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bylerschmyler · 1 year

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Mike - Vecna's 4th victim

I know that many people believe that Mike was a tool for Vecna to get Will and El back or that he waited for Mike to be gone to California. I have a pretty different perspective on this and I want to share my thoughts about this. I just gonna warn you that this post will be quite long but I would appreciate it if you take your time to read it.

For the tool-theory and waiting to be gone-theory I have two simple reasons why I don't think that they are correct.

When Vecna kills Chrissy Mike is still in Hawkins. He doesn't wait for Mike to be gone/sitting in the car/plane and traveling to California. Vecna kills her mere hours before Mike had no possibility to interfere with him. It's not only that Vecna kills Chrissy, no he kills her in close proximity to Max who could have been more suspicious about Eddie, Chrissy and the lights and could have called a CODE RED, which would have led to Mike not going to California. So if he wanted Mike to go to California (either for him to be gone or to get El/Will back) why would he jeopardize this mission by being too impatient?

If Vecna wanted Mike out of the way why didn't he just kill him? I mean we can all agree that pre S4 Mike already has a massive amount of trauma. So if he needs Mike out of the way he could have just cursed him too, couldn't he? There was nobody to stop him from doing it. El? Out of the picture. No powers and too far away. Mike? Wouldn't be able to help himself during a trance. The Party? If they don't know what is coming, how would they prevent it?

So I think Mike wasn't a tool for Vecna. He was a perfect fit for a far more important role.

He was the Chosen one, the fourth, the final sacrifice.

But before we are going to discuss Mike's role in Vecna's plan in detail, let's take a step back and take a look in the things that actually happened in S4.

Specifically everything that has to do with Patrick and his curse. Because there are so many things wrong with Patricks curse.

First of all Patrick doesn't fit the other victims. Timing wise as well as in his trauma and our connection to him and his connection to other characters on the show.

Timing

Patrick is the only victim that we see getting cursed. This happens on the March 23rd (sunday) at some point during the day (morning or noon I guess). (here the scene where he gets cursed)

This is in direct contrast to the timeline which is presented by Max. For further explanation this is also March 23rd but late in the evening.

So let me get this straight.

Chrissy's curse started a week ago (approximately week = seven days. I made this post where I found a specific date when Chrissy's symptoms started and they are not adding up. But I think it's because it's meant to be not the curse itself that's coursing these symptoms but something else which I will talk about in another post)

Fred's started six days ago

Max's five days ago

And Patrick just that morning (basically one day ago)?

In no way this is supposed to happen. What was the reason? Did Vecna forget to curse Patrick four days ago? Or couldn't he decide who to curse 4 days prior?

Well the most logical reason (imo) is that his actual target can't be targeted. And we do know one character who was in Hawkins and left during the season. And that's Mike. But this is not the only reason Patricks timing is off.

With Patrick being cursed there is a change in the way the curse works for Max and him in comparison to Fred and Chrissy. I won't go too much in to the details but here are some observations.

Chrissy and Fred both have 3 visions that are heavily paralleling each other.

Their 1. vision is related to the people around them. Chrissy thinks that Max is still in the room when the pounding on the bathroom stall starts. Then she hears her mothers voice and Vecna's feed come into vision. Her mothers voice get distorted soon after and Vecna's voice fades in.

Freds first vision is also directly connected to a conversations he is having with Officer Daniels. Daniels also fades in to Vecna. His face and his voice.

The second vision is the grandfather clock. But a very creepy version.

With Chrissy it's spiders with Fred it's people turning into Vecna calling him murderer.

The third vision is there death and relieving their nightmare.

Both die on the end of their 5th day of being cursed. Their visions start during the day and the day ends with their death.

In contrast to this Max curse is put off this timing. Max visions start on the end of her 5th day of being cursed and she has 3 visions with different themes than Fred and Chrissy.

Max's 1. vision is the grandfather clock. But it's only the creepy grandfather clock. No spiders and no link to Max's trauma.

Her 2nd vision is like Fred’s and Chrissy’s 1st vision a person who fades into Vecna.

her 3rd vision is supposed to be her death which she can escape from.

She has a 4th vision where she actually dies.

Patrick only has one vision we see and one that is implied but we don’t see at all. His first vision is the clock during Chrissy’s funeral.

the other would have been when he dies but we don’t see the vision.

