This post contains major spoilers for Stranger Things 5: Volume 1 and Will’s journey in it. So if you want to avoid them, make like Henry Creel and disappear into another dimension before coming back. (And read our spoiler-free review of Stranger Things 5 instead.)
Stranger Things‘ story began with “The Vanishing of Will Byers.” Now, after Stranger Things 5: Volume 1, we know why Vecna specifically targets children. He told Will that kids are “weak in body and mind” and are easily broken, reshaped, and controlled. The Upside Down’s ruler knew that when he took Will. But he only learned the depth of what’s possible when his first young victim broke so easily. Vecna explained why that happened with Will during their faceoff in Stranger Things 5. He said, “Some minds, it turns out, simply do not belong in the world.” Instead, they belong in his dark realm of pain and suffering.
When Vecna told Will he was weak in their first Stranger Things 5‘s confrontation, we saw flashbacks to moments when Will felt tremendous anger, sadness, and loneliness. But Will isn’t weak. He never has been. And he realized that when his friends needed him most. During Stranger Things 5, Will’s connection to the hive mind grew stronger and more intense. He could see through the eyes of demogorgons. Will could even see through Vecna’s eyes when Vecna stalked the minds of his prey. By the time of the attack on the MAC-Z, Will had completely tapped into the hive. Then, as demogorgons raced at Will, Lucas, and Robin to rip them apart, Will heard a different voice and saw different memories inside his mind.
Throughout Stranger Things 5: Volume 1, Robin and Will bonded over their sexuality without either ever having to say they are gay, and they became one of our very favorite duos in the season. Will had seen Robin kissing her girlfriend at the hospital. When he finally asked her questions about how the two girls had found one another, Robin understood why. In episode four of Stranger Things 5, Robin stopped her friend as they traveled through the underground tunnels. She wanted to tell Will about her own journey out of the darkness that once consumed her.
Robin had convinced herself that if she could just be with the girl she adored, she “wouldn’t be scared anymore.” When she realized they’d never be together, Robin fell into “despair.” But one day, she found an old family film reel. It showed her as a carefree child who loved every part of herself. That’s when Robin understood something she hoped Will would recognize about himself in Stranger Things 5. It was always just about her.” An emotional Robin said, “I was looking for answers in somebody else, but I had all the answers. I just needed to stop being so goddamn scared. Scared of….who I really was. Once I did that, oh, I felt so free.. It’s like I could fly….”
Will heard those words as the demogorgons sped at his friends. But unlike when Vecna mocked him, instead of seeing memories of pain and anguish, Will remembered himself as a child who was happy, loved, and content. He saw the day he became friends with Mike and playing together. He also saw his mother being proud and supportive of him, and his protective brother Jonathan building him that shed that meant so much to him. In that Stranger Things 5 moment, Will was not scared. Not of who he was or of Vecna. He was free of everything that had always held him back.
Only, he didn’t fly like Robin. Will became the Sorcerer that Mike believed Will innately was, the same one who’d protected his mother from the demogorgon in the barn without realizing it.
Sorcerer Will tapped into Vecna’s full powers right then* in Stranger Things 5, Volume 1. And in that moment, he rose as powerful as Henry Creel or Eleven. He then held the demogorgons frozen before breaking their bones and necks just as Vecna had killed his human targets. And with his friend safe, Will fell to the ground and wiped the blood now dripping from his nose, newly anointed a wielder of powers in Stranger Things 5.
*That was possible because Will had more than just a strong psychic connection to the Hive Mind. Not just any kid can do that. When Vecna put a vine down Will’s throat inside the Upside Down, he changed Will’s blood. Eleven’s pregnant mother was also given Henry Creel’s unique blood, which Henry got when he traveled to a parallel dimension as a kid. (The Stranger Things stage play, The First Shadow, established that important lore and explained that Eleven and Will both have powers because of a physical connection to Vecna and his dark realm that changed their own biology.)
Did Vecna take Will by random chance and then learned why it was easier to target kids with traumatic pasts? Or did Vecna, who had been a troubled child himself, specifically target Will because he was a gay kid whose abusive father abandoned him over his perceived weaknesses? We still don’t know, but before he went back into the Upside Down with his new young victims, Vecna certainly believed Will was still the weak, easily broken, reshaped, and controlled child he’d always been. Instead, in Stranger Things 5 Will was realized just how strong he is. Because he was always enough. He just needed to realize that. Now that he has, Eleven isn’t the only powerful kid in Hawkins capable of taking on Vecna.
Stranger Things 5, Volume 1 is now streaming on Netflix.
Mikey Walsh is a staff writer at Nerdist. He’d escape the Upside Down if he heard Weezer’s “In the Garage Playing.” You can follow him on Bluesky at @burgermike.. And also anywhere someone is ranking the Targaryen kings.
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