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1. "Today I decided to rewatch Season 5 Volume 1, and a infinitesimal successful Episode 1 truly caught my attention. When Mike is talking to Holly astatine her school, helium is explaining dungeon crawls arsenic determination 'he fights monsters, evil wizards, and sorcerers.' Monsters intelligibly suggest the Demogorgons, evil wizards notation to Vecna, and, arsenic Mike said himself, Will is the Sorcerer. In Episode 4, we besides spot Will link to the hive and termination 3 Demogorgons, and past proceed to hitch his nose. When helium does this, helium wipes his chemoreceptor with his limb successful the other absorption to however El does, and I deliberation this is simply a hint that helium is her opposite. I judge the 2 of them volition travel to a head, and helium volition beryllium warring the remainder of the formed arsenic suggested by Mike."
2. "In play 4, Vecna explains what helium saw erstwhile El created a gross and banished him to Dimension X. Vecna makes it dependable and look similar helium is controlling and forming the Mind Flayer to his will. Vecna becomes 'the predator helium has ever meant to be.' But what if the Mind Flayer conscionable wants Vecna to judge that helium is the almighty one? In Season 5 Volume 1, we get the country of Henry acrophobic of the caves successful his imagination world. And later, Vecna tells Will that children are easy breached and weak. Does helium accidental this because, astatine 1 point, thing happened successful the caves that made Vecna consciousness breached and weak? Something that made him privation to go a predator alternatively than prey? I deliberation the Mind Flayer sensed this astir Henry and is letting him deliberation helium is successful control, utilizing him arsenic a span to the overworld of Hawkins."
"The Mind Flayer is the last boss, of which we cognize precise little. Henry is conscionable different pawn successful the Mind Flayer’s schemes. At immoderate point, I deliberation the kids and/or Henry volition fig this out. Maybe we volition spot humanity successful Vecna again, earlier adjacent helium turns against the Mind Flayer, oregon the Mind Flayer destroys Vecna erstwhile it has nary usage for him."
3. "This is my prediction for Episode 5. "The explanation of 'shock jock' is: A vigor property who says outrageous, offensive, oregon provocative things to get attention, boost ratings, oregon disturbance controversy. In Episode 1, we larn Robin is being held backmost due to the fact that the subject is monitoring WSQK. Now that the subject is dead, she is escaped to uncover what is genuinely happening successful Hawkins. I judge they usage the vigor stations to pass the citizens of Hawkins and impulse them to evacuate. To halt the evacuation, Vecna sends the Shadow Monster toward WSQK to sabotage the broadcast."
4. "As we know, each clip Mr. Clarke teaches successful Stranger Things, it ever ends up being helpful. And I deliberation it’s going to beryllium proven again aboriginal successful this season. If you look astatine the rubric of Episode 7, it's called 'The Bridge.' And if you look backmost astatine Episode 3, Mr. Clarke is successful class, teaching astir wormholes and the Einstein-Rosen bridge. I conducted immoderate probe to summation a amended understanding, but successful theory, it’s the conception of a transportation betwixt 2 chiseled points successful abstraction (or dimension). At 1 point, erstwhile helium asks wherefore wormholes are interesting, Erica talks astir however specified BRIDGES could let substance to question betwixt galaxies and dimensions without crossing the abstraction successful between. We tin already question done the Upside Down, but we can’t walk done the wall. I deliberation this hint and this occurrence mean this is however they’re going to fig retired however to get done the partition and scope Henry, somehow, based connected Mr. Clarke’s theory."
5. "I conscionable saw Stranger Things: The First Shadow and had an 'aha!' infinitesimal from the country wherever Vecna says to Will, 'I’m not done with you yet.' This cracked a flood of answers for maine to the full bid and galore questions I had. The crushed the remark from Vecna is truthful important (I deliberation the Duffer Brothers are giving america a hint to the full story) is that it shows helium has had a program and a extremity each along. Vecna’s extremity end is to crook oregon spell backmost to the clip earlier helium was affected successful the cave by immoderate (tool, blood, immoderate they were moving on, Brenner’s dad) helium recovered successful there, near by the lab/scientist feline that stole and died for. That trauma changed everything for Henry to yet go Vecna. Henry was not evil from the beginning. He was awkward, yes, but the information that helium helped Patty Newby find her ma and loved her shows helium had empathy, and helium wants to spell backmost to that time."
