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   Happy Birthday by copy_moon_joy

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   21 Jul 2018

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Dustin Henderson/Lucas Sinclair
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Jim Hopper
   • Joyce Byers
   • Troy
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Eleven Hopper
   • Max Mayfield
   • Soulmates
   • Soulmarks
   • Modern AU
   • High School
   • Pinning Will
   • Bitter Mike
   • Angst with a Happy Ending

   Summary

   A soulmark was a unique mark that showed up on your body and you shared that exact mark with only one other person. Your soulmate, the person that matches you in every way. Of course, as the universe would have it, things couldn't be so simple for Will Byers.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   20,223

   Chapters:

   6/6

   Comments:

   165

   Kudos:

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   Bookmarked by vanarqi

   05 May 2026

2. Public Bookmark *

   underbelly by vvalentine

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   07 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Alternate Universe - No Upside Down (Stranger Things)
   • Alternate Universe - 2000s
   • Aged-Up Character(s)
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Character Study
   • Will Byers-centric
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Trauma Recovery
   • will's trauma is intentionally kept vague and non-graphic but just a heads up
   • Insomnia
   • Mental Health Issues
   • There Was Only One Bed
   • Non-Sexual Intimacy
   • but also a fear of intimacy
   • Touch-Starved
   • First Kiss
   • Making Out
   • and they're both super tired
   • in the literal sense
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Feelings Realization
   • mike wants will in ways that would incapacitate the average person
   • Bittersweet
   • thank you cico buff by cocteau twins
   • Class Differences
   • Fanart

   Summary

   “I'm trying my best.”

   “I know.”

   “At everything.”

   ( The world makes clay out of Will and he doesn't want to be put back together, just held. This time he lets himself have it.)

   Series

   • Part 1 of vacillator, tiger lily: mike & will re-imagined.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   7,121

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   180

   Kudos:

   2,172

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   Bookmarked by vanarqi

   04 Jan 2026

   Bookmarker's Tags:

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