*shared looks*

college will byers with a shaggy uneven mullet that he cut himself, nose ring, eyebrow piercing, and a cut up the cure t-shirt sitting on the couch smoking a cigarette in his lesbian best friend's tiny ass NYC apartment while getting his third tattoo done by a hot alt dude with crazy dyed hair that he's been casually hooking up with. he shows up to the byers-wheeler family christmas that year in all of said regalia and mike (who has become an alcoholic a year into college) is so horrifically attracted to him that he goes to the bathroom and throws up all of the spiked eggnog he drank in order to prepare for the event

this is one of my favorite head canons i wish i read in fic more often. established relationship and they just share looks of silent communication/judgement 24/7. i know they functioning on the same brain wavelengths all the time— that’s like half of what makes them the best ship in the show😭

if someone asks me my fav show i literally cant answer with stranger things bc its not even my fav show the idea of it is my fav show

“stranger things but like in the byler way. you know what i mean?”