We're the reflection of each other but where does it end?
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The Weight of Unasked Things by Anonymous
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), will byer - Fandom
04 Dec 2025
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The silence in the basement—our supposed sanctuary—is a lie. I'm sitting on my cot, and the air around me is thick with the weight of unsaid things. I keep staring at the ceiling, feeling the years of my own emotional cowardice pressing down on me. I’m supposed to be the leader, the guy with the answers, yet I spent most of my life expertly failing to see the most important truth staring me in the face.
I think back on the moments. They weren't confusing echoes; they were flashing red warnings that I deliberately muted, filing them away under "Will's trauma" or "The Party Code."
OR 5 times Mike Wheeler is conflicted and 1 time he wasn't.
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For years, Will Byers lived by one rule: If the Party fails, I fail. He applied this rule not just to D&D, but to his consuming love for Mike Wheeler. From the early basement games where loyalty was easier to confess than desire, to the brutal fight over El, Will always chose the Paladin's Shield—sacrificing the truth of his heart to protect Mike's peace and their friendship. But when Vecna targets Mike with a precise psychic strike, the only defense left is a force Vecna can't comprehend: an honest, all-consuming love. In the middle of the final war, Will unleashes the truth he spent a lifetime suppressing, shattering the silence and risking everything to save the person who is his only anchor.
Or 4 times Will tried to suppress his feelings and 1 time he can't.
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