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Canon: Teen Wolf
Canon Point: end of 6ax01

Age: either eighteen or very close to it; his age isn’t definite for most of the series but it’s a reasonable guess.
Appearance: https://i.imgur.com/sxwu2Qm.jpg

History: https://teenwolf.fandom.com/wiki/Stiles_Stilinski
Personality:
Stiles has ADHD, which is probably one of the traits that is most obvious to newcomers to the wonderful world of Stiles. He is talkative and hyperactive and sarcastic and has difficulty shutting up at appropriate moments. As a result, while he is intelligent and does reasonably well in school, he is not taken very seriously and gets in trouble pretty frequently for talking in class. He is a master of flippancy and sarcasm, partially as a defense against fear (a fact that he acknowledges canonically with the appropriately flippant and sarcastic “I’m 147 pounds of pale skin and fragile bones, okay, sarcasm is my ONLY defense”) and has a terrible habit of provoking people in positions of power over him, teachers and enemies alike. (Likely it helps give him the illusion of control, which is helpful when you spend a lot of time facing up against creatures that are way more powerful than you, although that seems to be his MO since before werewolves entered the picture as well.)

He is stubbornly loyal to the people he cares about, which starts out as primarily Scott, his dad, and Lydia, who he’s had a crush on for years, and expands to include more members of the McCall pack through the seasons. He accepts Scott’s newfound lycanthropy and temporary full-moon-induced homicidal tendencies more or less in stride, even when Scott attacks him. (He may, in part, be motivated by the fact that he dragged Scott into the woods the night he was bitten, but if he feels responsible for that, it’s not explicitly stated in the show.) Mostly, he’s just willing to go above and beyond for the people he cares for—even if they don’t particularly care for him back, as in the case of Lydia in the first couple seasons. While his crush on her is one-sided and kind of pathetic at first, it is not shallow; he is infatuated not just with her looks and queen bee attitude but with her high intelligence, and he goes to extremes to help her. When she was mauled by Peter at the end of season one, he traded his help in exchange for Peter biting her and giving her a fighting chance at living as a werewolf. He even helps turn her birthday party in season 2 into a success from a flop when she vastly overestimates her current popularity level by using his connections and his friends’ connections to get her a full house of guests.

As for his anxiety, his experiences with his mom’s frontotemporal dementia left a significant mark on his psyche and relationships in addition to his steadfast loyalty. He suffered from panic attacks and sleep disturbances like sleepwalking after his mother died, and while those tapered off over time, he still experiences heightened anxiety, particularly about his dad’s safety. He tries to protect his dad from the supernatural as best he can, both by withholding damning information about it from his dad and by trying to keep his dad away from supernatural dangers, even when calling the police would be the smart thing to do (such as when he, Scott, and co. are being stalked in the school by Peter Hale). Despite the fact that he’s been in plenty of life-threatening danger up to them, the first actual panic attack we see him have on screen is triggered by his dad being kidnapped in season 3a. In season 2, he admits to experiencing hypervigilance triggered by Matt taking hostages at the police station, which put his dad in danger as well as placed Stiles in a situation where he literally couldn’t do anything to help due to temporary paralysis. He also experiences anxiety and guilt over being a difficult kid, both because of his ADHD and challenging personality and because of the new rift being created by Stiles’s entry into the supernatural world. The anxiety stays with him and gets arguably worse over time, since the trauma heaped on him in the show would cause heightened anxiety and PTSD in even the most well-adjusted individual.

He tends to experience a form of selfishness, albeit one that has both positive and negative traits. He’s not selfish in the sense that he wants everything for himself and damn everyone else, but he has a tendency to draw a circle around the people and things he cares about, and everything outside that circle just doesn’t matter as much. For example: there is a scene in season two where Stiles is discussing an attack and how well it turned out. Another student mentions that it didn’t turn out so well; he actually got a concussion. Stiles promptly dismisses him as unimportant. (In fairness, that student turned out to be a serial killer whom Stiles suspected something was “off” about, but it’s still a callous response.) This does lessen over time as acting heroically becomes something of a habit for him because the McCall Pack spends a lot of time dealing with threats to themselves and citizens of Beacon Hills, but he’s still not necessarily the moral conscience of the pack, and his heroic actions can have extra motives. For example: in episode 6ax01, he insists on the McCall Pack investigating a potentially supernatural missing persons case. He does want to find out what’s happening and put things to rights, but it’s pretty heavily implied he’s also just trying to get the McCall Pack into a case so they can have something to work on together.

Related to this kind of selfishness is a sense of hyperfixation that, again, can be both good and bad. It’s good in the sense that it helps propel him through solving supernatural cases, research, protectiveness over loved ones, etc. But it can be negative in that he can experience trouble being flexible and compromising with what other people are feeling and thing is important. In the example from 6ax01, he gets hyperfixated on the missing persons case, which causes him to be dismissive of, among other things, his best friend Scott’s concern that investigating something potentially supernatural will cause him to miss too much school, again, which has been a serious issue for Scott in the past. Arguably the missing persons case might be more important, but Scott’s attendance record is not unimportant either, and if Stiles were more inclined to compromise, he might find some way to acknowledge that instead of dismissing it.

Powers and Abilities: Stiles is usually typical human within the Teen Wolf universe. There are suggestions that he’s capable of some things humans aren’t, but basically only when he’s interacting with mountain ash, which in the Teen Wolf universe can create a barrier that werewolves can’t cross. (For example, in one episode, he is capable of creating an unbroken line of mountain ash around a building despite running out of mountain ash through belief that it will work and he has enough.) Since this is inherent to his canon universe and never explained or particularly expanded on, I don’t foresee it becoming relevant in Duplicity.

For regular person abilities, he’s very perceptive and has surprisingly good gut instincts about certain people, even when it’s dismissed as paranoia. (He is the first to suspect one of the villains of season 2, and he is quick to realize that Theo, a character introduced in season 5 as an old friend now seeking to join the McCall Pack, is untrustworthy.) He’s good at putting information together and, eventually, solving unsolved supernatural cases. (These often intersect with cases his father, the sheriff, works on, and he has made genuinely useful contributions to his father’s work.)

Inventory:
keys to his Jeep; his phone; his phone charger. I wouldn’t expect it to function as a phone with network connection or anything, but in a sort of airplane mode where he can view his photo album, notes app, etc.