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I wished something like this had happened in canon. I like Theo and Liam's friendship, but it needed a better development, as did Theo's empathy and everything else about him, and this would be an amazing way to do that! Theo getting closer to what was left of his pack and through that develop his empathy, then eventually becoming friends with Liam and others, expanding his social circle and creating a better future for himself would have been an amazing story!

"Part two is missing. :/" // Damn it, Tumblr! What I had said was that maybe a reason why Theo stayed is because a part of him craved human connection, and the closest thing he had to that was with Liam. That bond grewn further during 6B, but I think just the fact Liam was around was enough for him to stay at least close to BH. That's how much I think he craved for an emotional bond. So even if he left, I think he would in BH's vicinity, and come back to fight the hunters, for Liam and himself.

Ah, ok. Well… I never saw that connection between Liam and Theo. I can totally see them being allies but that’s about it. What would’ve made sense for me is if Theo stayed for Corey and Hayden, tho. They were his pack, after all, and a storyline where Theo fought for them or made it up to them? Yes, 100%. Instead, the writers didn’t even give them a single scene together. Everything else? Nope, not good enough for me to have Theo stick around

TW Ep. 2x09 meta *spoilers*

The newest episode of Teen Wolf has sent me reeling. From the very beginning, I knew it was going to be an intense episode that changes everything. How? The triskele. We first saw it in season one on Derek's back, but has it ever been explained? It has here on Tumblr, but not on the show until today, iirc. I have read some wonderfully detailed blogs about it here, so when Derek started talking about it my heart leapt. "Hey! I know this!" I thought. But then he started talking about how omegas can become alphas and alphas can become omegas, and I knew some major shit was about to go down. To save your dashboards, my huge meta is behind a cut tag. Click and enjoy. ^^;

Then we had the interactions between Lydia and Peter, and the conversation between Allison and Lydia. She was as beautiful as ever, but something had changed. She was different. Intense. Inscrutable. Dark. Jealous. Peter knew all the right buttons to push and Lydia has been dragged into his darkness to become her tortured little puppet. But he was right. Her friends don't tell her ANYTHING and that will be their downfall.

Let's talk about her party. I felt devastated for Lydia when no one showed up to her party but the trio. Then it made me feel all kinds of validated when Allison said, "She wouldn't be the town wackjob if it weren't for us." How true is that?! So Scott brings in the lacrosse team and Stiles... who does he bring in? The gay community. If that's not appropriate I don't know what is.

But then we got to the hallucinations and things got serious. Here we have everyone's fears laid bare: Allison is terrified of being weak. She's disgusted by herself every time she shows the slightest sign of weakness. So what does she do? She kills that part of herself. From what we've seen of the next episode, those feelings may contribute to her desire for vengeance against Derek. While I'm sure her family will tell her it's all Derek's fault, she should damn well know better by now. She is letting her fear get the better of her and killing Derek will not bring her mother back. All it will do is drive Scott away and bring her one step closer to becoming her evil, manipulative, psychotic aunt Kate. But hey, she'll have shown herself that she's not weak, so it's all good, right? e_e

Stiles' hallucination revealed what many of us have suspected for a while now. He blames himself for everything, including his mother's death. He's terrified that he's ruining his father's life, that deep down his father must resent him, must hate having to raise him on his own, must hate having a hyperactive kid with ADD for a son. By this point I was rather certain that he was hallucinating, but the scene still broke my heart. Poor Stiles. To blame yourself for your own mother's death? That would be the weight of the world on your shoulders, impossible to bear.

Then there's Jackson's hallucination. Although we know he has never said, "I love you." since he was five and it was revealed that he was adopted, he seems horrified to find his parents looking for him. It seems pretty clear that he's terrified of the unknown his parents represent. Of not knowing who they are, and therefore not knowing whoheis. Once the hallucination has passed, he is so shaken that his face is visibly sunken with vulnerability and pain.  This character who I thought I would hate? This bully? This egomaniac? He has no idea who he is. He's alone. He's scared. This makes the fact that he's being used even more heartbreaking.

Of all the hallucinations, I find Scott's to be the least interesting. He's afraid that his girlfriend is going to cheat on him? Blah. Okay, so maybe he's actually afraid of betrayal. I like that better. It's clear that Allison is headed in that direction. The show is putting so much distance between them right now. When Allison fogged up the window, Scott had left her no messages. When Stiles advised him to apologize, he refused. If there isn't some major fallout coming between them, I will be shocked.

In Derek's world, everything is a terrible mess. He's doing everything in his power to protect his pack from themselves, to stop them from killing with reckless abandon. He tells Scott he can feel that this full moon is going to be a rough one but Scott leaves him alone to deal with the pack.

