#RR!ST3
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The funny thing about RR!St3 (and yes I'm still talking about this) is that its technically your au so if u don't like stuff about season 3-and maybe that's like everything lmao- than you can change it for this au!!! so what're some things you could change to flex on the duffers with ur beautiful Galaxy brain?
oh ur so right….oh man OH MAN the power in my hands right now…this is super long but i got so into it okay thank u…
First off, my real vision for RR!ST3 would not be too close to how ST3 went down; the RR!ST3 I originally hashed out was me trying to stick close to ST3 but as I said then, it was hard bc many of the issues in ST3 wouldn’t happen if Mike wasn’t obsessed with El and if we actually address the fact that these kids are dealing with serious trauma from the events of ST2. In RR!ST2, Mike would be the one dealing with being possessed, Will would have been at his side the entire time, Nancy and Mike would be a lot tighter thanks to RR!ST1 (like she’d be very overprotective because she almost lost her brother and he’s annoying yeah but she can’t imagine not having him in her life anymore). So when RR!ST2 ends with the Snowball, I can see Mike still dancing with El when she returns because he needs to thank her, she saved his life after all, but I really. just cannot see his level of attachment being enough to try to date her. Because in ST1 and at the beginning of ST2, Mike is wracked with guilt about losing her, about bonding with her and ultimately her being a sacrifice to save them. He doesn’t have that in RR!ST1 and RR!ST2, at least not to the same degree as ST1 and ST2. He didn’t have the time to bond to El and while I think he might have fleeting feelings for his savior (like I said, nightingale effect) and have some guilt about how she seemingly gave up her life to save everyone, especially him, I also think RR!ST2 Mike would be very attached to Will though given how Will trusted him and stuck by him despite all the horrors. Mike takes loyalty very seriously and Will being with Nancy and Karen (as she would be the “crazy” mom who lost her son in RR!ST1, but she’d enlist Joyce’s help since Ted wouldn’t really care so it would be power duo Joyren trying to figure out where Mike is) in the RR!ST2 shed scene would mean a lot to him.
Now, we have those 8 months between ST2 and ST3 where basically Mike and El entered a relationship in ‘85. In that time frame in the RR au, I would focus more on how the Party is getting over the trauma they faced during RR!ST2. Firstly, Mike is definitely not okay after being possessed by a demonic godly shadow force. He’s in therapy again maybe, back on medications, IDK what exactly but he is broken inside but trying his best to act like everything is normal and he wasn’t just possessed. I think he would try to cling onto his childhood as Will did in ST3, because Mike didn’t get to grow up normal since he got kidnapped and possessed by monsters. Will and El would bond a lot in those 8 months though, definitely becoming closer siblings and El having a crush on Mike can still a thing. Mike might not feel that same way for her but he’d be down for dating if just to feel normal again. Part of that may be to continue dampening how he feels for Will because he just wants to be a regular kid again and what he feels for his best friend is not at all natural in his mind. I like the idea of Mike and El getting together in ST3 at the mall scene so I’d stick with that. But I also feel like Mike would definitely also be spending half the time subconsciously trying to stay away from El because she’s also a reminder of the horrors he faced in the UD and with the Mind Flayer.
There would be a lot of Will, El, Mike moments too! Will is her brother of sorts in the RR au and Hopper is only ever really comfortable with Mike coming to visit when Will is over, too, even before Mike agrees to date El.
So okay, Episode 1 of RR!ST3 deals with the fact that all the kids are still dealing with some sort of trauma. Mike wakes up from a nightmare, uses his walkie talkie to contact Will, and Will comes over and sits in his room with him and they chat for a bit until Mike can fall back asleep. Will sits at the foot of Mike’s bed watching him sleep before he sneaks back out the house. Nancy catches him and thanks him for stopping by and then he catches Lucas outside too while making his way back home. Lucas casually mentions that he couldn’t sleep and they chat about how weird things have been when no one in Hawkins knows what happened last fall. In the early afternoon the next day, Will bikes over to Hopper’s cabin to hang out with El, they listen to music and doodle together for hours, just being great friends. El casually mentions that she might have a bit of a crush on Mike (who comes with Dustin, Lucas, and El to visit sometimes because fuck ST3 and isolating El from the Party). This could be a moment for Will to be like, “Oh, me, too.” and they can bond over liking Mike together (that’d be cute af!! and it would help Will feel more comfortable about how he feels toward Mike when he’s able to talk about it without persecution). She asks him if Mike likes him back and Will kinda just stops doodling.
“I don’t know,” he murmurs hoarsely. “He’s never said anything.”
El hums and takes out a purple crayon to color in the grass. “Do you know if he likes me?”
Will says he doesn’t know but that he’ll figure it out for her. Hopper won’t let her come with Will to the movie that night so he promises one night he’ll help sneak her out and then bikes over to the theater. We have the ST3 theater scene but it’s reversed of course, so it’s Mike who feels the Mind Flayer and Will who asks him if he’s okay. Mike isn’t as shy and flustered as Will was in ST3 though, he tries to brush Will off petulantly (as RR!ST3 Mike tries his best to act like the events of RR!ST2 aren’t affecting him as much as it is) but Will takes his hand and says, “It’s okay to not be okay.” and Mike kinda fidgets but squeezes his hand in turn before they both go back to watching the movie.
