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• I am obscene to you (but to myself I simply am) by bibisgarden

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • General Audiences
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  22 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Joyce Byers
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Steve Harrington
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Robin Buckley
  • Erica Sinclair
  • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
  • Holly Wheeler
  • Slow Burn
  • Inspired by Frankenstein
  • Protective Siblings
  • Protective Jonathan Byers
  • Protective Mike Wheeler
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • BAMF Joyce Byers
  • Protective Joyce Byers
  • Fluff
  • English Is Not the Author's First Language
  • Post-Stranger Things 4 Vol. 2
  • Pre-Stranger Things 5
  • Stranger Things 5
  • Character Death
  • Character Study
  • Unreliable Narrator
  • Out of Character Will Byers
  • Will Byers-centric
  • Will Byers as The Creature
  • Mike Wheeler as Elizabeth
  • long narration style
  • Yarning
  • it's ŵill but at the same time it's not
  • Possession
  • Inspired by Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died
  • Will Byers Has Powers
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
  • Emotional Baggage
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
  • Use of poetry as a way of narration
  • Slow Build
  • Long inner monologues
  • Implied/Referenced Suicide

  Summary

  "You are not him, right?" said Mike softly. "You are not Will."

  Or

  Will Byers couldn't fight anymore —call it weakness, tiredness or the desperate hope of trying to find peace after all the violence he experienced. So, he makes a deal with a creature from the Upside-Down. Will will finally find the peace he endlessly wanted, and The Creature will take his place.

  (A post Season 4 —meaning those 18 months, inspired by Frankenstein, The Summer Hikaru died and conformity gate!)

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  English

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