#the sterek lasagna metaphor

[buckybarnesss]

Sterek really is the lasagna of queerbait. It's essential to the shows narrative. It is never jossed, they just add more and more layers as to WHY Derek and Stiles should fuck nasty. At every opportunity, Jeff adds more and more.

Why make Derek a goddamn widower, endlessly toiling on Stiles' most prized possessen?? It's insane. At every turn, more and more sterek piles up!!

sterek is so complicated because it's used as queerbait but it's also in the narrative.

derek and stiles's arc are intertwined.

derek doesn't achieve growth without stiles nor he does he learn to trust others or himself again. derek's role in stiles's arc becomes the most prominent when derek is absent. it's no coincidence derek return to the narrative is with stiles and it bookends how it began. full circle.

than there's the stupid goddamn movie.

there was no reason for the jeep metaphor. none. jeff chose that. he chose to break lydia and stiles up unceremoniously too. it's not like just because stiles wasn't there meant they had to break up. he also chose to put the jeep with derek.

there wasn't any real reason for it. last we knew stiles had given it to scott.

which.....knowing derek was meant to be in radio silence gives me some added perspective because the jeep was stiles's relic. like we know the jeep was so associated with stiles it was in the opening credits with him for two seasons. the jeep is a connection stiles had to his mother and it represented his emotional state in season 5. he literally declared in s4 (while searching for derek) he wouldn't ever leave it behind.

but he gave it to scott and yet somehow it ended up derek's hands and derek kept it, worked on it and fixed it.

we've discussed the significance of that already. the sheer unhinged maddness of derek doing this.

the physical manifestation the show used to represent stiles's soul, his connection to reality and to his life is in the care of derek hale and derek refused to give up on it even if he has a complicated relationship with it.

which just goes back to stiles being essential to derek's emotional growth and healing throughout the show.

giving up on stiles would be derek giving up on himself.

because they're each other's anchors and they're in love goddamn it.