#mike gets vecna'd

[henrysglock]

mike vecna vision...mike vecna vision come home to me...

[coniangray]

In honor of one and a half year of rooting for that fic and working on it for 9 months:

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

[brionysea]

he's literally getting vecna'd idk what to tell you

[mikewheelersfanfic]

what if it's actually mike that gets vecna'd and his vision starts with will seeming to get vecna'd instead what then huh

[taleya15]

“I love you.”

The party is waiting anxiously at the popular “Wheeler House” for Will and Jonathan to return with supplies. On a normal circumstance, there would be three members getting supplies. But the rest of the party was locating all the possible gates they could use for their next battle against Vecna. In total there’s 4 they’re going to use, including water-gate.

They figured coming at him from multiple angles would be the best option this time. Mike is the most anxious one out of the party, he hates being away from Will. El is trying her best to comfort him, as well as Nancy. But nothing is helping his nerves, he keeps anxiously glancing at the door praying that that Will would walk in. The rest of party is waiting outside preparing to make their weapons. When El and Nancy walked away, just for a moment to get Mike water. That’s when Vecna got Mike!

All Mike suddenly sees is a the van, the suffer boy van. The rest of his setting, is all black just like El used to describe it. He walks up to the van anxiously, he knows exactly what’s happening. And he plans to do the same thing he’s done his entire life. Hide. Hide and wait for everyone else to save him. He slides the van open and sits in “his” spot in the van. Anxiety is the only emotion he can feel, his leg is bouncing up and down fiercely, while he’s clutching his chest trying desperately to breathe.

He knows he should calm down. “Cmon Mike man up. Man up. Man up!” Mike repeats to himself loudly. A sudden voice sounds from right next to him, Will’s voice. “Yeah Mike. Man up.” Mike looks over at the voice and immediately regretted it. Will’s eyes are clouded like he’s blind, and there’s blood coming from his eyes. Mike for a moment is frozen in fear, then “Will’s” jaw cracks. Mike screams and instantly runs out the van, then his setting changes. He’s in an airport, the airport in Lenora. Mike glances around anxiously, and El runs up to him. She hugs him tightly and for a moment he hugs back, right until he remembers where he was.

He pulls back instantly, and just like “Wills” El’s jaw cracks instantly. Mike screams again, and tries to run again he’s trying desperately to remember what Max told him to do. “Happy places, happy places! Cmon Mike!” He’s screaming to himself trying desperately to think. Suddenly he’s at his middle school, and he’s immediately running into the AV room. He locks the door behind him, and sits with his head on his knees. He hears a voice then, El’s voice its not loud it’s actually very soft. He knows then what’s happening, she’s trying to talk him out of it. Too calm him down.

“Mike! Come on baby! Your ok! Happy thoughts remember!” Her voice does nothing but make Mike sob even harder onto his knees. It was a second. Only a second, and his setting changed again. This time he didn’t move far, only outside in the football field. At first he couldn’t understand why he was there, he looks around for Vecna. But what he saw was even worse. He sees Will again, but he’s younger than he was now. He’s wearing the same blue plaid shirt as he did that day. Will’s frozen in place, with the shadow monster going into his body. He hears Will scream out for a moment and he runs up to him on instinct.

“Will! Will! Come on Will!” His voice is wrecked from the sobbing. Then suddenly he’s falling down through the grass and he comes face to face with Vecna himself. He’s even more terrifying than Mike imagined. They’re right in front of the Hawkins high school, AKA one of Mikes least favorite places. “Michael. I’ve been wondering when we’d meet.” His voice is cold and calculated. Mike tries desperately to run again, he runs in the school and runs to the only place there he likes. The drama room. It’s the place that held the best DND games ever.

He runs instantly to the stage, only to see it empty. “Right. No DND club yet.” He thinks to himself, then suddenly Vecna’s behind him. “You know. You’re very easy for me to figure out Michael.” Instantly Mike stiffens up, but not from fear this time. This time it’s anger.

“Oh yeah? Why’s that?” He answers sarcastically, and Vecna for a moment seemed surprised. He’s probably not used to that emotion coming at him.

“Because I’ve been able to see you Michael. Every look you give Eleven. Or more importantly the looks you give William.” Mikes rage is something that he’s never been able to control. Especially when people think they know him but don’t.

