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• The Boy in the Bubble by Anonymous

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Mature
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M, M/M
  • Work in Progress

  19 Mar 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Will Byers & Dustin Henderson & Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper & Mike Wheeler
  • Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
  • Karen Wheeler & Mike Wheeler
  • Wheeler siblings - Relationship
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Dustin Henderson
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield & Mike Wheeler
  • Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler
  • Dustin Henderson & Lucas Sinclair
  • Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Jonathan Byers & Joyce Byers & Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper & Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Karen Wheeler
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Argyle (Stranger Things)
  • Holly Wheeler
  • not canon
  • Alternate Universe
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
  • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
  • Bisexual Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
  • Mike Wheeler Needs a Hug
  • I do not use AI!

  Summary

  Mike is going through it internally and externally. This is a story about a queer Mike Wheeler is working through his internalized homophobia and learning to love himself. It's also about the group being closer as friends and being there for each other.

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  English

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