Scott asks Derek to open up, says that he expected there to be no secrets now that he was part of Derek's pack, but Derek is still protecting Scott, even now that he's recovered and is in no apparent danger. Derek has proven that he will be there for Scott, but when Lydia cripples him and is dragging his immobilized body into the charred, hollow shell of his family home, draining him of his alpha status and bringing the uncle who killed his sister (and tried to kill him) back from the dead, where is Scott? Sensing Derek's danger and rushing in to save him, to repay Derek for saving his life mere hours ago? No. He's being a jealous wolf, letting Matt creep on his girl, drinking hypno-punch and gaping at Matt while JACKSON pulls the drowning kanimaster out of the pool. In the end,Isaacwas the only person Derek had to help him on yet another "worst night ever" in a string of nightmares that make up Derek's tortured, miserable existence.

Does Scott fail Derek because Derek refused to tell him all his secrets? Is it because he's a teenage boy with tunnel vision? Can he not sense Derek's need? Or does he just not care? In the end, all Derek has is a new beta pup whose anchor is the love of a father who long ago stopped caring for him and started beating and imprisoning him in an old refrigerator. But even with his new-found control, Isaac can't help him because the one who's caring for him now has to do so by imprisoning him for his own safety and that of his pack. No matter what is coming in the next episode, the only thing I think is certain is that everyone is majorly fucked.

Remember when Deucalion said he only had to get Derek to kill one of his own pack, because then Derek would kill the rest himself? So... when Derek was forced to "kill" Boyd, do y'all think that counted? Because to me he looked FAR from wanting to kill anyone ever again. Ever. The only potential indicator of him experiencing that influx of power Deucalion mentioned, that power drove the rest of his pack to kill their entire own original packs, was a slight trembling of his hands. And that in itself is nothing—easily attributed to the trauma he was experiencing! So... I'm thinking it doesn't count, since really it was Kali who killed Boyd and not Derek. Thoughts?

To all the fans grumpy about Stiles not being in the TW movie, there is a way to get further appearances. Watch and support the Teen Wolf movie. (Yes, this seems counterproductive, but hear me out)

The reason Stiles wasn't in the film is because Dylan O'Brien didn't want to be. If you make the movie very popular, then the likelihood of a sequel goes up. It will also make it more tempting to actors to make a repeat appearance if the movie is more profitable.

Here's the thing. Derek Hale dying would objectively suck no matter how or why, but character death can have significant meaning and can actually be impactful to the storytelling, the character's development, ect.

As a poorly done but logical example; Billy Hargrove. An abused, terrified boy who, ultimately, chose to be good and chose to willingly sacrifice himself to save people who objectively were just going to happily let him die. Billy went down fighting. Billy, for once, made his own choice out of a lifetime of being controlled by others. Billy, who had no idea about the supernatural, used his last moments to stand up to a terrifying interdimensional creature who'd used him like a meat-puppet in a fight he knew was going to be his last.

Meaningful. Impactful. Relevant to Billy's characterisation and backstory, regardless of if you liked him or not.

But Derek Hale's death means quite literally scant fuck all. It was death for the sake of death. It was solely for shock value and it was two-dimensional and it was nothing short of boring, lazy writing, and one final fuck you to the fans that Jeff Davis seems hellbent on shitting all over.

Jeff Davis effectively ensured that by the end of the show Derek Hale was not a significant character. He wrote him off as basically another pack-adjacent character in the movie too; just a single dad minding his business, trying to raise his son, occasionally helping out his old buddy Mr. Sheriff. He was objectively in the movie solely to die and once again uplift Scott McCall by providing him with a son for his happy ever after and to kick all the Derek Hale fans right up the patoot.

Remove Derek from the movie, and nothing changes. Eli could've just as easily been Isaac's son, or Jackson's. There was no solid basis for Derek's presence in the movie, or his death, other than shock value and the effective culling of the character because Jeff Davis is a tiny little man who physically can't stand when his fans don't fall into rank. And, of course, the pull of having Tyler Hoechlin back and having Derek Hale back. What's a Teen Wolf movie without the DILF factor, right?

He physically only created the movie because he couldn't stand the fact that the potential for one was there, and that someone else could produce it. He couldn't even think up an actual plot for the movie outside of a grossly predictable, flat recycling of previous villains and a frankly embarrassing reincarnation of the original pack.

The villain is recycled and completely voids the logic and lore set out by the show, and when you think about it is actually also just a boring recycling of the Kate Argent Werecreature plot, too. Main villain is killed, somehow comes back X amount of time later as a werecreature hellbent on revenge.

