Byler Headcanons ✧・゚: *✧・゚:*
Mike's the "flirsts a lot, but gets easily flustered when the flirting turns on to him" boyfriend, which,, happens a lot. He flirts with Will a lot (it's stupidly cheesy, but Will finds it endearing.) But most of the time Will turns it back onto him and he melts instantly.
Mike: Hey, how's the most beautiful and gorgeous person doing? ;)
Will: Idk how are you doing? :D
Mike (Flustered): F-fine.
The cheesy pick ups line don't work on Will, cause he loses it everytime. (He thinks they're too stupidly funny to take it seriously.) But what DOES get him is when Mike just casually says the most romantic shit ever and it drives him up the wall everytime.
They'll just be cuddling, watching a movie together, and Mike will stare at him which prompts Will to go "what's wrong?" Amused.
And Mike will just say "The movie's kinda boring, you're prettier to stare at :]" with a soft smile and Will just loses it, going red.
Mike's the clingy boyfriend. (Argue with a wall.)
They leave each other little post-it notes. Mike writes short little poems while Will gives him tiny doodles of him.
They are each other's MUSES!!!
Will likes drawing Mike. He asks Mike to pose for him so he can sketch him out, and it makes Mike melt inside cause Will always draws him so prettily.
Mike, flustered, with his hair in a ponytail: Will, there's plenty of things to draw-
Will: shushh you're moving too much >:<
They are both clumsy af. Will just hides it better.
They'll be hanging out with the party, it's like winter so there's a thin layer of ice on the ground. Mike's like "oh I have to go now, Holly needs me for smth." He says goodbye to everyone, walks for a bit, slips on ice and falls backwards.
Everyone shouts in concern, Will runs for him like "Omg Mike are you okay?? " while everyone shouts are him like "Will wait!!"
So he slips on ice, falling face first on the ground right next to Mike.
Dustin and Max are laughing so hard, they fall on ground, Lucas's face palming so hard and El is giggling silently at their ridiculousness.
They go for each other whenever one of them is in artblock/writerblock. It's perfect cause Will listens to Mike's rambling and gets inspiration for an artpiece and Mike sees Will's doodles and gets motiovation to write a short story.
When they decided to come out to Joyce, she was so overjoyed he pulled them both into a bear hug with a "Yes!! I'm so happy!!"
They were a bit nervous when it came to telling Johnathan (mostly Mike) but Johnathan just gave them a soft encouraging smile with an eye roll "Finally, omg you two took so long."
When they decided to tell the party.
Lucas let out the biggest gasp going "OMG IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE NOW-" while sporting the most giddy grin.
Dustin's mouth was wide open like "Omg omg holy shit, WHAT WHY DIDN'T I NOTICE-"
Max scoffed while letting out a sigh "Omgg finally I thought you two were gonna wait until i was 80."
Ell let out an amused giggle since she already knew. (They already came out to Ell after Johnathan, she gave them a comforting smile saying "I'm happy for you too.)
They went out for ice cream after.
(El and Mike had a talk after they came out, Mike apologized for not being able to love her like she wanted him to, and Ell told him that maybe she didn't love him that way either, she didn't even know what love was at the time. They were just kids trying to figure everything out. Anyways platonic Elmike Solos.)
Will encourages Mike to talk about his feelings/struggles more instead of just burying them deep down until it explodes. Will knows that Mike struggles with expressing his feelings and tends to hide his struggles so he asks him gently and lets him rant out to him.
Whenever Will has a flashback, Mike will bring him downstairs, cover him in a pile of soft blankets, make him hot choco and turn on a movie. And he pulls Will in for a comforting hug. He doesn't push Will to talk unless it's really bad other then that he waits for Will to talk to him instead.
This one time at a Wheeler dinner, Ted made an off hand comment about Mike being insufferable blah blah. Will was there and he was not happy with that. The next morning they found his car's tires flat so he had to take a bus to work. Mike asks Will about this, but Will shrugs and goes "Hmm I have no idea what you're talking about (◍•ᴗ•◍)"
They are the most insufferable couple ever according to the party. No, these two do not know what personal space is. Lucas says "Idk why I haven't noticed it sooner." With a tired grin, but he's really happy for them.
Mike jokes about how Hopper's gonna be totally pissed at him dating another one of his kids. They come out to Hopper and he goes "Oh really?? Hmm alright. I'm happy you guys told me. " He fatherly claps Mike on the shoulder and says "I'm happy for you kid." With a soft smile. And Mike was so shock he didn't speak for 2 hours. Will laughs at Hopper about how he just broke his boyfriend.
Later Hopper pulls Will aside telling him that he was so happy Will trusted him enough to tell this, and he promised Will that he will always support him no matter what. Will was close to sobbing and tackles Hopper into a hug.
Mike was more or less hesitant on telling Nancy, it's not like he doesn't trust her, it's just-he doesn't think they're close enough yet. Will says that it's okay if he isn't ready yet.
When Mike DOES tell Nancy, her eyes widened then she solfly asks Mike how many people knew about this. He tells her that they already told Joyce, Hopper, Johnathan and the party. And if Nancy is somewhat disappointed Mike didn't come to her first, she doesn't show it. She holds Mike's hands, which are shaking slightly and says
"I'm so happy that you're telling me this, Mike. It must've been so hard for you to deal with this on your own, and I'm sorry I haven't been there for you, to support you like I should've. I haven't been that great of a sister, I hope you can forguve for that." She finishes teary eyed.
There are tears dripping down Mike's face, he wipes them with his sleeves, sniffling. "I'm sorry for being a bad brother, too. I should've been there for you too." He hiccups, trying not to cry more. Nancy shushes him, petting his hair.
"No, no, it's okay I shouldn't have pushed you away, you were trying to reach out and I ignored you until it was too late. I regret that everyday, but we all make mistakes and that's okay. Now I'm here for you, and we'll be there for each other now on, is that a promise?" She says softly. She reaches a pinky out, a sign of promise, the one they used to do when they were kids. Mike nodds and pulls her into a big hug.
"Mike! Come on you're gonna make me cry,,,." She says tears running down her face, but it's tears of joy, relief. They're not fully repaired yet, but they're getting there. And they'll get there together.
Will's allergic to flowers. Mike doesn't know this though for some reason. So when he decides to give Will a bouquet one day, he gets a face full of petals right back at him. Will couldn't stop sneezing for the rest of the day.
Anyways that's a wrap. I might do a part 2?? They're just so cute I couldn't help myself.







