file this under things I want: fic where derek hale likes to walk about the loft half naked. and he does. he comes back to BH, things are finally at peace, he can give himself the luxury of walking around naked or semi-naked. So imagined Derek walking around, doing his house chores clad in nothing but lose briefs? Or Derek lounging on the couch, reading a book, 100% without clothes, just enjoying his evening.
and there’s nothing sexual about the nakedness. He just dislikes the constraints of clothing, and being naked feels nice. liberating. it also makes him feel safe, in a way. his house is his castle, finally safe to live without constantly eyeing the intruder sensor for danger.
sooo imagine if our favorite human in the pack, the one and only Stiles, crashes on the loft one day. He has a spare key (Derek didn’t give it to him, but he knows about it. He doesn’t mind), and he just decides to go there maybe because he’s skipping class and he wants a place to nap and his dad is at home. Or maybe he’s just crashing because he used to, when Derek was away. and it doesn’t even occur to Stiles that Derek might be home.
or that he might be home. napping on the couch. naked.
just imagine stiles yelping in surprise, Derek bolting awake, and there’s staring. A lot of staring. because Derek is on his birthday suit, with everything that God gave him out in the daylight, and woah. Woah. Jesus. Stiles has an insta-boner, so fast he actually sways on his feet. and shit. now so does derek. because stiles’ eyes on him? it’s doing things to derek. things that involve his blood flow going south real fast.
they bang. derek has one more reason to walk around with his jewels out. And stiles isn’t sure he’ll survive life with a very very clotheless derek.
Bottom!Derek who is actually very, very sensitive everywhere – I’m not kidding, this boy gets easily overstimulated – and full body shivers whenever Stiles gently parts his legs and just…breathes over his hole, damp and hot and “hey, you okay, Der?” Derek, who is actually highly insecure about this, feeling betrayed by his own body – hating that he can’t just will himself into submission like he does in every other aspect of his life- but with time feels good, learning to let go and enjoy how Stiles seems to love how he responds to every little touch.
Derek who is very needy and gets shyer and shyer the louder he gets during sex, trying to bury his face in the crook of Stiles’ neck, attempting to muffle his whines and pleas as Stiles gently strokes his sides and whispers how well he’s doing, that he is so very pretty and good. Such a good boy, Derek. My good boy.
Derek taking a long to time to work up to bottoming. It’s a trust thing for him, it’s a trust thing above anything else, and the day Derek sits Stiles down and tells him it’s something he wants to try with him…well, it’s as important and significant as a marriage proposal as far as Stiles is concerned.
Bottom!Derek who really, really likes getting fucked over things. The sofa. The table. The end of the bed. He doesn’t know why it’s so hot. Maybe it’s got something to do with the fact when Stiles bends him over something it’s usually because he doesn’t have the patience to walk the 30 second trip to the bedroom – or in some cases the two second trip up the bed – and it just makes Derek feel so loved and important and wanted.
Derek who absolutely adores riding Stiles. Derek who relishes in watching Stiles come undone below him, fisting at the sheets above his head as Derek slowly bounces on his dick, clenching around him and making him squirm. Derek who, in these moments, loves to tell Sties what a good boy he is, loving and cherishing Stiles, kissing him in between thanking him and praising him, grinning smugly the louder and more rambly Stiles gets the closer he pushes him to the edge. Derek, have I ever told you how- oh my god, right there- sexy you are? Because you are. Am I sexy? Wait don’t answer that- oh my god, oh my god, don’t stop, I’m gonna-
Speaking of thank yous…bottom!Derek who has a thing about being polite in bed. Bottom!Derek who begs so prettily and thanks Stiles over and over whether he’s finally pushing inside him or spending a good, solid hour just milking his prostate. He can’t help it, the litany of thank yous and pleases that spill from his mouth (even when he is close to tears or threats) and Stiles just finds it all adorable, that Derek Hale is actually just a polite, shy boy underneath all that gruff and glaring.