If you want another example of a poorly done, 'just because they can' death, look at Dean Winchester. Look at Eddie Munson. Look at Charlie Bradbury. Narratively redundant, shock value, stick-it-to-the-fans deaths that make me want to chew live wires.

This is interesting😳😳👀👀 plus the theories and details make it seem accurate to how Theo was made to be who he was from his chilhood to season 5

PART I - Introduction & Theo Before the Dread Doctors

A little while ago I received an anon asking about my theories involving the level of Theo’s compliance and involvement in Tara’s death so I’ve done a longer post on it. If you have questions or requests for meta posts you can always send them to my Ask.  :-)

For the purposes of this post I am going to refer to Theo’s mental issues generically as “pathology” and “lack of empathy”. My reasons for doing this I explained here.

When constructing this, I’ve considered both the intent of the writers as well as the performance and opinion of the actors because unlike novels - television production is a very collaborative art. Actors read into the script and Writers/Show Runners are often inspired to delve deeper into some areas of their own writing based off how an actor is delivering.

There is no definite answer to the question “Did Theo Kill Tara?” but there’s a lot to speculate about. I have written Theo with several variations of backstory, and every time I start a new fic or RP I have a set of questions that I need to answer for myself to make sure the verse makes sense.

So let’s start with what we do know:

1) The Dread Doctors were in Theo’s life before he killed Tara, and he couldn’t have been much older than 9-10 at the most.

We know what grade Theo was in when he left Beacon Hills because 4th grade is the last time Theo and Scott saw one another. In America children in 4th grade are between the ages of 9 and 10. Tara died in Beacon Hills so Theo could be, at most, 10 years old, but could easily have been younger.

2) He watched her drown in the river and didn’t help her.

We can be pretty certain this happened because it came from two independent sources: Lydia’s vision, as well as through the flashbacks Theo has while in hell.

3) Theo feels some form of guilt and responsibility for her death.

We know this because Theo’s personal hell is a repetitive guilt-ridden hallucination. This does not prove that Theo was completely responsible, however it certainly shows that he feels responsible.

4) Theo did not have a heart problem, and Tara did not need to die for Theo to become a chimera.

This is the really interesting part. To be a genetic chimera, Theo could have had something as little as a skin graft. Tara’s death was entirely unnecessary to the Dread Doctors on a physical level, and we know they were still experimenting to create the “perfect evil” so the motivation behind giving Theo Tara’s heart was most likely to achieve some sort of psychological end with Theo.

Because these are the canon facts we have to work with, all of our theories must work within these parameters.

Additionally we should note that since Theo’s story is highly tangled with the Dread Doctors, their characterization and actions play a large part in answering these questions. All strong theories about Theo’s backstory need to be consistent with Dread Doctors motivations and MOs.

How innocent was Theo before the Dread Doctors entered his life?

Theory #1 -  Theo was completely corrupt before the Dread Doctors

Although there are scenes that made me speculate in this direction, I think it is pretty unlikely.

For someone as young as Theo to have been a killer before the Dread Doctors were in his life, there’d have to be some severe biological or developmental issues. We’ve heard nothing from Theo (or from any of the Teen Wolf writers) about Theo having a disturbed life (i.e. abuse or traumatic experiences) prior to the Dread Doctors, and a biological cause for Theo’s deviance isn’t likely because he overcomes his challenges in later seasons with no biological aid or medication.

Specifically the fact that Theo is able to develop a sense of empathy later on in life (after he is free from the Dread Doctors) makes this theory less viable.

One of the major signs of a young person with innately homicidal tendencies and low empathy is cruelty to animals and insects. In 6A we’re given a scene that shows Theo responding warmly and emotionally to finding a spider in his truck.

Because Theo is alone in this scene, he cannot be performing or acting to trick others. This is an authentic and genuine expression of his own unguarded emotions. Definitely not the behavior of someone that can’t feel empathy.

Additionally, the writers make a point in showing that Theo can’t take Mason’s pain because he “doesn’t care” and then, a few episodes later, we see Theo take Gabe’s pain as he is dying.

The reason the writers gave us the scene with Mason was very deliberately to setup the fact that Theo can’t just take pain because he wants to - in order to take pain it has to come from a place of genuine compassion. He couldn’t help Mason to get himself out of danger or prove his trustworthiness. But he is able to care about Gabe: a kid that had wandered down the wrong path and was suffering. He’s able to empathize with Gabe because Gabe is like him.

