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Sir Michael tilted his head, squinting at Will. Without warning, his hand came to cup Will's cheek, turning his skin at least ten degrees warmer. "He looks like you," Sir Michael continued, "and he has your name. Your moles, too."
His thumb came down to brush the mole over Will's top lip. The touch felt soft, strangely reverent. "My— moles?"
Mike had the same sentiment, albeit with more displeasure. "His moles?"
Will makes a wish. Sir Michael the Brave comes to fulfill it, but Mike Wheeler makes his wish come true.
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19 Feb 2026
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“He really does look like Mike,” Lucas breathes, as he gives Mike’s twin a scan, head to toe.
“Yeah, if Mike were way hotter and a knight?” Max chips in, and Will can vaguely hear Mike muttering again. “He looks so medieval, like he’s from Camelot or some shit.”
“I am Michael,” the knight begins to plead again. He turns his doe eyes back to Will, returning to his side like a diligent guard, even going as far as to reach out and take his hands. “Please, you have to believe me. I would never lie to you. Have I ever broken our oath? Let me prove it.”
Will was a bit preoccupied with gazing into the knight’s eyes, his cheeks flushing under the intense stare and the way his hands were held so gently. Mike had no issues ruining their moment.
“And he’s weirdly obsessed with Will.” Mike sounds even angrier than he did in the woods, and his sharp tone is enough for Will to snap out of his hand-holding to step a respectable distance away from the knight. “We need to send him back to wherever he came from.”
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Mike the Brave ends up in Hawkins and sweeps Will off his feet. Mike has a lot of Feelings™ about it.
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19 Feb 2026
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in another life, you still would've turned my head by tearsofsaudade
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Feb 2026
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Michael stepped closer to Will, until he was nearly pressed against his side. He looked at him, head tilted down to meet his gaze. His boots made him taller, making the height difference he and Mike shared even more pronounced. Will shivered when he felt a hand press against his lower back.
“My choices are yours, my prince. If you would like me to distance myself, I will do so without hesitation. Would you like that?”
Will stared, mouth agape. Michael’s eyes were boring into his soul. Mike had never looked at him like that, and it was doing things to him. Slowly, he shook his head.
Michael smirked, looking pleased.
“Hey,” Mike snapped. “I said back off, okay?”When an alternate version of Mike, a strong, confident knight, appears in Hawkins, the Party attempts to help him get home, and Will attempts to survive his flirting.
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- Part 1 of we would've been timeless
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18 Feb 2026
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Through The Ages by oddityofstars
Fandoms: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling
20 Dec 2025
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They find contentment through each other, as it were.
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a scorbus "through the ages" (literally, in terms of school years and beyond) one-shot. please see notes.
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17 Feb 2026
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The Triwizard Tournament returns to Hogwarts, promising glory to those brave enough to enter.
For James Sirius Potter, this is the perfect opportunity to step out from the overwhelming shadow of the Boy-Who-Lived and forge his own legacy as Hogwarts’ champion. He has his final year mapped out with clinical precision: winning the Quidditch Cup, acing his NEWTs, and securing his place as an Auror—all on his own merit.
For Albus Severus Potter, the Tournament is just another reminder that he's the lesser of the Potter brothers—the family's black sheep. Haunted by the past and driven by a desperate need to prove his worth, he begins a secret journey to master an advanced and complex magic.
Meanwhile, Lily Luna Potter, enamored with the legacy and history of Hogwarts, uncovers a strange and secret society of wizards that dates back to the time of the Founders—and is much closer to home than she ever could have believed.
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16 Feb 2026
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Albus Potter, fed up with watching his dad sacrifice everything for a world that keeps demanding more, takes one last reckless chance to rewrite the future—dragging them all into a timeline none of them expect.
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13 Feb 2026
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Will’s expression smoothes out then, and he’s looking at Mike in consideration, like he sees him in all the ways Mike does not want to be seen.
“You were jealous,” Will offers it like it’s a fact, simple as that, and Mike nearly doubles over with the shock of it, an immediate blow to whatever unbothered facade he’d been attempting to put on for Will.
