"Stiles" Stilinski (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
hypervigilance) wrote2012-07-04 09:37 pm
hypervigilance) wrote2012-07-04 09:37 pm
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STATS
» NAME: Stiles Stilinski
» FANDOM: Teen Wolf
» AGE: 16
» GENDER: Cismale
» ORIENTATION: Bisexual, at the least: bicurious.
EXTENDED PROFILE
» APPEARANCE: Stiles sports a head of short, fuzzy hair, the sort of haircut that makes you think he can’t be bothered to grow it out, but he also doesn’t want to shave close enough to his head that you think he’s a skinhead. Or an army nut or something. So it’s just there. Easy enough to deal with in the morning. Stiles is pretty tall for a teenager, somewhere around 5’11”, which might seem like a good thing, but he’s really all awkward limbs and tripping up on big feet and basically he is kind of the poster child for early, sudden growth spurts. He also has freckles at sporadic intervals all over his face and body, which are made all the more obvious by his pale skin and quick-to-flush cheeks. He has brown eyes and chronic open mouth syndrome, seriously.
Most noticeably, his hair is grown out a bit more, probably something closer to the third/fourth pictures below.)
^^^^^^^ I have just been too lazy to re-do the appearance section so enjoy outdated information yay
» PERSONALITY:
The most important thing to note about Stiles Stilinski is that there are two people, and two people alone, who motivate his every action, practically his every thought and word, and exactly who he might not be able to cope with losing, one way or another. One is his father, only (as of yet) remaining family member, and the other is his best friend, Scott McCall. Everyone else has faces, names, and sure, he may care about them a little bit, but imagine a race where only first and second place matter, and third, fourth, fifth may as well be somewhere in the hundreds. The ones in the lead, naturally, are his father and Scott, as they are the only people in his life who really mean a great deal to him.
This is so crucial because nearly every single action he takes, while it may seem selfless in nature, is borne of the (perhaps selfish) motivation that he absolutely cannot lose either of them. With his father, this means policing his diet, listening in on his phonecalls, and memorizing police code and jargon so he knows exactly what sort of messes his father is getting into before he can get into them. Specific to the happy hamlet of Beacon Hills, this also means keeping his father – the sheriff, for that matter – in the dark about the town’s peculiar werewolf problem, likely of the notion that what he doesn’t know can’t hurt him. Even when Stiles and his friends find themselves in considerable danger (like being trapped inside of the school for an entire night by a rampaging, murderous Alpha werewolf, for example), Stiles would much rather keep his father out of the line of fire than notify him of the situation, regardless of whether or not the police form should be informed of, well, rampaging, murderous Alpha werewolves and the danger that comes with them. And anyone who suggests otherwise will get a punch straight to the face.
Scott, on the other hand, is Stiles’ best friend, and while it hasn’t technically been confirmed in canon, many of their interactions (and the interactions of Stiles’ father and Scott’s mother) suggest that they have been friends for a very long time, likely since they were kids, or possibly even straight from their toddler years. They’re close enough that denying Stiles from Scott is an actual, legitimate punishment and that Stiles finds it perfectly normal and okay to have a key made for Scott’s house, with apparently no input or okay from Scott’s own mother (who is less surprised by his actions than she probably should be). Between listening to his dad’s phonecalls and the key making – yeah, you can safely assume that Stiles can be invasive, but he believes himself to be completely justified because hey, it’s for their own safety, for their own peace of mind. And we haven’t seen them draw the line and tell him to stop, just a few complaints here and there. So he barrels on.
His desperation to keep Scott in his life can also be attributed to the fact that all of the werewolf problems in Beacon Hills would not have been their problem had it not been for Stiles dragging Scott out into the middle of the woods to look for a dead body. Because that’s what bros do, of course. They end up separated, Stiles in his father’s police cruiser and Scott—well, in the company of an Alpha werewolf out of his mind, and that’s where the story begins. Stiles is actually the one to put two and two together about Scott’s bizarre bite in the woods and his sudden Superman like reflexes on the lacrosse field and jumps to the unreal, but very likely conclusion that Scott’s become a werewolf. And Scott, though he’s no longer asthmatic, now a star on the lacrosse team, and dating one of the hottest (and newest) girls in school, reaaaaaaally hates the whole werewolf thing in the beginning to the point where he legitimately just wants nothing to do with it. So Stiles instantly swings in for support, always there to help Scott through the worst of his transformations and occasional werewolf rage, and considering he’s one of the few humans in the series, he doesn’t actually do a bad job of teaching Scott how to control the shift so he doesn’t, you know. Wolf out and eat the entire lacrosse team or anything, since that would be pretty bad.
