Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-64.231.137.240-20140709221435/@comment-19765459-20140710213844

This is why Derek was not a very good Alpha in the first place. He never wanted be one, and never expected to be one. The Hale House fire wasn't that long ago. His mother Talia was not old by any stretch of the imagination, and Derek's older sister Laura was the next in line. That he might ever become an Alpha was not something that crossed his mind and he was never happy with the responsbility.

Killing Boyd did nothing but cause him to feel (still more) guilt, rather than giving him an addiction to power. As was the case with Scott and Ethan, Deucalion had a hard time understanding that not everyone saw killing as casually as he did. Deucalion killed for convenience, pleasure and power. So did Kali and Ennis. Aiden and Ethan were more innocent, having killed their pack because their pack was evil and had abused them. Ethan at least still seemed to feel guilty about it, and about Boyd, which is why he switched sides at the end of 3a.

Likewise, forcing Derek to kill Boyd did not have the expected effect. It didn't make him more bloodthirsty, it just made him more convinced that being an Alpha sucks and that the power is not worth the price.