#thracy

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scott and theo? 100% yes. stiles and theo?? LOVE. theo and hayden? so underrated but good at the same time. theo and tracy? doomed love stories <33 heck i even like theo and mason if mason wasn’t already tied down to corey

we should also think about all the liam ships out there. i freaking love kira and liam. liam and mason would’ve been the cutest bffs to lovers story. liam and nolan has been my favorite recently (i mighttt be writing smth w them) and liam and hayden r way too overhated cuz they’re actually really cute.

moodboard: dear tracy (thracy/sceo)

Omg thank you for this ask! Someone else requested Kira, so if it's all right I'm gonna do Tracy, in honor of your Tracy giffing series.

How I feel about this character: I love her!! I loved how everything was so creepy and dreamy with Tracy at the beginning: the birds, the nightmares, the sleepwalking, her beautiful creepy art of the Doctors. She's so tragic in how desperately she's trying to hold the nightmares back (the dreamcatchers, the book) and I love how the brief glimpses we get of her and her father suggest such a loving pair. He's a hardworking public defender who wants his kid to sleep well! She's so lonely and so loved at the same time! And then she kills him!!!

Tracy is so incredibly tragic from the beginning, and my only frustration with her as a chimera is that she thematically follows up on the promise we've been given about werewolves since season 1--that they'll turn on you.

That said, I love that she's a chimera! I love that her back peels apart for a yucky tail! I love a yucky girl, you don't get those often, and the fact that she's this mangled version of a kanima made me so proud. She's our introduction to the unnaturalness of chimeras, in a way that rewards the viewer who remembers season 2. We are calling back, we are tying themes together! My headcanon is that Tracy and Jackson even knew each other, since their parents were both lawyers and it's a small town, but they were on opposite ends of the social spectrum (loner artgirl and popular jockboy).

Tracy's arc as a chimera is my favorite because they spend the most time with her. She's truly a sweet kid, and the show emphasizes that she doesn't understand the violence she's doing when she first gets turned into a chimera. She thinks it's a dream! She tells her father that she'll never let anything happen to him as she kills him because she thinks it's a dream!

It's all a dream until she dies, and then she wakes up into the reality that she's a monster who killed her family, who tried to murder everyone who ever helped her. I liked that her violence is both clear-eyed and deliberate--she's cold about killing the driver, and delighted at the order to paralyze Deucalion--and clearly a result of her grief and despair. She's already a monster, it's like the decision has been made for her. All she can do is try to take control of it.

I love that you can see that in moments like the one after Theo murders Josh. Until now, Theo has been demanding and threatening with the chimeras, but never crossed this line. You can see Tracy's fear and uncertainty when Theo turns to her to ask what she thinks about it, and how deliberately she decides that the best thing to do is go along with it. "He was small and inexperienced," she says, like she isn't both. The actress was so good in that moment in ways that foreshadow Don't Move (2024).

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Theooooooooo! I respect what a girl wants and she's got it for him so bad.

Ugh, Tracy's thing for him just gets to me because it's so genuine. I've seen people argue that her loyalty to him is simply a kanima's loyalty to its master, and I can see the appeal of this reasoning because the idea of Tracy being genuinely loyal to the guy who murders her is so tragic. But I think it's important that Tracy is not acting on instinct; the whole point of the chimeras is that they're not real. Tracy is not a kanima and not Theo's slave. She's frightened of him and attracted to him, and in the end, offers Theo not just loyalty but true affection and support. It looks like she's interested in power and survival, but then we see her helping Theo when he's weak and wounded. She doesn't abandon him, the way she would if this was just about power. She suggests things to try to keep him safe, and expresses frustration that for all of her new power, she doesn't have the power to take his pain--the only power that really matters, she knows on some level. She cares about him, she's kind to him, she accepts him as he is.

And that love is what Theo uses to kill her. Scream!

The show is cowardly for how Tracy is only mentioned twice once Theo comes back, because his murder of her is so significant and so resonant in the 6b arc about taking pain. It's only in 6b that Theo finally shares the frustration Tracy had about not being able to take pain (as an expression of care, rather than the power-stealing he uses it for in s5). I know that boy is thinking about her! As I've argued before, if the anukite went after Theo, it would take the form of Tracy.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Malia! I wish we had gotten more with them because what we got was so juicy. I loved the parallels in Malia and Tracy's stories: they both get turned into monsters against their will and go on to kill their families. Malia is trying to save Tracy to prove to herself that she's not a monster, and her failure to save Tracy is so devastating to her. And similarly, Tracy would have gotten so much out of someone who could help her process what had happened to her and what she'd done, and the biggest tragedy to me is that Malia herself is only starting to do that by the end of 5b, when it's too late for Tracy. In a better world, Tracy comes back in s6 and the two of them simply must buddy up to stop the Wild Hunt.

I also love the moment when Hayden finds Tracy's dead body and closes her eyes. Hayden and Tracy are on like opposite ends of the chimera spectrum in how they react to it, and I wish we'd gotten more time and exploration of their dynamic. Hayden's grief is so good there.

