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Will had always been a quiet kid. In fact, it was evident in his mannerisms.
Usually when he was focused, he would gesture to his friends to show it, whether it'd be a tilt of the head or a slight raise of a hand. Instinctively, a tongue stuck out in concentration, but that was more subconscious than a purposeful factor. When he was scared, he would keep his voice down, or even when it came to it, refuse to talk at all.
Sometimes, it even took hours for him to be able to open his mouth again.
a non-verbal will fic based in between s2 and s3, madwise centric! small themes of elmax and byler are there but do not get together. i tried my best to keep this canon compliant :)
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I Hope I Die First by way_too_many_fandoms
Fandoms: DreamWorks Dragons (Cartoon), How to Train Your Dragon (Movies)
01 Aug 2022
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Hiccup and Toothless are captured yet again because when can their lives ever be peaceful, except this time there is a figure from the past that is the one pulling the ropes.
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- Part 4 of Left for Dead Verse
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Episode Eight: The Queerside Up by Dhalmas2P, Totallyashipper
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Feb 2026
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If you watched the last episode and thought what was that? Me too. Anyway here's a version of it where byler is endgame, the fight was high risk, high reward, some plot holes fixed and the ending is all together more queer! This is my better version, so please buckle up and enjoy!
Snippet: Part of Will wanted to speak out to him, try to convince him to change side, to change his mind. But there was no point. There was no humanity left. Of course not, why would a scared little boy grow up and force other children to go through what he had, except he had long forgotten being that scared little boy. He was a puppet. A misled puppet that was in denial about being controlled and manipulated. A cruel marionette who only caused suffering.
And so, Henry sat on his knees, tears in his eyes. He knew Will was in there, watching, and he all but begged him to get out of his head. But Will couldn't find it within himself to feel pity for that monster. The monster that had done terrible, terrible things to him, to all those kids. No, Will only felt a rage swell inside him instead.
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Looks like it’s gonna be up to us again. by autoantonyms
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Feb 2026
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A lot has happened in the 18 months since Hawkins got divided by their biggest enemy. Normality has returned, even though the overall situation is anything but that.
Until one night when everything goes wrong and it spirals out of control.
During all of it Will learns to accept himself and realizes how important it is to be able to count on your loved ones.
Because Will and his friends are facing a major battle.
And the biggest question we have to ask ourselves is: Can love defeat fear?
Or: My rewrite of ST5 in which Byler will be canon
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In the midst of searching for Holly and the incoming battle against Vecna, Will is suddenly taken captive by the military for reasons adjacent to the manhunt directed at Eleven. Turns out, Will has other powers, untapped and suppressed by a chunk of his childhood he doesn't have any recollection of.
Sure enough, hell breaks utterly loose—with Mike and Eleven at the helm of the chaos. They are getting Will back one way or another, all else be damned. Though, unbeknownst to them, Will is also in the middle of piecing together an untold part of himself, along with a discovery that might make him choose to sacrifice his freedom. Completely.
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tell me that you love me (just once) by jaywritesandwrites
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Feb 2026
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“That’s not true—“
“Then say it. Say it, Will!”
Will hesitates. “Say what?”
A beat. Then—
“Tell me that I’m wrong. Tell—”
He gulps. Will’s eyes dilate in shock.
“Tell me what’s going on with you, Will. For fuck’s sake, just talk to me!” Mike exclaims.
A stray sunbeam crawls up Mike’s cheek. At first, Will believes it to be another hallucination: that odd glassy sheen around his best friend’s waterline.
But when he concentrates, he notes that it isn’t a trick of the light at all. Rather, wetness brims in Mike’s eyelids, staining his eyes red.
Oh. Oh no.
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It's January, and Will Byers doesn't know how to act around his best friend anymore. But he has to hold strong. He has to keep his feelings to himself. If he doesn't, he'll lose everything.
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Set after season 4 and before season 5. Loosely inspired by "you took my heart (I was sleeping)" by lameparties.
