Title: Is This A Raid?
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Pairing: Gen
Categories/Genres: Alternate Canon, Humor, Domestic
Length: Medium (5889 words)
Warnings: N/A

Author/Artist on LJ: entangled_now
Author/Artist Website: entanglednow

Summary:

"Oh my God, Scott put soy in the cart, he put fake meat in the cart, he's trying to kill us all."

Review:

In a post-season 2 alternate canon where everyone lives (even Peter), Derek is learning to be a good Alpha one stumbling baby step at a time. Good thing Stiles is there to copilot.

I absolutely adore the characterization in Is This A Raid?. It's the reason I bookmarked it, the reason I've read it over and over again, and the reason I want to share it with you. The teenagers are written convincingly, impulsive and bratty and insecure in that way real teenagers are and the way the canon tends not to portray them.

Scott is well-meaning but oblivious, Isaac his faithful, starry-eyed tagalong. Erica is just as brilliantly headstrong as in canon, but with that youthful impetuousness that makes her so delightfully juvenile. Boyd is, as ever, the only sane one. Jackson, barely two days a werewolf and a shadow of his former self, still finds it in himself to be a spoiled brat. Peter seems determined to worm his way into the good graces of the pack, all good cheer and helpful charm that Stiles is determined to see straight through. Derek and Stiles have that perfectly characteristic push-and-pull going on, that subtle, platonic intimacy that runs along in the background.

To be honest with you, though entanglednow's characterizations aren't true to canon, (Derek in particular is pretty stone-faced), I find myself preferring this version because of the way all the teenagers are just so gosh darn teenagerish.

Is This A Raid?