Hormone Regimen After Trans Boy Is Turned Into A Werewolf

[nyxelestia]

This setting is in modern day California. I've been researching FtM transitions like crazy, but I can't seem to find any explanation of how hormones interact with metabolism to come up with some answers

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[nyxelestia]

Sure thing, though I do warn you, this is probably going to end up as Sciles fic. There are a lot of parallels about how, at the end of the day, this really isn't the first time the boys have had to get Scott used to a new body. This also isn't the first time Stiles has figured out what Scott was before Scott did. :P (When they were little, Scott felt "wrong" until he described himself to Stiles, and Stiles was the one who figured things out for him.)

I was planning on have a subplot about how the lycanthropy keeps "healing" Scott, meaning the hormone therapy isn't work and Scott's feminine traits start to make an unfortunate comeback. (Which is right around the time Derek tries to tell Scott the Bite is a gift.) But it's starting to look like this may not be necessary, if the hormones would either be unaffected by the lycanthropy or if Scott might even need less of them due to the lycanthropy. Though I just realized, since I'm writing Melissa as being hella supportive of him, this might at least lead to some interesting scenes in which she starts to figure out something is wrong with him because she knows T doesn't have this kind of effect this fast.

The surgery may or may not also double as an excuse for Emissary!Stiles. :P

[andrea_deer]

yeah, I think Melissa would learn about werewolves way sooner in this AU. I mean, not only already she has some medical knwoledge on the subject, she sure would read up on all the details/possibilities/effects/etc. to better support Scott. She would also pay even more attention to his health, because of the transition, so she would quickly pick up on things that don't add up.

Ah, Derek and his "the bite is a gift" speech. It just never goes well, does it? *pats Derek on his thick head*

I don't mind Sciles pairing at all. I admit I mostly tend to fall for stereks, but I'm a total multishipper and enjoy a good story with pretty much any ship. And Sciles would work lovely with this plot. :)

Also, and I'm ot sure this will be relevant to your story, but when Scott becomes the alpha I think he will eventually be able to change into a full wolf? (I haven't watched last season, so idk, maybe he already did, sorry.) And if yes: how will transition affect his wolf? Or maybe you plan on going more in the way of "everyone is turned into what they are inside" trope started by lizard!Jackson that brought fandom many were!definately not a wolf!Stiles fics. I mean, maybe Scott changes into the wolf and it's just a male wolf? (And if Derek could be a bit weird/thick about the subject previously, he would finally get it 100%.) And now I recognise I'm trying steal the story, so I'm shutting up. XD

[nyxelestia]

Derek means well - and he does later help Scott through some existential angst once things calm down a bit. (The T does have an affect on Scott's scent, which he angsts about, until Derek points out half the people they know smell of medication or hormone treatment anyway. Scott's scent reflecting his T is no different than Stiles' scent reflecting his Adderall or the girls' scents reflecting their birth control.)

I have several ideas for Scott's full transformation, but I'm not sure which one to go with.

Part of me wants to just go with the whole "what you are inside" thing and have him be able to turn into a male wolf, but that is incredibly inconsistent and dysfunctional even in canon. It was convoluted but there was a stretch of logic that could apply when it was just Jackson and the kanima, but all of that got thrown out the window when they made Kate a were-jaguar with no real explanation whatsoever.

Most of me wants to give Scott more angst (I'm sorry, I'm just that kind of writer) and either have him be a female wolf because genetics, or maybe an intersex wolf (genetics + what he really is inside), or maybe he actually can't turn into a wolf because he's male on the inside but the wolf would be female.

Or maybe I'll just stick to canon and have him unable to shift to a full wolf just because most werewolves can't and that's perfectly normal. I actually have even bigger issues with Derek and Peter having been able to do "full shifts", because it was implied that full-shifting is rare and Talia Hale was highly respected because she could do it...but then Peter could also do it, Laura was implied to do it, and Derek apparently did it by accident/unintentionally, so why was Talia being able to do it so respect-worthy? But that's another rant for another time.

On top of that, part of the story is Scott having to balance his own self-perception of being male against the fact most of the males in his life have been kind of toxic or not someone he wants to be like (lots of crappy male teachers, bullies at school, and his own father - and that's before Derek and his mostly-male pack came along; the Stilinskis are basically the only positive male role models he has, and they sure as hell have plenty of their own issues going on). I have this whole thing where he kind of learns how embracing the feminine strength he admires so much in his mother, Allison, Lydia, Kira, etc. doesn't mean he's "turning back into a girl" or somehow acting against his masculine identity. Would having a female or intersex wolf actually work with that? AKA Would he be able to embrace a little bit of female influence in his own identity without it actually defining him, or learn to embrace feminine strength without having it tied up in a "feminine" gender aspect (especially since wolves are another species, anyway, with no relation to human gender identities, meaning one's sex as a wolf has no relation to one's gender as a human)?

Or, would it still run counter to his gender identity and be a dark side of his lycanthropy for him? Something he can do, but is such a strong blow to his gender identity that he doesn't want to and avoids it if he can help it?

There are so many possibilities, so I'm going to start writing the story and see where it takes me. If I don't feel too strongly in any particular direction, I'll probably just stick to the "no full wolf at all" canon, but if I feel like the story works with one of the other options as I write it, I'll go with that instead.