#like deucalion

[bisexualisaaclahey]

i think they should have kept scott trying to use sat prep words in daily conversation throughout the seasons tbh. just as an ongoing bit. scott should have said someone was "endowed" with The Bite. he describes the alpha pack as "fomenting" trouble. we should have gotten AT LEAST one scene where a character pulls out their phone to look up a word he uses and another where they learn he used it wrong

#scott mccall #teen wolf #mtv teen wolf #posting about teen wolf on tumblr dot com has u looking up shit like SAT prep words #scott trying to schedule his sat prep and werewolf activities: ok hm. if i say i feel antipathy to deucalion does that count as studying

[letthestorieslive]

Scott and Deucalion + 10 - touch me, requested by @scribeoffate

(from this ask game, you still can request one too !)

#scott mccall #deucalion #truedemon #here at least #i took my sweet time i know #but i liked my exploration of the truedemon territory #teen wolf #mine

[bericas]

scott appreciation week (day 4) → the shape you take

people get hurt here. people fall down and stay down and I don’t like the way the song goes. — richard siken

#twedit #teenwolfedit #scottmccallweek23 #scottmccalledit #scott mccall #HIII i like this one a lot <3 #and also i love this guy!!! #if its unclear the parallels are #peter pinning scott and roaring in school --> scott tenderly holding liam by the shoulders --> scott howling in school as he protects ppl #and then its #deucalion giving scott a choice that isnt really a choice at all and scott following him --> #scott giving hayden a choice that really is a choice --> #alec willingly following scott #also deucalion disingenuously taking scott under his wing vs scott genuinely taking alec under his wing #hayden too but that parallels deucalion and scott less imo. anyway i only have so many characters per tag so its hard to sum that up neatly #ANYWAY. scott shapes his identity as an alpha through subverting everything he is taught by other alphas #it really takes a lot out of me that scott shows up with red eyes and that signals safety to alec #when red eyes only ever meant to danger to scott when he was a beta #by changing the song for himself he is changing the song for everyone around him. send tweet!!!!!!

[inutaffy]

theo is such a good character because he was DEF bad. like. the hate for him by the pack is warranted. no other villain split them up like that, no one questioned scott as an alpha, or got that close to killing him for good. theo was right, emotional pain is the pain that lasts. and it lasted!!!! they aint forget!!!!!!

#now am i saying he deserved HELL? no #absolutely not. what in the FUCK. #THAT WAS TERRIFYING #new fear UNLOCKED #anyways. its pretty obvious for all the mistakes he made it was done out of his emotions #deucalion called him weak and he killed josh #like his calculated logical moves are when he's fine. dread doctors called him a failure and he killed tracy like #he was being manipulated or used most of season 5 either by the doctors or by deucalion #theo raeken #teen wolf #scotts pack has been a constant until season 5 really. thats how he's gotten through it all

[spikeface]

scott mccall x guts julia armfield

#scott mccall #teen wolf #usermem #this essay covers so much that is relevant to teen wolf #the theme of possession obviously touches on not just scott but also lydia/jackson/stiles/kira/mason #and the gendered violence was really good for lydia especially in my opinion #but i had to go with my boy scott! because! #what i was trying to gesture at with these quotes #and these poorly edited images #(WHY is tw so bad at light and HOW do people make gifs and edits look so beautiful seriously you're all so talented) #ahem anyway #the point is that scott's journey begins with the nightmare of the breached body #and then there's this thing inside him #and i thought about adding peter and gerard and deucalion and kate and theo #all of the people who try to possess him very literally #but what i really liked about this essay was the way it explored the innate monstrosity of your body #which the show explores through the lens of being a werewolf #there is something dark inside scott's body that wants out #and not just the weird black goo of werewolf healing! #to be a werewolf is to know something bad is going to happen #because you have a body because this is a horror movie #and it ties in too with scott's self harm #scott does harbor something inside him which wants to hurt him #and it's not just his own mortality or the raging supernatural beast he keeps on a leash #scott's body is forced to accommodate the inhuman when theo stabs him #but scott keeps the wound afterwards #and whatever is making him do that is something he harbors inside himself

[stark-illerbase]

Idk what it Is but there is something about Gideon Emery playing Fenris, who has a wolf motif (and whose birthname is Leto) AND playing Deucalion, of the alpha pack.

#bro likes his greek mythology ig #i love him and i love every role he plays so what does that say about me #gideon emery #fenris #deucalion #teen wolf #dragon age

[scribeoffate]

#teen wolf #scott mccall #deucalion #truedemon #a young werewolf makes a deal with a beast to save his mother #like the truedmon beauty and the beast au is basically canon #some liberties may have been taken my shameless shipper brain

[mccall-fam-on-crack]

Deucalion: Can anyone give me an example of a mistake?

Peter: *Raises hand*

Melissa: That's a very good example.