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The Cleric and The Trashmouth by battygabz
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)
13 Feb 2026
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For their safety, Will and Hopper have to leave Hawkins and seek refuge in Derry, Maine, where Will attends and Hopper teaches at boarding school. Cue the Losers Club as Will slowly gets used to Derry and the amazing comedic genius that is Richie Tozier.
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Even after all of this time… saying yes? It was the best thing I’d ever done, Mike.
Will’s voice had been so calm when he said it. Gentle. Certain.
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Will’s lips press together. Mike tracks it like a hawk. It’s just them here- he’s allowed to care. It’s just them.
“I’m not hungry.”
“You haven’t been hungry in two days.” Silence. it gnaws at his insides. “Will, please-”
Then, barely audible, “I’m tired, Mike.”
Or, a small post season five fix it fic, because depression doesn't just disappear, and Mike and Will need to have a talk right now more than ever.
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“Okay, yeah. I mean, sure. But you get what I’m saying, though, right? Like, this totally changes the game. We got our second El.” Lucas said excitedly.
“I’m not like a second El. I don’t have powers.” Will was not his sister. El had control of her abilities and had used them to save the party many many times. Successfully. “I’m just… I’m siphoning. I’m stealing Vecna’s. And to do that, I have to be near the hive mind, and Vecna’s not coming back.”
Will didn’t want to do that again even if Vecna did come back. It was an awful feeling, being forced to watch through the eyes of the demogorgons but this felt worse. When he had connected to the hive mind and killed the demogorgons, he had felt Vecna, in all his insidious glory. For a second, that same darkness had overtaken Will, he was scared of the way he felt when he’d snapped the demogorgons bones.
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Will is having trouble coming to terms with his new powers but no one else seems to care
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I am the son and heir (of nothing in particular) by Rowdybones33
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Feb 2026
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Will had given up all hope he was ever going to be rescued. Even if there was someone who came to save him, Will was not worth saving. Days, months, years, in the Upside Down, with another presence always lurking and hunting. Corrupting him. It felt like he was being eaten alive. And with nothing to tether him to his old world, and no hope left to return home, why not just let it take control?
Until one day it wants him to leave. It wants him to tear open that rift, years after the gate had been closed.
Suddenly, he's surrounded by places he feels he's been, and people he feels he knew. He doesn't recognize them, and they don't recognize him. He feels free, like himself almost, like the shadows were gone. Although, there's still that twinge in the back of his skull, waiting.
OR: a Will not found and evil Will AU because I've become obsessed and feel robbed of more possessed Will content in the show.
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Three months after the bridge collapse, when Hawkins begins to rebuild and things feel normal again, something starts stirring in the recesses of Will's mind. Shadows start lingering just a little too long. Sometimes his skin feels wrong. Thoughts that are not his own creep in during silence.
He soon finds out what Vecna meant when he said Will was a vessel. What Will was made for.
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Bury All Your Secrets In My Skin by laylabinx
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
11 Nov 2025
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The boys have very different reactions to learning about each other's scars.
Edwin:
The scars make up everything Charles was before, everything he is today, as intrinsically linked to him as his cricket bat, and because of that, Edwin treats them as if they’re sacred.Charles:
Charles quickly learns that he hates Edwin’s scars because not a single one of them was caused by Edwin himself; every scar on his body was caused by someone who wanted to hurt him intentionally and that alone is enough to make him feel like he’s swallowed glass. -
deep in the cell of my heart, i will feel so glad to go by boysforbugs
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
20 Dec 2025
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Charles knew the case would affect them both, yeah. He just thought it'd be something they'd share a little look about, maybe read some Max Carrados afterwards just for the sake of nostalgia but that's not at all what happens.
Edwin doesn't say much after the case is closed— not on the walk back, which Edwin had insisted on and not when they finally find themselves back at the office after their journey home.
