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C H A R A C T E R I N F O R M A T I O N

Name: Stiles Stilinski
Canon: Teen Wolf
Original or Alternate Universe: original
Canon Point: following episode 3x24
Number: 024

Setting: Beacon Hills is a suburban town that borders a rather large preserve, located in northern California in a world much like our own, but with a hidden layer of the supernatural to spice things up a little. You know, make things more interesting. Or awful, awful works too.

It also appears to be neighbors with Hill Valley. So that's something.

History:
So here's the down low about Stiles Stilinski. Who names their kid that, am I right? The answer is nobody. Nobody names their kid that. Stiles was actually named after his mother's father, but basically nobody can pronounce it because that shit is Polish and nobody can fucking pronounce Polish. That shit is cray cray. So Stiles goes by Stiles because he's tired of people squinting at his name and asking if that's a typo all the damn time. Stiles was diagnosed with ADHD, and then fell in love with Lydia Martin with her perfect strawberry blonde hair in the third grade, and life went on.

Until his mom died when he was eight years old, anyway. You see, Claudia Stilinski suffered from something called frontotemporal dementia, which causes steady cell degeneration in the brain's frontal lobes and can shorten a person's life anywhere from two to twenty years. Which means that there is every chance that Stiles never knew his mom when she wasn't suffering from this illness. Stiles was with her when she died, and has probably blamed himself for her death ever since, because kids never think logically about things like this.

Shortly after her death, Stiles began having panic attacks. His father started drinking more than he probably should.

Somewhere between then and the start of the show, the Stilinski's get their shit together. Stiles' dad is now the sheriff of Beacon Hills and Stiles stops having panic attacks and discovers a best friend in Scott McCall. Sure he still has ADHD, warms the bench at lacrosse games, and is basically invisible to Lydia, but things could be worse.

And then Scott gets bitten by a crazy Alpha werewolf in the preserve one night. This is totally and 100% not Stiles fault, even if he was the one that wanted to go look for a dead body. No, really.

The next day at school, Scott begins to exhibit some strange side effects of the bite and Stiles makes a joke about werewolves and everyone laughs nervously behind their hands (or I do, anyway). Derek Hale shows up from a six year long absence from Beacon Hills in order to skulk and menace teenagers behind trees, and Stiles obviously spends a lot of time perusing his dad's old case files because the details of Derek's tragic past coming tripping off his tongue without any sort of hesitation.

Meanwhile, mounting evidence has Stiles thinking that joke he made about werewolves maybe isn't so funny after all and tries to keep Scott from going on a date on the night of a full moon because 'okay so you really might be a werewolf'. Scott doesn't listen to him, and this is just the first tally mark in a long line of instances when Scott really should have listened to Stiles and didn't.

Scott and Stiles dig up a dead body outside of the burnt remains of the old Hale house and decide to blame Derek for it, and Stiles decides to basically poke at Derek with a stick because Derek is a predator and Stiles can't help but antagonize predators or something. It just so happens that the dead body they dug up is Derek's missing sister though, and her death is ruled an animal attack so Derek is released.

Derek finally gets the chance to tell Scott that he wasn't the one to bite him, so maybe he isn't exactly the bad guy Scott and Stiles thought he was.

He's still a jerk.

Derek gets shot by a wolfsbane bullet when Kate Argent moseys her way back into town and Derek drags himself to the school in order to get Scott's help. What he gets instead is Stiles. Stiles drives Derek to Deaton's animal clinic while they wait for Scott to steal a wolfsbane bullet from the Argent home and when Derek starts to think Scott won't get back in time he charges Stiles with the task of cutting his arm off to keep the poison from spreading to his heart. Stiles is understandably not okay with this plan. Thankfully, Scott arrives with the bullet just in time and nobody has to cut off anybody's arm.

Meanwhile the crazy Alpha werewolf is still off causing havoc and killing people and this time Lydia Martin is present to witness it. Stiles goes to check up on her when she doesn't show up to school the next day and finds her drugged out of her mind and insisting she saw a mountain lion. After she falls asleep on Stiles' lap and Stiles gets a hold of her phone to watch a video of the attack that she filmed, however, it becomes quite clear that a mountain lion had absolutely nothing to do with what she saw that night. Stiles deletes the video in order to 'protect' Lydia, and then goes off to chuck some balls at Scott with the excuse of training him to control his abilities, when really he's just angry at Scott for not answering his phone calls, and sort of vindictive.

They discover that Allison is Scott's anchor though, so all's well that ends well I guess.

Until Stiles, Scott, Allison, Lydia and Jackson all get cornered in the school after hours by the Alpha werewolf trying to kill them, anyway. They all make it out alive, even if the school janitor (and Stiles' poor jeep) aren't so lucky, and Scott decides to blame Derek for the entire thing because they saw the Alpha shove a hand through his chest and thought he was dead.

Pro tip: he wasn't.

Derek is understandably upset with being blamed and hunted by the police and decides to hide out in Stiles' bedroom, which you would think would be the absolute last place he would want to be considering Stiles' dad is the sheriff, but it winds up working for him, so whatever. Lucky for them both, Danny is Stiles' lab partner and has a criminal history for hacking, and Derek is most definitely attractive to gay guys. Stiles makes Derek strip in front of Danny in order to bribe him into tracing the origin of the text that sent Allison, Lydia and Jackson into the school after hours in the first place, which leads them straight to Derek's supposedly comatose uncle, Peter. Who, that's right, you guessed it, not so comatose after all. Whoops.

With everything going on this is the perfect timing for a school dance, right? Stiles somehow manages to land a date to the dance with Lydia, but she spends the entire night looking for Jackson and winds up alone on the lacrosse field with Peter. When Stiles runs in to try and save her, Peter temporarily appropriates Stiles in order to help find out where Derek has disappeared to. Stiles figures out that Derek probably has Scott's phone and, by utilizing the fact that Scott is painfully predictable and used Allison's name as his username and password, Stiles is able to use the phone's GPS to track down Derek.

Peter takes this opportunity to be suitably creepy with Stiles and offers to bite him, but Stiles finally shows signs of some sort of self preservation because he shuts that shit down cold. Surprisingly, Stiles lives through telling Peter 'no' and is free to check up on Lydia at the hospital, where he runs into Jackson. Stiles drags Jackson out to the Hale house with a couple of self-igniting Molotov cocktails and proceeds to be the first volley in a team effort to kill Peter.

