Teen Wolf is the show that launched a thousand ships – well, it’s more like 190 named
character pairings but still – there is no shortage of canonical relationships or
fan-fiction pairings, same-sex couples, throuples and other poly combos featuring heroes and
villains, even cats and dogs in some cases.
When I started working on this video, I knew I wanted to do something on the ships of Teen
Wolf, but how in the world do you even start when there are so many.
Then it hit me – a lot of time has passed since the end of the show – even more time
in-universe since Scott and Pack actually graduated high school in 2013.
It’s likely some of these pairings might have kids by now.
So, with the help of a not-so-sophisticated artificial intelligence – get ready to meet
the children of Teen Wolf.
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Some of y’all are going to be mad because I’m not looking at all the ships.
I’m just looking at the ones Google tells me are the most popular so it’s likely some
of y’all won’t make the cut.
And because I’m a dessert-first kind of guy – we’re going to start with the most
popular Teen Wolf ship.
Derek: If you say one word. Stiles: What, you mean like 'Hey Dad, Derek Hale's in my room. Bring your gun'.
A once-in-a-lifetime combination of actor chemistry and character development known as Sterek.
Stiles: ... barking orders with the way you look. Okay? In fact, I think, if I wanted to,
I could probably drag your little werewolf ass out into the middle of the road and leave you for dead.
Derek: Start the car or I'm going to rip your throat out with my teeth.
It’s hard to trace the first mention of the word Sterek – a portmantua of Stiles and Derek -
but it appears that fans paired the two shortly after Teen Wolf debuted back in 2011.
There was endless speculation about and some not-so-gentle pressure applied by fans who
wanted to canonize the couple.
The failure of the ship to become mainstream resulted in accusations of queerbaiting and
worse leveled at creator Jeff Davis.
Despite all that, some folks just like the chemistry and comedy of the couple and can
enjoy it outside the regular canon of the show.
I am one such person and so with the help of an artificial intelligence app called
Baby Generator – we’re going to take a look at what happens
when Stiles and Derek have a baby.
I guess I should mention - for the sake of this video - there are no limits in creating
offspring in the Teen Wolf Universe thanks in part to the genetic work of the Dread Doctors.
Boom – Science.
And no, I’m not being paid by Baby App – it’s just a means to an end to get the baby faces
- but I did link it in the description if you’re interested.
Here we go – Insert the daddy face – please know I struggled with who to the make the
daddy in this relationship.
But really, it was always going to be Derek.
Then insert Stiles in the mommy spot.
The AI is apparently now measuring the key parts of their faces and will generate a new
picture based on those.
And voilà you get toddler Sterek!
Okay, I did mention it’s a not-very-sophisticated artificial intelligence so the hair is a little weird.
But you can see the resemblance. Right?
Here’s young Sterek at age 10 and at age 18.
I also ran this with the girl baby option.
Here she is at age 10 and again age 18.
Natalie: Honey, there's a Stiles here to see you.
Lydia: What the hell is a 'Stiles'?
The next most popular Teen Wolf ship was no surprise at all.
It’s one of the pairings that was featured as a “will they/won’t they” element
on the show.
They managed to keep the relationship suspense building through five seasons before Stiles
and Lydia became a couple in a rush of emotions that actually provided most of the plot for
Season 6A.
The baby generator AI says they make cute kids too - And you know this couple started
a family as soon as Lydia got her doctorate and Stiles finished the police academy.
You just know it – they are a fierce power couple and the little Stydias are in ballet
and archery club and math club and they run a junior detective agency out of their tree house.
There Jeff Davis, there’s a spinoff idea for you for free.
Liam: We're both getting caught. You can do it while you're running. I'm going down fighting.
Our next popular pairing is another non-canonical couple – bad boy Theo and mad boy Liam.
The writers placed these two together a lot in the final season and the chemistry was
there so Thiam became a really big thing among shippers.
And their kids would be adorable - at least according to this app.
Corey: Stay alive with me.
Another canon couple is up next – it’s Morey.
They were introduced late in the show’s run but still made an impact on fans.
They were a little too cute for my taste – I like a little grit with my hearts and flowers
– but they added a needed layer of new young love to Teen Wolf and produced some of the
most attractive AI children I saw during this entire experiment.
Really – these two need to create babies together in real life
just to improve the human race.
Stiles: Well, I don't like this.
Malia: I'm going to kill you. Stiles: No. I know. I'm sorry.
Another canonical pairing – Stiles with Malia – is next and their kids look a lot
like the Sterek kids.
In-universe this would be because Malia and Derek are related – with the AI I think
it’s just that Stiles' features dominate for some reason.
Still – good looking kids as you might expect.
Victoria: Are you having sex with my daughter?
At this point we’re getting into the Scott McCall pairings and, as I’ve mentioned elsewhere,
Scott was never the most popular character on his own show so it’s no wonder that his
most popular ships have more to do with who he’s paired with.
Top of that list is Scalia – the last-minute, in-canon pairing between Scott and Malia.
Malia: There's too much blood. You should just get in the shower.
Malia: You've seen me naked.
These ships are where you can kind of see what the AI is doing as all the kids from these Scott pairings
end up with his off-center chin.
Scott with Stiles – or Sciles is next with Scott’s genes again
dominating the resulting children.
Scott: What was that for?
And Scott with Allison which is the only impossible pairing in this whole thing due to her being
dead and all – but this was the OG Teen Wolf canon ship and it’s still popular among
fans maybe because of how it tragically ended.
But their kids again look a lot like little Scott McCalls.
What do you think?
Cool app or colossal waste of time?
If you’re inclined to run your favorite ship through the process, the app is linked
in the description.
It’s based out of Vietnam and I don’t think they’re spying on us but you never know.
If you do play around with it, I’d love to see the results so hit me up on Twitter
at TeenWolfWikia.