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Will, time travels back to the van scene: okay, don't mess this up!
Mike somehow thinks Will is confessing to him via painting, he breaks up with Jane and the whole event with saving Max goes much better than before. Mike now thinks they're dating and starts acting like his S2 self before he and Jane got together, following Will around like a puppy and being the heart of the party again.
Will: wait what just happened-
Steve: why did you hate me dating Nancy but love Jonathan dating her?
Mike: I hated you because you took my sister away and turned her into an asshole, you were horrible for her. You were also a douche to Jonathan.
Steve: hey now-
Mike: I love Jonathan because he brought my sister back, he loves her with his whole being and managed to get my sister to return that feeling.
—Nancy and Jonathan—
Nancy: oh…
Jonathan: that explains so much actually-
Will starts hanging out with Carlton and his friends more, most days he doesn’t even come home until the next day. Mike was supportive at first, he was proud of his boyfriend making friends but….now the apartment is empty and lonely.
Mike doesn’t dare ruin this with his whining though, he’s ruined enough things for Will, this one thing will stay untainted by him. Mike gets used to dates being canceled or anniversaries being forgotten or waking up to Will not being in bed.
He’s so used to it he forgets he’s dating someone half the time, the other half is convinced Will left him for Carlton.
54 year old Mike who’s been waiting 34 years for Will, raising his daughter Willow who looks exactly like Will for some reason…
Mike had been waiting for so long for Will, he had planned on confessing when he went to visit Will in New York but those dreams were quickly shattered when he was introduced to Carlton.
Mike pretended everything was fine, kept pretending through interrupted hang outs and canceled days, pretended even through the wedding! What finally broke him though was Will seemly dropping him after he got married.
Every call, email, letter and, when they came around, text was ignored. Mike decided to just- focus on his own life and eventually his daughter Willow.
It’s not until he’s sitting in his garden writing, singing the beginning of “would you fall in love with me” that he meets Will again, he’s singing Odysseus’s part and Mike can’t help but melt a little.
Mike is startled when he finds that Will and Carlton are divorced and have been for a while, oh and that Carlton was the one messing everything up between them! Mike should send the party after the fucker…
(He finds out much later that Willow was the one who brought Will here, he spoils her even more than he already was)
Will Byers being creepy as shit and Mike is like: I love you, you and all your adorable creepiness!
Everyone they’ve come across is unsettled by Will, Mike doesn’t mind one bit, he even helps Will by buying unsettling paintings or objects that are definitely cursed. Hell, Mike has a cursed doll Will gave him! He loves his creepy boyfriend and their cursed doll daughter!
Kai, from a destroyed world, gets sent to the AU where the fangblade was chosen over Lloyd, he is not pleased at all by his counterpart for abandoning his soulmate. How could his counterpart take one look at those teary red eyes and abandoned him to be killed in lava?
He manages to get the boy out of the volcano with only minor burns to his hands, Lloyd is shaking and sobbing and clutching tightly to Kai’s gi, it breaks his heart to see this.
Kai takes him far away and patches up Lloyd’s hands, answering any questions he might have, when it gets to who Kai is. He can’t answer without breaking more than he’s already done, so he introduces himself as Shogun, Lloyd’s sworn protector.
Shogun apologizes for not being there soon, for not being there to protect him but he’s here now and he’s not leaving, ever. He’ll stay by Lloyd’s side for as long as the boy wants him too.
(Somewhere deep inside Lloyd, a fire starts and slowly grows, he’s never had someone this devoted to him and he doesn’t know what to do about it….it doesn’t scare him as much as it should though.)
Hmm…Kai being destined to be by Lloyd’s side forever, he belongs to the Green Ninja and he doesn’t even know it, he’s Lloyd’s other half and his soulmate.
This bond becomes very clear when Kai had Chen’s staff and was being overpowered by it, Lloyd could feel everything, including the fear and horror at saying something Kai didn’t mean. (It’s why Lloyd forgave him so quickly and easily, it wasn’t Kai saying that to him.)
Just- Kai and Lloyd being soulmates, favorite trope honestly.