So the day is saved and everyone is happy right? Ummmm...

Derek decided to celebrate his new-found power increase from killing his uncle and becoming Alpha in order to bite a few teenagers and add to his pack. While nobody is sure yet whether Lydia was changed by Peter's bite, the gang suddenly has to deal with worrying over whether or not Derek bit Jackson, and discovers that apparently after you get the bite from Derek you turn into an extra from the movie Grease because Isaac, Erica, and Boyd have definitely been bitten and do not know the meaning of the word subtle.

Which is bad news considering Allison's grandfather has just rolled into town and if you thought Kate Argent was cray cray that's nothing compared to Gerard Argent.

Meanwhile Lydia is slowly going crazy.

Stiles jeep is once again the victim of a melodramatic werewolf and Stiles takes it to the mechanic to get it fixed, where he witnesses the mechanic getting killed by some sort of strange, humanoid lizard beast. The team is forced to admit that they are absolutely in over their heads with all of this bump in the night stuff and try to get their hands on Gerard's family bestiary. Stiles sneaks away in the middle of a lacrosse game in order to search Gerard's office at the school but gets cornered by Derek and Erica in the pool room. And then they all proceed to be cornered by the lizard beast (heretofore to be known as a kanima).

Erica is knocked out and Derek is paralyzed by some sort of toxin that the creature secretes, and Stiles is forced to tread water with Derek's dead weight for two hours because the kanima apparently doesn't like water. They're all saved in the nick of time by Scott.

Lydia is still going crazy, and Derek decides that it's because she's the kanima but, as is the norm on this show, Derek is wrong and surprise! It was Jackson all along.

Stiles steals a police van and stashes Jackson away in it while they try and figure out what to do with him. Stiles puts in his own vote for killing Jackson because, once again, Stiles is a vindictive little shit. Scott overrules that option though. Jackson manages to escape and goes to the police about the whole abduction thing and Stiles and Scott get a restraining order slapped on them.

Stiles dad also loses his job, and Stiles gets to feel like shit when his dad won't even yell at him for it.

As is typically the case at this point though, Stiles has to immediately run off to help the gang try and trap Jackson at a rave, and is allowed to feel good about himself for about five seconds for managing to manipulate mountain ash into forming a supernatural barrier before Derek makes him break it so they can go save Scott from Victoria, Allison's crazy intense mom.

Stiles does a bit of detective work with his dad and discovers the connection between all of the previous kanima induced deaths, and Lydia is, you guessed it, still going crazy.

Lydia doses her birthday party punch with a hallucinogenic form of wolfsbane and while everyone is out of it sneaks off to go resurrect Peter Hale. Stiles gets the very special treat of hallucinating his dad in a drunken rage cursing him and blaming him for his mother's death. One good thing that does come out of the party though is the fact that they figure out that Matt is the 'master' of the kanima. Stiles is absolutely not surprised because he totally called Matt being evil a long time ago.

When Stiles attempts to bring his dad along on the 'Matt is the killer' train and they go to the police station to look over the evidence, however, Matt shows up to rain on their parade. Stiles is temporarily paralyzed by Jackson the kanima in the fallout and can't do anything to protect his father. Stiles talks to the school counselor about his anxiety and looks far too pretty for somebody talking about drowning.

At the lacrosse finals, Stiles gets his first opportunity to play and manages to win the game by scoring two goals, but shortly after he's kidnapped by Gerard Argent and his lackeys and beat up in the Argent basement to serve as a message to his werewolf friends. Stiles refuses to pass on that message by avoiding everyone until Lydia shows up asking for his help to save Jackson.

He rips into her a little bit about her unconcern for her own safety, displacing his own fears and worries about him and his dad onto her, but eventually agrees to take her to the final showdown, where he drives through a wall like a badass and hits Jackson with a car. Lydia saves Jackson with the power of love and you can kind of see Stiles giving up on Lydia in that moment, even if he's not 100% willing to admit it out loud later because Stiles never likes to actually acknowledge anything problematic ever.

The summer passes surprisingly free of death and tragedy, mostly because Derek is keeping the arrival of an 'alpha pack' secret from the boys. Because keeping secrets has worked out so well for these people in the past, obviously.

Junior year starts and Scott has a brand new shiny attitude and approach to life and trying to be the very best werewolf that he can be and apparently this includes getting a tattoo. Stiles proves to be highly wary of needles and passes out while watching the process and it all comes to naught because Scott's werewolf healing erases the tattoo shortly after. The boys remember that they do in face know a werewolf with a tattoo so obviously this is a fixable problem, and go to harass Derek for answers. Derek helps Scott get the tattoo he wants, but also winds up having to fess up about the alpha werewolf problem to the boys as well.

Summer vacation is officially over.

Stiles and Scott are invited to the birthday party of a childhood friend of Stiles', Heather, who surprise attacks Stiles with her lips as soon as he arrives and then sequesters him away in her parent's wine cellar and asks him to be her 'first'. Stiles agrees and runs upstairs to find a condom but by the time he gets back Heather has disappeared.

Under Deaton's direction, the boys assist in getting Isaac's memory back from his earlier confrontation with the alpha pack, and they trace the pack's whereabouts back to an abandoned bank vault which had apparently been broken into once before. Stiles uses his family connections to dig up his dad's old case file on the place and figures out how to get Derek and Scott in to save Boyd and Cora, Derek's younger sister. Stiles remains safe and clear of the ensuing chaos up in Derek's loft with Peter and the two sass each other because that's what they do best. Peter almost manages to convince Stiles that he has a secret underground lair.

Meanwhile, Lydia manages to stumble upon a dead body and calls Stiles to deal with it. Stiles notices that the boy was wearing a chastity ring. When Stiles is then called in to identify his friend Heather's dead body and notices that the two were killed in a similar fashion, he draws a connection to their virginity and comes to the conclusion that someone is sacrificing virgins. This is confirmed when his dad discovers a third body that matches the first two.

Nobody wants to believe Stiles about his human sacrifice theory (this is never a good idea, as Stiles maintains, he is always right) until yet another dead body shows up, but this one is breaking the virgin pattern. So, you know, at least Stiles isn't in anymore danger. Stiles, Lydia and Deaton team up to investigate and realize that it's the work of a Darach, a dark druid, in order to build power. Harris is killed, and nobody is sad.

