Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-108.81.117.0-20140621033607/@comment-6383956-20140629062517

It's a strength boost, sure, but we see in Motel California that there is something of a cost. The hallucinations the other werewolves have are all things that are constantly going on for them just intensified -- Isaac's trauma from his abuse, Boyd's guilt over what happened to Alicia, Scott's worries about the people he cares about (most specifically his mother) now that he's involved in all the dangerous supernatural stuff. None of that was created by the wolfsbane.

And then we have Ethan, who feels like he's got someone or something else inside him. Unlike Boyd and Scott, Ethan never tries to kill himself, he just tries to cut it out. I don't think that's Aiden he wants to saw away, I'm pretty sure it's Voltron Wolf.

So, basically, that was a really long way of saying that there's a reason not to take the strength boost at every opportunity.

I think, in general, you guys are making this more complex than it needs to be. Like, we don't know if they killed their Betas or not (it depends on if they killed their Alpha before the rest of the pack or not -- if they did then the rest of the pack became their Betas.) And we don't really know enough about how the whole Alpha-spark-healing thing works to say whether or not its even possible for it to work healing the Alpha himself (or herself), or if it can be used subconsciously (cause, y'know, they were unconscious) rather than willfully (when Derek did it to Cora he had to concentrate really hard, after all). I'm not saying any of your ideas are wrong or impossible by any means, I'm just saying I think my theory may be a little simpler and involve less conjecture. :P

And don't worry, the only time I would tear someone's head off over headcanons is if they were insisting on them even though the canon blatantly said it was wrong. (Like, if someone walked in here and said they could merge because they were actually kitsune not werewolves..... that I might tear someone's head off for. :P) I am really enjoying this discussion, personally.