Archive of Our Own

Recent works

• We Are Entranced (Spellbound) by starryknightsx

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

  05 Aug 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Will Byers/Chance
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Jonathan Byers & Will Byers
  • Chance & Lucas Sinclair
  • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper & Dustin Henderson & Maxine "Max" Mayfield & Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler
  • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
  • Will Byers
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Chance (Stranger Things)
  • Joyce Byers
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Other Character Tags to Be Added
  • Will Byers-centric
  • Goth Will Byers
  • Period-Typical Homophobia
  • POV Will Byers
  • Post-Season/Series 04
  • Pre-Season/Series 05
  • not a rewrite but kinda a rewrite of season 5
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Bychance Endgame
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added

  Summary

  “It’s okay if you want to, you know.” Will froze. “Lots of guys wear makeup, especially new wave fans. I mean, Robert Smith doesn’t naturally have that look.”

  OR

  A queer, traumatized, VERY bored boy discovers the beauty of goth culture. With a dash of bychance (and byler figuring it out ofc).

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  2,543

  Chapters:

  1/?

  Comments:

  5

  Kudos:

  26

  Bookmarks:

  6

  Hits:

  203