Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-25222572-20150805153239/@comment-13965604-20150806125705

I don't consider Peter a true sociopath, not in the 100% way. He cares about his family. He cared about Cora when there was no one around to see it except the camera(and if he was doing it for the camera it broke the forth wall which isn't a teen wolf thing) and I. Going to say again, Peter isn't a sociopath any way. He fits the psychopath mindset. Sociopaths don't plot and have long games, psychopaths do.

But regardless, I still feel that he does care about people. Some people. What he did to Scott last season was planned. He sat back and watched how Scott led, devised a plan because Scott wasn't Alpha-ing for the best of the Pack, everything we've ever seen Peter do was for Pack at the end of it. Killing Laura? She wasn't getting retribution for the Pack. All the people in s1? Retribution for the Pack. Helping the Pack when trouble came along. The only truly selfish thing he did was bring himself back from the dead, which could still be taken back to 'have to protect myself, the pack will need me.' he has problems, but at the base of it he's all for Pack. He attacked Scott because his plan to get the Alpha away from him and into better hands (even if he wrongly thought those were his own) and he wanted to finally make Scott do something that he WILL have to do, or the Pack is going to fall.

I'm not trying to woobie him, or justify everything. But he was an already at least somewhat sick twenty something based on what we saw in Visionary, then the trauma of the fire happened because, in his mind, no one listened to him, and it threw him off the deep end.

TLDR: Peter isn't a true psychopath, he cares about Pack, and I firmly believe he could feel guilt over killing someone.