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“Up there,” Will said, glancing toward the sky. “If something goes wrong. If he takes over me and uses me—” He inhaled sharply. “Kill me."
As Mike’s fingers closed around Will’s arm, the skin felt unnaturally cool, the pulse beneath it slow and rhythmic—entirely unlike the frantic, nervous heartbeat Mike knew by heart. This was not Will.
After 'Sorcerer' Will Byers risked everything to save Max and Holly, but Vecna doesn't allow him to leave without a mark.- Mike accidentally overhears a heavy confession meant only for the Byers family, and Will requests him to do something impossible.
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A world where Will comes out to his loved ones only, Will gets true freedom, Eleven lives, Byler is endgame - Finale Rewrite with a good (better) Ending while staying canon connected!
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- Part 1 of We will be heroes
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The Wizard and His Love by all_things_fandom_and_stuff
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Mar 2026
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The red lighting flashed again, and Will almost stopped breathing. The light had illuminated a tremendous shadow monster thousands of feet tall, spider-like legs spanning miles. It hovered over Hawkins like a harbinger of death. The light flashed again, and it turned to face Will, looking directly at him. The presence pushed at his mind, looking for a way in.
The light flashed one last time, and then he was staring at his normal backyard. Crickets chirped in the grass, and a gentle cool breeze floated in the air.
Will didn’t know how long he stood there, rooted to the spot.
Eventually, he went back inside.
He didn’t sleep for the rest of the night.
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A complete rewrite of all five seasons of Stanger Things from Will's POV. It will be mostly canon compliant until the later two seasons where I am planning on doing some major reworking of the narrative.
In my opinion Will is the main character and deserves a complete story. This is my attempt at it, and I hope you enjoy it.
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“Will!!”
Joyce’s scream cuts through the desolate air of Dimension X. She drops to her knees, eyes fixed on Will, who’s on all fours, head hanging, chest heaving. His hands sink into the ash as his body begins to shake, sharp and uncontrollable.
Mike darts forward. “Will?! Will!! Are you okay?!”
The others follow, fear written across their faces. Robin kneels before him, reaching out. Her voice just above a whisper.
“Will?”
Slowly, he lifts his head. Green eyes are gone—replaced by milky white orbs staring into Robin’s blue ones.
Gasps ripple through the group. This isn’t Will. The gentleness is gone. The warmth Will carried has now shifted with a cold murderous look. As if the light was drained out of him. A smirk curls across his lips.
His voice is low, chilling, yet almost tender:
“I told you… every door you leave open, I walk through.”Vecna has found his way back home.
Will was never the target. He was the way in.
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There I Saw You Standing (must've been a holy light) by olivewritesthings
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Jan 2026
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“Where are you going?” Hopper asked.
“My base? Are you guys coming or do you want the flower dogs to eat you?”
“Flower do- oh, demos.”
“What the hell is a demo?”
“Demogorgon? From that game your friends like, ‘Dungeons and Dragons’?”
“I don’t have ‘friends.’” Will said, wrinkling his nose and almost recoiling at the idea. “At least, none I remember.” He whispered, looking away before shaking his head and continuing on the tracks. “And what’s Dungeons and Dragons? It sounds like a fantasy book.”
OR: Will Byers was never rescued from the Upside Down
A/N: Do not repost without permission. DM for translations. Fuck generative AI. I have never and will never use it to write my fics in any capacity, I just update quickly because I have no life. I do not support Noah Schnapp, but unfortunately I have a habit of fixating on things with problematic people involved. Free Palestine
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- Part 1 of Psammalah
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Their shoulders brushed again, slow and equally savored. The kind of movement you couldn't pretend was an accident.
So Will brushed back, just barely. Testing. Flirting. Mike inhaled softly, the faintest noise escaping him. And then he spoke like he was physically unable to stay silent any longer.
“Will? If… if that boy you like…” he was standing so close that Will could feel the warmth of him against the cold air. “…If you ever wanted to tell him…”
Will felt his breath stop.
“…I think he’d want to know.”
OR: A buzzy post-vol 1 fic in which Will finally grows more confident, only for the hivemind’s possession to take it all away again. Mike may be the only one who can bring it back. And the two of them might be the only ones who can save the world.
**Can be read as a vol 2/3 fix-it fic post-finale
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"Is a kiss a possible signal or...start of a...snowball?"
"A kiss isn't a signal nor a snowball." Will frowned immediately, confusion knitting his brows together, his mouth turning down at the corners.
"What is it then?" The question came out quiet, almost afraid of the answer, but needing it desperately anyway.
"An avalanche."