Timing wise this implicates the scenario that Patricks’s cursing throws the timeline off schedule because we see a clear pattern before he was cursed which is thrown off the second Vecna targets him. So likely the original schedule would have targeted Max on the 23rd and the 4th victim on the 24th.

Lack of imagery and missing build up

His trauma, connection to other characters and the connection we build to him is also off. While most of it is due to the lack of imagery regarding him but also to the fact that we have a build up in this topics that Patrick is reversing.

I don’t really want to order the trauma of Vecna’s victims in terms of severity because I firmly believe that any trauma should be addressed and recognised and you shouldn’t compare trauma (unless you’re a therapist) because this kind of invalidates the people with “less severe” trauma. But when we talk about Patrick’s trauma we only have two clues about what it is because we don’t see visions that are related to his trauma. The first one is when he gets cursed (here). A man, likely his father, calls him a disgrace. Lucas also tells us that Patrick came to practice with a black eye once.

This implicates that Patrick is also a victim of domestic abuse (like Chrissy) What I find interesting is that this creates a circle of trauma themes.

(I want to emphasize that between Fred and Max there is a build up because Fred has survivors guilt and Max has survivors guilt but also wanted the person that died to die before he died. This is obviously meant for us to notice because it’s an addition to the same theme)

Ignoring the potential build up in the trauma and going into Patrick’s relationships we see that he doesn’t make sense as 4th victim narratively speaking. We have a clear build up in the victims relationships with other characters:

Chrissy has no known relationship to our main characters

Fred is Nancy’s colleague and apprentice (Fred asking Nancy how she did this with Jonathan). They are close enough (Nancy trusts him enough) to take him to the Trailer Park.

Max is a main character of the show. She has many close relationships to other main characters

And then Patrick comes around and he is just Lucas’ team mate who he can’t even trust because they are hunting for his friends.

The connections to other characters get closer and closer until Max only to go rapidly down with Patrick. Narratively this doesn’t make sense because Patrick is supposed to be the 4th victim. He should have close ties to our favorite characters and they should care deeply about him because of the needed rise in tension. They get around it with Max escaping the death vision and being the actual 4th victim but for the original plan this would have been very weird.

This also ties to the connection we as an audience have to the victims.

Chrissy is a new character. We only see her in one episode and we barely know anything about her. Most of what we know is that she is a cheerleader and she has trauma. Although many people sympathize with her we can’t really get connected to her.

Fred is basically the same. But we get more information about him. We know he is a journalist. We also know that he does know about Jonathan and Nancy and their struggles in their relationship (which he kind of wants to take a chance in because he flirts with Nancy). We have two episodes with him.

We have known Max since season 2. We had a lot of time to get to know her and create a bond with her.

And yet again Patrick doesn’t make sense. Why do we get a new character which we don’t like because he is part of the antagonists, after a (beloved) main character? There was a subtle build up and then we flunk down in the negatives with our perspective on the character.

I wanna add that in an recent reblog of a post i discussed Mike's parallels to the other victims. You can find the post here.

But how does Mike fit in?

Most people on here are well aware of all the hints that connect Mike with Vecna. Therefore many people believe he is a target in S5. I believe so too. I still don’t think that so much has changed during S4 that made him more targetable than he already was. Yes his trauma increased through the shootout, the death of unknown hero agent man, lying to El and losing Eddie and Max, but his trauma was there before. And it was severe enough to make him struggle. It’s pointed out in the canon extending book “Lucas on the line” and it is also shown in his behavior in S4 (getting up too late, used clothes, dirty room/basement, he doesn’t eat on camera, and more). So Mike would be a perfect target for Vecna only considering his trauma. But there is way more stuff that make Mike a perfect last puzzle piece in this situation. First of all he is one of the few characters that are in Hawkins when the curses begin and have more/deeper connections than Max. Yes Max has a lot of deep connections (the Party and El specifically) but Mike has those connections too and he has deeper connections to the teens (Nancy and Jonathan especially), Will, Joyce and Hopper. So in a certain way he is more connected to the rest of the cast and would be perfect to be the final step of the build up we see with character relationships. He has also been part of the show since S1 and was one of THE main characters in S1 and S2. He has a very important role in figuring out important plot points and so for us he is obviously a very important character. And so while I don’t play favorites he is slightly more important for the audience (subjectively speaking). Timing wise (as I said before) he is the only character we know to travel out of Hawkins during the cursing. Him being cursed on March 20th (thursday) wouldn’t compromise the given timeline. It would also explain this scene where Mike clearly looks like he has a awful headache.

