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• we might be hollow, but we're brave by sunangel19

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Multi
  • Work in Progress

  26 Apr 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Jonathan Byers & Will Byers
  • Will Byers & Dustin Henderson & Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler & Nancy Wheeler
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield & Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Joyce Byers
  • Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Robin Buckley
  • Steve Harrington
  • Argyle (Stranger Things)
  • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
  • Post-Season/Series 04
  • immediately after s4
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
  • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
  • Depressed Mike Wheeler
  • Stranger Things 5 Fix-It
  • The Vanishing of Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Gets Vecna'd
  • Vecna Possessing Mike Wheeler
  • Angst
  • like loads of angst
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • actually...not sure
  • don't worry El lives
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler in the Upside Down
  • no 12 kids
  • and the mind flayer is s2 mind flayer
  • not...whatever that was
  • madwheeler yasss
  • more scenes with the party
  • dustin is with the party
  • Siblings Jonathan Byers & Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Siblings Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • POV Will Byers
  • POV Mike Wheeler
  • Stranger Things 5 Rewrite
  • Madwheeler

  Summary

  set right after the s4 cliffhanger. they have no idea what vecna is up to so they plan and train everyday.
  what they're not prepared for is what happens when mike wheeler suddenly vanishes. slowly, everything starts to make no and complete sense at the same time.

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  English

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