#true alpha

[1asbrightasthestars3]

I'm a feminist, obviously.

But I wouldn't really mind HIM saving me..

[aesthetictw]

— scott mccall

[rowinablx]

This is absolutely iconic

[louisbxne]

TEEN WOLF 3x12 - "Lunar Ellipse" (2013) Dir. Russell Mulcahy

[celestialvoid-fanfiction]

Hot take: Scott only became a true alpha because he was fighting for his mum. The Durach was threatening the lives of all the parents (Melissa, Noah and Chris), which put Scott’s only family (his mum and his surrogate father) in danger. Because of this, he pushed himself farther than he normally would. That’s how he became a true alpha.

Hotter take: Had Cora been in danger, or had Talia or Laura still been alive and in that scenario, Derek would have done the same. He could have just as easily become a true alpha, because it’s not about power or how pure-of-heart you are; it’s about protecting those you love and fighting for others.

[gege-wondering-around]

Why Derek has the best 'Alpha arc'

Basing this on the show and the movie too Derek had been all the 'types' of werewolves, going through at least once all the eyes colors.

Yellow: is the base color werewolves get when they are first turned or when they are born

Blue: after he 'accidentally' kills Paige in his teenage years after trying to turn her into a werewolf

Red: after he kills Peter and steal the power from him to avenge Laura who had been killed by Peter to get the Alpha status

Blue: he loses the alpha status after he heals his sister Cora form a mistletoe poisoning (he takes so much of her pain that not even the Alpha strenght can keep up and 'dissapears' in order to save Derek's own life since if they take too much pain from others they could die)

Yellow: when kate de-aged him and he was left with his eyes from before he met Paige, but he slowly regain his blue

Evolved omega: altho his eyes don't change colors he can now fully tunr into a wolf

Red: during the movie in the last scene, when Parrish burn him and the nogitsune he turns into a True Alpha

Derek went from your typical bad guy that wants revenge, power and blood to your tough gentle guy who is very wise and considerate of others.

He started off as probably one of the worst Alpha on the show and became one even for the wrong or worst reasons:

He went around biting teens to build himself a pack to help him fight the Alpha pack and two of the three he bite ended up death (yet he still care for them all but his way of teaching them their 'new nature' wasn't the best and despite it was the only way he knew he could've done something more, but since they are his betas he inevitably cares about them and from a simple pack bond it becomes something more personal, cause in the end he cared for them for who they were and loved them for just being themselves)

He killed his uncle to gain the Alpha status for getting revenge and to fulfill his greed for power (that he thought maybe could help him heal or feel fine again but it never happened)

He put others in danger to achive what he wanted (like when he got Scott and Stiles to help him kill/hunt Peter)

But from being this big crappy man he lost his powers - that he literally made a bloody bath to get - to save his sister, to save the little family he had left.

He started to understand more the people he had around and who they were, he started to care for them genuinely. He was worried sick for Stiles bein possessed, cared for his betas (whoever was left) and had more interest in ensuring his friends' safety. His FRIENDS!

He started to see people - Scott, Stiles and the others - as his friends and not someone that would eventually betray or use him and that somehow cared for him too - even if most of the time he was thrown around like a fighting doll.

And then he remained an omega and evolved into a wolf, an actual wolf and saved the day - generally speaking.

He went from 'I'm gonna kill you' to 'I care for you' which is a lot for a character like Derek. Someone who went through years of pain and sorrow, having almost no one at all to rely onto and left to deal with whatever Kate did to him and with the guilt of getting his family killed - which isn't is fault!

And then we got the movie:

He has a son, Eli, whom he loves and cares for throughout the entire movie and I'm sure he was a great dad, maybe a little strict and traditional-minded on a few things, but definitely a good and caring father

He almost get killed and when he's fine and the wound on his neck is sealed, he 'dies' protecting his son - or better to say, stepping in the way of a sword

He helps the Sheriff with cases when at the beginning he was one of the few who wanted Derek in a prison - whether supernatural or a simple prison cell

Ans then, at the end, he sacrifice himself to save everyone and gets burned alive which turns him into a TRUE ALPHA!

This whole build up of events, of development and changes, going from bad to good, from a reckless and greedy man to someone one would look up to, a wise man who had seen enough and doesn't want others to live what he lived.

And like the Sheriff said

I have never seen anyone take the kind of punishment that Derek Hale took… And kept taking… In order to protect the people he loved.

He died burning alive, he died like his family did. Burned alive.

And this is worthy of a True Alpha. He sacrificed himself for everyone's sake and after his whole life was hell he wnet through with yet again another round of pain and tears. He had to leave his son alone to save him!

And he could've just let Scott get burned and stayed with his son but Derek was so selfless that he decided to take the burden upon himself once more.

Derek is the best Alpha in teen wolf - show and movie - and he's actually worth of being called a true alpha cause he earned it over and over and over again, he learned and become better, he healed and become a better person and leader. He earned his title as True Alpha.

Derek deserved, earned and is worthy of the True Alpha status and it costed him his life and his time with his son, and for what?

The people he saw as his family and he chose them above himself.

He did it for the people he loved.

[princeescaluswords]

What’s one of your favourite things about Scott McCall? 👀

This is going to be complex, but one of my most favorite things about Scott McCall is something that might cause many people to scratch their heads.

Scott McCall's moral courage is personal yet universal.

When Scott takes a stand, from Season 1 to the Movie, he never seeks out an evil to defeat. It always comes to him. His desires are to be a vet, play lacrosse, and have a romance. He doesn't identify himself as a 'hero' or 'protector'; it's others who label him as such. When it all starts in Season 1, it's Peter, Derek and Chris who seek him out and insist he get involved (repeatedly). When he does feel the need to involve himself in later seasons and the movie, it's not for an abstract principle that he he is seeking to uphold. While he does have principles and while he fights according to those principles, his involvement always comes about because he knows the names of the victims.

