Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-544940-20160226102622/@comment-13965604-20160227050757

AlphaOfAlphas wrote: Mountain Ash is primarily used to protect humans from the supernatural. Scott became a True Alpha from strength of character alone, and it happened when he broke through Mountain Ash. IMO, it would have been awesome if Scott could walk through Mountain Ash ever since then, as it shows that him being a TRUE ALPHA is an exception to the rule, as his strength of character signifies to the supernatural properties of Mountain Ash that he is also a protector of both the natural AND supernatural.

Except that Jeff has consistently tried to tell everyone "no, no, true alpha isn't like werewolf Jesus" which is what that would signify.

The words used were "force of will" i.e. Stubborn. He rose to true alpha-hood because he was stubborn.

True Alpha or not, Scott is still a supernatural himself. Druids can pass it, banshees can pass it. They're the protectors of both.

No matter how you dice it though, whether he looked near death or not, it clearly was no walk in the park to break it the first time. You could see the struggle and pain on his face. And this time he was already wounded and in a bad mental place. It surprises me not that he couldn't break it.