Board Thread:COMPLETE BULLSHIT Forum/@comment-24447558-20140314211507

I'm going to preface this by saying: I am not the originator of this theory. I found it on Tumblr at the blog "Beacon Hills Theories" and it seems like credit can go to the Tumblr user "Hattie" at yo-scottie.tumblr.com. Also, it doesn't involve everyone being a fox spirit, everyone being descended from Peter Hale, or any amount of baby swapping. It is however speculation based on circumstantial evidence from the series.

Essentially, the theory states that Melissa was Claudia's nurse at the hospital while she was battling frontotemporal dementia. As an act of mercy, Melissa helped Claudia commit suicide via euthanasia with the Sheriff being in on it. However, euthanasia is illegal in California and Agent McCall would likely have felt it his obligation to arrest Melissa for it, but decided to instead just leave and try to act as if it didn't happen... and just not face Melissa.

It's possible Scott would be angry at Melissa because of how Claudia's death affected Stiles, and how for a time, Stiles was really not himself.

But then there's the problem of the fact that Stiles blames himself for Claudia's death. We know this, because at Lydia's party, he hallucinated the sheriff showing up drunk and accusing him of it in front of everything. Well, this theory can also explain that. Stiles has admitted to listening in on conversations, which I think is probably a habit he picked up at a very young age. He might have overheard and knew what was going to happen, but didn't stop it, so he feels guilty.

Yet this doesn't go so far as to explain Stiles' resentment toward Agent McCall. So here's my personal theory on that. I'll admit that I have no basis of evidence for this other than Stiles' character as shown throughout the course of the series and my own reaction to losing my mother.

Stiles is smart. And he's obviously dealt with Claudia's death. As he grew up, he came to understand why Melissa and the Sheriff did what they did and how it was an overall better choice than to allow Claudia to continue suffering and so he forgave them and even came to love Melissa in a sort of familial way.

With the Sheriff working long hours and Claudia sick as Stiles grew up, it's quite possible that Stiles spent many an afternoon/evening at the McCall house until the Sheriff got home and they became a bit of a family, and in fact, he came to view the McCalls (Rafael included) as his family. But in turn, he saw the devastation that Rafael's departure caused and the stress it put on Melissa and Scott, and he, too, lost a parental figure... which was something for which he was unable to forgive Rafael. 