#i want to smush two barbies together pretending they are will and henry im so insane about them

[that-darn-clown]

boy oh boy i need to ramble about Rewrite!Willry because Christ it is literally insane. like this is a combination of toxic yaoi and complicated yaoi, JESUS-

so. we'll start from the beginning and work our way to The Fire:

so. of course we've gotta start with them Experimenting With Their Sexualities. because that's where it all started technically. sure, there were...feelings before, but y'know.

so y'know like that one meme of the two people lying in bed, but one is just chilling and smoking, while the other one looks like they're questioning their entire life up until this point? that was Henry and Will after they [REDACTED]. Henry's the chill guy, William is the guy who's questioning his life choices.

while Henry still has some Feelings for Will, he leaves the situation with more knowledge of himself (he is Pansexual) and is able to be normal about his still lingering feelings for his roommate. William, on the other hand, Also learned about himself (he's Bisexual) and is also being Normal about those Feelings (< he is not, in fact, normal about it).

they both go about their lives, getting married, having children, running their business together, everything's normal.

...well, except for the fact that William still clearly loved him and could Not be normal about that fact. in the 70s. but y'know.

then Claire dies...and things change. and not for the better.

Henry can tell that whatever Will's doing, it's hurting the kids. not physically, though: he never sees bruises or any signs of anything physical. not yelling at them either. all he knows is that whatever William's doing, it's bad.

but he doesn't really know what to do about it. William would get pissed off and deny any implication that he was hurting his children. but Henry also can't take Will's kids away from him, that would likely only make things worse, considering that the man just lost his fucking wife.

he's stuck between a rock and a hard place. the best he can do is try to comfort William and be a shoulder to cry on for the kids. it's why he never asks Mike if William allowed him to come over and stay the night; the answer is usually a no.

and...well, besides all of that, William practically clings to Henry, like he's scared he'll lose him too. Henry just assumes that it's anxiety born out of grief and not anything serious (Annabeth screaming into a pillow in the background).

when Anna and him finally divorce, William's behavior gets more...noticeable. like, enough so that Henry can't deny it anymore. but it's not like Henry can really do much to reciprocate these feelings (it is. the 80s).

Liz dies, and William decides that the Totally Normal response is to murder Henry's daughter. yep bestie, this isn't going to fuck up your relationship with Henry at all when he finds out (sarcasm).

well would you look at that, Henry Doesn't Seem To Like The Child Murder, William!! Especially When One Of Them Is His Own Kid!!

William, who has just kinda lost it a little at this point, doesn't fully get why Henry hates him so bad. sure, he killed Charlotte...but she was still here, technically!! she was even in a form he could talk to her in!!

we can now move onto Springtrap Era "Willry" (aka William is feral now, and Henry still hates him).

William becomes obsessed with this idea of "reuniting" his family in death. and that includes Sammy and Henry.

he hurts Michael when he comes to work at Fredbear's as a security guard, but it's not a deadly injury. Mike books it out of there and locks the door before William can get to him, but...it didn't just scar him physically. it scarred him mentally, too.

and Henry was fucking PISSED when he found out.

Fnaf 3 rolls around. look, we've heard the whole thing already of "Springtrap/Afton toying around with the player," i don't feel like i need to reiterate that here. but like...William's plan after getting to Sammy wasn't to kill him. not yet, anyway. it was to use him as a lure to get Henry to come to him. then he'd kill two birds with one stone. literally.

of course, that didn't work out...but the first fire clearly didn't kill him. he basically stalked everyone he once knew for two fucking years, including Henry. like, he wakes up in the morning, gets a cup of coffee, and then sees Springtrap staring at him through a window. and that's just kinda what his life was like between Fnaf 3 and 6.

then we get to Fire #2. and Henry stays behind as Michael runs.

the best way i can describe what happened afterward is a mix of mauling and what was basically a slow, torturous death. ending with William ripping the fucker's heart out.

even in the afterlife, William still calls out for Henry to help him. he also thinks Henry is trying to help HIM by trying to get Cassidy to move on. Henry's doing it more for Cassidy's sake than William's.

and there you go. William being Very Normal (< lie) about Henry in the Rewrite.

Mmmm a nice breakfast of toxic old man yaoi my favorite!!!!!!