#abeautiful

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Stiles Stilinksi was first and foremost a detective. A scientist, at heart, who could analyze a situation and decipher the motivations, predict ever possible outcome, who could find the pattern in the clues when everyone else just saw a chaotic jumble of red yarn. 

So the fact that he didn’t pick up on his own feelings was more than a little ironic

Your friendship/early dating days would consist of debating every topic: be it cereal proportions or whether something’s a shapeshifter or goblin or weirdly-misshapen hamster.

Going for rides with him in his jeep late at night, having conversations that range from goofy and silly,

“Do you think there are were-alligators?”

“What?”

“If there are werewolves, why not other animals? We’ve seen werejaguars. Where’s my were-hedgehog?”

“Derek’s prickly enough to count for that.”

And slipping into boldly honest, vulnerable and open with each other as Stiles never could with anyone else.

When Stiles said he loved you, it was totally something that just unconsciously came out. He didn’t even know he’s said it until he saw you staring, and staring, and staring—

“What, what did I do?”

“You said you loved me.”

“Oh. Well, yeah.”

Like it’s the most obvious thing in the world; because who WOULDN’T love you? 

Because it IS the most obvious thing in the world to him. TBH, he’s probs been in love with you ever since you responded to his sarcasm with either a laugh or sarcasm of your own. 

There’s definitely been more than once incident of him bursting out laughing during sex cuz he remembered something funny, stopped everything, just too tell you the joke.

Cute mannerisms would be become a must. The idea of ‘his’ and ‘your’ plates became a nonexistent things (except for curly fries, all bets are off for those suckers). Stiles would definitely BOOP you on the nose, often without reason or even comment. 

Yeah, I was thinking of a "missing link" but really it would be way beyond anything in existence at the time (or any time soon). The closest thing to it would be a "genome," i.e. a list of instructions, and your genome can have many instructions. But even that is a bit of a stretch – one couldn't just swap a "genome" and a "designer" body in a lab.

Which was another reason why it seemed to be important that Azel be all but impossible to engineer. The average person's mental, physical, and emotional traits don't map to an existing place on a "tool kit" of biological attributes. They're not very compatible. Ideally, a designer body should be entirely new and unknown, ideally with no structure that resembles existing bodies in any important way.