#madcleradin

[booksandpaperss]

so are your abandonment issues mike wheeler max mayfield or will byers flavored

[eightfifteen]

Madcleradin Paranormal Investigators AU because i simply had to sit down and think about it after remembering this post by @dis-a-ppointment again for the millionth time.

Will went missing in 1983.

He was kidnapped for a week, but he managed to get away and Mike found him in the woods near the quarry after going out every night to look for him.

Will swears there was another girl there, even though they never actually found the perpetrator or any sign of a girl having gone missing.

Will and Mike start looking into it in High School - Will swore by it, and kept having nightmares about the girl, feeling guilty he'd left her behind.

So, Mike, to help Will, looks into it further - using the same detective skills he'd used while Will had been gone. He finds out about Jane Yves, and how she should be around the same age Will had said the girl should be.

It's a project they kept hidden from Lucas and Dustin, Will not wanting to burden anyone else with it. He talked to Hopper a million times though, and he insists he's looked into it but that there's nothing to lead him in any direction. Especially as Jane supposedly died in a miscarriage, and the lab had shut down ages ago.

In senior year, they start breaking into empty houses because Will wonders if he might recognize one of them, if he might remember the location of where he'd been kept it could be their first clue.

One day, they're breaking into an abandoned house near the trailer park when Max catches them. She joins them for their 'ghost hunt' - the best excuse they could come up with - and though she thinks it's bullshit, she's having a blast making fun of them whenever they flinch at a "scary noise".

AKA Will starts hearing things and insists they're ghosts, while Max just makes fun. Mike is a fence straddler - he doesn't actually believe ghosts are real but he's a 100 percent on Will's side. If Will says he heard a ghost than it's a ghost. period.

Eventually it becomes a bit of a hobby - going to "haunted houses".

Max is doing it for the ghost hunting, unaware of the Jane thing, but Mike and Will are still also investigating behind Max' back.

The summer after High School, when Dustin and Lucas are both going to an early summer program at their respective colleges, the three of them are left to spend their summer break road tripping around the state and "investigating". Both for fun and because they found a way to make money off of it - they end up selling their stories to a popular alternative magazine - Max takes pictures, Mike and Will write, and sometimes Will makes art of the ghosts they saw.

Along the way though, Will starts wondering if he might actually be going crazy with the voices he's hearing and the things he's seeing, but his best friend buddy pal Mike insists that if that's the case they'd go crazy together.

Eventually, they figure out that their "ghost proof" has a particular pattern, and they realize the "ghost" might be communicating with them - that it's strangely enough - not a different ghost for each house, but one ghost following them.

Long story short it was El communicating with them using her powers, and she leads them to where she's being kept.

Also, Mike and Will kiss.

[crush-like-that]

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[l0v3c0r3e]

WILL AND MAX SKETCHES

[cleradinthealps]

max mike and will are like if boygenius was girlidiot

[thatonesongyouretryingtoremember]

Based on this and this

@dis-a-ppointment @eightfifteen @forevereternally-janedoe tagging since you've already been involved- but let me know if you don't want me to tag you :)

#madcleradin paranormal au,

Is what I'll use from now on so you can find them there <2

It was super weird to say "Jane Ives" but like she died before making friends.

Maybe for her name origin they figure out there was one ghost the whole time before they're able to talk to her and they call her "Elenor" like Mike said in ST1 because it sounds old fashion and ghost-y????

I'm hoping to soon write a scene or mayhaps design them a Mystery Machine of sorts?

UPDATE: "COVERGIRL FACE" EXPLAINED ON DIFFERENT POST

[starsarefire824]

the madcleradin dancing seen in demons of change & wildflower eyes goes CRAZY holy shit

AAAAHHH!!! 🙈🙈🙈🙈

I am glad that you liked it! That was a dynamic I haven't really written for, and I was very excited about it! I really loved the idea of Will just letting go and enjoying the moment, and being inside his body and not inside his head. And Max and Mike were a safe and receptive place in that moment to do that with. Sometimes, I think anyway, for introverts, to kind of let loose like that every now and again can be very therapeutic.

And also, Max knew what's up lmao. She was definitely helping our boys out! (While also having a good time herself. 😆 )

Anyways, it was a fun time and I think CCR's "I Put A Spell on You" was the perfect vibe for it.

I'm excited to explore some interesting dynamics with this one that I haven't before, and some more unique interactions. I'm kind of just letting it flow more than some of my other fics, and it definitely has some more adult themes that I've maybe been wanting to explore with these specific characters, but haven't had a chance or felt like it was the right time. Either way, this version of Mike and Will is very dear to me and I'm so glad you've liked reading it! Thanks so much for dropping this in my inbox. It's probably my most obscure fic so it's fun when I find other people who are liking it! <333333

[rotisseries]

andiwriteordie, ghoultaffy, and elmaxed!!

yay!!! me and jayme ghoultaffy truly are an inseparable duo (lesbians and transmascs they are best friends) and <333 andi and lumi

[fireflywitch]

omg hi i fully did not REALIZE that u were the author of "november and july" and just went back to re read bc i was going thru my fics in my marked for later and finally finished the second part today and. holy fuck. as a self acclaimed max and will Understander, u get them SO WELL???? i'm in awe genuinely. my madwise heart going haywire im so in love w ur writing thank u for sharing omg rediscovering that truly made my day !!!!!!

ahh! hello!!

november and july is just like, all of my Will and Max Thoughts crammed together, like genuinely just one of those fics where everything like, poured out and i'm really glad to hear it's held up :')

thank u for the kind words! <3

[basiltonpitch]

ice-sculptures, willelfanpage, and elekinetic!

the way i love all 3 of them so much,,,,thank u this is an honor

[ice-sculptures]

mlchaelwheeler, emblazons, and basiltonpitch :)

ohh those are some of my dearest mutuals tysm sierra 💖🥹

send me tumblr users you associate me with!!

[lumism]

hi lumi it’s me sierra madcleradin i absolutely love your mobile & desktop theme rn. and if you change it before answering well i’ll love it then too because you have a vision for absolutely everything mwuah

dearest sierra madcleradin first things first thank you!!!! 🤍✨ and second things second um. changing my mobile theme was in fact my first act upon reinstalling the app on my phone just now. sigh

[byclairs]

dearest emily hiiiiii happy birthday 💝

sierraaaa omg thank you so much 🫂🫂💗💗

[anderperries]

∞ !!

cardigan!!

i knew you’d linger like a tattoo kiss / i knew you’d haunt all of my what ifs

put a "∞" in my ask box and I'll shuffle taylor swift and give you my favorite lyric from the song that comes up.

[cleradinthealps]

furthering my madcleradin girlidiot agenda by stating that max is phoebe coded, will is lucy coded, and mike is julien coded

[kuntniss]

what’s your dream url. i am very curious