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“Forever?”
Though the camera doesn’t catch it, Joyce and Jonathan exchange an amused look over the rearview.
Then, the footage splices, rapidly cutting through various points in life—Will and Mike’s first time hanging out at the Byers’; Mike coming over for Will’s birthday; Will coming over for Mike’s. Flashes of middle school that stretched into those final days before they left for Lenora. High school, graduation, moving day—the clips start blurring into one another as more pop up, but it stops on a clip of Mike and Will, probably around six years old, giggling as they try to handle the camera.
“We’ll see about forever, honey.”
(or, the one where jonathan byers has a lot of stocked up video footage from when mike and will were kids, and decides that the best time to reveal them is during his best man speech at their wedding.)
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The second funeral is worse than the first one.
They’re standing around the same plot of dirt, lowering another small coffin into the ground, throwing more yellow roses in the grave. There’s no crowd of people in the second funeral—no Jennifer Hayeses to fake cry over a boy she barely knew, no Lonnie Byerses to smoke cigarettes in the corner and snuff them out on the priest’s podium. There was hardly a priest at all, this time around.
He thinks it’s for the better. Mike doesn’t think God deserves to guide Will to his afterlife when He couldn’t even guide him back to Mike.
There’s blinks of moments between before and after. Before Will was lowered, and after it.
Mike barely feels any of it.
(or, the one where will byers never makes it home after 1983, and mike wheeler feels like a piece of him never did, either.)
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- Part 1 of love vs. fear
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That seems to click something in the woman’s head, because in three seconds flat, she’s pulling her helmet back and staring her dark eyes dead into Will’s.
Will’s eyes widen and he hears Jane’s shocked gasp beside him.
Underneath the helmet, underneath all the scars and jagged lines, stares back—
“I am Michaela Childress, firstborn daughter of House Acer, Sworn Paladin to the Kingdom of Holkins, and Right Hand to the Queen Regent.” She seethes, the hard line in her jaw tightening as she glowers at Will. “The Queen Regent, whose face you have adapted as your own.”
Okay, so it’s not just him.
This woman clearly looks like Mike.
(or, the one where michaela childress is all but a lonely paladin that misses her wife so much that she risks her life, jumps into an unknown portal, and inadvertently causes distress and awakens realizations among the local populace.)
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The Wheeler basement, in its best years, could more aptly be described as the first ever museum curated in the honor of Will Byers.
Of course, the same could be said for the respective bedrooms of Lucas Sinclair and Dustin Henderson, but while their displays are proud and beloved, the ones that embed themselves in the Wheeler basement are imposing, insistent. It looms over you like a warning. A threat.
Well, if you consider a pint-sized five-year-old Mike Wheeler a threat. Most don’t, some do. It’s up to interpretation.
(or, the five times mike wheeler keeps will byers' drawings, and the one time he doesn't.)
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He feels especially child-like when he looks to where Mike is running and sees his sister behind the Gate.
From afar, he can’t see anything. Not truly. But he knows El. He knows his sister.
He knows what it means when she squares her shoulders. When she clenches her fists. When she holds her head high despite all the things that push it down. She’s stubborn—he knows what it means when she’s stubborn.
She gets her way.
(or, the one where jane hopper spends her last moments with her brother, will byers.)
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will byers is never found, but he is loved. he has never not been loved. but the question remains—will that love be enough to save him?
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Tumbling Together by Puddor
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, The Fall Guy (2024)
13 Jul 2026
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Ryland has burned all his bridges but one. Colt's more than happy to help his brother pick up the pieces.
Takes place a few weeks post UNESCO, approximately 6 years prior to The Fall Guy.
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14 Jul 2026
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382 Missed Calls, 127 Voicemails by ShalourTrainer
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, The Fall Guy (2024)
20 May 2026
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He’d snuck back into the MetalStorm set, not quite sure how he’d made it back there, considering how he was clinging to consciousness like a koala on a tree. He slowly crept into the Stunt Crew’s trailer, snatching his phone back and powering it back on, only to be faced with a number that Colt had to believe was a glitch.
382 missed calls from Ryland Grace.
127 voicemails from Ryland Grace.
Colt blinked. Damn, Ry. I leave for three hours.
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Colt Seavers is being framed for murder, but when he gets back to his phone, he sees that he has 382 missed calls from his brother Ryland, and 127 voicemails, each one more panicked than the last. His quest to clear his name by forcing Tom Ryder into a confession is overshadowed by the overwhelming anxiety of what had his twin brother so scared, and why Ryland isn't answering the phone just days before the Hail Mary launches.
Colt's Perspective of No One Left To Mourn You
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- Part 5 of Coltland Oneshot Anthology
Bookmarked by elsielou
13 Jul 2026
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When Tom Ryder picked the wrong guy to try and murder by AuthorofCelestial
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, The Fall Guy (2024)
25 May 2026
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Colt Seavers and his brother Ryland have escaped death at the hands of Tom Ryder and his goons. For now at least.
Now the world thinks they’re dead and that Colt is a murderer. He would really like to amend this, but his brother seems to be more concerned about his boss, and how she might react to him being dead.
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AKA, what if Ryder tried to kill Ryland and Colt without realizing that Ryland isn’t a schoolteacher anymore, but the second hand of world dictator Eva Stratt?Bookmarked by elsielou
11 Jul 2026
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In the Distance (The Three Body Problem) by matthewfalls
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026), The Fall Guy (2024), The Gray Man (2022)
29 May 2026
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It’s been twenty-four years since the Hail Mary set off for Tau Ceti. The Sierra program is long dead, and Courtland Gentry has Eva Stratt in his crosshairs.
As Jody goes into surgery to save their daughter’s life, Colt Seavers feels as alone as the day he found out his twin brother had been sent to another solar system.
Nearly three hundred thousand miles above the Earth’s surface, Ryland Grace hears another human voice for the first time in eight dilated years. It’s not who he expects.
or, the motion of three brothers through space, time, and gravity.
Bookmarked by elsielou
08 Jul 2026
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Hail Mary, Indeed by CatStandish
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
25 Jun 2026
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The Eridians manage to recover some damaged files on the Hail Mary -- one of which is a message to Dr. Grace, from Eva Stratt.
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03 Jul 2026