Stiles is now twenty! And kind of a badass. Thanks to three years of being on the lam and fighting for the resistance, he's buffed up a little more and learned how to be a decent shot with a gun (and a crossbow for sentimental reasons). His biggest contribution to the cause still lies in his mind; he can pick things up quickly, research like nobody's business, and help come up with plans. As far as his behavior goes, he's a lot calmer and more confident than he was in MM. While Stiles is never going to be a cocky guy, being useful instead of helpless has given him a much needed boost in self-esteem. He still flails around a lot and nothing short of death will make him lose the motormouth, but he's less prone to panic attacks. He still tears up every time someone manages to survive the impossible though. No homo.
He's also a lot more ruthless. Not when it comes to his fellow survivors - he will fight tooth and nail for all of them - but he doesn't care at all about how many of their enemies die and will even consider risking bystanders if it's the best chance for success or minimizes the risk to the resistance. For instance, as far as Craven Castle goes, his priority is to bring the game down and get Kaoru and Spain out; he's not going to be trying to sabotage or prevent the murders, especially since if everything goes according to plan they'll be able to save them from the graveyard anyway. His martyr complex has also come into light - while he'd suppressed it in MM due to being desperate to return to his dad and best friend alive, that doesn't seem like it's happening any time soon, so yeah. He's not going to rush blindly into battles when someone superhuman would have a better chance of success, but he'll take enormous risks on his life for information or supplies and so on (while yelling at everyone else to stop being so stupid for doing the exact same thing).
As far as relationships go, his closest friends are Gundam, Annie, Susan (even if she won't admit it), and Lydia - they're the ones he'll trust most and listen to when it comes to advice, as well as the ones he'll wake up at 3 AM to go check out this rumor or that shiny thing over there. He's also really good friends with Beat, Sonia, Alice and Poland - he's pretty fluent in Polish at this point and probably passable in Japanese if he managed to badger Gundam into teaching him. In general though, he tries to talk to all the survivors and form bonds with them, having recognized that they'll likely be spending a lot more time together - and with getting home looking more and more impossible each day, they're all he has left.
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He's also a lot more ruthless. Not when it comes to his fellow survivors - he will fight tooth and nail for all of them - but he doesn't care at all about how many of their enemies die and will even consider risking bystanders if it's the best chance for success or minimizes the risk to the resistance. For instance, as far as Craven Castle goes, his priority is to bring the game down and get Kaoru and Spain out; he's not going to be trying to sabotage or prevent the murders, especially since if everything goes according to plan they'll be able to save them from the graveyard anyway. His martyr complex has also come into light - while he'd suppressed it in MM due to being desperate to return to his dad and best friend alive, that doesn't seem like it's happening any time soon, so yeah. He's not going to rush blindly into battles when someone superhuman would have a better chance of success, but he'll take enormous risks on his life for information or supplies and so on (while yelling at everyone else to stop being so stupid for doing the exact same thing).
As far as relationships go, his closest friends are Gundam, Annie, Susan (even if she won't admit it), and Lydia - they're the ones he'll trust most and listen to when it comes to advice, as well as the ones he'll wake up at 3 AM to go check out this rumor or that shiny thing over there. He's also really good friends with Beat, Sonia, Alice and Poland - he's pretty fluent in Polish at this point and probably passable in Japanese if he managed to badger Gundam into teaching him. In general though, he tries to talk to all the survivors and form bonds with them, having recognized that they'll likely be spending a lot more time together - and with getting home looking more and more impossible each day, they're all he has left.