I Agree With @sunel0 Too, Lydia Would Most Likely Be The One To Decided Their Actual Name. Maybe Something

I agree with @sunel0 too, Lydia would most likely be the one to decided their actual name. Maybe something like Abnormal Crimes and Events Investigative Agency (ACEIA), that way they could present themselves to the police if necessary and be taken seriously.

As for the name of the AU, I didn't think of anything concrete but was considering something with the theme of supernatural detectives, but Road Trips and Other Disasters sounds really cool! And like @sunel0 said it can abbreviated to ROADS!

Stiles and Theo are just such masters at mind games and figuring things out, I can only imagine what those two would accomplish if they had worked together. The absolute power...

Like imagine if after the finale Stiles and Theo met each other again, and Stiles sees that Theo has changed a lot for the better and is trying to atone for all the damage he did, and over time they become friends and start working together to solve cases and stop supernatural threats. They would be pratically unstoppable!

Thrown in Lydia with her vast knowledge and psychic abilities, along with Danny and his tech skills and you've got a top tier investigation and inteligence gathering team!

This! Stiles and Jackson would fight all the time, but also fight for each other with everything they have when things get bad! They would have that "you annoy the hell out of me but I'm here for you" kind of friendship.

I wonder what they would call their team, there's no way Stiles wouldn't try to come up with a name for them at some point, maybe even as a joke but they repeat it so much that they end up calling themselves that. Any ideas?

And thank you, I'm loving this concept too! They're road trip squad goals!

Stiles and Theo are just such masters at mind games and figuring things out, I can only imagine what those two would accomplish if they had worked together. The absolute power...

Like imagine if after the finale Stiles and Theo met each other again, and Stiles sees that Theo has changed a lot for the better and is trying to atone for all the damage he did, and over time they become friends and start working together to solve cases and stop supernatural threats. They would be pratically unstoppable!

Thrown in Lydia with her vast knowledge and psychic abilities, along with Danny and his tech skills and you've got a top tier investigation and inteligence gathering team!

Hi! It makes me really happy that my idea ended up in a discussion with such creative people, and that now you're actually considering writing an AU about it!

I really liked your ideas and the ones from @msmischief101, but if I may I would also like to add some suggestions:

- Stiles has an active Spark and is a sorcerer (or mage), and he's been training his abilities for a while. He's not an archmage or anything (at least not yet), but he's really good and already has a lot of knowledge of both theoretical and practical applications of the arcane, so eventually he could get there. He pratices constantly to keep his powers sharp and improve, and that's one of the reasons why he's roomate didn't want to live with him anymore. He never saw anything serious, like objects levitating or stuff like that, but got seriously creeped by seeing Stiles meditating while recitating arcane words in the dark surrounded by candles (for example).

- Lydia developed her Banshee abilities too, and can now sense danger and death with a lot more precision, as well as scream with enough power to destroy entire buildings if she wanted to. While her abilities and Stiles's are diferent both in nature and execution in any ways, they still worked together to figure out how to control and reliably use their powers, and Lydia is the only one with arcane knowledge in the same level as Stiles, so they usually research things together and discuss complex theories that makes everyone else confused.

- This is probably something you'd probably only briefly mention even if you decided to include, but Allison is alive. I have this headcannon that Stiles used magic to bring her back in a very dangerous ritual that nearly killed him around the time of S5 (I'm trying to write a Steo fic were this happens, hopefully I'll finish it before the end of the century, lol), and I really love Alisson and Lydia's friendship so.... yeah. I just think Allison is great and her interactions with Lydia are top tier. Also her presence could be an interesting way to explain how the hunter community changed (specially if you decide your story will take into consideration the canon finale), with Allison and her father using her status as an Argent and rallying sensible hunters against Monroe, or even just promoting changes to make sure no innocent supernatural creatures would be hunted. There are a lot of possibilities, but I understand this might not be something you would like to include and you have every right not to, this is your version of this AU after all, I only suggested because Allison is one of my favorite characters and I love stories were she's alive and well.