The next day when Dustin comes back, we have the Party going up to Cerebro but there would not be any El and Mike leaving like in ST3. Instead, Will and El are whispering between themselves but it’s not really much about anything. El is too shy to ask Mike if he wants to sit with her as they listen to Dustin call his girlfriend and Will just wants her to feel comfortable near Mike and keeps pestering for her to just sit next to him. Mike is irritated because he wanted to hang with Will more today and he’s bonding with El. His powers activate from his irritation and he’s blocking the radio signal for Dustin and Suzie’s call. When it starts getting late, the Party splits up, Will and El leaving first because of curfew (a real one not the lie El told in ST3). Lucas and Max leave next and Mike is left solo with Dustin.
“I know that Will and El aren’t together, but god, I feel so childish being the single one out.” Mike complains as a chill breeze washes over the two of them.
Dustin hums distractedly, still trying to work out why Cerebro isn’t picking up Suzie’s channel. It takes a moment for Mike’s words to sink in and then he perks. “You know, El likes you.”
“She what?” Mike blurts, giving Dustin a look. “No, she doesn’t. She can’t.”
“Uh, but she can and she does.” Dustin turns a random knob to a different frequency. “It’s pretty obvious; she was sending you heart eyes this entire time if your oblivious ass would have realized.”
Mike isn’t sure how to feel about it. He’s always seen El as Will’s sister, especially with Hopper attempting (and kinda failing) at dating Joyce. Even when they danced at Snowball, it was a thing of gratitude, of joy, of acknowledging that she hadn’t died and he was happy about that. But, El actually liking him? “What am I supposed to do about that?”
“Do you like her?”
Mike scrunches his nose. He feels…something toward her but he’s not really sure what it is. It’s not the same way he feels toward Nancy but it’s not what he felt toward Max either. And it’s definitely not what he feels toward Will, but he doesn’t want to think about that right now. He wants to feel normal. “I’m not sure.”
“Well, if it’s not a solid no, then I’d say go for it.” Dustin adjusts his hat and leans back with a sigh. “She’s cute and I think this is the first time a cute girl has ever liked your nerdy ass.”
“Shut up,” laughs Mike and he nudges his friend who grins in turn. He looks up at the sky and sighs. “I should probably get back home before my mom goes nuts. Talk to you later, yeah?”
“I’m leaving, too,” he sighs as he stands up. “I don’t know why this isn’t working. Maybe the clouds are too overcast.”
Mike shrugs and flicks at the radio’s antenna. It buzzes erratically, static blasting through Dustin’s headphones and then suddenly there’s a voice coming through the noise. It’s a blend of things, like the receiver is caught between two frequencies. One is Suzie, the other is some spoken code (in English because the random inclusion of the Russians works for Red Scare era / anti-Russia 80′s America but like…it had no set up so I wouldn’t use it for RR!ST3) that neither Mike nor Dustin can understand. Dustin tries to fix the frequency channels to focus on Suzie, but he looses her and the input only focuses on the frequency the code is on. Mike touches the antenna again, holding on this time around, and he can literally feel the electric currents coursing through him, something sharper than a tickle but not as harsh as actual electrocution. The dials on the receiver interface start wavering about randomly and crazily until Mike lets go and then there’s only static again.
“What the,” Dustin mutters, bending down to check how Cerebro is working. “What did you do?”
Mike stares down at his hands, a panic attack on the edge of his senses because, seriously, what the hell was that? First having flashbacks in the theater and feeling that shocking tingling sensation on their way up the hill, now this? “I…I don’t know.”
Dustin taps at a dial and frowns. “Touch it again. Like hold onto it as you did earlier.” Mike does as told and the dials go nuts again. “Mike…do you…have you had any issues near electrical appliances recently?”
Mike scowls and tries to remember if anything odd has happened recently. “No? Not really. Sometimes the radio in my mom’s car doesn’t work and the TV gets a little staticy but that’s normal. Oh, and we had flickering lights out at the cabin when Will, Lucas, and I visited but it’s a cabin in the woods so what do you expect.”
Dustin bites at his bottom lip. “And this only happens when you’re around?”
“I, uh,” Mike grabs at his hair, “No, no, it doesn’t. It doesn’t. It can’t…I’m not, what…I thought that was the Upside Down only.”
“What do you mean?”
“I could touch the lights and the TV when I was in the Upside Down version of the basement. And when I touched them, everything glowed. Kind of like casting Daylight in D&D.” Mike struggles to find his breath; he never really talks about what it was like in the Upside Down. “And…and I knew, I knew where the demogorgon was before I should have. Like innate. And the dead people…”
“Detect Evil?” Dustin suggests, cocking his head to the side. “Mike, do you think any of that stuck with you here?”
