Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-201.76.133.29-20140726172901/@comment-19765459-20140729005511

LadyX wrote:

Noshiko sent them to find the Nogitsune. I figure it was searching the supernatural because whether you were human or not it would sense the supernatural entity in you.

But I agree. It seems odd that if Stiles and Allison were simple humans, what made it choose Stiles? Seems to me Allison would've been a better choice for causing grief and turmoil. She had actual knowledge of how to be dangerous, she had already turned on her friends once, they could've worked the love triangle angle up, her dad surely wouldn't want to kill her whether he still thought it was her in there or not. That's a very good point. If the Nogitsune thrives on chaos, Allison had way more potential to cause it than Stiles. A lot of people have tended to overlook this little fact, but the reason Boyd and Erica were on the run, and got caught by the Alpha Pack, was because Allison hunted them down like animals and let her loving grandpa keep them bound and electrocuted in her basement! Chris felt guilty and set them free. That's why I thought it was creepy at the beginning of S3a that Allison was able to walk right past "Missing" posters for Boyd and Erica without the slightest sign of guilt!

If the Nogitsune was exploiting the openings in their minds created during their near-death experience, it should have seen Allison's past, and seen how much more dangerous than Stiles she was. But it chose him instead. Perhaps because it sensed that Stiles was more inherently magical and thus a better vessel?

As for Stiles learning about magic, he should do what he always does - research! One reason why Stiles is an ideal magical character is that he is more prone to relentlessly investigate any topic that trips his ADHD (the history of circumcision in an economics paper anyone?). Lydia may be brilliant. But she also consciously avoids topics that don't interest her. For example, it took a long time for her to accept the banshee thing. Stiles wanted to apply the scientific method to figuring her out. Lydia (despite being very talented at science) found the whole exercise tedious.

So Stiles is the one more likely to obsessively pursue the required knowledge.