erica’s favorite pastime: scaring the shit out of stiles
Hmm, I’ve seen a lot of meta on the scene above floating around and I want to spit my own twist on it.
The point in question is: Why does Peter, who has already bitten Lydia and Scott without their permission and compromised their agency, choose to offer the Bite to Stiles? And then backs down when Stiles refuses.
Because of Scott.
Let me elaborate. Scott and Stiles are a package deal and Peter understands that. Scott has gotten turned into a werewolf, sucked into a murder mystery, and still has managed to keep his best friend at his side. Loyalty to those he chooses to give it to is a strong trait in Stiles, and a useful one in werewolf hierarchy, but Stiles’ loyalty ultimately belongs to Scott. Thus if Peter had given Stiles the bite unwillingly, all he would do is give Scott another werewolf at his side.
We don’t see until Season 2 what purpose it serves to bite Lydia, so we can presume Peter’s main plan at this moment is to win over Scott’s loyalty and enact revenge. Derek is easy to sway because he has family ties and soul weighing guilt over his whole family getting killed via Kate, thus making him an easy pawn for Peter to manipulate (and likely manipulate again in Season 3, perhaps). Scott, on the other hand, has a very strong sense of right vs. wrong and doesn’t agree with Peter’s methods. Even though Allison is his anchor, his mom and Stiles also serve as grounding points in humanity.
We see this in 1x11, where Peter goes out with Melissa, goes shopping with Allison, and lastly kidnaps Stiles. These are the three people most important to Scott and Peter displays dominance and control over the situation by approaching the first two as harmless (even though Scott knows he isn’t) and using force on Stiles, who can’t be swayed because he’s already attacked Stiles and Stiles knows he’s the Alpha. Gerard similarly does this in Season 2 by threatening Melissa, manipulating Allison, and taking Stiles after the game.
So why even bother with making a werewolf out of Stiles?
Because if Stiles chooses the bite freely, Peter has everything to gain. A werewolf!Stiles would weaken Scott’s tie to humanity and because of how close there friendship is, I think it would tide over as another bond to bind Scott to Peter’s pack. Even if Scott would be upset with Stiles for choosing to be a werewolf, ultimately I feel he wouldn’t leave Stiles in Peter’s clutches. The turn out eventually ends in Stiles swaying Scott into a neutral or on Peter’s side or Scott remains opposed and Peter gains another Beta anyway.
And it’s not that Stiles is more weak willed to give into Peter, but in general he remains a very grey character morally. He shows at many points in the series that he’d be ok with just doing away with a lot of characters (ex. Jackson, Derek) and actually contributed to the death of one (pre-zombie Peter). So if Peter again attempted a bonding kill with Stiles (probably Kate’s death at this point) he would have succeeded in establishing himself as Stiles’ Alpha.
Personally, I just think Peter missed his window because after nearly killing Scott in the school, nearly killing Stiles in the hospital, attacking Lydia, and killing his nurse, he’s shown himself to be beyond the pale even to Stiles’ lower moral standards. I think Season 1 Stiles would have chosen to be a werewolf before all that went down, despite the fact that Scott would have chosen never to be one. But I think we’ll save the outcomes of that for another day.
I like this. Also in s1, this whole werewolf business was more of an adventure for him. I don’t doubt he would have taken the bite earlier on too. He wanted to be part of the action, his hero moment. In s2, when it began to affect his dad, and him even more, I think he realized that not only did he not want this, but maybe he didn’t even want to be a part of it at all, as shown in 2.11.
1. Fic Rec: Hang on Tight and Don’t Look Down, Scott/Erica, T Chpts 2 & 3
Words: 3,407
Genre(s): Angst/Hurt/Comfort
Rating: Rated: T
Author: LadySilver
Summary: On her first full moon after season two, Erica comes to Scott for help. From the prompt: What happens when one werewolf loses his anchor and another can’t find hers?
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8741989/1/
I’m actually pretty bummed this one’s ended
2. Amazement (3512 words) by argentum_ls
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Isaac Lahey/Scott McCall
Characters: Scott McCall, Isaac Lahey
Summary:
On Scott’s first date with Isaac, the boys run into a few dead ends and a few more scares.
I guess it’s not a coincidence that they’re by the same author
3. This little vampire!StilesxScott story by Dea, which I’m sure most of you have already seen.
Also, finally publishing something today. so.
Apparently it’s okay to make a gifset compiling the many different ways people close to Scott (who should know better) have humiliated him in public and called him stupid or dumb (for things like confusing Greek Mythology no less) for the lolz (even though it’s been shown in canon that not only is Scott actually smart but this has made him uncomfortable/unhappy). He’s too stupid to get out of bed in the morning without Stiles amirite? It’s amusing that a teacher uses this as an excuse to talk down his mother. Hilarious! What a potato! (Also if you call Scott/Tyler a potato, you’re actually quite AWFUL fyi)
BUT! BUT! A gifset showing Stiles being indirectly called stupid by Harris (which is still not okay btw) cues all the tears and wailing because poor Stiles HE TRIES SO HARD (AND IS ACTUALLY REALLY INTELLIGENT AND GETS GOOD GRADES … WAIT WHAT) but this one asshole implied that he’s stupid poor thing he must feel so insecure (when someone tells him something that isn’t even true)! Why haven’t they fired this man?! Stiles’ self-esteem must be so.. so low, doing well in school and being told by everyone else how he’s smart and everything.
