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   To grow up (is to be a hero) by Voidvxls

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M, F/M
   • Work in Progress

   25 May 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Dustin Henderson
   • Will Byers & Steve Harrington
   • Robin Buckley & Will Byers
   • Will Byers & Erica Sinclair
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
   • Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Dustin Henderson & Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • backgroud relationships
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Steve Harrington
   • Robin Buckley
   • Erica Sinclair
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Billy Hargrove
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Fix-It of Sorts
   • Stranger Things 3
   • Season 3 rewrite
   • Will listens to the russian transmission with Dustin
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Light Angst
   • Friendship
   • Will Byers & Dustin Henderson Friendship
   • byerson enjoyers this is for you
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Homophobic Language
   • Coming Out
   • Panic Attacks
   • Dreams and Nightmares
   • Will Byers Has Powers
   • Will Byers-centric
   • Different character povs in the latter chapters
   • hints at gnc Will Byers
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • He just doesn't understand it yet
   • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
   • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
   • Slow Burn
   • kind of? i guess?
   • There's some yearning in here me thinks
   • Pre-Relationship
   • Minor Character Death
   • A little bit of psychological horror
   • emotional cheating
   • Possessive Mike Wheeler
   • Nancy Wheeler has the worst gaydar in Hawkins
   • Max clocks Mike's ass

   Summary

   Will forced himself to stop thinking. The Upside Down was closed for good. Eleven had close the gate last year and saved them all. His mother, Jonathan and Nancy had taken the Mind Flayer out of him. There was nothing more connecting him to that place. He was clean. Purged. And those stupid chills he got from time to time in the back of his neck were just his brain messing up with him. It was him not being able to move on from what happened in the past. It was him not being able to grow the fuck up already.

   Dustin clapped his hands, the sound echoing in the calm night, making Will snapped out of his thoughts. “We can become heroes, Will. Honest to God American heroes. Like freaking Red dawn or something.”

   Season 3 rewrite in which Will listens to the Russian transmission with Dustin. Inspired by American Heroes by catchip2

   Series

   • Part 1 of Our way to the Rightside Up

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