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“You have so many freckles on your back,” Will whispers gently, hand still moving the pen across Mike’s skin.
“What are you doing?”
“Connecting them. Making up my own constellations.”
Mike hums once more. “You should see if you can find actual ones.”
“I don’t know them that well.”
“I’ll teach you some soon.”
Will and Mike slip into an innocent, comfortable painting routine which soon turns into something more intimate than they both can handle. Touches become more frequent and linger for a beat too long — and Mike decides that he wants to explore this dynamic further.
What he doesn't know, however, is that the underlying reason for his sudden interest in said dynamic is just as hard to grasp as paint running through fingers.
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20 Jul 2026
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After Eleven dies, Mike Wheeler starts needing Will Byers in a way that has teeth.
Same bed every night. Mike counting Will’s breaths, Will’s shivers, every place his mouth has been allowed and every place he has forbidden himself to touch. Will keeps asking what they are. Mike keeps not answering.
A fight in Will’s studio goes too far. When he wakes, the world has gone quiet.
Years later, Will is learning how to live without waiting for Mike Wheeler to choose him. Mike is learning, badly and late, that loving Will with everything in him was never the same as loving him the way Will needed.
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Mike Wheeler is being eaten alive by his OCD, Will Byers has spent too long mistaking need for love, and neither of them knows when the thing between them became a compulsion. What's left is distance, and therapy, and the slow, quiet work of building a life in the silence. A psychological slow burn about the difference between loving someone and needing them to stay.
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19 Jul 2026
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Stanger Things: When It's Cold Again by liminal_grief
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Jul 2026
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"You think you were a victim."
Will swallows.
"I was."
Vecna steps closer. The room bends around him.
"You were a vector."
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Six months after the events of Season 4, Hawkins should be healing.
It isn't.
November has come early. The air is colder than it should be.
And something beneath the surface of the town feels... wrong.Will Byers can feel it the most. Something is still there. Watching. Waiting.
No Matter What the Party does, they can't predict what's coming.
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18 Jul 2026
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It had become familiar with every nook, every cranny of Will's body and mind, and it intended to stay—to keep him—forever. To become one.
He wanted to tear himself apart; rip this thing out of him and run away with his Mike—
But like every other time, he. just. couldn't. move.
The love of his life was right there. Mike was right there, and Will was going to hurt him. Kill him. Slash or bash his face until he was unrecognizable. The Shadow would make him. He couldn't do a damn thing to stop it.
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An Obsession AU in which Henry Creel becomes weirdly possessive over his employee Will Byers, resorting to unnatural, demonic measures to have him. Meanwhile, Mike doesn’t understand why Will is acting so strange.
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16 Jul 2026
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As the summer of 1985 approaches, Will feels The Mindflayer grow stronger by the day, but he’s not worried. With the help of a new friend— a mysterious man he had never seen around Hawkins before— he learns that being a part of the Shadow isn’t all that bad.
Will’s real worst fear is the party drifting apart and leaving him behind, but he knows he’s being ridiculous. Surely they wouldn’t ignore him? Surely they would notice if he was acting… different.
Or: as good as Billy is at being a host, the Mindflayer has a favorite, and over the next month everyone would find out.
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14 Jul 2026
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Max Mayfield (@MADMAX) to Will Byers (@willthewise): are u over wheeler yet u can be our third
willthewise: No :/
MADMAX: fuckerLucas Sinclair (@sinclairlucas) to Will Byers (@willthewise): i'd treat you better than mike ever could
willthewise: I can't help who I fall in love with
sinclairlucas: pick me. choose meBookmarked by KayleeJr
14 Jul 2026
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Where small things go to die. by sunniesdoll for ElectroBug98
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Jun 2026
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Slowly, he rolls onto his side, curling inward without meaning to. His palms settle against his lower stomach, fingers spread wide, hands bigger than they used to be. Or maybe all of him is bigger, and he's aging, and his body is just more his now than he can remember.
