wheeler siblings for the win

stranger things headcanons mostly mike wheeler centered >>this is a sideblog<<

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this is @shadowyyyidk btw

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came across a picture of little mike's actor wearing glasses and i'm thinking thoughts. baby mike had mild myopia and the ophthalmologist suggested he get glasses so that his power doesn't worsen. over time though, mike just didn't like wearing glasses, and stopped using them altogether. post vecna, max forces him to get an eye test done when he goes along with her to the hospital for her routine checkups. anyway, that's how they find out mike's myopia has worsened and now, he has to wear his glasses full time. over time, his myopia gets corrected and he develops farsightedness and now, every time he wants to read, he needs his silly glasses. oh, and he keeps losing them all the friggin time

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wheeler family relatives coming over for dinner never goes well for any of them. karen is stuck in the kitchen cooking up the most perfect meals, only for her mother or some sister or brother or someone else to complain about how it lacked flavour. nancy is always asked if she has a new boyfriend, and what she is going to do after school. the older folks berate her and make fun of her when she says she wants to become a journalist. mike who gets asked what he's been upto lately, enthusiastically starts telling them about some new story he's been reading, or some new things that he's been upto with the party only for the entire table to have turned away from him and gossiping about whatever. baby holly would get passed around like a toy while she's crying, and karen has to rush to grab her out of their hands and pacify her. meanwhile ted would not give a shit and he'd not try helping out his family, instead he encourages the conversation, adding fuel to their badmouthing. at the end of the night, nancy and mike are locked up in their rooms, baby holly is asleep, karen is cleaning up with no help whatsoever from ted, who's dozing off on the la-z-boy

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little mike would sneak into nancy's room at nights for no particular reason. they'd both sit on her bed and taunt each other, talk about nothing coherent and maybe trade stupid stories, fight a little bit, and then get mad at each other. after a while, mike would get sleepy, and he'd go off to his room. now, nancy has no idea if mike even remembers any of it, but she thinks back to it fondly.

mike does remember and he misses hanging out with nancy

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mike wheeler would be a nail biter. a bad habit that karen tried to stop when he was little, but it only got worse with his anxiety. sometimes he'd be sitting on his desk, legs shaking, eyes dilated as he stares into nothing, with his nails to his mouth. his nails always have the chew marks, and his fingertips always red with the blood beneath

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dustin would so totally be a physics major. he’d also take up introductory calculus courses cuz he wants to explore it, and would end up LOVING it. and then i’m sure he’d end up taking more math courses cuz why not. he’d be more into algebra than analysis though i think. anyway, he’d still be a physics major cuz that’s the vibe he gives off i can’t explain it. maybe he’d get a double physics and math major but considering that’s like super duper hard, maybe he’d ends up minoring in math. he’d also most definitely explore bio-ish courses cuz they seem fun. like biomechanics. cool stuff.

alright. that’s it

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if the party were teens in the present day, max would absolutely love to ragebait dustin with shitty tiktoks that are either factually just wrong or just real annoying stuff like that little john got a new house in new york-

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Mike: Why does everyone always assume the worst of me? Max: It saves time

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Lucas: Mike, no Mike: Mike, yes Nancy: Mike, no Mike: Mike, yes Will: Mike, no Mike: Mike, no

he's so whipped for will

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Max: Your existence is confusing Mike: How so? Max: Your presence is annoying, but the thought of you getting hurt upsets me

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Mike: How did you know I was going to propose? Will: You haven't been able to look me in the eye without crying the entire month. EVEN NOW

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Lucas: If I say ‘I love you,’ will you say it back?

Max: Duh

Lucas: I love you

Max: It back

Lucas:

Lucas: (starts crying)

Max: NO NO NO I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I’M SORRY I LOVE YOU

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Will: Is something burning? Mike: Only my love for you Will: MIKE, THE TOASTER'S ON FIRE

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grown up mike and will, if they go to different cities for work related meetings, mike writes letters to will wherever he is like his husband was sent off to war and he hasn’t seen him in 8 dreadfully long months. oh and he adds the cutest stamps he can find. will loves the letters mike writes to him and saves them all in a box and looks through them every time he’s sad

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miwi sleepovers where they’d share a blanket is just will sleeping still, a calm peaceful expression on his face while mike’s just everywhere with his side of the blanket off, drooling all over, and moving all over the bed with the most obnoxious sleeping positions you could possibly think of

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mike is in no way an artist. but when he was little, he used to doodle random, new ideas that popped into his head about the party's d&d campaigns, and he'd show them to will and only will. will would draw inspiration from mike's little widdle doodles, and the two of them made more elaborate stories.

now, will has a box of cutouts of all of mike's doodles that he managed to have mike give him after each school year.

and so really, mike has a binder of will's drawings, and will has a box of mike's old doodles

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Jonathan: Where are you going? Nancy: To get ice cream or to commit a felony, I’ll decide on the way there Jonathan: Jonathan: I’m going with you, it’s a date 🥰