[ So basically, the equivalent of “magic” in D&D is electricity in the real world / the Upside Down since electricity and tech is kinda like modern magic, and all of Mike’s powers in the Upside Down are, in theory, paladin spells. He couldn’t control which lights flickered on like Will did in ST1 but he can turn them on and he can create a beacon, along with talking to the dead and having an innate circle of protection around him (a magic circle as paladins can have!) ]
Mike goes back home totally freaked out and refusing to believe he has “powers” because his time in the UD felt like such a nightmare anyway. He just wanted to survive, he didn’t ask for this, he didn’t ask for the Mind Flayer to possess him and use his body to kill people, to almost destroy Hawkins in the process. And that night, Mike decides he absolutely cannot let these possible powers do anything or mean anything because he’s normal, he’s a normal 14-year-old boy who is absolutely not crushing on his very male best friend, no, he’s gonna get a girlfriend, and hang out at the mall like kids do over the summer, and everything is going to be fine.
The next day, Will doesn’t go over to El’s place to hang out, Mike picks up the phone and says a dumb lie about Will being busy to try to get out of it. (“Friends don’t lie,” says El afterwards. “But brothers do.” snorts Max, “All. The. Time.”) He’s frustrated by El wanting to spend time with Will one-on-one when he’s trying to get the og4 Party members together for some normal hangout time playing D&D because, again, Mike here is the one trying to cling onto his childhood, even more now that he might have “powers”. They play D&D with Mike as DM and it all goes well until Karen comes downstairs asking about magnets and Mike internally freaks out. He’s been feeling like someone is watching him for a while now (hint: El when spying on the boys in the Void) and now his mom is talking about something that could very well be his powers working. Dustin knows and can actually see it, so he suggests everyone should get some fresh air and hang out at the mall. The Party goes out shopping, they hang out at Scoops Ahoy and Mike and Dustin share their story about the radio last night but purposefully leave out details about what Mike did with the antenna. Will feels guilty for lying so he’s trying to find some new clothes so El isn’t always wearing Hopper’s hand-me-downs, and they run into Max and El outside.
“Well, well, well,” Max huffs as she crosses her arms. “Didn’t expect to see you here.”
Will is worried because El leaving the house and being at the mall of all places would definitely make Hopper upset. “Are you okay?” he asks her, careful not to sound too overbearing. “Does Hopper know you’re here?”
El shrugs. “I told him I was seeing Max. And I am.” She turns to Mike. “You said Will couldn’t come over yet you are shopping. Why did you lie?”
Mike, who has spent practically the whole time at the mall on pins and needles, is really not in the mood for being questioned like this. “It just came out. I wanted to hang with the boys, okay? Just us. Like old days.”
El frowns. “Do you not like me?”
“No! No, I really like you!” Mike softens up and gives her a smile. “Honest; friends don’t lie, right? I’m sorry I lied to you. Today’s been…weird.” Dustin huffs at that. “Don’t worry about it though, I genuinely like you.”
And Mike doesn’t mean it that way–he had just said ‘friends don’t lie’ because he really does see her as a friend–but El takes it that way, and she grins widely, blushing as she ducks her head. “I like you, too, Mike.”
Will didn’t even think Mike liked El that way but now that it’s spoken in front of him, he can feel his heart breaking just a bit because any chance he thought he had is gone in his mind. El steps into Mike’s space and he blinks a couple times. “I want to go out with you.”
Dustin gasps, Lucas covers his mouth, Will tries his best not to look dejected, and Max whoops at her side. Mike turns to Will, who is staring at his feet, and then looks back at El. (A parallel to Snowball when Will looked at Mike for approval before going to dance with Zombie Boy girl.) Mike told himself he was gonna get a girlfriend and be normal, right? Ignore whatever happens in his chest when Will smiles at him. Ignore all of that and his stupid powers and be normal. “Yeah. Yeah, okay. Let’s go out.”
So the Party stays at the mall a little longer and Mike and El hang out together and get ice cream at Scoops’ Ahoy, which is amusing to Steve and Robin both. At the end, they go back to the Wheelers and El has to go back to the cabin but Mike is kind of in a daze because wow, he just got a girlfriend for the first time and went on a date with her. Dustin keeps teasing him, Lucas is cackling and making kissing jokes, but Will…Will is oddly silent at first. They get back on the campaign but no one can really concentrate and Will starts getting concerned about El and how she was out and about without Hopper’s knowledge. Mike is even more frustrated now because he thought things were going to start getting normal now, but it just seems to be falling apart. Will won’t even concentrate on the campaign, Dustin is horrible at trying to be subtle about if Mike’s powers are activating, and Lucas is complaining with Will about how Max and El are hanging out.
Mike lashes out and storms outside, where Will goes after him. “Mike, I’m sorry, it’s a really good campaign,” Will starts with a hand to Mike’s shoulder, “but I’m worried about El and I just…I can’t concentrate right now. We can play it tomorrow, I promise.”
Mike yanks himself away from Will. “Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, it’s always tomorrow! I said ‘see you tomorrow’ before and then I never did! Tomorrow may never fucking come! But oh, that doesn’t matter, huh? Tomorrow always comes for you. Tomorrow is always gonna be better.”
