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there's something wrong with michael wheeler by lovelyautumn
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Feb 2026
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The Upside Down is leaking into Hawkins. Spores float down from a sky full of ash and smoke. Mike goes to sleep the night after he gets home with Will beside him on his bedroom floor. He wakes up from a dream and finds himself somewhere unexpected. Is Vecna hunting him, or is Mike going crazy?
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a post season 4 / alternate season 5 fic where mike is not having a good time while the world is ending.Bookmarked by Pythoness
26 Jan 2026
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Keeping you close (in the pocket over my heart) by Femmie
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
17 Feb 2026
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Caine is all powerful, they all know that much. He is capable of anything in this digital world. He is the circus, in a way.
But he’s also a wacky AI. And tech like that can get buggy, no matter how advanced.
Or: Caine glitches during an update and accidentally opens up the cellar, letting out all the abstracted cast members that were supposed to stay locked away forever. Jax shows he cares more than he lets on.
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25 Jan 2026
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“You’re not gonna think it’s gross when you fall in love,” Joyce chides as she slides into her seat.
Will flushes crimson, averting his eyes. “I’m– I’m not gonna fall in love.” He says it so quietly and resolutely that it makes Mike’s insides twist. He’s only fourteen, and yet he thinks that his future won’t hold the same thing that it holds for everyone else. Will thinks it’s unattainable. Mike reels with the weight of this realization. How had they missed each other? Like planets, destined to never match orbits? Will is now probably finding love in New York, and Mike is the one left stranded.
Stranger Things Season 5 retelling, but Mike learns what it truly means to lose himself. Then, he learns what it means to love.
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24 Jan 2026
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I’m not scared of God (I’m scared he was gone all along) by CC (SpongehhhCattoh)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Feb 2026
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After defeating Vecna and The Mind Flayer, five years has passed and everything has been good (great even), not until Mike finds himself waking up in a strange dimension with an entity that found interest in him.
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The King in Yellow chooses Mike to be his vessel.
[Post Season 5, where Mike gets transported to the City of Carcosa and gets cursed by the Yellow King feat. a bunch of hurt Mike]
Spotify Playlist of the story if you want to get into the mood!
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24 Jan 2026
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The rest of the Party has no problem moving on from Hawkins after graduation. Left in the dust, Mike clings to the joys of the past.
But when he starts seeing visions of Will telling him to wake up, he starts to question the world he's retreated into.
~~Or Mike Wheeler journeys through Camazotz, fights Vecna, and maybe falls in love along the wayBookmarked by Pythoness
24 Jan 2026
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"Mrs. Wheeler, these next questions are important, so if you would pay attention, please." Karen snapped her gaze away from where she was watching Mike draw spiders crawling over the rainbow. The doctor looked at her expectantly, his pen poised over the clipboard. "Thank you. Do lights often flicker around your son?"
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or, five times mike changed the world without noticing, and the one time he realized
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22 Jan 2026
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Mike clutched at his jacket with blood-slick hands, shaking violently. “I’m a monster,” he sobbed. “I killed him. I tore him apart. I drank him. Will, I drank him—”
“You’re alive,” he said hoarsely. “You’re here. You’re you. That’s what matters.”
Mike’s head rolled back, eyes blazing again as his gaze drifted to Will’s throat. His breath hitched. A low, hungry sound crawled out of his chest.
Will felt it. Felt the moment something inside Mike shifted.
“Will,” Mike whispered, horrified. “Get away from me.”
Too late.
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21 Jan 2026
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Mike Wheeler is falling apart, and nobody seems to notice. There’s strange inconsistencies in Hawkins, and he can’t help but feel like everything’s fake. He tells himself it’s just stress and lack of sleep, and he tells everyone else that too. Will doesn’t believe him.
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Stranger things s5 slow burn byler where Mike is Vecna’dBookmarked by Pythoness
20 Jan 2026
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Mike is seeing things. He’s having nightmares. Does he tell anyone? No, because he doesn’t know this is happening. His mind gets wiped after every strange occurrence, so he’s not worried about it. The only thing he’s worried about is Will, who he thinks doesn’t want to be his friend anymore.
He’s right, of course, Will doesn’t want to be his friend, he wants to be more, but Mike doesn’t need to know that. So, Will is trying to put distance between them as Mike insists on closing the gap, until he realizes there's something happening to Mike. Something that he intends on getting to the bottom of.
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20 Jan 2026
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The Ground Looks Soft Enough To Bury This Now by iategravel
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Jan 2026
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After Will moves in, Mike can't ignore the things he has avoided about himself for so long. He is at his breaking point, not sure how he can keep going at this point. As things get darker and darker for him, he tries to settle into this new routine, keeping himself from crumbling apart as best as he can.
As the battle with Vecna draws closer, how will they navigate the strain in their relationship? Will Mike overcome his self-hatred, or will he succumb to the expectations of those around him.
