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The Upside Down isn't the only alternate universe the party has to worry about it seems. When something inexplainable happens during a game of D&D, Will is replaced by... Will? Will the Wise appears before everyone, confused on why his friends are wearing such strange garbs and what dungeon he has stumbled into. Meanwhile, Will finds himself surrounded by fantastical versions of his friends clad in armor and robes somewhere far, far from Hawkins. The party now has a new mission to figure out how to get their Wills switched back around, and Mike needs to figure out what this feeling in his chest is all about.
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If Will had a nickel every time he was transported into an alternate reality that had some similarities to his normal reality, he'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but its weird that it happened twice, right?
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04 Feb 2026
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Will Byers is forced to relive the worst day of his life - March 22nd.
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04 Jan 2026
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Will forced himself to stop thinking. The Upside Down was closed for good. Eleven had close the gate last year and saved them all. His mother, Jonathan and Nancy had taken the Mind Flayer out of him. There was nothing more connecting him to that place. He was clean. Purged. And those stupid chills he got from time to time in the back of his neck were just his brain messing up with him. It was him not being able to move on from what happened in the past. It was him not being able to grow the fuck up already.
Dustin clapped his hands, the sound echoing in the calm night, making Will snapped out of his thoughts. “We can become heroes, Will. Honest to God American heroes. Like freaking Red dawn or something.”
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Season 3 rewrite in which Will listens to the Russian transmission with Dustin. Inspired by American Heroes by catchip2
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- Part 1 of Our way to the Rightside Up
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04 Jan 2026
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Chance mistakenly hits Will in the face with a basketball while Will is looking for a pen he lost in an assembly that day.
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04 Jan 2026
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In the month after Hawkins splits open, Will Byers is excluded, haunted, rejected by his best friend, and abandoned during the evacuation forced by the military. Presumed dead by his friends and family, Will is taken in by Vecna, who corrupts his mind and teaches him to harness his new powers. Two years later, Mike returns to Hawkins for Will.
Or, Mike discovers his feelings while Will learns to suppress his. When they reunite, they are, as always, not on the same page.
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04 Jan 2026
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The Danger Signs Will Never Let The Feelings Die by ProbablyNoPosts
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Jan 2026
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After jacking back into the hive mind, Will falls unconscious for several hours with no signs of waking up. An anxious Mike and Joyce ask Eleven to see if she can enter Will's mind to get him back. After traveling through his memories to retrieve him, Eleven finally brings Will back, but he isn't quite the same...
A byler-centered fic that explores the topic of grooming and trauma involving Will's experience with the Upside Down while also focusing on the impact of familial love.
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03 Jan 2026
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Something is wrong in Hawkins.
Not the kind you can fight with bats or fire. The kind that lingers in half-forgotten dates, in words that never get said, in the way the people who love you most suddenly feel… distant.
March 22nd should mean something.
It used to.As the past bleeds into the present and old scars begin to ache, Will Byers finds himself holding onto secrets no one else can see — about shame, about love, about power, and about the quiet fear that he’s been forgotten on purpose.
Because some things aren’t lost.
They’re ignored.And sometimes, the key was never a place.
It was you.( full remake of the volume 2 of Stranger Things 5 right after “Sorcerer” )
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02 Jan 2026
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A series that explores the universe that "locker notes" takes place in!
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02 Jan 2026
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"I'm sorry." Chance whispered as he rested his chin on Will's shoulder. He closed his eyes and kissed his neck softly, that mole shaped like a heart that he always adored, his cheek, his jaw, anywhere he could, whispering "I'm sorry's," and "I love you's," in between each one.
Will's stomach fluttered and his face grew hot. He could feel the dam breaking. Chance knew exactly how to get to him, and it was both infuriating and endearing.
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Will is mad at Chance because he picked a fight with Mike, and Chance asks Lucas for advice on how to apologize.Bookmarked by Freethinker3000
02 Jan 2026
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we could be heroes (just for one day) by avidkoyomilover
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Jan 2026
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Stranger things Volume 2 and 3 completely rewritten.
Nancy and Jonathan are fighting, Steve and Dustin are fighting, Max is still in a coma, and what the hell is wrong with Will?
Episode 5, Shock Jock
Episode 6, Escape from Camazotz
Episode 7, The Bridge, and
Episode 8, The Rightside UpAll four episodes, completely rewritten with no plot holes, jane hopper lives, a byler conclusion, and plot accurate.
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01 Jan 2026
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I'll Work On Believing It by spotlightonmringenue
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)
23 Jan 2025
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It’s the end, the chills whisper, sweeping around his ears. So close now.
Will helplessly lifts his hand to his neck, wishing he could press the reflex out of existence. It feels like he’s seen a pencil rolling off a table, moving too fast to catch as it teeters on the precipice. He can only watch the weight tip over the edge, tumbling down, down, down—
(A post Season 4 continuation of the first crossover fic in this series!)
