#stiles is something

[marya-junkerova]

I dunno something about changing the host because you can’t be a fox and a wolf but which one is left when you’re a duplicate and something about not being entirely sure who you are when you spent half a year blacking out for days at a time and something about being afraid to cross mountain ash because what happens if now you can’t

[ivanovaisalwaysright]

Teen Wolf Rewatch - ‘Restraint’

Another example to add to the list of Stiles showing more strength then he should have!

Scott and Jackson burst out of the locker room, still fighting, in front of Stiles and Erica. They pull the two apart, Erica pulls away and holds back Jackson, Stiles holds back Scott. At first Scott is stumbling a bit so it’s more feasable, but then he lunges for Jackson again and Stiles pulls him back.

[thisdiscontentedwinter]

Stiles as some sort of enchanting creature makes halebait Stiles even better. Like other packs are worried as somehow this boy has quickly integrated into the Hale pack, like even tough as balls Nana Hale treat him like a pup. So they kidnap him and try to figure out what he is and what he wants.

Oooh, this would be incredible! Like particularly if he’s something dangerous, like a siren? Everyone assumes the Hales have fallen under his spell, but Stiles would never! And he’s greatly offended that anyone would think so! 

“Stiles,” Derek reminds him, “you lured a boat full of fisherman to their deaths just last week on the lake.” 

“Oh, sure,” Stiles says. “But they were dicks.” 

[cherrysficrecs]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

The Man with a Thousand Smiles by mia6363

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Chris Argent/Bobby Finstock Characters: Peter Hale, Stiles Stilinski, Cora Hale, Talia Hale, Scott McCall, Sheriff Stilinski, Lydia Martin, Kira Yukimura, Allison Argent, Chris Argent, Bobby Finstock

Summary Peter had only been looking for a sleepy town where he could be a Hale disgrace in peace. Beacon Hills was a perfect fit and the cute park ranger only sweetened the deal. Peter quickly learns that even the most idyllic small towns can have impressive mysteries.

[jonjokeat]

Stiles is something

In the latest episode, s06e08, the sheriff reveals Stiles real name (I love that the fandom got there first) MIECZYSŁAW. He said that Stiles couldn’t pronounce it when he was small and called himself Mischief.

Mischief made my think of the pagan folk tradition in England of Mischief Night and the Lord of Misrule.

I was wondering if any of the meta crew had looked into the myths and traditions of Mischief Night and the Lord of Misrule. I imagine the answer is yes. And then I got carried away and this happened:

Mischief Night and the Season of Misrule is seen as a time when the world is turned upside down or reversed, the masters become the servants and the common people rule.

The Season of Misrule lasts from just after Halloween probably All Soul’s Day (Nov 2nd) until either Twelfth Night (Jan 6th - Epiphany) or Shrove Tuesday.

The Lord of Misrule has many guises from simply a man who whips up the crowd in revelry and over indulgence and trouble making, often leading to riot over issues of contention with the people(lower classes). Mischief Night (Nov 4th) is sometimes described as an outlet for discontent, a pressure valve when the authorities step back and the people rule.

The Lord of Misrule is also connected to the supernatural, he is linked to the Horned King and the Green Man.

The Lord of Misrule can also be linked with the Roman festival of Saturnalia. The Lord or King of Misrule is seen as a temporary King and dies at the end of the Season, by his own hand or others as a sacrifice for the people. His death more often symbolic only.

The Horned King or God is depicted with antlers and linked to the Green Man. He is seen as the male equivalent or even consort of the Triple Goddess, perhaps the Morrigan of Irish tradition.

In a fic I wrote some time ago, I imagined Stiles as the Polish spirit Leszi (there are so many different spelling variations and names throughout the Slavic countries). Leszi is the Lord of the Forest, a shapeshifter with powerful magic and strongly associated with wolves. Sometimes seen as evil, he is mostly mischievous, playing tricks on farmers and those who stray into the forest. He is illustrated sometimes as a peasant or as a tall man with green hair and horns. He can be thought of the equivalent of the Green Man.

The sum of all these things leads me to a spirit of the woods and forests who protects the forest and it’s inhabitants with his magic and mischief and has a particular affinity with wolves.

Stiles maybe?

[itssarahmay]

stiles as a werewolf

yay or nay?

[ivanovaisalwaysright]

Blind Fear and the Unreliable Narrator

There’s been comments that blindness doesn’t really seem like it would be Stiles’s worst fear and that it seems pulled out of nowhere.

I think Scott made it up.

Stiles looks straight at Anuike-te to throw the mountain ash at them but does not turn to stone. We know Scott is narrating this episode to Alec, if not the entire series and “Oh yeah, Stiles’s worst fear was blindness so the Anuike-te’s power rendered him blind making him immune to the the petrification haha what a coinkydink” sounds like a cover up to me. He’s deliberately concealing Stiles’s nature.

In the finale the mountain ash didn’t just hit Anuike-te, it washed over them, fully encased their body and then hardened.  We’ve seen Stiles telekineticley move mountain ash before. When he made a single handfull stretch many metres through force of will and then later parting that line with a wave of his hands instead of just wiping it away physically like everyone else does (even Scott’s walk through mountain ash ability smudges it all over the place). The only other people we’ve seen manipulate mountain ash like this* are druids so clearly Stiles isn’t normal. There are other incidents that could be signs of Stiles somethingness aswell.

Yet none of this is ever addressed, explained or acknowledged in the story. We skate on by so your not sure if it was anything at all. If Scott is narrating the whole story, and I think he is, then this would explain why. Because Scott doesn’t want people to know.

And why should he? 

He’s at war. Nobody knowing what your full arsenal is is a tactical advantage

The moment it became clear that Lydia was something she started getting targeted. By the alpha pack sending Aiden to get close to her, by Valack trying to get answers from her. People knowing that Stiles isn’t just some human could endanger him.

And it doesn’t assist the purpose of Scott telling this story. Scott’s providing comfort and inspiration to prospective recruits with this story. Using himself, the true alpha and his trials as a beacon. Telling littlest werewolf about Stiles doesn’t aid this purpose.

So just don’t mention it. Do a flyby mention of Stiles’s “fear” so that they’ll make an assumption about what happens next.

*2 incidents come close: When Lydia tips out her grandma’s fake urn in the boathouse and when Melissa threw some in the doorway of the McCall house. In both incidents the ash formed a straight line. However, both incidents involved a preexisting permanent mountain ash barrier created, in the McCall house atleast, by a druid. Deaton created the mystical protection for that house therefore we can’t be sure that the ash forming a line isn’t the result of his power. We don’t know who Lorraine Martin got to secure her boathouse but Lydia isn’t human anyway.