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Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan
31 Jul 2025
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Will remembers.
He remembers back to when he was one of the youngest in his cabin, not the oldest.
He remembers hearing whispers and hushed conversations around camp about his siblings and him.
And he remembers, at the ripe age of ten, walking by two Aphrodite kids as they made comments about Lee. About his face and his body and all the things they would-And Will remembers Lee walking back into the cabin past curfew, crying softly.
Now, distantly, Will remembers that night.
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Robin Buckley is going insane.
She’s sat on the couch with Nancy Wheeler stood behind her carefully cutting away chunks of black hair from her singed scalp where she’d nearly lit herself on fire. In her defence, holding the flame thrower was Steve’s job, but Mr Hair had been nursing a dislocated shoulder for the last couple weeks, and Robin was nominated to pick up on his sloppy seconds. The thing was heavy, okay? How could any one expect her, a 120lb mess of gangly limbs and zero hand eye coordination to wield (what felt like at least) 200lbs of pure steel? She’s only partially to blame for her new, frankly horrific, pixie cut.
Surprisingly though, that’s not the reason she’s going insane.
She’s sat on a moth eaten couch in a horrifically serial-killer-esque cabin in the middle of butt fuck nowhere with several generations of people she would’ve turned on her heel and ran from in high school, spending her every waking hour trying to survive the literal apocalypse or devising a plan to kill an alternate dimensional blood thirsty wizard and it has nothing to do with why she is going insane.
It’s the two teenage boys preparing dinner to her left that are the cause.
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“You’re so much sweeter than Sarcean ever knew.” Will had said too much already, but he kept going— “there’s no need to collar you.”
A moment passed between them, then James said. “You told me to come for you, I did, and I'm still here.”
In that moment, Will realised they weren’t alone. Sarcean was there with them, smiling in that mouthless way of his. More of a cloud or a concept than anything else. He taunted Will by putting thoughts in his head.
You want to possess him just as bad as I do.
In which: Will removes the collar from James neck, expecting James to hate him once it's done. That's not what happens.
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Will Byers returns to the town he was born in and bonds with, befriends, and falls for Mike Wheeler--His step sisters boyfriend.
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“Hey, it’s ok to be scared. It’s not fun for anyone. But sometimes it’s necessary, especially when you’ve swallowed something you’re not supposed to. Do you think you can try and be brave for me, Mike? Just this once?”
Mike sobs harder the more Will speaks. He’s asking too much of him, especially when Mike’s already overwhelmed.
Will finds Mike in the bathroom. But why is there a nearly empty bottle of shampoo beside him...?
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Will’s expression relaxes upon hearing Mike’s words. They make him feel reassured. He smiles. It’s a bittersweet smile, one that tries to hide the fact that he’ll miss his friend like crazy.
The Byers move away from Hawkins and to California
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Karen opens the door to find little Will Byers standing there, soaking wet and shivering. His eyes are red like he’d been crying. It’s not the first time Will has shown up out of the blue, and it makes Karen worried. She thinks she understands the problem.
After a fight with his parents breaks out, Will goes to Mike’s house for the night
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Will takes a deep breath, resisting the urge to just break down right then and there, because why do things always happen to him?
Why is he so cursed?
The world must hate him.
Must think he’s a joke.
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H̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶n̶k̶s̶ ̶s̶o̶ ̶t̶o̶o̶.̶Will has a nightmare and Mike is there to comfort him
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Will raises a brow, glancing over to see what’s captured his friend’s attention, but he sees nothing. He hops off the platform and walks to him.
“Mike?”
Will gets closer and halts. Mike is just… standing there, like a statue.Mike gets Vecna'd
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"Will, how long has this been going on?"
Will sniffled twice more. "Ever since we moved to California."
Mike frowned. That was five months ago.
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Will is bullied at Rink-O-Mania... not Eleven
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Will lets out something of a strangled noise in the back of his throat, and he deliberately chooses not to look at her again as he walks out of the shed and towards the cabin without a word.
Nancy watches him, gawking.What the hell just happened?
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Will is scared of Nancy after the Mind Flayer burnout
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Trapped in the deadly chill of the Upside Down, Will clings to life in the fragile Byers Castle. As the cold gnaws at his body, a mysterious voice offers a glimmer of hope. Is it real — or just another illusion as he teeters on the brink of death?
Goretober Day 18: Frozen.
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- Part 12 of Goretober 2024
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The Party graduate from high school and it's kinda dramatic
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Pray Another Day (To Never See Your Face Again) by PobodyNerfect
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Aug 2024
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"What are you doing here? I haven't seen you in..."
"I know. It's been a long time."OR:
Lonnie shows up and confronts Will
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Browsing a record store, Will Byers encounters the strangest thing he's seen in his short, strange life: an openly gay man. And what's more, this man seems to like him.
(this is NOT a romance. this explores an emotionally and sexually abusive relationship between an adult man and a teenager in a way that is not meant to romanticise or sexualise it. it's a very personal story. read with caution.)
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And I know it's just a phase (you're not in love with me) by heartzforbyler
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Mar 2024
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Summer 1987. The Byers have moved back to Hawkins in case Vecna rises back. Will is more than happy to be back with his friends, until Mike decides he wasn't confusing enough.
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You're a Dog and I'm Your Man by jimhoppersfloralshirt
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jan 2024
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Will knows it sounds stupid, so inconsiderately intangible but he continues on, " I think, I know it sounds stupid, but I'm falling into the shadows, I'm losing everything all over again."
"Like the shadow monster?" Mike's eyebrows raise under his fringe.
"No. Like me." A single tear slips onto his cheeks. Mike shuffles a little closer but doesn't touch Will. " Please tell I'm still here."
A determined look settles over Mike's face, and he bite his bottom lip, worrying at the fragile skin there. "You're here. I see you."
"Then why does no one speak to me anymore." Will asks, more tears spilling as his voice shakes, he knows he's using the others as a guise, and Mike probably does too.
OR: Despite living at the Wheelers Mike and Will continue to avoid each other, until one night Mike is all Will realises he has needed.
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- Part 1 of You're a Dog and I'm Your Man
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Ain’t it enough that I'm laying my heart out? by Hei_Jessi_015
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Nov 2023
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[Title is from Flor - lmho]
With Vecna still lurking beneath Hawkins, some people still thinking Hellfire is the cause (with a new theory rising in popularity) and everyone on edge, it feels like Will is slowly losing his mind and it seems no one notices this. Is Will going to escape this and save himself and everyone else or lose himself in the darkness of his mind ?
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This sucked.
It was cold. It was New York. It was night. It was fucking stupid.
Trust Will to think Mike would actually show up. Trust Will to believe—for even a second—that he was something worth remembering.
His own damn fault.
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He told Mike he would be right back.
As he left his room, he grabbed the bag of chicken feed and heaved it over his shoulder. He opened the door only to realize
It was dark out.
And he forgot a damn flashlight.
The bag fell off his shoulder and hit the ground with a loud thud.
This only startled him more.