Derek who very much likes to present for Stiles. It’s partly a wolf thing, he knows, but it’s also just a how-Stiles-makes-him-feel thing. At first, he was a little more than embarrassed about doing it, shuffling almost awkwardly until Stiles huffed and took the hint, manhandling Derek until his ass was high in the air, all ready for the taking. Everyone expects Stiles to be the impatient one in bed, wriggling around or teasing (and that he often is) but as Derek grows more confident being with someone again, someone he trusts and loves to be playful around for the first time in years, he’s the one practically wagging his metaphorical tail every time Stiles tells him to turn over, preening when Stiles tells him what a lovely sight he makes. And we won’t even get started on the full moon.
Derek who sometimes doesn’t want sex, but just needs to be filled up. Derek who sometimes strips and preps himself before coming downstairs to clamber on to Stiles’ lap to watch a movie or nap, happy and sated with Stiles inside him. Some days they talk about their days like this, Stiles fully clothed, stroking up and down Derek’s arms as he tells him about his thesis or shift at the library, Derek telling him about the book he’s writing or the history papers he’s marking.
Bottom!Derek who just likes that feeling of closeness when Stiles is inside him, like Stiles is touching and anchoring every part of him. And even though Stiles can’t do much about his past, the pain, everything that often feels too much, he can soothe them, quieten those feelings. He can press Derek down and kiss him and, just for a little bit, Derek can just focus on Stiles. On them. Nothing else. On everything he has come to think of as home again.
I would kind of like a story where pre-fire Derek Hale was known by almost everyone in town as a really nice boy, straight A student, a good kid. Everyone loved Derek, who used to clean gutters and mow lawns for harried single moms and rickety old people, who once saved a dog from drowning—it was even in the little community paper, the one that’s like 75% ads for local businesses and 25% stiltedly-written human interest stories—and played the baby Jesus in the live-action nativity one year, and smiled the whole time. (At one year old he was a little big for the role, but he was so sweet and happy no one cared, and it was meant to be, since Derek’s a Christmas baby himself.) Derek Hale: the darling of Beacon Hills.
And since most of Beacon Hills doesn’t know all the shit that went down right before he left or since he came back, they just remember Derek Hale as the poor kid who was orphaned and then moved away and then came back when his sister was brutally killed. So there is general outrage when it’s learned that he’s been arrested for his sister’s murder based on the word of the sheriff’s son, who is well known to be a troublemaker and a smartypants. The poor sheriff, so much on his shoulders, he does his best, but the boy does run wild, and he’s gotten away with it for so long—there’s only so much a mother’s death can excuse, God rest her soul.
So then, instead of the usual problem we see where Stiles and Derek start hanging out and they have to worry about Sheriff finding out because of Derek disapproval reasons, in this situation the problem is Stiles. What follows is a lot of frowning and tut-tutting over Talia Hale’s boy falling into the clutches of that bad influence Stiles Stilinski, who even got him arrested one time. That Stiles sure has some nerve, being friends with Derek, after what he did to him. And Derek, well, he’s obviously got the heart of a saint, to forgive him like that. But it’s worrisome, it really is, because Derek might have a few years on Stiles, but it’s common knowledge that Stiles has led the McCall boy astray more than once (the son of an FBI agent, even!), so who knows what he can talk poor, vulnerable Derek into doing.
Is there anyone else who pictures Derek’s skin as very pale, more so if not as much as Stiles’s? The opposite seems to be the norm in fanart. As the seasons go on Derek’s skin gets a bit darker in some shots (also, in s1 maybe he had baby powder on for the effect XD). Plus you have the influence of Hoechlin who, compared to Dylan, seems like a more outside person and California’s weather is what it is. So he tans more. But hey, character vs actor. Leather jacket, sulk, night, etc, that s1 vampire-ish vibe.
Now, I don’t buy some fandom headcanons for the werewolf biology (like that they don’t need glasses [?] – why? is that from Spiderman?), but I’m sure werewolves wouldn’t tan. Tanning means skin damage so presumably that’s something supernatural status would repair before it happened, right?
