Hey guys, so I've never told this stuff to actual people and like i've never been the "share your problems" person. I've always been the strong one that's funny and childish.

I don't know why i'm dumping this but here we go...

So the last few years of my life are as follows:

A guy likes me. I reject him. Another one, completely crazy had asked me more than 24 times, i rejected him every time. And like around 7-8 guys have confessed till now so yeah. Well that's different.

Main thing is, I made friends with a guy in class and we became best friends, evern though we just talked like normal friends and all. He also confessed btw, after which i said no. The thing i I don't believe in dating. It's a fake concept according to me. Like marriage has rituals and paperwork and all. But being in a relationship is just, idk, i just dont believe in it. So I said no. After that we fell apart gradually, and during my national competition, something inside me felt empty.

During nationals which was like 2 weeks after this, i started talking to another person in my class, like he replied to my story so we were just talking those days and yeah. later on he confessed to me to. Ofc I said no because i dont do this stuff. Me and this guy, after this rejection it has always been like weird. I feel like he's not emotionally well and i try to help a lot but he's too deep in. And that guy that I rejected 24 times, him too. He might be wannabe cool and non-chalant and rude in real life, but, i have actually talked to him and i think he's not okay either. I feel bad for them. Guys have to act tough and I really don't like that they have to hide it.

Moving on, now about that nationals ke time vala guy, i have blocked him so many times in between cuz my friends told me so but in the end i ended up unblocking him and now he's kinda rude to me and doesn't talk to me much but, that's ok. and understandable as well.

Main thing comes after this.

Before you ask, why they're all guys, i have friends that are girls too but this is not about them, and idk why but like most girls had their own groups and i've never been awkward with any guy like the guys who don't usually talk to girls they sometimes talk to me, maybe ask work or whatever. so just saying that I don't really HATE anyone or something like that so I talk to anyone so i guess that's why both guys and girls talk to me.

So yes coming to this guy:

This is painful. We used to be in the same class a few years ago and last year he switched sections to my class. I just asked if he switched sections and he said yes. After that we started talking...

We became THE BEST OF FRIENDS. he was.. IS the nicest person ever but everyone hates him. Like ok so he's jaat and has a huge ego. Moreover there are certain rumours about him and so the girls are all united against him but, I never believed those rumours because I KNEW he didn't do it, I KNEW IT before I knew him this well. I wasn't scared of him like everyone else. We became really good friends. Best friends. I have made countless mistakes in the past. He helped me see them. He used to get VERY angry and like punch the walls and all, one time he rammed his head in the wall. His anger was extreme. But i get it. He told me he wasn't angry on me, but that he wasnt there for me. Protective side he called it. He was very overprotective though and like relaly protected me from stuff, told me what to do what not to do. After a while, i cut off all friends because he didn't like when i talked to other ppl. I didn't what to be rude to others for no reason but i did it, for him. He meant everything to me.

He had a love, but they had a fight 2 years ego. He's been hurt since then. Remembers her everyday. He even told me the name, nobody in school knows that. I was the only girl he talked to. He wasn't an attention seeker or like one who involves with girls and all. He just talked to me cause he thought i was just different. and idk why but i get that a lot. (maybe im just so cool😎)

basically after a short 10 months, we had a fight.

his father was unwell, like really unwell, and his mood was always off. i regret to this day that i wasnt there for him during this time. i had nationals coming up and after last nationals i needed this to be good. something felt off about him like weeks before nationals. he was under a lot of stress and i hate that i was being so attention seeking. he became angry cause he didn't want to be responsible for all my emotions and told me to start talking to other ppl.

Now after i cut everyone off how do i go back. But i did. I texted a friend and like at that point i started paniking. I randomly called my friend after like months of barely talking and asked if he was mad that i didnt see his messages and he said.. u crazy? ofc not? and then he might have caught on cause of the sudden call like I NEVER CALL ppl like that so he asked me if everything was okay and i did say yes but then later on text he said i can tell him anything. I told him that "I had a friend and we recently blah blah blah blah had a fight blah blah and left me blah blah"

All that happened. Then my bestie texts me to make things right after our fight. At this point im done. So i say i dont care, i dont care whatever and all. And so he starts panicking because if I tell this stuff to ANYONE he would be so doomed. The thing is our friendship was a secret. NOBODY knew about it. We never even talked in class. So if anyone got to know it was him then uska bura image bn jayega i guess so yeah. then he gets really angry and all and calls me. That was our last call.