"He besides hated his clip with Brenner, being utilized for his abilities, past being controlled arsenic a helper successful the labs, and watching the remainder of 02-012 spell done what helium did. What would his beingness person been similar adjacent if El hadn’t sent him to the Upside Down and Dimension X?
His archetypal program was to usage El to escape, which we saw successful his backstory successful Season 4. At the extremity of the day, helium is human, dissimilar the Mind Flayer. He is trying to flight from Dimension X, and helium has been readying a mode to bash so, which tin lone beryllium achieved by turning clip back."
6. "What if Will is going to conscionable Max, Holly, and the different kidnapped children successful Vecna’s mindscape? There are immoderate behind-the-scenes photos of Noah Schnapp connected acceptable with the kid actors, and present that we cognize that Will tin siphon powers from Vecna, helium whitethorn beryllium capable to infiltrate Vecna’s mind. Perhaps during the infirmary pursuit country with the Demodogs, Vecna has sent them aft Max due to the fact that she is the entity that is disrupting his plans? She was meant to die, but erstwhile El saved her, her consciousness got stuck successful Henry’s head, which he’s present utilizing to support the children docile. Perhaps her telling the children the information is ruining his plans?"
"If Will, perchance with El’s help, tin infiltrate Henry’s caput to pass with the different children, is that however the remainder of the squad tin find retired that Max is inactive fighting? And it mightiness besides beryllium that flash that we spot of Will amongst each the vines and thorns if helium gets caught? Just immoderate thoughts that I’ve had astir the remainder of the season. I’m connected the borderline of my spot reasoning astir wherever the communicative volition pb us!"
7. "I person a beardown mentation that Steve Harrington isn't making it past Episode 5 ('Shock Jock'). There’s a changeable of Jonathan hugging everyone, bruised and emotional. This intelligibly appears to beryllium a real-world reunion, not a hallucination. So Jonathan survives immoderate happens successful the Upside Down and makes it back. On the different hand, Steve’s photograph looks wholly different. There's a changeable of Dustin hugging Steve, but thing feels off. I deliberation this mightiness beryllium a Vecna caput trick, akin to what helium did with Max and her ma successful Season 4. If Steve and Dustin near connected a atrocious enactment (or haven't resolved things), Vecna could usage a imaginativeness of Steve to manipulate Dustin. We person impervious of Jonathan returning from the Upside Down/surviving, but we don't truly person the aforesaid factual grounds for Steve making it to the precise end."
"Steve has ever been my favourite character, and I don't privation to spot him dice astatine all. However, astatine the aforesaid time, I wouldn't privation his ending to consciousness bare oregon directionless, and that's the superior crushed down my information of this theory.
If I conscionable deliberation astir wherever his communicative is astatine the moment, it feels similar he's truly stuck. He's bouncing betwixt jobs with Robin, trying to fig retired who he's expected to be, and everyone astir him seems to beryllium moving forward. Nancy and Jonathan are heading disconnected to antithetic colleges, starring to antithetic lives. Nancy isn't choosing Steve implicit Jonathan. She'll astir apt extremity up azygous by the extremity of the show.
Joe Keery has stated that fans volition beryllium satisfied with the ending of Steve's story, which suggests the writers are giving him a important conclusion, not a anemic last country successful which helium fades into the background.
Some of you guys are speculating that it mightiness beryllium Robin, but that doesn't rather consciousness right, either. Will conscionable wouldn't let it, and the amusement seemed to debar sidesplitting Ted oregon Karen successful Volume 1. It truly does consciousness similar they're holding disconnected connected that affectional gut punch for idiosyncratic who matters mode much to the audience.
Of course, there's the full time-travel thought floating around, too. They could termination idiosyncratic and bring them back. But honestly, I don't deliberation they'd reverse everything.
Whatever his ending is, I conscionable privation it to mean something. Whether helium lives oregon dies, helium deserves a infinitesimal that feels existent to everything he's been through."
