Board Thread:Legitimate Canon Questions/@comment-26179634-20150113200437/@comment-25222572-20150121131105

I don't necessarily think either of them are "evil" per se. I dislike/pity Kate, but that's less about her actions, more about her motivations. The only reason she does these things, is because her psychopathic father twisted her when she was a child, made her see things his way (which is essentially that the only real sin is NOT to kill something when the opportunity presents itself). She's a messed up little daddy's girl, who never worked out that he didn't give two craps about her.

Peter, on the other hand, his actions are almost entirely motivated from two sources: his sense of self-preservation, and his duty and loyalty to the Hale Family. He's borderline sociopathic, but he's also always shown to care deeply about his family, and their name.

In S1, he was avenging his family's horrific, unprovoked murders, and taking out the anger and frustration he felt at being the only one to see it coming (as we learnt in S4). In S2, he returned, and honestly, the only thing he did for the next season and a bit was advise Derek. He was ignored, for the most part, which is probably why he was so eager to get Derek to sacrifice his Alpha Spark. After that, you could see he was beginning to scheme again, but as we've learnt, AGAIN, it was all about his family. Derek was a failure as an Alpha, Scott was an embarassment, an insult to the Hale legacy, and Peter wanted to take over, do things his way (which, oddly enough, would probably result in less innocent people dying overall, than Scott's more naive approach).

Kate....she murdered the Hale's for pretty much zero reason (seemingly to impress Daddy) and then went around trying to murder the Scoobies because Allison died, and also somehow she thought that she, a werejaguar, could rebuild the Argent's, a family of Hunters, if she just learned to control her tendency to snap and kill people impulsively on a full moon.

Peter's motivations are fairly understandable and even relateable (to an extent). He wants his family to be important again, he wants their legacy to be honoured, and he wants to protect his home.....even if that means killing anyone and everything that threatens it. In horribly violent ways.

Kate's motivations.....are just sad. Really quite pathetic. She's just so utterly hopeless, that her ability to kill people is really the only thing she has going for her.....

So.....which is more evil? Not sure, but Kate's definitely worse. She's delusional, in addition to homicidal. At least Peter's.....relatively sane?