And a lot of it is just Stiles being a good friend for his long-time best friend, but a great deal of it, as stated before, could very likely have to do with Stiles’ guilt over getting his friend into this mess in the first place, even though Scott never specifically blames him for it. The guilt Stiles feels is another considerable factor behind most of his actions, most notably with Scott, of course, but while suffering from wolfsbane-spiked-punch-induced hallucinations (you had to be there), he sees his own personal nightmare come to life: his father in a drunken rage, blaming Stiles, this hyperactive little bastard, for the death of his own mother and for ruining his life – that he’ll be the death of his own father. The scariest thing about the whole hallucination is that Stiles does not argue, does not deflect with humor, or try to calm his father down, he just takes it, like he’s expected it for a long time now. What seems to shake him the most, apart from his father's words, is the fact that his hallucination includes the people around him listening in, watching, seeing him for how terrible he truly (believes) he is.
It is true that Stiles’ (and Scott’s) focus on handling the supernatural related murders around town by themselves is what lost Stiles’ father his job, and his guilt in that is well justified. He tries to make up for it by throwing himself headfirst into the investigation, determined to solve it not just for the whole murder-death is bad thing but to maybe, just a little, redeem himself in his father’s eyes, or better yet, get him his job back (which, through no feat of Stiles’, he eventually does). The guilt surrounding his mother’s death, however, is not so easily explained. As of yet, the only details anyone is privy to regarding her death is that it was a slow one; the sheriff specifically states watching her slowly dying in the hospital. Most likely (and if the On Fire novel can be trusted) it was some type of illness, likely cancer – and not something Stiles could have had any part in whatsoever. But he still somehow blames himself for it, for not making things easier on his father somehow – although it is somewhat likely that the sheriff feels some of the same guilt as well. Neither of them talk about her – Stiles only mentions her once or twice in passing to Scott, and no one else – and the only time she’s brought up between the two Stilinski men is during the hallucination and while the Sheriff is considerably drunk. In fact, mentioning her is an indication of just how drunk he is, and Stiles is quick to stop his father from drinking any more.
Stiles is not a bad person. He’s desperate to keep who he has close, and sometimes the way he goes about doing those things can be a little shady, but his heart, nine times out of ten, is in the right place. He genuinely cares for these individuals, and it’s worth it to note that the more friends Scott gains (such as Allison, Lydia, Isaac, Boyd, and Erica), Stiles’ very tight-knit personal friend bubble does expand – even if their place in the running is somewhere in the hundreds as stated before. He might not go to the leaps and bounds he does for Scott but he’s definitely there for support when it’s needed. For once he manages to say the right thing and calm down a crying Lydia (even if it, woefully, doesn’t last very long), sharing Allison’s concerns over her father versus Derek the night he mistook her for the kanima (more specifically, what it would do to her and Scott’s secretly ongoing relationship), and even Isaac and Erica, who Stiles is all too happy to antagonize while they were on opposing forces, gains enough of his consideration that he starts to show concern for their wellbeing, taking care of Erica in the library and… well, the hope that Isaac doesn’t get viciously mauled while interrogating the mind controlled and half-monster half-douchebag co-caption of the lacrosse team. Yeah, you had to be there.