And this scene where Max has a nosebleed and the camera’s focus shifts to him

(some people believe that’s the moment he cursed Max. I doubt that. When Max explains the symptoms she said nosebleedS, plural [Insert Eddie’s comment on Nancy’s guns here].I believe that’s thursday morning and Mike was just cursed and had a nosebleed like Patrick and he looked like he looked because he found it suspicious that he had a nosebleed and now Max has a nosebleed.) Clearly two times where he was visibly shown in the context of the curses symptoms. Also his bedroom scene, when he reads Els' letter could connect to the symptoms (this is more of a reach than the other two).

Sleeping in underwear => He woke up an a cold sweat

The binder with Will’s drawings is in his room => having nightmares and needing comfort

(re-)reading the letter => having nightmares and needing reassurance that everything is okay

he is later than he usually is => trouble sleeping

Also I think @aemiron-main pointed that out: Mikes Reaction to Karen telling him that he need to be home by nine because it's an early flight suggests that he barely sleeps because he seems to not care of the early flight.

And last but not least the line Vecna uses for Max (You’ll be the chosen one, the fourth the final sacrifice) fits way better to Mike. Why? Well the main reason I only got on the Mike getting vecnaed’ train was while I was rewatching the show I saw this scene where El screams for Mike while she has a vision:

This scene reminded me of this scene where Will does the same:

And it made me think about how Vecna knows that both of his former targets heavily depend on Mike. He is the first they think about when needing help. He’s the first they find comfort in when upset. So Mike is obviously on Vecna’s radar. There is more…. These two scenes where Max and Mike help El and try to protect her and Billy sees it.

They stand out because it would make so much sense for Mike to be targeted too. Max does become a target because of her trauma but also because of her connection to El. So Mike would be a perfect target too. Him being the final sacrifice would be the peak of devastation for both Will and El and would make perfect sense for Vecna to do so. Also it would contrast Mike’s arc because he is usually the one interfering with Vecna’s plans in overtaking the real world. Mike being the last kill to open the gates to the UD would be very “poetic” from Vecna’s POV. Furthermore the line “You would be the chosen one” would be far more fitting for Mike. Mike is a fan of fantasy stories. The Chosen One Trope is a typical fantasy trope that has been used for ages. Mike can relate far more to this trope than Max (Max is a comic fan where this trope is used too, but Mike is pictured way more with classic fantasy where this trope is used very often).

But why did Vecna wait for Mike to go on vacation?

This is the only thing that really makes me struggle. Because I don’t have a good answer to this. The only possible explanation I see (without doubting the rest of this theory) is that Vecna didn’t look for his plans, his supposedly happy memories/thoughts and only took in the bad ones. Max tells us that she thinks Vecna only looks for the bad memories.

So if Max is right then Vecna didn’t look for the light in Mike’s mind and only for the darkness. (Therefore didn't see his hope of reconnecting to Will in Califronia) I also want to point out that Mike is not the only target Vecna needed. He needed four victims. So this is not solely about him. And you need to know that Vecna feeds off his victims fears, anxiety and guilt. So it makes sense for him to unleash his curse when all his victims are especially tense/anxious

Chrissy’s mother forced a beauty idea on her daughter that resulted in her being connected to bulimic tropes (Throwing up, rotten food). She is also a cheerleader in the 80s and she “needed to be pretty” because the championship games were coming up. So Chrissy would be more anxious than usually

Fred is less obvious than Chrissy. The only clues I got why he would be more anxious than usual are that Officer Daniels (Vecna Vision) tells us that the accident happened last year and he knows about Jonathan and Nancy’s relationship problems. The first could mean that the car crash happened somewhere in 1985 or it could actually mean that the anniversary is coming up which (knowing from S2) would affect Fred through the anniversary effect. The latter could make him anxious because he might see a chance with his crush (we see him multiple times openly flirting with Nancy)

Max would be more anxious because Billy’s birthday is coming up (March 29 - also anniversary effect)

Mike would be more anxious because he is traveling to California and he doesn’t know how Will feels about him and maybe he is a little jealous because of El’s letter and Will painting something for a girl

Additionaly the week before spring break could be full of tests which could make all victims more anxious.

