i still wonder why they made mike so significant in the flashback just for it to mean nothing later like this is the shit that only happens in fanfics bro
you’re all giggly reading some fic until you suddenly remember what the actual show was like, and so you start grieving what the ship could’ve been all over again. the whiplash is crazy
like not to beat a dead horse here but if the duffers wanted mike to be unambiguously straight and not have romantic tension with will they would've just done that. instead they made him gay as hell and for what (to bait us)