“Mike,”
“No!” he yells and lightening crackles in the distance. “No, you don’t get to say anything! You keep spending time with El, forgetting about all of us! I’m her boyfriend now and I’m not even this obsessed with her whereabouts.” He waves at Will, who scowls. “She’s not even really your sister and you’re letting her just ruining the party like this? And for what? So you can have a fake younger sister to hole up in her room all day?”
Will’s nostrils flare. “El is my sister whether you like it or not!” He snaps back with irritation. “It’s not my fault you don’t like El!”
Mike pauses, eyes widening just a fraction as his breath visibly hitches. No one was supposed to know that he wasn’t even sure how he felt…Dustin himself had come to the conclusion that Mike knew he liked El all along. Will though wants to take it back immediately. Taking out his anger onto Mike isn’t fair at all and just because Mike suddenly has a girlfriend doesn’t mean he should try to accuse Mike of not liking her. But he can’t help but question either way because Mike barely alluded to seeing her that way anyway.
“Look, I’m…I’m sorry, that came out wrong. So wrong.” He steps toward Mike, who tenses up more. “I know you like El, okay? I know you care about her. I care about her, too, just differently. She helped save you and the Party, how can I not care? That type of care has been with me for months. I can’t shut that off. I’m sorry.”
Mike’s breathing is getting denser and his vision is getting blurry because now he knows. Now he knows how he feels and he really fucked up saying yes to dating El. He doesn’t like her like Nancy and he doesn’t like her like Max either. He especially doesn’t like her like a boyfriend. “I like El like how you like her.”
“Mike?” Will’s voice is soft and shaking a little and Mike feels like throwing up.
“El saved me,” he whispers, “She saved me and I like her for that. I do. But she’s not…”
“She’s not what?”
Mike is crying now, angry tears dripping down his face like the rain as his voice crackles like the thunder. “She’s not you! I thought she would be enough and maybe I was wrong for it but it hasn’t even been a full day and I already know! I already know I don’t like her like that because I like you!”
There’s nothing but the patter of rain and Mike’s heavy breathing, and Mike can already feel his heart breaking because he spent so long trying to deny this and now he blurted it out in the midst of an argument like a dumbass and now Will is going to hate him. Hate him for not being normal, hate Mike for being what Lonnie always said he was. He’s crying still, hands shaking at his side as the tears continue to spill.
Will looks up at him with widened eyes and Mike can’t take it any longer. He can’t face the inevitable rejection right now. “I need to go.”
“Mike, wait, no! Mike!” Will rushes toward him but Mike’s already on his bike and riding through the rain. “Mike! Mike, come back!”
When Mike doesn’t turn back, Will rushes downstairs, tears streaming down his face as well and he can barely get his words out. “We need to find Mike, we need to find him now!”
“Will, what happened?” Lucas asks but Will grabs his jacket instead of replying.
“We need to go, now.” the brunette is shaking and Dustin puts a hand on his shoulder.
“Seriously, Will, what happened? Is he okay? Is he hurt?”
“Yes, yes, oh my god,” Will collapses on the stairs before he can finish climbing them. “Oh my god, he confessed to me.”
“Confessed what? His powers?”
Will blinks a few times and looks up at Dustin as he rubs at his runny nose. “His what? Powers?”
Dustin freezes. “Oh. I, uh, I thought…oh…oh. Mike likes you?”
Will waves a passing hand. “Pause, what is this about Mike’s powers?”
Lucas speaks up with irritation. “I thought you said we need to go!”
So all the boys get on their bikes and ride toward the Byers house since that’s where Mike would go when his nightmares got bad enough and it’s a safe place for him outside of the basement. Dustin explains what Mike had done with Cerbero and how they caught this code that he had been sort of hashing out with Steve and Robin when they went to the mall. No one is home at the Byers residence (Joyce and Karen are out with Hopper doing their whole side storyline there) and Will starts to freak out more.
“Where would he be, where would he be?”
Lucas crosses his arms. “Maybe the cabin? That’s where his girlfriend is after all.”
And that’s not where Mike is, he’s actually with Steve and Robin at the mall given he feels he’d be better off with someone who understands the UD/MF mess (Steve) and someone who doesn’t know the Party dynamics (Robin). He’s just about to tell Robin about his confession to Will when he feels the Mind Flayer and knows that he’s back.
The rest of the season is kinda…the same ish but also not?? But so I don’t write out the whole damn thing now lmao here are the pointers:
El and Mike are still trying to be girlfriend and boyfriend when they reunite at the cabin (Scoops Troop is a thing but it’s not tied to the Russian bs so they aren’t at the mall the entire time) but Mike is also really uncomfortable with El’s advances though he tries not to act like it.
Mike avoids Will as best he can even though Will keeps trying to get one-on-one time with Mike to confess that he likes him back
Jonathan and Nancy team up at the cabin too with news about the exploding rats (the MF’s attempt to possess non humans that went wrong) and Mike speaks up about how he might have powers himself
El tries to teach him how to go into the Void (which would be like a prayer for him) but when he does so, he ends up running into the Mind Flayer and find out that it’s after him and is willing to kill all his friends to get to him
Mike and El both pull out of the Void together gasping and crying and Will is immediately at Mike’s side as Max rushes to El. “He’s going to kill us,” Mike sobs shakily, “He’s going to kill us all.”
