Always By Your Side

Always by your side

Sorry if this has been done already. D: but yo I think that moment is my favorite thing ever.

Josh Diaz is a Werewolf-Raiju Hybrid

My personal headcanon is that Josh Diaz is a werewolf-raiju hybrid. According to Japanese mythology, raiju were spirits composed completely of lightning. In the flashback sequence that Lydia experiences in Required Reading (5x06), we see the Dread Doctors opening Josh up, displayed above.

Raiju were animals composed entirely of lightning, and they were often in the shapes of weasels, cats or wolves. The signs and scars of lightning strikes on trees and woods were said to be the tracks of their claws.

They also, strangely enough, said to enjoy sleeping in human navels, which led to the reputed folklore practice of sleeping on your stomach during storms. While the exact source of this folklore has vanished, leaving it sort of harmlessly sinister. I feel it must be connected to their patron, the thunder god Raiden, who was said to have an insatiable appetite for navels, as they were considered where life began in a body.

The writers of Teen Wolf liked to play around with mythology. When we met Josh, he's at Sinema, dancing, and he tries to scam Hayden out of a new glowstick. At first, it seems like he's being dim, but his smile after Hayden gives him a new one seems to me to be the one of someone who performed a harmless con.

This is important to me, as I have another headcanon that the Doctors used sympathy (i.e. "the shape you take reflects the person that you are") when choosing which teenagers to turn into what type of chimera. For example, Corey was chosen to be turned into a Ghost Rider (see my meta here), because like the rider people seemed not to see him "[My parents] hardly noticed the first time I died." or Mason was chosen to be the Beast "From [Theo] we learned true evil only comes by corrupting something truly good." In this case, Josh's appearances -- dancing, conning, drug use, his bargaining with Malia -- on the show seemed to indicate a certain disregard for the rules of society without being particularly malicious about it -- sort of like sleeping in someone's navel.

I feel it makes a certain sort of sense.

Scott: Stiles, are you ok? 🥺

Stiles, on the verge of death: I'm fine 🥶👌

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Stiles: Scott, you ok? 😬

Scott, on the verge of death: no problem 🫠

LET THEM TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER

You think that is shocking? People write/read torture porn for him.

Bro why did I just come across an account dedicated to just being ' anti- Scott' ? Like people really have nothing better to do online, How much do you have to hate a FICTIONAL CHARACTER to dedicate a whole blog to it 😭

I get not liking a character but dedicating a whole blog to it ? Be fr rn.

The Internet is truly a bane.

This is the most important scisaac post ever!!! Pay attention bitches!

height difference ftw!