you guys don't get it. no one's giving mike a shovel talk once he starts dating will. no one. not even hopper
can you imagine mike wheeler, a queer boy in the 80s, knowing the byers family since he was like five or six years old and getting along with them fine, until he starts dating will and then suddenly they're saying they'll kill him if he fucks up? right after he's trusted them with the life threatening knowledge that he's in a relationship with another boy?
this being the same kid who almost died for standing up to homophobia (which was about will but directed at mike) when he was 12?
no. never ever happening.
not a single person in this family is that clueless. joyce would've ripped hopper a new one if he admitted to so much as yelling at mike. jonathan understands will's queerness and the necessity of keeping some things secret. hopper saw the possibility of will's disappearance being a hate crime and didn't stop pursuing the case. el saved mike's life like a billion times
no, they're not giving the queer kid who's just come out to them in the middle of the aids pandemic a shovel talk. they're just not.