8. "Everyone's talking astir the A Wrinkle successful Time prophecy due to the fact that Episode 6's rubric is 'Escape from Camazotz.' They deliberation it’s conscionable astir the Mayan bat god, but spell backmost to the infirmary country successful Episode 2, and the publication Mike sees? A Wrinkle successful Time. In that book, Camazotz is simply a satellite controlled by a giant, disembodied encephalon called IT, which forces a hive caput connected everyone. IT = the Mind Flayer (the particles/cloud). The crippled of A Wrinkle successful Time: the youngest member (Charles) thinks he’s beardown capable to pat into IT, but gets possessed. Who is our Charles? Will. The solution: The sister (Meg) saves him not by fighting, but by utilizing the 1 happening IT doesn't have, which is love. She talks him down. The endgame: Mike is the Meg. The flashback successful Episode 4 serves arsenic proof. The last conflict isn't El blowing things up — it’s Mike walking into the occurrence to speech Will retired of the possession."
9. "I deliberation it’s unusual that we person nary thought wherever Dr. Owens presently is, fixed the information that helium has been a reasonably large quality since Season 2 of the show. He’s the crushed El was capable to unrecorded a beingness successful Season 4, and present helium has vanished. I find it truly unusual that a quality this integral to the communicative astatine the halfway of the amusement hasn’t appeared successful the archetypal 4 episodes. We present person 4 much episodes of the full amusement near to fig retired wherever helium is, wherever he’s been, and what he’s been doing since Nevada. If they’re trying to connote that helium is deceased by Jack Sullivan, past wherefore didn’t they conscionable amusement that connected surface successful that country from Season 4?"
"The Duffer Brothers person expressed thing similar 'all escaped ends volition beryllium tied,' meaning it volition travel to a implicit and satisfying ending. However, we haven’t seen however Argyle oregon Enzo (Dmitri Antonov)’s stories concluded. It would’ve helped the communicative travel if they had scenes wherever they went home, oregon Hopper said his goodbyes. If they bash the aforesaid with Dr. Owens (disregarding his beingness and not mentioning him astatine all), past they would beryllium missing retired connected a important origin wrong the story.
A mentation I person is that helium is presently successful that probe laboratory moving connected Kali (008). That would marque full sense, arsenic Sullivan knew however bully helium was with El."
10. "I deliberation erstwhile they decision Vecna, clip fundamentally resets. It goes backmost to erstwhile Henry was a child, but due to the fact that they had defeated him, helium nary longer possessed psychic abilities, starring him to ne'er consciousness alienated, autumn for immoderate acheronian unit had influenced him successful the archetypal place, and yet ne'er termination his family. Because of this, Dr. Brenner ne'er had a kid to experimentation connected successful the archetypal spot successful bid to replicate his powers. So everyone other inactive exists, but El’s ma is ne'er successful the study, El is calved and yet grows up arsenic a mean kid, and meets the person radical anyway. We find retired that Hopper's daughter’s crab was really caused by immoderate benignant of chemic coming from the lab, and due to the fact that the laboratory doesn’t exist, doing the aforesaid experiments successful this timeline, she’s alive."
"I deliberation Will was really calved people with psychic powers, which is wherefore the acheronian was capable to power him successful the archetypal place, and wasn’t really conscionable a vessel.
It ends with america seeing the acheronian unit looming successful the background, preying connected Will arsenic a child, the mode it did with Henry Creel. And we spot the country that Mike talked about, wherever helium archetypal met Will. Where Will is unsocial connected the swings and feeling alienated (the cleanable clip for the acheronian to instrumentality clasp of him, causing him to termination his family, beryllium taken to Dr. Brenner, and go portion of this timeline). Then we spot Mike travel up and inquire him to beryllium friends, leaving the acheronian incapable to instrumentality implicit Will.
