Thoughts On Connor Being Richies Token? I Hate That They Gave So Much Importance To A Character That

Thoughts on Connor being Richie’s token? I hate that they gave so much importance to a character that never even existed in the book

So pretty much everything I think about the Ritual of Chud and Richie’s token being Eddie comes from this video, which actually made me cry despite the cheesy graphics. The ritual is about overcoming the pain of the past, which they interpret as destroying a symbol of the pain but don’t actually overcome it until Pennywise forces them to (Bill forgives himself, Bev confronts her father, Ben confesses his love for Bev, etc.). Burning the arcade token didn’t do anything to heal Richie, and the arcade token and Connor represent being bullied specifically, but doesn’t encompass all the repression, internalized homophobia, and fear Richie lives with. I just see Connor as a plot device for Richie’s trauma and nothing more. I think Eddie is Richie’s token because Richie’s discovery of the feelings he fears are centered around Eddie, and it takes Eddie getting stabbed for Richie’s “straight guy who only jokes about girls” persona to start crumbling and he starts showing how he feels without shame as he stays by his side even when the others have left. It’s the persona he’s been hiding behind for nearly 30 years and the persona that completely dissolves when Eddie dies and Richie exposes to the Losers and himself how much he truly loved Eddie as he completely breaks down. When Eddie gets stabbed, Richie realizes he cares about Eddie more than his fear, therefore his pain of the past had been overcome, Eddie being the token of that pain. Further proof Eddie is Richie’s token provided by the video linked above is that Richie insults Pennywise before getting stuck in the deadlights and it does nothing, and then Eddie dies and all of a sudden it works because all the tokens had been properly destroyed. We see in the last adult Richie scene at the kissing bridge that what happened had made him more comfortable with his feelings toward Eddie and his sexuality because with Eddie dying, he was forced to let go of the pain of his past. Sorry, you probably didn’t want a whole essay. 

Stan’s letter voices

So I watched IT Chapter 2 while flying somewhere and pulled up the subtitles for Stan’s letter and have been blessed with this knowledge: Richie says be true, Eddie says be brave, Mike says stand, and Bev says believe. And of course Bill says “and don’t ever forget” and Stan says “we’re losers and we always will be.”

“One day, I will adopt you too and I will have the whole set. One day.”

literally cannot stop laughing

Mike: you guys have to gather tokens of a traumatic experience with Pennywise

Richie the funnyman, galloping into the arcade: hehehe oh i'm gonna get a token alright

My brother was due a couple weeks after my mom’s medical school graduation so she asked if she could be moved up in the order and put in an aisle seat just in case she had a newborn. The people in charge of the ceremony kept saying it would be fine and it wasn’t worth the hassle when he might not even be born yet. A few days before graduation, my mom met with them again with a three day old baby in her arms and said “Now will you make the adjustments?”

“How many times in your life have you been excluded from something important or talked over or ignored because you’re the only woman in the room?”

A LEGEND