The idea that you need to be able to “care” to take pain is obviously a retcon in the Teen Wolf lore, because in earlier seasons we’ve seen people take pain in order to absorb their power. Much like the Teen Wolf timeline (don’t get me started on all the writing holes there!) world lore consistency took a backseat to the story that the creators wanted to tell about Theo.

The reason they include this new information about taking pain in the scene with Mason is to make it clear to the audience that when Theo takes Gabe’s pain in the finale, it comes from a place of genuine compassion.

Reaching back to season five, when Theo and Scott attempt to rescue Mason from the Doctors, the Surgeon tells Theo that he was a failure because he wasn’t a “true evil”. If Theo was cold enough on his own to murder his sister when he was only nine, could he really not be considered “truly evil”? Honestly how much more evil can you get?

It’s unlikely that that version of Theo would then be able to develop empathy to the level that he does when he’s eighteen.

Finally, Cody Christian has said in interviews that Theo was the Dread Doctor’s victim, which wouldn’t make sense if he was 100% evil from the start.

Theory #2 - Theo was just an innocent child that was abused and twisted by the Dread Doctors

This is a compelling theory with little to directly refute it. However it does leave us with a major unanswered question: Why did the Dread Doctors target Theo?

Was Theo more isolated than other children? Did he have a hatred for his sister? Was Tara really awful to him? Were his parents extremely unaware/neglectful? Would that be enough to make him a target?

Any potential answer I can construct would be based entirely off whims and speculation. There’s no hints in the canon for why they might have targeted him if he was a relatively healthy and reasonably well-adjusted kid. Why wouldn’t the Dread Doctors pick someone that showed an early propensity for pathological behavior instead?

Also, remember that they didn’t just grab any teenager in Beacon Hills and turn them into chimeras, they looked for teens that already had two sets of genetics (something Theo didn’t become until after Tara’s death). So it would much better fit their MO if they looked for a candidate that displayed more malleable traits.

Could there have been another reason they selected Theo? Yes. Absolutely. I’ve come up with all sorts of reasons in my fics and RPs, but there are none that the canon really points to.

A scene that it’s important to think about when considering the Innocent theory is (again) the scene in Season 5 where the Surgeon tells Theo that he couldn’t become a “true evil” because he wasn’t “truly good” to begin with. This hints that Theo may not have been all the perfect before their meddling.

Arguably, the Surgeon could have meant that they’d corrupted Theo before turning him into a chimera and that’s why it didn’t work. They spoiled the materials before their the real experiment. This is further backed by the fact that as the scene plays out, it seems important that Mason is corrupted during the procedure to become the Beast.

If that is true, than it would also support the third theory…

Theory #3 - Theo showed early signs of low empathy and/or other problematic behaviors, the Dread Doctor’s saw he was vulnerable and took advantage of it, thus shaping his development into what he became.

Just because someone has the potential to develop pathological traits doesn’t mean that they necessarily do. However, stressors can push someone with a predisposition (a vulnerability) to develop in that direction.

Popular psychology postulates that children begin developing empathy around ages 5-6, so a lack of empathy could have been apparent to the Doctors (or others) by ages 6-7. If the Doctors were looking for a child to influence, they could have picked him out for this reason and then worked on shaping his development from ages 8-9. Theo watches Tara die around age 9-10 so that timeline works.

We know that the Dread Doctors kidnap and experiment on people while they are still conscious. We also know that they are capable of inducing hallucinations. They can do all of this unbeknownst to others. That leaves them with a lot of tools to shape a young Theo into what they wanted.

One of the scenes that got me theorizing in this direction is the when Theo reads Donovan’s psychological evaluation, and puts on a highly theatrical performance. A farse play of a mental health professional telling someone that there is something abnormal going on with them.

Combined with Theo’s propensity to force others to re-enact scenes of his own corruption (you can read more about that in my other meta post here), it got me wondering: is Theo drawing on an experience he might have had as a child with a mental health authority figure?

Before anyone shouts that Stiles would have found records if Theo was ever treated for mental health issues – remember that Theo (with the help of the Dread Doctors) has falsified records in the past. It’s entirely possible that he was treated at some point, and those records were destroyed.

This is my favorite theory because:

It leaves the smallest amount questions unanswered

The timeline of events makes sense

It fits the Dread Doctors’ MO of selecting a subject that already has something going in the direction they need

It casts Theo as a victim of the Dread Doctors (which concurs with Cody Christian’s interviews) without removing all of his responsibility for his actions (which would rob the narrative and Theo of a very edgy quality).

