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Darkfairytales623 wrote: Okay, I have a question. If Ennis had died from his wounds without the polite help of Deucalion, yes being sarcastic here...would Derek have received some sort of power boost? Is that what you are saying? Because I don't know if I buy that. Unless you want to say, he wasn't of the pack so he wouldn't but then it is getting conoluted. Also, I would have thought we would have seen some sort of sign of Deucalion getting a power surge from Ennis when he killed him.

It is just getting confusing, a beta kills an alpha and becomes an alpha...but an alpha can't kill another alpha and get more power? But an alpha in an alpha pack can kill a member in his pack and receive more power. Just help me to see it more clearly, please. IMO, an alpha can kill another alpha and get more power. An alpha in an alpha pack would take the power in the same manner as an alpha killing an alpha. An alpha cannot kill a beta from another alpha and get the beta's power since it isn't their own beta. I only really began to think of this because of how real wolves interact and the heirarchy of real wolves has seemed to follow the same way in Teen Wolf.

In real wolf society an alpha can beat another alpha and take the beaten one's "power", which in real wolf society means he takes the betas and the territory of the beaten alpha. A beta or an omega can do the same thing, meaning that if they challenge and beat an alpha then they gain the alpha status along with the beaten alphas' "power", i.e. the betas and territory. Even in real wolf societies IF another alpha were to beat a beta that isn't their own then there is no transference of power since a beta has no power or authority to relinquish to the victor.

The other thing that made me sort of feel that this is solidified was in the power of Deucalion. Morrell says that he has killed many ppl in search of his perfect pack. This indicates that he has killed Alphas since he has been busy building an alpha pack. Yes, he killed his betas and was enhanced by their deaths BUT what makes him stronger than the other alphas that have done this same thing? What makes him so easily able to brush aside Jennifer's "force" attack when ALL of the others were effected? Sure you can say it was due to him raising and killing betas over and over, but that would surely take a long time to do.

So why did he begin an Alpha pack? I think it was so that he could kill the weak alphas and take whatever "spark" he could from them. In the case of Ennis or any alphas that were supercharged due to killing their betas, the power would be much greater. This would indeed make him a "demon wolf" and powerful enough that Jennifer had to sacrifice ppl in order to gain enough strength to face him. Imagine an alpha's betas as adding +1 to its' power level when they absorb their betas power, an alpha would be a minimum of say +3, but a supercharged alpha that has absorbed their betas power would be a minimum of say a +5 or more. So Deucalion would stand to gain much more by killing Alphas that joined his pack.

I will admit that it is entirely speculation and opinion though. Also you bring up a good point BUT I still feel that other than that point maybe being correct the rest is true. The point you brought up is about an alpha killing another alpha and taking their power, like what if Derek had been the one to kill Ennis? I think he would have gained Ennis' power BUT if it didn't work THAT way, it does work the way Deucalion sets it up. By having alphas that submit to him, they become his betas to an extent. Maybe this is what makes it work for him IF and assuming that the alpha vs. alpha (Derek vs Ennis) power absorbtion wouldn't work. I still feel like it would though based on real wolf society. Oh well, just IMO. I may be wrong but it will be cool to see how this is all eventually explained, especially what makes Deucalion so much more powerful than any of the others (I don't think his age alone accounts for it, as someone once suggested to me).