Charles has his back to the door so he can't help but flinch at the loud slam of what he assumes is Edwin's notebook against the surface of his desk. He whips around, eyes wide and his incorporeal heart pounding in his chest at the sudden and uncharacteristic burst of anger.
"Edwin? What the hell was that, mate?"
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I'll Be Wearing White (When I Come Into Your Kingdom) by NotThatPerseus
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
06 Jan 2026
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Edwin is in Hell, which means so is Charles. It's as simple as that
AKA: Rescue mission from Charles' POV because I am incredibly autistic about that episode
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- Part 3 of The Lantern Boys
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Did you miss me brother? (if you remembered me at all) by Awesome_3893
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
28 Jan 2026
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Alexander Payne had few personal items with him in the trenches. A wooden carved cross his father had gifted him years ago, on the day he first left for St. Hilarion's. Flowers he pressed carefully between pieces of paper, waiting for them to dry so he could send them home to Anna, his bride-to-be. A few assorted letters from friends. A picture of him and his parents, as stiff and lifeless as they always seemed to be. Most precious to him, however, was the singular photograph of his younger brother Edwin and the treasured few letters the younger boy had sent. These were stored more carefully, at the top of the tin where they were less likely to be crushed.
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Alexander Payne died during World War 1, in November 1915. He has spent the last 110 years confined to the battlefield where he died and the small town nearby, oblivious to the fact that his younger brother Edwin died merely a year after he had. When Alexander learns about the Dead Boy Detective Agency, he simply hopes he can find a way to break whatever tie is keeping him here, and instead comes face to face with Edwin for the first time in over a century
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Charles doesn't know why he's stressing out so much about this. It's a normal question! He knows that. He's not digging after anything juicy or private. It's a perfectly innocent piece of information to want to know about your best friend!
Yet Charles genuinely thinks he would rather lick rust than ask Edwin Payne when his birthday is.
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In the small town of Hawkins, Indiana in the ’80s, loving each other openly feels impossible. Will is upset that he must hide his relationship with Mike after longing for years and finally finding the strength to come out, terrified of remaining a secret forever, while Mike is haunted by the guilt of hiding his love—and himself.
With prom approaching, and both growing tired of hiding while reluctant to be seen as just friends (at least around the Party—this is the ’80s), they begin to work through their feelings on their own and together, eventually promising not to end their first year of dating in secret.
Mike sees a chance to find the courage he’s been missing and make up for Snowball—and the months he forced Will to stay hidden.
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A secret relationship, prom on the horizon, and two boys deciding they’re tired of hiding.
Fluffy Byler with some mild angst. (because of course)
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The Will Of The Otherwordly by Jovie8Phony
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Stranger Things: The First Shadow - Trefry
18 Feb 2026
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After an eventfull night at the Mac-Z and the awakening of Will Byers's powers the military discovers that they have been hunting down the wrong person.
Now it is up to the party to figure out how to protect not one but TWO(perhaps 3) magical teenagers.
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Imposter Syndrome (Go away) by copies_sincethebegninning
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Feb 2026
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Will and Mike grow apart but Mike notices Will having self destructive behaviors and confronts him. (Post season 4, 18 month time skip fic)
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“My mom told me to bring this down to you.” He quickly mumbled.Will glanced at the plate. “I don’t want it.”
“Will, you should eat someth—”
“Why do you care?”
“You’re still my friend.”
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some things happen (and I'm head over heels) by sugarplumx0x0
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Feb 2026
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It didnt feel real, but it felt natural. The guilt killed him, but hes never felt more alive.
It felt impossible to find someone like him, much like someone who had feelings for him, it was just a crush (if you can even call mild annoyance for a pretty face a crush). But will didnt mind the company, and didnt mind keeping it all to himself... the last thing he wanted to be was yet another burden for the others.or will hides a relationship from everyone, with no intent to tell a soul, falling deeper and deeper in love with Chance Lawerence.
-somewhere in between season 4-season 5