Another good question regards the timing. Vecna did look for a replacement for Mike on March 23rd but Mike left early on March 22nd. So why did he wait an additional day for Mike? This is obviously a question I asked myself a lot. Why did Vecna wait for Mike to be gone for a whole day before looking for a replacement (Patrick)? Well this one is very hard to answer. But there is one scene in particular that makes me believe that Vecna starts his rampage usually early in the morning. You can take a look here in this post. I included the scenes right before and right after the scene on purpose because it gives us a better perspective on the timeline. So right before Vecna gets hooked up to the vines, El went to her bedroom crying. We know that this happened on the night of March 22nd. Then it cuts to the UD where Vecna gets hooked up but nothing happens afterwards. Instead we see how the sun rises/travels in the sky. Then it cuts to Lucas and the beginning of the hunt for Eddie. So what is the purpose of this whole scene? Vecna wanted to start the final stage of his curse (visions) for Max early on the 23rd. This is probably what he was doing with Chrissy and Fred the days before. He recognized that he couldn’t find Mike anywhere and then started to search for a replacement until he found Patrick. Very important for this theory, Vecna finds Patrick way later. There are almost 20 Minutes between this scene and the scene where Patrick gets cursed. Even more important: We see every group on screen before we get back to Vecna. There is literally a cut to every small group. First Lucas and the Jocks, then Max, Dustin, Robin and Steve with Eddie, then Nancy, the Cali Gang, Joyce and Murray, Hopper back to the Hawkins gang at the Trailer Park. I think Vecna didn’t recognize Mike’s absence because he was solely focused on Fred on the 22nd and started with Fred visions early in the morning before Mike got to the airport. So when he wanted to get started with Max the next day he realized that he couldn’t reach Mike anymore and decided to go for a replacement. That’s when the timings of the victims don’t add up anymore.

Besides everything I showed you here there is another theory that is connected to this. #possessiongate from @dinitride-art

This shows how my theory is supported visually in the show. It also explains why Mike isn't shown as cursed after the breakfast on the 23rd because his curse was shifted to Patrick.

#byler #mike wheeler #victimgate #mike gets vecna’d #mike getting vecna’d #stranger things #stranger things 4 #stranger things analysis #st analysis #st theory #stranger things theory #mike wheeler analysis #vecna's curse

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heartwisemage · 1 year

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can we all take a moment to appreciate peanuts miwi

“this will make you feel better will byers! soothing music is always the key to a happy heart”

cute he said heart while talking to will but is no one gonna mention that he kinda predicted season 4’s plot and maybe his own plot in season 5 if he does get vecnad

#byler #miwi #mike wheeler #will byers #mike getting vecna’d

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significant-ace-nnoyance · 2 years

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i am a firm believer in the mike gets vecna’d to finally have his internal thoughts shown to us and the mandatory Internalized Homophobia Is The Bad Guy scene for the ga and el will be trying to break him out using her fancy mind powers but ultimately should i stay or should i go will open the portal bc nancy says it’s all mikes listened to since will left and it reminds him of will and then he’ll see will screaming his name and vecna will be doing gay on gay homophobia but it won’t matter bc that’s the boy he loves and he can’t lose him again and he finally realizes his feelings and runs through the portal and collapses into wills arms and they’re crying and sobbing and we’re crying and sobbing and then they have a moment where mike looks up and their faces are super close and they just both freeze and look LovinglyTM into each other’s eyes until the moment is broken by nancy or the party coming to hug mike but now will kinda knows and the audience also knows and AHHHHHHH

#i wrote this instead of my english intro #love that for me #byler #mike getting vecna’d #mike wheeler i know what you are #byler confession

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ryndoobee · 9 days

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mike getting vecna’d save me… mike getting vecna’d… save me mike getting vecna’d..

