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1. Charisma Check (DnD is just an excuse for flirting without consequences) by Rogue_Mercury

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Not Rated
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   31 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
   • mostly just some Lumax crumbs
   • The Party & The Party (Stranger Things)
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Dustin Henderson
   • First Kiss
   • Getting Together
   • Post-Canon
   • Canon Compliant
   • Boys In Love
   • Boys Kissing
   • Fluff
   • Summer of 1989
   • Coming Out
   • not Will's ;)
   • Happy Ending
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Gay Mike Wheeler
   • Mutual Pining
   • Slow Burn
   • Not Actually Unrequited Love
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Mileven broke up after they returned from California in this (because there is literally no proof they didn't)
   • mwtfdydgate
   • POV Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler is Down Bad
   • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
   • so he communicates everything through DnD
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler in Love
   • First Love
   • Idiots in Love
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Childhood Friends to Lovers
   • byler
   • The Party Friendship (Stranger Things)
   • Banter
   • like SO MUCH banter okay I need this to cope
   • Sharing a Bed
   • Flirting
   • Awkward Flirting
   • Platonic Madwheeler
   • platonic Madwise
   • platonic byclair
   • All the platonic friendships in the Party really
   • Cleradin crumbs if you squint
   • Nerdy Flirting
   • I need this to be an official tag actually
   • please spread the nerdy flirting agenda
   • "Mike would explore"
   • indeed he would he does and he has been
   • that boy's been whipped since they sold milkshakes at Mevalds ok and that was in the 50s or whatever

   Summary

   In one of their summer 1989 campaigns, Mike includes a mysterious, recurring NPC. A male tower guard who appears to be interested in Will. Will is confused and a little apprehensive at first, while Lucas, Dustin, and Max are very much intrigued.

   The guard seems to be hiding something crucial to unraveling the mystery of the cursed river he watches over. Yet Will turns out to be the only one who can get him to talk... by charming him.

    

   (Inspired by that one post “Was playing DnD and started flirting with the tavern keeper to get some info and at a certain point I realized I was just dirty talking with my buddy Ben.”)

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