Hmmm.... How About We Talk About An IT/Stranger Things Crossover?

Hmmm.... how about we talk about an IT/Stranger Things crossover?

OKAY HERE’S THE CONCEPT: richie tozier and mike wheeler are twins

richie is older by like three minutes and is INSUFFERABLE about it 

literally any time mike tries to argue at the dinner table (bc mike LOVES to argue at the dinner table) richie tries to shut him down with “im your big brother, you have to listen to me” and mike gets PISSED because it doesn’t even make any sense!!

“BY THREE MINUTES!” “best three minutes of my life” “that’s enough, boys”

you think mike is a little shit when he teases nancy about steve harrington? richie literally has a full-on steve impression that includes a bad california surfer dude accent and a cheesy smile 

somehow both boys have different groups of weird friends and nancy swears to god there’s always at least thirteen fucking middle schoolers in her basement yelling about some shit

despite having a lot in common, mike and richie try very hard to keep their friend groups separate because theyve had to share LITERALLY EVERYTHING since birth and it’s nice to have something belong to themselves for a change! 

that said, you KNOW they all like sneak around on the side and hang out. bill and will byers bond over drawing, swapping colored pencils and battered notebooks. ben LOVES lucas, appreciates his pragmatic nature, and they go to the movies together like every saturday night!!

bev and max hang out and smoke cigarettes behind the school dumpsters

can u IMAGINE richie and dustin in the same room? BAD BAD BAD

anyway mike tries desperately to keep will away from richie in the fear that will is gonna like richie’s humor and charm better and want him for a best friend but then he meets eddie kaspbrak and is like “richie’s already got his own will, we good”

also richie is banned from DND night bc he kept creating bards whose only goal was to hook up with mike’s NPCs and mike got sick of his brother fake seducing him

aNYWAY so in this world, the events of It happen during the summer and then immediately that school year, stranger things season 1 happens

will byers goes missing and bill denbrough is so FUCKING scared that It is back, that it’s stolen another child and he’s like leading the fucking search party because there’s NO WAY there’s gonna be another Georgie, not on his watch

he can feel that it’s different this time. there’s no magnetic pull in his stomach, no evidence to make him believe It has stolen will, but he has to find him anyway. 

(they find will’s “body” in the lake and bill cries himself to sleep that night because he FAILED AGAIN and someone else died)

meanwhile

richie is SO NOT ABOUT this eleven shit. he wakes up in the middle of the night and mike isn’t in the bottom bunk of their bunkbeds and he hears whispering from downstairs and comes upon his brother and some fucking bald girl in their blanket fort????

mike begs his brother to keep his fucking trashmouth silent for ONCE

but of course richie immediately calls bill and blabs it all bc bill always knows what to do and also they already defeated the physical manifestation of evil and fear so like what could a bunch of stuffy scientists do to them?

and bill helps mike figure out a plan and mike realizes maybe his brother’s kind of cool after all

the two groups come together to fight the demogordon and it’s fucking ELECTRIC because the lucky seven are this fucking MACHINE of love and friendship and mike is like “WHAT DID U DO ALL SUMMER RICHIE?WHY ARE YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS AN ARMY???” and richie just grins at him, shit-eating, and says “not much. hung out in a sewer while you and ur nerd crew were playing dungeons and dragons. killed a murdering clown. normal stuff.”

mike repeats this back to will later, rolling his eyes, and will laughs

the next time he sees richie he smiles a small grin and says “killed a clown in a sewer? try living in the Upside Down for three weeks and then get back to me.”

send me headcanons/prompts!