#scott meta

you know how this goes- meta in bold, fangirl in cursive, general in normal

this genuinely scared the shit out of me in the preview

also I obviously don’t need to say this but allison parallels 

also kind of stiles parallels

[MUFFLED HEARTLESS- KANYE WEST PLAYING IN THE DISTANCE]

i do believe those open from the inside in reality

I thought they said they weren’t gonna make silent hills

about malia’s shirt- I wonder if it’s not about possession, but rather usage of power. if I’m right and the nogitsune uses the powers of the host instead of bringing its own, then everything we saw the nogitsune do was things stiles was capable of but never did. malia wearing that shirt as she becomes closer to her coyote side might be a nod to that, not possession.

lmao look at scott explicitly not trusting theo f i n a l l y

yeah claudia’s not right. this isn’t okay. she knows something, at the very least.

you wanna know the funniest shit about this? people who’ve followed me for a while might remember the thing I said about stiles’ view on killing being inspired by noah (not okay unless it’s in defence) and scott’s being inspired by melissa (the hippocratic oath; do no harm) and here we have melissa, seeing the need to break that oath and being fully willing to do so to keep others from dying. dude. I wonder what scott would say.

I want all of lydia’s clothes

this is going to end with someone shooting someone (or themselves) with that gun to go get stiles

I need to write up a song meta

OH NO THAT’S TOO FUCKIGN CUTE. WE’RE DOOMED.

yep we’re doomed

ouch ouch ouch my fucking heeeaaaaart noah pls

I know ian said there wouldn’t be anything to redeem peter but to be honest? they’re calling eachother father and daughter. if anything’s going to redeem him, it’s through malia

THEY BROUGHT A HOUND TO ONE OF THE HUNTERS. IT’S NORSE RELIGION 101. OH MY GOD.

ahahaha wait, is peter wearing sweatpants?! I love it

so he was a nazi captain

SEE. REDEMPTION I TELL YOU

look, we all have cravings. but I’m foodshaming.

I TOLD YOU WE WERE DOOMED

meta in bold, fangirl in cursive, general in normal. woop!

I met a cop today who looked like chris argent, just fyi

oh, melissa

those are three bikes. where’s third?

M8 STILES’ LICHTENBERG FIGURES. I TOLD YOU MAN. I TOLD YOU ABOUT STILES STAIRS

ooooooooooooh his relic is going to be stiles’ shirt, isn’t it?

.............I fuckign wish I could say claudia’s benign but I’m starting to have doubts

gajos means to drone out. I can’t put my finger on why this seems so perfect for stiles. expect meta later.

wait she already has frontotemporal dementia. I mean I know it’s slow sometimes, but still. makes sense for her to be on fluoxetine as well.

duuuude I can kinda ship it!!!1

this is the making of a real leader tbh

yeah liam already has a pack. scott may be his tutor but he has his own pack.

general thoughts in regular text, meta in bold and fangirl in cursive.

that is a helluva lot more riders than we expected

I recognize the bleeding horse thing

I love how adorable mason and corey are

I think coach misses stiles tbh

the clock just turned back a couple of seconds

alright, wildly unsure meta time: if deaton is the ultimate badguy, is it possible he created the wooden masks of the riders just like he created the jar for talia’s claws? and is it possible the riders were created similarly to how kate made the berserkers?

PACK BOOOONDS

I SEE YOU, JOEY HONSA

going by the hints of monster alpha scott this song is a bad, bad omen tbh

note to self: stiles’ locker nr is 1075

yeeeaaah liam’s gonna be the alpha. let it be known.

also let it be known derek’s somewhere freaking out bc his anchor isn’t working. this may also be what brings him back?