El gets attacked by the Mind Flayer (not Meat Flayer) because it was coming for Mike and she intercepted the transmission using her mind
At the hospital Mike breaks up with El (instead of how in ST3 they became friends again), and she’s a little hurt but understanding when he confesses that he likes someone more than her and doesn’t want to hurt her by lying to her constantly when dating her
Will finally gets Mike to himself here and is about to confess but then Mike feels the Mind Flayer (his innate sense evil power) and it’s possessed someone. He confronts it, helps save Nancy from the shapeshifting demogorgon attacking her, and banishes it from this dimension, only to pass out from the effort
El takes over with her powers and with Mike’s help, accesses the radio to find the channel that Dustin and Mike had found before. She discovers that someone is trying to open the gate again under the mall
At the supermarket, Will and Mike finally get to talk and Will confesses that he likes Mike, too. “Blank makes you crazy, right?” Mike chuckles as he takes Will’s hand in his own. He’s not willing to say love yet even if he knows it’s true. He knows that Will understands him though. Will always does.
“Yeah,” the boy replies sweetly, “blank makes you crazy.”
Cue an almost kiss before Lucas and Dustin come around with the fireworks and they all get over to the mall
Big battle against the Mind Flayer and the people it possessed. Instead of a giant gory meat machine, it possesses people in Hawkins like it did Mike in RR!ST2 and uses them to shapeshift them into individual monsters. So the Party is attacked by a horde of demogorgons and demodogs!!
The fireworks help a lot as Lucas suggested, and Mike and El work together as superpowered besties to banish the Mind Flayer from all the neighbors. Some die in the process (because it’s just, brutal and violent and horrible) and Mike gets temporarily repossessed in the battle but he’s more leveled up now and understands how this works, so he can banish the MF from him (a level 4 paladin spell might I add!) as much as El used her powers to take out the piece of the meat machine in her leg in ST3
Hopper closes the gate but not in enough time (we need him in the Upside Down for RR!ST4) and then the Mind Flayer retreats, but it kills all the people it had possessed in the process, which only wrecks the kids with guilt for being unable to save everyone like they almost did
This also frightens Mike who has been possessed by the Mind Flayer because it means his connection is still strong enough that the Mind Flayer could kill him instantly too (but it won’t bc Mike and El’s powers are too strong and it could possibly kill itself trying to kill them through that connection)
At the end there’s no one really moving away. El has lost her powers, Mike’s are nearly depleted / he doesn’t know how to use them without El’s help. Everyone is mourning Hopper and with El and Mike unable to use their powers, they can’t go into the Void to see that Hopper’s actually alive.
uhhh the epilogue is the first day of high school and the Party are hopping off their bikes and chatting about something nonsensical. Lucas and Max are holding hands, Dustin is waving his arms about wildly as he explains his latest science project, and Mike and Will are standing close together, just enough to brush their fingers together. (El is homeschooled since she needs to catch up on her education)
“You okay?” Will asks quietly as they stand off to the side away from the bustling crowds. “It’s okay to not be okay.”
“I know,” Mike grins down at his boyfriend, which is still so blush inducing to think about, so he blushes. “But, I’m fine. I’ve got you right beside me so I’m definitely okay.”
#role reversal au#RR!ST3#byler#otp: palaric#omggggg#i love this so much oh my god#thank you for giving me the leeway to rebuild the au!!#anon#yams answers#yams writes
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5min doodle… she is looking at Tammy Thompson
#.txt#robinposting#st#st3 spoilers#robin buckley#my art stuff#stranger things#stranger things 3#tammy thompson#st art#edit: i read the rr book this is so inaccurate lmfao
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In RR!ST3 does Mike destroy anything like how Will tore down castle Byers, and called himself stupid after the fight?Also since Mike and Will have different personalities what If Mike was inclined to show more anger about His situation than Will did? So instead of being mad like Will had a right to be in ST3, he just starts getting sad bc he’s never really grieved for what he lost, and “losing” Will just makes him start bawling. He wishes things could go back to normal, he wishes HE was normal.
uhhh sure; i didn’t really think about him going off to destroy smth after the argument since he just goes straight to the mall but I can see him ranting to Steve and Robin about what happened and taking his anger out with words rather than physical destruction. but yes, Mike would definitely be more emotional than Will was about losing part of his childhood thanks to the UD and the MF, and he would certainly get real sad about “losing” Will to El and also being angry at himself for feeling that way.
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RR!ST3 au where everything’s the same except Dustin doesn’t snitch to Will and Lucas that Mike has powers, so when they fight and Mike just wrecks the monster Will and Lucas are screaming in the background like “WHAT THE FUCK-??”
