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The Bridge, the Sorcerer, and the Beep Beep: A Very Loud Coming Out by lowkeyks
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Dec 2025
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"I haven't told any of you this because I don't want you to see me differently," Will started. His voice was soft, melodic, and Richie felt like he was being hugged by a cloud. "But the truth is... I am different."
Will took a shaky breath. This was it. The big reveal. The moment the music swells.
"I just… I don't like girls."
The silence that followed was heavy. It was the kind of silence that usually preceded a jump-scare. Mike looked like he had been hit with a brick. El looked confused. Dustin looked like he was doing math in his head.
Richie Tozier, however, did not stay silent.
He let out a sound that was somewhere between a pterodactyl scream and a sob of pure relief. He threw his hands into the air, his Hawaiian shirt fluttering.
"I KNEW IT!" Richie screamed, his voice echoing off the concrete walls.
OR Richie Tozier has spent his quarantine pining for Will Byers. When Will finally delivers his dramatic coming-out speech at WSQK headquarters, Richie took his chance.
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01 Jan 2026
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Will tried to swallow down the last of his fear, but his throat felt like sandpaper.
“Take me.”
Those milky eyes fixed on him, and a warped brow lifted, as if asking him to repeat himself.
Even though the cold seeped into him, like he was drifting backwards into a freezer, Will didn’t take the way out.
“Take me,” he repeated, his voice still shaky, but he held Vecna’s gaze. “Take me instead of Holly. I’ll come to you. I won’t fight. Just finish it already.”
Vecna was silent for a long, agonizing moment, but then, a smile curled across his twisted face.
“Deal.”---
Will offers himself to Vecna in exchange for Holly’s safety.
Mike takes this about as well as can be expected.- Language:
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01 Jan 2026
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When Max is sent away for a month for advanced out of state hospital treatment, Lucas is left with way too much time and way too many feelings. So when he notices the unresolved tension simmering between Will and Mike, he decides to do something about it. But before he can even process what that truly entails, he’s already knee deep in secrets, feelings, and “friendships” that are a lot more complicated than he signed up for.
OR: What starts as a distraction from missing Max turns into the most complicated plan of Lucas’s life as he shifts from helping Will get over Mike to setting them up together (because he’s the bestest, most supportive friend ever, obviously!)
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29 Dec 2025
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“I want you to tell him why you're so upset," Vecna says, and Will swears he sees the curl of a smile in the webbed scars of his face. “I want to watch you lose him.”
(Or, Will is forced by Vecna to confess his feelings to Mike, with a slow burn aftermath. Hypothetical Season 5.)
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29 Dec 2025
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Mike is on Reddit.
He needs to stop oversharing online.
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28 Dec 2025
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how to fall out of love with your best friend by miketozier (smallcuts)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Aug 2022
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Have you ever been very good friends with someone for a long time? Surely you have. Suddenly, you realize that you're in love with your formerly platonic companion. It happens quite frequently, so you don't need to feel alone in your sentiment. And it can hurt a lot more than standard "unrequited love," as you and this person have a lengthy and supportive history with each other. This puts both your friendship and your love aspirations on the line, and it can be quite painful for both parties.
Will tries to get over Mike. It doesn't go as expected.
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26 Dec 2025
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Is it normal to stand here, and wish that I was back at home? (Is it normal to tell her I can't be normal anymore?) by SilverShadow1
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Dec 2025
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“Holly, come back inside. Dad’s just being —”
Holly doesn’t know what comes over her.
“Just fuck off, Mike!”OR
Holly Wheeler has a crush. One that feels like life or death.
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26 Dec 2025
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I love you, I love you forever by psychotic_fangirl369
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Nov 2025
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The first time Mike Wheeler told Will Byers he loved him, they were both standing in the Hawkins Public Library, soaked in demogorgon blood, Vecna’s ashes still settling in the air like cursed snow.
💕💕💕
Mike tells Will “I love you.”
Will tells Mike “I love you too.”
Unfortunately, they are having two completely different conversations.
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25 Dec 2025
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give you my sunshine, give you my best by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Feb 2024
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Max clears her throat. “Are you going to get to the part where you tell us what you want, or are you going to keep waxing poetic about Will’s emotions?”
“Fuck you,” Mike grumbles. “I think we should have a Valentine’s Day party. For Will.”
Dustin blinks. “You’re concerned about Will feeling sad because of the romantic connotations of Valentine’s Day and your big solution is to draw more attention to Valentine’s Day?”
“Just listen!” Mike yelps.
In which Will is sad, and Mike has a plan to fix it. Platonically, of course.
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23 Dec 2025
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“W-what if it’s not him?” Will croaks. Once again, Mike’s face just falls, and Will shakes his head slightly, tears welling in his eyes. “What if… what if this is all just in… in my head? A-and that’s… that’s why El can’t find him? What if… I’m just making all this up?”
For a few moments, Mike is just quiet. He looks like he’s trying to figure out what to say, so Will takes another shuddered breath. “I-I feel like I’m going insane, Mike,” he admits, hating the way his voice cracks. “It’s like… like I don’t… have control of my own mind anymore… I-I just feel like I’m… like I’m going crazy.”
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In the year following the opening of Vecna's gates, Mike slowly loses Will, and Will slowly loses his mind.
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17 Dec 2025
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he got my heartbeat, skipping down sixteenth avenue by ethqreal
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Dec 2022
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Mike's family, the Party and everyone else is acting extremely weird around Mike and Will.
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15 Dec 2025
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Jonathan makes it all of five steps before it all goes wrong.
Behind him, Will says, “Mike?”
