Stiles Stilinski

**Mieczysław "Stiles" Stilinski** is a main character of *the Teen Wolf* series. He is the son of Noah and Claudia Stilinski, the best friend to Scott McCall. His close friendship and brotherhood with Scott caused him to be the first person (and, for quite a while, the only one) in his life to know his secret, which was that he had been Power Granting turned into a Werewolf, causing the two to be the foundation for which the McCall Pack would eventually be built. As the series progressed, Stiles became obsessed with the supernatural, though he had no real desire to become a Werewolf himself, and he assisted Scott through all of the supernatural issues he dealt with while the two also dealt with high school and romantic relationships. Due to his knowledge of the law and investigations as a result of being the son of a police officer, Stiles takes great satisfaction in following the clues to lead him to supernatural threats such as the Kanima, the Alpha Pack, and the Darach.

In the second half of Season 3, he was possessed by a dark spirit known as the Nogitsune, which caused him to commit several crimes that led to dozens of people getting hurt or killed, something that still causes Stiles immense guilt to this day. Once the Nogitsune was defeated, Stiles turned his attention back to investigations to take his mind off of it, and began to look into the supernatural hit-list known as the Deadpool, which caught his attention while he was also searching for the biological mother of his fellow packmate, Malia Tate, who is an assassin known only as the Desert Wolf.

In Season 5, the relationships between the pack began to fracture due to the stress of fighting the Dread Doctors and the manipulations of Theo Raeken, causing Stiles to become estranged from Scott, Malia, and Lydia. However, upon learning of Theo's schemes and the revival of a terrifying creature known as La Bête du Gévaudan, Stiles reconciled with Scott and resumed working with his best friend to help reunite their beloved pack once again.

Upon the reunion of the pack, Stiles played a large role in the defeat of the Beast, Theo, and the Desert Wolf, something that helped Stiles heal from the guilt of accidentally killing Donovan Donati out of self-defense earlier in the season. Afterwards, his father informed him that these acts were a great first step in his career in law enforcement, insinuating that Stiles will go to school for it, an assumption that turned out to be true when he was accepted to George Washington University in Washington, D.C. for the pre-FBI program. He soon was accepted for an internship with the FBI, where he ironically was assigned to investigate a "serial killer" that was revealed to be his hometown ally Derek Hale, who had been framed for the murders of a dozen Werewolves in Brazil that once again led them both back to Beacon Hills for the final battle between the supernatural community, including the McCall Pack, and the town's human population, the majority of which had joined Gerard Argent and Tamora Monroe's Hunter Army.

## Early Life

He was born in 1995 to Noah and Claudia Stilinski and grew up in Beacon Hills, California. As a child, he was unable to properly say his birth name, Mieczysław (a Polish male given name pronounced *mee-chee-swahv*); the closest he could get to a correct pronunciation was "Mischief" which became a nickname that his mother began calling him as a result of his naturally mischievous nature. *("Blitzkrieg")*

As a young child, Stiles' mother Claudia was stricken with frontotemporal dementia. During the time she endured this illness, Claudia suffered such horrifying delusions that she was under the impression that Stiles was trying to kill her despite the fact that he was really just an anxious child worried about his mother. According to the repressed memory Stiles experienced in a flashback due to reading *The Dread Doctors* novel by Gabriel Valack, Claudia even violently attacked Stiles on at least one occasion as a result of her dementia, which caused her to develop a very strong case of paranoia and dissociation. *("Required Reading")*

Claudia ultimately died while being treated in the hospital, on an afternoon when the young Stiles was visiting with her; he unfortunately had to endure the traumatic experience alone due to his father being caught up dealing with a car accident case, as Noah ultimately decided to stay late to comfort a woman who was dying as a result of the crash. *("Alpha Pact")*