OOOOH FLASHBACK TIME

NAUGHTY BETA CHILDREN ARE FORCED TO HOLD HANDS AND COOPERATE

I’m gonna fucking cry, he looks so happy

holy moly, girl

looking like corey, his sister lori, sydney and hayden are very recurring, guessing at least victoria moroles will be a main this season. brett is back, too.

patrick gorman as an elias stilinski in ep 3. he was also in the maid of gevaudaun as tolbert, the man who asked marie-jean to lead the hunting party. judging by his looks and age I’m thinking he’s sheriff stilinski’s older brother. 

caitlin custer who played heather is back for several episodes (4, 12, 13, 15 and 17), which either means a ton of flashbacks or something fishy is up with the deceased

alisha boe plays a new character (she’s been mentioned in previous press releases, no idea about character or story yet) and is pretty frequent after ep 3-4

ian bohen is back in 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 16

clarke, hayden’s sister, is in more eps this season

so is liam’s step-dad

strauss, the deputy who had theories about the supernatural, is back for a few of eps 

there’s a lenore, both young and old, in ep 6, so flashbacks

joey honza, claudia stilinski, is back in ep 7 and 8

anthony lapenna, young stiles, is back in ep 7, 8 and 20

ep 8 includes young stiles, possibly kate argent, deaton, deucalion, claudia, satomi and chris argent. so flashback episode, and it’s gonna hurt like a motherfucker

actually deucalion is back a lot of episodes

ep 9 includes rafael mccall, satomi and deucalion

meredith is back in ep 16

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I know I’m slow. thesis kicking my ass atm. this will also be wrong in part because I have been trying to stay the hell away from spoilers :P

fangirl in regular text, meta and other stuff in bold. you know the drill :)

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I’m actually kinda intrigued by how parrish and jackson’s behaviour mirrors eachother

I wonder a lot about stiles’ license plate, we see it a lot. like, A LOT

literal trail of dead. nice. jesus.

why is it yet again murder in a fucking bus? this isn’t convincing me it’s not scott at all. either that, or it’s peter.

seeee she needs to physically pour the mountain ash!

if the beast travels like the darach travels then let me remind you that jennifer could be projecting her darach form half a state away while still being in bed with derek

“like peter” I’m still wondering if that’s it

goddamn I’ve missed orny

aaaand there we have a parallel to stiles dreaming of the nemeton for the first time

I’ve had enough of these motherfucking icicles in these motherfucking pods

(no I haven’t)

mmmmokay I’m just gonna throw this one out there: scott loses power from 3b all the way to getting lydia out, then he’s back to healing as he should. it’s entirely possible he’s been losing power because the beast has been taking over, cancelling his own out, and that the beast growing stronger now needs a viable host. so it heals him. could also be why he’s had beta power levels despite the alpha title- it’s what the beast had. ALSO I’m pretty sure deaton knows, that fucker, because him testing scott’s ability to go through mountain ash could have been him attempting to trigger the chimera part of him (however tiny it may be) so he could send him into the ice bath, lower his body temp and make him get in touch with la bete.

fucking watch greenberg be the beast and coach the fourth doctor

remember when I said stiles talks to the goddamn semi-dead? lydia’s doing the same thing. 

well fuck, nevermind, he’s all dead

oh melissa knows. it’s scott and she totally knows. but when it comes down to it, she wants to protect her kid, and I won’t blame her for that.

girls fighting with sticks. sign me the fuck up.

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OOOH FRANCE

wait so demon wolf, did deucalion strive to become the next beast or something?

HI CRYSTAL

this feels a bit... volger’s-y

whenever sebastian (tien?) speaks, there’s this fly noise in the music

I wonder if the beast can switch host

that’s the same reach-in peter did, wasn’t it? through the door?

werewolf’s leaving the bag, isn’t it?

kinda fitting that it happened after a game, just like derek said in s1

YEP, WEREWOLF’S OUT OF THE BAG

OOOOOH MOUNTAIN ASH WINE, RIGHT?

that is gonna be hella fucking sour, trust me on this one

oh gerard’s lying, I know it

I wonder if alexander argent was the previous host, way back when, only to kill himself because he knew what he’d become

why isn’t anybody shifting at all lately. teeth and eyes, yes, but beta shift? nothing?

