#chessler

And so when will plays his first match against mike, this alleged champion who’s name he’s never heard of, he does it again, and he stares into his eyes, expecting him to get fidgety and paranoid, but instead, mike just slowly moves his piece and whispers in this incredibly seductive voice “your move.” just two words, and he mimic’s will’s pose and then will is the one who’s flustered and he just taps his fingers on the table not knowing what move to make, and eventually after 50 more moves, he’s in a terrible position, stuck in a Zugzwang, and he will definitely lose, will, the youngest IM, soon to be GM, is going to lose against mister pretty boy, and so he pushes his king down onto the board, and offers his hand to mike

And now he wants to find out more about the guy he just lost to for the first time

chessler is chess rivals au byler

Cowbyler is western au byler

aww tyysmm <333

i was inspired by the queens gambit! i rewatched it after pretty long and i realized how deep i buried my chess nerd

ALSO SORRY FOR REPLYING SO LATE 😭 i wanted to make a doodle for u but then i forgot to reply to this 💔

i say this everytime, but, zoom for higher quality :)

the two demons sitting on his shoulder be like:

YEEESSS TWIN! i am currently editing this post and typing it as i speak, u gotta wait a little while tho because i type VERY slowly 😭

anyway, edited:

not sure if ur seeing this so il tag you! @gh0stgirlzz

context for other people (very summarised): will and mike are chess rivals, mike invited will to a bar to hangout the day before will’s match, theyre both drunk but will is INCREDIBLY drunk, mike takes him to his hotel room, a drunk will kisses mike they makeout do gay shit blah blah and will doesn’t remember anything the next day

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OK TWIN so you already saw the part where will got drunk kissed mike and stuff blah blah and then he wakes up the next day he doesn’t remember shit and so i thought that one of two things could happen (i havent formed a proper plan for the fic ahem im just winging it 💔💔)

Will can wake up the next day, see mike and be like hey why is he here? And he remembered that mike invited him to the bar and he assumes that he was probably just too drunk and mike brought him back and he asleep and stuff (mm you guys DEFINITELY didnt sleep.) and so he just quickly grabs a coat and his watch because he’s late for his match but before leaving he goes upto mike and ruffles his hair a little and a small smile spreads across his face and HERE there are two possibilities (damn is this inception or what 😭 )

> NOW, option one is that he doesnt see the hickeys, but he later realises that he’s the culprit, gets distracted, loses the match

> Option TWO, he sees the hickeys on mike’s neck (that HE left behind, he doesnt know it yet lol) and theres ANOTHER two options from here oh god this is DEFINITELY some nolan type shit

He IMMEDIATELY realises that HE’S the one who did that to mike and he will go into a SPIRAL for the rest of the day and it will also affect him a lot during his match, he’s gonna remain distracted and possibly lose/draw

Or he assumes that the hickeys were by a GIRL. and he still goes into a spiral because obviously its been a while and the owl has definitely fallen for the crow (il explain, mike is popularly called “the crow” by the media, and will is called “the owl” just for fun :D), but now his heart has just shattered completely, and obviously he loses the match and all he can think about is mike for the next couple of days

See, whatever happens, i need will to lose today’s match, it gonna play an important part since the game itself was pretty important, what a great move to get incredibly drunk the night before, but i guess if beth harmon can do it, so can will

I definitely want to go for the mike-got-attacked-by-a-girl-when-he-was-drunk option because oh my lord its gonna cause so much drama between the two of them and i also wanna make mike try and cover up the hickeys with help from a certain someone (cue madmax), because even HE thinks that it was just a spur-of-the-moment thing and that will doest like him at all and he was just drunk and blah blah (yearn white boy.) and i MAYBE wanna put max on both sides? madwise and madwheeler so she gets to see both sides of this whole thing but ill see what i wanna do, and will is just omg-mike-is-straight-wtf-was-i-thinking-im-so-stupid type shi (will im so sorry 😭)

but you tell me which option you like :)

i have even more ideas but this is all for now hehe

If i make more posts themed to chess-byler, theyre under the tag chessler and also mj yaps chess! (i need to go and edit the posts to add these tags tho 🥀)

kind of want this fic to be dark academia or old money, sort of inspired by the secret history (although it was less dark academia and more pop culture since i mean it WAS SET in 1980s england 😭 long live judy poovey), but at the same time i really want it to be more retro like the actual stranger things show but dark academia is just calling my name 😭