He’s always been attracted to Stiles in some way. He’s always found him physically appealing. It’s never been this overwhelming or difficult to control before. Never been a thirst he can’t quench or hunger he can’t sate. He wants to reach for Stiles and fit him within all his spaces, wants to strip him down until he’s pure and untouched by anything except Scott. (from Let's Think of Each Other and Hesitate)
So, I have a confession to make: I think bi-and-knowingly-attracted-to-Scott Stiles is canon. Subtextual canon, but canon. If they didn’t want it to be canon, they should have told Dyl to control his Goddamned face.
I have a harder time seeing bi-and-knowingly-attracted-to-Stiles Scott. I can see the bi - just not necessarily that he feels that way/is aware he feels that way about Stiles. (Except 6A, I can make a strong case for 6A.) I frequently feel like I have to kind of justify Scott suddenly being into Stiles. It’s not a difficult thing by any means, but apart from Although It’s Been Said, I feel like I take Stiles being into Scott for granted, but often have Scott making the realisation within the context of the story. I try to push away from it sometimes, but I also like to lean into it, because characters falling in love is my jam, bread and butter.
So this is about that, that shift of the dynamic. Scott seeing his want and need to be around Stiles from a different point of view (a sexy, sexy point of view.)
I’m also highkey into lightly-possessive!Scott, who is only ever soft in how he dominates when he does so, but who takes great pleasure in being the first in some way, even if he’s not the only. Who doesn’t get overly jealous, but does hunger for the knowledge that he’s the one who has a claim on a person. And like it says next in the story, I don’t think of this as a werewolf specific thing, but a Scott specific thing.
(I also like this in Stiles, but he’s a little darker in his level of possession, a little more ‘I have to taint you’, a lot more dominating, and though he doesn’t get jealous, he is SUPER into being The One.)
That whole story is about the sweet spot between friends and lovers and also the adage that absence makes the heart grow fonder.