At Claudia's funeral, Stiles' father, Noah, saw how badly Stiles was mourning his mother's death and assured him that he still had him, and their mutual loss caused Stiles to become incredibly close to Noah to help each other get through Claudia's death together. *("The Last Chimera")* Afterward, Stiles began to experience anxiety attacks and bouts of sleepwalking, though he eventually grew out of it for a time. *("Silverfinger")* He also seemed to be aware of his father's affinity for whiskey, which occasionally went too far, to the point where Noah was asked by his fellow employees to cut down on his drinking. *("Wolf's Bane")* This was evidenced by when Stiles defended his father against Special Agent Rafael McCall's insinuations that Stilinski had relapsed. *("Alpha Pact")*. When he was old enough to start driving, his father gave him his Jeep, which had belonged to his mother, and which she had wanted him to have once he was old enough to drive it. The first time he took it out for a drive, he went into a ditch, and his father handed him his first roll of duct tape in order to fix it, a method of DIY-repairs that Stiles maintains to this day. *("Blitzkrieg")*

## Personality

Stiles' personality is most accurately described as anxious, hyperactive, and curious. He is a notorious bookworm who excels at piecing together clues and figuring out mysteries, such as the fact that Scott had become a Werewolf, the identity of the Kanima's first master, and the fact that a Dark Druid was behind the human sacrifices that were occurring in Beacon Hills. Since becoming aware of the supernatural world, Stiles' social and generalized anxiety has only become worse, especially after the death of his good friend Allison Argent, because he fears having to deal with the loss of any more of his friends or family as a result of their supernatural enemies.

Because of this anxiety, Stiles can often become so overwhelmed by trauma that he both physically and verbally lashes out at those around him, whether they are friend or foe, as evidenced by Stiles tackling Scott after his father, Noah, was attacked by a Chimera, despite knowing that Scott, too, was in danger from Theo's machinations as well at the exact same time that the Sheriff was hurt, preventing Scott from doing anything to help him due to being trapped in the high school with Mountain Ash.

Despite Stiles' anxiety and his increasingly violent reactions to bad news, Stiles is a very loyal person who would do anything to protect his loved ones, even if it means giving up his life to do so. This has only increased since he was possessed by the Nogitsune, because the amount of enjoyment that he got out of being powerful and in control made him frightened and ashamed of his darker nature, pushing him to do good to make up for it and to ensure that no one else gets hurt because of his actions, even if it means he has to die to make it so. Stiles is slow to trust people, but once he warms up to them and the person gains his trust, he becomes very close to them and will do whatever he has to do in order to protect them and ensure their safety, as evidenced by his relationships with Derek Hale, Kira Yukimura, and Liam Dunbar; he was suspicious of them and their motives when he first met them, but, over time, after they proved themselves to be good people who shared the McCall Pack's mission of protecting innocents from supernatural threats, he accepted them as his loved ones and would do anything to help them, just as he would with his father or Scott, the two people he loves most.

Stiles, like his father, enjoys puzzles and acts as the lead investigator for the McCall Pack in order to gain information and evidence regarding the threats that they face. For this reason, Stiles' intelligence is his greatest strength within the pack and has either given them an advantage or has outright saved them in multiple situations throughout their time together. Despite everything that Stiles has been through, he still shows no obvious signs of wanting to become a Werewolf, preferring to maintain his humanity and use his non-supernatural gifts to help the pack protect their hometown.

Stiles's increasingly violent reactions to any bad news have also shown a darker side to his personality that has grown since his resurrection. His initial reactions to his dark side were shown through his remembrance of the Nogitsune's actions during its control of his body, though he later believed he himself was directly responsible due to letting the Void Kitsune spirit in on two occasions. While he is still a bit of a goofball, he has shown that the recent tragedies and traumas he has gone through have made him more cold and serious. This is especially demonstrated during the pack's reconciliation and hunt to discover the beasts true identity, where he has been more serious towards the pack and even his father. Even after solving the mystery and stopping the crisis, Stiles was mostly serious while telling Lydia about how Scott survived, though he was more at ease than he had previously been, showing he had recovered from the guilt of killing Donovan and the anguish of the pack's temporary breakup.

