Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-4091815-20150711180618/@comment-13895380-20150714164217

Paul.rea wrote: Godechaud wrote:

Paul.rea wrote:

Godechaud wrote: Jeff's answer actually pisses me off, because it's no answer. I too want to see Scott unleash his true power! What if there is no "true power" to unleash?

Consider for a moment that everything we've seen Scott do, walking through mountain ash etc., is not a function of the label but because of who he already is, his willpower and inner-strength.

It is a chicken and egg scenario - walking through Mountain Ash wasn't because he is a True Alpha - he's a True Alpha because he had the willpower to walk through Mountain Ash.

Maybe stop thinking about this as a Pokemon power up, that Scott is somehow a new creature, and instead use Green Lantern as the closest parallel. The stronger the willpower the stronger a Lantern's green-light constructs.

Scott makes Scott powerful - not a label. I get your point, but still. If there's nothing more to it than: "he didn't have to steal the alpha status from someone else", what's the point of the whole true alpha thing? His moral superiority? Kind of boring don't you think? Actually the green lantern parallel would confirm my theory... "Normal alphas" have great but limited powers but a true alpha can bend the "rules" if his will is strong enough, meaning that he is actually capable of far greater things than a normal alpha if he puts his mind into it... Furthermore there is no consistancy... Why would Deucalion, the Demon Wolf, fear Scott's abilities? There must be something there, no? It does not make a lot of sense to me otherwhise. Another thing that's not really related to this thread which is another example of inconsistancy on this show is when Deaton told Scott that a beta of his own making could steal his powers... In Season 1, Derek told Scott that to reverse the effects of the bite, Scott has to kill the Alpha who bit him. Don't get me wrong... I love the show, but this permanent contradictions irritate me. I never read that much into titles. Demon Wolf was just self-hype. True Alpha just means the potential emerges naturally from the individual. I never expected it to come with a cape or a crown of thorns.

Much has been made of Deucalion "fearing" Scott. But Morrell described his psychology as far more complicated than that as it relates to Scott.

The beta thing is natural. What would happen to the True Alpha's pack if he died? It would seem, from what they're saying, the power would go to a beta of his own making.

Scott CAN do things that others can't, like pushing through the Mountain Ash, but it is incredibly hard and, in his words, almost killed him. He did it because he had the will to try and would do anything to save his friends. Are you sure the "Demon Wolf" title is self-hype?

"In a few hours, they'll be dead, and I won't even need a Lunar Eclipse to kill A Demon Wolf" - Jennifer

It seems like there are other Demon Wolves, as she used "a" instead of "the". We all know that there have been True Alphas before Scott, so it's not far-fetched that there were Demon Wolves before Deucalion. I think that like a True Alpha, a Demon Wolf is a rare and powerful werewolf form, except that where the True Alpha gets his power through morality, the Demon Wolf gets his power through bloodlust. They are antithesis to each other. Deucalion is a foil to Scott - the moral man going down the wrong path, something that Scott was strong enough not to do, and thus was rewarded the Alpha status through his will.

(This is not fan fiction. This is not fact. This is speculation. Please don't delete.)

Scott and Derek literally threatened Deucalion, as if Scott was suddenly stronger than Deucalion since he become a True Alpha. I'm sure that Deucalion's intimidation was physical.

I get your point, Paul.rea. Scott is a True Alpha because of how special he is, not the other way around. But the title of the True Alpha essentially emcompasses all those who are that special, that they can become an Alpha just through willpower and morality.

For example, if there are a group of guys able to become an Alpha on their own, and we call them True Alphas, we get that it is their individual strength that allows them to become an Alpha on their own, not the title, but we can say that True Alphas are Alphas of their own making, because we wouldn't call them a True Alpha otherwise.

The same thing could be said for the other special things Scott could do, but no normal Alpha and the show could do as well. Yes, Scott could, for example, break through the Mountain Ash barrier because he's awesome, but it may be characteristic of a True Alpha, as other True Alphas may have done it before him, not because of the title, but because they are a once-in-a-millennium talent as well. Another example is that only a beta of Scott's own making could take Scott's powers, but how could we know that if nobody has killed him? Cause that is probably the case with True Alphas in general.

We're basically saying that someone that special who could hold the title of a True Alpha would have special talents, and it is not just because we call them a True Alpha.

And TBH, there has to be SOMETHING special about him besides the whole morality thing, for him to be such a big deal. :P