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1. You're just thinking it's a small thing that happened (the world ended when it happened to me) by archnemisis

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Not Rated
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/F, F/M, M/M
   • Complete Work

   26 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Robin Buckley
   • Joyce Byers
   • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
   • Mutual Pining
   • Will Byers Needs a Hug
   • paintinggate
   • Raingate?
   • Self-Acceptance
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Misunderstandings
   • Will Byers Can't Catch a Break
   • Angst
   • First Kiss

   Summary

   In the direct aftermath of Season 5 Volume 1, Will hasn't woken up. Mike and El enter his mind to try to reach him, only to be hit with Vecna being a little prick and showing a bunch of ways Will Byers' life has been miserable, lonely, and downright horrifying.

   OR

   Mike piggybacks with El into Will's mind and finds Vecna tormenting him about all his trauma/hardship
   (The painting, Castle Byers, when will went missing, the demoslug, the hive mind, ect. included)

   (I should totally call this Raingate that should be a thing) I AM HYPED FOR VOLUME 2!!!

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   English

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