PART II - The Dread Doctor’s Influence (coming soon)

Other Theo Meta: Scott Never Mistreated Theo On Theo Lust and Ships Theo’s Emotional Motivations - Intro / Part I / Part II

Scott McCall is Not a Paragon

Someone sent me an anon request which I meant to answer, but I screwed up and posted it with only five words. So, this is the full answer, and it deals with a category error that many people, especially people who don't like Scott, make when thinking about Teen Wolf.

Scott McCall is not Superman, nor was he meant to be. Scott McCall is not Captain America, nor was he meant to be. Scott McCall is not even Izuku Midoriya, nor was he meant to be. He is not a paragon. This doesn't make him any less a heroic protagonist, of course, but it does require the thoughtful audience member to view him through a different lens then they would otherwise.

The classical definition of a paragon is a character (or actual person) who embodies a virtue in its purest most Platonic form. However, in modern cultural construction, it's taken on a more open connotation as a heroic lead protagonist who embodies every thing good in a cultural setting. Superman embodies overwhelming planet-shattering power used responsibly, arising from the embrace of the Other and being embraced by the Other in return. Captain America may be less powerful, but he embodies the strength of those who hold principled convictions. And so on. With a shallow reading, Scott McCall can certainly fit into this group, but there are several important differences.

Scott's Heroism is Not Premeditated. Superman listens with his super-hearing across the world to find people to save; he is a founding member of the Justice League. Captain America volunteered for Project: Rebirth to go fight the Nazis and then Hydra; he is one of the reasons the Avengers were foundered. Izuku Midoriya dreamed of being a hero and took advantage of an opportunity to work towards being the head of an entire social system predicated around this as a career.

Scott doesn't pursue evil throughout the series and the movie; instead, he is pursued. In Season 1, he is chased by the alpha. In Season 2, he is drawn into the war between the Hales and the Argents by threats to his immediate social group. In Season 3, he is the target of the Alpha Pack and Stiles is the target of the nogitsune. And so on, with the Dead Pool, Theo and the Dread Doctors, the Wild Hunt, and Monroe, they all come after him. Yes, by the time Season 5 comes around, the villains have realized that Scott won't let the people in his town be straight-up murdered and so they have to in order to win the day, but it's not as if Scott seeks them out. If, for example, the Doctors had used the Nemeton at Toulouse, Scott would never have been involved.

Scott's Heroism is Not Professional. Superman develops resources to help him in his heroic calling: the Fortress of Solitude, an occupation that brings acts of villainy to his attention, and scientific experiments. We watch Captain America train, alone and with others, in order to be able to fight threats more effectively. Izuku Midoriya literally goes to a specialized technical school for training heroes. They view their heroism as part of their normal lives, and not a situation forced on them periodically.

Scott goes to a mundane high school. He trains to play lacrosse. He learns to help animals. While Derek and Stiles may have saddled him with the heroic charge of "Protector of Beacon Hills," it is a title he accepts only because he has to. In the movie, Scott hasn't been back to Beacon Hills in a long time. He runs an animal shelter. He is called in when there's a dog trapped in a collapsing building, but that's a very narrow situation. He's still the alpha, but that's because of his relationships with "my friends, my pack" not because he's got a territory to watch over. He does get better at heroic action over the series -- Season 1 Scott wouldn't have been able to dodge Ghost Rider bullets like Season 6 Scott could -- but we never see him train for the purpose of being a better hero.

Scott's Heroism is Not Proselytizing. Superman wears the symbol of the House of El on purpose; he attends news conferences; he's spoken to the United Nations. Captain America is draped in the flag of the country whose virtues he wishes to embody. He struggles repeatedly with those virtues (think of the Nomad era). Izuku Midoriya literally aspires to become a symbol for the people of Japan. They consciously desire others to see the value of what they stand for and to integrate it into their lives. They're not forcing their beliefs on anyone, but their behavior is designed to influence the society around them for a benevolent end.

Scott is definitely a leader, but he exhibits leadership in limited situations. Unlike Allison, he has no goal to reform the Argent code. Unlike Demon-Wolf-Era Deucalion, he doesn't want to reform werewolf society. Unlike Monroe, he doesn't want to free humanity from fear or danger. The biggest example for me is that he never tried to change or rehabilitate Peter (or Deucalion or Theo) even though he had hope that Peter would change. The biggest long-term goal he expresses interest in is encouraging Liam to step up as lacrosse captain and, when necessary, as alpha after he leaves for college. None of this requires an impact on society.