The gang have a catastrophic showdown with the alpha pack in an abandoned mall (seriously how many abandoned things are there in Beacon Hills) that leaves Scott gravely injured and Derek possibly dead. And life goes on because the next day the lacrosse team is on the road for a cross country match because it's not lacrosse season obviously. Stiles proves that he would be absolutely terrifying as a werewolf by calling out the fact that Lydia and Allison have been following the bus for miles and makes a motion sick classmate throw up in order to stop the bus so he and the girls can try and fix Scott.

Due to the delays and traffic, the bus has to stop overnight at a motel that has a troubling history of suicide. Lydia starts hearing the departed and the werewolves one by one try to kill themselves. It's up to team human (and Lydia) to save the day. The night culminates in Scott dousing himself in gasoline and trying to light himself on fire, but Stiles steps into the gas puddle with him and tells Scott that if he's going anywhere, he's taking Stiles with him because he's his brother. We all shed a tear at their love and then the Darach tries to kill them anyway. Rude.

Back home Deaton is taken as the next human sacrifice and everyone races against time to try and find him before he dies. Stiles and Lydia team up and try to use whatever strange connection Lydia seems to have to the murders to find him, but in the end Stiles figures out where to look from digging through Danny's homework assignment on telluric currents after Danny gets mistletoe poisoning (which they'd already previously connected to the Darach). Scott and Stiles dad show up to save the day and Deaton lives to be cryptic another day.

Stiles is sick of nobody every telling anybody anything and demands to know shit and Peter tells him a pretty much pointless story about the first girl that Derek every loved and how he was forced to kill her in a root cellar and that's why his eyes were blue before he became an Alpha.

Or was it really that pointless? (apparently it was the first human sacrifice at the roots of the nematon, which saved Julia Baccari/Jennifer Blake's life when Kali tried to kill her, but whatever, it's not important to Stiles' story)

Stiles tries to tell his dad about werewolves by using Cora as his fangy evidence, but Cora passes out in his bedroom and has to be rushed to the hospital, and the sheriff doesn't want to believe him. He proves to be an expert in guilt by telling his dad that "mom would have believed me", but it does serve to get the sheriff investigating on his own so whatever works I guess.

Scott and Stiles decide to use whatever is up with Lydia to find the dead bodies before they happen, and while this doesn't necessarily work out for them, their English teacher Jennifer Blake does wind up not only revealing herself as the Darach, but also identifying Lydia as a Banshee. Of course she also takes the sheriff hostage when she leaves, so that kind of sucks.

The boys and Derek confront Jennifer at Derek's loft and force her to come with them to the hospital and save Cora's life. Stiles goes along with the plan grudgingly but when the alpha pack traps them all in the hospital (which has been evacuated due to the freak storm raging outside) and Jennifer tries to run, Stiles gives Derek a piece of his mind about how much shit he is not willing to take right now. He also breaks a wooden bat over the super saiyan form of the alpha twins.

They all manage to get an unconscious Cora out of the danger zone and Stiles stands guard over her in an ambulance until they can get her out. It's in the ambulance that he not only gives Cora CPR when she stops breathing, but also figures out that the Darach's next set of victims is going to be parents and that Melissa McCall is in danger.

He doesn't manage to get there in time, and Jennifer escapes with Scott's mom.

Stiles shoos everyone out of the hospital and covers for them with the authorities, including Scott's asshole FBI father who asks Stiles really personal and invasive questions about his dad and gets thrown shade in return. It's no less than he deserves, really.

Chris Argent is taken as the third and final sacrifice by the Darach and Stiles has a panic attack at school at the thought of losing his dad. Lydia snaps him out of it by kissing him, a method I would not endorse for dealing with panic attacks. But it worked this time, I guess. Scott's dad tries to bother Stiles some more and Deaton shows up just in time to spirit him away so that he can dunk Stiles (and Scott, and Allison) in an ice bath and figure out where their parents are going to be sacrificed.

The ice bath sends the three on some sort of spiritual flashback where they all realize that they've run into the nematon before, and they all rush off to save their parents. Stiles wrecks his jeep due to the crazy weather conditions on the way but manages to show up just in time with his trusty new metal bat to help keep the root cellar that the parents were being kept in from collapsing on their heads.

Scott becomes a 'true alpha', the bad guys are defeated, and everyone is happy.

But everything changed when the fire nation attacked.

So that time Scott, Stiles and Allison all took a long ice bath? They kind of temporarily died and tied themselves to the nematon, which in turn became a beacon (ahaha.ha. oh look at the puns) for all things supernatural. Basically it turned Beacon Hills into the Hellmouth and left the kid's minds open for invasion.

Stiles starts having night terrors, dreams layered within dreams, starts having trouble figuring out whether he's awake of sleeping. He dreams of walking into a classroom and having every person in the room sign something to him and then he wakes up in class, only according to Scott he wasn't sleeping at all, and when Stiles looks down at his desk he notices that he's written "wake up" dozens and dozens of times all over his notebook. Which is quaint, really, because Stiles can't actually read anymore either.

He replicates the signs he was seeing in the 'dream' for Deaton who translates them to be "when is a door not a door". The answer being "when it's ajar". Stiles mind is warning him that all of their minds are open to attack, and Deaton advises them all to figure out how to close the door, and fast. Before something takes advantage.

Scott's dad is doing his best to prove that he's the biggest asshole of them all because he's placed the sheriff's job under review and threatening to remove him from his position. Stiles dad wants to solve one more cold case before that happens and picks the disappearance of a girl Scott and Stiles' age called Malia because it matches the full moon pattern for werewolves. Scott and Stiles do their best to help him, and they come across a werecoyote whose eyes glow blue, who they believe to be the missing girl.

The gang comes up with a convoluted plan to coax Malia back into her human form, but while they're out in the preserve enacting this plan Lydia accidentally steps on a bear trap, though she manages to stop herself from setting it off. Lydia tells Stiles that the instructions for undoing the trap are written on the bottom of the trap because "animals can't read" and Stiles is forced to counter that with the fact that neither can he currently. So Lydia tells Stiles that he's smart. Too smart and too clever to need silly instructions to figure out how to undo the trap and because Stiles is indeed very clever, he manages to get her free without anybody losing any limbs.