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- Part 2 of Post-S4 Time Skip
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19 Jan 2026
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18 Jan 2026
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An Even Stranger City by Justalunatic
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti), It: Welcome to Derry (TV), IT - Stephen King
16 Feb 2026
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After graduation, Mike needs to get his life in order and clear his head. So he decides to travel to finally see a distant side of his family and soon discovers that strange things also happen in Derry. But perhaps that's what he needed, along with his cousin's help, to cope with his grief and discover himself.
And, as the months go by, maybe he'll need help from the people of Hawkins to face yet another threat.
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17 Jan 2026
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Mike Wheeler's No Good, Very Bad Day (Or Two) by Villaen_Complex
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Feb 2026
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Mike's an expert at pushing down his feelings so no one else can see them. He's had years of practice- but what happens when a supernatural enemy is inside his head and can see every thought he has? There's no hiding anymore, but Mike is nothing if not stubborn.
Sure, maybe he's been having more depressive thoughts recently- and the headaches, bloody noses, and terrible nightmares are getting worse- and sure, those are signs of Vecna's curse... but who else has to know but him?
Someone has to be fine, he can handle it. He always has. At least he's the one going through this and not any of the others!
(Spoiler alert, he isn't fine)
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- Part 1 of Days since Villein wrote about Byler: 0
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16 Jan 2026
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time slowed down (and he was like, perfect) by mishaeiou
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Jan 2026
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Before Mike can even thank him for saving his life the millionth time, Will holds him by the shoulders, and, almost frighteningly solemn, tells him, “Mike, there’s something I need you to do.”
“Of course,” he rushes out. “Anything.”
Will’s mouth draws into a tight line. “I’m connected to Vecna. El is going in for the kill.”
Mike’s brain fills in the gaps, and he suddenly feels nauseous again. “You’re vulnerable as long as you’re still in the hivemind.”
Will nods. “I’ll help her for as long as I can, but I need you to burn the Mindflayer out of me one last time.”
Or, Mike Wheeler realizes that he's in love with Will Byers on the worst night of his life. It doesn't help that he's trying to burn himself alive for it.
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16 Jan 2026
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'Cause you know I'd bleed myself dry for you over and over again by Bubbly345
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Jan 2026
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Will is standing there, lit by the fire from the burning tanks, a steady, calming figure against the carnage around him.
Solid, real, beautiful.
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Byler fix-it fic starting Vol 2. because the suffer brothers did us dirty.
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16 Jan 2026
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'You leave in the morning with everything you own in a little black case.
Alone on a platform, the wind and the rain on a sad and lonely face.’When Lucas called Mike about his wedding, Mike's instinct was not to go. The same instinct that kept him from Dustin's wedding. The same instinct that kept him from the phone to call Will. Mike had spent the four years after graduation stuck in Hawkins, stuck working on his stupid novels that were going nowhere. He wasn't important to the world, and his friends knew that. They didn't need him anymore, so why would he try?
Why would he bother to follow anything but the mundane routine he had been scrambling after for weeks? He definitely wouldn't bother trying because an irritatingly familiar song keeps playing when he's alone. Nor when he hears an achingly familiar voice through the television.---
Or: It takes Mike six days to get out of the world Vecna trapped him in, and seven days to see Will again.
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- Part 1 of 1980s Type of Love
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16 Jan 2026
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Nothing ever happens to Michael Wheeler. For as long as he could remember, nothing bad ever happened directly to him. Bad things happen around him all of the time, but nothing ever happens to Mike Wheeler.
Or: the fic where Mike discovers he has powers and gets Vecna'd in season 3!
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- Part 2 of NHMW
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15 Jan 2026
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Mike Wheeler finally gets his own arc by shegoncallmebabyb00
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Jan 2026
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Weird things have always happened to Mike Wheeler. His best friend getting kidnapped by an inter dimensional monster, finding a bald girl with telekinesis, said best friend getting possessed by yet another inter dimensional monster, and more things revolving around this alternate dimension. The weirdest thing is probably finding out that he has powers from the crazy guy who kidnapped him. Well, at least he won’t be as useless anymore, right?
He’s trying to find the positives in this situation.
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15 Jan 2026
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i question the stars (the same color as your eyes) by lo_fi_fi
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Feb 2026
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Holly loves her brother, she really does, for giving her the time of day. But he sounds suspicious, and she still doesn’t understand why everyone is suspicious of her friend when all he’s doing is making sure she doesn’t get taken by them. “Monsters,” she says, like it’s the most obvious thing in the world, because it is. The fact is, Mr. Whatsit is a good person who’s protecting her from bad monsters. It’s simple. It’s so simple, and still, nobody believes her.
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14 Jan 2026
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Hello Image (Sing Me A Line From Your Favourite Song) by ryers
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Ghostbusters - All Media Types
19 Jan 2026
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Will Byers is a ghost in modern age nyc... where the Ghostbusters just happen to be back in action and also... his age?
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14 Jan 2026