Since his return from the Phantom Train Station, where he was trapped for three months, Stiles has demonstrated a calmer and more content state of mind, diminishing his anxiety about the future and making him more optimistic in general; this latter change has made him more confident and self-assured when it comes to his personal relationships, as he has grown comfortable with expressing his love for his family and packmates, to the point where he even acted on his romantic feelings for Lydia Martin. Instead of worrying about what would happen to his friendships while at college and how his hometown would survive without the entirety of the McCall Pack to protect it as he did at the beginning of his senior year, Stiles seems much more certain that all of his packmates will always find their way back to each other and back to their home. However, when he returned in the face of the Anuk-Ite's threat, Stiles mentioned that he had lost his optimism a while ago, though he still showed his calm and content state of mind. Stiles also showed more willingness to use violence to protect his loved ones, as he slammed his jeep into a hunter that was about to shoot Scott when he returned to help the pack against the Anuk-Ite.

## Physical Appearance

Stiles is a handsome, attractive, lean young man of medium stature who has pale skin, brown hair, and honey-brown eyes. He is known for having moles all over his face, neck, and body, and his hair is usually gelled into a messy style. His choice in clothing leans toward pieces that are comfortable and casual, such as hoodies, flannel button-ups, baseball-style t-shirts, and slim-cut jeans with Vans sneakers or Converse high-tops. However, he has also been known for wearing active-wear during lacrosse and cross-country seasons, such as Under Armour t-shirts and track pants with tennis shoes.

## Powers and Abilities

As a human, Stiles has no known supernatural powers. However, during his brief time being possessed by the Nogitsune, "Void Stiles" demonstrated supernatural powers common to a Void Kitsune, such as superhuman strength, accelerated healing, pain absorption, illusion casting, immunity to electricity, foxfire manipulation, and the power to control flies.

### Abilities

**Supernatural Detective:** Despite being human, Stiles has several intellect skills and abilities for his role as the Detective have aided him and the pack during their time in the supernatural world.

* **Athleticism:** Despite Stiles being somewhat uncoordinated, he has shown himself to be a skilled athlete in his own right. His athleticism is something that has come into play during the battles he's been involved in, such as when he fought Donovan and was able to daze him for a brief moment, and when he was able to momentarily knock Garrett Douglas down with his baseball bat, though he had taken Douglas by surprise. He has also been able to knock down, and even hurt, Theo during his brawl with him, and was able to overpower and tackle Scott to the ground in the hospital after his father was attacked, though Scott was both taken by surprise and not trying to hurt Stiles at the time.
* **Investigative/Law Enforcement Knowledge**: As the son of the Sheriff of Beacon County, Stiles has an extensive understanding of the laws of California and the country at large, as well as police protocols, shorthand, and numerical codes. He also keeps a police radio in his car for this reason so he can remain up-to-date on what is happening in the town.
* **Mythological Knowledge:** During Stiles' time in the supernatural world and the McCall Pack, Stiles has done a great deal of research into mythology, folklore, and the supernatural, including the Argent Bestiary. As a result, Stiles has an excellent working knowledge of the powers and abilities of various supernatural creatures, as well as their histories.
* **Heightened Intelligence:** Stiles has been described as a straight-A student, and, in terms of book-smarts, he is considered to be one of the most intelligent people in the pack. For this reason, Stiles has good intuition that contributes quite a lot for he is generally referred to as the "brains" of the pack along with Lydia Martin. He is able to distinguish and recognize patterns with ease. When Kira was kidnaped, he was the first to decipher the clues and etc. He's quite an inquisitive human being, and sometimes uses it for the advantage to create humor and lighten the tone but the questions he asks usually lead to a revelation or epiphany Stiles uses to solve the Supernatural murders or mysteries and connects the dots with information he collects before writing on his Supernatural clue board which isn't an easy feat. During ("*The Divine Move")*, Stiles intellect was so great that it helped him realized that the garden of snow was all just an illusion set by the Nogitsune's game that it looked and felt real but wasn't. Then the pack managed to walk out of the illusion and into the school unharmed successfully outsmarting the dark spirit.
* **Technological Knowledge**: Stiles has been shown to have an advanced understanding of technology, and has been shown to have copied keycards to the Sheriff's station using an RFID emulator, hooked up all the surveillance cameras to three of the laptops owned by the pack, and hooking up a smart watch to his phone so he can use it as a hidden camera in the animal clinic. He also claims to have figured out all of Sheriff Stilinski's passwords for his work computer, though how he came upon this information remains unknown. Stiles has also shown a degree of knowledge when it comes to electrical engineering as shown when, while in the Phantom Train Station, he was able to rewire one of the radios there so he could contact the real world, specifically the police scanner in his jeep.
* **Pick-Pocketing/Theft**: One of Stiles' most frequently used skills is his ability to easily and stealthily steal things without anyone being the wiser. He has stolen heart monitors, cell phones, frequency jammers, and keys/keycards to a variety of doors and vehicles throughout the course of the series, which has helped himself and the pack tremendously.
* **Combatant**: While Stiles has not been formally trained in close-quarters combat as far as it is known, he has demonstrated he can defend himself using an informal brawling style that draws mainly on his instincts. Even when he only entered the supernatural world, Stiles showed that he could hurt and subdue Jackson, back when Jackson was still human, as a single punch to the face from Stiles left him with a bloody nose. The primary examples of Stiles' brawling ability are shown by his fight against Donovan Donati by head-butting his face before swinging a wrench at him from behind, uses his elbow to hit him in the face which briefly stunned him before he was killed after accidentally being impaled. The several times that Stiles attacked Theo Raeken, and when he managed to throw Scott McCall around and punch him on the floor after his father was injured. However, in the latter cases, neither Theo nor Scott were interested in fighting back (in the former case, because Theo was purposely goading Stiles into hitting him, and in the latter case, Scott felt so guilty that he didn't want to hurt Stiles in any way), so it may not yield great results in a battle against a fully-powered supernatural who was attempting to cause him harm, but it could still make the difference between life and death in a fight nonetheless. Stiles also tried to fight against a Ghost Rider that was about to shoot him, managing to hold back its arm for a few seconds before he was pushed back, which caused him to realize he couldn't fight the Ghost Rider.
* **Occultism:** Due to guidance from Deaton, Mountain Ash alone is useless and can only have a great magic effect if ignited by the belief in its ability. He instructed Stiles to use that as the spark which allows him to spread it around his position all over the building to form a barrier against Kanima Jackson and his courage was so powerful that it not only resists the Anuk-ite's petrification but was also used as a weapon to kill the creature.
* **Fear Resistance:** Even though he is an ordinary human, Stiles has courage so great that not even the Anuk-ite, a fearsome supernatural being, could affect him.

