Board Thread:Legitimate Canon Questions/@comment-26435654-20150526095147/@comment-26601629-20150716160357

LadyX wrote: I'm saying he would no longer be the Deucalion we knew. The shift has constantly been shown to be affected by your mental state, examples being Jackson, Peter, and Derek. If his mental state changed, that may very well change his shift.

If you're interested in seeing the meta I've adopted as my headcanon its http://bold-sartorial-statement.tumblr.com/post/118557338343/no-but-hear-me-out That post is a very good deduction from the author, but it is guilty of something, picking things that suit the point she wants to make. I'm not saying she's wrong or right, but what i'm saying is, that part of the brains primary function behaviour's aimed towards a goal, if that part was damaged, he'd be unable to have a goal or focus on achieving a goal, all of this which is untrue about deucalion, he was able to convince other alpha's to kill their packs and attain the goal of creating the alpha pack. He was also shown to have planned for most things in the season 3a, wasn't there a point where they said he's always been several steps ahead. That is someone who is goal-driven. While that was a good article, but it's like you're writing a scientific paper, but only take results that support your thesis into account and discard the rest.

Anyways, healing his eyesight definetly changed his personality, it didn't make any sense, because decualion was never angry that he was blind, that just acted as a factor that pushed him to be power-hungry. Plus he could see as a wolf. But you're right healing his sight did change his personality to some degree(as we see he has no problems Killing), but he did send Braeden to save Derek, so there's that.

I'd think their personality more than their mental state, was what was said to "determine their shift". Strange since peter has always been manipulative and power hungry, and had a normal shift all through his life, until he became an alpha(story starts), Liam had/has IED which is a mental state, but had a normal shift.