10 things I hate about you inspired au that I will never write but want to share
past bychance / Mike-Will-Chance love triangle
Story starts in september 2006, first day of school after the summer.
No money or bets involved!!! I dont like that trope.
Popular but for bad reasons: Was kidnapped at 12 by Henry and went missing for a week, titled “zombie boy” because people assume he now has aids, later outed because he and Chance we’re caught, known as the queer kid.
Friends are Jane, Lucas and Max.
In Hoppers custody after Joyces death, Joyce was killed by Henry while she helped rescue Will, Hopper and Joyce were already married, he fought for custody and won against Lonnie.
Will and Chance dated for about half a year in secret before they were caught making out, they we’re forced to break up even though they had just started falling in love. Now 4 months later they still like eachother but no longer talk.
Hopper always hated the idea of his kids dating and discouraged it, after finding out Will had dated Chance in secret and was now outed to the entire town he officially made “no dating until college” a rule.
When Chance asked Will to try again (4 months post breakup) Will refuses at first because he’s too scared to disobey Hoppers rule. Instead he decides to beg Hopper to please change the rule because he loves Chance and boys like him don’t get a lot of romantic opportunities.
This turns into an argument. According to Hopper Chance only has bad intentions and Will is naive and has been manipulated by him (related to Wills trauma with Henry). To end the argument Hopper changes the rule to Will only being allowed to date once Jane dates someone.
Will has always had very good grades, however he’s struggling with french. Hes behind and is bound to fail french this year if he doesnt get back on track. Lucky for him the boy who just moved from canada and is fluent in french is veryyy eager to help.
Will and his new friend (and tutor) Mike try to find Jane a boyfriend so Will and Chance can get back together. Between tutoring and meddling Mike and Will grow closer, and Will slowly develops feelings for Mike instead.
Rescued and adopted by Hopper from a neglective household, Hopper found her while searching for clues about Henry. She had matted hair that had to be shaved off, never went to school and barely made contact with the outside world.
Popular for bad reasons: People have heard rumours about her backstory, first showed up to school with short hair (rumoured to be a lesbian, “it runs in the family”) and was socially stunted, quickly labelled as the weird girl.
Her only friends are Will and Max and she’s friendly with Lucas because he’s Maxs boyfriend, but theyre not friends.
Has no interest in dating because she doesn’t believe anyone could even like her, she has never felt anything romantic for anyone before and she has been slightly manipulated by Hopper to see dating as something dangerous.
One day her brother asks her to tag along to a meeting for “hellfire club” which his new friend is in. Reluctantly she accepts, but happy that her brother has a new friend. Surprisingly she quite enjoys herself there, surrounded by people who are almost as weird as her.
When the leader of the club Dustin Henderson starts talking to her she is very confused, but she likes his company enough to befriend him. She thinks its weird that her face heats up and her stomach twists around him “in embarrassment”, because she usually feels very confident to be herself around him and the rest of the club.
When Dustin asks her out her first instinct is to reject him, why would her stance on dating suddenly change? Just as shes about to she stops and realises that maybe, with a boy like Dustin, she could give it a try. She tries to convince herself she’s only doing this for her brother, but deep down she knows that she really really likes this boy.
New kid at hawkins high, moved from canada with his family.
Mike befriends his neighbour Lucas Sinclair immediately, he helps him find his place. As a fellow overachiever Lucas suggests that Mike should sign up to be a tutor for extra credit, he tells him he knows a guy who could use a french tutor.
Mike refuses at first, during his short time in hawkins he’s already heard plenty unpleasant things about this Will Byers. Extra credit is great, but theres better ways to gain it than talking to a wall. Lucas explains that he knows Will, and that he’s actually a great guy and that the only rumour thats true is that Will is gay.
This sparks Mikes interest immediately. He has known he’s gay for a little while now, after a great battle with internalised homophobia. He’s deeply closeted and has never really met another gay person before, desperate for a gay friend he accepts to tutor Will immediately.
The need for a gay friend dies quickly when he meets Will for the first time and finds out that he’s exactly his type, especially when he sees Wills bunny teeth peek out while smiling. During the first tutor session Mike attempts to subtly ask Will out. Will notices but believes Mike doesn’t actually have a crush on him, he thinks Mike just picked the first gay guy he met to have a crush on. He rejects Mike by telling him hes not allowed to date. A lie/half truth, the rule has been changed already. That goes unsaid for now though.
Later Will feels bad about not telling the full truth and Mike finds out the truth about the rule change. Will explains he’s still in love with his Chance and that he doesn’t think Mike actually liked him. Mike thinks thats just an excuse and that Will is too kind to say that he’d rather date Chance, but the power of Wills pouty face is strong so he decides to get over it and help Will wingman his sister. Starting by asking Lucas if he knowns anyone likely to want to date Jane.
Leader of Hellfire club after the death of Eddie Munson, who ODed about a year ago. A lot of members have left since then, so when Lucas invites his new friend Mike to the club he’s thrilled.
Dustin has been crushing on Jane for a while. Jane is beautiful, a weirdo (positive), clearly a very fast learner and very kind. Unfortunately she’s not allowed to and clearly not interested in dating, as Dustin learned from Lucas.
When Mike starts inviting his friend Will and his sister Jane to meetings it becomes a problem.
Dustin discusses this with Lucas, who tells him that he learned from Mike who learned from Will that Jane actually is allowed to date now. Obviously Dustins goal now is to win Jane over, a difficult thing to achieve.
With the help of Mike, Will, Lucas and Max he plans to ask Jane out. He notices theres something going between Will and Mike, and decides to bring it up to Jane. Together he and Jane plan to get Will to realise his feeling for Mike, the only obstacle is that Will isn’t allowed to date unless Jane does. (And Chance of course, but they’re not aware of that). Dustin knows a solution though.
Doesn’t really get shit for being gay due to his jock status and because people believe that Will forced him to date him, Chance doesn’t confirm nor deny this.
Is also fake-dating Jennifer Hayes, who’s crushing hard on Max Mayfield. They’re dating to avoid rumours about either of them being queer. She tells him to ask Will out again. A secret relationship worked before, and now that people think Chance is with Jennifer there will be less suspicion.
Chance is still very much in love with Will, so he takes her advice and asks Will to try again. Will informs him of the new rule Hopper has created, but he doesn’t tell him he’s going to ask to get it changed because he doesn’t want to get Chances hopes up. Will also doesn’t tell Chance about the rule change, just in case it doesnt work out well. Though when the possibility of Jane getting a boyfriend is getting very high, he still doesn’t tell Chance.
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