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hide what you have to hide (tell what you have to tell) by brickadoodledo
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Jan 2026
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Will Byers has learned that normalcy is not in the pages for him.
He grew up abnormal. And, instead of growing out of it, he just grew into it. He stopped pretending that he wasn’t queer, he stopped being bothered by Zombie Boy, and, truthfully, he’s still overcoming the fact that he’s been used as a spy-slash-vessel ever since, but he’s been doing pretty good! Will is a freak, a nerd, a resurrectee, but he’s not going to let it plague him, because ever since the summer of ‘77 when he and Mike, six years old, laid on their stomachs and watched Star Wars, he knew the universe stuck Will The Wise upon the board, rolled for geekhood, and got twenty.
Will Byers was only fifteen years old, and all he did in his downtime was sketch, listen to music, and worry about what was next.
That was his normal.
That was, until he falls asleep so effortlessly one night that five minutes later, when an arachnid of no notable wonder crawls by, he is not there to witness when he rolls over and the spider panics, nips his hand, and henceforth changes the trajectory of his life.
OR
his name is will byers, he got bitten by a radioactive spider, and he's pretty sure he knows the rest.