“it works through you, it doesn’t control you” thanks for what I’ve been trying to define for three years

dude how are shoes that bloody underneath and so clean on top

look, I know that it’s currently in mason, but I still don’t trust the allusions to demon wolves and scott almost taking the shape of one in s4, I just don’t. you don’t accidentally use that much cgi.

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if someone’s smart enough to beat la bete on his own tbh it would be mason

LEAVE HIM ALONE GDI

josh is really fucking cute

orly, deucalion story tiem?

that really looks like a deathmask.

still convinced stiles knows exactly how to use a gun

oooooh maybe that’s the scientist? in the can?

I KNEW IT. CALLED THE POWER OVERCHARGE THING YEARS AGO

that also should mean that boyd lives on within cora which breaks my fucking heart and heals it at the same time

I need that h&m cardigan lydia’s wearing

DID YOU JUST SAY THE TANK GUY I JOKED ABOUT BEING KROENEN WAS ACTUALLY A REAL LIFE NAZI?!

I’M HOWLING WITH LAUGHTER

OH IT’S IN HIS GODDAMN STOMACH ISN’T IT, it’s a parasitic twin, not a fully absorbed one. 

“I’m not a failure” IT’S BECAUSE THE DONATOR WAS HIS SISTER, BUT NOT A TWIN

sexuality: jr bourne’s voice

"in that you are a profound success” inb4 the doctors are actually baby boomers

“I’m not a failure” he says and punches the iron mask

are you gonna tell me mason’s anchor is liam? I will cry tears of blood

ohfuck

I still think la bete looks like the golgothan from dogma

the desert wolf looks so much like talia though, I wonder if she’s not a hale herself. that way malia would still be a hale, still be derek’s cousin, only not the way we expected her to be. the desert wolf has yet to call peter her dad, right?

@ the dread doctors: be careful what you wish for cause you just might get it

SUCCESS

One of the things that’s most fascinating (if unpleasant) about Teen Wolf is the way so many of the characters have to relive the same kind of trauma repeatedly, how they fight the same demons in different forms.

It starts out obvious - Peter is burned alive twice, Matt drowns twice, Isaac keeps getting trapped in cold, narrow spaces, Lydia keeps appearing to be crazy and keeps being led by forces she doesn’t understand. Stiles keeps finding himself in situations where he’s the weak link, and people get hurt seemingly because of him and his choices. Allison, three times now, has had to face the fact that an older relative and role model was not as principled and benevolent as she once thought.

And of course there’s Derek, with his chain of terrible romances, his choices that keep leading to the people he cares about dying, his being seduced by the enemy, watching the people he loves die and knowing that there’s no way he can stop it, being suspended and tortured, and basically just Kate happening over and over again.

But today I realized how much Scott’s trauma forms a pattern, and how that centers on the meaning of his tattoo - his permanent status as an open wound.

His lungs are a metaphor for his openness, how it’s part of him and how he lives - his lungs are so often the weak point that people find in his defenses, because closing himself to people would be about as possible for him as living without breathing.

The cycle is openness -> betrayal -> abandonment. It starts with his father accidentally hurting him as a child and then leaving him and his mother. During his childhood this vulnerability is symbolized by asthma, but after he becomes a werewolf, the cycle tends to begin with Scott inhaling wolfsbane.

He’s open to the Argents, and then Victoria Argent poisons him with a room full of wolfsbane smoke, and the result is that Allison abandons him.

He’s open to his teachers, and Ms. Blake puts wolfsbane in Coach’s whistle for the whole bus to breathe in, and the result is that Scott dwells on how many of the people in his life have died since he became a werewolf.

He’s open to Theo, and Theo triggers his asthma again and replaces his inhaler with one spiked with wolfsbane, and the result of Theo’s influence is that Stiles seems to betray Scott’s principles and abandon their friendship.

Scott McCall is persistently open. That’s in his nature, and one of the qualities that makes him able to be a true Alpha. But even he is conscious of the fact that that aspect of his character means he’s always going to be open to getting hurt again, that his path is always going to be a painful one.