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   By the willow tree by Anonymous

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/F, F/M
   • Work in Progress

   19 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Joyce Byers
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Karen Wheeler
   • Ted Wheeler
   • Holly Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Max Mayfield
   • Vecna (Stranger Things)
   • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
   • Demogorgon (Stranger Things)
   • The Party (Stranger Things)
   • Steve Harrington
   • Robin Buckley
   • Vickie (Stranger Things)
   • Erica Sinclair
   • Female Will Byers
   • Lesbian Will Byers
   • Alternate Universe - Gender Changes
   • no girl mike wheeler he doesnt get to be pretty
   • Girl Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Unrequited Love
   • 'im dumb she's a lesbian' ahh mike wheeler
   • no gay mike wheeler because it doesn't fit my story :c
   • byler moments but they aren't requited because i hate michael.
   • Canonical Character Death
   • Queer Character
   • Queer Themes
   • Canon Queer Relationship
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Homophobia
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Implied/Referenced Homophobia
   • Loser Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler is Whipped
   • Mike Wheeler is Obsessed with Will Byers
   • POV Multiple
   • Will Byers-centric
   • Jealous Mike Wheeler
   • Protective Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Being an Idiot
   • Author Has Never Played Dungeons & Dragons
   • Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault
   • Pedophilia
   • Will Byers Deserves Love
   • Bisexual Mike Wheeler
   • it's not actually referenced or said but it's there
   • actually attempting to bring back his character because holy fuck was he lobotomised during season 5
   • i may be a hater but im not a liar and mike wheeler was ROBBED
   • bro why is it taking me literal hours to get through s1 ep1
   • this is hell
   • i am doing this optionally by the way
   • Lesbian Character
   • Oblivious Will Byers
   • need to add actual tags that aren't just notes recording my complaining
   • this is me coping through whatever the fuck that ending was through the power of women and gay
   • im putting actual effort into one mike wheelers character and it means i won't bash him as much
   • still worth it because at least he's regained some semblance of a personality
   • Aromantic Asexual Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Not Mike Wheeler Friendly
   • No Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
   • Slow To Update
   • This shit isn't abandoned though im just lazy

   Summary

   In the many timelines, including the original universe of Stranger Things, Will Byers is a twelve-year-old boy in love with Mike Wheeler, who is ultimately ignored and given an unsatisfactory fate.

   In this one, Mike Wheeler remains hopelessly in love with his oblivious childhood best friend, Willow Byers, when she goes missing. Although this is just one small change among the millions that could've occurred, it may be just enough to derail the destiny that awaits them all.

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   Basically a rewrite of Stranger Things but Will is now a *lesbian* girl. This, surprisingly, might change quite a lot of things.
   !Please read the tags!
   (Holy fuck-a-roni, as someone who has not watched Stranger Things and is now deciding to rewrite the show (albeit with a lot of missing scenes), this is hell. I have to watch each scene I even think I want to include at least ten times over, not to mention altering dialogue, and the inevitable point where I have to stray from canon. I would, y'know, just stop writing, but I have quite literally NOTHING better to do, and I'm using this as copium for that actual shit ending. And also because I love women, but, y'know...🏳‍🌈)

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