“You know absolutely NOTHING ABOUT ME!” In a flash of movements he’s facing Vecna. Straight in his ugly upside down face. For a moment Vecna chuckles before going back to his cold demeanor.

“No? Don’t think I haven’t seen the eyes you give little Eleven. Or the eyes that you want to give William. I know what you’ve been desperately trying to hide Michael.” For a moment panic settles over him, only a moment then suddenly Vecna was gone and all he saw was his dad.

“Michael. I am so disappointed in you. You are a disgrace to this families name!” Michael on instinct started running again. He only barely heard the words of Vecna following him.

“Michael. Your running will do you nothing. You can’t run from me like you run away from yourself.” Mike ignores him and runs into the gymnasium. He expects to see Vecna at first but who he sees is Lucas.

“Mike. I can’t believe you chose a game over me.”

“What? No- I would never!” Lucas faced him suddenly, his eyes are cold and harsh.

“Then why did you miss my game? I thought you liked me more than DND, Mike. But clearly I was wrong.” Lucas runs away suddenly and for a second Mike tries to follow him. Then in the crowd he sees something else. He sees Will, and he stands and walks to him slowly.

“I can’t believe you Mike. You actually thought I’d like you like that? You’re disgusting!”

“No. Will. Please- I can control it. I can control it i promise!” Mike falls to the floor, he starts sobbing into his hands then. He doesn’t notice when his leg broke, the emotional pain he’s experiencing is so much worse than any physical pain he could ever deal. He suddenly heard Will again. But this time it’s louder, he’s yelling but he can’t see him anywhere. He knows then, it’s the real Will.

“Mike! You- you’re ok! Picture something for me, please! Picture all of us together in your basement! Ya know like old times, for me please! You- you can win! I know you can! You’re so much stronger than you think ok!” For a moment Mike thinks it’s a trick, he almost doesn’t listen. But he figures if he’s going to die, then he’ll at least die in the place where he first fell in love at. He thinks to himself and pictures his basement at first it doesn’t work, but suddenly he falls on the couch.

He signed when he landed, but he felt nothing. He was completely numb now that his heart is broken. He can only repeat the fake Will and Lucas’s words in his head. At that point Vecna wasn’t even doing it, it was him. Then he heard it again the real Will’s voice.

“Mike! Come on please! Fight! I- I love you! You know that right? You mean everything to me, and I can’t lose you again please!” Will’s words got Mike to stand up, he’s running on pure adrenaline then. He doesn’t know what he was doing for a moment he only saw a rip in the wall it was his living room. He was as quiet but also as fast as possible when he enters it. Then in a flash of moments, he was on the living room floor.

At first the only sound from him was a groan, then a scream of pain. That’s when Mike realized the pain in his leg. He couldn’t stop screaming for a minute straight before passing out. He couldn’t hear any words, that the party had said and he certainly didn’t hear how Will repeated the words. “I love you.”

Note!

I think for now I’m planning on just using tumblr for my writings. Just for convenience and it gets to you guys faster. So! Of course I’m still going to continue my Wattpad story on the side, but I’m thinking of transitioning this account to my main account. I’d love to hear your thoughts and opinions on this matter. BUT of course, I hope you guys enjoyed this one shot. Love ya! <3

[apocalyptic-byler]

those mike gets vecna’d theories are looking mighty good rn

[sky-neverending]

Vecna: I know what you are, Micheal.

Mike: Gay?

Venca: No

Mike: In love with my best friend?

Venca:…no

Mike: THEN WHAT?!?!

Vecna: Someone who wears socks with sandals

Mike: Oh.

[darkesttimelinesblog]

Friendly reminder that Joyce, Johnathan, will and Mike are possibly going to get near death experiences/ get venca’d in season 5.

[justghostly-things]

I have been having Stranger Things thoughts and I honestly think I might explode if I don't talk about it just a little.

So uh potential spoilers for season 5 after the break

(it's potential because I have no proof of any of this It was just a thing that popped into my head T_T)

So in season 1; we have Will getting kidnapped/gets stuck in the upsidedown.