11. "When was the archetypal clip the Mind Flayer was the main villain? Season 2. Who other did we conscionable successful Season 2? Kali (008). I deliberation she mightiness beryllium the carnal signifier of the Mind Flayer. If you deliberation astir it, the Mind Flayer invades your caput and makes you spot worldly that isn't real. Kali's powerfulness is invading people's minds and making them spot immoderate she wants them to see. Kali learns people’s phobias and uses them against them. She made her ain person spot spiders. Henry has a fascination for spiders...the Mind Flayer’s signifier successful the Upside Down resembles a spider. Vecna sees the Upside Down arsenic a beauteous satellite untouched by man. It’s a hive mind. What if Henry’s caput situation successful Season 5 Episode 4 isn’t Henry’s creation, but Kali’s? She escaped Hawkins Lab earlier El took down 001/Henry. The Upside Down already existed, and Kali was MIA. Where did she spell and however did she refine her powers earlier reuniting with El?"
"In that Season 2 episode, Kali teaches El to fortify her powers by channeling anger. Henry gave her the aforesaid advice. It sounds excessively coincidental not to mean something. Kali is fueled by choler and hate, conscionable similar 001/Henry.
And she was recovered successful the Upside Down subject base. How did she get there, and wherefore was she locked distant successful a vault, connected to a task Nina-type tech? At first, I thought she was a limb against Vecna, and El releasing her made each hellhole interruption loose; however, determination are excessively galore crippled holes for Kali to beryllium a viable limb against Vecna.
Dr. Kay intelligibly knows a batch astir the beings of the Upside Down. El missed her sister, which is wherefore I deliberation it’d beryllium that overmuch much of an aggravated crippled twist. She’d look a crossroads to extremity a warfare started by idiosyncratic who was allegedly her sister. She has nary affectional attachment to Henry, but she does to Kali. It compromises the goal. Kali is precise manipulative; she leads a radical of outcast criminals. It fits the quality illustration of a rich, highly anticipated villain story."
12. "In the Season 5 trailer released by Netflix, Joyce is crying successful the vigor country wherever Steve and Robin work. In the adjacent portion of the trailer, we spot that the Mind Flayer is moving astir the vigor operation (not successful the Upside Down). We besides spot Nancy, Jonathan, Steve, and Dustin successful 1 radical successful the Upside Down, and aboriginal Dustin connected the vigor operation IN THE UPSIDE DOWN with idiosyncratic (I deliberation Steve) adjacent to him. My mentation is that Steve and Dustin volition spell to the vigor operation to halt the Mind Flayer from broadcasting thing that merges the Upside Down with the regular world, portion Nancy and Jonathan effort to halt creatures elsewhere (or they besides articulation them astatine the vigor tower)."
"I besides deliberation idiosyncratic successful this radical of 4 volition die. And successful bid for that 1 country to hap wherever Steve hugs Dustin, I deliberation Steve either needs to beryllium astir to sacrifice himself, they request to fail, oregon idiosyncratic truly important dies."
13. "I deliberation that Dr. Kay was either Dr. Brenner's probe spouse oregon subordinate erstwhile his task began. They are astir the aforesaid age, and we cognize that his 'program' had beardown authorities ties. What if that necktie was Dr. Kay? I deliberation helium was the face, but she was the brains — it would explicate however she knows to subdue El's powers. I deliberation the sonic speakers she uses are an outward mentation of the spot that Dr. Brenner implanted successful 001/Henry. They could beryllium an aboriginal prototype oregon a aboriginal improvement of the exertion needed to interfere with their telekinetic powers."
"Kali (008) explains that she escaped from Hawkins Lab and recovered a household similar what El had with Hopper, but she mislaid them arsenic well. I deliberation it is precise imaginable that the authorities hunted her similar they did El, but her adoptive household was killed for lodging her. However, dissimilar El, Kali was seeking retired erstwhile lab-workers. What if she were aft Dr. Kay? The lone mode I could spot her being captured is if she was lured into a trap, which would explicate wherefore we spent an full occurrence watching her revenge crippled unfold.
It would besides explicate Dr. Kay's probe with the Upside Down. This pistillate was virtually surviving successful the Upside Down erstwhile Dr. Brenner sent hazmat suits successful for him. She seems to recognize the Upside Down a batch amended than Dr. Brenner did, on with the monsters wrong of it. I deliberation it is highly imaginable that she was determination erstwhile 001/Henry killed everyone astatine the lab, and she knows that El was not responsible. The mode she spoke to El makes it wide that she is not threatened by her. It was eerily akin to however Dr. Brenner would talk to her, similar she was astir arrogant of her."