What's important to note here is that the plan actually works and Malia is returned to her father alive and... well? Hm. Maybe. Stiles also starts being able to read again, and it's suggested that he, Allison and Scott managed to close the doors in their minds.

For some of them it was too little too late though.

Mass murderer Barrow, an electrical engineer that apparently killed children because "their eyes glowed" escapes from the Beacon Hills hospital during surgery and hides out in the high school. Stiles and Lydia try and work together to figure out how to use her new banshee powers to find him but have no luck.

After school, Lydia goes back to Stiles house to go over the evidence, and the two figure out that Barrow was probably hiding in the chemistry room, where the smell of chemicals would make it impossible for the werewolves to find him. They make their way back to the school and find a coded message in the chemistry room meant for Barrow telling him to target Kira, a new transfer to the school. And the girl Scott just happens to be having dinner with that night.

Stiles and Lydia arrive too late to warn Scott and Kira is taken by Barrow. Stiles encourages Lydia to scream (wail) in order to narrow her focus and figure out where Barrow took her, and they wind up at the power station. Barrow gets electrocuted and the town falls into a blackout.

Scott enlists Stiles' help to sneak Kira's phone out of evidence in order to delete some incriminating photos on her on the phone that most definitely confirm that Kira is not human. Stiles does this by making copies of the keycards necessary to get into the office, thus revealing that if he ever gets tired of this token human sidekick gig with werewolves he can always go into a life of crime. He also intercepts Scott's dad on his way into the office in order to tell the man that he knows his secret, and to give Kira and Scott time to escape out the back.

Danny and the twins throw a blacklight party at Derek's loft without asking, and when Stiles shows up at the party he is immediately lip divebombed by a pretty girl and dragged out onto the floor to dance. Stiles eventually recognizes her as the girlfriend of one of the previous victims of the Darach and wants to know why she kissed him since the person the Darach had killed had also been a girl. What follows is basically Stiles being introduced to the wonderful world of bisexuality, and the concept seems to give him pause. What gives him even more pause is the fact that the new key that showed up on his key ring apparently has phosphorescent on it and he comes to the conclusion that it must have gotten on the key from the chemistry room at school.

Stiles leaves the party and the pretty girl who wanted to kiss him (though he leaves her with a water bottle and tells her to drink the whole thing because she was drunk and he was concerned) to go solve a mystery. A mystery that amounts to the fact that the new key on his key ring is for the chemistry room and that the message on the board to Barrow is in Stiles' own handwriting.

Understandably concerned, Stiles tries to present this evidence to Scott the next day at school, only for the message to be erased. Scott asks him if he's feeling okay and recommends he leave early, and Stiles is so concerned that he actually checks himself into the hospital.

Melissa gets a list of symptoms from Stiles and tells him that he's just sleep deprived, and gives him a sedative. As he's falling asleep, Stiles mistakes Melissa for his own mom and tells her "thanks mom" and we all want to cry. When Stiles awakes, he's alone at the hospital and goes looking for Melissa. He gets cornered by the Oni that have been systematically testing all of his friends for the presence of a Nogitsune, and suddenly Stiles is shoving his hand into the oni's chest and pulling out a firefly core, destroying it.

Whoops, Stiles is the nogitsune.

Stiles calls Scott in a panic during the night when he thinks he's been kidnapped and the gang go into overdrive looking for him. They go to his house to get a better grasp of his scent and find that Stiles' wall o' crime has turned into a mess of red yarn all leading right to Stiles' bed, where a pair of scissors has been stabbed into the mattress. Lydia's banshee powers lead them to the basement of the Eichen House mental institution, but Stiles isn't there. Melissa and Scott's dad eventually find him holed up in the coyote den that Malia had been using before they reunited her with her dad.

During this time Stiles was having a fight in his mind with the nogitsune, who claimed it was trying to keep Stiles alive while Stiles was subconsciously trying to keep himself from being found in order to protect his friends and family from the nogitsune. It argues with Stiles again when Stiles is being given an MRI to test for frontotemporal demtentia, and tells him that if he gives up control it will spare his loved ones. The nogitsune barrages Stiles with a series of riddles and when Stiles finally answers the last one with "shadow" it unwraps the bandages from around it's face and reveals itself to be him. This is the moment in which the nogitsune takes complete control of Stiles.

The nogitsune escapes from the MRI with Stiles and is confronted by Kira's mom, who is apparently the person commanding the oni. She tells him that being in the body of an innocent boy won't protect him and the nogitsune doesn't seem to be too pleased that she's threatening Stiles too. He walks out of the hospital unhindered.

Meanwhile, previous tampering that the nogitsune had done to the hospital's electricity winds up electrocuting several people, including Isaac. Scott does his alpha best to absorb some of Isaac's pain for him.

Stiles pops up again, apparently himself, and tries to help Scott figure out what the nogitsune has been up to. Besides framing Derek and Chris for an ex-yakuza member's murder, I mean. Their investigation leads them to the cross country trail being used by the team and they rush out to intercept the class only for Coach Finstock to end up with an arrow in his gut. Scott absorbs as much of his pain as he can as well.

In much a similar fashion as Barrow's bombs were once delivered, a wrapped gift is discovered on a school bus and suspected to be a bomb. New hot shot pretty boy deputy Parrish turns out to have bomb handling experience and handles the package only to discover that the bomb is actually in the police station. An emergency evacuation is ordered, but a few people are still in the building when the bomb goes off and Stiles asks Scott to ease one officer's passing with his nifty werewolf powers.

Night falls and the oni summoned by Kira's mom attack Stiles as Scott and Kira try and barricade him in Deaton's office. In the ensuing struggle, Scott is stabbed in the stomach with a katana but when Kira tries to pull it out Stiles suddenly turns on her and knocks her out. Because apparently it was the nogitsune all along. The nogitsune explains to Scott how the entire point was constructing scenarios for Scott to absorbs people's pain, because that's what the nogitsune feeds on, and proceeds to tell Scott in a sing-song voice that he should have known better than "to ever trust a fox" because they'll always trick you.

Deaton appears out of nowhere like an avenging angel and injects the nogitsune with a special kind of lichen that is poisonous to foxes, though he claims it's only a temporary fix.

