The World is Burning

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• The World is Burning (or maybe it's just me) by paperlungs21

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Major Character Death
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  14 Aug 2026

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield & Mike Wheeler
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Tylenol - Character
  • Depressed Mike Wheeler
  • Depressed Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Platonic Soulmates
  • Platonic Madwheeler
  • my beloved
  • I love them in the way that I need them to suffer
  • lots of talk about suicide
  • just a warning
  • Suicidal Mike Wheeler
  • Suicidal Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Suicide Attempt
  • Bad Parent Ted Wheeler (Stranger Things)
  • Pillow Fights
  • Mike Wheeler hates melatonin
  • Max and Mike ARE siblings
  • Fight With The Wall
  • I found out how to add personalized tags
  • Vecna Possessing Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Suicide
  • Implied/Referenced Suicide
  • Hurt Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Disabled Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Hurt Mike Wheeler
  • Angst
  • like a lot

  Summary

  5 times Max and Mike hang out plus 2 where it's just Max.

  Can be read as byler or mileven but that's because it specifically focuses on Max and Mike as friends (platonic soulmates madwheeler my belovedddd) and there really isn't any romance mentoned.

  The chapters are gonna be pretty short lol

  Series

  • Part 1 of The World is Burning

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  5,723

  Chapters:

  7/7

  Comments:

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  Kudos:

  38

  Bookmarks:

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