My unpopular opinion about this character: I suppose the closest is the kanima stuff and her interest in Theo. People in this cesspit of a fandom write horrible things about her so my unpopular opinion is that they should explode, I guess.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon. Besides coming back, getting more screentime with Malia and Hayden, and appearing as an anukite vision? I think she should have had a scene with Josh alone before his death, to make their dynamic clearer and clarify the stakes of watching Theo murder him.

The college principle seemed to absolutely love getting everyone involved in organizing events, and the students eagerly picked up on his initiative.

It was, of course, questionable, because Tracy didn’t give a damn about any holidays she never celebrated. People in green clothes, beer parties, leprechauns and clovers everywhere – all of it seemed like unnecessary noise that distracted from things that actually mattered.

The day was cloudy. A light rain drizzled, and students, with green accessories stuck on them, tried to pretend they were enjoying the holiday. Tracy would’ve laughed, but she just didn’t have the strength or the will for it.

Her mood matched the weather — gray, heavy, with no hint of anything good. She was supposed to help other students with the preparations, but when did she ever do what she was supposed to?

Instead, her feet led her to a nature reserve not far from the college building. It was strictly off-limits. There were signs everywhere, teachers warned about it, and even the students with adventurous spirits usually stayed clear. But when did Tracy Stewart ever follow the rules?

Her life annoyed her. People around her lived as if they had eternity ahead of them, but Tracy saw through it — most of them were just pretending everything was fine. And she didn’t want to pretend.

She wasn’t planning on staying long. Just needed to get some air, shake off the headache from the constant noise of student bustle. But things didn’t go as planned.

So lost in her thoughts about her shitty life, she didn’t notice how deep into the woods she’d gone until she reached the edge of a steep cliff. The ground was wet, the grass slippery, and before she realized she was in danger, her feet slid down.

She didn’t even have time to scream. The world spun before her eyes, her heart pounded in her chest, and in the next moment, instead of a deadly fall, she felt strong arms catch her around the waist.

There was no crash. Instead, someone solid and confident held her back from making a fatal mistake.

— You should be more careful, — a low voice said near her ear, laced with a hint of mockery. Harsh, but with a strange tenderness.

She spun around sharply. There was a guy standing in front of her, who clearly shouldn’t have been here.

— What, are you suicidal? — he smirked, still holding her by the wrist, as if afraid she’d slip again and break her neck for real.

— Go to hell, — Tracy muttered, pulling her hand away.

— Been there, didn’t like it.

She rolled her eyes, but inside, something stirred. A little later, when they were standing in a relatively safe spot, she allowed herself to take a closer look at him.

Damn. He was gorgeous. Not just good-looking, but painfully, stunningly beautiful. Broad shoulders, muscular arms tense under the dark shirt, sharp face features that gave him both a predatory and strangely alluring expression.

That’s how she met Theo Raeken — the cocky bastard who, as it turned out, was surprisingly kind and gentle when you got to know him.

### Now

And now, several months after their meeting, Tracy couldn’t tear her eyes away from him.

Theo had just gotten out of the shower – water still dripping from his skin, his hair damp, and his pants hung carelessly, giving her a view of his fucking gorgeous hips.

She knew she shouldn’t be staring like this. But damn, he was too goddamn handsome and sexy. Tracy was openly staring at him. And smiling, because her boyfriend — he’s perfection.

Theo noticed her gaze, grinned, but didn’t say anything. He just stepped closer, and Tracy couldn’t hide the embarrassed but contented smile.

They were together. Now.

But if she looked back at their memories…

After that weird meeting in the reserve, just a week after St. Patrick’s Day, on their first date, Theo confessed to her that he wasn’t exactly human.

He was, technically, human. But also a were-coyote.

Tracy wasn’t scared. She was, after all, a reckless person. So, she thought it was cool. Theo smirked, but something warm, almost tender, flashed in his eyes.

Like, she now had this insanely attractive boyfriend (who was still her best friend back then), and he could literally tear apart anyone who dared to hurt her.

By the way, he promised her that.

When she confessed her love to him while he was making coffee for them in his kitchen, two short weeks after they met. On his birthday, which she made a little party for him, even though he said he hated that day.

When did she ever listen to anyone, right?

And then she confessed her love. And they kissed.

Now she was standing before him, still amazed at how this guy could combine such wild danger with such surprising tenderness.

Only with her was he like this – soft, caring, overprotective. With others – ruthless, cruel, and dangerous. And that was fucking cute.

Tracy stepped forward and hugged him, hiding her embarrassed smile in his shoulder.

Theo exhaled quietly, holding her close and breathing in the scent of her hair with faint notes of grapefruit and lime.

He slid his hand down her back, gently leaned in, and kissed her. And Tracy smiled into the kiss.

It’s cool having a boyfriend who’d destroy the whole world for you. Even if it meant breaking every goddamn rule of society.