With all the supernatural craziness going on, however, Stiles' dad is still slightly more concerned with the possibility that Stiles really has the same thing that killed his mother and is planning to leave town for a couple days to consult with a few specialists. Stiles requests that in the meantime he be installed in the Eichen House mental institution because he won't be able to hurt Scott if he's in there.

Theoretically this is a good plan.

Theoretically.

Within the first five minutes of his stay at the "echo house", a kid commits suicide while muttering a riddle that would make the nogitsune proud. He also runs into Malia at group therapy, who punches him because she didn't exactly want to stop being a coyote, as well as... Morrell. Because nobody ever stays dead on this show. Morrell notices a strange starburst pattern on Stiles' neck and back and explains to him that when the mark disappears the nogitsune's power will be full again. She also gives him a bottle of amphetamines and suggests he stay awake for as long as possible to counteract the nogitsune's hold.

Stiles has a conversation with Malia where he promises to try and help her revert to her coyote form if she helps him get the keys to the basement, but Stiles is caught and sedated. He struggles with the nogitsune briefly in his mind before being awoken by Malia, who tells him she knows a different way to the basement. While in the basement, Malia steals her first kiss from Stiles and they find a little comfort from each other by making out and cuddling on the couch for awhile. Malia discovers a hollow wall and Stiles breaks it open to discover the nogitsune's original body, only for the two to be subdued by Oliver, Stiles' roommate.

Once again the nogitsune gives Stiles the choice of protecting the people he cares about by giving up control to the nogitsune.

In Stiles mind, it was really no choice at all.

The nogitsune gains complete control of Stiles and escapes from Eichen House in order to have a private chat with Kira's father about the location of Kira's mom's final kitsune tail. He makes a general nuisance of himself and implants a fly into the man in order to extract the information from him. The nogitsune then proceeds to lure the group to Derek's loft for a showdown. Only it's not the showdown that everyone else is expecting.

Instead, it makes the team fight the oni for him and then uses the distraction as a chance to escape and confront Kira's mom in the basement of the Eichen house, where he stabs himself in the stomach to release a horde of flies which he then uses to control Isaac, Derek, and the twins and create a little bit of chaos. Lydia and Aiden come across an unconscious Stiles in a parking lot and bring him back to Scott's house.

Deaton doses the nogitsune with kanima venom and Scott and Lydia venture into Stiles' mind via his alpha claws in order to rescue him from the nogitsune's control. Scott howls for his pack and Stiles wakes up only to start spitting up bandages like something out of a really disturbing horror movie. A bandage shrouded figure rises out of the pile and the pack restrains what they think is the nogitsune, only to unwrap the bandages and discover Stiles staring back at them. In the confusion, the nogitsune escapes with Lydia.

Stiles asks for Kira's mom to test him with the oni the same as the rest of the group and it's confirmed that he is indeed himself. Only the nogitsune is slowly draining Stiles of life, leaving him cold and in constant pain. Together, the team manage to track down Lydia and the nogitsune, but the nogitsune takes control of Kira's mom's oni and Allison is killed in the ensuing battle after managing to finally kill an oni using a silver arrowhead.

The pack figures out that in order to trap the nogitsune's spirit, they need the container that housed Talia Hale's claws. Everyone confronts the nogitsune at the school, where Stiles, Lydia, Scott and Kira are temporarily trapped in an illusion and the nogitsune attempts to convince Stiles to kill himself to save his friends. Stiles figures out that it's just an illusion and they escape to defeat the nogitsune by having Scott bite it and trapping the escaping fly in the container for Talia's claws.

During the battle at the school, Aiden dies and Ethan decides to leave Beacon Hills. When he tries breaking up with Danny, he's informed that Danny doesn't really want to date werewolves and of course Danny knows what's going on, nobody in the pack is terribly subtle. Malia joins the school as the newest new girl, and Stiles starts her off on her lessons with Scott on how to Werewolf-Werecoyote-whatever.

Meanwhile, Kate Argent is back, and while the hunters had all referred to her as she-wolf, she is clearly something more akin to a werejaguar. But Stiles doesn't know about that yet.

Personality:
Theoretically, Stiles is the comedic relief of the show. He's incredibly sarcastic and likely to make pop culture references or resort to humor as a defense mechanism. He likes to claim that his favorite way of dealing with problems is to ignore them until they go away. This rarely ever works out for him. Stiles is the fast talker of the group. While I would hesitate to call him a good liar, particularly to his dad, he is quite talented at talking in circles and technicalities so that he not only doesn't actually lie, but doesn't wind up answering the question either.

Stiles is a tangle of long limbs, expressive faces, and adolescent hormones. He more than likely had a major growth spurt just before the show started because he still hasn't quite figured out how to move without flailing or tripping over himself. He's like a puppy with paws it still needs to grow into.

His face is also truly a gift to behold when he's feeling particularly strong emotions. Really. There's nothing else like it. I mean just look at this face.

Despite having a clearly healthy sex drive and absolutely no shame (he freely admitted to Coach Finstock that he'd already masturbated twice one day, and was ready and willing to tell Scott about his wet dreams) Stiles is probably still a virgin. In the last few months, he's actually kissed five different girls and had a fade to black scene with the last one of them, but considering the first girl died immediately after kissing him, the second kiss was the snap him out of a panic attack, the third was actually CPR for a girl that wasn't breathing, the fourth quite possibly made Stiles begin to question his sexuality, and the fifth happened in the basement of a mental institution where it was highly unlikely either had access to condoms, I sincerely doubt anything more than shirtless necking happened. So. Still a virgin. But apparently quite a good kisser.

Speaking of sexuality... recent events with a girl at a blacklight Halloween party may have prompted a slight sexual identity awakening in Stiles by opening his eyes to the possibility of his being bisexual. With the way things are going for him right now, that's really the last of his concerns, but if things ever manage to calm down for him he might begin to tentatively explore the idea.

Stiles has ADHD and is prescribed Adderall to deal with it, but he still shows clear signs of having a difficulty focusing on one thing for long stretches of time, as well as an inability to keep still. It's also suggested that he has somewhat of a history of abusing his medication in times of intense research binges.