#byler #mike wheeler #stranger things #save me mike getting vecna’d #mike getting vecna’d #save me

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cannibalismyuri · 1 year

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will gets vecna'd concept (hear me out ik most of you want mike to get vecna'd but hear me tf out) : his vision is mike getting vecna'd. seeing his bones crack and eyes roll into his head. screaming and sobbing, will tries to wake him up, sing his favourite songs (SMALLTOWN BOY MOMENT AYYY) even though his voice cracks on every word.

concept : mike gets vecna'd at the same time !!! his vision is will getting vecna'd as well, and he cries and tries to remember which songs will likes, tries "should i stay or should i go" in a moment of desperation, and it doesn't work. mike screams for help, helpless, and thinks that he's done the same thing with will. the thing he did to el too. he immortalized will as the one who idolized him. and he sobs and sobs, because he doesn't know what song is will's favourite anymore. and he should know. its his own fault he doesn't. its his fault will is going to die.

#mike getting vecna’d #will getting vecna'd #byler #byeler #miwi #cleradin #wiseheart #mike wheeler #will byers #GOD THE ANGST WILL NOT LEAVE ME ALONE???#I CANNOT ESCAPE FROM THE ANGST WTF #byler angst #stranger things (sara's version)#wow i really do be slaying w the original posts these days huh #the mike one hits harder tho huh #guess im a mike wheeler kinnie now 💅💪

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madwheelerz · 2 years

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I just think the idea of everyone focusing on Will not being cursed would be great because like imagine Mike is cursed and he knows it, but everyone is focused on Will and he wants to keep it that way because we all know his own safety is like bottom priority for himself. They don't find out until he almost dies too.

#byler #mike getting vecna’d #fanfic prompt #prompt #could you imagine this #i feel like will or erica might scope him out though #byler fic prompt

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bylerisc4non · 1 year

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HOLY SHIT I GOT IT!! (Mike's self-acceptance journey)

Okay, so we all know that Mike needs serious help and therapy and to learn to respect and care about himself, right? Well, remember Lexi's play in Euphoria? Remember what it did for Rue? Yes. I'm proposing that they just put on a play for Mike about his life and he'll see everything, his internalized homophobia, his projection, s3 and how he was an asshole, between s3 and s4 and how he was so depressed without Will, and that's how he'll decide to change, accept, & love himself. And he'll breakdown and sob a lot and maybe scream and cry about the painting. He will leave that play a changed man and immediately go find Will to tell him he's in love with him. BOOM. Byler endgame happens.

No but in all seriousness, something like that probably needs to happen in order for him to finally come to terms with himself and his love for Will. He needs to see Will's perspective, which will probably come out in a painting fight or something. But he also needs to step back and look at himself and see that he's fucked up but he's amazing wonderful extraordinary and Will loves him for it. And he'll learn to love himself. He'll have a lot of apologies to do, like to El, but in the end he'll forgive himself and she will too.

sorry-- overwhelming brain explosion. More to this theory is that the "play" is actually just a time warp kind of situation where he sees his younger self and has to confront the fact that he's always mistreated and disliked himself, even that little boy. All of his trauma from losing Will and losing himself too (in s3 and while denying his feelings) will hit him. The hurt he felt from being lied to by Will hits him, but also hits ten times worse with the knowledge that he made Will lie to him, he was the one who made Will think he didn't need him or want the painting to come from him. Everything will explode in his face; his self-hatred, his denial, his IH, his ED, his suicide ideation. Everything is coming to light this season. Mike's journey with his mental health through the seasons is going to slowly get wrapped up, providing closure and hope for him.

Mike needs to step back and see himself the way Will sees him, as the heart. He's already begun to see this in the van scene. They will continue this journey of self-reflection in s5. He will step back and see himself, really see himself this time. Perhaps this doesn't mean he will necessarily get Vecna'd but we probably shouldn't totally eliminate that possibility. After all, with the mirror imagery and everything, it could potentially happen. And just the fact that this whole post is about the fact that Mike needs to step back and see himself, like in a mirror (*cough cough* Vecna holds up mirrors to people). And it will be hard to have that mirror held up to him, but he's slowly coming to terms with it. Eddie was a great influence and help with that. He was unapologetically himself and Mike saw that and started being himself too. Of course, there were still moments when he'd hide again, like in Lenora, but for the most part Mike really started chipping away at that mask and coming out of his shell in s4.

