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   handprints of your past aggressions by cyclamoon

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   14 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers-centric
   • Character Study
   • Established Relationship
   • Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault
   • (referencing the first five minutes of 5x01)
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Post-Canon
   • Sharing a Bed
   • Nightmares
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Mike Wheeler is a Sweetheart
   • Protective Mike Wheeler
   • Author Projecting onto Will Byers
   • Touch-Starved
   • Touch Aversion
   • Will Byers Needs a Hug
   • Self-Hatred
   • Panic Attacks
   • Dissociation
   • this is kind of difficult to tag ngl
   • i promise despite the angst this also has a lot of fluff
   • there are a lot of reassuring soft kisses
   • Aged-Up Character(s)

   Summary

   Physical touch is a difficult concept for him, and Will has spent an excruciating amount of time trying to comprehend his own relationship to it.

   Flipping as quickly as a light switch, his overbearing amount of desperation to seek out the touch he knows to be safe transforms into reluctance to receive even an ounce of it. One day, Will craves the physical touch like a starving man, and on the next, he despises it, perceives any skin-to-skin contact to be burning him alive.

   Certain horrifying memories continuously torment Will, especially during this time of the year. However, no matter how much of a burden Will perceives himself to be, Mike never hesitates to help him through it all.

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