To add are we talking born werewolves or turned because I think that plays a part.
Born, such as the Hales.
I figure for turned it’d depend but I can see it being the same way. When someone is turned they return to a state of “health”, e.g. Erica’s brain. That itself is also debatable, because I wouldn’t see the logic for certain kinds of epilepsy being cured by the bite. For short: it would make sense if it’s a reversible cause she acquired, but not if it was just the way her brain was structured (in-born anomalies), because there’d be no reference to “fix” it to – and her case looks more like that btw. But then again, that’s what I think the whole “no need glasses” thinking is behind. It’s trickier than it looks, though.
On topic and for reference, basal skin tone (understood as that person’s complexion under no significant solar exposure) is genetically determined by a threshold of melanin secretion. Every human has more or less the same melanocytes in each area of their body, but people with a darker complexion have those melanocytes produce a superior amount of melanin. So the tweak is: if they acquire a “supernatural” ability to repair solar radiation damage, there’s no reason for those melanocytes to overwork beyond that basal threshold, is there? They’d just be protected like they’re protected from infections or cancer by other really good mechanisms.
Tanning is like a shield, but it implies the damage is still being produced (that’s why white people don’t stay tan through the winter, for instance) and has enough impact for it to trigger the defense mechanism in the first place.
I know what this is, Derek, like me, has a blue/green or cold skin tone, where STiles has a yellow/red skin tone
combined with his dark hair (lots of it) he has a winter colouring, meaning he suits darker colours and jewel tones, like burgundy, navy, and greys and blacks
Stiles is an autumn (dark hair, warm skin) so he suits warmer colours but Derek looks paler because of the blue base instead of yellow
I would also assume werewolves cannot tan because they just heal the damage back to base setting.
And the fun part: we can use this reasoning to argue not only that werewolves /do/ have vision defects (short-sightedness, near-sightedness, astigmatism), but that when they do, they can never correct them surgically. Unlike humans.
Mandatory wolfie glasses!
I dunno. Being a werewolf clearly has a PARTICULAR effect on eyes. I mean, they change color, for one thing. Alpha vision exists. Presumably they can see better. It’s like the DNA for eyes got new coding. All the senses did.If they’re rebuilding from the inside out for these new features (assuming a bitten wolf here), why would any defects remain?
Good point! Yes, if they were rewritten then it could be fixed or the upgrade could render it irrelevant. Night vision, visual acuity, are all enhanced; as is hearing, and especially smell. Lens sculpting isn’t unimaginable. Presumably they also become more tactile for bonding and in general would also have the neurology and brain structure changed to accomodate it. Some brain areas could look more… lupine. Just like on the outside their skin does, say (hair follicles, sweat glands, skeleton, muscles, dentition, etc).
The point I was trying to make is that vision defects are not really “defects” in the sense other things we call “disease” are, such as an infection, cancer or trauma. It’s more like a variation of size – a too deep or shallow eyeball can result in near-sightedness or far-sightedness. Now, you can say “all diseases are variations, just that they’re so extreme they cause problems, and we call them anomalies or malformations”. And that has a functional measure, for instance reading for sight. However, humans did not evolve their eyes out of an evolutionary pressure to read texts <1cm long, instead more for things like being to tell the colors of the fruits they’d collect; distinguishing objects, facial gestures, etc. We have excellent color vision even compared to other primates (which are already in the good end of color vision for mammals).
So that’s why so many people need glasses to read; in other words, our culture has caught up too quickly and created a problem we wouldn’t have if our symbols happened to just be bigger or our languages were just spoken language. Granted, all needs context. But most people’s sight is not “a problem” (=“a defect”) by any other measure, and the variation is actually tiny which makes it a very widespread condition just out of standard populational variation. Saying born werewolves wouldn’t have this sort of condition is restricting the eye measures to a very reduced part for human standards (and they’re modified humans, not a parallel species). It’s as if you arbitrarily said all werewolves have 8-9 inch dicks, say, or that the whole species are big-footed.
