User blog comment:Godechaud/Teen Wolf Werewolves - Always evolving Art to the detriment of good story telling?/@comment-4723271-20160405025820/@comment-26879545-20160407160249

@Tommy:

The partial shift is a standard "second form" for werewolves/werecoyotes. They look like monsters because they technically are. Even if Scott wants to be a patron Saint, he's still a monster, he just doesn't do monstrous things.