Whumptober 2025

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• My Panic’s at the Ceiling, but I’m Face Down on the Carpet by CrimsonWolf715

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • F/M, Gen
  • Complete Work

  18 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
  • Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane & Dustin Henderson & Maxine Mayfield & Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler
  • Holly Wheeler & Mike Wheeler
  • Steve Harrington & Mike Wheeler
  • Holly Wheeler & Nancy Wheeler
  • Steve Harrington & Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Steve Harrington & Dustin Henderson
  • Steve Harrington & The Party
  • Jonathan Byers & Joyce Byers & Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper & Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Mike Wheeler & Nancy Wheeler
  • Jim "Chief" Hopper & Mike Wheeler
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Will Byers
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
  • Karen Wheeler
  • Holly Wheeler
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Steve Harrington
  • Joyce Byers
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Minor Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Mike Wheeler-centric
  • Mike Wheeler Needs a Hug
  • Mike Wheeler Needs Therapy
  • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
  • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
  • Mike Wheeler Has Issues
  • Mike Wheeler Angst
  • Mike Wheeler is Not Okay
  • Good Sibling Holly Wheeler
  • Holly Wheeler is a Sweetheart
  • Steve Harrington Adopts Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Good Parental Figure Steve Harrington
  • Caring Steve Harrington
  • Protective Steve Harrington
  • Blood and Violence
  • Blood and Injury
  • Underage Drinking
  • suicidal idealation
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Depression
  • Heavy Angst
  • Angst and Feels
  • Angst
  • Feels
  • Whumptober 2025
  • Whumptober
  • Temporary Character Death
  • Major Character Injury
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield Needs a Hug
  • Steve Harrington & Maxine "Max" Mayfield Have a Sibling Relationship
  • The Upside Down (Stranger Things)
  • Mike Wheeler Has An Eating Disorder
  • First Aid
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Karen Wheeler Tries
  • Minor Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
  • Brief scene of them
  • Anxiety

  Summary

  Six months after most of the kids in the Party died in the final fight against Vecna, Mike’s living in his own personal Hell. Everybody has moved on and has continued their lives like almost everyone that he loves isn’t dead.

  Series

  • Part 1 of Whumptober 2025

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  12,760

  Chapters:

  4/4

  Comments:

  23

  Kudos:

  79

  Bookmarks:

  11

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