Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-16083651-20140722215813/@comment-19765459-20140723184101

LadyX wrote: I hadn't considered that it might've been perceived as Hunter infested land the whole time. Which would given them reason to think the hunters would take care of it.

Exactly. What settled it for me was that Laura, the rightful Hale Alpha, didn't live in Beacon Hills. During this same time period, Deucalion was assembling his Alpha Pack, getting Kali and Ennis to kill their Betas, and Aiden and Ethan to kill their Alpha and the rest of their pack. With no resident Alpha in Beacon Hills offering any kind of protection, stray Betas and Omegas were unlikely to move there given the known Hunter presence, which they would effectively be on their own against.

Word apparently got around about a "powerful new Alpha, one of the Hale's" to the extent that Cora learned of it. But it was probably talk of Peter, who was powerful, but definitely not sane. By the time he was killed, the Hunter presence was growing. Derek was an ineffectual Alpha, having never planned to have the job. Other werewolves keeping track of the situation might have noted this and decided he wasn't someone to rally behind, which is why he started Biting outcast teenagers rather than recruiting existing werewolves.

On the flip-side, there aren't enough Hunters to cover all of California. So if they were focused on Beacon Hills, then that means they were less focused elsewhere. There was no indication that the Hunters had any leads on Deucalion and the Alpha Pack, probably because they were pouring all their resources into Beacon Hills itself.

Now there's a vacuum. Apparently with the collapse of the Argent branch of the Hunters, the Calavera's are extending their involvement north of the border. If Scott weren't an imbecile he could probably counter that by telling his father that they're a drug cartel or gun runners or something else the Feds would take interest in. Agent DB would probably love to have some non-myserious criminals he could just bust

Otherwise, Scott has a spotty record, and other werewolves may be debating what to do about him. On the one hand he is the mythical "True Alpha" (whatever that means). On the other hand, he has already gotten one Beta (Aiden) killed, at least as far as observing werewolves would see it. His other Betas (Isaac and Ethan), have left him (one of them with a Hunter!), also not points in his favor. This could lead to a lot of werewolves circling, trying to decide whether the town is a refuge now or not.