Angst
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i'll be dazed and confused (all my life) by dizzy_edge
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Feb 2026
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His eyes felt wet, and he sniffled, trying to keep himself from crying into the boy's top. His throat felt painfully dry, and the cold air passing through his throat didn’t help. The warmth of Will did, though, and Mike held onto him a little tighter.
“Mike, what’s—”
“I’m sorry,” he gasped, squeezing his eyes shut. “I did it again, I’m sorry.”
After El's sacrifice, everyone struggles to cope. Mike turns to less than healthy methods, and when he's caught, he gets the help he needs from those around him.
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- Part 4 of mike wheeler having mental problems
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how? heart of a dragon (for my prayer has always been love) by dizzy_edge
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Mar 2026
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“I— I wasn’t going to do anything. I was just… I was—”
“Please don’t do this with me,” Dustin cut in, swallowing thickly. Mike tried to ignore the pain in the other boy’s voice, but that didn’t stop a voice of his own deep down telling him that he’d fucked everything up again.
“Dustin—”
“Don’t make me go through this again,” he said, quieter. The firmness in his voice had vanished, replaced by desperation and vulnerability. Dustin rarely spoke like that, usually opting for a more assertive voice, but that assertiveness had shifted into something softer. Mike could feel tears brimming in his eyes, because at least real dead people had the grace of not being able to hear someone pleading for their life. Mike, who only felt like he was dead and rotting, still had to be torn apart by caring words, and that was torturous.
A few months after the destruction of the Upside Down, Mike still hasn’t moved on from everything. On the daily, he finds it harder to climb out of bed. When he finds himself imagining death at Sattler’s Quarry, he doesn’t expect Dustin to find him, in the same spots they were in almost five years before.
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- Part 5 of mike wheeler having mental problems
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Wash your face (hide your wrists) by Crowley_Supremacy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Feb 2026
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"Mike has been acting… weird. Cheerful, almost, in a way Will hasn't seen him since before Eleven died. Since before everything happened.
He's more carefree now, like the world won't collapse around him if he says or does the wrong thing.
It should be good that he's finally moving on, but it's unnerving, to say the least, and Will has a strange feeling settling in the pit of his stomach."
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Mike is extremely depressed and planning on doing something about it, but doesn't account for Will finding out about it.
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"He refused to remember anything, to remember a world after Will. He didn't want there to be a world after Will.
Apparently, his subconscious decided that the best way to avoid that was to surround himself with Will.
He assumed that's why he was now in his basement."Or: Will "dies" and Mike has the biggest crashout the world has ever seen.
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At first, Mike was unsure how to approach him when he got like this. But they’ve been living together for months now, never further than five feet apart in their dorm beds, so Mike’s learned what works and what doesn’t.
It works when he wakes Will like this, with gentle hands and words, telling him he’s safe. It works when he climbs into Will’s warm bed, turning him on his side and curling up against his back, an arm over his waist and his cheek pressed against his shoulder. They lie together like that until Will’s hiccupping gasps soften into steady breaths, until Mike feels him go limp in his arms and he knows he’s fallen back asleep. It always works.
or: Will has nightmares and Mike is the only one who can console him. Not even Will's boyfriend can. Mike takes great pride in this fact.