#eli hale is a stilinski

[jade-bright]

I think this is my first Stilinski-Hale Family incorrects quote?

Derek: Stiles, what are you writing Stiles: Hm? Oh, the FBI wants to know what kind of weapons I keep at home. So, I'm letting them know it's private information. Eli, looking over Stiles's shoulder: …Tata. This just says 'Fuck around and find out' in calligraphy.

[anonazure]

I haven't drawn for myself in weeks, so here I am attempting to get back to it.

Here's a sketch of basically Derek 'attempting' to introduce Eli to Stiles but like all the Hales, Eli is already attached to Stiles.

[incorrect-teenwolf-quotes]

Eli: *sneaks into his house*

Derek: *turns in a chair* care to tell me where you were?

Eli: I was...uh...uh...with Papa!

Stiles: *also turns in a chair* Care to- *keeps spinning* Derek I can’t stop the chair.

[blaksstr]

Eli: sitting in Derek’s lap "Dad, Papa said you used to be really grumpy."

Derek: glares at Stiles "I wasn't."

Isaac: "You so were."

Scott: nodding "Like, impressively grumpy."

Eli: tilting his head "But you're not grumpy now."

Lydia: sipping tea "Because of Stiles."

Eli: beaming "Papa fixed you!"

Stiles: smug "Damn right, I did."

Derek: groaning "I hate all of you."

[sototallynormaliswear]

Stiles: When me and Derek get a divorce, it WILL be in an IKEA. that place is built for divorces

Isaac: are. are you two married??

Stiles, hasn't even kissed him yet: ...no?

Derek: I don't see how that's relevant

[kjwaikiki]

You know how Eli looks like Stiles. Well I have a headcanon and it is not that Stiles got pregnant through magic.

My headcanon is simply that Eli’s mom looked a lot like Stiles, which could be considered a little mundane until you consider the comedy involved with a stepdad Stiles and Eli being out together in public.

People assume Stiles is Eli’s biological father until one of them corrects said person. I want it to be Eli in which case he can go two ways (both are hilarious)

1. Eli jokes about his dad having a type.

2. Eli jokes about how he always knew his dad and Stiles would get together because look at him (Eli gestures to his own face and then to Stiles) it wasn’t rocket science to figure out the old man was a little hung up on Stiles.

I just think the implications are hilarious. Stiles would never feel insecure ever. If anyone asks him how he remains so secure in his relationship with Derek all he would have to do is gesture to Eli.

All I’m saying is it takes a special type of pining to have a son that looks and acts scarily similar to this one high schooler who you went through multiple brushes with death with, saved their life, had them save your life, and shared many very emotionally charged (possibly tender) moments with.

[dancingwithcanaries]

if not sterek, then why sterek shaped???

[celestialvoid-fanfiction]

Derek: Why are there little handprints on the walls?

Stiles (to baby Eli): Why are there little handprints on the walls?

Eli: Because I have little hands.

Stiles: Because he has little hands

[gynnnicsworld]

You know Sterek has been frequently 'cancelled' and attacked for basically being the most popular ship in the TW world, right?

Because of the age gap between them, right? Well, I have to complain about it, because it really pisses me off that they're discarding the beautiful, slow-burning love story that exists between Stiles and Derek in CANON. Because damn it, they liked each other.

It bothers me that they tarnish Sterek's image for things like being a "pedo" ship when NO, they're not. They're trying to lump us all into a "sick shipper" category.

If we're being honest, Sterek has probably been the story with the most backstory, where we've seen how each season has seen the closeness between Stiles and Derek grow, where they've gone from 'hating each other and having to deal with each other because of Scott' to genuinely caring for each other to the point where Derek would take a bullet for Stiles or Stiles would go against the entire FBI to protect and get Derek out of whatever mess he was in.

They care deeply and genuinely for each other, so much so that Derek preserved and fixed Stiles' Jeep, keeping it in his garage as a sort of memento or anchor for him.

It bothers me so much that they talk shit about Sterek when this couple exists:

sorry but parrish/lydia was a canon pairing between a teenager and an ADULT and if that wasn't enough, an adult from the sheriff's department.

Why aren't people talking about this more? Why are they attacking Sterek instead? Sterek: a couple that wasn't canon during the show's run, and we only got confirmation of feelings for each other through the actors and through obvious hints in the show. But directly, it was never a canon couple between a teenager and an adult guy. They were together.

I put the adult that way because Derek's age was never confirmed as such. At the beginning of the series, Stiles says Derek is only a couple of years older than him and Scott. So at the beginning of the series, Derek was between 18 and 19 years old. But later on, they address the fire, so they change the age again, but they never say exactly how old he is, so canonically Derek could be 2 to 5 years older than Stiles. You choose what age gap to give them.

While Lydia, about 17, and Jordan Parish, over 20, are a CANON couple.

Anyway, hypocrisy and homophobia, right?

But there is a VERY important theme between the Derek/Stiles relationship, which if you ask me made the possibility of a relationship between the two of them impossible while Stiles was still a high school student and perhaps only when Stiles was older could something exist between them.

The existence of this damn bitch and what she did to Derek.

I hate her as much as you do, and it disgusts me to have to watch Teenage Derek with her.

But it's important to what I wanted to say; it's why I think Derek repressed his feelings for Stiles.