- And as for the first serious monster they face, I agree with @msmischief101 about it possibly being something from Slavic mythology, like a Strzyga or a Leshen, but it could also be something like a Wendigo from Native American mythology. But if you do go with a Wendigo, I also suggest ignoring TW's canon version and doing something along the lines of what Until Dawn did (UD is a videogame and has an amazing and terrifying interpretation of the Wendigo).

Those are my suggestions! But don't feel pressured to incorporate them in your fic, use them or not as you like, just write the story you think will be the most amazing! I can't wait to read it!

Dear @lawfulgeek and @msmischief101 ,

I don't think it's my place and I can always delete this, but since I can't sleep (as always) may I perhaps interest you in a sort of maybe origin story of the AU (I decided not to reblog the whole thing again)?:D

Naturally, it's just my ideas, and you can always tell me if I'm being too much:D

So basically

Lydia, Stiles, Danny and Theo are studying different stuff in Pasadena (like Stiles in the FBI, Lydia studies Math, Danny - programming and Theo is probably in some kind of Medical thing, but to work on a lab, privacy analyzing things (like for crimes and stuff or in a hospital) or maybe working on medicaments and things (the first one actually comes from my AU where Isaak also worked in ER))

Stiles, Lydia and Danny rent an apartment together, and Theo lives with some roommate in the same building on a different floor mostly (ahm if he says so) accident, because he came into the city a year later after actually graduating, and it's not like he had the best relationships with the pack by the end of things, like not hostile, but there was a lot of room for improvement

But he did start therapy with (as if there's literally anyone else who we know could possibly help him) Morel (probably Kira who ended up having the best relationship with him through the year (and she didn't go to college yet) convinced him), now via Skype, so he generally gets better as a human

But now he doesn't really know how to communicate with new people without lying about his whole life and pretending, he's not used to it yet, the roommate was found also basically by accident

So Lydia (seeing a puppy in need) decides to take him under her wing (they sort of helped him as it was but we're not really close) and make sure he doesn't feel that lonely ("That's bot good for his mental state"), so she invites him to hang out with them, Stiles is a bit apprehensive about it at first, and Danny wasn't there for most of it, so he doesn't care that much. Slowly they all grow closer and all that, some particular TENSION is back in the game and everything

So they continue like this

And their contract for both of the apartments is ending, and Theo's roommate wants to move out to his partner's place, and Theo could afford a place himself, but he doesn't have THAT much money, considering he pays for a Med school

Luckily, by this time Lydia and Jackson's renewed now long-distance relationship evolved enough for Jackson to transfer to Pasadena (he studies something like economics or politics probably)

And initially they thought he'll just move in with Theo, but in the end Lydia and Jackson take Theo's apartment and Theo moves in with Stiles and Danny

It all goes alright, maybe something burns slowly, who knows

Then Brett calls, he needs a place to stay for a couple of days, there's something going on in the city, and some of the Alphas are concerned, so the called Satomi (as she's one of the most experienced Alphas in the state if not the country), maybe she knows what's up, and she sent Brett to take a look at the situation

Naturally, Stiles gets involved, with him Lydia gets too, and Theo helps with identifying the creature by the teeth marks

And Satomi and Brett honestly tell the Alphas that the main job was done by Stiles, Lydia and Theo, so next time they go straight to them

This time, however, they end up tugging Danny in for hacking purposes

And eventually it escalates to the point where they not only identify the creatures but also deal with them

And finally Jackson gets directly involved with paying for the guns and things they need for that (it's not BH but it is a big city plus they work for suburbs too)

So they go on, and once they get a call from a different city, pretty far, and they go there, and do their job

They get calls from places more and more distant, so eventually Lydia suggests the thing Stiles had thought about for a long time: just finally giving in and going on a roadtrip without a foreseeable end, maybe studying remotely (is this the right word?) if they can

And Theo and Jackson go without a question, and all together they manage to convince Danny (who wasn't fighting all too hard)

And somewhere in this Steo do starts dating, annoying Danny to no end

It's probably not the most comprehensible thing, considering it's 6:34 in the morning for me but well anyway I did this maybe now I'll calm down a bit:'D

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