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  1. Public Bookmark 18

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    After an encounter with a creature in the woods, November 2005 becomes November 1987. Vecna is still at large, Will is struggling with his connection to the hivemind, and Mike is trying to keep it together for the sake of his pack.

    Matters are made infinitely worse when Will and Robin return to the Squawk with a pair of mysterious siblings who claim to be from the future, and for some reason they keep staring at Mike and Will.

    This complicates everything.

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    12 Mar 2026

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    Her gaze dropped to Mike’s hand on Will’s wrist. “Don’t hurt Papa!” she begged desperately.

    For a split moment, Will didn’t understand, the thought so far-fetched, improbable, and ridiculous that it didn’t even cross his mind, but then the realization hit him like a bucket of cold water being dumped over his head.

    She thought Mike was going to hit him.

    Mike must’ve understood it at the same time, because his hand fell away, quick, like he’d been burned.
    .........

    or: When Will and Mike’s four-year-old daughter walks in on an argument, she mistakes raised voices and hands for something far worse - she thinks Mike is going to hurt Will.

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    11 Mar 2026

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    They return to find the answers that they'd been so desperately searching for. Their co-workers, their best friends, the maze of secrets beneath the surface of the facility and the labyrinth in their own mind. They'll figure out why things are the way that they are even if it means digging up past best left buried.

    — The Player has no recollection of their time with Playtime. They must find out what they've been missing all these years, while they stumble across old and new faces alike.

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    11 Mar 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 9

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    The issue is how it hugs Will's body so comfortably, can see how it clasps around Will’s waist in such a mouth drooling way it makes Mike's eye twitch a bit. Will looks so soft, so airy and free he's afraid Will might vanish into thin air. Is this real life right now, is all Mike can compute in his mind, his legs buckling, mouth suddenly salivating, and he feels his pupils dilate.

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    Mike Wheeler sees Will in a women's sweater he recently bought.

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    11 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 8

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    As a hero of the city, Mike Wheeler has known his sense of protectiveness as something that comes with the mask. With rooftops. With sirens and the city breathing under his feet.

    But when danger strikes too close to home, he realizes that pull was never about the skyline.

    Gravity, shifting centers, and the quiet realization that some instincts have nothing to do with being a hero.

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    11 Mar 2026