In season 2; Will gets possessed. (And we get introduced to dart but idk if that could come up again. )

In season 3; yes we get a possessed Billy but we also get the flesh monster thing (and I guess the whole russian plot but I am gonna be honest I don't really understand what is going on there so I am ignoring it)

And finally in season 4: We have the whole Vecna curse.

I think it would be fun if in season 5 if the party has to face all of these at the same time. I think it would be a good full circle moment. Also they kinda like to bring back old concepts in the Stranger Things all the time so it makes sense that they might do it.

For example, we have been seeing a bunch of Holly pictures, so we know she is going to be at least more important than she has been. Which got me thinking that maybe she gets taken to the upsidedown like Will did in season 1. Which I am more on board with than her just getting killed

I am not completely convinced about the whole; Will is gonna get possessed again theory, that has been talked about. I do think that it is very plausible if this is what they plan on doing for season 5. But it could just as easily be any party members being possessed.

We might get more flesh monster, (yay..) but the mind flare could also just be its shadowy self and I think it would work just as well. I would of course add the clump of mushed together meet just so the connection to it is obvious but we also have more obvious examples before this I don't think it's strictly necessary.

Then of course, the Vecna's curse. I know this might be a bit of a hot topic, I do have thoughts on who (Mike wheeler) Vecna will target but I will leave that for a different post. I do think that it would be a waste to introduce Vecna's curse and then not utilise it in the final season, but I have heard the argument about how it might feel like repetitive story telling (which I don't think Stranger things avoids doing) but I can agree that this could be the case. I think it is likely that it won't be exactly the same. Because we have seen the whole main character Trauma reflected back at them plot. But if Stranger things Season 5 main conflict is a combination of all of the previous conflicts than I think it is fine. And again I think it's a very powerful tool and they shouldn't shy away from using it just because we have seen it before. Idk

I was talking about all of these with my siblings and they pointed out how there are the og four (Mike, Lucas, Dustin, Will), the four gate ways, the four seasons and then the four main conflicts.(There is probably more I am just not smart enough to think of it.) but maybe that is evidence in my favour for this. Idk.

[a-strangers-thoughtss]

Wip Wednesday 💪

(Sorry I’ve been so bad at consistently updating lmao)

My dogs are actually making me so mad rn bc they won’t shut up, so that’s fun too

[byler-alarmist]

I know it's petty of me, but I would love to see a moment in S5 that makes it clear to the GA that Mike isn't interested in El.

Perhaps in a Vecna vision a flashback to them kissing and Mike just looking extremely bored, repulsed, or uncomfortable in a shot that we didn't see previously

Like that scene in But I'm a Cheerleader when Megan is still dating a boy:

I mean, I know we (Byler Nation) saw this play out, but I think the GA needs it to be even more in your face for them to get it.

So that by the time Byler kiss happens, the difference will be so, so obvious.

[sapphic-bats]

I need Mike to be screaming crying, giving an award-winning performance of sobbing in true pain, telling Will that he’ll “be okay” and that “he’s gonna get [him] out of here”,

then a voice interrupting Will’s death in Mike’s arms and revealing it to be the work of Vecna.

[aidyaiden]

make sure you listen to boys dont cry and smalltown boy before they become the running up that hill of st5, you know damn well why

[brionysea]

quick! how many hints can we drop that mike's being targeted by vecna before they catch on?

[salamandergoo]

STWG Prompt: A Different First Meeting

Mike scrambled up the ladder on the playground equipment with a bright smile and a giggle bubbling from his chest. He could hear Lucas somewhere behind him and hurried to get to the top first. A hand slapped down on the platform just before his and Lucas pulled himself up with a grin. “I win!”

“You cheated!”

“You started running first! Guess you’re just slow.” Lucas stuck his tongue out.

Even though his mom kept telling him he was too old to pout when he didn’t get his way, Mike jutted out his bottom lip. “I’m going to make you walk the plank.”

“No you’re not.” Lucas helped him get all the way up. From the top, they could see the entire playground, could almost see over the roof of the school. “Because I’m the captain. You can be my first mate, though!”

Mike sighed and crossed his arms as he swung his legs. The breeze was still a little too warm to really feel nice and his forehead was sweating. “No, it’s Will’s turn to be the first mate. It’s my turn tomorrow.”

