#mike wheeler throwing shade at his sister

#eleven doesn’t care about how big your tv is mike

I just want Mike, Dustin, Lucas, Will, and Eleven to all go get some greasy fast food at Benny’s diner and throw fries at each other and laugh so hard it causes a scene and I want Mike to surprise Eleven by ordering her a strawberry milkshake and she is overjoyed because it’s pink and she loves pink cause it comforts her and Mike is all blushy-blush and Dustin is winking at Mike and they all go to the arcade after and teach Eleven how to play Skee-Ball and Air Hockey is that so much to ask

Omfg

I feel like people don’t fully grasp the weight behind this scene. People just write it off as El wanting to be pretty in Mike’s eyes, and him admitting he thinks she’s cute or whatever. But it’s so much more than that.

This is the opening scene to episode 7, so we’ve nearly reached the end of the season. Throughout the show, we’ve seen El make all of this progress from when we’re first introduced to her. She starts off as this broken, dirty, weird little girl who feels barely human. She doesn’t know how to interact with people properly. She doesn’t look normal or fit in. She doesn’t even understand what the word ‘friend’ means. Then she gets a make over; she gets this pretty dress, she gets a wig. She’s talking more, she’s making friends, she’s learning how to trust. Hell, she goes to school and she blends in. She’s changed.

And then, after everything that happens leading up to this scene, it’s like she reverts back to the old El. 011- the weird science experiment. She looks in the mirror, and it’s like the last few days never happened; she’s lost everything that made her normal. Her dress is dirty, her face is dirty, her hair is gone again, and to top it all off she hurt her friends. And it’s worse than before. It’s like she took one step forward and two steps back, because she’s changed. Now she knows what she’s missing - friendship, normalcy, even something as silly as long hair.

And then there’s Mike - her first friend - telling her she doesn’t need any of that. She’s ‘still pretty.’

stranger things appreciation week: favourite character → mike wheeler

eleven: *flips van, kills agents, breaks troy’s arm*

mike:

Mike… Yeah? I understand. Oh. Okay, cool. Cool.

Yeah that’s right, you better run! She’s our friend and she’s crazy! (Requested by anonymous)

We just tell our parents we have AV Club after school. That’ll give us at least a few hours for Operation Mirkwood.