Why else would he be dressing more freely and doing his hair different and all that? He's starting to accept himself and he just needs to continue and wrap up that journey in s5. He'll accept himself as queer, which is the root to a lot of his other mental health problems. Therefore, when he's able to finally stand back and see himself as he really is and learn to love himself the way Will loves him, he'll be able to address those other problems. His mental health will only improve from there. However, the addressing of those issues may be messy. I have no doubt that it may end in Mike's "death." He won't actually die (hopefully) but it will be a visual representation of how everything caught up to him, of how his lack of care for himself (but also his loyalty) ended up being the death of him because he would do anything for his friends and has little self regard. He'll die sacrificing himself for those he loves.

BUT THEN he comes back to life somehow because why tf wouldn't he? And gay love saves the day as always. Mike learns to love and accept himself, byler endgame happens, and they all live happily ever after THE END.

But anyway.

In summary, Mike must see a clear vision of the person he's been through the seasons to address his trauma, IH, and mental health issues. He needs to see how he's hurt those around him, but that he's also been hurt. He needs to feel compassion for himself and learn of his importance. In other words, he needs to see himself through Will's eyes. Will sees the true him at his full potential: loyal, a leader, compassionate, kind, funny, smart. He's really, genuinely, the heart. He's started to see that in the van, however, with the realization that Will lied about El commissioning the painting, he may start to doubt himself all over again. (One step forward, three steps back.) So, the confrontation of the painting must lead to Mike seeing himself through a separate lens. He must see himself through Will's eyes and see that it wasn't El's truth but Will's truth. He'll breakdown and this realization will lead to the acceptance of not only his love for Will but of himself as a whole and that hurt in him will slowly begin to heal.

#byler #mike wheeler #mike's mental health #tw suicide #st5 theories #mike's journey with self acceptance through the show is an important plot point that i feel many overlook #but overall he needs to step back and see himself from a different perspective #in season 5 mike will finish up that journey #he will finally view himself as he really is: the heart #i know many dont like the idea of time travel and stuff #but i feel like mike seeing his past self and his hurt and pain throughout his life is a must (this could of course come through flashbacks #he needs to step back and see himself through a different lens #only then will he truly accept himself and be able to challenge the things like homophobia and his own mental health #mike's self acceptance journey #mike getting vecna’d #he needs a mirror held up to him to see himself #idk maybe this is obvious im just rambling #stranger things analysis #internalized homophobia

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crustyfloor · 1 year

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Vecna watching Mike in the shadows

#byler nation #mike wheeler #mike getting vecna’d #Mikes gonna have a field day in s5 👨🏻‍🦲#stranger things #byler #Vecna #Vecnagate

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uselessnbee · 1 year

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when i'm feeling extremely angsty i like to think about that theory that Mike was supposed to be one of Vecna's victims/was cursed until he left to Cali where Vecna couldn't reach him and it basically saved his life

and what would happen if he never left, if he stayed in Hawkins and was the first/one of the first victims

how would it happen? would people already know about the curse and try to help him? would it be before they found out about it and there was no help left? even if they knew would it actually save him? what if they found out how to help him but one would know his favorite song so they wouldn't be able to save him anyways. where would it happen? would someone be present or he would be all alone and not found until later on? how would everyone react? how would they let the Byers know what happened? how would they tell Will and El about it? their reactions?

so many questions so many scenarios floating around in my head

but hey that's just my thoughts

#byler #mike wheeler #someone calling will and el like hey so your bf is ded sorry about that but yeah we need you here hope this won't cause too much damage tho #mike getting vecna’d #just thinking about him getting vecna'd before everyone even knew about the curse #him being all alone and not knowing what is happening and he's so fucking terrified #but there is no way of saving him #what if someone found him later when he's already gone #who would it be #what if it would happen at home like in the basement or something and nancy found him hours later #or she would found him while he's in trance and she's screaming his name and trying to figure out what is going on but can't help him #and he just dies right in front of her or someone else from the party or or #sorry about the trauma nance i love you tho #mike fighting and trying to figure out what is happening but vecna's visions making him just #give up #yeah just thinking nothing serious

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over-rated-cheese · 1 year

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And I still got those stupid butterflies

I just loved this idea sm (I didn't rly edit this before posting and i also wrote it in like 2 hours so yeah)

This is inspired by this post @watchmenanon

“It’s not my fault you don’t like girls!” Those words still echo in Mike’s mind late at night. Things haven’t been the same ever since then, something was off… Will and Mike didn’t talk the way they used to, it’s like they were ignoring the gaping hole between them.