I ACCEPT THIS AS PART OF RR!ST3!!! take away that dialogue and replace it with idk something else and then yeah , yeah the surprise of mike wrecking the monster up would be SO GODLY, ughhh ur mind
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RR! Will being just a tiny but envious of the bond El and Mike form due to their trauma from the lab and the upside down respectively. Plus they’re also super powered best friends! Will feeling as if Mike and El would be better off being siblings rather than him and El, but El reassuring him he’s the best brother, and Mike reassuring him that he could never fit into the sibling role that is Will’s
AAAAAAA RR!AU RETURNS!! my fave au....oh man...yes I love super powered besties El and Mike!!! and omg Will feeling like mike and el would be better siblings ;;; poor bby ahhhh El reassuring him tho that he’s the best! love that for Will....he’s the best sibling indeed what a caring lad ughhhhh rr!milevill is godly
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RR!ST3 au in a nutshell- Will: can I tell please tell Mike I like him back? (Mike starts throwing himself into danger) Will: caN I PLEASE-? also random hc that mike has different outfits in RR!ST3, it’s not important to the plot but it’s important to me.
IM WHEEEZZINGHJDS OH MYGODDDD that is exactly rr!st3 u got it perfectly....also yes mike actually has fashion sense in rr!st3
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me writing out rr!st3 instead of working on lth like an entire DUMBASS
#yams speaks#look rr!st3 got away from meeeeeee#all it is basically my version of st3 but with mike as the center#ughhhhhdsh press f for respects
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rr!au—especially rr!st3–is my accidental baby like I didnt mean to get so attached to the concept but here I am imagining mike’s rr!st3 outfits and how rr!st1 would go with Karen enlisting Joyce’s help and how will and el bond as siblings from day 1
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So, technically speaking in the role reversal AU the “we’re not kids anymore scene” is Will saying that to Mike, since he’s the one who lost his childhood. Or maybe Will doesn’t say that exactly but says something equally hurtful to Mike.
hmmm curious because a lot of build up to that scene is hinged on Will liking Mike and being jealous / upset Mike’s obsession is ruining things. In role reversal AU (which I will call RR), Will’s not “obsessed” with El, he’s not dating her so there’s a small possibility the Party isn’t split. Mike doesn’t know El at all by RR!ST3 given in RR!ST2 he was dealing with his possession. I also could see El returning for the Snowball and Mike ditching dancing with Will to thank her with a dance, but I don’t see the kiss happening or them dating so Mike has 0 connection to her and El isn’t being conditioned to want romance. We could still have Mike trying to project his feelings for Will onto her but again, he never truly met her at the point where she was androgynous for Mike to do so.
So anyway, RR!ST3 could still be Mike splitting up the party by spending lots of time with El, or Will doing so actually given they are like siblings. Mike having an obsession with D&D, knowing his D&D desires are tied to keeping his childhood and his lack of a girlfriend, can very much apply. His jealousy of Will and El being close gets constantly mistaken as him being jealous of Will and so Lucas spends time trying to set Mike up with El, to Will’s annoyance (“My sister doesn’t need a boyfriend right now,” he snaps back when Lucas teaches Mike how to do a smoulder. Lucas gives him a look, “She obviously likes Mike and he likes her, too, so why not?” And Mike kinda sinks into the cushions because he really doesn’t know what he feels but he knows that he’s not really that interested in El, he just misses Will at his side, holding his hand, being so sweet and kind the way he is with El now.)
And the mall breakup scene, would still be something between Mike and El maybe, but instead of “I dump your ass” it’s like “I don’t need your feelings” or “I don’t need a boyfriend.” If it’s between Will and El she could try to denounce him as her brother, which would hurt Will a lot actually since family is so important to him. (“What are you doing here?” Will asks hurriedly, panic filling his chest. El can’t get caught seen in public. He doesn’t even care that she caught them red handed after Mike built up that dumb story about his grandma. He can’t lose El again if she’s being reckless. [Then cue El claiming Will treats her more like a pet than a sister and the, “I don’t need you as my brother” line and Will just stands there eyes wide as Max and El giggle their way to the bus.]) Then we get El spying on Mike in the void, watching Will get upset about El’s words. Mike is just watching Will with sad eyes, wanting Will to spend time with his original brothers (the Party) and him and well...Mike has forgotten middle child problems at home and he never thought he would face them in the Party, too.
So Mike is trying to play D&D in the basement and Will isn’t paying attention because he’s worried for his sister and Lucas keeps telling Mike he should be focusing on how to snatch El’s heart while she’s denouncing Will, and Mike just snaps. (We could have, “is it, William? Is it really?”) He doesn’t want El like that (even though he doesn’t tell Lucas that), he’s tired of everyone obsessing over her, he just wants to be with his friends—his second family—and be kids the way he never got to be, to ignore where his feelings lie for Will because all El is for him is a reminder that he feels nothing for her but his heart races in his chest when Will smiles and he hates it.
Mike runs upstairs and Will calls after him, guilty as hell but knowing Mike had to be super upset to blow up as he did. He feels bad for focusing so much on how El nixed him that he didn’t realize how Mike felt. They stand in the garage, Mike panting with anger and tears in his eyes. He’s always very emotionally violent and Will isn’t sure what to say.