Though you wouldn't expect it with his general inability to focus, Stiles is actually a very observant and dedicated detective. When a new concept or idea is introduced to him, he won't rest until he knows absolutely everything about it. He is a highly intuitive problem solver and has been responsible for solving many of the mysteries that have plagued the kids of Beacon Hills since the first season. Stiles not only predicted Matt being evil and the Darach's human sacrifices, but he also reasoned out Malia's motivations and was the first person to shout werewolves after Scott had been bitten in the woods, which has lead to Stiles insisting that he is "always right" and that Scott should always listen to him.

Stiles is clever, and he knows it, which translates to him being remarkably stubborn and dangerously foolhardy under certain circumstances. He forms opinions about people or things and is very slow to change those opinions to the point where he's pretty good at holding a grudge. And while he's easily one of the most breakable members of the show, Stiles has never let that stop him from giving people a piece of his mind when he thinks they deserve it, be they an authority figure or a werewolf with negligible self control.

Part of this foolhardiness lies in the fact that Stiles has little to no self preservation. He doesn't seem to have an overwhelming amount of self worth. Not only did Stiles let Harris insult and say incredibly inappropriate things to him, but Stiles also apparently blames himself for his mom's death and secretly worries that his dad might also blame him for it. For that reason he tends to self-internalize a lot of his pain, or even project it onto other people; like when he yelled at Lydia about how much you hurt the people you leave behind and was clearly thinking about him and his father instead. His most common response to the question "are you okay" is "I'm fine", even if it's hideously clear that he is anything but fine.

On the other hand, Stiles will not hesitate to seek out professional help if he thinks he needs it, at least in regards to his psychological health. Because of his long history with ADHD and panic attacks, as well as his mom's own troubling psychological history, Stiles is very much familiar with counselors and therapists and the like and was probably the only one out of the group to visit Morrell the school counselor of his own volition following Matt's attack on the police station.

If you want to threaten Stiles you have to threaten his loved ones because while Stiles might be slow and cautious to add people to that list, once they are on it literally nothing else matters more to him than keeping them safe and happy. Stiles acts more like a parent to his dad than a child, keeping a close eye on his diet and keeping the werewolf secret from him for so long because he was terrified of the idea of losing his dad too.

This fierce dedication to his loved ones, as well the special brand of sharpness that Stiles possesses, means that Stiles is actually a bit more morally suspect than his best friend Scott. He's more manipulative, more vindictive, more willing to be incited to violence. Several times his solution to a problem has been to kill it.

Scott is basically the most important person in Stiles' life, except for maybe his dad. Scott is his brother. Stiles was willing to die with Scott in the Motel California episode, with absolutely no hesitation. He's with Scott til the end, whatever end that might be.

What's actually rather interesting about Scott and Stiles' dynamic though, is that while Stiles is willing to do pretty much anything for Scott (including being abducted by older men- Peter and Gerard I'm looking at you) and Scott is an alpha now, most of the times Stiles is actually the one leading in their relationship.

This isn't always a good thing. Stiles taking control leads to impulsive mistakes like looking for a dead body in the woods in the middle of the night. On the other hand Stiles taking control can lead to Scott gaining control over his brand new werewolf powers as well.

What it basically comes down to though is that Stiles is the impulsive troublemaker of the duo. Stiles says "I have an idea" and it's either going to save the day or make things even worse and that is basically an even fifty fifty split either way.

Honestly, they're probably a little too codependent on each other. When Scott's mom needed to find a way to punish Scott her answer was "no Stiles". A decision which Stiles was none too pleased with either. But they love each other deeply, and while sometimes Stiles might get irritated by Scott (like when he won't answer his phone) nothing is ever going to get between these two and their awesome love. Recent events have only served to cement their bond even further.

Allison and Stiles are generally amiable with each other and work well enough together when the situation calls for it, but Allison is very much "Scott's girlfriend" to Stiles (even when she's dating Isaac) and Stiles is pretty much "Scott's weird friend" to Allison. They get on well enough, but they don't have a particularly deep connection with each other.

With Allison's death, Stiles more than likely blames himself for the whole thing, so he'd probably be a bit tentative and guilt ridden with any interactions with her. Just seeing her alive would be a pretty big gut punch. He really won't know how to behave around her at first.

Lydia is sort of a tricky matter with Stiles. He was basically in love with her since the third grade, because of her beautiful strawberry blonde hair and incredible intellect. Stiles tried for years to get her attention, but it never amounted to anything.

When things started going crazy around Lydia because of the Peter possession thing and the kanima thing, Stiles had a rare opportunity to provide her a comforting shoulder and attempt to keep her safe from Derek's pack, but in the end Lydia's heart still belonged to Jackson and, after taking out a bit of his own anxiety and frustration from the entire Gerard kidnapping him and beating the shit out of him debacle on her, he helped reunite her with Jackson and save the day. And while that season ended with Stiles claiming that he was just going to have to extend his ten year plan to get Lydia to fall in love with him, it was pretty clear by the way that he was watching her and Jackson in the warehouse that he was trying to let her go.

This decision actually leads to a much healthier and equal relationship between the two in season 3. Without Lydia having to worry about Stiles pining over her, they start putting their incredible intellects together to solve problems. And these two are actually a really good team when they're working together.

He absolutely still cares for her, and might even still be entertaining the slightest crush because, let's be honest you never forget your first, but it isn't his whole world now and because of that he actually sees Lydia as a person instead of someone just set on a pedestal.

Stiles can get frustrated with her when she's being stubborn or unhelpful, can have her in his room, sitting on his bed, and not really care. It's pretty telling, actually, that when Stiles had a dream where he was in his bed with Lydia, he immediately knew that something was wrong. He no longer dwells in a fantasy where that is something he thinks would ever happen. Lydia being in his bed with him was a warning to Stiles.

Also, he can probably sympathize pretty well with her over the whole Peter possession fiasco now. Just saying.

Stiles' relationship with Derek is rather complicated. When the series started out they were incredibly antagonistic with each other. They were thrown together out of circumstance and deeply regretted having to work with one another. But in this particular case, familiarity did not actually breed contempt. By season two, their antagonism took a more playful turn, and while they were not necessarily friends at that point, Stiles did take offense to the fact that Derek said he didn't trust Stiles. Which would suggest that by then Stiles actually trusted Derek.

By now Stiles and Derek actually get along with each other, for the most part. Yeah, they still rile each other up, that's the basic nature of their relationship and it's not likely to change, but there's a lighter air to the intent now. It's teasing, instead. Derek and Stiles actually communicate now, they care about what happens to each other.

