Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-98.87.38.84-20140731045322/@comment-25267424-20140908035600

Grahamburglar wrote: Myveltka wrote: 99.103.118.238 wrote:

Grahamburglar wrote: ....Stiles wasn't a "werefox". He was a thousand year old nogitsune. A nogitsune is a werefox that happens to be evil. Derek said it was one. The phrase "werefox" is never spoken on the show.

The Nogitsune is a trickster spirit, and in Japanese mythology, it is symbolically represented by a fox, because they are known for being sly and clever in folk stories. It is said that it takes the shape of a fox before taking on the shape of a human (I think Kitashi says this?).

But it's still a spirit, not a real fox.

I think people are once again trying to apply strength labels to specific creatures on the show, and it really doesn't work that way.

I think Kate is a strong shapeshifter because she grew up with knowledge of fighting and hunting, and this is reflected in her abilities as a werejaguar. Jaguars are known to be excellent hunters, but they don't work in packs. Perhaps this will be her downfall. I wonder if that's why Kate's put together this tiny band of berserkers. Her expertise as a hunter would have been with wolves, which do work in packs, and now she finds she's a creature that doesn't have that added bonus?

That's pretty much baseless speculation. Whatever. :P My theory is kind of like that. Maybe the berserker folklore is somehow tied to South America/Aztec lore, and it's possible that when Kate realized what she was, she went looking for more information about werejaguars and stumbled across the berserker lore as well.

We saw several times in season 1 where Kate was working with some little hunter cronies, maybe she just likes having henchman around and berserkers were a way of asserting control over the situation (since she didn't have much control in becoming a werejaguar or controlling her own shift).

Also, side note, they keep referring to werejaguars as south american lore, but they keep going to Mexico. Mexico is in NORTH america people.