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Hail Mary Counter @hailmarytracker · 12 hrs
Days since last contact with Hail Mary: 9,716
🗨 1 ⇄ 2 ♡ 5It's been nearly 27 years since the Hail Mary departed. When the ISS detects a signal in the far off solar system, hope begins to grow, even as mysteries start to unravel and the universe becomes a little smaller.
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30 Mar 2026
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Will Byers has never been found, having not been seen since the night of November 6, 1983.
He has been living in this twisted version of Hawkins for two years now. He has survived hunger, cold, spores, and monsters. He has learned to protect himself, to control this world... and to make some monstrous friends.
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Will was never rescued, meaning he has been there for more than 2 years...
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27 Jan 2026
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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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22 Jan 2026
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He expects a part two, a repeat of his previous actions. He expects floating, snapping, dying.
He doesn't expect the ground to split open around him, dragging the unfortunate military to the pits of hell with no preparation. He pushes against the ground just enough to dislodge the knee from his back, then that man is falling too. Will's left on an island of his own making, pulsing red surrounding him like a lava lake.
He feels safer than ever, but maybe it's just the adrenaline.
Or, a Stranger Things 5 rewrite (starting directly after Sorcerer) where Will's powers are a little more complex, the Upside Down isn't a wormhole, and monsters aren't afraid to kill.
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- Part 1 of who am i, if not you?
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20 Jan 2026
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Oh, Saint Peter, let me in. You must know where I’ve been. (Won’t you tell me at last who I am?) by V1ridian
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Aug 2026
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In which Will Byers missed his mother and Hopper by thirty minutes that fateful night in November, trapped in The Upside Down with the Shadow Monster breathing down his neck. Slowly losing himself and his beloved memories with time. Only to find himself back in Hawkins 20 months later.
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Idk how to do summaries, essentially an AU where Will doesn’t get rescued and gets possessed only to be rescued/kidnapped by El and Co during the events of S3 after connecting to her through the hiveWARNINGS WILL BE STATED IN AUTHORS NOTES
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20 Jan 2026
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Will Byers goes missing on the night of November 6th after a game of DnD with his best friends. No one sees it coming, and everyone except for his closest family and friends are sure he’s got to be dead.
There are no lights to speak to, but there are demodogs to kill, and a bald girl in the woods. Mike is sure they lead to Will, even when he’s missing much longer than just a week or two.
Bob dies for a reason, even if he doesn’t know it, and that is to save Will. What no one expects is for Will to show up in the very building after murdering said monsters with the same powers as Eleven. It becomes increasingly clear that he doesn’t know what’s going on, and neither do they, although for very different reasons.
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18 Jan 2026
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Will Byers is living happily in the big city, growing into himself and going clubbing with his new boyfriend.
But what happens when he spots Mike Wheeler at a gay club after 2 years of no-contact?
(inspired by delicateviolqnce on tiktok)
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09 Jan 2026
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i am dying here (i am yours) by onethousandandoneyellowdaffodils
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Jan 2026
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“don’t touch him,” max says immediately.
“i’m not—i’m just—he’s hurt. he looks hurt.”
dustin drops to his knees in the sand, hands up, palms out, like he’s approaching a wild animal. “okay. okay, hey. hey, it’s fine. you’re fine. nobody’s dead. i mean— you’re not dead dude whoever you are. which is good. great, actually.”
the boy’s good eye snaps to him.
dustin’s stomach flips.
“holy shit,” he whispers. “holy shit, it’s you.”
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- Part 1 of will was never found
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05 Jan 2026
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In the month after Hawkins splits open, Will Byers is excluded, haunted, rejected by his best friend, and abandoned during the evacuation forced by the military. Presumed dead by his friends and family, Will is taken in by Vecna, who corrupts his mind and teaches him to harness his new powers. Two years later, Mike returns to Hawkins for Will.
Or, Mike discovers his feelings while Will learns to suppress his. When they reunite, they are, as always, not on the same page.
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04 Jan 2026
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What would happen if Will Byers was never found during the events of Stranger Things season 1? How would he survive the upside down? How would the people of Hawkins react?
Will breathed in a ragged breath. Black smoke poured from his mouth as he tore himself free from the wall. He collapsed forward, coughing and gasping on the cold, moist floor.
His heart pounded in his ears as he shakily scrambled to his feet. Eyes darting around the abyss, he started to run. And he ran, and ran, and ran.
His feet pounded on the ground when suddenly he found himself on a familiar path. Finally, something familiar. Will sprinted through the woods, as a feeling of hope filtered its way through the panic. He was getting there, he was gonna be safe, it was finally within reach.
Castle Byers.
The pain in his chest and legs screamed at him to rest, but he couldn't risk stopping. He pushed himself further, calves aching with each step. Suddenly, a loud screech echoed through the air from somewhere up ahead.
Will skidded to a stop as the monster moved on the path ahead. It was in the way, standing between him and safety.- Language:
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04 Jan 2026
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Steve Harrington just wanted to go for a drive the night of November 6, 1983.
Just a drive.
He didn't expect to stumble across Will Byers running alone in the woods, let alone an inter-dimensional flower faced monster out for blood.
He definitely didn't expect to be dragged into something so much bigger than him that would flip his life upside down forever.
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03 Jan 2026
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Will Byers was never found in 1983. Now it is 1987, and someone unexpected appears to take him home.
Will Byers was never found AU!
This takes place before/during season five. (Kinda a rewrite of season 5, too.) Also kinda Byler focused :)
Happy (or not so happy wink* wink*) reading!
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30 Dec 2025
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24 Dec 2025
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The end of the world shouldn’t be like this. It should be ending with a loud bang or a big, sad wave of applause.
Not like this.
Shallow and unsatisfying.
But it‘s reality - well the reality of William Byers, still living in god forsaken Hawkins Indiana, that had been declared a war zone countless months ago.
Mysterious migraines and old feelings are stretching out the last weeks of Oktober and might be prophetic for the actual end.Or
The apocalypse brings two boys closer together than they could possibly imagine.
(This fic is an alternative for season five & for that awful ending we got. Since the duffers can’t write shit I’m taking matters into my own hands and create you guys the most heartbreaking, gut wrenching and touching story YOU’VE EVER WITNESSED)
PS: if you are looking for updates (pumpkin_spiced_latte1 on TikTok & spiced_latte on twitter) ;)
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23 Dec 2025
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The demogorgon does not die quietly. It dies inside Will.
In the aftermath of the Mac-Z attack, Will Byers realizes that fighting back awakened something he never knew he had. The power that answered him is not something he understands. It refuses to stay quiet.
Vecna left him alive. The military watches too closely. The Upside Down presses closer to the surface.
And somewhere beneath it all, something has been waiting for him to answer.
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- 25/?
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16 Dec 2025
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Will couldn't believe it. This has to be Vecna's doing, right?
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Or, 16-year-old Will wakes up in his 14-year-old body during one of the worst years of his life.
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- 14/?
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08 Dec 2025
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It turns out, Will Byers is a bit more than he appeared to be.
Everyone has some opinions on that, especially Will himself.
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The first 40-ish chapters were written between Volume 1 and Volume 2, so this is NOT Volume 2 compliant. Oh well!
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05 Dec 2025
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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
- Part 1 of Disconnected Universe
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- 169,356
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- 31/31
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03 Dec 2025