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THE FINALE IS HERE!!! OMG I CANT BELIEVE I COMPLETED A FANFIC (Its been a LONG ASS TIME) AND IM SO GLAD THAT IT WAS MY FIRST BYLER FIC. I HOPE YOU ENJOY THE BOYS’ STORY AS MUCH I LOVED WRITING IT!!!

Summary:

Graduation flew by in the blink of an eye and Mike was content about the fact that nothing seems to have changed, sure Dustin and El seemed to be at the cusp of a relationship, Lucas and Max were thinking about moving out of Hawkins, Nancy was taking a break from college and Holly and her friends seems to have completely taken over the basement. But still, Will was with him. Will wasn’t going to change.

You were born into a family of 7. Everyone in that family hates you. You were bullied in school, and your only role model was on television. You survive your 20s on sheer unbridled optimism and a barista's salary. You meet two people who are just like you, who are passionate and cynical and bright minded. One day, you fall in love with an older man who is nothing like you, but he's kind and extraverted, and it's something you have no frame of reference for. You meet your idol. He's not who you thought he'd be. He's the furthest from it that you could possibly imagine. But you love him. Because he's you. He reminds you of the girl you were growing up. Sometimes he's compassionate towards you. Sometimes your now husband is compassionate towards you. You don't know how to respond in either situation. You try to look for reasons to push them away. Your closest friends love you, and you feel so alone.

You were born the youngest of 12. Your mother loves you, but she needs you a little too much. You grow up obsessed with a film about a girl who flies away, a girl who (for better or for worse) comes of age. So then you decide to fly away. You get a job as a strongly independent intern. But then you meet a man. He's deeply flawed, and the way you take care of him reminds you too much of the girl you were growing up. But you see so much good in him, and you spend your time telling yourself that the good outweighs the bad. He has single handedly got you out of the worst situations you have ever found yourself in. And for all your independence, you crave companionship, in any form. The love that anyone feels for you is forever fleeting. You feel so alone.

You were born into a loving family. You meet a beautiful wife in your 20s, and get the best job ever solely by accident. There is no reality other than this. And why would anyone want one? This is perfect. You try so hard to go back to that first era where you were happy, by surrounding yourself with people who agree with you. Your first wife starts to disagree. You don't understand her decision to go into politics, because there is no reality other than this, and why would anyone want one? You break up with her. You have to keep the illusion going, fill that space asap. Your second wife disagrees with you. You meet your third wife on the day your second wife leaves you. Your third wife cares more about the world outside the bubble you've cultivated than your first wife did. But status quo is god. It worked in your dream job, and it's going to work now. Your third wife leaves you. You feel so alone.

Chapters: 1/5 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Will Byers/Mike Wheeler, Maxine “Max” Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair, Eleven | Jane Hopper/Dustin Henderson, Joyce Byers/Jim “Chief” Hopper, Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler, Jonathan Byers & Will Byers, Mike Wheeler & Nancy Wheeler Characters: Mike Wheeler, Will Byers, Lucas Sinclair, Dustin Henderson, Eleven | Jane Hopper, Maxine “Max” Mayfield, Joyce Byers, Karen Wheeler, Jim “Chief” Hopper, Holly Wheeler, Jonathan Byers, Steve Harrington, Nancy Wheeler, Robin Buckley Additional Tags: Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers, Mike Wheeler-centric, Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler, Mike Wheeler Being an Idiot, Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings, Bisexual Mike Wheeler, Siblings Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper, Step-Siblings Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper, Will Byers/Mike Wheeler in Love, Will Byers Can’t Catch a Break, Roleplay, Mike Wheeler Has a Sexuality Crisis, Maxine “Max” Mayfield & Mike Wheeler Friendship, Post-Canon, Post-Stranger Things 5 Finale, Slight Canon Divergence, jane hopper is alive, Fluff and Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Post-Graduation, Mike Wheeler please get your shit together, Mike Wheeler is Whipped, Mike Wheeler is a Mess, Gay Will Byers, Will Byers Deserves Love, Post-Vecna (Stranger Things), Mike Wheeler Angst, First Kiss, Sloppy Makeouts, Shut Up Kiss Summary:

Graduation flew by in the blink of an eye and Mike was content about the fact that nothing seems to have changed, sure Dustin and El seemed to be at the cusp of a relationship, Lucas and Max were thinking about moving out of Hawkins, Nancy was taking a break from college and Holly and her friends seems to have completely taken over the basement. But still, Will was with him. Will wasn’t going to change.

