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The Upside Down is gone. The monsters are dead. Hawkins survived.
So why does the world feel like a poorly made copy of itself?
While Hawkins carries on pretending everything is normal, Will Byers becomes increasingly convinced that reality has developed a few... technical difficulties.
Mike Wheeler would love to believe it's all in Will's head.
The problem is, he's starting to notice it too.
As the cracks in reality grow impossible to ignore, Mike and Will are forced to confront a deeply unpleasant question:
What if the battle never ended?
If you're a fan of The Amazing Digital Circus, The Truman Show or the Conformity Gate theory you might enjoy this story.
Featuring: reality glitches, emotional repression, questionable coping mechanisms, and an unhealthy amount of dry British humor.
(Also comes with a really cool playlist. Probably.)
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Wake up, Mike Wheeler
The walls of the bedroom are too tall, and Will looks around wondering if he’s lost his mind. Mike tracks his gaze, “Oh yeah, I see it too.”
His shoulders tighten and the room feels increasingly unsafe. “Can I sleep in your bed tonight?”Alternatively: Ao3's second ever Conformity Gate fic! The party won and the upside-down was detonated. Though still, Mike can't seem to trust the world around him. Nothing seems real, and everyone is acting off. Thankfully, Will notices it too.
Title is from Hero's by David Bowie
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- Part 1 of Byler
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05 Apr 2026
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Will Byers has ordered strawberry at Scoops Ahoy for two years.
It's not his favourite. His favourite is caramel, but Mike Wheeler said he'd remember strawberry, so Will never orders anything else.
Mike remembers everyone's order. That's his thing, but Will's makes his heart do something stupid every time.
What Mike doesn't know, Will's favourite is caramel.
What Will doesn't know, Mike's favourite is caramel too.
What neither knows, Max is done watching them circle each other.
Then the Russians come. Truth serum happens. And when Mike's locked in a bathroom with Max, every buried secret claws its way out.
"Will Byers. I wanted him to look at me."
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03 Apr 2026
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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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02 Apr 2026
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His Reflection in the Snow Covered Hills by Quatrowrites
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Jan 2026
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Signals.
‘A brush of the knee, a bump of the elbow, a shared look, accrued like a snowball rolling down a hill, until it was obvious.’
Will asks, sincerely, “How obvious?” A whisper, eyes wide, the sin of curiosity kept in a secret space between Robin and himself.
The snowball became an “avalanche,” apparently for Robin, but had Will enough snow on his hill to say the same for himself?
Will, as he has come to understand, has a lot to think about. Mike had certainly shown him things beyond brushed knees and shared looks, talking about snowballs was nothing when it came to the blizzard that is their relationship. So Will continues on his day mostly focused, but his mind can’t help but play back certain events like little movies of the past eighteen months, after his conversation with Robin.
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5 times Mike gave Will signals and 1 time Will took the bait, (taking place in those 18 months before s5!)
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- Part 1 of Landslide
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02 Apr 2026
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Maybe Mike would’ve felt brave for once and held Will’s hand. Maybe, Will wouldn’t have minded. Maybe then, he’d ask to go somewhere else, a broom closet or something, and maybe in there, Mike would have had the guts to spill everything out. Tell Will how much he cared for him, how he was the most important thing in Mike’s life, how he would rather his dad die a thousand times over than Will leave him. Tell Will just how much he lov-
Ding!
His coffee’s ready.
or: What if Mike was the one to see rovickie kiss at the hospital instead of Will? (this is pretty much a volume 1 rewrite, except I make Mike an actual character with feelings and not a cardboard cutout (yes, im still mad about the finale))
(title from “The Killing Moon” by Echo & the Bunnymen)
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02 Apr 2026