14. "Everyone is wondering which main character(s) volition dice this season. So acold successful the past, it’s astir ever been a caller summation that’s a instrumentality favourite who dies (along with others), similar Eddie, Alexei, and Bob. Everyone loves this season's caller character, Derek, but if the inclination continues, that puts him successful a premier spot to die. Vecna’s going aft kids, truthful possibly helium sacrifices himself to prevention immoderate of his classmates oregon Holly? Especially due to the fact that Holly hates him, seeing him redeemed and go a bully person, and past laying his beingness down would wounded each the more."
15. "I judge the Upside Down is not a magnitude astatine each — it is simply a representation loop, and Vecna's extremity is not to triumph a warfare but really to merge into a imperishable psychic situation constructed from affectional imprints of Hawkins. The Upside Down acts much similar a psychic signaling that has stalled alternatively than a world. It's frozen astatine the nonstop infinitesimal Will's taken, not conscionable the day, but the infinitesimal helium vanished. This aligns with what we spot successful 'Will the Wise' (Season 2, Episode 4). Will isn't describing different dimension, but Hawkins, wrong, and overlaid similar a memory. In 'The Spy' (Season 2, Episode 6), the Mind Flayer doesn't conscionable power Will; it uses his memories arsenic conduits. The amusement tells america straight that the transportation betwixt the Upside Down and Will is memory-based. In 'The Massacre astatine Hawkins Lab' (Season 4, Episode 7), Henry's powers are turned connected done memory. We observe that his interior satellite is simply a psychic landscape."
"What we'll yet sanction Vecna's realm already functions arsenic a mindscape and not a portion of geography. In 'The Piggyback' (Season 4, Episode 9), it's El wrong Max's caput portion Max is wrong Vecna's. The environments eerily glitch, reset, and merge with 1 different similar immoderate benignant of corrupted bid of memories alternatively than spaces. Put this together, and the Upside Down behaves precisely similar a representation state."
Vecna is not conquering Hawkins; helium is trying to merge with a imperishable representation loop. His assemblage is wasting away, portion his caput is expanding. The brain-mass partition of his lair is straight connected with the laboratory wherever the representation manipulation experiments were started. It appears he's trying to make a psychic loop helium tin participate and manipulate astatine will.
And Max remains live but not conscious. She is the lone 1 of the victims to dice and travel back, but she didn't afloat instrumentality due to the fact that portion of her is trapped successful the memory-state that Vecna built. That's wherefore she glitches done antithetic scenes: due to the fact that her caput is successful the representation network, not wrong her ain body."
16. "I genuinely judge that, successful the end, Vecna is not the existent villain. It conscionable doesn't marque immoderate sense. Henry Creel is simply a regular quality — helium wasn't adjacent calved with his powers. We cognize this due to the fact that of Stranger Things: The First Shadow. In the show, Henry disappeared for astir 12 hours adjacent a laboratory wherever Dr. Brenner was conducting probe to find Dimension X. Henry returns late, but Alice, his younger sister, says that helium is not the aforesaid person. Henry begins sidesplitting animals and is believed to beryllium nether the power of the Mind Flayer. This makes consciousness due to the fact that the Mind Flayer is expected to beryllium an past being. A monster truthful aged and almighty and successful power of the full hivemind. How does a quality truthful young compared to the past monster extremity up 'controlling' the Mind Flayer itself? It makes nary consciousness for Henry oregon Vecna to really beryllium the 1 successful control. I deliberation it's the Mind Flayer itself."
"In Season 5 Volume 1, Max hides successful a cave she says Henry is acrophobic of, hence wherefore helium volition ne'er spell successful to get Max. I deliberation the cave is wherever helium primitively encountered Dimension X arsenic a kid and got his powers from. Max besides mentions that Henry is simply a captive successful his ain mind.
I deliberation successful the end, El, Kali (008), Will, and Vecna himself volition beryllium required to instrumentality down the Mind Flayer.
I besides deliberation that Holly and immoderate of the different kids volition besides get the powers Will got due to the fact that we spot the aforesaid setup with Will and the kids successful the Upside Down with the snake-looking happening pumping thing into their mouths."
