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   Cowardly Armor (to keep you safe) by chubbysloth11

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   21 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper & Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & Dustin Henderson & Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper & Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Will Byers & Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Karen Wheeler & Mike Wheeler
   • Holly Wheeler & Mike Wheeler
   • The Party & Mike Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers & Will Byers
   • Joyce Byers & Will Byers
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper & Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Karen Wheeler
   • Holly Wheeler
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Erica Sinclair
   • Vickie Dunne
   • Scott Clarke
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Joyce Byers
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Introspection
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
   • Protective Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler-centric
   • Mike Wheeler is Whipped
   • Will Byers Has Powers
   • Will Byers Deserves Love
   • Step-Siblings Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Denial of Feelings
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler in the Upside Down
   • The Upside Down (Stranger Things)
   • Trapped in the Upside Down (Stranger Things)
   • Wilderness Survival
   • Kinda
   • Hawkins National Laboratory (Stranger Things)
   • Blood and Violence
   • Aftermath of Violence
   • Shooting Guns
   • Background Demogorgon (Stranger Things)
   • Mike Wheeler Whump
   • Injured Mike Wheeler
   • Eventual Fluff
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • First Kiss
   • Gentle Kissing
   • Boys Kissing

   Summary

   Mike Wheeler messes a lot of things up—his relationship with El, being utterly useless in battle because he doesn't know how to shoot a gun, his friendships that matter the most to him.

   He didn't expect his next mistake to trap him and Will in the Upside Down being hunted by both military and Demogorgon alike.

   Or, a bit of introspection into Mike's character as he and Will navigate the Upside Down being hunted by the government and Demogorgon.

   Series

   • Part 3 of Stranger Things

   Language:

   English

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   45,702

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   3/3

   Comments:

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   09 Mar 2026