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nebulousfishgills · 1 year

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I could just be a dumbass who came to this conclusion after everyone else did and I just don't realize it, but I was mindlessly drafting a one shot and the thought occured to me.

There's a lot of mystery around the Massacre of Hawkins Lab and Henry's past that I think we're all trying to piece together. Weird inconsistencies, time gaps, missing information, and the like. I don't really have a coherent way of saying this cleanly, so I'll just dump it out.

I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of us in the "The Mind Flayer Was Behind It All" camp, but we all end up looking like Pepe Silvia in "It's Always Sunny" because of those missing pieces we're trying to drag together. I'll probably sound the same way, but here we go.

What I think is part of what's going on is that the Creel House is just a location in Hawkins where the barrier between both worlds is extremely weak, like how some haunted locations are more prone to paranormal activity than others. One might argue that Hawkins Lab is another one of these weak spots, but I wanna focus on the Creel House.

The Mind Flayer had always existed as a shadow-y soup of chaos for god knows how many years and as we can see, it's what connects the Hivemind together. It's like Bluetooth, really.

It's an entity on its own and I think it's goal is to control all things, in the Upside-Down and in the Overworld. What I think happened was that it was looking for a vessel to get into the Overworld it's been locked out of. Henry comes along, already disillusioned and dissatisfied with society for probably several reasons that we can't yet confirm nor deny, yet are implied (is he gay, is he neurodivergent, both, who knows).

These things will probably reveal themselves in The First Shadow, one of many reasons it's going to be a very important piece of lore...

The First Shadow... Shadow... Shadow Monster... Mind Flayer.

The Shadow Monster started to invade Henry's mind, stoke his worries and hatred to eventually link itself with him. That's how Henry's powers developed. It's a tired parallel at this point, but it's easy. The Flayer is Emperor Palpatine, Henry is Anakin Skywalker (and El is Luke). "Join me and together we can rule the galaxy/world, here are cool powerups to boot."

Once Henry's taken to Hawkins Lab, he's separated from the weak barrier that his house was, but the Mind Flayer has still infected his mind.

"The particles went inside them" is what Murray said about the Demo-creatures in the Russian prison, and I think somehow the Mind Flayer got particles/its influence/Bluetooth into Henry. He's constantly simmering, just waiting for the day he can escape and take his revenge. Which is where the Massacre comes in.

I can't explain every weird detail or inconsistency, but I can explain two things:

-I don't remember who said it, but I completely agree with it: Henry's monologue makes so much more sense if we look at it like someone possessed by an ancient evil eldrich being.

-Henry *absorbs* his victims. Remember how in Season 3 the Meat Flayer *absorbed* residents in Hawkins to grow stronger? I think the Massacre started as Henry clearing a path so he and Eleven could escape, but eventually the Shadow overtook him, telling him to keep going, keep killing, get him/it stronger by absorbing everyone, all those kids with powers like his.

I think the same thing happened at dinner in 1959.

I don't know what Henry's beef with Alice was or why he killed her, and I don't think he knew either. I think the Shadow Monster clouded his mind and judgement so he would kill everyone unimpeeded. His mother went first, the sticking point. The Flayer promised Henry it would help him deal with her, but once he did that, it was essentially Doctor Faustus signing his soul to Mephistopheles (if you'll excuse the too-appropriate reference). Too much power comes at a price, and that price is Henry's autonomy.

Oh, the Mind Flayer lets Henry shape it into the spider-like creature he'd visualized oh so long ago to let him believe he's the one in control, but he's not. The Shadow keeps poisoning him, his mind. How else do you think Henry decayed so throroughly?

I expect if you were to banish the Mind Flayer from Henry like they did Will in season 2, everything would go back to normal. He'd be human again. Powerless, sure, but he's no longer a pawn with his distaste for humans exacerbated to the point of serial murder. It would take effort, but I think it's possible.

Show Henry that he was loved as a child. Victor loved him, Alice loved him, Virginia... tbd. Eleven showed him kindness in Hawkins Lab, that kindness she showed and those past memories might be the key to ending this...

Oh wait!

Boom.