Tell me how is it okay to make fun of someone who is actually having issues in school but someone who isn’t is the only recipient of your sympathy?
I mean.
Teen Wolf as a Trio Show
stiles wanting to kill people and scott not letting him
STILES THE PACK MOM THO
I really don’t know what “I love you” means.
I think it means “Don’t leave me here alone.”
do you ever have that character who you liked just fine until all their fans became really fucking self righteous about them and now you just can’t stand to look at that character anymore
I will never stop laughing at people that fantasize about Stiles leaving Scott for Derek.
And especially during some kind of Alpha war? Lol. Last I checked, it was everyone but Derek that defeated the bad guys two seasons in a row.
because it doesn’t matter what she was crying about, whether it is the loss of her parents or that she failed her exams or whatever. just tell her she is pretty and it will fix everything, because what matters the most to all girls is to be reminded they are pretty, because they are not complex layered fully developed human beings No no they are girls and all they think or care about is their beauty and nothing more.
day twelve » scene that made you laugh
RIP the friendship that never got a chance
#rip #stiles stilinski #the girl in the pilot that should’ve been their hermione but wasn’t
Even after a rewatch, all I got from Stiles’ storyline in light of the main plot was that Jeff was looking for every way possible to garner angst and sympathy for the kid/play on the audience’s emotions. Why was he kidnapped? What became of it? Who released him? Why exactly was he ignoring Scott (something Scott dare not do because I guess it’s his duty in life to be at Stiles’ every beck and call)? Why did he buy Lydia a flat screen TV (and yet couldn’t drop 50 bucks in ep 3 hahaha)? Like Scott has wisely asked TWICE now, why doesn’t Stiles just ask Lydia out and be done with it? When and how did he pick up Lydia later? Why has so much time this season been spent on Stilinski angst when there are characters who are connected directly to the overarching storyline that barely got any point of view? How does Jeff expect me to tolerate said scenes when we never even got one quiet conversation between Scott and his mother about him being werewolf? When we barely got any screentime dedicated to Lydia’s feelings on what happened after the party? When Allison didn’t say two words about discovering her grandfather’s whole deal? When all Boyd and Erica did for two eps straight was run around the place getting their butts kicked? When all we got for all of that, was STILES as a mouthpiece for everyone else?
It didn’t go anywhere. Nothing Stiles was involved in did. He and Scott have that big talk at the game last episode. It didn’t go anywhere. He makes a conscious decision to not ask Lydia out but subtly hint at liking her, even though he told her he did last season and it obviously didn’t change her mind. His scenes with his father out of context are great but they don’t fit into the plot at all. His dad’s whole getting fired for one episode didn’t have any consequences for Stiles. We didn’t really see him feel guilty. That could’ve been the point where he told Scott that he was making unwise decisions trying to help his friend out and he wants to step away from it. His Lydia scene wouldn’t have felt so out of place if they were both outsiders at this point. We have him feeling self conscious about his abilites with the mountain ash (Stiles is over confident, even if he doesn’t know what he’s talking about) so that was random. He made Lydia feeling lost (after she thought her ex-boyfriend died nonetheless) about him, which is perfect characterization but why was that scene there period? Last season Peter said he knew Stiles wanted to be a werewolf. This whole season could’ve been about him fighting that want after seeing all the stuff that Scott/Jackson went through. He gets ~funny one liners but that doesn’t make him relevant to the plot. He supports Scott but that’s it. It makes it hard to enjoy his scenes when I know they aren’t going anywhere. If I have to see him as much as I do, he needs to have some kind of storyline.
I’m just pretending that somebody did horrible editing and there were actual scenes where this episode would’ve made sense.
I get that they were trying to give Stiles a storyline of his own beyond ‘sidekick’ with the things with his father and how helping Scott was affecting his dad, but the writers’ bias was obvious and I was quickly over it. If I had gotten this and gotten the other stuff I wouldn’t mind so much. I’d still think it was heavy and handed, but I wouldn’t care. All I can think about when I see the scenes is a comment Jeff made about how much he loved their scenes so he wrote more. It needed better context. By episode 9 I was rolling my eyes because an episode wasn’t complete without some Stilinski sobbing. Episode 12 was THE WORST though. It didn’t even connect to Stiles’ issue in the PREVIOUS episode. That thing? Completely dropped. It was just, let’s take everything ever and throw it at Stiles for no good reason.
AU in which Scott killed Peter in Season 1 and is horrified to find out that instead of getting cured, he becomes the Alpha instead. Turns out he’s pretty good at it, much to Derek’s chagrin.
lol when people say that stiles asking danny if he’s attractive to gay guys is a good thing or use it as evidence of the possibly of stiles being bisexual lol no that’s something straight guys do for their ego’s sake which is probably why danny was so annoyed and tries to ignore him he’s not going to allow his sexuality to be used as a tool to boost some straight dude’s ego because the girl he wants doesn’t want him
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