Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-25170268-20150215131937/@comment-26187063-20150309212505

There are a couple of theories my friend and I were throwing around:

1. PARRISH IS A FIRE KITSUNE: which explains why he survived the fire. True, when Kira got hit by the electricity, she absorbed it, but she redirected it at the serial killer first then she started absorbing it right away, before her clothes could get damaged by the lightning, so it is possible that clothes can be damaged we just haven't seen it yet. However, we never saw Parrish's car after the fire, so it is possible he absorbed it (or maybe I just missed that scene); plus, Parrish's eyes glowed the same orange color as Kira's. Also, we have no idea what the range of abilities are for the other 12 Kitsune are, so Parrish could possibly be a Celestial Kitsune (allowing him to survive fire and heat) or an Ocean Kitsune (which could also account for his survival of the fire [maybe he can create water or ice or something]).

2. PARRISH IS A PHEONIX: again, it could explain his survival of the fire as well as his orange eyes. However, part of me considers this less likely because, at least in the lore I'm familiar with, Pheonixes are known for their superior strength, which doesn't explain how he couldn't easily remove the metal rod pinning Argent. But, Pheonixes do appear as "newborns" after their rebirth by fire, and we can assume a newborn Pheonix wouldn't have his supernatural strength right away, so he wouldn't be able to remove the bar so easily.

3. PARRISH IS A SALAMANDER IN HUMAN FORM: I'm surprised how many people who enjoy supernatural creature mythology and history forget about the legendary Salamander. In most lore (which mostly appeared from the 8th century all the way to the 16th century in Europe), the Salamander was a creature that supposedly was born from fire. This is because, back then, Salamanders would hibernate inside rotting logs and people would collect the logs and throw them on the fire, making the Salamanders scamper from the log to escape the fire, causing them to "mysteriously" appear in the flames. People believed that the milky liquid that Salamanders excreted when frightened, which also made them moist, gave the Salamanders the ability to withstand fire. Leonardo Da Vinci even wrote that the Salamander was the elemental of fire and consumed the fire to renew itself (like the Pheonix, or like Parrish might have done, which is why his body appeared burnt). One writer, Paracelsus, believed the Salamander to be similar to humans [except Paracelsus thought they lacked a human soul] (Paracelsus believed that most, if not all, supernatural elemental spirits took human form, something that actually works for the mythos of Teen Wolf).

4. PARRISH IS SOME FORM OF DRAGON: Nothing to say hear that hasn't been said already.

Personally, I'm rooting for number 3: PARRISH IS A SALAMANDER. It just seems the most likely and has the most evidence from mythology and the show to back it up, in my opinion at least.