Hi there! This is just a weird and random question but I was wondering why Stiles is an Aquarius in Ophiuchus when his birthday is April 8th? This really isn't a crit so I don't know if this is the right place to be asking but MTV wished him a happy birthday on Twitter a while back and it was in April: even though the TW calendar has his birthday listed as June 6th. Just to be confusing.
Hi =) I have no problem answering this question and I'm actually glad you asked. The timeline of Teen Wolf is something that's always been a bit wonky and up for a lot of debate. The 'registered birthdays' for both Allison and Lydia don't match up the timeline of what's happened in the show at all, and even going by the calendar and the MTV birthday wishes, it still doesn't make sense.
Season 1 starts after the winter break and it stays in the same year all the way up until Season 4, which starts at pretty much the same time the year after. If you go by an April or June birthday for Stiles, that wouldn't make too much sense since Allison was wigging that she was a year ahead of everyone, so Stiles would have (if that had been his birthday) only been turning 16, which would have made him 15 beforehand and that's not the legal Californian age to be driving. Add to that, 3a has Heather asking him 'have you?' in relation to him losing his virginity and he replies with 'turned seventeen yet? no', so he's clearly still sixteen at that point. While handcuffed up in the sheriff's station with Chris in 3b, Derek says 'Well, I'm not interested in being a victim to a 17-year old possessed by a psychotic fox', which indicates that somewhere between 3a and 3b, Stiles had a birthday. Since that's pretty much near the end of the year by that point, I can safely assume that whatever his birthday is, it's clearly not June or April.
So in essence, Lydia and Allison are the only characters in the series that have had birthdays played out on-screen, so, to my mind (and because no one in the show on-screen has said 'Stiles' birthday is ___), Lydia and Allison are the only two with actual canon birthdays. The rest is up for debate and estimation. Jeff has continuously shown that details aren't really a big thing for him (such as not 'getting' why people want to know how old Derek or anyone else is, for that matter), and I find that a lot of things that have been said by the cast/crew can sometimes contradict what happens in the show. Heck, Erica even made mention of her own birthday and that was contradicted in the beginning of the next season with her Missing poster. Teen Wolf isn't exactly the series for stable details.
So, keeping in mind that he doesn't have a stable canon birthday, I went by the rules of the game, which was to pick one out that best fit him going by the attributes of the signs. As much as I would have liked to have tried to pick something that fell in closer to what the show seems to have backed him into (something between 3a and the end of 3b), none of those months quite fit him in terms of him matching up with the most attributes. I'll C/P what I put in as a birthday suitability explanation and I hope that it and the rest of this answers your question sufficiently.
February 4th / Aquarius | I've chosen this since he has no canon birthday that's actually legitimate (gives TW the finger), but the negative attributes of this sign, along with most of the positives, pretty much fit him. He can be rude and tactless to those he doesn't like, he is definitely a little perverse and sort of naughty oriented and I honestly wouldn't put peeping past him (re: the scene in S1 with him coming upon Scott and Allison kissing and just sort of chilling out to watch from behind the locker). He is uncertain about his own worth and can be self-interested in how things affect him more than others, and I'd say he can be very unwilling to share certain things that he thinks of as 'his'. Like Scott. (Get your own best friend, Isaac) Positively, he is very loyal and he doesn't need approval to go and do things on his own that he thinks can and will help those he's decided to help. Communication is his thing, whether people actually want to hear him is sometimes up for debate. He cares, sometimes to the point where he refuses to see the bad, even if it's pointed out to him. I'd say out of the twelve signs and given the pos/neg attributes listed, Aquarius definitely suits him best.
Thank you for taking the time to ask and, again, I hope this answers your question to your satisfaction.
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Season 1 starts after the winter break and it stays in the same year all the way up until Season 4, which starts at pretty much the same time the year after. If you go by an April or June birthday for Stiles, that wouldn't make too much sense since Allison was wigging that she was a year ahead of everyone, so Stiles would have (if that had been his birthday) only been turning 16, which would have made him 15 beforehand and that's not the legal Californian age to be driving. Add to that, 3a has Heather asking him 'have you?' in relation to him losing his virginity and he replies with 'turned seventeen yet? no', so he's clearly still sixteen at that point. While handcuffed up in the sheriff's station with Chris in 3b, Derek says 'Well, I'm not interested in being a victim to a 17-year old possessed by a psychotic fox', which indicates that somewhere between 3a and 3b, Stiles had a birthday. Since that's pretty much near the end of the year by that point, I can safely assume that whatever his birthday is, it's clearly not June or April.
So in essence, Lydia and Allison are the only characters in the series that have had birthdays played out on-screen, so, to my mind (and because no one in the show on-screen has said 'Stiles' birthday is ___), Lydia and Allison are the only two with actual canon birthdays. The rest is up for debate and estimation. Jeff has continuously shown that details aren't really a big thing for him (such as not 'getting' why people want to know how old Derek or anyone else is, for that matter), and I find that a lot of things that have been said by the cast/crew can sometimes contradict what happens in the show. Heck, Erica even made mention of her own birthday and that was contradicted in the beginning of the next season with her Missing poster. Teen Wolf isn't exactly the series for stable details.
So, keeping in mind that he doesn't have a stable canon birthday, I went by the rules of the game, which was to pick one out that best fit him going by the attributes of the signs. As much as I would have liked to have tried to pick something that fell in closer to what the show seems to have backed him into (something between 3a and the end of 3b), none of those months quite fit him in terms of him matching up with the most attributes. I'll C/P what I put in as a birthday suitability explanation and I hope that it and the rest of this answers your question sufficiently.
February 4th / Aquarius | I've chosen this since he has no canon birthday that's actually legitimate (gives TW the finger), but the negative attributes of this sign, along with most of the positives, pretty much fit him. He can be rude and tactless to those he doesn't like, he is definitely a little perverse and sort of naughty oriented and I honestly wouldn't put peeping past him (re: the scene in S1 with him coming upon Scott and Allison kissing and just sort of chilling out to watch from behind the locker). He is uncertain about his own worth and can be self-interested in how things affect him more than others, and I'd say he can be very unwilling to share certain things that he thinks of as 'his'. Like Scott. (Get your own best friend, Isaac) Positively, he is very loyal and he doesn't need approval to go and do things on his own that he thinks can and will help those he's decided to help. Communication is his thing, whether people actually want to hear him is sometimes up for debate. He cares, sometimes to the point where he refuses to see the bad, even if it's pointed out to him. I'd say out of the twelve signs and given the pos/neg attributes listed, Aquarius definitely suits him best.
Thank you for taking the time to ask and, again, I hope this answers your question to your satisfaction.