Caitlin

“	Caitlin: "I'm Caitlin." Stiles: "Caitlin? Oh my God, you're Caitlin. [...] You and your girlfriend, she's--" Caitlin: "She died. Yeah." Stiles: "Are you okay?" Caitlin: "Yeah! I'm really drunk!	”
	— Caitlin and Stiles in Illuminated

Caitlin is a character that was introduced during Season 3 of MTV's Teen Wolf. She is a young bisexual teen, and was in a relationship with Emily until she was killed in the woods.

In Fireflies Caitlin and her girlfriend Emily, have decided to camp out in the Beacon Hills Preserve. She is inside the tent and has lit several candles to set the mood, after finishing with the candles, Caitlin asks her girlfriend if she's coming. Emily tells her that there's a gigantic snake out there, so Caitlin advises her to kick it but when Emily refuses, Caitlin suggest that she jumps over it, shes does and runs into the tent. They begin to kiss, Caitlin senses that Emily is nervous, Emily explains that Caitlin makes her nervous, she wonders if this is a good thing or bad thing, Emily assures her its a good thing. They notice a large bug on the tent, killing the mood, she knocks it off with her hand and they start kissing again, as she kisses her girlfriend on the neck, Emily screams really loud, Caitlin looks up and notices all the bugs on the outside of their tent.

She attempts to calm Emily down but she fails as Emily runs off into the preserve screaming. Caitlin goes chasing after her, calling out Emily's name several times but receives no response, she then becomes worried and runs back to the campsite. She calls out Emily's name but once again, she gets no response; however, moments later, a monstrous looking girl comes from out of the woods towards her. Then three guys appear, they get into an altercation with the girl and they chase her away, one of the guys approaches her, asking if she's okay, Caitlin says yes and he tells her to get out of the woods as fast as she can. She calls the Beacon County Sheriff's Station and reports the attack, at the preserve, she is questioned by Dpt. Graeme and Sheriff Stilinski, she explained to them that the girl had glowing eyes, fangs and claws.

They asked her if she may be under the influence, she tells them that her and Emily split a tab of ecstasy, Stilinski suggest that she didn't really see what she thought she did as MDMA drugs can cause hallucinations. They prepared to take her to the hospital and she asks about the other three guys, Graeme tells her that they'll need better descriptions. While at Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital, she is questioned by Stiles Stilinski, he wants to know why they were out there, Caitlin explains that they wanted to be alone, and were together for three months and they wanted Emily's first time to be romantic.

In Illuminated, Caitlin attends the rave at Derek's loft, it's there where she runs into Stiles and kisses him on the cheek; however, at that moment, neither one of them recognizes the other. It isn't until they run into each other again that they remember. Stiles asks how she's been doing since Emily died, Caitlin replies that she's fine and really drunk, she then asks Stiles to dance. A little later, she grabs a drink for the both of them and they sit on the spiral staircase, Stiles pulls out his keys to use the bottle opener attached to it and she notices that it has phosphors on it. She and Stiles then start to kiss but he said that thought she liked girls, Caitlin agrees and says she likes boys too, she asks Stiles of he likes boys but he gets uncomfortable and doesn't answer.

They continue to kiss but Stiles interrupts the kiss, asking what is phosphors. She tells him that it's any substance that luminesse, it's in their teeth, finger nails, laundry detergent, etc. Stiles then realizes something and at that moment has to leave, he explains that he doesn't want to offend her but he really needs to go. Before leaving, he hands Caitlin a bottle of water, telling her to drink it, and she does.

Appearances[]

Season 3

Fireflies
Illuminated

Etymology[]

Caitlin is the Irish version of the Old French name Cateline [katlin], which comes from Catherine, which in turn comes from the Ancient Greek Αἰκατερίνη (Aikaterine). Catherine is attributed to St. Catherine of Alexandria. Along with the many other variants of Catherine, it is generally believed to mean "pure" because of its long association with the Greek adjective καθαρός katharos (pure), though the name did not evolve from this word.^[1]