#source: idk #incorrect teen wolf #incorrect teen wolf quotes #deucalion stone #tw deucalion #melissa mccall #peter hale #i like making fun of peter

[joshdiaz]

— kelly cherry

@nolanhollogay

#ocappreciation #allaboutocs #teen wolf oc #fyteenwolfocs #and then 4 my tags #oc: ari kovalchuk #shes ari (said like airy) and shes my best friend #her pack was one of the ones that the alpha pack killed; she was young she wasnt involved she missed the bloodbath #so ari comes back to kill deucalion! #some point in s5 or s6 i havent decided #anyway as always lmk if u wanna be tagged i still barely know what im doing etc etc etc

[reveluving]

ain't no way there's not a single peter x reader x deuc fic ANYWHERE

#this is like batmom smut again #but 10X WORSE #FINGERS ARE TWITCHIN #deucalion x reader #deucalion #gideon emery #peter hale x reader #peter hale #ian bohen #peter hale x reader x deucalion #teen wolf #teen wolf x reader

[spookyblazecoffee]

Theo: I have so much energy, I want to run a marathon or commit a crime... which should I do? Deucalion: Please don’t get arrested. Theo: No promises! Tara: Why not both? Get creative! Theo: Wonderful suggestion, thank you. Deucalion: Please don’t encourage them, Tara. Tara: Why not? Deucalion: I don’t have the money to bail him out of jail, that’s why! Tara: Relax. Tara: *Texting Liam* Keep Theo out of jail please? Liam: *Texting back* Yeah, okay.

#Theo Raeken #Deucalion Teen Wolf #Tara Raeken #Liam Dunbar #Deucalion adopts Theo #Deucalion adopts Tara #I love how I read one (1) fic where Deucalion adopted Theo and ran with it #Raeken siblings #Incorrect Raeken siblings quotes #The Raeken siblings like committing crimes #Thiam #What do you mean 'So-and-so is dead'? No they're not they're very much alive and happy #Crime lover Deucalion and his adopted crime lover children

[capricornsicle]

Teen Wolf 2x03 "Ice Pick" + 3x05 "Frayed" + 5x09 "Lies of Omission" 3 foils for Scott + the use of violence to maintain power

#will make a meta on this at some point but yeah. these guys #derek has to constantly use violence to make his point #for deucalion just the threat of violence is enough to keep people from challenging him #and theo has to manipulate other people into doing the violence for him because he doesn't have the power himself #very interesting guys. esp considering how scott doesn't use violence to get people to obey him #because while they all think scott's power is because he can exert it over others #his actual power is that his friends are willing to sacrifice themselves for him so it looks like he's the one left standing #but ofc the foils for scott don't see that as a cost which is why they always fail to keep people loyal to them #good stuff that #teen wolf #twedit #teen wolf gifs #my gifs #do I tag derek? perhaps not #deucalion #theo raeken

[taiturner]

Just how powerless were you before this all happened? In my experience, it's the truly powerless who are all too eager to demonstrate their new-found strength.  

#tracy stewart #tracystewartedit #teen wolf #teenwolfedit #twedit #teenwolfgifs #twgifs #dailytw #* #tvarchive #cinematv #femaledaily #tvedit #i am back at the bottom of my drafts reviving another unfinished project hi #if i have to work in pop radio i Will use it to my advantages #i just feel a lot about the overconfidence. the newfound power. the rebirth not just physically but mentally #the way her resurrection was a fresh start and she could finally be something new and she took full advantage #and deucalion read her so hard with this quote #she's confident for the first time in her life she feels like a god shes the living dead girl shes the girl who went missing after being #wanted for multiple m/rders #an enigma! a mystery! and theres power in that! #theo fakes confidence in being a chimera but in reality he feels inferior for that #tracy reads that confidence and she presents herself with it and takes pride in what she is and goes too fast too soon #i love the chimeras they're my Family but the narrative of them being this big supernatural mystery but ultimately being Nothing. is so hot #anyway i hear the contradictions in this song and it just screams Tracy

[vivitalks]

okay okay okay i have a half-baked theory, hear me out.

so we know deucalion aka The Demon Wolf can do this to his face

and there’s never really any explanation as to (a) why he can shift like that, or (b) why none of the other alphas or werewolves seem to have that ability.

BUT. we do see this type of Dark Shift (that’s what i’m calling it) happen one other time in the show:

in 4x10, “Monstrous,” when scott loses control and is on the verge of murdering that guy.

what else do we know? well, about deucalion, not a lot, but we know that prior to being blinded, he was an intelligent and respectable alpha who had a vision of peace and enough faith in humanity that he tried to make peace with gerard argent. of all people. we don’t know how old deucalion is or how long he’s been a werewolf, but if it’s true that he bit and turned alexander argent in 1977 (which we see in the opening scene of 3x05, “Motel California,” and which is later confirmed by gerard), that means he would have to have been an alpha for at least ~40 years.

outside of deucalion lore, we also know that this Dark Shift doesn’t happen to just any werewolves on the brink of murder, because it doesn’t happen to liam in the 5A finale when he almost kills scott. as far as canon goes, aside from deucalion, the Dark Shift only happens to one other person/werewolf - scott mccall, True Alpha.