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in which, mike figures out about the painting during the 18 month time skip
mwtfdydgate & season 5 re-write
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Disconnected by calmb4storm
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Stranger Things: The First Shadow
07 Jan 2026
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Panic begins to run through his veins, speeding up his pulse and his breathing. “I can’t– why don’t I remember it? I don’t remember any of it.”
Mike blanches. “Any of what, Will?”
Jonathan’s hand is on his knee. Both of them are too close. He can’t breathe.
“The Upside Down. I… I can’t remember any of the Upside Down.”
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OR: A Will Byers-centric/Byler canon version ST5!
(now a post-finale fix-it fic.)Series
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Stranger Things - What-If: What if Will got flayed in season 3? by Suspicious_jousting
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Dec 2025
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Will jumped as a deafening bang erupted from the building, echoing through the surrounding trees. The sound was so sharp it made his ears ring.
He didn’t need to hear it twice.
Panic surged through him as he scrambled for his bike, tears pricking at the corners of his eyes, don’t cry, don’t cry, don’t cry. He just needed to get out of there, something was about to happen and he didn’t want to be around when it did.
But when was life ever on Will’s side?
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Will gets flayed by the Mindflayer instead of BillySeries
- Part 1 of Stranger Things What-If
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cursing my name, wishing I stayed (look at how my tears ricochet) by mikeslawyer for afterglowsssss
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Jun 2025
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"Tell me a secret?"
Mike asks, like he's come to do every day, late at night, when the darkness can swallow the guilt and the regret rushing out of their hearts, when their sides press together, the floor long forgotten, ever since the first Will, please, come up here.
Will is a terrible person.
I'm in love with you. I'm having visions. I'm in love with you. I'm not really having nightmares, Vecna is tempting me with a version of you that loves me back. I'm in love with you.
"I think my death is the easiest solution to everything. The Upside Down will die with me."
Will can hear Mike swallow next to him.
"Will, I would let the world burn down to ashes if it meant keeping you in it."
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They're back in Hawkins, everything is the way it's always been, except - yeah, it's still the middle of an apocalypse, Will is having nosebleeds and Mike would sacrifice the world for his best friend but is still losing him.
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“But it can’t be. I’m not…” His mouth opens and closes a few times. “I’m not—” He shakes his head and mumbles, “Jesus.” He isn’t sure what he was about to say. Traumatized enough? Great fucking job, he says to himself.
Now he knows he’s really worthy of a trophy for undergoing terrifying encounters with interdimensional monsters.-
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Mike's parents have an agenda for him, one he wants to avoid following. He doesn't want to go to college. He doesn't want to get a girlfriend or get married. Mike wants to sit in his room all day and play his guitar. That is until his mom forces him to bring a date to a family celebration, and he thinks of a brilliant plan to piss his parents off. He forms an alliance with the new kid, Will Byers, in which he agrees to go with Mike to his family dinner, and they pretend they're dating.
They planned the fake dating part at the dinner party, but what happens when they keep the facade up to help Will?
What happens when Mike and Will start becoming good friends? Or even scarier...What happens when Mike starts catching feelings?
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Mike and Will start a fake relationship to piss off Mike's parents but they end up becoming more---Slow burn.
Modern-high school AU inspired by clowncultcentral
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and do you feel like you should by tellthatbrokebitch
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Dec 2022
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Will Byers has a big heart, his mom always said. He loves and he loves and he loves. He gives it away because it’s too much to be contained inside one small human organ, too full to bursting. It’s always been this way, his whole life, giving away love; to crying girls in sandboxes, to loud boys on swing sets, to uncaring fathers who yell and break things and force him to change, only to leave anyway. By the time he realizes the love isn’t infinite, it’s too late to fight his nature, and his heart bleeds out, year by year, until he’s drained and tired and empty.
He cries into his hand and wonders what will happen to him when he’s truly empty. Wonders if that day is rapidly approaching. Wonders if it’s already here.
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a hypothetical s5. they're back in hawkins now and will's friends and family are ignoring him. meanwhile he's having dreams he can't remember and everything feels like it's falling apart
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Mike kissed back harder, hands sliding up Will's back, nails dragging lightly. "Can you just… fuck me? Please?"
Will blushed hard at the direct request, surprise flickering across his features as his breath hitched sharply. "I didn't think you'd want me to… you know, be the one inside."
Mike rolled his eyes, smirking despite the fluttering nerves still dancing in his stomach. "Well, surprise. I do."
Mike hates Will's new party life and the marks on his neck. When Will stumbles in drunk, the truth finally spills out.
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Will tried to swallow down the last of his fear, but his throat felt like sandpaper.