#i'm spitballing #but it all makes sense to me i might just be bad at explaining it #henry's the pawn who thinks he's the king #the victim who thinks he's the villain #so what i'm saying is that if he dies at the end i'm gonna be so pissed off #stranger things #stranger things 4 #stranger things 5 #stranger things theories #the first shadow #stranger things the first shadow #henry creel #vecna #001 #the mind flayer

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fortunatelyenchantingtaco · 5 months

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I just so deeply wish it was much more common and acceptable to make powerful characters just weird

Like take idk Gojo from jjk, or Luke Skywalker

Characters that are chosen or just powerful but also so deeply not human in theory but not in practice because people are cowards

Yes Gojo seems a bit uncanny with his eyes, but for the name of “Six Eyes” its very tame that they are jusr. Bright, which just makes him pretty. And he has a bit of weird mannerism that comes with seeing too much. Give my man more eyes physically. Make him so fucking weird he will benefit from it so much, give us biblically accurate Gojo

The same about Luke, Jedi in general. They different from everyone else canonically on biological level. Make them weird. Anakin is straight up space Jesus, all Skywalkers should be eldrich horrors in the flesh that’s too small for them

True creepy strong character despite not making changes physical but only in mannerism? Ellen Ripley from Alien Resurrection. She is so weird and uncanny and wrong in an unhuman way

Making changes physical would be easier when someone doesn’t have the sheer charisma of Sigourney Weaver so I’d accept just ya know. If Anakin had weird eyes or smh

When someone is a genious in any field possible, sometimes they dont seem human to you. I had a friend in uni who was probably smarter than most professors but was well. Not most stable? Like he brought knives to uni, had some very radical and borderline rasist or homophobic views cause of the company he kepe because he was desperately trying to belong somewhere. He had wild eyes, last thing he told me was that he had his first time with a sex worker and then went into army. It was natural to be weary of him, he was a nice dude but the smallest things could tip him off

Thats what im talking about

Like i get it it might be a hard thing to show depending on the medium. Thats why you can just fucking give them idk. More eyes or too emotional or whatever. I want them to be WEIRD

(In that way i dont have much against Anakin cause man. This dude. They made him so intense he felt weird. Luke was made to be a pretty blond warrior so he wasnt allowed anything bad about him. But Anakin? Oh he was allowed his anger issues and weird staring at people which is at least a small win)

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mightydragoon · 4 years

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In which the force isn’t human and neither are the skywalkers

mostly focusing on eldritch skywalkers.

1. wonderterror - peradi

Anakin Skywalker is the son of the Force.

He’s half human and half something monumental.

What does that make his children?

The Skywalkers aren't entirely human. Here's what that means.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/10560054/chapters/23328502

(Note* arguably the one that started my obsession for the idea that the force is eldritch)

2. Luke Skywalker. 19. Full human. --samvelg

Luke didn't always move right.

It takes Han a while to notice, though in his defense the first few days he knew the kid were predominantly spent in a near perpetual state of sassing, fight, or flight. Outrunning Star Destroyers and breaking irritating Princesses out of highly guarded Imperial battle stations tended to do that to a guy.

In the aftermath of the Battle of Endor Han learns the secret his best friend has been hiding plus a whole lot of other things he didn't expect, and has to decide what it all means.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/11418339

(Note* another great fic demonstrating the eldrich side of the force)

3. As Lightning to the Children eased - loosingletters

Anakin Skywalker was the son of the Force and in this universe the primordial power flowing through everything stayed to guide him.

“Mom,” Anakin said, blue eyes glowing bright like a thousand suns. Blood was dripping from his legs, his hands, the knife he was holding. “Mom, I can free us.”

[A Fix-it discussing how terrifying a half-mortal child should be.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22880668/chapters/54686671#workskin

4. The Eldritch Hunger -- Cmiller89

(One-shot from my one-shot collection turned into a multi-chapter fic)

After the revelation at Bespin, Luke is trying to come to terms with his new reality. However, reality is not what it seems and he finds that his father is both human and something old and terrifying. What does that make Luke?

Inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Contains body horror, the meaning of reality, and insanity.

5. there are powers scribblingTiresias

Anakin Skywalker isn't human, and in his nightmares, he sees things no one should see.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/11924484

6. the force is a horror story -- Darth Occlus (NotSummer)

The Force will give you exactly what you ask for. This is never what you want.

