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• The real epilogue by glorifiedgraduate

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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  04 Jan 2026

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  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • An alternative ending or what I would like to call - The real ending
  • this is what they deserved
  • Rewriting the last scene of Stranger Things finale
  • Addressing the painting
  • Friends to Lovers
  • Addressing that bizarre epilogue boyfriend Mike Wheeler cooked up
  • What It SHOULD Have Been

  Summary

  "So...I just wanted to say...I didn't like that epilogue boyfriend"
  "Uh...what?", Mike didn't understand.
  "Do you really think I will go to a bar, meet a boyfriend there, and that's all it takes to make me happy?" There was a hint of bitterness in Will's tone.

  OR

  How it actually should have been

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