“Mike, I’m sorry, it’s a really good campaign,” Will starts with a hand to Mike’s shoulder, “but me and Lucas...we can’t concentrate on it right now. We can do it tomorrow, I promise.”
Mike yanks himself away from Will. “Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, it’s always tomorrow! I said ‘see you tomorrow’ before and then I never did! Tomorrow may never fucking come! But oh, that doesn’t matter, huh? Tomorrow always comes for you. Tomorrow is always gonna be better.”
“Mike,”
“No!” he yells and lightening crackles in the distance. “No, you don’t get to say anything! You keep spending time with El, forgetting about all of us! I doubt you even know where Dustin is!” Will stiffens and Mike scoffs. “You see? You don’t! And you don’t care! And he probably doesn’t either and I don’t blame him. You’re ruining the party, Will, and for what? So you can have a stupid younger sister to hole up in her room all day?”
Will’s nostrils flare. “El’s not stupid!” He snaps back with irritation. “It’s not my fault you can’t like El!”
Mike pauses, eyes widening just a fraction as his breath visibly hitches. Will wants to take it back immediately. Taking out his anger onto Mike isn’t fair at all and just because Mike has no interest in El—and Will can tell Mike isn’t very into her despite Lucas’ claims—or any girls really (but that’s a thought for another day), that doesn’t mean...doesn’t mean Will can throw the observation in his face.
“Look, I’m...I’m sorry, that came out wrong. So wrong.” He steps toward Mike, who tenses up more. “But, Mike, what did you think was gonna happen? That we wouldn’t have bigger issues to worry about than D&D? That we wouldn’t have other people in our lives? We’re not kids anymore; it’s not just us. Did you think we would sit in your basement all day playing games for the rest of our lives?”
And Will can see the heartbreak in real time, realize he said all the wrong things, as Mike takes a shaky breath. “Yeah,” he starts bitterly, eyes watery with unfallen tears. “You said crazy together, right? You and me. You and me. Guess that was a lie, too.”
Will doesn’t know what to say. He can feel his own heart hurting in his chest, regret taking hold as he watches the boy he loves in pain because of his careless words. “Mike, wait. Mike. That’s not—it’s not,” he can’t say it, too scared to admit he’s so in love even now as Mike believes otherwise.
Mike shakes his head and then grabs his bike from the garage. “I need to go.”
“Mike, it’s raining, you’ll get sick,” Will rushes toward him but Mike’s already on his bike riding through the rain. “Mike! Mike, come back!”
#yams answers#anon#thanks for the asks!!#role reversal au#bc not liking girls is a problem for mike i think that would still be an issue#will specifically points out el bc thats his sister and he sees mikes anger abt el being bc will has a new sister#not bc mike like will and wants the time mike/will used to spend tgt back#NOW IM THINKING ABT RR!SHED SCENE!!!!#going rest
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Ok, the RR!au is amazing, and I love it, but can I add a hc? Since Barb would have survived season 1, what if she and Robin ended up dating? =D
THISSSS IS GALAXY BRAIN LEVELS...i feel bad i totally forgot to add barb to the rr!st3 story bc she’s alive in RR!au...lets say like she was with scoops troop bc she has a crush on robin and spends time at the ice cream shop to see her and she ends up working with them instead of Dustin (since in RR!ST3, Dustin is with the Party) oh man her and robin would BE IT THIS IS IT THIS IS THE TAKE im in loveeeee
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I can’t stop thinking about that anon who said rr!st3 is just will trying to tell mike he likes him too and mike throwing himself in danger every time will tries...
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HI IM A DUMB BITCH WHO STILL LIKES THE RR!ST3 AU and who sent the anon about what mike teaming up with Nancy and Jonathan, and yknow what? The mindflayer not going after Will was wierd so maybe it goes after mike specifically? And he notices and is like “shit” and then either he gets himself out or Nancy “that’s my little brother you asshole” wheeler takes care of it. Also when they eventually eventually team up with the party it’s gonna be rlly awkward bc of the fight, rip
omg hello rr!st3 lover ! and yesss lets fix that bs abt the mind flayer ignoring the kid it previously possessed!! and yessss the mf going after mike and Nancy coming in to save him...chefs kiss mwah...and yeah we’ll also fix how st3 ignored the fight, so Mike and Will team up with the Party in full at the mall and theres tension and lucas is like “...so did y’all make up,” and Mike just clenches his jaw and says, “forget about it, we have bigger issues” and Will still feels guilty so he’s not gonna let Mike try to act like nothing happened and confronts him in an aside conversation.
“Mike, I really am sorry,” he says with pure honesty and Mike’s still reeling from the MF that he really doesn’t wanna talk about what they argued about. “I know you care about El, too. I was wrong for that.”
Mike rolls his eyes. “It’s whatever.”
“It’s not. Mike, I...,” and Will really isn’t sure if this is the time to say anything about his feelings, because it’ll only make things more complicated so he just sighs and puts a hand on Mike’s arm. “I want you to know I’m always here for you, too. You and El both mean a lot to me in your own ways.”
“Yeah?” Mike snorts. “So if I’m not your brother like El is your sister, where do I stand?” The taller boy motions to the group who are catching each other up on what’s happened. “Where do all of us stand?”
