Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-5405024-20140926150016/@comment-150.250.140.116-20140929215144

All speculation from me, but I would go as far as to say Deucalion is the catalyst

I suspect Gerard may have not always been as brutal and unforgiving as he was portrayed in show. Before all the main events, I think he was a hunter who was a stern man but not a genuinenly bad person, but when Deucalion bit his brother, Alexander Argent (I think its his brother), and his brother was forced to kill himself as portrayed in Motel California, Gerard was devastated by his loss and from then on became the brute as he is depicted in the show. The result of Deucalion biting his brother and his brother being forced to kill himself, sparked some of the aforementioned events in this thread such as blinding Deucalion and manipulating Kate to the point where she would burn down the Hale house and all those resulting consequences

All speculation of course but I think its an interesting theory if there were to be one true catalyst to the show, although Gerard did not seem the slightest bit forgiving when Chris' wife Victoria was forced to kill herself, then again that may be a result of Gerard being twisted by his own brother's death, can't say for sure though

Of course you could say it was more of the original hunter's code that forced Alexander Argent to committ suicide, and its hard to say if one thing directly led to another, but I think its interesting nonetheless