characters ,like the amount of homophobia is just baffling to me. I hope byler becoming canon becomes a pathway for more mainstream representations without worrying about the homophobic audience.
Lumax mostly hang out within the group but are still clearly a couple. Mleven donât; they isolate and hang out primarily alone. When in the group, Mike tends to drift towards Will for in-pair groups (ex. who you have your reaction shot with/stand next to).
Itâs almost as if Mike knows that he can only choose El when he removes Will as an option. Something about the group never coming over to hang with Mike and El even though THEYâRE allowed to go to her house. Something about him ignoring Will to focus on El and the breakup not necessarily being the choice it seems to be (but rather an avoidance of another choice he doesnât want to be confronted with). Something about them being distanced from him so it can both be argued that he has separate relationships with them and that they coexist very closely - i.e. if he talks to them separately, but he writes letters to them back to back, that same comparison is present even if it isnât a choice so to speak, so the reason for avoidance would be just as present.Â
And maybe originally it was hard to have them to choose between in the same space but he could go from El to Will at the movies more easily but then it got a little harder when he went from Will saying he wouldnât join another party to El telling him she loved him and comparison started to come a little too easily/automatically by the time he was writing to them back to back etc. bc letâs be honest, if youâve ever written two letters, notes, emails, whatever to two different people back to back - possibly about very similar things - youâre gonna be asking yourself âdid I just word that the same? how am I talking differently to them?â and opening the door to comparison of how you talk to them and it can only go from there. And it might be a little too much clearer than even going from Elâs to the movies with Will if heâs ever writing seconds apart with different levels even emotional depth to the topics and different levels of his own emotional openness - so he stops, because he doesnât like that feeling. And heâs a kid, too: donât like the feeling, avoid. Donât need to know why. (asking why was the bad feeling in the first place, actually).
It isnât anything against El any more than it is against Lucas, Dustin, or Max; rather, something for Will. Something about how even without an explicit love triangle presented to him, when presented with them as the two options in lower stakes situations like who he physically drifts towards, he has consistently made his choice already. And part of that is that itâs in a group. He wonât choose if he thinks choosing one will make him lose the other (because it isnât anything against the rest of them so why push them away when he pulls someone closer if he didnât want to push them away anyways - it doesnât have to be an exchange). But if theyâre both right there, heâs just standing a little closer to one? Thatâs fine! Ask him to choose overall and heâll have trouble. But ask him to choose in little ways every day for a hundred days and heâll answer the same every time.