“Take me.”
Those milky eyes fixed on him, and a warped brow lifted, as if asking him to repeat himself.
Even though the cold seeped into him, like he was drifting backwards into a freezer, Will didn’t take the way out.
“Take me,” he repeated, his voice still shaky, but he held Vecna’s gaze. “Take me instead of Holly. I’ll come to you. I won’t fight. Just finish it already.”
Vecna was silent for a long, agonizing moment, but then, a smile curled across his twisted face.
“Deal.”---
Will offers himself to Vecna in exchange for Holly’s safety.
Mike takes this about as well as can be expected.Translated into Русский on the site Книга Фанфиков
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there is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin by s0ld_it
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Dec 2024
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“So. The church?” Miike asked.
“The church.” Will said firmly.
The building radiated with a sort of holy innocence, looking almost untouched and definitely out of place in the Upside Down. Will jiggled the front door handle and groaned. “Locked.” He thought for a moment. “Stand back, Mike.”
Mike did, watching Will back up a few feet. “What are you-”
Will began in a running start before throwing the weight of his body against the door with a bang. The door swung open but Will kept his balance, wincing. “That was loud. And kind of stupid.”
“Are you kidding me?” Mike stared at him in a sort of awe. “I’ve only ever seen people do that in movies. Holy shit. That was epic.”
“Oh shut up.” Will blushed. “It was nothing.” As they made their way into the church, Will took off his jacket, slinging it over his shoulder and stretching out his arm. Mike watched the muscles in his back strain against his t-shirt, his biceps and lats bulge from the simple stretch. Mike swallowed, hard.
“Hey, it’s not too bad in here.”
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or, my take on Byler churchgate :))
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- Part 18 of Stranger Things Oneshots
- Part 1 of Byler Gates
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One fateful October night in 1995, Will Byers is dragged by his step-sister, Jane, and her best friend to a rock concert. That was just the beginning...
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A much needed byler enemies to lovers 90s rock band au.
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Will loved ordinary things, an uneventful existence was something he craved. Sadly, when Mike Wheeler walks into his life, Will’s easy going path snaps right in half. A passion he could never imagine overtaking his whole being.
It was too bad their friend groups hated each other and his sister had a huge crush on the musician. Off limits.
Fantastic.
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You can kiss a hundred boys in bars (Post-Finale Byler Fanfic) by ashhashorns
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jan 2026
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STRANGER THINGS, SEASON 6
A happier and extended version of the finale
After the finale, there were tears, there were promises and there were moments that nobody could forget. Everyone split up and led their different lives. But some things would never be forgotten. Mike's heart ached as he mourned over El, he could never forget her, she had changed his life. But his love for her...was it romantic? Or were they just kids and in infatuation. Mike tries to move on knowing that El is alive and probably found some handsome man, who would love her and give her the life she's wanted. She can be free. She would want him to move on.
Will spends his college life trying to move on from Mike, because he lied. Mike was not just his Tammy. He goes to bars, looking for someone to maybe fill the Mike shaped hole in his heart. Until...
UPDATED A FEW THINGS AND THE ENDING.
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Will knows he should talk about it.
He knows it’s not quite fair to everyone else. To just… shove it all down, so deep and compressed that it becomes hard and solid and flammable under the right conditions. But… well, what the hell is he supposed to do? Is he supposed to just… explain what happened?
Will isn’t even sure what happened. If it was…
...well.
(After a history of sexual assault, Vecna starts to use this against Will by tormenting him in his dreams. Will, even more traumatized, frightened, and jumpy, struggles to rest or breathe - until one night, Mike reveals that he hasn't been asleep during Will's nightmares and hugs him.)
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Hopper never liked Lonnie.
He doesn’t think it’s that hard to explain. Hopper didn’t like Lonnie the first time he checked Joyce out, an adult looking at a kid. Hopper didn’t like Lonnie when Joyce came to school excitedly telling Hopper about how they were dating now. Hopper didn’t like Lonnie when she got married and dropped out of high school and had a baby before she could vote, Hopper didn’t like when she got monthly domestic violence calls on her house, Hopper didn’t like when Joyce’s parents came to the police trying to get their daughter out of there-
He’s thirty-seven now, and things are settling. The mess with the Upside Down and the government is settled after a fourteen-month, four-way war. They’ve been given hush money and compensation as a desperate bid to coax them into keeping their traps shut. Wounds still ache, graves stay undisturbed, Hawkins is gone, but there’s a way forward.
There’s a problem with Hopper’s little - well, ‘little,’ there are three teenagers - family, though:
He scares them.
And one day he makes Will panic even though he doesn't mean to.
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