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   Paper Faces by laozuspo

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   15 Sep 2023

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Will Byers & Henry Creel | One | Vecna
   • Will Byers
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
   • Joyce Byers
   • Billy Hargrove
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Tammy Thompson
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Murray Bauman
   • Eddie Munson
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Alternate Universe - Phantom of the Opera Fusion
   • Gay Will Byers
   • Unlabeled Mike Wheeler
   • Grooming
   • predatory behavior
   • Obsessive Behavior
   • Possessive Behavior
   • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
   • Singing and dancing as metaphors for psyonic abilities
   • Will Byers has massive Christine Daae vibes
   • Mike Wheeler has massive Raoul de Chagny vibes
   • Step-Siblings Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • The horrors of growing up in an 1880's opera house
   • Implied/Referenced Homophobia
   • Generalized Homophobia Does Not Exist
   • Lonnie was just an asshole like that
   • Childhood Friends
   • Childhood Trauma
   • Friends to Lovers
   • PotO-Typical Rancid Vibes
   • Pyschological Horror
   • Emotional/Psychological Abuse
   • Emotional Manipulation
   • Gaslighting
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • None of our main cast dies
   • Will Byers was not physically harmed in the making of this story
   • Mike and Will get their happy ending...Just give it a minute
   • Mike Wheeler is the head of the Will Byers Defense Squad
   • Blank Makes You Crazy
   • Blank Being Isolation and Desperation
   • Attempted Murder
   • Murder
   • A hint of spice

   Summary

   When William Byers arrived at the Academy of Music with his mother in 1882, he could never have anticipated the colossal scandal that would rock Philadelphia and shatter life as he knew it. Will the power of a childhood bond be able to free him from the sinister forces that hold him, or is he destined to spend his days trapped with the specter who inhabits the vaults of the splendorous opera house?

    

   Or: The Stranger Things x Phantom of the Opera AU I didn't know I needed until I started writing.

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   English

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