Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-7603754-20150812062604/@comment-13965604-20150813011240

NervousShipper wrote: what about Stiles would be a secret after 5 years that wouldn't have come up earlier and that his dad or the Nogitsune didn't know about?

Myrddin. Early form of the name Merlin. Stiles is Something is a big enough meta idea on its own, if they gave him Merlin's name it'd be a dead giveaway that he's magical something or other, even to people who don't believe the meta. His dad wouldn't have to know about that at all. And the nogitsune may or may not know about it. It certainly didn't hurt him to know about it, but it could have been a reason he chose Stiles instead of Allison or any other human cast member. Why wouldn't he sit on a nugget like that until just the right moment? Like when he up chucked real Stiles. That's not something Nogitsune/kitsune are known to do.