Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-24732895-20160411234226/@comment-26879545-20160513120617

Wri-El wrote: Just one thing @Honestlycynical.

I keep reading you talk about this Alpha spark. What spark? There's power. It's as simple as that.

I'm just pointing this out, because you kinda make it seem like everyone has the potential to become True Alphas, but because of their choices they became just Alphas. If that is so, then Scott was lucky (or unlucky) beyond measure. Wrong. The Alpha spark is a real thing that is referenced by the show itself. Like Gode said, Peter mentions it when he and Derek look for a way to cure Cora. He mentions that an Alpha's eyes are red because of the extra spark they have that gives them more power; and that he could use that spark to heal someone. But to heal someone using that spark was dangerous because, at the best case, they'd lose the spark and their Alpha status, while at the worst case, they'd die.

So there's power and a spark. It's that simple.

From what was said on the show (True Alphas being rare and only seen once every hundred or so years), we can assume that not everyone is "True Alpha" potential.


 * "Teen Wolf werewolfs seem to follow in some ways the rules of normal packs of wolfs. Where there's the Alpha couple, the Betas and the Omega. And just like in normal packs of wolfs the Alpha status isn't something assured. Just like in Teen Wolf, most likely the packs work in a similar way. And as we seen so far, the normal way of doing things is by becoming a Beta, defeat the Alpha and then take his or her power."

The difference between Teen Wolf packs (disregarding the fact that one is actual animals and the others are technically monsters) and real wolf packs is that there's no "Alpha couple." Each pack shown so far only had one Alpha. In the Alpha pack's case, Deucalion was the Alpha of Alphas.

In Teen Wolf, Omegas are lone wolves who either left their pack, had their pack destroyed, or were kicked out of the pack. They are also seen as lower than low and to be referenced as the "Omega of the pack" is an insult. In a real wolf pack, the Omega, while being the bottom of the ladder, is also the one that breaks tension via playfulness. They also play in important role in the pack. If an Omega left their pack, then the pack that lost the Omega would go into a grief/mourning period.

While Teen Wolf may base their pack structure on real world wolf packs, they do take creative liberty with it.


 * "So in truth there is no spark. If Scott has a "spark", then that spark is more linked to his personality and what he is. If there's a spark, it's the spark to get beaten down and always get back up. To never give up on his friends. To do what is right regardless of the cost it has on him. So this so called spark would have nothing to do with him being a werewolf, he could be a werepanther or a werecoyote and still the spark would be there, not because of what he was, but who he is."

I already proved otherwise above, but, to reiterate, you're wrong. There is a spark, and the show made a point of telling us this. He gained that spark through force of will and strength of character; rather than killing someone to get it. That is how a True Alpha comes to be. That is also stated in the show, BTW.

Disregarding your little speech on getting beat down, because that is not what the spark is, at all, the spark has everything to do with him being a werewolf. Beta/Omega werewolves only have the one spark. That's why they can leech pain, their eyes glow, they can "beta shift," etc. Alphas have already been stated to have an extra spark. It's why their eyes are red and they have more power.

He's a werewolf because he was... normal. He was bitten by a werewolf and he wasn't a murderous psychopath. We don't know why Kate became a Werejaguar (Sebastien was even more of a murdering psychopath and he was a werewolf); we calk it up to "the form you take reflects who you are." Also, we only know that, at this point, Werecoyotes can only be born. If they decide to introduce an Alpha werecoyote, then we can talk about someone being changed into a werecoyote.