Everyone is bisexual except Will, who is gay; Bob is straight, but a great ally; Barb is gay, and though Nancy is her first gay crush outside of celebrities, she goes on to marry another woman and she keeps all of the letters and postcards Nancy sends to her from all over the country as she travels killing monsters with her poly girlfriend and boyfriends.
Mike is scared to death he’s going to cheat on El with Will because whenever he and Will are alone he gets the feeling Will wants to kiss him and one day at the Byers Will seems about to tell him something when El walks in and she finally blurts out, “Did he tell you yet?” and Mike is like “What?” and Will is like “No,” and El almost rolls her eyes but explains what she meant and Mike’s ears are so fucking red.
Dustin marries a guy from college and they adopt two kids together. Lucas and Max get married in their 30s and they have one daughter. El and Mike and Will adopt, and end up with three kids, four dogs, one cat, and a revolving door of fosters.
Nancy, Steve, Kali, and Jonathan never have kids, but Steve somehow keeps finding stray animals that they take care of for a while before rehoming, and one day Nancy of all people finds a stray kitten and is like “Okay, this is a sign,” and they end up adopting like four cats and a dog by six years from this point, and are living in the Colorado mountains where Jonathan makes a fortune in his photography. Kali is a jack-of-all-trades, and never settles on one job long, but she loves being a hair stylist and makeup artist the most as she gets older. Nancy is a paramedic, then a nurse, then decides to go to veterinary school. Steve works at a lot of bars over the years, and a mechanic sometimes (bartender still part-time) before he owns his own garage in his 30s. Jonathan ends up writing a memoir about the four of them in his 40s that he never gets published. El gets the second copy of the final draft, after Nancy, who was his editor through most of it.