Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-4772791-20160123002637/@comment-1757720-20160207144241

HolyDrumstick wrote: I'm personally more concerned with what the Beast is than who.

I get that some think it is only a werewolf, but that doesn't make much sense to me. So, I'm excited to figure out exactly what it is. I have a theory about that, though it could be wrong. My thoughts were that La Bete is the pure bloodline descendant of Lycaon or even one of Lycaon's offspring still alive today, meaning that its either a Pureblood or Primordial Werewolf.

The way I see it, the Dread Doctors upgraded a teenage body with one specific purpose, and that was to contain the essence of the beast. Similar to how... Stiles hosted the Nogitsune. The entire difference is that the Nogitsune was a unique entity that could be exorcised from Stiles, but the Beast is different, as it is drawn into a physical host and isn't a elastic spiritual species to begin with, its hold would be less flexible.