13 Works in Joyce Byers-centric
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Teenage Angst by headwonk
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Heathers (1988), Girl Interrupted (1999)
12 Dec 2024
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When Will goes missing in season 1, Joyce starts to go off the rails, and heaven knows shit goes down when she starts to lose it.
Not only that but secrets are uncovered such as her sordid past as a youth and the shit that happened back then.
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During the search for Will in season 1, Lonnie has Joyce admitted to a hospital, deciding she’s too unstable.
Despite his best attempts, Jonathan is unable to get her released as the doctors continue to refuse. He keeps going back amidst the search for his brother, until, eventually, he finds out his mom is also gone.
A couple of months after Will is found, Joyce returns but it’s clear she’s changed.
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Someday (I'm gonna be somebody people want) by manushroom
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Jun 2024
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She sits up, pulling her knees to her chest. Somehow Lonnie has to have woken up from her movement because he raises his head slightly, looking at her. "Go to sleep!" he grumbles. Joyce shakes her head. "Can't," she explains, earning only a scoff from him. "It's really not that hard if you stop complaining and actually try."
It is that hard and she has been trying, but he just doesn't understand that. And how could he? Her mind is an enigma even to herself; she can't expect someone else to decipher the way it works. (But that doesn't mean she doesn't wish he would at least for once make an attempt.)
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A look into Joyce and Lonnie's marriage pre-canon, the abuse, and what's going on inside her mind.
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- Part 1 of Jopper one-shots
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This town had changed (And you had not) by manushroom
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Mar 2024
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They had made plans to leave Hawkins together. That idea seemed so ridiculous now. How had they ever thought that that was a realistic future for them? Back then she would've done anything to get out of Hawkins, but money had always been tight and her plans with the theatre scholarship hadn't worked out. So here she was, in her late thirties, and still stuck in this stupid place. Hopper had made it out twice (left her twice) and now he was back too. At this point, she was almost convinced that they were cursed to stay in Hawkins forever. It was stupid, really. Still, she had her boys now and Lonnie was never keen on moving. Hawkins wasn't that bad, she had only semi-successfully managed to convince herself over the years
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Set after Hopper moves back to Hawkins following Sara's death. Joyce catches wind of that and rethinks their old friendship, partially together with him.
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- Part 2 of Jopper one-shots
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Alexei doesn't die and Joyce finds that she can't stop thinking about him. Her kids catch on quick.
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Hopper understood, he always did. He had been in that prison with her after all. Hell, he had had even worse than her, having been held captive for eight months in total, tortured himself and then being forced to watch as they did the same to her. He knew what she felt like, how hurt and confused she was. Yet, when he thought she couldn't see, she noticed him shooting her the same looks that everyone else did. Would he ever be able to look at her the same again, to love her without their shared trauma casting shadows over them?
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Joyce and Hopper are home, back in Hawkins with their family. Though that doesn't mean everything's perfect. Vecna is lurking right around the corner and neither of them is really sure how to deal with the events of the last few months.
This is part two to my story "Hold me tight (So I don't break)" that I wrote for Whumptober 2023. I would highly recommend to read that one first for like the entire context of this story.
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But oh, how could she not believe it? How could she pretend, that this wasn't the face, she had been dreaming of every night, for the past four months? Hopper was alive. He was here, in front of her, and he was fucking alive. A chocked sob escaped her lips, as she realized the impact of that truth. He had to have been in this godforsaken prison for the last four months, and not once had she looked for him. By the way he looked, they had to have put him through the same torture, she had endured the last week, for four whole months. And it was her fault.
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What if the Russians had succeeded in their search for Joyce? Joyce goes through hell and Hopper tries his best to comfort her.
This is my take on Whumptober. But instead of writing a one-shot for each day, I've decided to write just one single story over a few chapters. Each chapter will deal with a few of the prompts (at least one for each day).
Also, English is not my first language, so feel free to tell me, if I've messed up the grammar or anything.Series
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I don't want to talk (But thank you for coming anyways) by manushroom
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Jul 2023
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'You weren't able to protect him though.", a nagging voice in the back of her head calls out to her. A voice, she knew all too well, to be correct. When had she ever been able to protect her children? She had failed to protect them from Lonnie and worst of all from the upside-down. She was a terrible mother, really. Jonathan had been hit by Lonnie, Will had been stuck in that awful, scary place for a whole week. God, Jon had to plan Will's whole funeral alone.
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Chester, the Byers' dog, dies and Joyce tries to deal with that on top of all the problems she's already facing.
A One-Shot that takes place between season one and two of Stranger Things, told from the perspective of Joyce Byers.Series
- Part 3 of Jopper one-shots
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He knew from the moment she asked to bum a cig from him in-between 5th and 6th hour, that he was madly in love.
A collection of hurt/comfort and angst oneshot jopper fics <3
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After turning the keys to close the Gate, Joyce is momentarily knocked unconscious. When she wakes up, she’s in the back of an ambulance and she’s been de-aged about twenty-something years.
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“I love Mike,” Will confesses after dinner one night. He sits at the kitchen table, voice lowered and quivering as the summer breeze rocks their shutters outside. “Not just,” he hesitates, “not just as a friend, mom. I love him in a different way.”
Regretfully, the first thing Joyce feels is fear.
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This fic is about Joyce seeing objects reminding her of times when she lost people in her life.
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There was a time, years ago, when she liked being called Lonnie’s girl.
A one shot examining Joyce's relationship with Lonnie, Hawkins, herself, and a mother's perspective on her sons.