During that we had a whole talk and we cleared everything up. We were good again. I had nationals in 3 days now. So then allat happens and I give nationals which went really bad bte like 100x worse then practice sessions. Anyways right after nationals he told me that since the day i talked to that other person and told him about the friendsbip break thing, he has been really scared that our secret will come out and so i guess trust shattered and he broke from the inside. I get it, I shouldn't have done that.

So then we stopped talking at all. :)

I can't tell anyone cause like it's supposed to be a secret friendship. This just hurts honestly. In between I broke out with my sibling like friend because i was friends with this guy and like we were quite good friends. It must have hurt him so much. I just cut him off with no explanation. After this i apologised to him and he accepted it. I'm just glad my friends accepted me again. After that came boards. Our friendship broke around 1st week of jan.

I didnt feel like studying after that. I started studying for boards in feb, that too last few days before maths board like 9th 10th feb. I hadnt studied at all year except maths cause i was either talking to him or in school or in math tution or in sports academy.

Anyways i didnt even study during exam gaps and like I VARELY STUDIED BUT STILL MANAGED A 97%. im shocked. and ppl dont believe i didnt study. but i guess im the only one who knows what happened to me in those days. they were honestly really bad. i couldn't study AT ALL and i still cant. im in 11th grade now. its been 5 months since our friendship broke. I saw him in school today. I feel hurt.

Basically here's my situation now. I dont have ppl to talk to. I have good friends but not ppl i can actually talk to. im lost. alone. and no one understands me and i cant tell anyone either.

A Few Problems and My Suggested Solutions with Stranger Things Season 5

This took me so long to think of and write down hope this actually answers some questions because the ending if I'm honest wasn't really that satisfying for me to I made some theories of my own.

Vecna’s motives were personal, not random

• Vecna (Henry Creel) was not just targeting people based on trauma or psychic vulnerability.
• His actions were rooted in revenge tied to his past in Hawkins, especially people connected to his earlier life.
• His victims are not random—they are chosen with intent and meaning, even if the show doesn’t fully explain it.

Joyce and Hopper’s past connection to Vecna

• Joyce Byers and Jim Hopper went to the same school as Henry Creel.
• So let's say that during their school years, they were not good to him (whether ignoring, excluding, or mistreating him).
• This becomes a core emotional trigger for Vecna’s later actions and could explain why Will specifically was chosen.
• His entire plan includes an element of revenge against their lives and what they care about.
• Moreover, let's assume all other children he took were also people he saught revenge from for something or the other.

Hopper’s daughter’s death is not random

• Maybe Vecna meant to kidnap Hopper's daughter just like Will Byers.
• He did not use her for his ritual because:
  • she was already sick
  • thus, she did not meet his criteria
• Since she was going to die already, he didn't kidnap her.

Will Byers was specifically chosen

• Will was not randomly taken in Season 1.
• Vecna chose him because:
  • he was physically and mentally “fit” for his purposes
  • he met the conditions required for survival and connection
  • he held a high school grudge with Joyce
• Will’s abduction is part of a larger plan, not just an accident.

Eleven’s role in Vecna’s focus

• Eleven is directly responsible for sending Vecna to the other dimension.
• Because of this:
  • she becomes a primary target
  • her connection to Vecna is deeper than anyone else’s
• Vecna’s actions toward her are both strategic and personal.

Mind Flayer’s changing forms

• The Mind Flayer shifting between:
  • shadow/particle form
  • physical monster forms
• When it takes form in the Upside Down, it cannot take an actual physical form, because Upside Down is only a wormhole so maybe it's not able to take that form.
• We see it's physical form either on Earth or in the Abyss, thus we can conclude that it's just a compilation of particles which shifts forms when moving between dimensions.

Final fight should not have been physical

• The ending relying on:
  • guns
  • grenades
  • physical weapons
• This feels inconsistent because of the nature of the villains.
• Since Vecna’s power is mind-based, the final fight should have been:
  • psychological
  • psychic
  • internal rather than external

Alternative final battle concept (mind-based)

• So, I wrote an alternate ending like not detailed but like an overview of what could have happened:
• Eleven and Will use their psychic abilities together.
• They enter Vecna’s mind and begin to fight him there.
• They initially struggle and start losing.
• Twist:
  • Max (who was recently in a coma) re-enters Vecna’s mind unexpectedly
  • Vecna does not anticipate her presence
• The three of them:
  • overwhelm him mentally
  • destroy him within his own domain
• As a result:
  • his physical body weakens
  • he becomes vulnerable in the real world
• This works because we saw when Will was in his mind before Vecna had to force him out in order to function properly so, having all three of them in there would definitely make his physical form weak.
• So while they were fighting him in his mind, the rest of the group could have gone forward with the physical attacks.

