Full-shift werewolves are superior because as kids, shifting is Hard without a grown-up to help, and kids spend most of their time in pup form until they learn how to shift on their own, and even then it’s more fun to be pup-shaped than kid-shaped. At any given time, there are 2-3 pups underfoot, and more are probably causing chaos nearby.
Being pup-shaped means adults having to be creative about time-out. Bad and Naughty Pups go in the Punishment Pot.
It’s the only thing that works bc they can’t chew through it and it’s too tall for them to jump out of, so there’s just a very smol little fuzzball seething with Rage at the bottom of the soup pot.
2½ pounds of “fuck you.”
The Resentment of the Punishment Pot is so deeply embedded that the first time Stiles decides to make bigos for the pack, when he takes out the big soup pot, Derek and Peter both give a reflexive little growl at the sight of it because fuck. that. pot.
Stiles is left staring at them like, “whoa, WTF?” They’ve never protested him cooking for them before, and they like his mom’s recipes, they’ve stolen his damn leftovers often enough, so they better tell him what gives.
Cue Derek and Peter exchanging nervous glances, trying to decide what’ll be worse, telling Stiles they don’t like his cooking (bad) or admitting the utter absurdity of the fact that they used to get put in a motherfucking soup pot as a time-out (also bad).
