I need an au where Derek has mechanical(robot?) arms because of reasons. Not the ones with all the gadgets and lasers, just arms that react to his mind and need charging every once in a while. Of course it will be a future au, i’m not sure what the cause of replacing his arms is, I’ll think about that. But he’s still a werewolf and because of his arms, electricity doesn’t effect him as much. in fact, it charges his arms. Probably a big shock to the first hunters trying to kill Derek. I’m also thinking Deaton built them for him, sometimes sending his assistant, stiles, to help Derek keep up maintenance. only to find that Derek mostly has it under control. Deaton continues to send him anyway.
After their relationship has grown, Derek finds himself constantly wanting to touch Stiles; as in feel his skin. just to figure out if it’s really as soft as it looks. since he cant feel things with his arms, and it would be creepy to even try in the first place; much less with his elbow or something he just accepts that he never will, and quietly admires from afar. their first kiss, Derek gets carried away and just starts rubbing his face on Stiles’ face.
Whenever making physical contact, Derek is always afraid to touch stiles with his arms, his cold, metal, non-human arms. he gets self conscious thinking stiles would rather have someone who has easier cuddling appendages or can help him with baking. Upon hearing this, Stiles smiles and takes Derek’s face in his hands and tells him about how he never even dreamed about Derek liking him back, because of his lame, boring and unattractive self. Derek immediately refuses to have any of it saying how perfect stiles is. Stiles laughs and tells Derek that’s exactly how he feels about Derek no matter what limbs he has or not.
(Sorry for the length omfg I hope this works with what you wanted!)
Sometimes, Derek thinks it would be easier if he had just died.
If he had just let the wolfsbane take affect, travel up his veins and kill him, even if it would have taken a while. If he had just sat there and accepted his fate instead of finding Deaton, instead of going to someone for help.
It probably would have been easier than having to relearn how to use his arms. Okay—it wasn’t relearn, perhaps, because once his body realized that the metal and mechanics wasn’t a threat, it was relatively easy. Derek’s always had to control his strength, anyway, that was something he grew up perfecting.
F YES.