The worst thing is that Mike knew this was all his fault.

He should have been a better friend, maybe then things would be all right.

That’s not what the voices tell him though.

“How could you do that to your best friend? He’ll never forgive you”

“You know what you are, you're just too scared to ambit it”

“He’ll think your disgusting because you are”

“No one could ever love you, not even El”

“You're better off dead!”

The sudden jolt of the plane landing seemed to stop any more thoughts from materializing.

That’s right, Mike’s In California now. He can leave all those thoughts behind. They didn’t mean anything anyway.

Mike wouldn’t tell anyone this but he was extremely nervous. The thought of seeing El and Will after all this time sent a wave of panic through him.

What if they didn’t care about him anymore?

What If they have new, cooler friends?

What if they don’t need you anymore?

“Mike!” The thoughts seemed to evaporate at the sound of El’s voice, maybe she does need him.

“But she doesn’t Michael, she never will again”

El wraps her hands around Mike, he squeezes back. He missed her so much.

They share a kiss, “careful, careful, you're squishing your gift” Mike steps back and hand’s El the flowers. El seem’s disappointed, like she was expecting more, maybe he should have bought her a real gift instead.

Wait

“Where’s Will?”

It comes out forced, Mike didn’t even mean to say it. Mike’s brain goes over all the possible places Will could be

“He hates you, he never wants to see you again”

“He was better friends to be hanging out with”

The letter, Mike thought.

The Girl…

El finishes that thought for him, “Oh Will is already at the roller rink with Angela,

…His Girlfriend”

Mike's world shatters, along with his heart.

Will couldn’t have a girlfriend…

“Why can’t he have a Girlfriend, Micheal?”

“Does that make you jealous?”

“What kind of best friend are you?”

“Don’t you want him to be happy?”

Mike wants to run, so far and so hard that he loses all feeling. He can’t bear this. Will was his best friend, he wasn’t supposed to be with this stupid girl.

Mike doesn’t process the rest of the conversation or walking out of the airport or driving to the roller rink. All he can think about is Will…

Why does he need a stupid girlfriend?

Why can’t he just be happy without one?

Why does Mike care so much…?

Mike should be happy for Will, he was happy so Mike should be happy too but Mike wasn’t happy, he wanted to tear this fucking world apart.

“Why can’t you just be happy for him like everyone else?”

“What’s wrong with you...?”

What is wrong with him

Mike and El walked out of the pizza fan hand in hand, Jonathan shouted something, Mike didn’t care enough to listen.

Mike's eyes scanned the room for Will. He needed to know if Will hated him.

He needed to know if they were still friends, best friends.

“Why aren’t you paying attention to your girlfriend?”

“Do you even love her?”

“You care more about your best friend that your girlfriend, that’s not normal”

This wasn’t normal, Mike was messed up. “Oh, I forgot to tell you, you need socks” El was sitting next to Mike on the bench.

Oh yeah, socks

Mike made his way to the counter, he felt like his head was spinning.

Something felt off since he landed, maybe this is just the California vibe, things are different here than back home. Mike looks to what looks like a gay couple having a date,

A lot different.

That’s when Mike sees Will

His heart seemed to come alive again

Will meets his eyes and shuffles over with his friends. Mike didn’t know that Will made so many friends since he moved.

“Of course you don’t know anything, you barely call him”

Mike feels a simile escape his lips, Will returns one.

He doesn’t hate Mike after all.

“Hey, Will” Mike goes in for a hug, it's been so long. All he gets in return is a pat on the shoulder.

Nevermind maybe Will does hate him.

“Hey Mike” Mike says nothing, he’s in awe. Will looks so different. He looks good.

“Oh, these are my friends by the way” Will’s friends give Mike a kind smile. He wants to punch them in the face. “This is Stacy, Chad and my lovely girlfriend Angela” Will wraps an arm around her waist. They smile at each other. They look so happy.

Mike wants to throw up.

He hates this and he hates stupid Anglea and Will’s stupid friends.

“Normal people don’t feel like this”

Will seemed to notice Mike’s disapproval, “Okay guys, I'm going to hang out with Mike for a little. See ya later” Will have Anengla a kiss on the forehead, just like Mike did at the airport.

