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this is everything i didn’t say (from all the letters that i’ve saved) by BKGOROKI
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 May 2026
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Mike Wheeler keeps a diary that’s written in the POV of his Dungeons & Dragons character Mike the Brave after he gets flayed by Vecna and was outed via his crush on Will, so he uses it as a form of self-therapy and working through his own trauma and internalized-homophobia. However, that’s not all, as he’s begun to add more direct poems, songs, and letters for Will as he gains more self-esteem.
Will Byers, who was afraid of this exact thing happening to himself, had come out to everyone just prior to saving them from Vecna. And with Mike’s tense familial issues arising shortly after the events of what happened because of it — he spared Mike a little by not addressing the crush directly so soon after, and gave him the space to come to terms with himself first.
However, now a semester into College, they still have yet to talk despite being roommates together at NYU because of just how intense things had been the year prior. And one day Will finds Mike’s journal, thinking at first glance it was just short-stories of his D&D Character. Surely Mike wouldn’t mind, right?
He reads all of it, and realizes it’s everything Mike has ever wanted to and has struggled to say to him.
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