He feels so empty.
Just one heartbeat, only his voice in his head, one lonely body curled up in bed.
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“Will, come on.” The doorknob rattles. “You're freaking me out.” Mike sounds closer now, worried. “I'm sick of you pushing me away. I'm not joking around.”
Will imagines him standing on the other side of the door, one hand gripping the frame, eyebrows drawn together. Waiting, the way he always is.
“At least let me know you're alive in there.” Mike's voice cracks, and the sound makes Will's throat tighten immediately. “Will, I'm serious, and I mean it. I'll break this door down.”
or, my take on Will's trauma from Henry's assault and the slugs, post canon. Read tags!!
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29 Jun 2026
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don't you wanna ride it? (educated horses) by cumaddict71
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Jul 2026
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"You do keep coming back."
Maybe that's the problem.
Months after leaving Lenora behind and moving in with the Wheelers, Will finds something comforting in ruining himself on purpose—until it becomes the only thing he knows how to do.
Max meets him where he is. Mike keeps pulling him closer.
Until none of them can tell who is pulling whom under.
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Thirteen (2003) but make it toxic byler, toxic madwise and shared self-destruction mistaken for intimacy.Bookmarked by KayleeJr
27 Jun 2026
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As Joyce slowly emerges from her depression, Jonathan struggles to balance his schoolwork, familial obligations and his new role as Nancy's boyfriend. All while trying to manage his own anxieties over Will, his mom's mental health, money and most importantly his own future. Caught in a crossroads, Jonathan is wearing himself thin trying to keep everything functioning while constantly wanting more.
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- Part 1 of These Days
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27 Jun 2026
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Monday, you can hold your head. Tuesday, Wednesday, stay in bed. by StaysBlossom
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Mar 2026
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Feeling flooded back into his body. His head throbbed mercilessly, skull heavy and aching. The light overhead scorched his eyes, forcing them to squint against the brightness. It didn't help that the world tilted again, spinning just as it had earlier that day, colors bleeding into one another as shapes warped and bent unnaturally.
His tongue felt thick. Uncooperative. His lips numb and sluggish. Blurred shapes crowded into his periphery. Darkness pressed in at the edges of his vision.
And then there was nothing.
OR; Will gets a concussion after hitting his head during The Crawl and Mike looks after him.
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- Part 2 of BYLER
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25 Jun 2026
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Will doesn’t know how they got here. Ten months ago, things were good. They were good. Mike was his friend. Mike was the one person who treated him normally. Like he was his old self again.
But then again, normal boys don’t die for a week and come back. When normal boys die, they stay dead.
Things Will knows, things Will doesn't know, and things Will learns, in time.
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20 Jun 2026
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"Does anyone else think their partner is… edible?” Mike asks, not really directing the question to anyone specific as he spreads blankets over the couch.
When he looks up, the room has gone silent and is staring at him. Dustin’s eyes are wide, looking slightly mortified, Lucas’ eyebrows are furrowed in blatant confusion, and Max looks like she wants Mike to never open his mouth if those were the words he was going to speak. Mike can’t help the way he immediately flushes.
aka; mike wants to eat will affectionately, the party knows this but not their relationship, and he's so, so whipped.
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20 Jun 2026
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Will lets out a small squawk as Mike’s hand— his very cold, very freezing hand— finds its way around the blankets and under his sweater. “I’m sick, you weirdo,” he says, half-laughing into the side of Mike’s head, “I have a fever.”
“I don’t care,” Mike mumbles, “you’re warm and I’m cold. This is nice.”
“You’re going to get sick,” Will tries, for the umpteenth time, but it’s pointless. Mike Wheeler is stubborn and hardheaded and he never does anything halfway— not even this.
Will gets sick. He's dealing with it. Seriously, Mike- he's fine.