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- Part 2 of Belonging to Your Dreams
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15 Dec 2025
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I Didn't Know There Were Wizards in California by spotlightonmringenue
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King
10 Jul 2022
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Will ignores a timid reply from his classmate, his focus fully on this strange interloper that could be his best friend’s twin.
Evil twin, as Dustin would say, his voice low and incriminating. Ultraman type shit. Will considers relaying the situation on their upcoming weekly call to make the current situation less unsettling.
The guy is cautiously smiling back now – a reflection of Will’s unconscious expression at the thought of Dustin’s clarification – and it doesn’t falter, even once Will loses his amusement. Instead, the grin widens, almost too big for his face and definitely too big for Mike’s usual range of expression. His eyebrows rise above the rim of his lenses.
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- Part 1 of Belonging to Your Dreams
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15 Dec 2025
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“How’s school going?” Joyce asks.
“Good. It’s…going good,” Mike replies. She nods and sips her hot chocolate.
“Mrs. Byers.” She looks up at him and Mike feels his heart beat faster. “Why did you make three hot chocolates?”
She takes her time to answer. “I don’t know,” she replies after a while. “It felt like the right thing to do today.”
Today. Today’s weird, Mike thinks.
“It’s March 22nd today.”
“I know.”or
what happens when Birthdaygate and Lettergate meet.
Day 3 for Byler Week: Birthdaygate/Byler gates
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- Part 3 of Byler Week 2023
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12 Dec 2025
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
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04 Dec 2025
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It was really just his luck that a hulking monster lumbered out of the woods and directly onto his driveway. Just his luck that he threw enough parties when his parents were gone that the neighbors had long tuned out any noise that came from his yard. Just a nice cherry on top of the fucking cake that, even if anyone did hear him screaming when claws tangled in his jacket and pulled, Steve honestly wasn’t sure they’d have cared enough to bother anyway.
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Months before El ripped open the gate at Hawkins Lab, the Demogorgon started ripping tears of its own. Months before it found Will Byers, it found Steve Harrington.
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- Part 1 of Nowhere to look but inside
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03 Dec 2025
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castles crumbling by rweoutofthewoods for rsbarelle
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Jul 2023
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For Christmas one year, James Potter gives Regulus Black a small coin affixed to a necklace so they can communicate. At seventeen, as water fills his lungs, in a cave filled with inferi, Regulus reaches for it.
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Regulus gasped against James’s lips, the sudden kiss washing over him in a blazing rush. James kissed him like it mattered. Like if he could just push in close enough, bite Regulus’s lip hard enough, then maybe he could transfer whatever words he always swallowed down. Regulus never really knew what the intensity meant, I love you or I hate you.
Don’t hate me. Don’t hate me.
Regulus wanted to scream. He wanted to beg James to spit it out, to simply tell Regulus whatever he was really thinking. At the same time, Regulus wasn’t sure he could handle it. If James Potter ever hated him, Regulus thought he’d be sick with it. He thought he’d never get out of bed again.
So, Regulus didn’t ask, he’d never ask.
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19 Nov 2025
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"Chance bit the inside of his lip. Truthfully, part of him believed Jason’s Hellfire theory was a desperate story fueled by the grief of losing Chrissy, but the more Chance watched Hawkins fall apart, literally, the more he felt his old logic snap into place. Maybe Jason had been right, the town had a wound and something crawled out of it, something that hid in plain sight. Chance didn’t believe in revenge, the Bible says justice belonged to God or the law. But, if there really was an evil in this town, wouldn’t it be just as evil to do nothing about it? To let it happen?"
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After losing two of his friends in the Hawkins “earthquake,” Chance joins a church grief group that believes Will Byers is the vessel for Satan. To prove them wrong, Chance agrees to befriend Will, but the closer he gets, the more the lines between faith, fear, obsession and love start to blur.
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13 Nov 2025
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I don't wanna fight the tide by lover_in_the_cove (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Sep 2024
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The air in Hawkins was clear, clearer than it had been in a long time. Yet for Will, it had never been harder to breathe. Every breath felt like sucking in glass, cutting up his lungs and leaving the taste of blood in his throat. It's like he's surrounded by thick honey, each step an effort, each inhale a challenge.
It didn't take Will long to realise something was wrong. Not with Hawkins, not with the Party. No, this was all Will.
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After the defeat of Vecna, Will gets sick. Really sick.
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04 Nov 2025
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After a humiliating homophobic verbal attack against Will, Max and Will decided that enough was enough. Being anything but straight was dangerous in a place like Hawkins, and the only way out of the spotlight was to blend in.
Will just wished that Max didn't name their plan Operation Wax.
Or, Will and Max fake date as a way to stay safe in the closet and accidentally cause a civil war within the Party.
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03 Nov 2025
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Mike is the one who finds Will.
or: in the wake of it all, Will doesn't remember, Mike develops a stress ulcer, and some things get worse before they get better.
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03 Nov 2025