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Will Byers doesn’t consider himself brave.
He considers himself a HD student with a low tolerance for vodka and a talent for leaving early. But bravery, it turns out, isn’t always loud. Sometimes it's handed out like permission slips at crowded college parties: permission to drink too much, to flirt badly, and take a hit from someone else’s cola flavoured vape.Or; College AU, Ivy League Will Byers/Teenage Dirtbag Mike Wheeler
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17 Jan 2026
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One year after the epilogue, the world was technically saved, but it hadn’t gone back to normal. Hawkins is quiet for the first time in years, the party had scattered, and Eleven’s absence lingers in everything they can’t say. Mike and Will are older now, physically and mentally, shaped by grief and distance, learning how to exist in a future that doesn’t look at all like the one they fought for. The one there friends died for.
Life slowly resumed, college, phone calls home, visits that end too soon, they find themselves orbiting each other. Seeking solace in the presence of each other. Best friends, right? What starts as shared loss becomes shared understanding, shared moments of breakdowns only the other could comprehend. Then, something gentler. Something braver than either of them expected. They find that choosing to stay still when the world keeps moving, choosing to embrace the grief instead of being swallowed by it, and finding peace… that sometimes the world doesn’t end, it just changes.
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17 Jan 2026
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Vecna is gone. Everyone has graduated their classes and have moved on. Will moved to NYC with his brother Jonathan and pursuing art. He's trying to live a normal life. But his past haunts him. His love for Mike Wheeler haunts him even more.
Will is trying to fill that desperate emptiness in his heart with someone else who just doesn't get him. But nothing feels the same as the way his heart jumps at the way Mike Wheeler smiles at him.Bookmarked by Valencia03
17 Jan 2026