Talk:Kanima (Beacon Hills)/@comment-68.117.248.212-20120623212331

What we know so far about the Kanima's personality:

--it has killed 3 people, all aggresive, type-A males.

--it didn't kill Stiles the first time he saw it.

--The second time Stiles encounters it, it doesn't attack him at first, and only knocks Erica out. Question: Erica was lying there next to the pool for a decent period of time--why didn't the Kanima kill her?

--When Stiles tries to go for his phone, the Kanima tries to stop him/scare him away from it--we already know that it probably doesn't want to kill him, so it must have known what a cellphone was used for, and known who Stiles was trying to call. This implies that it knows who Scott really is. That rules out everyone except for the werewolves, the hunters, Stiles, and Jackson. It also implies that the Kanima knows what werewolves are, since it seems to be afraid of Scott coming to help, and doesn't bat an eye when he arrives. The werewolves have all been seen with the Kanima except for Boyd and Isaac, and the locations of Allison, Gerard, and Jackson were all known at the time of the pool incident. None of them can be the Kanima, and neither can Lydia, since she doesn't know that Scott is a werewolf (though she may subconsciously know what werewolves are after her encounter with Peter).

--The Kanima appears to hold a special grudge against Derek--it clearly ignored Erica just to attack Derek, and stuck around until Scott showed up to try to kill him.

--The Kanima is obviously repulsed by the fact that it's a shapeshifter.

--The Kanima knows the location of the Hale house, and has visited it at least once--possibly in an attempt to find Derek.

This really only leaves us with 4 options as to the identity of the Kanima.

1. Allison's dad. Unlikely--he doesn't come across as the type to go around slaughtering innocent people; despite being a killer, he operates on a strict code of rules that would not allow him to kill the mechanic or Isaac's dad, much less one of his own hunters. Also, Chris has no special quarrel with Derek, and currently has no motive for hunting him down.

2. Victoria Argent--Allison's mom. More likely; her personality matches that of the Kanima, and she's not part of the Argent family by blood, meaning we really have no idea where her ancestors came from, or what they were. The only real problem is that she would probably also not go around killing innocent humans, and even if she did, she has no motivation for sparing Stiles.

3. Peter Hale. Very unlikely, since he's A. dead, and B. a werewolf. He also is more of a killer-with-a-code type, only killing those he believed to be involved in his family's murder in Season 1. (Aside from the guy in the bus to get Scott on his side, and his niece to become an alpha--both attacks still had the same ultimate purpose: to aid him in achieving his revenge). He would have a reason to hate Derek, since Derek killed him, but I doubt that he would actively hunt him down for it before going after the hunters again. Needless to say, I would be severely dissapointed if they decide to re-use the old villain from Season 1.

4. Kate Argent. unlikely, since I don't think the writers would have thought of it, but it makes perfect sense. It's implied that she and Derek shared a relationship in the past, so it's possible that at some point he may have accidentally scratched her with his claws, or something, and gotten a little bit of shapeshifter-genes into her system. Her own family's unique genes may be geared to reject the virus, but in her case, it may have mutated, resulting in what Derek describes as a Kanima with a little something wrong with it. Her death may have been the final catalyst that the virus needed to change her into a Kanima.

It makes sense, because the first thing on her mind would be revenge against the werewolves, and she'd go after the alpha first. Being recently ressurected, she may have been confused, and unwittingly attacked people in some way associated with the werewolves who exhibit signs of alpha-male behavior. Isaac was being watched by Derek: his house probably reeked of werewolf, which would be why his dad was targeted. Stiles and his jeep smelled like werewolf, too, which would be why the mechanic was killed, but Kate knows who Stiles is, and knows he isn't a werewolf, so she wouldn't kill him. Finally, the hunter obviously had been hunting werewolves for a long time, and had recently interacted with Allison, who would smell a little bit like Scott. Combined with the darkness and the fact that the hunter was standing near Derek's old hideout, it would have been reasonable to assume that the hunter was Derek, too.

Also, Kate would be horrified to learn that she had become what she hated the most, which would explain her shock at seeing her own reflection.

I would love to see Kate as the Kanima, but it'll probably just end up being Victoria or Lydia (which would make no sense, but they've set it up for it, so it's possible).