Sleepy Will who likes to hold things as he dozes like his plush tiger, a pillow, ofc Mike. Then it's Mike struggling to get out of Will's clutches cuz he's awake and once he's up, he's up. Escape is futile cuz Will ain't budging and every time Mike whisper-begs "C'mon lemme go" Will sleepily grunts "no" and squeezes tighter. The only way for Mike to be free is by saying he has to pee and that's when Will let's him go finally.
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there are stuffed animals everytime we see Wills room
Will Byers canonically loves stuffed animals
Florida?
Sorry for not being more specific, there were only ten options so I started going with continents
Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair in Stranger Things (2016- )
aka. Lucas Sinclair is a perfect boy who deserves the whole entire world
I can't remember who made the post (whoever it was, let me know), but I'm thinking about how someone said El and Will both represent the different sides of fight or flight trauma responses. El is fight. Will is flight (or I guess freeze/flight).
El was taught to use violence growing up. Which is why her first instinct when looking danger in the eye or when she's upset about something is to typically get violent. I mean, we saw it when she threw Lucas off of Mike, when she melted those lab people's brains, when she threw those waffles and that book at Hopper and hit him with the couch, when she threw Max off her skateboard, and etc.
These are the two most recent examples.
El represents the "fight" aspect of fight of flight.
Will on the other hand has been shown time and time again to flee or freeze when faced with dangerous or upsetting situations. (And the two times he did stand his ground and "fight", he got kidnapped and possessed...so it makes sense for him to want to not fight anymore and to run). I mean we saw it when he ran away from the "Demogorgon" (before trying to fight and getting caught), he spent all of his time in the Upside Down running and hiding, he ran away from the Mind Flayer MANY times (obviously before following Bob's advice and getting possessed), and etc.
And two of his most recent examples is when El was getting bullied. He completely locked up.
Will represents the "flight/freeze" aspect of fight or flight.
I don't know...I just think it's interesting that Willel are on different sides of the spectrum when it comes to trauma responses and how they deal with dangerous or upsetting situations.
i could NOT stop thinking about this post from @elmaxed so i needed to draw something based on it
[+ still version under the cut]
Now that I finished these... I will watch vol 2 (>_<)
I will do more later... You can tell how much I'm obsessed with Will and Mike LMAO
little byers-wheeler family.