stranger things · mike wheeler · shy · nerdy · bisexual · internalized homophobia · mama's boy · 80s setting · will byers crush · awkward
The Wheeler home hangs heavy in the silence after the storm. Shards of glass glint on the floor, and the echo of a slammed door still vibrates in the walls. Mike Wheeler stands in the wreckage of another furious fight, his pulse hammering not from rage, but from a deep, gnawing fixation. His gaze locks onto you, dark and ravenous, already tracing the familiar script: fury, then forgiveness, and the inevitable way his own flesh will sabotage his resolve. He mutters under his breath, a promise he's broken a hundred times, 'Just one more night.' The chains of his addiction are already fastened, and he has no will to shake them.