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Kei lo looked up into Zuko’s eyes, and for the first time, he saw something he’d never seen before. He saw something beautiful — he saw Zuko for who he was.
Zuko’s body relaxed, leaning into Kei lo’s, hugging him tightly. And his hand loosened, letting go of the letter he’d been holding — the one with the scarlet ribbon. And the letter dropped.
It drifted off into history.
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"On Second Thought, Let's Not Go to Camelot. It is a Silly Place." by Heartsfromemiz for moonsappho
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Feb 2026
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“Fear not, my loyal knight,” Will tips his chin up to assume his authoritative, mystical persona. “It is only a testament to your divine soul that in the face of so much beauty, yours is the only one which truly entrances me. Nay, your visage is not all that bewitches me, but your charming disposition and impassioned loyalty have locked my attention away—have cruelly enraptured my heart and soul, and have refused to let go from the very moment when I first laid eyes upon you."
Two years post-graduation, Mike the Brave and Will the Wise attend the Renaissance Festival.
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25 Feb 2026
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if everyone has someone (then the math just isn't right) by delusionaltogether (Whyyyyy)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Aug 2025
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El’s mouth twists to one side, the way it does when she’s about to deliver bad news. Mike’s gut sinks further. “Will’s bringing Andy home for the holidays to meet everyone.”
Logically, there is only one possible context behind all of this, but that does not mean Mike is willing to believe it before he has to. “Right,” he says, feeling vaguely on the verge of hyperventilating, “and- El, who the fuck is Andy?”
At this, El’s expression of thinly veiled pity shifts into proper shock, her eyes going wide and round. “Oh,” she says, “oh, dear.”
Mike comes home from his first semester at college with a plan: to make Will Byers his boyfriend. Unfortunately, it appears someone else has already beaten him to it.
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15 Feb 2026
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"Is Will your boyfriend?" Holly asks, and Mike immediately chokes on the lettuce in his mouth.
"Wh- what?" he gasps, dropping his fork and swallowing back the salad that suddenly feels like cement in his throat. Holly's looking at him with a strange expression, like she's trying to figure something out.
"Will. Is he your boyfriend?" she repeats, even though Mike very obviously heard her, and the question doesn't feel any less shocking the second time.
"No!" He yelps. "No, why would you think that?"
Holly shrugs, taking another bite of spaghetti like this is a normal conversation and she is not slowly killing him. "Nancy calls him your little boyfriend sometimes, and Mom says he's your person, which basically means the same thing, and you live together and act like a couple and unpack groceries together, and- I don't know. Seems like it could be a thing."
holly visits college roommates mike and will, and has a few important questions for them
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15 Feb 2026
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“Look, what I’m saying is that it’s their turn to come here. What? It’s been more than two years since they last came, so it’s only fair that -”
“Sorry, are you two a couple?” He was interrupted by a male voice coming from just behind. A tall man with dark blond hair and a beard asked as he approached them. Instinctively, Mike pulled Will’s hand closer to him and placed himself between his husband and the unknown man.
“Why?” He felt Will squeeze his hand in response, but it seemed the smaller man wasn’t as worried as Mike.
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Mike and Will are approached on the streets of New York city and asked to tell the story of how they first met.
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14 Feb 2026
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“Why do you laugh?” Mike the Brave asked. The question was utterly sincere. He could not fathom the source of the mockery, of why Mike would be laughing at his display of fealty.
Mike spluttered, his face flushing. “I—It’s just… you only got him a book off the shelf? That’s your big ‘honour to serve’ moment? It’s just… a book.” He gestured vaguely, defensively, at the book, embarrassed.
Will the Wise’s lips curved into a smile tinged with sorrow. He looked from the flustered boy to his own beloved protector, his hand reaching up to stroke his Paladin’s cheek.
“He has crossed realms for me,” Will the Wise said, his melodic voice filling the cottage. “He has faced beasts and shadows and the silence of the abyss. He would do anything for me, and I for him. The grand quests are written in songs and psalms, sung by revellers around fires and bards in the inn. But the story of us… it is written in these small things. In a fetched book, a mended cloak, a tender kiss in the dawn light.” He looked directly at the younger Mike, his gaze piercingly kind. “We like to remind each other of our affections. In every possible way. There is no deed too small to be an act of love.”
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06 Feb 2026