18. "In Season 4, we learned that Vecna was incapable to usage his powers backmost successful 1979 due to the fact that Dr. Brenner had planted a spot (soteria) successful his neck. The spot was the lone happening stopping him from brutally murdering everyone astatine Hawkins Lab. It's singular that El oregon anyone other ne'er mentions that chip. Vecna is inactive somewhat quality aft all, with almighty psychic abilities. As Dr. Brenner is dead, possibly El and the pack volition effort to get Dr. Owens to make different spot for them and usage it to inject it into Vecna, if they tin get adjacent capable to him during their last battle. Either Will, El, oregon Kali (008) volition enactment that spot successful him, which volition weaken him again, and everyone successful the pack volition instrumentality turns beating him up erstwhile he's de-powered."
19. "What if, successful the end, Mike ends up redeeming Will by defeating Vecna, and Hopper does the aforesaid for El astatine the outgo of their lives? Mike talked astir however erstwhile they decorativeness playing D&D, they spell to a overmuch amended spot aft redeeming the day, precise akin to the Lord of the Rings ending, wherever Frodo goes to the Undying Lands, which isn’t precisely heaven. Maybe present they spell to a spot that’s the other of the Upside Down, oregon possibly the Upside Down gets uncorrupted. This would explicate how, adjacent though Max’s carnal signifier died, she was capable to beryllium successful the Upside Down, too, successful a antithetic form. Maybe Hopper reunites with his girl and is the sheriff successful this caller mentation of the Upside Down, but the crushed Mike looks truthful bittersweet successful the leaked images is that helium has to hold for his friends (especially Will) for erstwhile it’s their crook (when they die) to articulation him successful this benignant of afterlife."
"What if each the Demogorgons are really radical who died, and the 1 that refused to termination Joyce was Bob (unlikely)? Maybe the Mind Flayer is symbolic of the devil, and the Upside Down is hell, and the full overarching metaphor for the amusement is Will being acrophobic of what would hap if helium came to presumption with his sexuality. I’m a Byler believer, but I deliberation the ending betwixt the 2 of them is going to beryllium precise bittersweet."
20. "Karen and Ted Wheeler get attacked by the Demodogorgon erstwhile they travel to their location to kidnap Holly successful Volume 1. They marque it to the infirmary and are stabilized, but what if it's lone a impermanent suspiration of relief? Judging by the trailer, it appears that the Demodogs volition onslaught the infirmary (we spot Lucas trying to get Max retired of there, and it looks similar Vickie is besides there). Fans judge that Vecna figures retired that Max is sabotaging him from wrong by ruining his narration with Holly, truthful helium sends the Demodogs to the infirmary to decorativeness her disconnected for good. But what if Vecna takes the accidental to further messiness with the Wheelers by having the Demodogs decorativeness disconnected Karen and Ted? Maybe arsenic punishment for Holly for figuring retired that she disobeyed him?"
"All of this depends connected which different characters volition beryllium contiguous during the infirmary onslaught scene, particularly if El oregon a powered Will is among them. But I deliberation it's wrong the realm of anticipation that Ted and Karen mightiness not beryllium survivors for overmuch longer."
21. "Mr. Whatsit isn't Vecna, he's Henry. Stranger Things: The First Shadow is simply a important installment (even though the astir important aspects are besides being shared successful the TV show). What makes it important is that it reveals that Henry was primitively good. He loved Patty Newby, and helium was benignant to Joyce. He was conscionable tortured due to the fact that helium was infected with Mind Flayer particles successful a cave successful Nevada earlier helium moved to Hawkins. A Russian spy who worked successful Dr. Brenner's laboratory smuggled retired the Mind Flayer particles and was recovered dormant successful the aforesaid cave. In the archetypal London mentation of the play, Dr. Brenner recovered a Captain Midnight spyglass successful the cave. Now we person this representation world, wherever Henry is giving the kids their favourite foods, playing euphony with their favourite songs, and holding the spyglass and memories of Henry's pre-Mind Flayer, pre-evil-possessed life. And he's acrophobic of the cave?"
"Sorry, but Vecna would not beryllium acrophobic of the spot that gave him his powers, helium would LOVE it. Mr. Whatsit isn't Vecna, it's Henry. Vecna is the Mind Flayer possessing Henry's assemblage (like Will was possessed successful Season 2 and lied and got the soldiers killed).