Yet, almost paradoxically, those principles -- the most important one being that all life is valuable -- are extended to everyone, even the villains, even minor antagonists like Donovan Donati. He has to defeat Jennifer Blake, and he will, but he will give her a chance to surrender no matter whom she threatens. He has hope for Peter, who has mutilated and violated him repeatedly. He approaches Tamora Monroe and Gerard Argent alone, not because he's stupid or naive, but because he doesn't want anyone on either side to die. The only villain on whom he chooses to pass final judgment in 100 episodes and a movie is the parasitic ghost of a serial killer who died two-and-a-half centuries. ago.

To me, that's remarkable. I am sure there are other heroic protagonists who meet these standards, but they are not what I see on my screen most of the time.

He's not a crusader or rebel leader, answering injustice across the world for those who cannot defend themselves.

He's not a gritty superhero, protecting a city form the shadows to put the fear in the hearts of malefactors.

He's not a police officer, soldier, or highly-trained spy enforcing the laws of the society in which he lives, tempted to bend the rules to see true justice done.

I'm not saying there's something wrong with these types of heroes. It's just refreshing to see a heroic protagonist who isn't. He's a teenage boy (or a well-tempered adult) who has the power to save others thrust upon him and, for good or ill, seeks to do just that. I can't identify with Scott; I wouldn't have acted the way he did when faced with the choices he made. I just wish I would be able to.

[quillsparkle]

For liliaeth.

Derek watching Scott becoming a true alpha in 3x12, Lunar Eclipse.

Requests still open for anyone who wants a gif set, an image/graphic or fanfiction. See here for what I'll take.

[geminigirl0298]

I’m pissed about the Teen Wolf movie so I might have to write a Derek Hale X Reader smut to get over it.

[charmed-redemption]

UW: Defying Gravity

@fervidusoculi

[candymatch]

I have a theory about when Scott McCall became a true alpha.

What if Scott didn’t really brake through the mountain ash circle. Hear me out! Deaton said in season two that you have to believe [the mountain ash] will work, that spark of belief is what activates the magical properties.

When Jennifer threw the mountain ash she believed it would work so it activated the mountain ash as we can see by the glowing blue force field around her when Scott tries to break through.

Scott could have just scared Jennifer into not believing that the mountain ash would work so it stoped working and Scott broke through the barrier.

This doesn’t mean that Scott didn’t earn his alpha status. This is just me spit balling at 11:00 at night. Don’t take it personally. I just was putting the idea out there. It’s probably not true and Scott really did break through mountain ash. It’s just an idea.

[1asbrightasthestars3]

You with the dark curls,

You with the water color eyes.

[nephilimeq]

The Crap that is the True Alpha Plotline in Teen Wolf

Can someone explain to me what a “true alpha” is in Teen Wolf please? I see it all the fucking time (always delusional Scott McCall and Tyler Posey stans using it to prove that Scott is superior and smarter and better than everyone else and blah blah) but I have no idea what the fuck it means

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Okay. Here we go.

Apparently (according to the writers), a “True Alpha” is when a beta werewolf becomes an alpha without killing, and instead through their own sheer strength of will, and that somehow makes them “better” than other alphas (stronger, faster, etc.).

It is the biggest bullshit that I have ever seen written into a show.

I did an entire post about how it was the equivalent of handing Scott a “get out of morality jail free” card. I honestly feel that they wrote it into the show to try and salvage Scott’s character because no one was liking him anymore, and all the fans really wanted was more of the side characters. (that’s what happens when you write better side characters)

It was a pathetic, half-handed attempt to try and make the main character special and likeable again, and it failed at both.

Also, that entire plot line was one of the worst bits of acting I’ve ever seen. Look, Posey could have played Scott as sweet and bumbling and I would have loved the character! It would have been great if they had leaned into Scott’s caring side as we saw how he was with his mom in the beginning, so it would have made perfect sense! Posey was great at playing sweet and trying too hard, but putting him into a position to play a morally righteous powerful alpha was just a hard pass.

I honestly think Scott would have been likeable if he’d been more of a himbo. I liked him as a himbo in the beginning because it was the perfect foil against Stiles’ shrewd and silently malicious nature. They could have done so much with that...but instead they turned Scott into a self-righteous prick, who was all “I’m the True Alpha, and other people can deal with the consequences of my shitty, under thought actions on their own” kind of guy.

So, to sum up, a True Alpha is a douchecanoe -- it is the cheap, crappy tampon of writing, trying to soak up all of the character deficits of Scott McCall that the writers decided not to address or fix by being better writers.

[colduaire]

Teen Wolf: The Movie proved one thing:

THE ONLY PERSON THAT CAN KILL DEREK HALE is DEREK HALE.

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“It's rare, it's something that doesn't happen within 100 years, but every once in a while, a beta can become an alpha without having to steal or take that power. They call it a true alpha. It's one who rises purely on the strength of the character, by virtue, by sheer force of will.” — Alan Deaton to Scott in Currents 3x07

Scott survives his "sacrifice" and fights Jennifer Blake alongside Deucalion. He refuses to kill her and becomes a True Alpha while pushing through a Mountain Ash barrier.

Derek sacrifices himself for his friends, his family, his pack.

Basically all I’m saying is that Derek became a true alpha in his final moments, I don’t care what anybody says.

Yes I know it’s a rare occurrence, but even though Derek has killed for love and for revenge he died protecting those he loves and cares for.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

[redmoonfever]

Scott McCall, True Alpha

(Quote: @the-modern-typewriter )