Can I just say, whoever Nancy ends up with, be it Jonathan or Steve or neither, it is not what matters the most about her character. HOWEVER, I really don't think she should end up back with Steve. Steve is not a bad guy in the slightest. He is one of the best guys and characters in the show. But, he and Nancy want different things and I think that's really important to focus on, because it's why they don't work. Steve talks about how he had this fantasy with Nancy as a mother to his children, and that's okay that it's what he wants from a partner, but Nancy doesn't. Remember the argument her and Jonathan had all the way back in season 1 where Jonathan mentions her "rebelling" and then settling down with Steve just like her mother (which Ted and Karen Wheeler should NOT be your romantic goals). It's clear she doesn't want to do that. She literally wants to fight the government and the patriarchy, seen especially in season 2 where she wanted to "burn the Hawkins lab to the ground" and season 3 where she wanted to stick it to her douche bag bosses. Jonathan, I don't think he wants that perfect family either. He seems perfectly fine with helping Nancy do all her illegal shit. He's fine with standing on the side, holding the camera and telling her that she's doing amazing sweety. Of course, if Nancy ends up on her own, that's fine, although I LOVE Jancy especially for the dynamic of it's them against the world. I just don't think Steve and Nancy rekindling their romance is the best idea.
Quick side note, I like the idea of Ronance, but I personally love Jancy and, from the few bits I've seen, Robin and Vickie ( Rovickie? Unsure if the ship name).
just a few things:
what nancy doesn’t want is a loveless marriage, she says nothing about not wanting children. and seeing as she is the “most important part” of steve’s dream, what matters to him is that she’s in his future, not that she gives him children.
jonathan, who says it himself in s4, can only see their relationship becoming miserable and loveless, with their children (because he expects nancy to have them) hating him. sounds a lot more like ted and karen to me. and he was very much not supportive of her “doing illegal shit” in s3 when she was “fighting the patriarchy”. in fact he pretty much tells her to keep her mouth shut and just put up with it!
you can like jancy, and not care for stancy, that’s okay! but these kinds of long posts are just getting silly.
alright, you went out of your way to ‘respond’ to my comment without responding lmao. but i’ll still answer you anyway.
jonathan may have been “worst case scenario-img”, but he’s also never “best-case scenario-ed”. the only thing we know about his attitude towards his and nancy’s relationship is that he thinks that if he and nancy don’t break up, they’re doomed to be miserable. he admits he’s slow-motion breaking up with her. he’s pulled so far away from nancy that she thinks he’s cheating on her! they may just be teenagers now, but these issues don’t bode well for a happy life in the future.
sure, jonathan is fine to support nancy in her revenge, until her actions don’t align with his own, at which point… nothing. my point with s3 is that, unlike what you said, jonathan isn’t constantly supportive of nancy. i know where he’s coming from, and i don’t strictly disagree with him telling her to drop it. but in the end he isn’t perfectly fine holding the camera and cheering her on. the only reason he ended up “coming around” is because nancy told him that will was in danger. not because he values her opinion above all else. it’s easy to call assholes douchebags when you’re out of the situation, and don’t actually have to support your girlfriend facing sexism.
steve doesn’t have a “perfect mom” scenario lmao! his dream is literally just “me, my loving wife, and our kids travelling the country”. he said nothing about wanting perfect children, and a perfect home-maker wife. steve doesn’t even say he wants nancy to be a mother! when he tells her she’s a part of that dream, once again, he says nothing else matters, but her!!! you really are just purposefully trying to interpret steve’s dream in the most awful way you can, while minimising all the negativity with which jonathan views his and nancy’s future.
you may be trying to talk about your hopes for nancy’s future, but it seems like most of your goal is just putting down steve and raising jonathan up. do you think nancy wants to continue to suffer in her uncertainty in her relationship with jonathan until he manages to sort out his issues? do you think she wants to be the focus of all his family issues as he assumes she’ll abandon her dreams, marry him, pop out kids and live in misery if he doesn’t break up with her? what nancy needs is honesty. she needs a loving relationship. she needs someone by her side as she tackles everything life throws her way. and of the two potential love interests, there’s only one that’s so far fulfilling those needs. and it’s not jonathan.
Lmao, if there’s one thing Jancy shippers and anti’s consistently do, it’s making shit up. 😭