Lucas nodded. “We need someone else to play pirates with us. Then we can have enemy ships! With cannon battles!”

Mike grinned, the enthusiasm infectious. “What are we gonna use as cannonballs?”

“Mud!”

“We can’t use mud at recess, remember when we got in trouble last year? We didn’t get to play at recess for a whole week.”

Lucas frowned, looking around the playground. “Maybe we can play in your yard instead, then?”

“Well what are we going to play during recess, then?” Mike perked up when he saw Will running across the playground. “Look! There’s Will!”

Lucas grinned, smiling hard enough that it scrunched up his eyes in the corners. “Will! Ahoy!”

Will looked up and waved. “Ahoy! Permission to come aboard?”

“Aye!”

Will began to climb the ladder, but… another boy was climbing up after him, hat obscuring Mike’s view of his face. “Wait, no-“

“It’s okay.” Will, for what he lacked in size, the smallest of the three of them, made up for it in speed, scaling the ladder easily. “This is Dustin! He’s new.”

Dustin looked up at them from about halfway up the ladder and waved. “Hi!”

Lucas waved back, but Mike wasn’t budged so easily. “But it’s always been just three of us.”

Lucas peered down at the new boy and seemed to consider him. “He can fit up here too. You just said it would be fun to pretend to have two ships.”

“But we were… um…” Mike stared at Dustin. “This is wrong,” he said slowly, his frustration fading. His head ached as he squinted. “It didn’t happen like this.”

“Mike?” Will’s voice was wrong. He’d always been quieter when they were this age, when they-

“We didn’t meet Dustin when we were playing pirates. He brought us a frog and Lucas screamed.” Mike got to his feet as his voice did something weird.

Then the play structure was crumbling under him, the smell of rot flooding his senses as the wood decayed under his feet. He braced himself for impact, but it never came. He was falling endlessly and his limbs wouldn’t coordinate. He looked down (or maybe it was up) and the darkness seemed infinite. “Help!” he cried, reaching out to try and grasp at something, anything to slow his fall.

When he finally crashed to the ground, the wind knocked from his lungs, he was standing in an unfamiliar house. The smell of rot was overwhelming now and he struggled to get to his feet. He wasn’t a fourth grader anymore, he was 14 now, again, like he was supposed to be.

“Mike? Mike!”

“Will,” Mike breathed. The voice echoed off every surface and he turned around, trying to figure out what direction it was coming from. “Will!” He yanked open the closest door, only to find it boarded up. When he peered between the planks, he saw a desolate landscape, familiar in a haunting kind of way. Red cracked along the sky and he had to turn away, feeling himself tremble with fear.

“Mike, help! Help me!”

“Will! I’m coming!” Mike began to run down the hall. “Where are you?”

He froze when he heard a shrill scream come from the opposite direction. That was Lucas, he only screamed like that when something was wrong. “Fuck!” Mike could hear struggling, Lucas’ voice sounded… off. Somehow.

He had to keep running. He ran until his legs ached and wanted to cover his ears like a child, block out the screams that echoed in the endless hallways of the unfamiliar and crumbling house.

He used his shoulder to push open a door at the end of the hall when he reached it. It felt like he’d been running forever and he couldn’t breathe. “Will!”

“Mike.” Will stared at him with an empty expression, standing in the middle of the decrepit room. “What did you do?”

“Wh- what?”

“What have you done?”

Mike looked down at his hands and felt his heart drop. Blood coated his skin, sticky and warm and dark red against his pale skin. “Where did this come from, whose blood is this?”

When he looked up at Will, he was struck by panic. Now Will was covered in blood. “Why did you hurt me, Mike?”

“I didn’t! I didn’t do this! What’s going on, where are we?” He tried to step forward, to approach Will, but no matter how many steps he took, he never got any closer. “Will, please, I didn’t mean to! I don’t know what’s going on!”

“Why did you hurt me, Mike? I thought we were friends.”

“You’re my best friend,” Mike sobbed. “Please, please, please, I didn’t mean to. I didn’t, I swear!” He looked down at his bloody hands again. “Something is wrong, I heard Lucas screaming and we- we were kids again, but it wasn’t right, everything was off!”

