She was classmates with Jim Hopper and Bob Newby, and would marry Lonnie Byers around the 60s or 70s. Despite their love for each other, their marriage crumbled before the birth of their first son, Jonathan, and later Will.
Bob Newby is Joyce Byers' new beau, played by The Goonies star Sean Astin. If you're thinking, "But waah, I ship her and Hopper," just stop that right now because Bob is an angel and Joyce was (SOB) lucky to have him.
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.
Wyatt Oleff to play Will Byers' Boyfriend in Stranger Things Season 4.
Robert "Bob" Newby, portrayed by Sean Astin, was a main character in the second season of Stranger Things. The boyfriend of Joyce Byers, he worked as the manager at the town's local Radio Shack.
In 1967, Joyce and Lonnie had their first son, Jonathan Byers. Their second son, William "Will" Byers, was born on March 22, 1971. By 1973, Joyce got a job as a retail clerk at Melvald's General Store, working excessive hours, even on Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve.
Lonnie was verbally abusive toward Joyce, and it's possible that he was physically abusive as well. Some of Joyce's best Stranger Things quotes are about her love for her family, especially for her son Will who has disappeared. As time goes on, some details about Lonnie Byers are shared.
Cynthia. Cynthia, portrayed by Stefanie Butler, is a minor character in the first season of Stranger Things. She is the current girlfriend of Lonnie Byers. Cynthia began dating Lonnie Byers at some point after his divorce from Joyce Byers.
In the second season of the series, resident mama bear Joyce Byers is in love with Bob Newby, a kind-hearted RadioShack employee who tragically dies to save everyone.
At the end of Season 3, Joyce Byers (Wynonna Ryder) has adopted Jane "Eleven" Hopper (Millie Bobby Brown) and moved out of Hawkins to protect her identity.
One of the earliest forms of communication to The Upside Down and the real world was the discovery of lights, dimming and turning off and on in particular. This method was used by Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) to communicate with his mother Joyce (played by Winona Ryder), in the show's first season.
*1947: Henry Creel is born shortly after his father, Victor, returned from fighting in World War II. We know from newspaper articles that Nancy and Robin found that Henry Creel was 12 years old when he killed his mother and sister, framing his dad for the gruesome murders in 1959.
Provided he actually ages in the Upside Down, Vecna could be in his late 30s in 1986, the year that Stranger Things season 4, volume 1 takes place. Vecna became a monster seven years prior, when Eleven defeated the adult Henry Creel, a.k.a. Number One, at Hawkins Lab and he became banished to the Upside Down.
Her page says that she was born in 1944, and was 15 when she died. Except Victor was in the war. He would have been in Europe when Alice was supposedly born.
Joyce divorced Lonnie sometime before 1982, when they lost contact and he moved to Indianapolis, Indiana that same year, maintaining little interest in seeing his children. He also began dating his current girlfriend, Cynthia as a punishment for Jonathan and Will for being naughty.
Natalie Abberfield ended her 24-year marriage to Mr Joyce after it was revealed he was expecting a child with his former media advisor Vikki Campion. Since the end of her marriage, Ms Abberfield has worked hard to protect her four daughters she shares with Mr Joyce and has found a new passion in bodybuilding.
Robert "Bob" Newby is a major character in Season 2 of Stranger Things, and a posthumous character in Seasons 3 and 4. He was the boyfriend of Joyce Byers and was a father figure to her sons, Jonathan and Will until he sacrificed himself to save them in order to get them to safety from the Mind Flayer.
Bob Newby's Stranger Things death is one of the saddest and most heroic, and his season 2 demise shares how dangerous living in Hawkins can be. Bob Newby (Sean Astin) is one of the kindest characters on Netflix's Stranger Things, and his season 2 death is heartbreaking.
In an interview with Variety, Schnapp officially confirmed that Will is gay and is in love with Mike. Check out his statement below: Yeah, I think it is. Obviously, it was hinted at in Season 1: It was always kind of there, but you never really knew, is it just him growing up slower than his friends?
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.
Tropes. Byler is the slash ship between Mike Wheeler and Will Byers from the Stranger Things fandom.
The idea was to have Eleven start to mirror Joyce, played by Winona Ryder, as she was living with the Byer family at this point; really, Hindsgaul wanted all of the Byers housemates to look as if Joyce had cut their hair herself on the kitchen counter.