Mike Wheeler and Will Byers as renaissance portraits
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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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no because its so funny to me that mike lying about his feelings to el in the monologue and repressing his feelings towards will was what literally helped kill max. my guy was that desperate to repress his gayness that he accidentally caused the tragic death of his best friends partner
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this outfit deserved more than just a few seconds of screen time
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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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People asked and I delivered! I rarely do full color paintings, but u guys deserve nothing but the best! And if they don’t become canon I will be deleting my entire computer hard drive.
Gotta be honest it’s kinda scary when suddenly over 1000 ppl see ur drawing, like that was a huge sudden pressure😭 also I’m really bad at depths and shadows, but I did my very best! Hope you like it<3
I have prints of this on my Inprnt!
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When bae sends you cryptic texts 🥰
+A close up on the tomagatchis bc I put some thought into them
I’m sorrry for posting so much about this 😭
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