Byler fic recs: a master list.
Hi!
I've taken it upon myself to create my own Byler fic master list. All of these fics are completed, and I'll continue to update the list when more unfinished/ ongoing fics are finished.
Also a note: 99% of these fics have happy endings!! I'm already depressed enough from canon.
HURT/ COMFORT
https://archiveofourown.org/works/80420231
Mike is depressed and Joyce is the best mom ever ™.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/46135804
season 4 fic where everyone goes through mikes letters to Will.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/76318551
Mike has reality bending powers and it takes Vecna almost killing him to find that out.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/20328865
5 + 1 fic; 5 times someone realized Mike loves Will and the one time Mike figures it out.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/53125987
Mike has a secret admirer
https://archiveofourown.org/works/54385021
Mike has a Gay Awakening™
https://archiveofourown.org/works/81269036
Mike comes out as gay before Will does. MWTFDYD gate.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/42474792
Mike is Vecna’d with a twist.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/61665061
Mike is gay and everyone knows it ™ + catholic guilt.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/28336371
Karen wheeler wonders where she went wrong. Character study/ outsider POV.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40677222
Mike accidentally comes out to Johnathan.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/39783186
Both Mike AND Will are Vecna'd.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/81203111
A 26 year old Max is sent flying into the past.
ANGST
https://archiveofourown.org/works/76122481
Zombie apocalypse Byler, angst w/ a happy ending. Literally devoured it in one sitting.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/75538271
Obligatory Mike gets Vecna’d fic w/ a side of magical amnesia.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/19848346
Season 3 au where Will joins the Scoops Troop.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/75851656
Mike is taken by Vecna and Will starts having strange dreams.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/13415250
Fic where the upside down isn't real. Will, when riding home from Mike’s house on November 6th 1983, crashes his bike and gets amnesia.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/74907276
Mike and Will are in the Upside Down and are being targeted by Vecna. Angst w/ a happy ending.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/36273955
Mike runs away to California to warn the Byers of an old enemy's plot.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/72736711
Fic where Will actually died in season 1, and El didn't make it to the quarry in time to save Mike. Miwi.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/14245983
Will Byers is stuck in a time loop.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/74156126
Mike contracts Hanahaki disease.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/66673885
Mike and Will run away. Ft. Lesbians!!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/51107797
Byler x Time Traveler’s Wife au.
FIX-IT
https://archiveofourown.org/works/76509836
Mike isn't Will’s Tammy Thompson.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/76453591
Mike is jealous of Will’s Tammy. Who the fuck is Tammy?
https://archiveofourown.org/works/76509836
Mike figures it out.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/76363331
Mike is sent back to the beginning of season 3 after Will sacrifices himself.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/61785931
S3 fic where Will runs into El and Max at the mall.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/76185666
Mike and Will have a chat.
CRACK (TREATED SERIOUSLY)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/80491721
Fic formatted using Reddit, crack treated seriously, mikes POV!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40272528
Another Reddit fic, Mike's POV.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/74430066
Byler travels back in time to season 3. Chaos ensues.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/41872743
Will wakes up to find a 12 year old Mike sleeping on his bedroom floor. Written pre-season 5
https://archiveofourown.org/works/78481216
AU where straight people die when they turn 18. It's almost Mikes birthday, and Will is worried
https://archiveofourown.org/works/54966208
Lucas and Will swap bodies. Ft. Lucas being weirded out by the Will Voice ™ being directed at him. ** **
https://archiveofourown.org/works/78703341
paladin! Mike is transported to Hawkins. Features brave Byers and jealous Mike.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/78697566
ANOTHER Brave Byers fic.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/78791746
Yet ANOTHER Brave Byers fic…
https://archiveofourown.org/works/81209851
Lesbyler meets Byler.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/74983426
Mike is unreasonably jealous of Will and Robin. Then he isn't.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/69770636
Mike’s son arrives in Hawkins through inter dimensional transportation. Everyone thinks the other parent is El (they're wrong).
https://archiveofourown.org/works/76633531
Putting this in this category because Mike thinks Will’s Tammy is Dustin. Oh my God.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/76541666
Will meets the Stranger Things cast and Saves the World ™
https://archiveofourown.org/works/79072521
Brave Byers 😛😛
FLUFF/ LIGHT(?) ANGST
https://archiveofourown.org/works/46103569
fantasy au. Mike is hit by a love spell. Chaos ensues.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/41362581
Practice kissing fic where Mike has his gay awakening. Both Mike and Will are disgustingly oblivious.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/78054056
Mike is down bad for Will and is physically unable to say no to him.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/65249749
Mike is secretly being tested on how good of a boyfriend he is to El. He fails astronomically. Ft. Autistic Mike
https://archiveofourown.org/works/43759233
Mike and Will enter a fake relationship that quickly becomes real.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/59117794
Mike comes out and Will is jealous.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/62566267
Mike wheeler isn't gay. He's not good at showing it.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/74935626
Robin realizes she was wrong.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/71774766
In which Lucas is the MVP and the greatest matchmaker of all time.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/39632409
4 + 1; 4 times the party realized they were third wheeling Byler and one time Mike and Will realized it themselves.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/75730011
Will the Wise and Will swap universes. It goes as you expect.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/57717160
In which The Whole party collectively shares one brain cell.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/75323716
Lucas clocks Byler.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/42339990
Mike is jealous; what else is new?
https://archiveofourown.org/works/75119316
Mike is clingy.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/41700300
5 + 1. Established secret relationship!!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/74914971
Mike is in love and Will is oblivious.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/70953671
Mike is stuck reliving the Van Scene ™ over and over again.