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After the last DnD campaign, there remains so much unsaid between Will and Mike.
As they grow, their feelings do not disappear.
im not good at summaries btu theres so many diffrent byler tropes in this like im not kidding.
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Game Night (the ways we pretend to be fine) by violetafterimage
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Jan 2026
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Will can handle monsters. He’s done it before. What he can’t handle is being seen too clearly, especially by Mike Wheeler.
When a “normal” movie night turns into a spiral, Will’s fear becomes Vecna’s favorite leverage: shame, silence, and the dread that love will turn into rejection. Mike wants answers. Jonathan wants boundaries. Vecna wants Will alone.
Unfortunately, Vecna knows exactly whose face to wear.
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Mike Wheeler wrote about heroes because it was easier than writing about love.
Will Byers learned to draw in the quiet spaces where the truth couldn’t follow him.
A publishing deadline forces them into the same room for the first time in years—and neither of them is the kid they left behind.Thank you @Birtchybb_ for the idea!
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When a Crawl seals behind them, Mike and Will are forced into the kind of closeness Hawkins never allowed—while the dark uses Will’s signal to try to pull them apart.
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Mike has always been afraid of losing Will.
Vecna doesn’t have to take Will to win, he just has to make Mike the reason Will gets hurt.