how/when did you became a sterek shipper? :)
Once upon a time, I was a free person. My Monday evenings were spent sipping tea and doing homework, not wrapped up in my room crying over two fictional characters that hardly got any screen time together. Then Teen Wolf came into my life, and Sterek stole my heart.
Meet Derek Hale: the hard, intimidating scowl-enthusiast haunted by the tragic loss of his entire family and the abusive woman (Kate, and Jennifer down the road) who betrayed his trust. Imagine how much this must have scarred him, but he doesn’t have the option to show pain or grief because of the ridiculous standard he holds himself to; werewolves can’t be soft, or else they put themselves and their pack at risk. Thus, Derek locks up his emotions behind a broody mask, because he knows that’s the only way to keep him safe from future exploitation.
But then THIS kid comes along —this fragile, lanky, expressive klutz who can’t shut up— and Derek can’t stand it, because Stiles is everything that he isn’t.
But even more important (as Derek comes to learn) is that Stiles is the epitome of soft; he has panic attacks, bears no shame in crying, faints when his squeamish bone is tickled —he’s the pale, breakable human in the pack— but DESPITE that he’s always sticking his neck into danger anyway, forever armed with a baseball bat and a stash of dog jokes as he saves the pack again and again, figuring things out and demonstrating that perhaps being “soft” isn’t so bad after all.
And Derek doesn’t know what to make of this, is infuriated because Stiles disproves and deems irrelevant everything he used to hold near and dear: power, loyal followers, brute strength if it meant getting his way— so he keeps cutting the kid off with extra sass in hope that he’ll stop conjuring all these damn emotions.
No one will go near Derek; Scott’s afraid of him, Peter doesn’t give a damn, and even his pack of misfit teenagers took a liking to McCall more, except for Boyd, which brings us to the next point: when Boyd died, Stiles was the one who stepped forward to comfort him when no one else did.
In fact, Stiles holds him up in a pool for two hours to keep him alive, hauls his feverish ass all over town when he had a wolfsbane bullet in his arm, demonstrates again and again how he isn’t afraid to tease him, talk back to him, touch him— hell, the kid nearly loses his shit trying to slap him awake in the elevator because he thinks Derek is dying.
In conclusion… Whether or not their relationship is romantic or platonic… I believe that Derek and Stiles really do care about each other, and no matter how often they deny it with broody scowls or sarcasm, it’s beautiful.
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