A series of short stories reinterpreting the Force as something terrible.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/14742015/chapters/34081683

7. From a Certain Point of View -SkylaDoragono

The same story, from four different points of view. After the disaster that was Cymoon, Luke volunteers for a special mission to Coruscant, with horrifying results.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19723918/chapters/46680172

8. the dark of death, the light of life-- EssayOfThoughts

Padmé thinks she is not entirely Padmé any more. Her hands are light and shadow, her feet trail to nothingness. Her hair is long and dark as the stretch between stars, and is as speckled with them. When she swims by a sun, her hair fades off into wispy void, like wind or like ribbons of silk gone tattered at the ends.

She does not think she is a Force Ghost: the Force had never touched her in life, and she had felt it seep away from her with her life. Whatever she is now, recreated from the body left behind, the wound of her death, the purpose she had to save the Republic, to save her children, is something much else.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19832026

9. black runs the space between the stars -EssayOfThoughts

It welcomes her when she twists her hand at her side as though to caress the great invisible shadow that follows her footsteps. She welcomes it as it nips at her ankles and guides her down this path and that until she finds new people to meet and new places to hide.

It sings in her head, too, strange songs no ear can hear, and the maids of the court think her strange as she tilts her head to follow the strange slow song that rings her round.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19825540

10. Lurking Hunger --planningconquest

Captain Tagett intends to collect the bounty on Luke Skywalker...provided they all can survive the night.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21247571

(Note* wonderfully tense and creepy, fantastic read give it a try)

11. Relatively Forceful-- planningconquest

Being the offspring of the Force means more than anyone thought it was. Being half of an Eldritch being means being related to more than one Eldritch being.

On a routine mission for the Alliance; Luke Skywalker runs into a semi-distant relation and a not so distant relation.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/11413896

12. Between the Light and Shadows: Luke & Vader One-Shots - SilverDaye

One-shot collection focused on Luke and Vader. All AU.

Chapter 32: In the Shadows of the Woods, Part 1

Summary: A group of college students go out to a secluded and hidden lake in the forest. One of them spies a large house near the lake, and takes a group to check it out. Soon screams fill the forest, so the rest of the group investigate. Arriving at the house they see something lurking in the shadows . . .

https://archiveofourown.org/works/15128117/chapters/50355557

Chapter 33: In the Shadow of the Woods, Part 2Summary:

(Horror Movie AU) Anakin Skywalker is trying his best to be a good husband and father. But it's hard to raise two wonderterror babies who can shapeshift and bend the rules of reality. What's worse is when a group of punk teenagers show up to his secluded house when he's already in a bad mood and hungry.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/15128117/chapters/50616983#workskin

13. Love Me and Despair -- MissChrisDaae:

The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.

Though the duel on Mustafar goes somewhat differently from the story you might have heard, Darth Vader finds himself much in the same place, having lost everything he tried to save through Falling.

In his grief, Vader plunges deeper into the Dark Side, breaking every law of nature and the Force to get what he wants. But the price that must be paid is far steeper than he might realize.

The Galaxy Far Far Away is about to get a very different kind of tyrant.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22030573/chapters/52576588

14. The kidnappings of a Sith Lord - maedre13

How a certain Sith Lord may or may not kidnap his rebel son. One-shots. Strongly inspired by sparklight´s “Where Our Intrepid Hero Doesn´t Get Away”.

Chapter 21 : In which Luke summons a demon (1/3)

Luke Skywalker dabbles with the Dark Arts and summons the S class demon Darth Vader. Neither his best friend Leia nor the demon himself are amused.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/10606992/chapters/49770443

Chapter 22: In which Luke Skywalker summons a demon (2/3)

Pastor Kenobi does not appreciate demons in the neighborhood. Luke tries to keep his full name a secret because he doesn’t want to die. He’s not very good at it.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/10606992/chapters/50026787#workskin

Chapter 23 : In which Luke summons a demon (3/3):

Luke and Darth Vader investigate Mayor Palpatine. Luke is not aware of the bond that exists between Palpatine and Vader… ever since Anakin Skywalker turned into a demon.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/10606992/chapters/50683922#workskin

#star wars #the force is eldritch #sw #nonhuman skywalkers #skywalkers #shorter than usual #hey not a lot of these exist I work with what I'm given #fanfic recs #fanfiction recommendation #star wars fanfic #fanfic #fanfiction

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