Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-4772791-20160123002637/@comment-27547895-20160207185139

Blaid wrote: HolyDrumstick wrote: I'm personally more concerned with what the Beast is than who.

I get that some think it is only a werewolf, but that doesn't make much sense to me. So, I'm excited to figure out exactly what it is. I have a theory about that, though it could be wrong. My thoughts were that La Bete is the pure bloodline descendant of Lycaon or even one of Lycaon's offspring still alive today, meaning that its either a Pureblood or Primordial Werewolf.

The way I see it, the Dread Doctors upgraded a teenage body with one specific purpose, and that was to contain the essence of the beast. Similar to how... Stiles hosted the Nogitsune. The entire difference is that the Nogitsune was a unique entity that could be exorcised from Stiles, but the Beast is different, as it is drawn into a physical host and isn't a elastic spiritual species to begin with, its hold would be less flexible. I also have my theories.

Basically, I think it was a werewolf known as the Demon Tailor, as suspected by Scott and Stiles. However, we also know that it was the Beast of Gevaudan, at a much later date.

The Japanese mythology I'm about to talk about is a quick down and dirty, not exact details. If you wish to correct me on something, that is fine. Just don't suggest that I was showing the entire picture here, in the first place.

I personally think that the Demon Tailor "came back" by some means. Yokai and Oni are sometimes similar in Japanese mythology, so it is possible for Teen Wolf to borrow some from yokai, and apply it to the Oni. It is also possible for them to introduce yokai, but I don't think they'd do this at the last minute.

So, to bring it to my point, some legends say that a human with "unresolved issues" or hate for mankind can become yokai after death. They can kind of haunt like a demon/ghost, but they are often more powerful than western ghosts. They are also more than just apparitions, and can be as solid as a living person, in some cases. So, if we applied this to the Demon Tailor, and say that he was a werewolf that came back as a yokai (altered to Oni for the sake of the Teen Wolf universe)... he'd be a kind of Oni-werewolf hybrid. The  Beast of Gevaudan. Now, we can also guess that there may be more to the story, and this could have been done through deliberate means to ressurrect him.

But, being oni-werewolf could explain the Beast's appearance. (The Beast's shape is made of solid shadows cloaking the host, not an actual transformation, according to Jeff Davis.)  It could explain the reason the  Beast of Gevaudan had a weakness to silver (Oni characteristic). It could explain why the current Beast is only active at night (Oni characteristic). And this could all explain why the Dread Doctors were tinkering with chimeras to begin with. If they wanted to bring the Beast back to life, but needed a compatible host, they'd try to match the physical make-up. If they knew it was more than just werewolf, but weren't sure what exact mix the  Beast of Gevaudan was, they'd keep trying chimeras until they found a "success."

So, my theory is that the  Beast of Gevaudan is the Demon Tailor, somehow returned from the dead, making it part Oni-ish. This made the Beast of Gevaudan werewolf, but also something a bit more. And this is why the Dread Doctors were trying to use chimera hosts from the start... to find a match for a second resurrection.

Feel free to discuss this theory...

As far as WHO the Beast is. Again, I don't think that's as important as WHAT.