#shiftingfics

Here's the fanart that inspired me to write some scenes in "a footnote will do" in July 2022- December 2023.

In order used of appearance in the fic:

From @kidovna:

Mike ending on a busy line while will was away in lenora:

Will's vision under vecna's curse:

Kidovna's flickergate:

Byler on halloween 1987:

From @taeiris :

Meeting with the party to arrange the plan for the ud entrance and their final movements:

Vined Will byers, vision of Mike:

Mike's vision of possesed/ intoxicated Will:

From @meowza315:

Mike getting cursed by Vecna:

Thats it! I was supposed to post this about half a year ago, but legit just noticed it in my drafts and found it as an opportunity to thank everyone for inspiring me to write this 121k word long fic.

It really travelled with me through hell but im fr happy to have ended it and not just abbadoned it in the middle of nowhere lol.

Hope u enjoy it if you havent read it already <33

PART ONE:

Will byers is not the only one to hide a secret. His friend, Mike Wheeler does too. Little did he know a series of murders happening in Hawkins, his hometown far away from home/Lenora, would be linked to his one of his closest friends there. In this universe, Will Byers faces the consequences of being bitten by a radioactive spider in the upside down, along with a masked murderer under the influence of something greater. Something that impacted both if not all of them.

This story is a 12 chapter- fic set in a spiderman au. Will byers obtained those powers in an incident happeni in summer of 1985, and with this influence he gets to well- be spiderman. Mike and Will are distant, since I followed some canon plot in this story to add suspense.

And that suspense increases the more you read it. The best thing is, no matter what happens at anytime, were all human, with no powers and no weapons. We just have ourselves at the end of the day.

This complete work contains about 30k words, and has 12 chapters. Wrote it in February - April of 2023. The first scene I wrote was the finale.

PART TWO:

Leave no trace behind: you won't even exist

Shiftingfics

Summary:

Two years after retuning to Hawkins, Will Byers has to face yet another unknown threat. But the unknown, this time, doesn't mean it's unfamiliar.

Chills went up and down his spine once he realized Mike Wheeler wasn't around anymore. The fog flooded the place, making his eyesight even worse. He blinked, several times, only to just wake up to a nightmare far worse...   "I'm so sorry, Will..."

And this time, Mike Wheeler was just part of it.

(art by @grapefruitart and @kidovna)

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Mike wheeler has to face the facts. Despite Vecna's curse killing victims in Hawkins one by one, he finds himself in California, Lenora, only to find a complex situation with Will. This day is one that will change everything....

A canon compliant fic that starts in season 4 of stranger things and follows both Mike and Will's prospectives from Lenora all the way to a destroyed, apocalyptic Hawkins after the four gates of those victims collided.

The story is split in two parts:

Part one: The best spring break ever

After the terrible shooting, and Will thinking everything was his fault, Mike tries to approach him, even try to get a word from him. But will doesn't talk- he won't talk. He's mad at himself for everything.

All changes when Mike spits out that one lie he never meant. A lie that stigmatized Will for ages.

Part two: This is the end(?)

A year later. There was an attack on Halloween - called the crawl- that forces both mike and will to come closer to each other after drifting away for a long while. The Hawkins crew now has to protect their hometown from demo creatures by completing night shifts out in the wild, specifically by checking areas that are abandoned and in a non-quarantined zone. Little did they know that in one of them affected Will in a way that can't be deceived. Little did they know that this shift would change everything not even four days later.

The finished story contains 29 chapters and about 120k words. Hope you enjoy <3

When Will woke up again, the sun had already risen a bit. He assumed it was about six am, after bringing himself back to the reality he lived in. Confused from what he already faced, he checked his surroundings to make sure he was alive, and actually there.

The roof was empty and quiet. There were no screams, no running, not anything. He got up and tried to walk back inside, to see if Fred was there. Even though he was in extreme pain still and he just witnessed awfully horrible things, he hoped he was still alive.

He pushed the door, but it only opened about three inches; something was blocking it.

He pushed once more. And then froze in place due to the view he came by.

Fred's body was unrecognisable. It wasn't even considered a body anymore. It was a mass of broken bones, flesh and poked eyes outside their sockets. The skin was rotten, and the clothes were ripped due to the bone replacement. The only thing that stayed in place was the scar and the glasses.

Without knowing, Will made a few steps back, and he puked so much that blood came out of his guts.

He didn't know how much time passed. He didn't know if the Wheelers already woke up, if they noticed he wasn't there anymore. He didn't care at that time. He only wanted this to be over.

The police alarm was ringing from the other side of the block. Will waited there, relieved that someone was to appear, giving a sense of normality.

"Did you witness anything else before passing out? Like where the killer might have gone?" Chief Powell asked. Only then did Will realise he revealed part of the truth to the authorities, not the whole thing.

"Uh, no. I'm sorry." He replied with hesitation. Before passing out, the only thing he could bring up was Ghostface's mask and a rock. Nothing else.

As the chief headed to his team that was examining the body, he shooted a web on the nearest building and started swinging back home.

A small part of my fanfic "Leave no trace behind" (shiftingfics on ao3).