It's Mean! I Want To Help, But Can't... Because This Is Really Not Good At All!! REBLOG AND SOMEONE DO

MY ROMAN EMPIRE

Greetings my cubs^^

I am soo sorry for the bad quality of the pics, I’m going to draw it digitally as soon as I can. I’m also sorry that I didn’t posted i a long time u.u

…let’s just say…it was a really tough time for me and my family… But one(maybe five o.o,) certain person(s) helped me through. It was Thomas Sanders(and his sides) a.k.a @thatsthat24 , who made me laugh during this time and I wanted to thank him for that!^^ (or if you’re reading this, thank you thomas)

And I thought: “hey, why not using some gift as a ‘thank you’?” So here we are now, me with these pictures, showing them to you… ’ )- ’…

Anyways, I decided to try thinking for new outfits/looks for the #SanderSids I could go into detail what I thought of it and how I thought of it if you want^^ But that's all for today Stay who and how you are Because that's the best thing about you! ~ ~ bey ^^

I still don't understand this scene... Dash clearly hates Danny so much and treats him so badly, but why did he accept Danny's request to open the locker door for him?

Kind of crazy that Steve is one of the most beloved and iconic characters on the show, for better or for worse, but we actually know the least about him out of anyone in the main line up. We know more about characters only introduced in season 4 than we do him

We don't even know his parents' names?? We know the names of Robin's parents, even Eddie's and Barb's... We barely know a thing about Steve outside of that he's from a rich upbringing, good at sports, babysits the kids, is fucking feral and should probably relax a bit with Nancy.

I think this explains why there's so many fics out there about him secretly being a Number. Of the main line up if anyone were to turn out to be a surprise Number he's the most plausible because genuinely what the fuck do we even know about him that would dispute that theory?

(I'll also always point out what a striking resemblance Steve has to one of the original MKUltra test subjects, Ken. Who I'm not saying could be his dad but they could at the very least be related. Ken talked about his whole family being gifted, and how he'd be drawn to places; ending up in the right place at the right time as related to his abilities, and Steve sure does have a way of walking in on things right as he's needed, however farfetched the circumstances may be.)

Yo, can someone write me a fanfiction, maybe just a one shot, of Billy joining the group in season 2, that exact night? Like:

No fight between Steve and Billy, because Steve "promised to keep you shitheads safe, and that is exactly what I'm doing to do." And honestly? What could be safer for max in that moment: staying in the house this mind flyer thing knows where they are OR at her home, with her brother who should have a decent punch seen from the basketball court.

So instead of being like "Max? What's a Max? A ginger, like the roots?" He just straight up goes; "you know what, yeah, they've been playing and she definitely should go home, NOW. Just drive, mister 2. place, drive and don't ever look back. Got it Hargrove?" Suddenly screaming and Steve is back in the house immediately- the Demodog wasn't as dead as they thought...

billy isn't a character.

hes a plot point. an object used for max's development. but he could've been. but the duffer brothers were too lazy to actually put the effort in to redeem him properly. so they took the easy way out and hoped it'd work to kill him off in a hero's sacrifice. which feels hollow and unemotional as he was literally a puppet for 95% of the season.

but they dropped all these hints to deeper shit they could've used to make an actual character-an interesting one too. that they did absolutely nothing with and is never mentioned again.

billy being abandoned by his mother and left with his abusive dad who punishes him for his stepsister's perceived bad behavior. that same father ridiculing him over his perceived masculinity, and calling him slurs when he doesn't perform. a step mom who sees it but doesn't intervene. moved from his hometown against his will. hes alone in a town he hates. no friends, no freedom. he cant even surf any more.

the animosity betweeen billy and max being about the move to hawkins. something mentioned several times but never explained. they both blame each other for it. billys performative masculinity, yet his clear obsession with steve harrington. calling steve pretty boy, the one earring, the very specific slur his father uses against him.

ALL of that is just canon.

now, billy is an asshole straight up. he threatened to run over a bunch of kids for no reason and broke max's skateboard. like yeah. hes such an ass. but theres a lot of complex shit packed in there.

he was screaming for help when he gets possessed, watching himself kill people. he's literally screaming. and nobody gives a single fuck (except for max) and that makes sense for the characters as they've been treated pretty horribly by billy. but he was 17 years old. he never got a chance to change or to even realize he wanted to. thats fucking depressing. him being an abuse victim (and nowhere near a perfect one) means he never got to grow outside of the box hed been shoved in. he never got to be anything else.

he's not a character. not with any motivations or anything. he existed to be in the way and then to die to further max's development. and i can't just be okay with that.

Joyce telling Steve cute stuff about Billy at the dinner table. Billy wants to dig himself into the ground.

REBLOG, DO NOT REPOST ⚠️

just some observations + thoughts about this:

Dacre accidentally defaulting to a New Yorker American accent and hand gestures for a few seconds is highly hilarious and the fact that that’s the take they chose to use, i love it.

The iconic “it’s givin me da heebiejeebies”, peep this grandpa, we love that that’s a thing Billy said in canon. It seems like something a bad fanfic writer would make him say BUT NO. He actually said it.

This is one of the only times Billy actually calls Max his sister of his free will and i… 🥺 of course it’s to Steve. 

Why do none of the Billy antis realize that this is completely valid thing for Billy to think? Billy has ZERO context as to what’s going on with the Upside Down, no one thought to try to tell him (despite the fact that the Byers house is a mess for a reason and there’s a literal demogorgon chestburster in the fridge that would’ve made it incredibly easy to convince him). From his perspective, it is so weird for this 18 y/o senior to be hanging around alone in this random person’s house with his middle school sister and a bunch of boys. Like i know we’ve been conditioned by this point in season 2 to know that Steve’s a good guy and has no bad intentions with the kiddos, but it’s so obvious why this is weird from Billy’s perspective.

Billy and Max have only lived in Hawkins for 1 WEEK at this point. They start going to Hawkins schools on October 30th and the fight happens November 5th. They just went through a MAJOR cross country move, likely due to traumatic reasons (depending on if you follow Runaway Max, which has since been retconned after Season 3, or the fanon theories, or even none at all, moving so far from somewhere you’ve lived your whole life can be traumatic on its own, not to mention with an abusive parent). In my opinion, he jumped the gun on fighting Steve, but it makes sense after Steve straight up lied to his face without any remorse. It doesn’t make it right, but it makes sense with context and the tiniest amount of thought.

And a random thought that this inspired: BOTH Billy and Max are in high conflict mode at this point with all of these big changes being so recent and i would give my left foot to see them interact a few months down the line. The most we get of this is we see them share a look before Max goes to the Snow Ball, and while Max is still standoffish, Billy looks almost remorseful. By the time Billy is possessed, Max obviously has forgiven Billy to some degree for his anger in this time period and cares for him deeply (by the way she reacts in The Sauna Test and Battle of Starcourt episodes).

What happened in the ~seven months between s2 and s3?? Release the flashbacks, Duffers!! Do the “make Billy’s death actually mean something” challenge or die by my sword.