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this is everything i didn’t say (from all the letters that i’ve saved) by BKGOROKI
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Oct 2026
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Summary
Mike Wheeler has a disguised diary that’s written in the POV of his Dungeons & Dragons character Mike the Brave, and after he gets flayed by Vecna and was outed for being in love with Will he uses it as a form of self-therapy and working through his own trauma and feelings. However, that’s not all, as he’s begun to add more direct poems, songs, and letters for Will as he regains more self-esteem too.
Will Byers, who was afraid of this exact thing happening to himself, had come out to everyone just prior to the final battle. And with Mike’s intense familial issues arising shortly after because of it all — he thought he spared Mike by not addressing the crush directly so soon after, and gave him the space to come to terms with things first.
However, now a semester into college, they still have yet to talk despite being roommates together at NYU because of just how messy recovery can be and how busy life gets. And one day Will finds Mike’s journal, thinking at first glance it was just a bunch of short stories. Surely Mike wouldn’t mind, right?
Well, he reads all of it, and realizes it’s everything Mike has ever wanted to and has struggled to say to him.