The fact that we can see enough of otherwise representative human variation in them (eye color, race in general, etc) is an argument against the idea they reduced their genetic diversity for an arbitrary area to that extent. Reading doesn’t seem to have been an evo pressure in any sense for them, at least differentially. You can have excellent night vision and be very myopic – one doesn’t imply the other. But if by “better” we think just acuity and add a predator pressure, maybe it does make sense they’d cut down more than humans while other humans became less dependent on it. Now I wonder exactly how widespread vision defects are in eagles and wolves.
– Derek’s the kind of person whose house every kid wants to go to because he buys king sized candy bars (it’s mostly just because he loves seeing their eyes widen and how wide they smile as they politely thank him)
– when he carves pumpkins he always does really intricate designs whereas Stiles goes with classic scary faces and attempts making a wolfed out Derek (he fails but Derek compliments him anyway and gets a kiss on the cheek for his efforts)
– at pack Halloween movie marathons he insists on watching the old, campy monster movies he and Laura used to make fun of when they were teenagers (and he holds Stiles’ hand through the scarier, more gory movies because Stiles always, always falls for the jump scares)
– he always puts up with Stiles wearing his red hoodie and calling him the Big Bad Wolf all day, mostly because Halloween sex is always amazing and kinky (Stiles still wears his red hoodie and just his red hoodie) (one year Derek spanked him until his ass was as red as the hoodie)
– Derek’s favorite part of Halloween is curling up on the couch with some apple cider or a cup of tea by the fire to read a book, Stiles curled up beside him with his head on his chest, sometimes reading aloud to Stiles (Stiles always falls asleep on him, snoring softly, and Derek smiles because this, this is home)
What if werewolves do scar, but it’s pretty rare. What if Derek feels so guilty about the fire that he doesn’t let himself heal from burns at first, when he’s still broken and suffering because of what happened to his family. Imagine Derek cooking and burning his hand and willing it not to heal. It doesn’t. It ends up scarring, which is new for Derek and he runs his fingers along the scars to remind himself what he’s capable of: healing and hurting and remaining unblemished and scarring – if he wants it enough. As time passes, he lets burns heals more, but there are still early ones. Scars on his hands from cooking, accidently hitting his hand on the hot metal of the oven. One on his leg from a piece of burning wood that came out of a bonfire. Stiles finds all these scars, intrigued: “I thought werewolves didn’t scar”, curiously pursuing it until Derek tells him in stilted and slightly ashamed words, that they’re badges of guilt. That they remind him of the people he’s lost. Stiles doesn’t know what to say, so he doesn’t comment, but he makes a point to kiss every scar. He lays his lips to the imperfections and thinks: “it’s ok”, “it’s not your fault”, “forgive yourself”, “I love you”.
I think Derek would be a really good dad. I can see him being very, very, very protective… I can see him being very strict, very, very stern, most of the time. But when he needs to be that vulnerable, loving dad, he would know how to do it in a very subtle way.
Tyler Hoechlin, WolfsBane con 2013 (via not-the-alpha)
so i feel like every fic about the fire never happening and derek living a happy normal life has derek becoming like a writer or a professor or something – which is totally rad and fits his personality – BUT. i would like to share with you all:
Nurse Derek! Who works at the Beacon Hills Hospital with Melissa! Like. Just imagine him being all nice and gentle with patients and blushing when old ladies come in to bring him homemade fudge and pinch his cheeks and him being super sweet with little kids who come in and are all scared and he always tries to make them comfortable. And then of course he and Melissa get really close and she becomes like his work mom and then Scott and Stiles and the Sheriff by extension become like a second pack to him.
And ofc he uses his werewolf powers to help people by like taking their pain and monitoring their heart rates and whatever else and I wouldn’t be surprised if he offered people with terminal illnesses the bite cause he just cares so much and wants to help people.