I want to be completely clear: this doesn't make Scott any less a heroic protagonist. Scott wanted to be a normal teenager and then a normal adult, but the cost of him ignoring what was going on right in front of his face would have borne by innocents, so he sacrificed his own wants and needs for others. That's his heroism. Yet far too often, I've seen Scott lumped in with Captain America and similar heroes. There's nothing wrong with the Paragon Archetype, but it simply doesn't fit. Sometimes fans do this to compliment Scott, but that's flattening the character to fit somewhere he doesn't belong. Most of the time it's used as a negative, calling Scott boring, tyrannical, judgmental, whatever the hate du jour happens to be. Such a character deserves to be looked at for what he is, not stuffed into the nearest category so the fandom can move on.

Please remind me to not get into it over Scott McCall on fandom secrets, because several users there should have degrees in being wrong all the time. 

They’re so sure that because THEY hate Scott and they know THEY’RE not racist, and because “they didn’t even know Scott was anything but white”, that racism plays no part in how Scott was treated by the fandom at large. Scott’s just a terrible character, they cry, bringing up how he was a little sidetracked by Allison in S1, how he never wanted to be a werewolf in the first place, and oh, of course, that old chestnut, what he did to Derek in the finale of S2. 

Apparently, Scott is never punished in the narrative the same way Derek is?! Did you know this? Because, like, I seem to recall him breaking up with his first girlfriend because of werewolf things, that first girlfriend dying in his arms, him being repeatedly hunted by Peter and Hunters, his autonomy being snatched away from him by Peter, trying to commit suicide, being stabbed by the Nogitsune, being straight-up murdered at one point… the list goes on. 

Babes. Babes. You, as an individual, may not be racist. But when that large a number of people are willing to write about a character one way, to constantly invalidate their pain, to never show sympathy or empathy for them, to spin them as a villain for trying to do the right thing, and the only discernible difference between them and all of their other co-stars at that point are their features… could it your brain is being a bastard and loading you with unconscious bias?

The level of vitriol that is leveled at a character who is no worse than any other, who makes the same mistakes as the others, who suffers just as much (if not more!) than the others, who overall is trying to do the right thing is just… horrible. The trends in the fandom of how Scott was and is treated always say a lot more than the individual actions of fans.

I’d like to say that these trends don’t have any basis in racism, but fandom is as fandom does, and fandom unfortunately reflects a lot of the macrocosm of the world – which is racist.  It’s worrying, and frankly a bit horrifying, but many white people are preconditioned to dislike/mistrust people of color - to notice darker skin and features and mentally ascribe personality traits to those people - and not even register that they have done so. And people in fandomsecrets kept telling me they didn’t even notice that Posey is a person of colour, but that is why I say ‘unconscious’; because like it or not, sometimes that’s what’s at work. Brain processes your conscious mind would be rightfully disgusted by are going on! (And then, one person said ‘I don’t hate Scott just because he has more of a tan’, and I decided not to reply directly to that person because what the actual fuck.)

Once again, I don’t think every single person who dislikes him hates Scott for racist reasons. Like, sure, maybe you find him annoying because he tries to do the right thing but in ineffectual ways, or because he wants to be a normal teenager and does dumb teenaged shit. Or because he rarely apologises for his fuck-ups and they tend to get glossed over. But how does that make him different from any other character in this show? Why are you so willing to put aside any kind of empathy, why do you want to see him suffer so, why do you label him a bad friend? Why do you always point out how shitty the writing is in regards to Scott’s characterisation but none of the others? 

Do you hate him because he’s the main character and it’s perfectly normal to hate the main character? - that’s why no one in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom likes Buffy and only a vocal minority like Harry in Harry Potter, and no one has fucks to give for Dean and Sam in Supernatural — oh. Wait. [For the record, I know there are some fans who hate Buffy, Harry, Dean and/or Sam. They’re just not usually thiiiiiiis loud, y’know?]

If you hate Scott for how he treated Derek, do you hate Derek for how he treated Scott? Boyd? Erica? Isaac? Or do you recognize that Derek was floundering around in the dark and dealing with deep-seated trauma? And if you recognize that in Derek, why can’t you recognize that in Scott who at this point is 16 - 17 at the most? If you hate Scott for how he stole people’s autonomy, do you hate Peter for the same deal? Peter – an actual show villain, who I haven’t seen anyone actively hate, I don’t think? If you hate Scott for mooning over Allison and getting distracted by her, do you hate Stiles for being the same way about Lydia? If you hate Scott for thinking he knows what’s best for others and choosing not to let them in on plans, do you hate Chris Argent, Noah Stilinski, Derek once again? 

I 100% think that a bunch of people need to examine their unconscious biases and try to watch the show putting themselves in Scott’s shoes. Genuinely imagine how it would feel to be in his position. They seem more than capable of doing that with the others, so give him that same consideration. 