Henry, arsenic successful the archetypal Henry Creel, is intelligibly trapped successful this representation world, too. He can't halt the Mind Flayer/Vecna mentation of his assemblage from kidnapping the children. He doesn't person the powerfulness to halt him, obviously, but helium is doing what helium tin to marque the children's lives little miserable and, with the music, possibly springiness them a accidental of escape.
I foretell they volition observe this successful Episode 6, and the spirit/memory of archetypal Henry Creel volition someway assistance them to decision the Vecna mentation of his body. Even if it's conscionable to dilatory Vecna down portion they enact 1 of their plans — it'll beryllium his Darth Vader moment."
22. "My mentation is that aft they decision Vecna, thing is keeping the Mind Flayer nether control. It's each the Demogorgons going connected a rampage, and the gates commencement to turn exponentially, risking cracking the satellite open. They recognize that betwixt the present 3 radical with psionic abilities, 1 has to spell to the different side. Will, whose powerfulness is straight derived from the Upside Down and is stronger successful presumption of earthy power, goes to the Upside Down. He locks down the Mind Flayer, and with El connected the different side, they are capable to seal the gross permanently."
23. And, "We’ve ever known that Vecna didn’t take Will by accident. In canon, the mentation is vague. We cognize Henry and Will are alike, but the 'why' has ne'er been afloat explained. In my theory, the crushed is profoundly psychological, rooted successful trauma, and connected crossed generations. To me, this starts with the 1959 transportation betwixt Lonnie and Henry. In 1959, teenage Lonnie Byers and young Henry Creel were some successful Hawkins. Lonnie attended Joyce Maldonado’s schoolhouse play, accidentally sitting successful a spot reserved for Henry’s father, Victor Creel (according to the Stranger Things Wiki). This incidental created a brief, high-tension enactment that became the effect of a semipermanent intelligence connection. In my theory, Lonnie is the ascendant figure, and Henry, young and sensitive, craves approval. Their dynamic is not a relationship, but a charged transportation defined by power and manipulation."
"Lonnie’s request for power manifests successful subtle yet damaging ways arsenic helium dominates, manipulates, and emotionally terrifies Henry. Henry seeks validation but is met with fearfulness and shame instead. This abusive dynamic imprints Henry with trauma, shaping his knowing of quality weakness and teaching him patterns of manipulation and affectional exploitation, seeds of what volition aboriginal germinate into Vecna.
Although Lonnie is the abuser, the acquisition shapes him, too. He internalizes shame and fearfulness of vulnerability, processing patterns of internalized anti-gayness, affectional repression, and projection. These unresolved feelings persist for decades, shaping his interactions with his ain son, Will, peculiarly erstwhile confronted with sensitivity, vulnerability, oregon traits that punctual him of Henry.
Will grows up sensitive, creative, and emotionally open, traits that echo young Henry. Because of Lonnie’s trauma, Will besides becomes the reflector of some Henry and Lonnie, embodying the vulnerabilities that Lonnie tried to suppress. This makes him uniquely resonant to Vecna, who recognizes successful Will the affectional blueprint of his ain past, amplified crossed generations.
In the precise archetypal episode, Joyce explicitly tells Hopper that Lonnie's usage of slurs and wide anti-gayness was a signifier of affectional abuse. He besides tried to unit Will to bash 'manly things' similar playing baseball, and disapproved of Will's much delicate quality and interests successful creation and Dungeons & Dragons.
This maltreatment and the lack of his begetter fig are important factors successful Will's quality improvement and his interior struggles with his ain individuality and self-esteem passim the show.
The intelligence concatenation tin beryllium summarized arsenic follows: Lonnie abuses Henry, Henry internalizes trauma, Henry becomes Vecna, Lonnie raises Will, Will mirrors Henry, past Vecna targets Will.
Will is chosen not by chance, but due to the fact that helium embodies the surviving continuation of a rhythm of control, fear, and affectional vulnerability that began decades earlier. The fearfulness is not conscionable supernatural; it is profoundly psychological, showing however trauma tin ripple crossed generations. Lonnie fueled Vecna."
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