I definitely feel like that’s how he meets Erica – like she comes in a lot for her epilepsy or sometimes even after having seizures and she and Derek bond but as her condition starts to worsen, Derek eventually offers her the bite and she joins his pack. And same thing with Isaac – when he keeps coming in with bruises, Derek finds out what’s going on and takes his concerns directly to the sheriff and eventually Isaac eventually moves in with Derek and Derek gives him the bite once he turns 18.
And then with Scott, Derek probably gives him the bite after he has an asthma attack that nearly kills him, and maybe it’s like an emergency thing during the attack or maybe it’s at the hospital after, idk, but then Scott joins his pack and by extension so does Stiles who just follows Derek around asking him questions about werewolves 24/7.
I’m not going anywhere with this, I just like to think about Derek as a soft nurse sometimes.
and make you feel like you are the centre of his attention, which would be like, wow. And I think that really plays into the headcanon that I, you and a lot of others have that Derek hooked up a lot, but wasn’t in relationships emotionally, because he would turn that on, but he’s also working on hiding himself a lot of the time, so it’s easier to just hook up then try and continue that. I’m sure this point has been made by so many people before. But it’s something I think of
I agree with this so much. That scene, if nothing else, shows that Derek knows exactly how attractive is and how to use his looks to get what he wants. I don’t actually know that the two ideas are mutually exclusive, though –– while Derek is one hundred percent comfortable with using his body, with playing on people’s attraction to him, and possibly even with casual I also think he’d probably be very awkward when it comes to relationships.
Because physical is easy. Physical is impersonal. And I think there’s probably a very serious, Kate-induced disconnect in his brain between what is appealing about him (his body) and what’s not (who he actually is). Not to mention the trust issues going back the other way –– sure, he can have sex with strangers, how’s that likely to hurt him? His body can heal from anything they might do to him physically so he’s never really in danger, and if they do end up hurting him (personally, I tend to assume Derek went after the type likely to hurt him because he wouldn’t want to risk ending up with anyone he might develop feelings for, or who might get hurt because of him) then what does that matter anyway, right?
*sighs at our boy*
But once emotions get involved? Once he starts caring about a person? That would send everything Derek hates about himself and everything he’s scared of crashing over him all at once. It would make him vulnerable in a way simple sex doesn’t, and I think he’d be incredibly hesitant and awkward (too harsh and too soft, shaky and hesitant and too fast to pull back because everything he cares about shatters on him and he can’t have this shatter, not this and…)
And I can absolutely see Derek putting on the charm for strangers –– waiters at diners, visiting packs, that woman working at the occult bookstore when they’re trying to figure out how to banish those pixies –– and Stiles just getting slowly crushed by the “knowledge” that Derek’s so obviously attracted to all these random people the second he meets them and not Stiles, never Stiles, because he’s never seen that smile directed toward him, that’s for sure.
Until he starts realizing that Derek never follows through with any of these people. He trades smiles with them, flirts with them, but when Stiles “I can absolutely be an adult about this and not crumble in the face of my hopeless crush” asks him about any of them, Derek will just send him a blank look and say Stiles knows as much about them as he does.
And Stiles might not get the too-bright smiles, but he gets Derek coming to him every time there’s a crisis, and then sometimes when there’s not a crisis, and then sometimes staring at him for too long and looking away fast when Stiles tries to meet his gaze. He gets Derek’s hands on him soft after every battle, checking him over for wounds until another pack member walks in and Derek falls back, head ducked and acting weirdly flustered about the contact. And maybe it takes so long for Stiles to connect what’s going on as feelings because he’s associated Derek and all his hotness and all that charm he puts on when he wants to as Derek liking someone behavior because seriously… how can someone that beautiful and assertive not be the type of person to just tell people outright when he wants them?
But wanting is so much different than wanting, and Derek might be an expert at one but he is absolutely a fragile baby duckling at the other.
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