They may even, dare I say it, be friends now. But Stiles is never ever going to stop messing with Derek. It's just far too much fun, okay.

Stiles and Cora didn't have a whole lot of time with each other, but they got along well enough with very little backlash. They worked well enough either each other during the alpha pack problem and Cora was willing to be Stiles' fangy proof for his dad. They're not best friends by any stretch of the imagination, but there's nothing particularly abrasive between them either. And he cares whether she lives or dies.

Also, Stiles is probably entertaining an ever so slight crush on her. When he was in the ambulance with her and she stopped breathing, Stiles gave her CPR and then made a joke that the next time they did that she had better be awake for it. So there's that.

Isaac and Stiles are absolutely not friends with each other. They don't hate each other, but there is a lot of antagonism between the two of them regardless. They'll work together if they have to, but they don't actually work together all that much anyway. Stiles still cares about what happens to Isaac though, as evidenced by his efforts trying to save Isaac in the Motel California episode. Scott likes Isaac, so whatever Stiles' own opinion of the boy, Stiles will do his best to keep him safe.

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The Nogitsune affair has put Stiles through the ringer, emotionally and psychologically. He sees himself as responsible for far too many people's death, and while in some instances (Jackson, early season 2 Derek) that wouldn't bother him, innocent people have died, and his loved ones have been hurt. He's been hurt, and he's not okay.

To put it simply, Stiles will be suffering from PTSD. His anxiety will be higher, the chance of panic attacks increased, he'll more than likely attempt to abuse his adderall on occasions to avoid sleep, because sleep will still be something terrifying to him, a chance to lose control. Night terrors are a given, sleepwalking is still a possibility. Any perceived loss of control on his part will send him into a panic.

Specifically, the simple act of sleep is now going to become one of his biggest fears. He can go to sleep now, because he understands at least theoretically, that the nogitsune is gone and he's not going to lose control as soon as he closes his eyes. However, when he awakes, it will always be with his heart in his throat. Knowledge and reason only help so much when it comes to emotional trauma and raw terror, and the only thing that is going to calm him down in those moments is taking stock of surroundings and confirming for himself that nothing untoward has happened while he slept.

Lost time, hallucinations (which would be a side effect of those stretches when he decides to skip sleep again) and any suggested loss of autonomy is also going to bother him. In fact, just waking up in the pods upon arrival without any idea of how he got in there is going to send Stiles into a spiraling panic attack that he would probably be lucky to pass out from.

If anything happened to make Stiles genuinely believe for any reason that the nogitsune was back, he would probably even go so far as to try and hurt himself to get rid of it. He would have to really believe that he was possessed though, it isn't a decision he would make lightly.

One possible way he could try to deal with his trauma on his own could be through cleaning, since we watched him clear away his wall o' crime post possession and remarked to his dad that he was "clearing his head" This could even extend to other, slightly OCD coping methods, little monotinous tasks that he could use to assert his control in order to help soothe his nerves.

He's going to do his best to keep all of this from his friends, though. While he is willing to speak to medical or psychological professionals when he knows he has a problem, he will always try to shield his friends from those problems unless he thinks it might actually affect or endanger them. So for instance, if he had good reason to believe he was possessed again, he would actually go to Scott and explain his worries. But so long as it's something personal that he thinks he can handle by himself, he's going to internalize it. If pushed, he might admit to a few nightmares and heightened anxiety, but he would downplay it as much as he possibly could hope to get away with.

This intense need Stiles has not to burden his loved ones basically comes down to the fact that Stiles has a guilt complex almost as bad as Derek's. Despite having had no possible way of preventing the nogitsune from taking control in the first place, Stiles fully and completely rests the blame for everything the nogitsune has done solely on his own shoulders. He also, at least subconsciously, expects others to do the same. If his friends all turned their backs on him tomorrow, he wouldn't blame them at all. Guilt is probably the thing that Stiles internalizes the best. The hallucination of his father that he saw at Lydia's birthday party proves that well enough. Stiles even blamed himself for the worry he caused his father when Gerard abducted him after the game. Something that he had absolutely no control over. Despite all of this, if the cause is good, Stiles will throw himself head first into doing things that only serve to make himself feel even more guilty, like when he got his dad drunk to weasel confidential case information from him.

As Stiles has said himself, his favorite thing to do with a problem is ignore it until it goes away. And he'll try at first to apply this philosophy to how he acts around his friends, but he's probably not going to do a very good job with it. Allison died in Scott's arms. She was the girl for Scott, even when they were both dating other people. The guilt Stiles is going to feel for that whenever he looks at Scott will be an actual physical ache. He'd probably try and encourage the two to spend more time together, any way they can. Whether they're dating or just friends, Stiles knows now how fleeting their time together might be so he wouldn't want them to waste a single moment that they didn't have to.

Stiles doesn't even get on all that well with Isaac, but that doesn't mean that the guilt of Allison's death doesn't also extend to him. More than likely he'd just be slightly awkward around Isaac. He wouldn't know what to say. Doesn't really have any idea what Allison and Isaac's relationship was like. The usual snappy, jabbing comments that he and Isaac tend to exchange would be cut off suddenly in the middle, or he could swing too far in either direction and settle on insults that were either too weak, or too mean.

He might act slightly more reserved or quiet around Derek than usual, but the push and pull between the two of them should alter too much because Stiles saw so little of Derek during the entire debacle with the nogitsune. At most he'd be more grateful to Derek, for how much Derek fought for him when things were going bad, more willing to listen or play along with any plans Derek might have (even if Derek's plans never work and this is a proven fact).

Stiles will be a little conflicted in regards to how to act around Lydia. On one hand when everything started going to shit and the nogitsune was draining him of all his life force, Stiles came to lean on Lydia quite heavily, even literally. He has a casual physical association with her now, one of holding hands and shared comfort and strength from close bodies that has absolutely noting to do with his old crush on her. He'll probably reach to touch her without thinking more than once, only to stop himself halfway.

Because on the other side of the equation, Allison was Lydia's best friend. Lydia screamed for her, couldn't be there for her because she was busy helping Stiles, and that is something Stiles will carry with himself forever. He'll probably try and do little things for her, bring her food, help her clean, etc., to the point where it might even resemble his former behavior when he had a crush on her, but he won't be expecting any sort of payout in that respect. Lydia said she wanted to date good guys, after all, and Stiles can't really bring himself to regard himself as such anymore.

