He invited El to be his date to the Snow Ball school dance. When he explained the Snow Ball, El didn't understand that people go with "someone that you like". In order to help her understand, Mike kissed her, revealing his feelings for her, and El accepted his invitation.
Now that Stranger Things season 4 has confirmed not only Will's queerness, but also his unrequited love for Mike, it's certainly interesting to look at their relationship in retrospect. Surely, Will's feelings for his best friend didn't come out of nowhere.
Mike doesn't have any interest in Will, though. Mike, thoughts he's far from a good boyfriend, shows far more interest in Eleven than he does in Will. I agree—Will is very much interested in Mike, but I don't think the feeling is mutual.
While Sadie Sink doesn't know Max's fate, it seems likely that the character survives to the end of the series. And that will be thanks to Eleven, who taps into her powers and uses the strength of her love for Max to save her.
Season 3. At the start of season three, Eleven and Mike have been dating for seven months, much to the dismay of Hopper, who is annoyed that El and Mike are constantly together.
Breakup. After being pushed away by Mike, Eleven breaks up with him and spends some much-needed girl time with her new BFF Max. They later reconcile after Mike reveals that he only avoided Eleven because Hopper had threatened him and tells El he loves her which she reciprocates.
Sadie Sink confirms that Max Mayfield is gay and in love with Eleven. Source : Variety. “She's definitely in love with her- I just felt a connection between the two of them immediately.
Despite her apparent demise, Eleven had survived, and secretly began living with Jim Hopper at his grandfather's old cabin.
As a few others have pointed out, they canonically love each other romantically, regardless of choice.
Noah Schnapp CONFIRMS his Stranger Things character Will Byers 'is gay and he does love Mike Wheeler' | PINKVILLA.
Now actor Noah Schnapp, who plays Will, revealed to Variety that his character is indeed gay, and secretly has feelings for his best friend, Mike, who's in a relationship with Eleven.
The following contains spoilers for Stranger Things Season 4, Volume 2, now available to stream on Netflix. In Season 4, Episode 8 of Stranger Things, “Papa,” the series finally gave Will a moment to confess his love for Mike. When Mike shows his insecurity, Will uses that moment of confession in Eleven's name.
The ship sailed at the end of the first season, when Mike asked El to go to the Snow Ball with him and kissed her. A common trope in fanfiction about Mileven is hurt/comfort, where Mike comforts El about her tragic past or they comfort each other about the trauma they have endured together.
It's official: Will Byers is gay. In a new interview with Variety, Noah Schnapp revealed that one of the most popular “Stranger Things” fan theories circulating the Internet is true. His character does, in fact, have romantic feelings for Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard).
In addition to playing a couple on the show, Dyer and Heaton's off-screen chemistry is just as real. They've been in a relationship for around two years after meeting on the set of Stranger Things, and have managed to keep things very private.
He's a kid with a lot of emotions that he never learned how to express with words or say something as vulnerable as "I love you", and thus expresses his feelings with actions instead. The difference between Eleven and Mike is clear.
The Stranger Things costars appear to have a close bond off-screen, but no, they are not dating each other in real life.
Eleven has a memory during this episode and realizes that 001/Henry Creel (Jamie Campbell Bower) wants her to join him on his evil journey, and she banished him to the Upside Down. 001 then transformed into Vecna, the horrifying Stranger Things villain.
Lucas is actively moving on and trying to find the new him and wanting happiness and something new and exciting and to be cool, and Max is not ready to do that. She doesn't want to do it. She has no interest in that whatsoever.
"Now it's 100% clear that he is gay and he does love Mike. But before, it was a slow arc. I think it is done so beautifully, because it's so easy to make a character just like all of a sudden be gay," he shared.
Dear Billy, I don't even know if you can hear this. Two years ago, I would've said "that's ridiculous, impossible." But that was before I found out about alternate dimensions and monsters, so I'm just going to stop assuming that I know anything. So much has happened since you left. Your dad was a total mess.
Steve — He's A Pretty Damn Good Babysitter
First introduced as a popular bully, his relationship with Nancy (Natalia Dyer) gave him some perspective. His newfound friendships with Dustin and Robin turned him into one of the kindest, funniest characters in Stranger Things.
Dacre was born in 1994 in Perth, Western Australia. His mother is Australian-Canadian and his father is a New Zealander. At the time of his birth both of his parents were working in the film industry and he spent many hours during his childhood on film sets where he developed a love of acting.