“Was not,” but his voice is so weak that he nearly collapses in embarrassment, an omission of guilt clear as day.
Mike is in love with Will. He tries very hard to love him quietly.
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12 Feb 2026
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All I See Is You | Canon Stranger Things Season 5 Rewrite by InkBySam for Will Byers
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
14 Feb 2026
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Since the duffer brothers absolutely queerbaited and bombed byler for season five, I want to rewrite season five with my own narrative so we arent queer baited and get the love story everybody wants.
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Season Five of Stranger Things was supposed to be Hawkins' darkest hour-but what if the story unfolded the way it should have?
Mike Wheeler and Will Byers have always been at the heart of it, their bond deeper than Hawkins can ever understand. Through terror, heartbreak, and mind-bending horrors, they navigate a world that's trying to tear them apart-without ever realizing how much they mean to each other.
Hawkins isn't the same without Will, and Mike's about to realize that the person he's been searching for all along has been right in front of him.
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EPILOGUE COMING THIS WEEKEND. STAY TUNED!!!
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10 Feb 2026
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The Time In Between Us (and the Bridge that we Built) by aversive5599
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Jan 2026
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"I-I don't know what Vecna showed you but I promise you, no version of Mike can ever hate any version of his Will. I am your Mike, Will. Yours. The Michael Wheeler to your William Byers. The Paladin to your Sorcerer. Mike the Brave who belongs with Will the Wise. If I am the heart of the party you are mine." Mike's voice breaks but he continues,"So please, please fight this. Please remember and come back. Come back to me."
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A canon fix it where the canon story is Will's Vecna vision that has been used to trap him. So now the team must prepare for the final battle to uncover the secrets that have plagued them for years and Mike must finally come to terms with his feelings for his best friend. A retelling and fix it of sorts on how I think Stranger Things Season 5 Volume 2 and the ending should have gone because a) the plot actually REQUIRED a Byler endgame b) the fans had much better theories than whatever I was made to watch.
Diverges after Season 5 Episode 5
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04 Feb 2026
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“I’ve seen what you’ve done,” Mike says, anger cutting through the fear now. “You destroyed my home. You killed kids. Kidnapped them, you break them.”
Vecna stops in front of him.
“And I get the feeling you only care about one kid in particular,” his tone is never-changing, he’s calm, “Do you ever stop to wonder why I took him that night? Why didn’t I take you?”
Or: the one where Vecna takes Mike instead of Holly, and he is the one who, with Max's help, has to venture through painful memories to find the exit.
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02 Feb 2026
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fill the empty space (but never to replace) by convergent
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti)
29 Jan 2026
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Will's mind is a fickle thing. He blames it on being possessed by an interdimensional entity.
Because all he can think about lately is touching Mike. Anywhere. Everywhere.
And he's a little unprepared for the arrival of Mike's cousin, Richie, who he hasn't seen in almost four years.
Who he's conveniently forgotten looks near-identical to the boy who floods his every waking thought, and who has no qualms about touching Will. Anywhere. Everywhere.
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02 Feb 2026
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burnin' through the summer (make the moment last) by discoheavven
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti)
04 Mar 2023
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Richie was another business entirely; loud, brash and crude, but painfully funny, looking at Will’s neutral expression and taking it as a challenge, trying to make him laugh until he puked. Messing up his hair and begging him to just let Richie go to town on it with some kitchen scissors. Poking his sides, or pinching his cheeks with an inflammatory remark right on the tip of his tongue, every time. Calling their campaigns ‘nerd shit-’ but sitting in on their session, attentive to every single action taken, with colorful running commentary during it all. Being with Richie feels like fireworks are bursting right under his skin.
The melancholy and brevity of a summer romance does not make the time it happened any less bright.
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31 Jan 2026
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Will Byers had planned for one last, quiet summer of DnD before his move to California, but the electric jolt of Richie Tozier—all chaos and neon—sparks a connection he can't ignore. In 1985 Hawkins, they find a loud, beautiful truth together that threatens to burn out when the summer ends. It’s a long shot, but for Will, this panic attack of a romance is finally worth the risk.