Mike does not reply. Jonathan glances over his shoulder, mid-step, and pulls up short in confusion at what he sees. Mike is still by the van where the darkness is deepest, his white t-shirt dappled with darker shadows, standing stock-still. Unnervingly still. Stiller than Jonathan has ever seen him. No bouncing leg, no tapping finger, no nothing; he’s just standing there, staring down at his blood-covered hands in a faraway sort of fascination.
His wet blood-covered hands.
(or, jonathan's always known mike is willing to do a lot for his little brother. he just never understood exactly how much.)
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14 Dec 2025
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I don't wanna fight the tide by lover_in_the_cove (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Sep 2024
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The air in Hawkins was clear, clearer than it had been in a long time. Yet for Will, it had never been harder to breathe. Every breath felt like sucking in glass, cutting up his lungs and leaving the taste of blood in his throat. It's like he's surrounded by thick honey, each step an effort, each inhale a challenge.
It didn't take Will long to realise something was wrong. Not with Hawkins, not with the Party. No, this was all Will.
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After the defeat of Vecna, Will gets sick. Really sick.
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10 Dec 2025
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But I know, if the world turned upside down / Baby, I know you'd always be around
“Mike?”
It’s a whisper, but it’s filled with something so earnest, so true, that it strikes through Mike’s very core. Rips apart at his chest, with the familiarity of it. The way his name sounds in this younger Will’s throat, soft and gentle and so, so relieved.
“Will,” Mike says back, matching his whisper. “Hey, Will, it’s me. Mike.”
“But—” Will frowns. He’s so unsure, Mike wants to cry for him. “You’re so tall.”
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Or, when Will is possessed by Vecna and trapped in his own mind, Mike is the only one who can save him.
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10 Dec 2025
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Save Me (I'm The Writing On The Wall) by RoseByAnyOtherName17
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Dec 2025
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“I’m just…thinking.”
“Well, can you think out loud?” Will gripes, sounding tense and unhappy even as he settles back against Mike’s chest. “You’re making me nervous.”
Mike laughs a little. “I’m not sure I should; I don’t want to freak you out.”
“Mike,” and Will sounds supremely unimpressed, “I just took control of three Demos, two of which were miles away, and proceeded to snap their limbs and kill them with my mind. Not only that, I just told you that I did it by drawing strength, in large part, from being your friend. You’re worried about freaking me out? Really?”
“Yeah, and I’m the guy who watched you do it and thought that it was the hottest thing I’d ever seen in my life, so what does that say about me?”
There’s a long, shocked silence.
“See, this is why I don’t think out loud,” Mike jokes weakly.
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Mike falls a little bit more in love with Will because, at this point, who wouldn't? He just saved Mike's life, after all. Unfortunately, the others don't quite see it that way, and it's getting to Will a little bit. Mike intends to remedy that.
Immediately following the ending of season 5 episode 4: Sorcerer
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10 Dec 2025
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you were bigger than the whole sky by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Nov 2022
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Mike breathes out sharply, sinking to his knees in front of Will without conscious thought. Every bone in his body is turning to jelly, because Will is here, but he's also- not. His form is made up of the same dusty gold that fills the air around him, flaking off him and dancing around. Mike wants to reach out and catch the light in his palm. Will looks not entirely solid, like this is some poor imitation of him rendered in light particles, like his physical form is somewhere else, and for a horrible moment Mike thinks that Will is a ghost after all. That this is an illusion, brought about by Mike's hopeless yearning. If it weren't for the pebbles digging sharply into his legs as he knees on the ground and the crisp chill of the spring air on his face, Mike would be sure he was dreaming, but he doesn't think he could dream up something so simultaneously as magical and horrifying as the specter of his maybe-dead friend hovering before him.
"Will," he whispers, reaching out until his fingers are centimeters from Will's arm, and Will's eyes fly open.
on march 29th, 1986, will byers vanishes for a second time. 366 days later, he reappears.
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10 Dec 2025
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10 Dec 2025
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Mike Wheeler and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being Obsolete by Pseudologia
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Oct 2022
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“All right, Wonder Twins, prepare to meet your maker.” Dustin points a finger at El and smirks. “Never have I ever had a crush on Mike.”
Mike keeps his face neutral while El drinks, as is his ex-boyfriend-turned-best-friend duty. He sees a little movement out of the corner of his right eye, though, and he turns to follow it.
Will is taking a hit off his joint.
“Wait…” Mike says, cutting off Lucas in the middle of his never-have-I-ever announcement. His gaze doesn’t waver from Will’s face. “What?”
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- Part 1 of Byler Week 2022
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08 Dec 2025
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the worst thing about being honest by quietforasecond
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Aug 2022
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Will coughs violently when the lack of oxygen creates a ringing in his ears, and then he’s leaning forward and gagging. He fully expects to see a squirming veiny worm hit the sink like one had two years ago after his encounter with the Upside Down, but instead, he’s met with petals.
Will watches in more fascination than horror as they slowly float down to the sink.
Or the one where Mike keeps falling asleep, Will can’t stop hacking up flowers, and everyone is suddenly great at giving advice.
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08 Dec 2025
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where is my mind? by ciders
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Stranger Things - Fandom
03 Apr 2018
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On November 6th, 1985, Will Byers crashed his bicycle while riding home from the Wheeler household, damaging his head and waking up two days later with no recollection of who he was.
Plagued with the absence of his memories and a dark haired boy who refuses to tell Will his name, all Will Byers has to do is remember. That's the hard part.
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- Part 1 of losing will, and other fatalities
- Language:
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- 14/14
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08 Dec 2025