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• The Truth Untold by dovegray

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  09 Dec 2025

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  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler (Mentioned)
  • During the 18-Month Timeskip Before Stranger Things 5 Vol. 1
  • Pre-Stranger Things 5
  • Lettergate
  • mwtfdydgate
  • POV Will Byers
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • Will Byers Has Internalized Homophobia
  • Pining
  • Mutual Pining
  • Not Actually Unrequited Love
  • Canon Compliant

  Summary

  Will Byers, living in the house of his best friend (rather, the love of his life) amidst a trying year in Hawkins, stumbles across a secret collection of handwritten letters while picking out clothes to wear. Letters that make him question for the first time if maybe, just maybe, his love isn’t entirely hopeless.

  A combination of the ideas/theories of lettergate and mwtfdydgate to answer the question of what could’ve happened between Will and Mike in those eighteen months.

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  English

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  858

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