Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-25126455-20140711135215/@comment-19765459-20140711203545

Timca wrote:

well its this that doesnt make any sense to me tbh cuz killing and sheer will power and karakter are completely diffrent things.ive read this before in other posts if scott would have killed before he ascended he would never be able to become a true alpha but doesnt add up if u ask me cuz like i said above there is no real logic into the non killing thing cuz doesnt has any thing to do with sheer will if u ask me.sure he takes a diffrent path and chooses not to kill.but for example if peter had the same amount of will power as scott has he could become a true alpha to eventhough he did kill. If u get what im saying Killing changes werewolves in some metaphysical way. This is why their eyes are yellow by default, but turn blue if they have killed. That is why Derek, Peter and even Jackson (who killed as the Kanima) had blue eyes. Derek's eyes changed when he killed Paige, even though doing so was an act of mercy rather than malice.

So it could be argued that killing would have metaphysically tainted Scott in such a way that he was no longer pure enough to become a True Alpha. This is what Deucalion was so ambivalent about. One option he could have taken (and indeed tried to take) was to force Scott into a situation where he would have to kill, and thus could not become a True Alpha, only a regular one (most likely by killing Derek).

This is where the canon gets seriously vague. The Spark always goes from an Alpha to any werewolf that kills them, regardless of relationship. Otherwise, if an Alpha dies through means other than direct murder (as Talia did), it passes to a related person through some unclear path of succession. In this case it went to her oldest child, Laura, as opposed to her brother Peter. Peter killed Laura and took it, then Derek killed Peter and took it.

If Derek were to die (without children), it is unclear what would happen to the Spark. If he were killed, it would go to his killer. Otherwise it would either vanish or pass to someone else through an uncertain path of succession. Although it is generally held that Scott was hallucinating in "Motel California", it was interesting that his eyes were flashing red whenever Derek's life seemed to be hanging by a thread due to his injuries. My fanon thought was that Scott was the most likely person to receive Derek's Spark, since even though he did not acknowledge Derek as his Alpha, all of Derek's Betas (even Boyd) regarded Scott as a de facto leader after Derek.

Thus Scott seemed likely to become an Alpha one way or the other. The real question was what kind of Alpha he would become. The messianic True Alpha or a regular Alpha.