While he might find it hard to concentrate in class (something he's constantly belittled for by peers and teachers alike), he's a gifted researcher, able to keep a fair bit of information tucked inside his head, leaving him ironically more knowledgeable about werewolves than his newly turned werewolf best friend. Stiles is very intelligent with a knack for problem solving, often coming up with sound (if slightly crazy and sometimes illegal) plans or being able to connect the dots in a mystery (and there are several) when no one else can. In truth, Stiles sees the whole picture for what it is and is happy to arrange his priorities appropriately. Whereas his friend Scott will forsake friend, safety, and wolflihood (or what Stiles likes to call wolf lessons) so that he can be with his girlfriend, and might (will) complain when it's not possible, Stiles is the guy who puts everything on the back burner if it means the safety of friends and family, if it means finding (if semi-by-accident) the culprit behind the murders all over town, if it means peace of mind for everyone involved. Even if what he’s missing out on might be something important to Stiles, like his first lacrosse game that he’s actually supposed to play and his dad is there for, or finally getting a chance to lend an ear to the girl of his dreams, he’s the one who understands the gravity of the situation at large, will get his priorities straight, and make whatever things need to happen happen, one way or the other.
Luckily Scott has picked up a whole ton of slack, and he and Stiles are more of a dynamic duo now than ever before. Not that Stiles would have ever lost faith in him, one reason or another; to his friends, he’ll be the most loyal person in the world, but if someone doesn’t make it onto Stiles’ exclusive list of priorities? Stiles can be impatient, downright aggressive, particularly when he’s at his wit’s end, snapping and showing absolutely zero empathy if it doesn’t convenience him. And there are definitely times where he’ll warm up to someone just to get something out of them; he’s a practiced liar, and fairly manipulative, seeming to know exactly what buttons (or police records) to push to get people to do what he wants. He sees the wrong in lying, knows what the consequences may be, but he is firmly of the idea that the end justifies the means. This isn’t to say he would ever just set out to be horrible to someone who, in his mind, deserves it; he’s generally pretty friendly, but he has no qualms at all about pushing his morals aside to get what he needs to get done.
What people remember about Stiles the most, hands down, are the wisecracks – a lot of people misinterpret him as nothing more than comic relief. It’s thanks in part to Stiles’ preferred method of self defense: deflection and sarcasm, which is why he’s able to make jokes in the middle of a tense situation as more often than not he honestly has no other way of handling them. He’s also somewhat physically awkward, long limbs and flailing hand gestures, tripping over himself and occasionally falling out of chairs. And of course, there’s the ADHD, but while he does talk a lot and often in inappropriate situations, anything he’s saying is relevant; there’s no stereotypical attention disorder crap where he’s talking about chem lab one second then talking about unicorns the next and the next is about gummi bears—just no. Stiles is fully aware of the program here and likes to stick with it.
Stiles can be very brave – consider the lone human in a pack of wolves and small unit of hunters with actual weapons, consider how easily it would be to consider him the weakest link, and then suddenly he’s throwing a homemade Molotov cocktail at a vicious, eight foot rampaging werewolf. Or he's able to calmly interrogate the aforementioned half-monster half-douchebag co-captain as he’s close to hulking out (or lizarding out, whatever) – even if yeah, abort abort abort once shit starts to go sideways. He’s brave enough to face off against the stern leader of the hunting family and actually point blank accuse his sister of being the one to set the Hale house on fire and kill eleven people (some werewolves, some human, some children) in the process. His bravery is where he can be the most selfless, where he will jump into the line of fire to protect someone (Allison in the library, Derek in the pool) – although anyone can argue that he just doesn’t want to suffer any more losses. Win-win in his eyes regardless.
{{to be updated}} In terms of his particular canon point, right now Stiles is somewhat bogged down by feelings of inadequacy. Things in Beacon Hills are literally going to shit: there’s a growing body count, a vicious shapeshifter called a kanima on the loose with claws and venom and holy crap it just will not die, and most recently, Stiles nearly watched his father get murdered right in front of him, and he was completely powerless to stop it. He’s been paralyzed, stomped on, nearly choked to death, seen the dead, bloody faces of policemen he’s likely known for most of his life, and then this teenage bastard takes a gun to his father’s head and it’s like Stiles’ entire world crumbles. While his father winds up okay (even gets his job back), Stiles’ foundations are shaken, and, being self aware enough that he’s at his wits end, he seeks therapy. He’s not sleeping, he feels like he’s in constant, horrific danger, and he’s almost entirely convinced that either he, his father, or one of his friends is going to die very soon. Later, he confides in Scott that he wants to help more, but he’s no werewolf, he’s no trained hunter, he’s some kid with books and sarcasm and it’s not going to cut it anymore. Not if he doesn’t want to end up very dead.
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