Originally I wasn't planning on making a chapter about Theo Raeken . I've considered it , but then I was like "What the hell am I going to talk about?"

However , after some time , an interesting idea popped up in my head - "What if Theo uses clothes as tools for manipulation?"

So this would definitely be more of a theory than an actual analysis and I would surerely be pulling shit out of my ass so bear with me here.

What I mean by this qestion is that Theo seems to dress according to his current goal in mind . Basically dressing for success . Examples:

When he is confronting the Dread Doctors about Hayden or when he introduces himself to the McCall pack for the first time he wears a jacket that makes him look sharp , imposing , capable , worthy of acknowledgment

2. On his first day of school he wears the most basic outfit possible - jeans with a black hoodie which essentially screams "I am just an average guy. There is nothing to see here .No suspicious activity to witness at ALLLLLL"

3. When he convices Donovan to go after Stiles he wears a short sleeved button-up that makes him look smart , presentable , reasonable

4. When he tries to win Corey over on his side he wears a pink sweater which makes him look approachable , friendly ,soft even

5. During Lydia's rescue he is the only one from both packs to wear short sleevees which shows confidence , like he knows what he is doing even though he doesn't .

In season 6 he only has two goals : To survive and gain support from McCall's pack . That is why his outfits seem a lot more interchangeable . He is also homeless,but that is not important.

He wears a lot more layers and his outfits are meant serve one purpose only - provide protection

All of this might have been me just blabbering , but I think this can work as a concept.

Considering the fact that everything about Theo is just lies and deception to the point where you have to wonder if there is a genuine version of him or if that maybe in a weird twisted way that his most authentic version.

Parts : Jackson ; Derek ; Liam ; Mason ; Scott.1 ; Scott.2 ; Stiles.1 ; Stiles.2

what scott did to derek in the season 2 finale wasn’t a violation, it was poetic justice and derek’s well deserved comeuppance for being an inhuman, incompetent flop as a an alpha, werewolf and person. derek knew he deserved it, that’s why he accepted it and never held it against scott. not to mention that by inconveniencing derek for a few seconds, scott single-handedly defeated gerard and the kanima and saved derek’s and everyone’s life at the warehouse. plus, he made derek a better person

Look. I know you like Scott. But I need you to understand that what you’re saying is not only factually incorrect, but the implications of it are really hurtful.

Scott suffered a lot because he was bitten without being given a choice. Peter attacked him and turned him into something he never wanted to be. That is horrible for him, and I feel for him. What frustrates me so much is that he had his autonomy taken away from him, he suffered a huge injustice, and instead of protecting other people’s rights to choose, he decided to take away their choice the same way it was done to him. He shamed and insulted Erica and Boyd for their decisions to take the bite, completely negating their abilities to make their own choices. Derek didn’t attack them. He told them the risks, he explained what the bite was and what he expected back from them if he gave it to them. They asked for the bite. That was their choice, not Scott’s.

First off, Derek did not deserve what happened to him. A rape survivor who lost his entire family in a brutal fire that his rapist set and had his big sister murdered by his own uncle, did not deserve to have his body used without his consent to give what he considered a gift to the father of the woman who assaulted him, and it in no way made him a ‘better person.’ No. You need to be more careful about the things you say, because sexual assault survivors shouldn’t have to read horrible things like what you just typed out and sent to me. I should not have to read it.

Second, Scott’s motivation behind what he did was not justice. It was pride, a disregard for Derek’s bodily autonomy, and maybe even an actual urge to help with the Gerard situation. You could even add revenge to the list, since Gerard threatened Scott’s mom. And I have to point out, if Scott is really the amazing person that you’re claiming he is, then ‘poetic justice’ should never be something he is aiming for. Good people don’t do the thing that is the most ‘poetic.’ If Scott were as empathetic and kind as people claim he is or the show tries to tell us he is, he never would have done that to Derek, no matter how much he disliked him. There was no reason why he couldn’t have told Derek what he had planned and gotten Derek’s permission to do what he did. Scott kept the secret from him because he felt like he had the right to make decisions about Derek’s body without Derek’s consent. He did it because he wanted to be the one with the secrets for once. He outright admits that he kept the secret “Because you may be an Alpha, but you’re not mine.” He wanted to prove that Derek couldn’t control him, by hurting Derek and forcing him to give what Derek considered the greatest gift a werewolf could bestow, to the father of the woman who murdered Derek’s family. That is cowardly, childish, and apathetic, and it directly contradicts the idea that Scott is in any way True Alpha material.