## Weaknesses

Stiles possesses the common weaknesses of a human, along with others that are specific to just himself.

* **Mortality**: As a human, Stiles is vulnerable to physical injuries and illnesses like any other person.
* **Kanima Venom:** As a human, Stiles is very vulnerable to the effects of Kanima Venom, much more so than his supernatural peers. In fact, Stiles is the character who has most frequently been paralyzed by Kanima Venom; once he's been exposed, it will take him several hours before he can regain enough control over his musculoskeletal system to stand and walk, and even then, he remains weakened for an additional hour or so.
* **Anxiety/Paranoia**: Stiles' increasingly severe anxiety regarding the safety of his loved ones has caused Stiles to become quite paranoid in recent months, which typically causes him to be suspicious of any new person until they have proven themselves. While this paranoia is not always misplaced (such as his ultimately correct suspicion that Theo was evil), he does have a tendency to act on instincts rather than evidence, which can get him into trouble with those he believes to have malicious intentions, whether they are truly a threat or not.
* **Side Effects of Resurrection**: Because Stiles, like Scott and Allison, temporarily killed himself in a surrogate sacrifice ritual to save his father before being resurrected shortly afterward, Stiles has a darkness around his heart that will remain for the rest of his life. This has caused him worrisome symptoms in the past, such as his development of alexia (a type of acute dyslexia), sleep paralysis, nightmares, hallucinations and somnambulism. It is also likely part of the reason why Stiles was chosen as a vessel for the Nogitsune.