Vecna feels weaker in the final fight

• Earlier, Vecna could:
  • enter minds
  • break bones
  • kill people effortlessly
• In the final battle:
  • he appears much weaker
  • he does not use his full abilities
• Maybe, Vecna needed concentration to do that and during the fight he was being constantly attacked from somewhere or the other, whether in his mind or physically thus, couldn't concentrate.

Mind Flayer and Vecna were defeated too easily

• Both were built up as major, near-unstoppable threats.
• Their defeat felt:
  • rushed
  • underwhelming
• They “deserved better” in terms of:
  • scale
  • difficulty
  • narrative payoff
• It was also never specified whether the Mind Flayer controlled Vecna or vice versa.
• For this I have the theory that, the Mind Flayer existed way before Vecna and after he was sent into that dimension, his intentions and the Mind Flayers were somewhat the same, so they decided to team up.
• The Mind Flayer was the executor and Vecna was the brains of the operation.
• But, when the brain itself was weak during the fight, the Mind Flayer no matter how powerful couldn't do anything.

Eleven’s death interpretation

• Eleven sacrifices herself at the end.
• She does not return to her friends or family.
• Given her past behavior:
  • she would never willingly stay away from them
• Therefore:
  • she is most likely actually dead
  • not secretly alive or hiding

Emotional inconsistency after Eleven’s death

• Hopper does not show enough grief after losing Eleven.
• After everything they went through:
  • his reaction feels too normal
  • he moves on too quickly (e.g., going on a date with Joyce)
• This makes the emotional impact feel unrealistic.

Alternative strategy (no need for sacrifice)

• Instead of Eleven sacrificing herself:
  • she could have lured the military into the Upside Down and trapped them
  • then she could have come out and the gate could then be closed
• This would trap and eliminate threats without losing her.

Questioning the need for sacrifice

• Eleven survived everything:
  • Hawkins Lab
  • multiple battles
  • the Upside Down
• Ending her story with sacrifice feels unnecessary.
• There were other ways to resolve the conflict.

Who could have died instead

• Characters whose deaths would have made stronger emotional sense:
  • Steve: Although one of my favorite characters, his death would have made the ending more realistic and emotional
  • Jonathan and Nancy: When they were trapped together in that melting room, the end of their story post break-up would leave us with a hurtful but complete ending of the two.
  • Mike: Imagine after everything Mike went through he doesn't make it at the end. This would eliminate the plot armour and give us a realistic ending.
  • (One more thing: It would make more sense if Mike was kidnapped because he was an emotional anchor to like every single one of them so the stakes would be higher but, I get that he needed children and so my recent theory about old grudges of Henry might support this theory that he needed someone from the Wheeler family so he took Holly as she was the youngest and he needed kids for this ritual)
  • Will: Imagine this, started with Will's apparent death, and ended with Will's death. It would hit even harder after his coming out scene as he had just finally gathered courage to talk about himself and at least everyone knew how he really felt before he died.

Will’s potential death as a full-circle ending

• The story began with Will’s disappearance.
• It could have ended with his death:
  • creating a full-circle narrative
• After:
  • his trauma
  • his connection to the Upside Down
  • his emotional arc (including coming out)
• His death would have been:
  • extremely impactful
  • thematically powerful

Final stance

• The official ending feels unsatisfying and inconsistent.
• It feels more like a fan-made version than a fully thought-out conclusion.
• Because of this:
  • creating a personal version of the ending feels more meaningful and logical.

So, i've read and seen a lot of times that JJ was meant to be killed off and I get it, okay. Sure, maybe you needed to kill him off for some reason but one thing that wasn't satisfying was the WAY he died.

Like we all know JJ and how he could have fought Groff in that moment and Kie as well like she's not so incapable I mean I know she could have defended herself someway and EVEN if that was not possible then I mean, there was that moment when JJ and Kiara were hugging and I mean I don't see WHY JJ turned back like they could have just fled he didn't need to listen to Groff.

I'm just saying, if JJ was TRULY written to have this fate, I feel like he could've gotten a better ending.