thinking about the wheelers going on a family vacation to disneyland in ‘82 and mike begging his parents 24/7 to let him take will along and they finally relent after a few weeks just to get him to shut up
my favorite byler trope is mike saying something incredibly incriminating and will being so shocked that he’s just staring and not saying anything so Mike starts backtracking like a maniac but he’s only making it worse and they’re both just growing steadily more red
tbch the biggest byler endgame proof to me is the very fact that the show is built on the theme of breaking predictable character archetypes. mike is a main character, the leader, the pure hearted savior. but he's not going to get the girl. he's getting his best friend.