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Bennett89 wrote: I agree they didn't mention his father at all to make Talia seem extremely powerful and influencial. Im curious though are the Hales actually Matriarchal or was she just the Matriarch, and then for example if Derek was next in line would he be the Patriarch. As far as I know only the Argents have been confirmed as Matriarchal but I could be wrong.

Yes, the Argents are the only confirmed Matriarchal family. I was curious about that as well, but, who knows if we'll ever get that back story (I hope we do in one form or another).

Aswin MK wrote: @THeRealalpha and Bennett89: I agree with your points that they didn't discuss Derek's father to place the focus on Talia Hale. BUt they should have atleast mentioned him. Afterall, the Hale Family is one of the focal points of the show and yet the father of a key character is not even mentioned. Hell, they even mentioned the name of the girl (Braeden) that saved Isaac, yet didn't even mention Derek's dad.

Anyways, my point is that I hope they discuss it in 3B. I assume that Derek's dad is human because there is no other way that his family can have human members as 1) Talia's pack consists purely of family members (Werewolves) and 2) It has been mentioned consistently that the Hale family (Talia's family) has always comprised werewolves and not humans. Not necessarily, he doesn't have to be mentioned until he's important to the story, and so far he hasn't been because they told us that Talia was the Alpha and the one that people came to for guidance. If it was Papa Hale, i'm sure we would've heard a lot about him and nothing about Talia.

We don't exactly know how the wolf genes work, they could be recessive or dominant, we don't know very much about that at all. Also, family doesn't necessarily mean they're all related. We know Peter calls Talia his sister, but that could be because they are bilogical brother and sister or someone he views as a sister because they were so close. For me, at least, I consider my friends my family and I treat them like I would brothers and sisters.

In short, we don't know much about how the Hales work, we know very little back story and most of it is recent.