Mike is glad it’s just the two of them, It’s been so long since they had a real conversation.

Mike and Will sat down on a bench on the other side of the room. Mike met eyes with El. She nodded. She seemed to understand.

“Why do you ignore your girlfriend?”

“How are you liking California so far?”

“I love it here, it’s so much better than Hawkins! The people here are so cool and real. Back in Hawkins everyone feels like the same person”

That hurt like hell

Will has changed so much.

“How is life in Hawkins?”

Life in Hawkins sucked without Will by Mike’s side.

Will didn’t seem to think that way though.

“It’s fine, I miss you guys though” Mike was grasping at anything he can to have a real conversion.

He just wanted Will to miss him too.

“Hawkins must be so boring without the crazy monsters”

That's not what he wanted to hear.

And there are still monsters in Hawkins,

Mike being the monster.

“Yeah”

Mike couldn’t take it, he had to ask about Will’s girlfriend.

Just thinking about it sends goosebumps down his arms.

“So, tell me about you and Angela?”

The name hurt to say.

“I’m so glad you brought her up, I love her so much, she’s so kind and such a good person. She would never scream at me or blame me for anything”

Mike could see as Will’s beautiful eyes looked towards him.

“He blames you”

“Plus she’s like so hot”

Mike wished he never heard that.

“Why don’t you think shes’ hot?”

Will looked down at this watch, “I need to go, bye”

What, no

It was so early

They just started talking

“What, already?”

Will looks at his clock again

“Yeah, I gotta go see my girlfriend”

His stupid girlfriend.

She wasn’t supposed to be with Will.

Mike was.

Mike loved Will and he couldn’t let him go this time.

“So you finally admit it, your messed up in the head”

“Your disgusting”

“He will never love you”

The tears start to form in the back of his eyes, he’s searching for any words that could possibly make Will stay.

One seems to force its way out of his mouth.

“So you're just going to bail on me for some stupid girl!”

Mike has no time to take it back before Will shouts back

“Angela’s not stupid! It’s not my fault you don’t like girls! Even when you're with El we can all tell that you don’t love her like you love me!”’

Mike heart drops

Will knows

“We aren’t kids anymore! We aren’t going to spend the rest of our lives playing video games and DnD! We are going to grow up, Get married…”

“Reproduce and Die”

The tears were streaming down Mike’s face.

But that wasn’t Will

That was something else.

“Mike don’t you get it?”

Mike turned his head around, no one was there.

What was happening and why is no one moving? Who was talking?

Is this what happens when the love of your life rejects you?

“You hurt Will just like this”

“But that was real”

Everything seems to snap together all at once.

This isn’t real

Mike’s not in california

He’s in Hawkins

And he’s getting Vecna’d

He’s going to die

“Yes Mike you will die”

“But it’s what you deserve”

Mike bolts for the front entrance, he feels his body being yanked and before he knows it he is slammed into the ground.

All the wind is knocked out of him while he desperately tries to hang onto something.

He is slammed up against the wall

“I know what you really want”

“You want him, you want Will”

Mike feels his body being dropped.

He lands on the floor of his basement.

Mike doesn’t want it to end like this, he runs up the stairs searching for an exit.

In the back of his mind he was hoping his friends were coming to help.

“There not coming to save you, no one is”

Mike is shown a scene from his life, or more like a daydream,

Mike and Will are sitting on the couch, there watching a movie neither one of them are paying any attention too. There sitting there hand and hand, under a blanket. Mike leans over to plant a kiss on Will’s lip.

Even though Mike knew this wasn’t real he still got those stupid butterflies.

Mike is struggling to free himself

Maybe he should just give up

They don’t need him anyways

No one needs him

He’s useless

“Yes Mike, you are useless”

“No one will ever need you”

“Not after what you’ve done”

“You hurt so many people just because you couldn’t face your own feeling’s”

“What kind of person are you?”

The tears roll down Mike’s face

He thinks of his family, his friends

Of Will

He will never love Mike

It’s over, Mike’s done fighting

“It’s time Mike”

“Join us”

Mike lets his body go limp, his body is breaking and still all Mike can think about are those damn butterflies.

#byler #byler fanfic #mike getting vecna’d #fanfic #long post #wrote this in like 2 hours so don't junge #should i post this on ao3?#my fan fic #its 1 am😐#gn yall

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