New headcanon just dropped. Sit back while I take you on a hypothetical ride.
Let's say Will gets to be the hero for season 5. At El's side, they are able to put an end to Vecna. All that's left is sealing up the Upside Down forever.
The tricky part is, Will, because he's connected to Vecna/The Mind Flayer, is aware of how to seal the Upside Down forever. But it potentially requires a sacrifice. Someone to be on the other side to zip it shut for good. (or at least, until the next evil person gets yeeted to the Upside Dow by mistake and becomes a super villain). Doing this will fix the barrier between the planes, preventing gates from easily being torn open.
Will doesn't tell anyone this. He just says he has a plan and to wait for him. He acknowledges he might never get back though and plans to just seal it up with him inside to prevent his friends and family from trying to stop him from doing what needs to be done.
They wait a while and everyone starts to get suspicious. Especially El.
Will has almost completed the task and he's probably a mess emotionally like, "This sucks, but I can't let this happen to anyone else. 😥 Never again." The whole dramatic "close your eyes before completing the deed" thing.
But then he hears, "OH NO YOU DON'T". Before he even knows what's happening, he feels himself being pulled right back through to the other side right before it gets sealed up forever. Something he probably couldn't have done on his own.
When he opens his eyes again and looks up, El is standing above him with a minor nosebleed looking pissed, panicked, and sad all at the same time.
"HOW DARE YOU TRY TO DO THAT ON YOUR OWN!" she screams followed by hugging him so tight that he chokes a little bit.
Yes, Will saved the world and almost committed the ultimate sacrifice, but his sister said "HELL NO" and managed to save him in the nick of time.
If you post these elsewhere and you got them from me, would love for you to credit/link back here but otherwise go crazy folks!
i love you will byers i love that you’re so cheesy that you painted the love of your life as a knight in shining armor and i love that you drew a literal heart on his shield and i love that you think of him as the heart of the party because he’s your heart and i love that deep down you’re a total hopeless romantic despite the fact that you have to hide your feelings and i love that you care so much and i love that even after you’ve been hurt so many times you still have so much to give and and and
something like a study from the pilot because i decided i need to urgently exercise drawing environments
i’m so excited for stranger things 5 to be so will-centric that all the homophobic fans whine and cry about how they watched 5 seasons of a sci-fi horror show over the span of 8 years just for it to end up being the coming of age story of a gay kid
“mike wheeler is fucking gay and byler is endgame,” i say into the mic. the crowd boos. i begin to walk offstage, head lowered in defeat.
“no,” someone says. there, in the back row, stands noah schnapp. “she’s right.”
“yeah, she’s definitely right,” another voice says. it’s finn wolfhard.
“yep, she’s right,” say david harbour, brett gelman, and gaten matarazzo.
then, through the grateful tears in my eyes, i watch as one last figure stands and faces the crowd:
“yes,” the figure says. “mike is indeed fucking gay. byler canon.” i can’t believe it. it’s shawn levy himself.
the crowd gasps. i burst into tears. heroes by bowie begins to blast from an overhead speaker. byler tumblr rejoices. we are saved.
Maybe you should’ve reached out more (I missed you)
date: 08/12/2022 💙
byler count: 96,000 💛
notable news:
• many bylers hoped for the van script to be released today, but it unfortunately hasn’t been yet.
• there was a decent amount of discussion about twitter, more specifically twitter bylers, on the tag today. i only use twitter to update myself on the byler news occurring there, so i am not the most reliable source when it comes to twitter drama.
as a result of this drama, it is being said that many twitter bylers are flying over to tumblr!! i’d like to end today’s data by giving all these new tumblr bylers a warm welcome <3
WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU ALL SUMMER AND WE’RE SO GLAD YOU’RE FINALLY HERE!
I’ve never been one for saying ‘I told you so’ but I cannot lie..
I am so looking forward to say I told you so to the Michigan Minion shippers when Byler is canon and they can’t do anything about it