Allison. Oh Allison will be tough. By all rights he should stay as far away from her as possible. He killed her. He might not have swung the sword himself, but he might as well have in the end. She's dead because of him and he should keep away to keep her safe. But on the other hand Stiles is a teenage boy who can't help but maybe be a little selfish, and he never really got to know her the first time around. So maybe this is a sign that he should this time. He'll treat her almost like one of his little research binges, he'll want to know everything he possibly can about her. But he'll want to hear it from her, rather than a book or computer screen. That little box of failures that she showed Scott when they first started dating? Stiles would eat that up, beg to hear one of her poems. He wants to lock as much of her into his heart as he can so that, even dead and gone, she can live on through him that way instead.

She would probably be the first one of the party that he would actually admit to the entire nogitsune fiasco, it's the least she deserces, right?

He probably won't even be able to look Chris Argent in the eye, and use any opportunity to evade conversation or company with him. Just no. He has enough trouble handling his own father's mourning, he's not going to step on that landmine.

Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:

As one of a quickly dwindling number of actual humans in Beacon Hills, Stiles is almost certainly not the strongest, or the quickest, or the most dangerous of the bunch. At least, when it comes to physical prowess. Despite not having claws and fangs, guns and arrows, or even a banshee's scream, Stiles is sharp and clever in a pretty devastating combination. He's a talented detective (he learned from the best), highly observant, incredibly foolhardy (he's constantly surrounded by werewolves and never lets them intimidate him) and far more willing than his best friend Scott to go down the morally suspect route for a solution.

Also, as a human, Stiles is one of the few of his party that can successfully use tools like mountain ash in order to form protective (or entrapping) barriers against supernatural beasties. He's also got a fair arm with a baseball bat.

The easiest way to get to Stiles is absolutely through his loved ones. He doesn't actually have a huge investment in his own self worth, so threatening him with bodily harm won't typically amount to much, but threatening his loved ones is a pretty direct method of getting him to cooperate. Peter knew this, the nogitsune knows this. Stiles' number one weakness is absolutely the ones that he loves.

Stiles has a pretty rough history when it comes to mental health. He suffers from ADHD for which he is prescribed Adderall, and following his mother's death he had a lot of anxiety problems involving panic attacks. Those panic attacks have recently made a resurgence into his life with the increased stress he's been under, particularly in the last few months.

Post possession, anxiety is definitely going to be a problem for Stiles, and he'll be even less willing to be honest about things that might be troubling him than he was before. And that's saying something, really.

Inventory:
(1) metal baseball bat
(1) bottle of Adderall
(2) skeins of yarn, blue and red
(1) red hoodie
(1) black jacket
(3) short sleeve t-shirts, solid colors
(3) basic black briefs
(1) pair of loose fitting flannel pajama pants
(2) pairs of pants, red and denim
(1) pair of Nike sneakers

Appearance: dreamy

Stiles Stilinski is portrayed by Dylan O'brien

Tall, skinny, pale, a constellation of moles across his skin. Dark hair, whiskey eyes. A generally flailing body of motion. Perhaps a little bit more conservation of motion post nogitsune possession.

Age: Well according to official sources, Stiles' birthday is in April. Taking into consideration that the show is currently set somewhere around November and that around July/August Stiles told his old childhood friend Heather that he hadn't turned 17 yet, it can be assumed that Stiles is currently 16.

AU Clarification: n/a

S A M P L E S

Log Sample:
Stiles didn't think there were too many opportunities when he would be thankful for suddenly being dragged off into space without even a simple 'by your leave' unless Han Solo had suddenly invited him for a spin on the Millennium Falcon. Or he joined Star Fleet. Or, well, okay, there were a lot of instances in which Stiles would gladly welcome an unexpected trip through the stars, but this wasn't really one of them.

At least that was what Stiles thought until he discovered that Allison was on the ship. Alive. Allison was alive. Stiles didn't know how to act around her. They hadn't been exactly close before, and Stiles would be lying if he said he didn't blame himself for her death. Did he tell her what happened? Did he tell anyone?

Stiles wrapped a strand of the blue yarn around his finger, around and around until the tip of his finger went red and then white and finally numb. Faint red indentations criss-crossed over his skin when he unwound the yarn and let it drop to the ground.

Like a tattoo. Like a right of passage.

This was an opportunity, Stiles decided, a gift. A chance to actually make the effort to get to know Allison on her own, without Scott acting as a buffer between them. To really befriend the girl he'd thought that he would have all the time in the world (or at least until college) to get to know. The girl that hadn't deserved to die.

He just maybe would have preferred the journey not happen on the ship from Event Horizon, but beggars couldn't be choosers and Stiles had come to the sad conclusion that he's probably never going to have the easy option for anything ever again. He'd made his peace with that.

Or at least, he was getting used to it. Peace was maybe a little bit too much to ask for.

Comms Sample:

[video/voice]

[The feed switches on in a rather violent manner when Stiles flails himself awake and slaps his communicator to the floor. There's the muted sound of heavy breathing and rustling sheets, the screen black because the camera landed face down. After he catches his breath Stiles reaches down to grab the communicator and everyone gets a brief look at Stiles' haggard, sleep strained face before he frowns and shuts down the visual feed, though he leaves the audio running.]

Ever have a dream where you couldn't tell whether you were awake or asleep? And then you wake up, but even then you can't tell if you're dreaming or not. And it just keeps going on and on, until even when you finally do wake up, you can't figure out if it's real.

Tracing your steps doesn't help, counting fingers doesn't help... I don't remember where I heard that from. That you have extra fingers in your dream. Probably read it online once. Which does nothing really to support it's veracity, I guess. Anyone else ever heard that before? The fingers thing? Or do you have other ways of telling when you're sleeping?

I guess I just wonder. When things are as weird as they are here. How you differentiate between weird-dream and weird-reality. How you don't go crazy.

[Stiles trails off for a moment before changing the topic slightly, voice firmer now.]

Oh yeah, and I'd like to talk with anyone that has clearance on this ship as a doctor, preferably if you have some kind of background in psychology.

And maybe have a history of dealing with, like, weird shit.