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princeescaluswords · 2 years

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Exactly! Fandom racists never portray Deaton or Scott as "competent" villains, they're almost never a genuine threat to them. They never even have the same level of, say, resources or wealth that Stiles, the Hales and the Argents have. Dispatching them is laughably easy. And as you said, Deaton never DOES anything with all this ~power~ he is supposedly hoarding or coveting. Even though a seasoned Emissary should have SOME ideas at the very least. Maybe he could permanently put an end to the feud that took his beloved Alpha from him or he could permanently deal with Peter for hurting his surrogate son so much or punish Derek for assaulting and kidnapping him. He doesn't seek revenge against Deucalion for killing a patient on his operating table, tormenting Scott and attacking his sister Marin.

SOOOOO many motives you could go for but despite fandom preaching about loving villains, Deaton and Scott are unmistakably the unlovable kind. The greedy, selfish and ruthless (but not in a sexy yt way) kind. They're cartoonishly incompetent yet viewed as nefarious masterminds who schemed in the shadows. But not clever enough to escape the suspension of the wunderkind Stiles, though, if he is oh so smart, why he would keep working in a pack with Scott who he knows is just a puppet for Deaton and WHY he doesn't ~free~ him is beyond me

And people wonder openly why I think Athena Dark and the people who adhere to her efforts to make to make Scott an Accidental Villain and Deaton a Sinister Mastermind are influenced by racism. It's not hard to see.

Ever notice that when Scott is a villain, it's almost never intentional, instead it's because he holds wrong ideas. He 'rejects the wolf,' whatever that is supposed to mean (though in practice it means not doing what white men say). He listens to the wrong people who believe in things like mercy and forbearance (though in practice it means not doing what white men say). He 'thinks he's better than everyone else,' which as far as I can tell means he believes that violence can't be the only answer (though in practice it means not doing what white men say). He ignores werewolf traditions, whatever those are, doesn't train his pack, and neglects the territory even though he canonically does not do any of that (though in practice it means not doing what white men say). Scott is never a villain because he has a goal that requires him to destroy or hurt people. He's always a villain because he doesn't do something, which in reality means not doing what white men say.

Deaton, on the other hand, is a villain because he indulges in the greatest of all blasphemies: he acts as if he's the equal of white characters, which has to mean he's an Evil Tree Wizard. He keeps secrets, which only white men like Derek and Stiles are allowed to do. He protects Scott from violent white werewolves, which is something only Stiles is allowed to do. He sarcastically calls Derek incompetent, which is something only Stiles and Peter are allowed to do. He dares to encourage Scott to be alpha, and doesn't he know that only the Hales get to determine who is alpha or not? His crime is more active, like stealing fire from the gods, he dares to place himself on the same level as white characters.

Now, when these racist authors make Scott and/or Deaton the villain, they don't go into depth about how they are villains because of two reasons. First, it's hard to hide your racism if you end up clearly stating that Scott is a bad person because he doesn't do what a white man tells him to do or Deaton is sinister because he tries to do things that Peter or Derek do every other Wednesday. Second, delving into their strength or their motivations would mean that they're worthy of time and energy as characters, and the temerity of these two thinking they were as worthy of attention as white people are what made it necessary in the first place.

And why should they? They have an entire history of literature which code minorities as dangerous if they possess power. Why reinvent the wheel? /sarcasm

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