Board Thread:Legitimate Canon Questions/@comment-4467206-20161117104304/@comment-4091815-20161119203857

LadyX wrote:

NervousShipper wrote: What annoys me is the "do you go to this school, weird acting kid in a place where weird acting is something we should really be paying attention to, lol jk lets go to the mall yolo" Yea, that scene in particular makes me doubt Paul's interpretation, though I was all for it beforehand. Stiles blatantly mentioned Scott, who hasn't been erased yet, and it didn't throw up a red flag to them that the Guy I saw important and they should get him to Scott That fits perfectly with the "not gone but forgotten" premise. Some kid randomly runs up to them and starts talking about their Alpha and something about ghost riders and how he's the only one who can see them - they're going to go a bit cross-eyed. He's basically ranting about nonsense while they're dealing with a dead body at school so they're going to try to suss out who he is and what's the what of him.

Think, Allison and Lydia with Braden in Season 3. They didn't really think she was important until she grabbed their wrists. Even then they thought she cray.

There's also been a lot of talk about why Stiles and Scott could remember the missing kid after others forgot him. I'm waiting for that to be explained in subsequent episodes but from here it looks like it has to do with "relics" of the missing. These things that remind you of the person and cut through whatever power the riders possess.

In the case of the kid, Stiles and Scott seemed to remember him because they were actively searching for him and talking about him at the moment he was taken. Stiles appears to serve as a relic of the kid for Scott reminding him that the kid still existed. As soon as Scott was away from Stiles - with no relics to anchor him to either the kid or his friend - it seems the memory wipe kicked in and Scott forgot both.

It seems logical that Lydia remembers Stiles longest partly because of Banshee stuff. Again, this is the first episode and I fully expect a bit of explication to follow.

Stiles and the kid remember apparently because they're marked and the whole Rider memory wammy doesn't seem to change marked folks all that much.