Corpse bride Byler AU except Mike actually drinks the leftover poison so he can be with Will for all eternity.
I know people give Good Luck, Babe to Mike but have you considered: Will listening to this song while in a loveless marriage to Carlton?
Their daughter Michelle puts it on and she has to watch her poor papa break down over it. Will admitting to her how there was another man he fell in love with and that he’s still in love with him
He can’t meet her eyes when Will tells her he named her after Michael, Mike Wheeler. Michelle decides to find this Mike Wheeler and reunite them, she wants her papa happy!
(The breakdown Will’s gonna have when they do reunite and he finds out about Willow and that Mike has been waiting 34 years for him to come back to his life)
Will: turns evil via the Mind Flayer
Mike: well, it looks like I’ll have to join him
The party: you really don’t-
Mike, in dark paladin armor: too late
Where Mike believes he’s nothing more than bad luck and tries to distances himself from the entire party.
Key word: tries
Because no matter what he does or says, someone always ends up dragging him back, either it’s Lucas who asks him to come to a game or Max asking to sit and watch her skate or Dustin asking him to help with inventions or Will with his drawings or Jane asks him to help with makeup- you get the point. Mike can’t escape them, they get this sad hopeful look on their faces and Mike crumbles instantly.
Hell, he can’t even escape the older members! The amount of times he’s been asked to help Joyce and Jonathan or Robin and Vickie or Steve or his sister Nancy is a lot. They also get the sad hopeful eyes and Mike feels so bad for even thinking about saying no.
(The party is trying to find out who put those thoughts into Mike’s head, who do they have to fight?!)
It saddens me greatly that Mike has no older person to look after him so I’m giving him one:
Mike remembers crying slightly under the bleachers, remembers curling up on himself and trying desperately not to get anyone’s attention. It hadn’t exactly worked though, an older girl found him, her green eyes that reminded him of Max filled with concern.
She had introduced herself as Meredith but preferred Mimi, her sweet smile had helped Mike relax. She had asked him what was wrong with a soft tone and Mike, after years of bottling everything up, broke down and talked about how depressed and scared he felt.
He couldn’t stop, it was like there was something about Mimi that just got him talking. He spilt everything he could to her, leaving the upside down topic alone though. She had listened and held him as he sobbed, telling him everything was going to be okay and Mike found himself believing her.
Meredith “Mimi” Lovegood became his friend that day and Mike has never been happier. He’s also forever grateful for her help because it meant he started being himself again, sure the depression wouldn’t go away like magic but at least it won’t take over his life anymore, he can finally talk to his other friends without bringing them down. He could even send those letters he wrote for Will!
Demo clone Mike -> dcMike | Real Mike -> rMike
dcMike: hey how y’all-
rMike: RAHHH
dcMike: AHHH GET YOUR FUCKING DOG BITCH
Will: he don’t bite
dcMike: YES HE DO
rMike: *chases after dcMike*
S4 Mike hallucinating baby wiw and baby Jane and instead of worsening him, they actually make him better. He feels so guilty every time he sees and remembers he hasn’t been very good to either of them, hasn’t been a good friend or boyfriend.
He starts writing to Will with little Will hanging over his shoulder, encouraging him to actually send the letter along with Jane’s.
The smiles on baby Will and baby Jane is definitely worth the panic attack he gets later on.
(They also judge his California outfit so badly that when he goes to visit he doesn’t end up looking like a huge dork.)
Will not found AU where Mike is the only one still looking for Will even years later, everyone else has given up and accepted that he’s dead.
It’s not until Mike goes missing for a week and then comes back missing half his arm and holding onto a very much alive feral Will.
Will doesn’t trust anyone that isn’t Mike, he’s also weirdly possessive of him too (in everyone’s opinion anyways, Will doesn’t care though)
Mike being vecna’d and Will has to go inside his head to save him: he goes through the memories, seeing and hearing everything that Mike thinks of him and Will finds out how much Mike truly loves him, has always loved him but was simply too scared to say anything.
Will is determined more now than ever to get his Mike back, nobody is going to make him wait anymore.