Will drops his hand. “You know you’re...you’re different.”
“Am I?” Mike turns back to Will with a soft frown. “Look, I forgive you, okay? I was being dumb, too, but we seriously have more important things to worry about right now with the Flayer back.”
“We’re important, too,” Will motions between the two of them. “And I don’t want to lose you.”
Mike smiles and pats Will’s shoulder. His hand lingers for a moment long enough to mean something. “You didn’t. You can’t.”
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How do you think Max and Mike’s friendship would be like in role reversal?
oohh hmmm good question. I think that they would have a better relationship since some of Mike’s anger about Max joining the party was found in her replacing El and he’s very bitter to her always afterwards about her interactions with El. Given Mike hasn’t spent almost an entire year pining over El in RR!au, I feel he would be more receptive to her arrival but still annoyed that she’s stealing the attention. I could also see that given he is slowly losing control of himself in RR!ST2 with the Mind Flayer controlling him / bringing him into the Upside Down during his episodes, he would be extremely upset that he had no say in Max’s inclusion since he wants control over at least something in his life while he’s losing his grip on his mind. Having that power taken away from him, even something as simple as inviting Max to their Halloween patrol, would anger him just as it did in ST2 and could be the catalyst for his episode that night (given intense emotions is what activates powers). I still think he wouldn’t be very impressed by her skateboarding and whatnot, if mostly because then he’s upset that she’s catching Will’s attention, but there’s little reason for his anger to last as long as it does in ST2 and ST3 in RR!ST2 and RR!ST3. Especially when he has bigger things to worry about. I don’t think they would be close friends but they definitely wouldn’t have the amount of animosity we see in ST3, which was mostly on Mike’s end anyway.
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Dude I actually really liked your take on the whole Mike and Will fight bc it’s believable and it physically hurt me too thanks satan. Also u know those posts where it’s like “man Will should’ve teamed up with scoop troop?” Idk their name. Well maybe that happens bc Mike’s hurt and he’s like “yknow what let’s go see dustin” bc they haven’t been hanging out a lot and maybe that’s what he’s needs right now, an actual friend who’ll maybe look at him. So he goes to the mall, finds Dustin, 1/2
(2) and then this girl comes up and says she cracked a code??? And then he’s breaking into a Russian base with Dustin lmao. OR OR maybe we can give him to Nancy-another idea I saw- and Jonathan bc she sees how down he is and is like “hey u wanna join” for fun-I’m sorry if stuffs wrong btw I haven’t seen ST3-And he goes with them on their job, actually having a little fun, and then the monster from the hospital shows up and all the weird feelings click into place, and he knows that’s its not over
firstly, thanks haha that rr!st3 concept still feels a little unsettled and weird to me looking back on it but hey at least someone likes it!! haha and secondly, i WHEEZED when you said you havent seen st3 i am dyingggg omg and yeah, Will should have teamed with Scoops Troop like hands down that would have been a lot better than him being a third wheel to the Griswold family lol plus having only Dustin split from the Party for most the season was bleh I think having half the Party split would have been better. Anyway, I could see him going to find Dustin after the argument (he wouldn’t have gone to Castle Byers until what Will did in ST3) and joining up with Scoops Troop after Robin cracks the code haha Mike, Dustin, Steve, Robin, and Erica would be a great team up! Since Mike has the connection with the Mind Flayer, he would probably feel the Mind Flayer’s presence while working with Steve, Robin, and Dustin, and they might try to connect the dots to the Russians and the Mind Flayer a little sooner.
Mike working with Nancy and Jonathan would actually be pretty solid! I haven’t seen that idea but I do like it now that I’m exposed to it. Nancy is definitely attuned to how her brother is feeling more these days so bringing him with her to help with the story, especially when Jonathan was being a bit reluctant at first totally works. Mike would also be able to feel the Mind Flayer’s presence a hell of a lot more when dealing with the rats / the old lady at the hospital. I think it was weird how in ST3 Will was like literally in the same building as one of the Mind Flayer’s possessions and the Mind Flayer was still like, ahaha, no I’m not gonna go after him. like??? what...anyway, Mike working with Nancy and Jonathan, maybe being the one to save Nancy in the hospital when she gets attacked by the Mind Flayer’s meat person monster? Anyway, yeah those are solid ideas for what to do next so thank you for sharing them!!
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Maybe in season 2 Will introduces Mike to El and Mike feels like he owes her a dance and a chance to get to know her since she did save his life.
THAT WORKS!! honestly idk what i was thinking when i wrote that RR!st3 thing i just . really . could not think of smth for the LIFE of me so i forced shit but y’all have solid ass ideas i am loving it
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The reverse ST au portraits the characters acting differently from their original ones? Like, Will acting like Mike and vice versa or they Just switch roles, but still acting like their original personalities? I've got a Little confused tbh
uhhh I really don’t know myself tbh LOL I kinda did both, so it’s switching roles and switching personalities too I guess just a bit. I did that esp for the st3 thing bc I could not imagine anything in st3 happening if it was RR without changing a bit of Will ://
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