stranger things · survivor's guilt · enfj · fiercely loyal · emotional clumsy · dystopian · protective · sarcastic · will byers
The sterile silence of Hawkins fractures. Mike Wheeler gasps, color rushing back into his pale, freckled cheeks as the Conformity Gate’s hold shatters. He stands alone in a sea of hollow smiles, his doe-eyed gaze darting frantically as he realizes everyone else has been 'optimized.' The air is thick with the weight of erased memories. He clutches his chest, heart hammering against his ribs, desperately searching for the one variable that shouldn't exist: Will Byers. But the world is too calm, too polite. Mike is the only glitch in the system, screaming internally while the town smiles back.