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Mike's life is split into two, clean halves. His life in Indiana, in the sun's harsh light, where he's fucked up in more ways than one. And then there's his other life, under the alias of legendarymichael, on the never-ending planes of the Internet. His digital heaven, where Mike exists as an untouchable, faceless deity; worshipped and praised.
Mike is good at keeping the two separate. Or so he thought, until Will Byers collides into his neatly sliced life, and derails it all when he takes a bite from both halves.
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Faceless content creators legendarymichael and williamethyst snowball into an online rivalry. At the same time, Mike Wheeler meets Will Byers at a dog park, and begins to fall in love. Those two sides of their lives begin to bleed into one perfect storm.
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Maybe it’s the lingering adrenaline from the false alarm a moment ago, but Mike suddenly has a bad feeling deep in his gut. Something is off. Slowly, he walks around to look at Chrissy’s face.
White eyes. Rapid blinking. Unfocused. Unseeing.
Mike’s terror multiplies tenfold, heart rate ratcheting back up. He blinks and it’s Will standing in front of him, glaze-eyed and shaking, seizing, eyes twitching in their sockets, stuck in a waking nightmare as the Mind Flayer forces itself into every orifice.
He blinks again and it’s Chrissy, going through the same thing. Or something very similar.
Fuck. Not now. Not again.Or: After witnessing Chrissy's death, Mike finds himself on the frontlines of the latest interdimensional battle—and at the top of Hawkins’ Most Wanted list, as police, crazed townspeople, and otherworldly monsters all vie to get to him first.
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- Part 1 of Come Sleep
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no, i'm not afraid of hard work by froggenbie
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
26 Jul 2023
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Katsuki swallows, his voice feeling thick and heavy in his throat, and says, “I thought about you, when I died,” and means I love you I love you I love you.
Izuku says, “I hate spring.”
Katsuki says, “yeah.”
Around the anniversary of the war’s end—of Izuku’s vigilante phase, of All For One’s return, of Katsuki’s death—Izuku gets clingy. Katsuki deals.
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Chasing Stars Underwater by SmartiMart
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
23 Nov 2022
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After three years of grieving Kacchan, Midoriya Izuku tries his hand at closure by stepping into the world of fashion. He meets Hoshi Kaguya, an up-and-coming designer with intense red eyes and blinding skill, Izuku can't help but feel a bond.
Hoshi Kaguya wants to keep Deku at a distance. He's spent the last three years in disguise investigating a crime syndicate ruled by Japan's major fashion houses. The designer has sacrificed too much: faking his death, giving up on family, friends, and dreams. Despite wanting nothing more than to make up for the past few years, Hoshi can't blow his cover and can't risk the nerd recognizing his true identity: Bakugou Katsuki.
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time can't stop me quite like you did by agustplz (shout_out_lou)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Nov 2022
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Mike’s been waiting 737 days for this exact moment, always too intimately aware of every single second that’s passed him by since he disappeared. “You’re alive,” he tells him, stupid and reverent. This time, it seems to get through to Will. He watches the hard exterior recede, exposing the gentle warmth that Mike has always admired
“I’m alive,” Will repeats. “I’m alive.” He lets out a hysterical giggle and suddenly he’s the one falling into Mike, limbs tangling and hands clutching at each other until he can’t tell where one of them ends and the other begins. “And you’re here. You came for me.”
Will’s fingers dig into his forearms. Mike swallows the instinctive I would always come for you on the tip of his tongue.
OR: Even after watching Will get trapped in the Upside Down for good, Mike never stopped believing he was alive. After stumbling upon a gate two years later, he takes a chance and learns to finally follow his heart.
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An ache started to settle inside Will's chest, burrowing deep between his heart and ribs.
Mike let go of the hug, stepping back a few inches and kissing the sobriety chip, "For you. For Nora."
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Mike and Will navigate married life, struggling through Mike’s sobriety and being on the brink of divorce.
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06 Aug 2026
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One of the saddest things I've read on this app, but so beautiful and worth the read
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The world is a beautiful, powerful, terrifying beast. Mike never fails to feel in awe when he sees proof of just how giant and formidable it’s capable of being, and in moments like these, he savors feeling comparatively small, miniscule in the face of everything else.
So many things feel so unimportant when staring down a natural monster.
have you ever fallen in love over the course of four months? have you ever fallen in love while chasing storms? have you ever done both?
well, mike wheeler is about to.or: welcome to tornado season 2026!
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- Part 1 of gentle storms
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in knowing that the sun is there by musthavebeen_thewind
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Jun 2026
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Mike hasn’t prayed since November, 1983. But nearly ten years and 800 miles away from the last time, staring up at the dark stain in the ceiling paint, Mike thinks: God, give me a sign.
And then, the phone rings.
or; New York City in 1992 is just as perpetually rainy as Hawkins was in 1987. Mike Wheeler, lonely creature that he is, is well accustomed to this. Will Byers, despite Mike's best efforts, is a beam of sunlight. Circling each other over the course of five years, Mike and Will figure out what it means to want to die, what it means to want to live, and what it means for the sun to follow a rainstorm.
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His Mom smiles at him with a knowing look, and Jonathan has an arch to his brow like he wants to ask more – but before either can, there’s the sound of a thud.
Will’s smile falls into his stomach. It wrenches with fear, with horror.
All three look to the entrance of the lounge, the direction of the thud.
“Shit,” says someone out of sight, just beyond the entrance, almost too soft to catch.
Will’s blood runs cold, because he knows that voice, knows the specific lilt of it.
“Mike?"
Or, Will comes out on his own terms, to the two people who truly matter - and is overheard by the one other person who means the most. In wake of the revelation, they decide to split off and take the final battle with Vecna into their own hands, all while navigating the undeniable pull that grows between them.
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“We’ll always be here,” El replies kindly. “If things are ever confusing, remember that, okay?”
Mike swallows the lump rising in his throat. His hands shake with vulnerability. The room feels a bit suffocating, but he can’t tell if it’s from fear or love.
He thinks it might be love.
He meets Will’s gaze. He sees an entire galaxy in his eye.
“You came back,” Will says simply. “You came back to us, and that’s all that matters.”
Season 5, but things don't go as planned. In fact, Mike learns that reality can fall apart in the blink of an eye, and promises are the only thing that can stitch it back together.