According to the Teen Wolf book, Kate was Derek's substitute swim teacher, who used certain hormones and scents to attract the teenage Derek to her. YES, that was not only a relationship rife with manipulation, power imbalances, and pedophilia, but she also ended up orchestrating the murder of Derek's family at a moment of vulnerability for Derek because Paige's death hadn't happened long before.

We all know Derek blames himself for the death of his family, and he hates Kate. He knows what she did to him. He knows he was manipulated by an older woman and that he fell for her.

Derek has serious trust and self-confidence issues.

He doesn't believe he's worthy of love or peace.

His anchor until Season 2 was anger because his life was infested with anger/hate/rage.

So he sees himself as something bad, something that hurts, someone who destroys what he loves. He's a victim of sexual abuse, even though he doesn't admit it.

But Stiles became that little glimmer of light annoying, but a light in his dark life filled with negative things. Stiles earned his trust. Stiles fought every step of the way and broke down that wall Derek built around himself to keep people away from him, because trust means giving someone the power to hurt you. Oh well, Derek's mind worked that way. Unbeknownst to him, Stiles earned that trust.

And that's where we have this scene.

This is where Derek lets us see how important Stiles has become to him, Stiles became his anchor.

At this point, it's undeniable that Derek already has feelings for Stiles. He trusts Stiles blindly. But then, why didn't Derek do anything to have Stiles? Because Derek is a victim of sexual abuse by a woman who took advantage of him in high school. And Derek never dealt with that trauma, or we were never shown to have it that way.

Derek dates women, of course—Jennifer (who also manipulated him), Braeden, etc.—whose relationships didn't end well or were never serious.

But not with Stiles, because Stiles is like that extremely important thing where he can't ruin that connection they have, he can't taint or sully this relationship he has with Stiles. It's too important to Derek. Plus, the untreated traumas surrounding his abuser are a clear impediment to starting something real, something serious. And everything seems to indicate that Stiles is THAT person his unconscious heart has chosen.

That is, to start any romantic relationship with Stiles, Derek has to face all of his demons, all of his traumas first, in order to give Stiles what he believes Stiles deserves.

Kate ruined Derek's heart and mind a lot, plus Derek already had a wounded and bleeding heart since Paige.

So, a relationship as such didn't exist in the series between S/D, and it was quite unlikely that it would, but the feelings were always there.

That's why I don't understand why they keep attacking a couple who has SO MUCH backstory, and who if they ever dated, it was definitely when they were already adults and able to deal with their own issues.

The sheriff's line about the jeep and Derek always makes me think that the sheriff was always aware and noticed everything. He never disapproved; on the contrary, he supported them, because he knows there's no one who deserves each other more than those two. It was also a clear confirmation that Derek always had feelings for Stiles, complicated feelings he didn't know how to address, but whose feelings led him to treasure and fix Stiles's jeep.

[kaicha05]

Eli: So, how did you and Dad get together again?

Stiles: Your dad stalked me until I got fed up.

Eli: ...What?

Stiles: No, no, he was just being... very protective and... uh... you know.

Derek: I did not stalk you.

Stiles: You did.

Derek: I was making sure you didn't die.

Stiles: By showing up at my house uninvited every night and watching me sleep?

Derek: I was keeping him safe.

Stiles: That's the definition of stalking.

Eli: wow.

[headcanonthings]

Eli: Grampa! Can I have chocolate cookies? Sheriff: What’s the rule? Eli: No snacks before dinner… Sheriff: Wrong. Sheriff: That’s your parents' rule. My rule is you have to bring me some too.

[jade-bright]

Scott: Derek asked me to be Eli's Alpha, I'll take care of him Eli: *Blinks and turns to look at Stiles* Stiles, Eli's other dad: Dude...you're not even in the top 10 of people next in line if shit happened to Derek AND me Scott: ...well, who are the top 10?

Stiles Stilinski-Hale's list of Guardians to take care of Eli Stilinski-Hale (in the likely case someone finally killed me off, leaving my poor husband defenseless and killed as well; or my dumbass martyr husband sacrificing himself and I'm not around)

Sheriff Stilinski

Melissa McCall

Cora Hale

Peter Hale

Malia Tate

Kira Yukimura

Lydia Martin

Jackson Whittemore

Isaac Lahey

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Scott: You don't even have anyone on 10 Stiles: And isn't that telling?

[imagine-sterek]

Coach grading Eli’s papers and thinking it sounds familiar and pulls out one of stiles old essays and sees that it’s eerily similar. So he calls him in and asks him to explain. And Eli says that stiles helped him out. Coach asks him how he knows stiles and Eli tells him that’s his dad. Coach is putting in his two weeks cause he doesn’t think he can deal with another stilinski in his class.

Coach: "How do you know Stilinski?"

Eli: "He's my dad."

Coach: "That explains so much."

[stickyfox4]

*stiles and derek are with baby eli*

eli looks at stiles: mama

stiles who is in absolute shock:oh.. no..eli.i’m not..

derek interupts him: well done eli!yes mama stiles

[blaksstr]

Eli: "Can I borrow the Jeep?"

Stiles: "You are literally a werewolf with super speed. What do you need the Jeep for?"

Eli: "To impress someone."

Derek: "Absolutely not."

Stiles: "Absolutely yes. Let the boy live!"