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will byers’ guide to advanced concepts in painting by falloutboi
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Dec 2025
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Dustin hums in agreement while he swallows his bite. “It’s like, against his factory settings to say no to you. What do you need him to do, model for you or something?”
Will shoves his face back into his hands. “I’m going to fail.”
Max rolls her eyes. “You’re not going to fail, you’re going to paint Mike.”
Will lifts his head up from his hands, eyes wide, and shakes his head. “You don’t understand.” He pleads with his awful, awful friends, voice low. “He’s been, he’s using my-he came out of my bathroom in just a towel last night.”
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Studio art major Will Byers has a study of the human body due before the semester ends, is in desperate need for a model, and has a huge, life-altering, heart wrenching crush on his best friend.
Enter: Mike Wheeler, his broken shower, and his collection of plaid-print boxers.
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29 Dec 2025
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Will and Mike bypass their usual Friday night dinner out for a soft evening in, and Mike makes sure Will knows he's very, very loved.
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29 Dec 2025
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He’s got him memorized. The outlines of him, every speck of green in his eyes and every mole on his body. Has become painfully aware that other people notice him, too. Other alphas.
God, Mike could rip them in half.
Scenes from a rut.
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27 Dec 2025
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“I’m sorry,” Mike breaks the peaceful silence, “About not asking you to be my best man.” He elaborates at Will’s curious head tilt, “I know we always said when we were younge-“
Will cut him off, unwillingly to linger on broken promises “It’s fine, Mike. We’re not as close as we were when we were kids,” Will shrugs like it doesn’t hurt, “It happens.”
Mike stares at him with a pained expression that Will can’t place. Guilt shone in his eyes before he averts them, “That’s not why I didn’t ask.” He mumbles into his chest.
“Scared I’d outshine the groom, then” Will aims for levity wincing as it falls flat.
Mike sits in quiet contemplation beside him still avoiding facing him as he gazes out to the trees swaying in the breeze on the outskirts of the property.
“I thought it would be for the best.” He whispers so quietly that Will can barely hear him, “Kinder.”
Will felt the stone that first appeared back in middle school settle itself firmly back in his gut, pressing into the soft walls of his insides.
“Will-“ Mike takes a deep breath, ready to ask a question they’ve both been avoiding for well over a decade, and turns to stare directly into his eyes “Are you in love with me?”
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24 Dec 2025
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It's what Mike was aiming for. Really. To make Will blink and swallow and squirm, and then look the one - the one who did that to him in the eye. But now that Will has set his gaze on him, expression a tad unsure yet hard, it's like Mike can't breathe.
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Mike has an idea.
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24 Dec 2025