“Why did you hurt me, Mike?”

Will’s voice changed and Mike realized it wasn’t him talking anymore. “All you do is hurt the people around you, Michael Wheeler. You know it, you’ve always known. You push them away.”

“I don’t- I don’t!”

He could hear music in the distance, but refused to look up. “…never thought I’d meet a girl like you…”

“You take your friends for granted. You take your family for granted. You take Eleven for granted.”

“I-“ Mike couldn’t breathe as he watched Will morph into… “You’re… Vecna.” And Mike remembered where he’d been. He’d just left the hospital. He’d been going to the high school to help with the volunteer efforts. He’d been back in the fucking van with Will and Jonathan and Argyle. He didn’t fully understand what was happening in Hawkins, all of what they had missed, but he knew this was bad. “Oh fuck.”

“…with auburn hair and tawny eyes…”

“You are going to die, Mike Wheeler. Hawkins has fallen. You are next.”

“Mike! Mike, please!”

Mike turned around, and there, in the hall of the house that wasn’t real, was a gate. He could see… himself. Floating up in the air. Jonathan was fumbling with something in the van, but Will was reaching up for him and crying out his name. “Will,” he whispered.

Vecna was still talking, but Mike could hear the song louder, the gate grew bigger. A split second before the floor broke under his feet, he broke into a sprint. He could hear the ground breaking beneath him and didn’t look down. He could see Will clearly now, could hear him pleading. He didn’t want to die. He didn’t want to fucking die, not like this.

Mike’s eyes snapped open and he felt himself falling. But this time, it wasn’t into the infinite. Will broke his fall more than anything else and Mike let out a surprised sound, something choked that turned into a sob. “What the fuck was that?” he gasped out, wrapping his arms tight around Will’s shoulders.

“Yeah, do we know what the fuck that was?” Argyle’s voice was tight and stressed, he kicked up dust as he paced back and forth anxiously.

“That was Vecna.” Will’s fingers tangled in Mike’s hair and it felt… nice. Mike pressed his face against Will’s shoulder.

“This is my favorite song,” he mumbled.

“Yeah. Yeah, we radioed Dustin, he said Max’s favorite song kept Vecna at bay. And… you know, this was on the mixtape that I… made for you.” Will’s voice got a little quieter.

“He was trying to use my memories against me, I think. I… we were in fourth grade, but it was wrong. You were introducing us to Dustin, but that’s not how it happened… that’s not how we met him.”

“Oh yeah. He found a frog.” Will giggled. “You got so excited about it.”

“It was cool,” Mike grumbled, clinging a little tighter. Maybe Will’s laugh could be his new favorite song. He’d much rather listen to that on loop.

[taleya15]

With Mike levitating up in the air the party began to panic. Will in particular was screaming and crying, begging to make it stop. Trying desperately to figure out how to fix it, trying to remember how he used to get out of it. El is getting just as desperate as he is. “Mike! Come on Mike! It’s ok! Fight!” Her desperate pleas came to no avail Mike was still in the air. With the violent crack of his leg breaking. Until finally! Will knew what to do. “Mike! I know you can hear me! If you’re listening, I want you to remember something! Do you remember the first day of kindergarten? I do, I was on the swing set, by myself I remember I was about to cry.

Because I was feeling so alone, then you ran up to me and asked me to be your friend. I remember how fast I yelled that yes out! And you giggled before we played on the swings the rest of recess. And I know your life started when you met El, but mine started on those swing sets! And I guess if I’m confessing, I have to tell you El didn’t ask for that painting! I did it because you’re my heart, and now I need you to be the brave knight I know you to be. Please! I can’t live without you again, run, hide, or please Mike for once Fight! Fight for me please!” His voice is rough with sobbing, he’s holding desperately to Johnathan.

A few more seconds of Will sobbing and begging quietly. There’s a loud thud to the floor, before a groan and a scream of pain. Will immediately ran over to Mike on the floor. “You did it.” He smiles painfully, “I guess I had to be a knight for once.” Will smiles back at him for a moment. Before the party rushes off to the hospital, hopefully to fix Mike’s leg.

Note!

Sorry I have that writing block y’all! But I hope these blurbs are ok for now! I can keep them coming if you’d like!