Board Thread:Legitimate Canon Questions/@comment-13895380-20170114165006/@comment-26879545-20170131001153


 * "If that was the case why didn't he transform like Peter? We've seen a monstrous transformation before in Season 1"

Because that is a form that, according to Jeff Davis in early interviews, all Alphas can use. The Beast is not an Alpha.

Unless you're talking about that "partial shift" where they get a weird ass bony forehead and sunken eyes. In which case, we don't always see Peter or Deuc in that state, so why would you assume Sebastien doesn't have one similar to that? IIRC, they wanted to showcase the Beast as much as they could and between Parrish's "Human Torch" thing and the Beast's shadow body, there wasn't a lot of money in the budget to show every little detail of Sebastien's transformation.

Anyway, like Paul said, Sebastien is literally evil in the purest sense of the word. When he was a human, he slaughtered people without any care as to who his victims were. There were no signs it was him, nobody suspected him (Marcel kept his secret, so he doesn't count). Marie-Jean figured it out after he turned, and even she was surprised it was him. He had everyone (again, not counting Marcel) fooled up until then.

In a meta sense, the "Shadow beast" that the Beast is, could be seen as how he operated under a "shadow." By day, he was sexy charming and kind, but by night, he was slaughtering everyone that happened to pass him by (this is an exaggeration, but it's not far from what actually happened).