#random headcanon

and it's not random, i promise!!

(just a warning: we're completely ignoring s5 ever happened, okay?)

it's a good few weeks after the ground split open, and hawkins is slowly trying to return to normal. the og party (sans will and lucas) is still facing stigma for the hellfire thing and mike has it the worst.

i mean, come on. dude grew his hair out, painted his nails black, started wearing those tight jeans and was just overall acting like more of a freak than dustin. that's like, HUGE bullying material.

and it's NOT the basketball guys (they were disney bullies in the show and i can't see them as anything more than that), it's troy and james, who were like the only real representation of bullies in the show.

anyway, mike OBVIOUSLY hides all of this from the others, but they suspect that something's wrong. they just assume (because of dustin) that it must be something to do with Eddie's death.

so one day, while will and mike are sent out to get supplies from the store, they see a bunch of people just standing around near the theater thing (yes yes jancy parallel) and so naturally, they decide to check it out.

and oh boy. spray painted onto the board are the words 'michael 'the f*g*ot' wheeler'

and mike is just standing there staring at the writing, and he's panicking because this is bad and will wasn't supposed to see this and he'll hate me now.

and will is absolutely seething. he's seeing red. he wants blood and he wants it NOW. they hear laughter coming from an alley and will doesn't even wait, he just strides into the alley like he absolutely owns it and with his sister's signature head flick he's like 'TROY!'

troy turns around, mid-laugh, only to punched square on the nose by none other than will byers!! and will doesn't stop there (his brother is jonathan, come on. you beat he taught him how to fight), he just. grabs troy by the collar and just starts pummeling him into the ground. just continuously punching and punching and punching until troy is a whimpering mess on the ground (he's not even trying to fight back, that pathetic piece of shit)

and mike is just standing there, doing nothing but blink for a full minute because holy shit that's so HOT!! hothothothot-

will pauses for exactly two seconds and troy takes them to scramble up and book it out of there and will is like, still angry. he wants to run after him, he wants to kill-

he turns around to see mike and this boy is so fucking gone he just blurts out 'i love you!' to his face and will just. grabs him by wrist, drags him back home, down the stairs, into the basement. he locks the door and then pushes mike against it and then KISSES HIM SENSELESS!!!!

and obviously they start dating, and they're like, the cheesiest couple to ever exist on the planet and when vecna finally shows his ugly face again, they defeat him with the power of gay.

end of story.