## Equipment

* Robin's Egg Blue 1980 CJ5 Jeep
* Aluminum baseball bat
* Mountain Ash
* Supernatural clue board
* MacBook Air laptop
* Wrench

## Etymology

* **Mieczysław:** Mieczysław (pronounced mye-CHI-swahf) is a masculine Slavic given name of Polish origin that is a combination of the elements *miecz*, meaning "sword", and *sława*, meaning "glory" or "fame"; together, they form the meaning "glory of sword" or "fame of sword". The feminine form of the name is Mieczysława. Variants of the name in other languages include: Mecek, Mecik, Mecislav, Mecislavek (Czech); Mečislovas (Lithuanian); and Mecheslav (Russian). Common nicknames for those named Mieczysław include Maslaw, Mietek, Miecio, and Mieszko.
* **Stiles**: Stiles is a nickname, likely a diminutive of "Stilinski," his surname.Sheriff Stilinski mentions that it is a family nickname, having been used by Stiles's grandfather too. In English, *stile* means "a series of steps or rungs by means of which a person may pass over a wall or fence that remains a barrier to sheep or cattle." In short, this means that a *stile* is a device set up in an entrance to bar passage until a charge is paid in order to record the number of people passing through. This is actually quite a fitting name for Stiles Stilinski, as he often acts as a "stile" to the McCall Pack, barring entry into the "inner circle" of his friend group out of suspicion toward the person's motives, and only allowing them into it once they've proven their motives are pure.
* **Stilinski**: Though this name has been implied to be of Slavic (specifically Polish) origin, it appears to be a made-up surname with no discernible etymology as far as it is known.

## Relationships

* Scott and Stiles (best friends, brotherly bond, packmates)
* Stiles and Lydia (dating, best friends, packmates)
* Stiles and Noah (father/son)
* Claudia and Stiles (mother/son)
* Stiles and Liam (close friends, packmates)
* Allison and Stiles (close friends, packmates)
* Peter and Stiles (former enemies, allies)
* Erica and Stiles (former enemies, allies)
* Stiles and Danny (former lab partners, friends)
* Stiles and Matt (former friends, enemies)
* Jackson and Stiles (former enemies, allies)
* Stiles and Melissa (mother/son figure, allies)
* Stiles and Chris (former enemies, allies)
* Stiles and Rafael (allies)
* Stiles and Theo (former enemies, allies)
* Stiles and Natalie (allies)
* Jordan and Stiles (allies)
* Donovan and Stiles (enemies)
* Scott, Stiles and Liam (close friends, packmates)
* Mason and Stiles (friends, packmates)
* Hayden and Stiles (friends, former packmates)
* Derek and Stiles (former enemies, close friends, packmates)
* Cora and Stiles (allies, friends)
* Ethan, Aiden, and Stiles (former enemies, allies)|}

## Trivia

Trivia

* Stiles plays on the Beacon Hills High School lacrosse team, the Beacon Hills Cyclones, as #24.
* Like his actor, Dylan O'Brien, Stiles is a fan of the New York Mets baseball team.
* "Stiles" is a family nickname that he inherited from his paternal grandfather, Elias Stilinski. Another nickname Stiles had as a child was "Mischief," as it was the closest he was able to get to correctly pronouncing his true first name, Mieczysław, and his mother Claudia liked it due to how accurately it described the mischievous Stiles.
* Stiles has had romantic feelings for several women throughout the course of the series. While one of his most enduring crushes has been on Lydia Martin, he has also developed romantic feelings for Malia Tate, who was his first-ever girlfriend and has briefly hooked up with Heather and Caitlin in the past as well.
* Stiles was the first of the main characters to be admitted to Eichen House, not including Malia Tate, who was not a main character at the time that she was revealed to be a patient there.
* The emotional trauma caused by the fact that he witnessed his mother die has been a recurring issue for Stiles throughout the series.
* Stiles inherited his Jeep from his mother, Claudia, as she wanted him to have it when he was old enough to drive it after she died.
* Stiles has killed the second most people than anyone else in the McCall Pack, although almost all of them were either due to self-defense in a fight or while he was possessed by the Nogitsune. The only exception to this was the Anuk-ite.
	+ The person who has killed the most was Mason Hewitt, who killed around 50+ citizens of Beacon Hills during his time possessed by The Beast of Gevaudan.
* Stiles' totem when performing the surrogate sacrifice ritual was his father's Sheriff badge, and Lydia acted as his emotional tether to bring him back to life afterward.
* Stiles' use of a baseball bat as a weapon during supernatural battles has become a running joke throughout the series, though the first bat he used originally belonged to Scott and Melissa McCall. When it was destroyed after he cracked Aiden and Ethan's merged form over the head with it, he replaced it with an aluminum baseball bat.