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This sketches has been around for six months now, I'm finally posting it 💀

Was drawn based on this post!!

So my updated take on these looks is another mwtfdydgate, where Mike is still closeted but does some gay shit, and Will 18 months later (thanks to Robin) can tell perfectly well when Mike does. So they’re not canon yet, and that’s why Mike cries at the end, thinking that Will won’t ever be his, while Will’s working on the strategy for moving Mike from brushes of his knees and elbows to aggressively and possessively making out in bathrooms of all their friends. (They’ll be alright and endgame by the very same evening.)

"Woah. Will, this is incledible! The lines are so clean… She looks like El. Seriously, man, this is mental. I didn't know you could do realism like this."

"I'm happy, you liked it, Mike."

"But... Why did you draw El?"

"I mean, she has to hide all the time, and you don't see each other much… And you won't in the near future… You must miss her a lot."

"Right. I miss her a lot."

"Mike?"

"Yeah?"

"Why do you look kinda... Dissapointed?"

"I'm not 'dissapointed'. Sorry. Your present is very cool, I really liked it... But... This is stupid."

"What? You know, you can tell me."

"You've given me D&D art like... every single year since kindergarten. So getting something else now feels… unsetteling, I guess?"

"Oh. I have some D&D drawings in my scetchbook. You can pick one as a bonus birthday present. If you'd like."

And that's how Mike ends up with a drawing of Will the Wise spellcasting in a flower garden, flowers drifting and swirling around him.

summary:

It's Mike Wheeler's first day of sophomore year at Hawkins High, and he's completely, terrifyingly alone. Eleven has broken up with him, and he hasn't seen his friends all summer. His world is crumbling around him, and he doesn't care enough to stop it.

Until his English teacher sets an assignment to write a retelling of Romeo and Juliet - and his project partner is his ex-best friend, William Byers, the boy his world once revolved around.

or,

Mike Wheeler and Will Byers write a self-insert superhero comic book together about doomed, forbidden lovers and realise that they are also doomed, forbidden lovers.