In one of their summer 1989 campaigns, Mike includes a mysterious, recurring NPC. A male tower guard who appears to be interested in Will. Will is a little apprehensive and confused at first, but Lucas, Dustin, and Max are very much intrigued.
Relationships: Will Byers/Mike Wheeler, Jonathan Byers/Steve Harrington, Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler, Eleven | Jane Hopper/Maxine “Max” Mayfield, Joyce Byers/Jim “Chief” Hopper, Minor or Background Relationship(s), mostly just some Lumax crumbs, The Party & The Party (Stranger Things)
Additional Tags: Fake/Pretend Relationship, Dungeons & Dragons References, First Kiss, Pining, pining even after you’re making out with the person you’re in love with, Bullying, Homophobia, Happy Ending, everyone in Hawkins is gay should be a canonical tag, Explicit in later chapters, Podfic, Podfic Length: 20-30 Minutes, Audio Format: MP3, Audio Format: Streaming, Audio Format: Download, Getting Together, Post-Canon, Canon Compliant, Boys In Love, Boys Kissing, Fluff, Summer of 1989, Coming Out, not Will’s ;), Internalized Homophobia, Gay Mike Wheeler, Mutual Pining, Slow Burn, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler, Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers, Mileven broke up after they returned from California in this (because there is literally no proof they didn’t), mwtfdydgate, POV Will Byers, Mike Wheeler is Down Bad, Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings, so he communicates everything through DnD, Will Byers/Mike Wheeler in Love, First Love, Idiots in Love, Friends to Lovers, Childhood Friends to Lovers, byler, The Party Friendship (Stranger Things), Banter, like SO MUCH banter okay I need this to cope, Sharing a Bed, Flirting, Awkward Flirting, Platonic Madwheeler, platonic Madwise, platonic byclair, All the platonic friendships in the Party really, Cleradin crumbs if you squint, Nerdy Flirting, I need this to be an official tag actually, please spread the nerdy flirting agenda, “Mike would explore”, indeed he would he does and he has been