Maybe He Had Known That Girl, He Thought. Maybe It Was Something He’d Forgotten - Who Remembered The

The fact that Mike brought up the whole "spending the rest of our lives together without never getting girlfriends" concept even in a fight is so interesting to me bc Will was not saying anything like that before like bby where did you get that idea from hm? And then Will breaks his facade by AGREEING with it and making Mike feel guilty bc now this means he was implying that HE didn't want that too just....wow...they're so gone for each other.

Same vibes come from the rink o mania fight because when Will said "and us" he was talking in a platonic way but Mike took it in a romantic way immediately as if that's something that was in his mind all along. Will even clarifies that he was talking about their friendship but he could've totally seen right through him again and asked "Wait why are you even thinking of us like that?".

I think those moments correlate with each other because both times Mike's bringing something that has many romantic undertones to their fights without meaning to and trying to make it sound like Will is the one thinking those things even tho he was the one who brought it up first bc those are things HE was thinking about.

the cutest thing

'I feel like going to puke.'

grabbing lunch from earth-50101 before saving the multiverse🍟

In s3, Will realized he was stupid for believing Mike wanted to go crazy together with him.

In s4, Will realized he was stupid for believing Mike asking him to be his friend was the best thing he ever did, when in reality Mike’s life started the day he found El in the woods, the day Will’s life ended.

Will is now at a point where he feels naive for believing Mike could possibly like him back. From his perspective, Mike has only doubled down in proving he doesn’t feel the same way about him.

mad max, the party's zoomer - apoc au character details under the cut!

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max's role in the party:

a runner - fast and quiet, tends to be the one who makes out with the most supplies

mechanic - knows best about cars and is one of the party's designated drivers (the other being mike)

medic - not as skilled with plants and medicine like will, but is good with first aid and physical treatment!

thief - who the party sends out if they need to "borrow" from other groups (second nature to her)

skills + hobbies:

incredible with melee weapons and hand-to-hand combat -> everything she knows was taught to her by billy

decent shot, but prefers using melee way more!

stealthy, like a ninja - her and el are the quietest in the party! max's fighting style is much more brawler-like despite this

good with card games (likes poker, speed and BS) -> likes to play them with the party a lot, but in particular with dustin and lucas

skateboards whenever she can -> her favorite thing to do next to driving!

really loves listening to music (fave artists are madonna, taylor swift and destiny's child) -> likes having el or will in shotgun so they can listen together!

quirks / fun facts:

whenever dustin goes to bed, max takes his current handheld and tries to beat his high score on whatever retro game he's currently playing (dustin does not know its max who's actively beating his ass on dig dug and tetris)

she took billy's jacket and baseball bat and made them her own - very complicated relationship with him and her upbringing with her stepbro made her very skeptical and suspicious of others (especially the party when she first met them)

when she steals things, she tries to keep the party in mind when grabbing extra :')

--- other notes: ladies and gentlemen, our newest addition - maxine! i'll admit, the two characters i think i'm most shoddy on for their characterizations are dustin and max. since max's story in my au is so heavily tied to her issues with trusting people again (specifically men) and family, i'm scared that it will make her character intrinsically tied to relationships instead of having her own character. i'll try my very best for it not to be that way, of course!

for now, she's how i imagine her in the show - she's still a cheeky, sarcastic, stubborn and awesome tomboy with insurmountable trust and distance issues, and i love her for that! the circumstances that drew her to the party are currently a secret, but i will establish now that billy is tied to her storyline and how the party meets her for the first time - while billy's an interesting character in his own right, i straight up don't like him :P so i'm warning people now that billy's more a plot device for max's arc and i probably won't be diving incredibly deep into his character. this is a party centric au after all!

when i was thinking of max's character, i was trying to keep the things she liked in mind and why she was so cool in the first place! ofc, she had to skateboard, even if it was only a little, and she's honestly just great at games in general (to dustin's dismay).

her upbringing in canon and the way she acts is pure "survival instinct" behavior. she knows first aid, she knows how to drive, she escapes vecna, she's incredibly independent! she's a fighter, through and through. she's also not really one to hesitate often to be hands on, and i can see it in the way she acted seasons 2-4 :')

lucas is almost done - maybe a few days give or take!

5X08: THE IN-BETWEEN

The lost sister searches for the one she let go, Max and Terry make a breakthrough, and Sullivan goes on the offense. As tensions rise throughout the woods, a stray gunshot changes everything.

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Let's just wiggle these naughty parts a little closer....

Avatars: Masters of flirtation

"So papaya…" -Aang

ngl, this one is particularly chaotic (coming this weeeeekennnddd)

“Is it true? Has my child been exposed to rabies and hallucinogenic mushrooms?!"

“They can be dangerous,” said Jane calmly. “But they are not very big.” She lifted her hand again and sent them away even farther, chittering shrieks fading as they scampered into the woods.

There were so many words trying to spill out of Lucas’s mouth but all he could manage was “holy shit, holy shit, holy shit” over and over like some kind of mantra as Max faintly mumbled “Not very big?”, so it ended up being Dustin who managed to say what they were all thinking.

“Max was right! You do have superpowers!”

“That’s not what I said,” said Max, but Jane was already glancing between them hesitantly. Okay, Dustin might have yelled it. “But like, you do, don’t you?”

“Did you not see the way she moved them with her mind?”

chapter nine: hide and seek, freak