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- Part 1 of The Tozier Method
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30 Jan 2026
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spit swear by poorlittlegreenie
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti)
15 Feb 2026
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Will bites his lip and nods, looking down at his shoes again so Richie won't see how hard he's holding back a giddy smile.
Everybody in the party knows everything about him. Maybe it wouldn't be the worst thing to keep a secret from Mike for a little while.
It's kind of exciting. Sneaking in a boy Mike hates.
Will shakes his head, trying to clear Mike from it for the night. Only when he looks back up at Richie, Richie has this conspiratorial smile on his face, like maybe Will isn't the only one eager to piss off Mike Wheeler.
OR: the concept of Richie Tozier being Will Byers' dirty little secret and Mike Wheeler being so jealous he can't breathe. Byler endgame.
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27 Jan 2026
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Together We Can Take it to the End of the Line by Meirshmellow
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Jan 2026
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Will and El’s lives had always been intertwined. He couldn’t help but to think that he had been living in her shadow, that they both couldn’t exist together at the same time in the same place, when Will disappeared she appeared and when he came back she disappeared. They were not bound to be together, still, they were now siblings, twins. Two sides of the same coin. Two magnets doomed to repel each other that somehow defeated all the laws of physics and united together.
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Or, how Will and El learned what it meant to be family and came to be known as the Wonder Twins.
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26 Jan 2026
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Hawkins had a way of getting into its people's minds. In the little time Chance'd been on town, all sort of weird occurrences had happened, but he never truly believed any of the stories and rumors looming around. Not until he ended up stuck on another dimension with the famously-called zombie boy.
Chance'd never been a big fan of scary movies, he very much enjoyed having a normal heart rate. Too bad he fell in love with a pretty much possessed boy.
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24 Jan 2026
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“They do not care about you, Will. They never did.”
There is nothing in Will that objects.
Vecna pivots around to look at him, on the floor.
“But. I was the same way. Nobody needed me. Nobody cared about me.”
Will weakly raises his head to look at him. Seeking understanding, he asks , “Why?”
As Vecna looks at him, his body morphs. Changes. Into his human form. A well-put together one this time. Young and blonde, tall, with chiseled cheekbones. His voice is normal. Alongside his metamorphosis the background shifts.
“Let me show you.”
Or a volume two that goes right. With a hint of volume 3.
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21 Jan 2026
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“Since when do you smoke?”
The words hit Mike like a wall. He sucked in a breath too fast, coughing as the smoke caught in his throat. He bent forward, hand over his mouth, sputtering.
“Shit,” he muttered, his voice coming out low and rough as he wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.
He looked up slowly, and the boy standing in front of him was a version of Will that Mike had not yet gotten used to.
Jesus, when did he start smoking? It felt like a lifetime ago. As he thought about it further, a small realization hit him.
He started smoking the night that Will left for California.
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Will moves back from California, and when he and Mike end up living together, they realize how much they’ve both changed, and must figure out how to navigate the tension, awkwardness, and unspoken feelings between them.
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20 Jan 2026
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"You're- You're not a bad memory. You're not something I want to forget, and trust me, Will," Mike said breathlessly, almost laughing, "there's a lot of shit I want to forget."
Hawkins is still full of ghosts, and on the night before Lucas and Max's wedding six years after graduation, old wounds reopen, memories that were forgotten resurface and Will Byers learns that distance and getting older doesn't mean outgrowing your first love - it just teaches you to lie about it.
The problem? He has a boyfriend.
Or: It's a semi-warm fall in Hawkins, and Will has to act like he doesn't still have feelings for Mike.
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19 Jan 2026
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“Wait,” Lucas takes another glance at Will, specifically at the sweater he’s wearing. “Is that Mike’s?”
Here’s the other thing about the last eight or so months of Will Byers’ life: he’s been spending his nights, on and off, secretly, semi-occasionally, very frequently, kissing Mike Wheeler.
He’s confused about it too, don’t even worry.
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19 Jan 2026