#byler if you squint

[munsons-mutiny]

Headcanon that next season it’s Steve not Jonathan who catches Will staring at Mike with patented Wheeler Longing. He knows that look, hell he invented that look.

And is very first thought is God Damn I’m just collecting Gays at this point.

He makes an effort to spend more time with Will when he realizes. While they’re all volunteering and just doing their best in the weeks after losing Eddie, he always tries to make sure Will knows he sees him.

As they get closer he starts taking wise cracks at El and Mike whenever they’re around, stupid sassy comments that never fail to make Will smile or even laugh. Eventually he even starts roping Will into teasing Robin for being hopeless with girls. (Robin is of course in on it and has approved being outed in this scenario, Steve would never have revealed it otherwise)

The first time it had happened Will had frozen up completely looking around to see who was listening, he looked terrified. But Steve just kept his reaction natural and Robin just rolled her eyes talking about all of his strike outs last summer. Their usual banter filling the space until Will could breathe again, could join back in to give Robin shit.

His smiles are even brighter after that, even more open, and sometimes when the three of them are alone he comments on a cute boy he saw, or really rants about Mike. Steve and him bond over Wheeler rants, even though Steve really is over Nancy now.

When shit inevitably kicks off again, Steve keeps an even closer eye on Will. He’s one of the people that he’s overprotective of now, and it’s the first time one of those people have been the focus of the enemies. Have had a target painted on their back. It has him so stressed already, that he hits his breaking point the day they encounter Kaz.

Not Eddie. Cause he’s not Eddie, not anymore. He nearly took a bite out of Dustin, and Johnathon had to restrain Mike to stop him from running to him. Only stopped fighting when Kaz grinned at him blood covered fangs and dead eyes.

It was a bad day.

They somehow all make it back to the cabin unscathed, and Steve has to keep it together. Has to make himself strong while Dustin falls apart in his arms, and Mike is pacing and shouting at anyone who will listen. Tears streaming down his face. He keeps it together for hours, til Dustin falls asleep against him, and Will finally got Mike to sit down and pass out. Only when he’s sure he can escape unnoticed, does he stand and let himself outside to the back of the cabin.

The second he’s there he collapses into sobs. Falls to the ground and puts his face in his hands to muffle them. Shakes with the effort of it all.

It doesn’t take long for an arm to wrap around him as he’s tugged into and awkward side hug. When he looks up it’s to see Will comfortingly just there as much as he can be. They sit silently for what feels like hours before Steve finally speaks,

“I’m sorry”

“Why on earth are you apologizing?”

“I can usually keep it together better than this, they need me to be strong right now.”

“Nothing about this makes you weak. This is such a fucked up situation, this is worse than just losing him. And I know how important he was to the party. Im sorry I didn’t realize how important he was to you” Steve just shakes his head at him,

“He wasn’t not really, I only knew him after everything started going down. Only really spoke to him a handful of times. And honestly I didn’t even like him!” Steve’s voice picks up hear going higher and almost frantic, “He was annoying! And touchy! He gave me so much shit, and was always all over me! He flirted constantly, and was totally insufferable, and honestly I’m pretty sure Dustin liked him more than me! And! And….” His voice deflates on the last and, the fight and anxiety going out of him, “I couldn’t get him out of my fucking head man.” Will almost cant believe what he’s hearing.

“Steve are you?- Did you?” He almost cant ask the question, figured Steve would’ve told him by now if he was. What with their little group of queers that Steve tends to watch over. Heck Robin had even called him the unicorn collector! Like he was separate from them!

Steve just shakes his head frantically, “No! Or yes? More like maybe” He just sights putting his head back in his hands, “ I don’t even know anymore, there had always been fleeting attraction to guys but never anything- real, never anything like this! And then- well, he was gone before I ever got a chance to figure it out. Before we ever got a chance.” And he looks small, defeated like he doesn’t know what to do with himself, and Will can’t stand it.

“Well then we save him, we get him back, and you figure it out”

[maxmayfieldsbitch]

See I love lesbian El but I also love Elumax where they’re all dating each other because El and Lucas got closer in the hospital with Max and they bonded over their love for her and eventually fell in love themselves but I also love Mike saying “I don’t like girls��� to El and El saying “Good, because I don’t like boys” so what now

[bananananurr]

William

[paladinsbrainrot]

[wooneygoblin]

i wonder if they both have nightmares…anyways I have a solution..

[taeiris]

they’re gonna find out just how huge and horrifying the mind flayer is in his true form next season…

[will80sbyers]

[astrobei]

my take on modern will byers is that i don’t think he would be a music snob/music purist in that he refuses to listen to pop or makes fun of it or whatever but i DO think he is a Spotify Wrapped Curator and turns on a private session every time he listens to something remotely “embarrassing.” which is why, when will proudly displays his top five artists and top five songs at the end of the year, el is very confused as to how she heard jenny by studio killers playing in his room for 72 hours straight without it showing up on his end of year stats.

[guyeatingtomatos]

what could these two possibly have in common?

[willbyersabyss]

people have this problem where they believe the actors over the actual show. like yes Mike and Lucas have a very important friendship but they were not the first members of the party. the show literally. textually. said otherwise. sometimes the actors forget things! and are wrong! and they lie!

[elekinetic]

another script! (two in two days, who am i.)

party antics and... well... you can read it for yourself.

as always, lmk what you think :)

[cleradinscloset]

so people think that mike was all freaked out when he looked at will (Triple Take) because he got caught looking at will right? but i have a theory. hear me out

yes he was looking at will because hes in love with him. but what if he freaked out not because he was caught but because will was already looking at him.

so picture it. mike looks at will who is already looking at him. he questions why will is looking at him. he thinks that will knows he likes him. freaks out because how does will know? what does will think of him know that he knows?

this is a dumb theory but it came to my head and i thought id share

[peanutbyler]

we sit under the inky night and you joke that it’s just like when we were kids. that this is the same moon we glowed in when we were twelve. but when we were twelve i was hopelessly in love with you, and now you’re a dull stranger under the pale moonlight.

you grew into your once-bug eyes. there are pink specks on your skin replacing summer freckles, and your cheeks are sunken in. but i also got thicker and taller, i became harder to hold. suddenly we don’t fit together anymore. so we sit under the inky night, concrete digging into our thighs, knees too far to press together but just close enough to brush, two people who once shared secrets under these same stars, two people who once kissed after looking both ways for eyes and now all we have is the moon in common.

[sinclairstarz]

madwheeler myspace accounts i made on spacehey many lives ago.. i was kinda cooking though

[byler-alarmist]

Why does this song go so hard.....

[snewok]

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