Noshiko: With time slipping through my fingers, I knew I was making a terrible decision.
But I could not die knowing they would get away.
So I called out to our ancestors
for Kitsunetsuki, possession by a fox spirit.
We all know how the nogitsune arrived on our plane of existence.
Noshiko called it to possess her so she could take revenge on the U S army for the atrocities
at Oak Creek.
Nogitsune answered on the first ring, but it chose to take over Rhys' body instead.
Now, I guess, because controlling a corpse is just easier than controlling a powerful
Celestial kitsune no matter how willing she claims to be.
Anyway, it had complete control of Rhys' body from the start and just ran amok.
Nogitsune left lots and lots of corpses, which led to the big Wolf and Fox
superhero team up and nogitsune ends up in a jar.
That's where it sat for 70 years.
Then along comes Jennifer Blake and her earth-shattering
storm powers, the jar breaks and nogitsune is free once again.
So here you are, a nogitsune lost in the spiritual and literal darkness and who should cross
your path, but this hunk of man. Okay. This spindly angst-ridden kid, but still Stiles
is here. And he has something that only one other person in this collapsing root cellar
could offer to the nogitsune, a way in. You see, Stiles had just died for a little while.
Well, sort of died.
Okay, he symbolically died. This whole ice cube
baptism opened Stiles , Alison and Scott to
another plane of existence. And that opening allowed
nogitsune to slip right into Stiles uninvited.
And yes, nogitsune can control other people without this sort of crack in their soul.
But that control is temporary and limited.
Stiles' inner-most being was open during this period,
which is why nogitsune was able to get
such a strong hold right from the start.
But Alison and Scott also had openings so why not them?
Nogitsune couldn't take over Scott because void cannot be two things.
It cannot be Fox and Wolf.
So Scott was not an option.
Why not Allison, a strong, competent and highly skilled hunter?
I don't know for sure, but when I look at my choices as a parasitic spirit form, wanting
to hide and gather strength, I would probably go into the least likely suspect.
Alison is also strong-willed and stubborn,
even when she's 100% wrong.
She's so stubborn that nogitsune might not have been able to manipulate her as easily
as it did Stiles .
Also hunters tend to kill themselves instead of becoming supernatural.
So that has to be a consideration.
Anyway, for whatever reason nogitsune, chooses Stiles
and begins working him in an effort to get control.
At this point in the story, it could really only use Stiles' body when he was unconscious
or semi out of it. That's why his perceptions were so off for those first few weeks.
Nogitsune is effing with his brain.
It's wiggling in and setting up house.
Stiles: Okay.
Now, once it was all cozy inside Stiles , it sent out
that first fly to William Barrow and began growing a tumor in his gut.
It then fed on all the chaos caused by Barrow's escape.
Coach: Pulling the fire alarm is one thing, doing it while
there's a mass murderer spotted nearby is insane.
If I was four years younger, I'd punch you!
The electric shock Stiles got at the end, the one that magnetized his bat, was a great
big cherry on top of all this.
Nogitsune really feasted in this episode and got a big boost to its strength and control
over its host.
Now, I don't want to give the impression that Stiles was just letting all this happen.
Detective Stiles had already started working out that something wasn't right with him.
Stiles: How would I get phosphorus on my key?
Caitlin: Have you been handling chemicals? Stiles: No, I don't think...
Way back in illuminated he was piecing it all together, but not quickly
enough to really take any action.
Melissa: Are you all right?
Stiles: I don't know.
This is also when nogitsune cranked up Stiles' dementia symptoms.
Causing him so much pain, help it feed on his fear and anger.
And in turn all the people who love Stiles, his dad, his friends, they all started feeding
the parasite with their worry and concern for Stiles.
This is one reason why he is the perfect host. Stiles is beloved and any threat to his wellbeing
generates a lot of misery that the monster feeds on.
Stiles: Melissa?
It is at this point the nogtisune becomes strong enough to exert more control over
Stiles even when he's awake.
This was the period just prior to Riddled, when nogitsune was setting up the disaster
at the hospital and a few other tricks.
But it still wasn't in complete control.
It couldn't be without Stiles' agreement.
But Stiles fought it. He ran off into the woods in an effort
to keep Void from hurting anyone else.
Stiles: [screaming]
Unfortunately, fighting it actually fed the monster
even more with the entire police force, all his friends and family completely freaked
the _____ out.
The result of all that is an exhausted Stiles and a
well fed Nogitsune by the time we get to this MRI scene.
The threats against his family are just too much and
Stiles finally gives in.
Now, we all saw what this creature could do with an unwilling host.
Derek: Lose something.
Scott: Hey Coach!
Parrish: Jared, it would be very helpful if you could
resist throwing up on the potential explosive device.
Derek: Get down!
Imagine what it could accomplish inside someone who was completely willing right from the start.
“You want retribution.
Set me free
and we'll play a new game, a game of chaos, strife, and pain!”