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“I have a more important question,” Will says. “Um, why did the cleric have to be in love with the paladin?”
All eyes fall on Mike, the dungeon master.(Turns out, it actually was all just a longwinded campaign of Dungeons & Dragons. Naturally, the party has some concerns about Mike.)
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17 Feb 2026
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"Mike?" Will asks, jaw dropped open in bewilderment, hand still clutching the door knob.
The Mike standing in front of him is wearing a rickety jacket that almost swallows his thin frame entirely, and has his arms curled around himself, his shoulders hunched. His hands play with his sleeves as if nervous. His body is trembling. And it's the state of his body that really makes Will's blood run cold in horror.
There are bruises all over Mike's face. The black eye he has is stark against the whiteness of his skin, reminding Will of drops of dark paint on a blank canvas. His lip is busted, and Will can see traces of dried blood on him. And most noticeably, he has a ring of bruises around his neck, in the shape of hands.
Upon seeing Will at the door, Mike's expression simultaneously lightens and crumples.
"Will." He croaks out, desperation and vulnerability clear in his shaky voice.
After not speaking nor seeing eachother for 5 years, Mike suddenly turns up at Will's door, bruised and bloodied.
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12 Feb 2026
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The very foundation of the universe has cracked. No, not the Upside Down; something even more catastrophic. Something so unbreakable that its destruction can lead to the end of life as they know it.
“I just can’t believe they’re fighting,” Lucas muses with a sigh.
“This is a bad one,” El emphasizes. “They fought in California too, but it wasn’t like this.”
“In the ten years I’ve known them, I’ve never once seen them sit more than six inches away from each other. This is worse than the summer of ‘85.”
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When Mike and Will get in an argument, the Party comes up with a plan to get them back together again (as purely-platonic friends, of course).
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07 Feb 2026
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we've both been very brave (walk around with bowed legs) by ghost_tour_of_88
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Jan 2026
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"And it made her angry. A furious burning sob filled Nancy’s throat whenever she went down that spiral. There were just so many things wrong with it and above all, it wasn’t fair. It was so unfair that Nancy would never see her brother again.
That was Mike. He was always so present, it drove her crazy. Ever since Nancy had gotten picked up from her grandparent’s house and her mom passed back a little roll of blankets, he was there. Sprawled over the entire couch, stealing her quarters, interrupting all of Nancy’s phone calls.
And he never would be again."
Or, as all great authors do, Mike Wheeler published a masterpiece or two and killed himself on November 6th, 1997. Nancy is left with his Wikipedia page and a Christmas Eve of grief and anger.
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07 Feb 2026
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Mike doesn't care about a body in a quarry. His mark, a swingset, still sits on his left ankle as an important reminder. He checked. And then checked again just to make sure his brain wasn't playing a stupid trick on him. Imagine. If that body really is Will and Mike's mind is delusional that it's forcing him to see a mark that isn't there. Just the idea of that makes Mike dizzy. He thinks he'd rather die than for that to be true. But he still feels Will's terror and pain. It hurts to feel his soulmate so scared but it's grounding. Will is somewhere. That body is not his.
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Or: soulmate au where your mark fades when your soulmate dies. So that's obviously why the body in the quarry isn't Will's.
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Or pt2: Mike argues with Hopper about the status of Will's aliveness.Bookmarked by manicotti
05 Feb 2026