Third, nothing he did was single-handed, because Derek isn’t an inanimate object or a tool. He’s a person, and without him, Scott’s plan wouldn’t have happened. Without Deaton, Scott’s plan wouldn’t have happened. Scott did not act alone.

Fourth, Derek didn’t accept what Scott did, and he did hold it against him. He felt so unsafe with Scott that he didn’t even tell him about the Alphas over the summer, didn’t ask for his help to find his Betas, because he didn’t think Scott could be trusted. Scott had already sold him out once and Derek had every right to believe Scott would do it again. (Which he then did at the end of S3A when he went to join Deucalion and left Derek unconscious in an elevator, in a hospital about to be swarmed with cops.)

Fifth, everything you are angry with Derek for, Scott did as well. So if you’re saying that Derek is ‘inhuman’ and a failure of an Alpha/werewolf/person, then you must be saying the same thing about Scott. Yes, Derek threw his Betas around and injured Isaac. Scott also threw Isaac into a wall twice (without even the pretense of training him) and dug his claws into Liam’s (I think it was him) neck without his permission. Yes, Derek chained his Betas up on the full moon. Scott abducted Liam and duct-taped him to his bathtub without explaining anything he’d done to him, and I’m pretty sure (though I don’t remember it well) that he was involved in Liam getting chained to a tree at one point. Yes, Derek kept secrets from his pack under the pretense of ‘protecting’ them. Scott also kept the truth about how Allison’s mom was bitten from her, letting her believe for months that Derek brutally attacked her mother for no reason, and lied to Kira about her losing control of her kitsune (though I also don’t remember a lot of that plotline). He also lied to Stiles about whether Lydia liked him, after making out with Lydia (who currently had a boyfriend) in the coach’s office, which is just a dick move, whether it was the full moon or not. Derek told Erica to seduce either Scott or Stiles? Scott told Allison to go on a date with Matt and KISS HIM. Derek scared Isaac away by shouting at him? Scott shouted at Allison for doing something she’d already told him she was going to do, and for telling her parents something she’d already warned him she was going to tell them, and told her to stay away from him. Derek shoved Scott against a wall? Scott shoved Stiles against a wall on his first moon! Oh, Scott was scared/frustrated/having trouble with control? Well, Derek’s sister had just died and Scott was about to expose the entire supernatural secret to a lacrosse field full of people.

Sixth, Scott didn’t defeat Gerard or the Kanima, and he definitely didn’t save the warehouse full of people. Gerard wasn’t dead after getting the bite from Derek. He had enough energy left to tell the Kanima to kill everyone in the room, and escape while no one was looking. The Kanima wasn’t defeated by Scott, it had Allison by the fucking throat and it only backed off when Stiles hit it with his goddamn Jeep and Lydia came out to face Jackson. Scott had nothing to do with that. Lydia is technically the one who saved everyone in the warehouse, and Stiles was her ride. Scott’s contribution was negligible. It was a time waster. He could have accomplished the exact same thing by just standing there and talking to Gerard until Stiles showed up with Lydia.

Seventh, Scott’s behavior was indeed a violation. And I don’t just mean the bite he forced Derek to give Gerard. He didn’t just get revenge on the guy who’d been rude to him and arguing with him for the last few months. He lied to Derek, over and over (while also avoiding ever technically lying, in much the same way Deaton often does, to avoid being caught out by his heartbeat). He learned Derek’s plans and where Derek was hiding, insinuated that he wanted to be part of Derek’s pack (knowing how important pack was to Derek), and outright yelled at Derek for supposedly keeping something from him (Which he wasn’t. Derek canonically wasn’t holding back any secrets from Scott at the time, unless you count the fact that Peter was alive, which Derek had every right to assume Deaton had already told him) all while he was the one working for Gerard. (That is literally gaslighting. Like, literally.) He exposed Derek and his pack to Gerard, feeding him information on the same kids that he insisted were ‘his responsibility’ that probably helped Gerard get ahold of Erica and Boyd to torture them. It was a violation of Derek’s consent. A violation of Derek’s trust, of Erica and Boyd and Isaac’s trust. And a violation of Stiles’ trust as well, since Stiles had no clue what Scott was doing.

You came to my ask box after seeing the various posts that I’ve made, with documented moments from the show and well reasoned arguments and frustrations with Scott McCall’s character. Are you seriously telling me you didn’t think I’d have a comeback?

MY RANKING OF THE PUPPY PACK

Liam Dunbar

Corey Bryant

Mason Hewitt

Theo Raeken

Brett Talbot

Nolan Holloway

Lori Rohr

Alec

Hayden Romero

***Honorable Mention

Eli Hale