Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-74.73.18.44-20130723204915/@comment-13965604-20150731152342

BeatWolf wrote: Remember in season 1 episode 1 when Scott and Stiles are in the woods looking for Scott's inhaler, they meet Derek and Stiles says: "he's only like a couple of years older then us". So that clears up the age thing for Derek. Slightly older than Scott and Stiles who at the moment are 17 ish so that would put Derek at 20. Doesn't seem right, he looks older than 20.

"A few years" doesn't give us anything. My brother is nine years older than me and I still say he's a few years older. I would trust the physical driver's license we see on screen before a verbal anything. Especially since verbally Stiles told us "like ten years ago" and everything since then has it being six years since the fire, now seven.

Derek's driver's license says he was born in '88 which put him at 23 when the show started. Which, my being 22 at the time, lined up pretty well to me visually. He looks older because more Real time has passed than Show time. It's only been about a year and a half in the show while six years have passed in our time.

Now, the problem with the driver's license is that Jeff said it was a fake ID. I never personally heard the question so I don't know if he was answering something other than Derek's age (like why didn't he have lens flare) and we took it to mean everything was fake about it, or if he was asked about Derek's age and the ID and was doing his normal answer a different question while sounding like I answered the one you asked. He did it with Paul about werewolf aging and Satomi. But visually, and timeline wise, it makes the most sense for him to have been 22/23 at the start of the show, because that would put him at 16/17 when Kate seduced him and thus in school for some sort of before or after school event when the fire happened six years before s1.