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After surviving monsters, mind flayers, and the Upside Down, the Party finally has time for something normal: weekly D&D.
What starts as harmless in-character banter between Tayr the Brave and Will the Wise turns into painfully obvious flirting, except neither of them realizes it’s real.
Everyone else at the table does, everyone else is suffering.Ancient magic, bad decisions, and one very ill-advised resurrection later, the line between game and reality disappears entirely.
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i am caught, right inside your line of fire by ethqreal
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Feb 2026
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“Why are you touching him? You don’t own him.”
Will dropped his head into his hands. “Mike, oh my god—”
Paladin Mike’s jaw tightened. “I do not own him,” he said immediately. “He is—” He stopped, swallowing. His eyes went back to Will softening, and that softness made Mike hate him even more. He could recognize the look, and saw it mirrored in his own eyes countless times.
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“He is the Light. By your oath, I am bound to him. My liege.” He bowed his head slightly toward Will, his mouth wrapped around the word like it was a prayer. “My cleric.” He said after, softer.
“Oh my god.” Will flushed, impossibly. “That is crazy. He is actually crazy."
Max, who had been standing with her arms crossed behind them, muttered, “Jesus Christ,” under her breath.
Mike Wheeler is going to explode, because there is an alternate, armoured version of him, following Will Byers around like he belonged to him.
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
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05 Jan 2026
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Rewrite of S05E07 bc that whole thing was like shit from a butt. Actually what the fuck are the Duffer Brothers even doing anymore??
Anyways, Byler will be endgame, even if I have to write it myself.
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“I don’t like girls.”The words were so close to leaving Will’s mouth when he caught a glimpse of movement in the corner of his eye.
Mike. Standing in the doorway.
The feelings of shame and guilt rolled back up his throat and he swore he tasted bile.
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Will comes out to his mother separately, not forced. The party decides on a multi-layered attack against Vecna. Byler happens along the way.Bookmarked by darkacademiaarchivist
29 Dec 2025
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Four months after Arthur leaves in the dead of the night with a wound in his memory, he finally feels like the fragments of himself might be coming back together again. A steady gig, a city he can remain perfectly anonymous in, and a tenuous new agreement with the voice in his head are all coalescing into something like a life. He's fine managing his days, happy, even - as long as he doesn't think too hard about the static at the edges of his mind. Unfortunately for what he's trying to build, John doesn't know how to be less persistent in convincing him you can't create a home on the foundations of something you're trying to outrun.
Across New York, two unlikely partners work tirelessly to hunt down a man skilled in disappearing. Once found, both of them realize getting the person back they once knew might be more difficult than they thought. Aside from being seemingly unable to, Arthur Lester doesn't want to remember what he's forgotten - even if it's the unknowing that might undo him.
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- Part 2 of so much of the living
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05 Sep 2025