WHAT THEY ARE AND HOW TO SPOT THEM

okay, I thought I should make this post since there has been an influx of scammers plaguing AO3 comments section and people are falling victims to them. so here it is;

WHAT THEY ARE

so far, there are three main types of these scam bots

bots that tell you AO3 is deleting works, and that you should delete the works yourself because your entire account will be affected if your works get deleted by AO3

bots that tell you your works are terrible

bots that tell you they want to draw comic panels from your works

ALL OF THESE ARE SCAM WITH MALICE INTENTIONS

bots that tell you AO3 is deleting works, and that you should delete the works yourself because your entire account will be affected if your works get deleted by AO3 are just trying to get you to delete your works, most certainly because they want to steal and/or use your works to train their AI and, once you delete your works, it becomes extremely difficult, almost impossible for you to claim ownership of your works when the original works have been deleted. AO3 IS NOT DELETING ANY WORKS.

bots that tell you your works are terrible are also just trying to get you to delete your works, most certainly because they want to steal and/or use your works to train their AI and, once you delete your works, it becomes extremely difficult, almost impossible for you to claim ownership of your works when the original works have been deleted. (more examples here and here)

bots that tell you they want to draw comic panels from your works are trying to hack your password, personal data and credit card information (they will say they see potentials in your work and are interested in drawing comic panels from it, and then they will ask you to discuss this with them on discord where you will have to pay/commission them for the “comics” you will never get, but you will get your password hacked, personal data and credit card information breached and stolen instead, do not fall for them).

HOW TO SPOT THEM

what all these 3 types of bots have in common is that;

most of them (keyword, most, not all) are guest users or empty accounts that have just been recently created.

their comments are all the same copied and pasted scripts that they mass leave on lots of authors’ works at random.

their comments are all vague, in the sense that there will be no mention of any specific characters’ names, no mention of any specific scenes or events from your works (granted, they need to be vague because they are bots, they never actually read your works, and they have to be able to use the same comments on other writers’ works too).

EDIT: I’ve been told they got “smarter” and are now mentioning characters by names and also specific scenes from the story. Most definitely because they ran your fic through AI and let AI write comments for them. So basically, if a comment, from someone you don’t know, ends in something along the lines of “I’d like to draw a comic panel about this”, “can we chat on discord (or anywhere outside of ao3)” or anything that’d require your email or other personal information, always assume that it’s 90% a scam.

report them for spam then delete their comments when/if you get them.

please spread this if you can. us writers gotta look out for each other. stay safe, everybody ♡

EDIT (Dec 10, 2025): NEW TYPE OF BOTS WHO THREATEN PEOPLE WITH LEGAL ACTIONS

EDIT (Dec 15, 2025): BOTS IMPERSONATING LEGIT USERS, WITH REGISTERED ACCOUNTS, BY USING THESE LEGIT USERS’ AO3 NAMES AS THEIR GUEST-USER NAMES IN THEIR GUEST COMMENTS

EDIT (Dec 22, 2025): BOTS PROMOTING THEIR APP/PROGRAM AND ACTING AS AN AD (WHICH I BELIEVE IS AGAINST AO3’S POLICIES) ON COMMENTS SECTION

The concept of Hopper having to learn how to be a father to two sons after having two daughters.

The concept of Will telling his college friends that he's a twin, and showing them pictures of Jane, forever frozen at 16, and them telling him they see the resemblance.

The concept of Jonathan getting Will back, but still mourning a younger sibling in the end.

The concept of the Hopper-Byers family never getting to live all together under one roof.

The concept of Will’s college friends joking about how everyone in Will’s family has a name starting with J except for him, and him having to resist saying that his sister also had another name that sounded similar to his own.

The concept of Hopper seeing Will huddled asleep in Jane's old room one night and just seeing Jane for a second.

The concept of Jonathan making a film about overcoming abuse and dedicating it to Jane.