(or: a study in intimacy.)Bookmarked by KayleeJr
20 Jun 2026
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my calamitous love and insurmountable grief by iwillknowyou
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Mar 2026
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Will experiences the five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance) after the loss of his brother Jonathan. This fic basically goes thru how his grief impacts his relationships with others as well as his view of himself and the world. yeah this is pretty depressing. lowk vent fic?? idk if i can call it that but idrc. this characterisation of Will might not necessarily be one you agree with and i totally get that, but i think it makes a lot of sense. oh yeah this completely disregards most of what happened canonically in s5. have fun y'all stay safe
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19 Jun 2026
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Mike searched his eyes. “Will, I’m right here. I’m here.”
“I know.” Will said, too quickly, as though he was compensating for something. He knew that Mike was with him, yet something was deeply, seriously wrong.
“I know.” He said again, quieter.
A beat. Will was breathing faster now, eyes focusing and unfocusing at what seemed like an uncomfortable speed. The air suddenly felt thicker. His eyes dialed in on the corner of Mike’s mouth.
“I can’t see you.”
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The Mindflayer's death (and by extension, the Hive) left Will Byers without sight. As he tries to navigate this new existence, Mike wrestles with his identity and love for Will.
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15 Jun 2026
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All in all, these five months and two weeks had completely, entirely, and unequivocally been the best time of Will's life. It wasn’t a hard standard to reach, considering the other 200-something months he’d lived, but it really couldn’t get better than Mike Wheeler buying you Thai food and calling you baby.
Well, maybe one thing; which was that Mike was changing.
Or, 5 times Mike discovers himself, one friend at a time, and once where he does it all by himself
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15 Jun 2026
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November 10th, 1988, Will Byers is taken into the Upside Down. The Party & Co. come together to try and save him, all the while Will is fighting to save himself. New monsters emerge and love flourishes. Will hides and Mike finds.
Together, even across dimensions, right?
FIC WILL RETURN JULY 2026!!!
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13 Jun 2026
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blooming moonflowers (they're born from my tears) by m00nlightflow3r
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Jun 2026
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Will nodded quietly. Normally the idea of getting close to someone new terrified him, but there was something about that boy that pulled at him. Something beyond curiosity. For some reason, Will could see parts of himself reflected in him in ways he never really had with anyone else. So, against his better judgment, he decided to take the risk.
“By the way... do you know D&D?”
“Dungeons & Dragons?” the other boy asked “I’ve heard of it, but I don’t really know much about it.”
“Oh. Right.” Will immediately looked down, embarrassed.
“But,” he interrupted quickly, “I’d like to learn. If you wanna teach me.”
And suddenly, Will found himself thinking about how strange life could be. Because just when he thought his world would stay exactly the same forever... He might actually be making a new friend. And for once, there were no supernatural monsters involved.
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In the summer of 1985, Will Byers makes a new friend, one that is more like him than he could've imagined. This friendship might change a lot of things about how he sees himself and the world around him. Mike is not exactly thrilled about the idea, but he may learn some important things along the way.
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11 Jun 2026
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I might turn the wheel just to drive past your road (I'll die if I see you, and I'll die if I don't) by SilverShadow1
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Jun 2026
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“You have no idea … where that creature came from. What it represents.”
“You’ve never said.”
There’s a hint of doubt in Lucas' voice.
“I shouldn’t have to,” Will says, coolly. “It’s linked to the Upside Down. That should be enough.”OR
Once the Party learns about Dart's origins, Will starts opening up about his past trauma.
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09 Jun 2026
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"I'm sorry."
His voice came out croaky and wobbly. He couldn't stand the sound of his own voice. He couldn't stand to hear the desperation and shame and guilt seeping from his words.
This time, it was Mike whose features tugged into a frown, his other hand situating itself on Will's free cheek as he shook his head. "Don't. Don't be. Will, hey, look at me, baby. You have nothing to be sorry for, okay? Nothing at all."
Will stared into Mike's imploring eyes and chose, for once, not to believe him.
- Or, 5 times Will sought comfort from his friends, and one time he didn't need to go looking.
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09 Jun 2026