The Very Curious Consistency of Elmax Wearing Yellow and Blue on their Wrists
I first noticed it in S3. El wears the blue hair tie that used to belong to Sara Hopper as a bracelet. Max wears a yellow watch. These respective accessories stay consistent despite their many outfits:
But that only started in S3, right?
OH, WAIT
(She took off the watch for the dance, but the cuff of her sleeve is still yellow!)
El is wearing flowers if you didn't notice like she IS the flower, life, resurrection. We can conclude that her powers are not for killing people/her personality is actually meant to be a healer, cure or medicine. Like Owens said "I believe you are the cure"
Trinity's love saves Neo - besides the "No" that El always utters is the ST version of "Nyu" from Elfen Lied
Neo real world = Max ; physical representation of her in the Void, not the mind - her mind avatar looks fine in comparison to her physical self.
Neo Matrix = El ; actual "ghost" mind version ; blood stains on shirt from the mind battle, no blood stains in the physical world.
This btw proofs that El can't find Max not because her mind is empty since it is NOT minds that El sees in the Void but events. El is the only representation of a mind (her own) in the Void - I'll talk about this in another post.
Oh, and this for Ronance....
"Tangled" is confirmed, so is "Matrix" & "Beauty and the Beast" because those are on the inspo board (just can't find the image rn).
For ElMax you can technically also add "The Legend of Korra" which was mentioned by one of the writers. So, Korrasami, Belle & Beast, Rapunzel & Flynn, Trinity & Neo are four couples we can count as inspos for ElMax.
Seriously, shall I talk about what actual love triangles in Stranger Things are and what isn't and never was? Certain characters never felt romantic love for one another, they kinda just pretended to or talked themselves into it.
so can we all agree that lumax and jopper were the best canon ships of season 4, plus ronance, elmax and steddie were the best non canon ships of season 4?!?!?!?!?!
It's kinda sad that the moment El moved out of Hawkins (and away from Max) she went back to wearing clothes that weren't her; like the flannels and all.
Somehow this shows that she only felt comfortable and safe to be herself with Max. Like, they were the happiest here.
I mean, the El we saw in season 3, when she was discovering what she really liked, she wouldn't have worn this.
I mean, Joyce, Will and Jonathan are great and take good care of her, they are her family now, but still, they don't understand her like Max.
Well, maybe Will and Jonathan do, in parts, but since Loonie left them, they didn't have to hide who they are because Joyce loves and accepts them just the way they are and she might not be perfect, but she loves them with everything she is.
El never had that. She never had a loving, somehow stable home. Yeah, Hopper was great and he took care of her, he protected her and he definitely loves her, but that doesn't erase all the pain, the trauma, all the abuse she experienced in that lab. And the only person who gets that, is Max because her life was as fucked up as El.
Max never had a stable life, her dad didn't really care about her, Susan thinks that they need a man to take care of them and puts Max safety in jeopardy because of it by bringing Neil and Billy into their lives, and then losing everything after Billy's death. Neil simply kicked them out of the house with nothing to support themselves. Probably not even their clothes because it was bought with his money.
So, Max starts wearing shirts too big for her (not that it doesn't look good on her, but it's not really her style, compared to season 2 and specially season 3), her hair is shorter, always in a loose ponytail.
and her smile is gone, just like the sparkle in her eyes. and I know this is directly related to her depression and it hurts to see her going through this. Alone.
She lost everything; her best friend, the home, her mom is working two jobs just so they can have the minimum, and not to mention her mom is also drinking so she's on her own. And on top of that she needs to deal with the guilt she feels for Billy's death and at the same time for feeling he deserved what happened.
And we know that in this show, even clothes there's a lot of meanings.
It's not really any theory or anything, it's just kind of a character analysis. Sort of. Anyway.