so here’s my theory: before he was corrupted, Deucalion was a True Alpha.

think about it: we know deucalion had certain traits characteristic of a True Alpha before he was ambushed by gerard. he valued peace even in the midst of allies all clamoring for war. he wanted to see the best in his enemies (gerard) and to believe them capable of change. we know True Alphas are rare, but obviously scott wasn’t the first. it would make sense that any existing True Alpha would have a certain renown, and deucalion certainly had renown, both before and after being ambushed.

so for the sake of argument, let’s say deucalion was a True Alpha. he earned his power, became an alpha in his own right simply by strength of character, without ever having to kill. we know you can’t become a True Alpha if you kill someone before you can advance to that level, but what about after? what happens if a True Alpha kills someone?

i doubt you lose your alpha status/spark. that wouldn’t really make sense. instead, i think that maybe when a True Alpha corrupts by intentionally taking a life, the werewolf part of them corrupts too. it withers. it darkens. and it turns their shift into something even less human, but also less werewolf - more demon than anything.

this also fits in with that s4 scene with scott, because that scene is the only one where scott comes close to actually murdering someone. the Dark Shift starts to take over, but then, importantly, he stops, and doesn’t actually kill the guy he’s attacking. and the Dark Shift recedes, and we never see it on scott again. he never gets that close to killing someone again.

also ALSO! if deucalion was a True Alpha, but then was corrupted, that would even further explain (a) how he seemed to be so knowledgeable about True Alphas even without knowing scott at all and (b) why he was so desperate to corrupt scott. in morrell’s words, psychologically speaking deucalion both “desires” scott (as a reminder of what he once achieved) and is “threatened by” scott (as someone who is still capable of becoming a True Alpha and thus being “better” than deucalion himself, who is a former True Alpha, now corrupt). 

and as morrell says, if the obsessive can’t have the object of his desire, then he will choose to destroy it instead. think of scott in the beginning of season 4, feeling so threatened by liam’s skill in lacrosse that he accidentally plays too hard and injuries him. i mean, hell, think back to season 1, with jackson feeling threatened when scott suddenly becomes way better at lacrosse than he is. remember this quote?

“Do you know what it's like to be the best player on the team? To be the star? To have every single person at the game chanting your name? And then... some kid... some kid just comes along, and then everyone starts looking at him instead of you. Do you know what that feels like? [...] Well, it feels like something's been... it feels like something's been stolen from you. And then you start to feel like you'd do anything-- anything in the world-- to get it back.”

for deucalion, scott becoming a True Alpha would be a taunting reminder of everything he lost, the person he used to be, the person that was ripped from him along with both his literal and metaphorical vision. deucalion having been a True Alpha makes his obsession with scott - and specifically with corrupting scott - make a whoooole lot more sense.

TL;DR: Deucalion was a True Alpha before he corrupted by killing his own beta, and intentionally taking a life caused his werewolf form to turn dark and evil-looking. this is also what starts to happen to scott in season 4, but it never takes because scott doesn’t actually go through with killing the guy.

#teen wolf #deucalion #scott mccall #i don't know how to tag this #teen wolf meta #tw #stuff #mine #tldr is under the cut if you wanna skip to the point of this post #the best thing about this theory is that i'm pretty sure there's nothing in canon that directly contradicts it #in a way i think demon wolf deucalion is kind of like theo #he lost his chance to be Perfect and Good and Admirable but if he can't have it then NO ONE CAN #that's why he insists on having the members of his pack murder their own packs #he needs to drag them all down to his level #he's a corrupt true alpha. that's worse than just a regular werewolf who murdered. it means his entire moral compass is corrupt #so he needs to corrupt the members of his pack as much as possible to make them as irredeemable as he is #just like theo. theo wants the dark side of scott's pack - void stiles/coyote whose instinct is to kill/beta with anger issues #like...theo doesn't want scott in the pack because scott threatens the part of theo that can never be That Good #he needs everyone to be as bad as he is so no one can have the moral high ground on him #anyway!!!!!! #if anyone has any thoughts at all about this PLEASE drop by my inbox i beg of you #i am all ears #even if what you have is canon evidence that this theory does not hold #simply so i can know i'm wrong and continue believing this anyway #i know deaton (i think it's deaton?) says true alphas only come along once every hundred years or so #but if deucalion WAS a true alpha that means he became a true alpha at LEAST forty years before scott did. and most likely even before then #and it was technically in a different century.......so i think it counts #posts to draft at 4am and then post when more people will be awake to read them lmao

[scribeoffate]

truedemon + "for the last time, it was not a kiss" ?

thank you! "For the last time," Scott dodges one of the arrows zipping toward them and pushes Deucalion out of the way of another one. "it was not a kiss."

Deucalion throws him to the ground just in time for a spray of bullets to fill the air. The sweet scent of woflsbane clogs his nostrils, doing absolutely nothing to mask Deucalion's lust.

"I beg to differ," Deucalion answers mildly as they listen to the hunters yelling instructions to each other.

"That is such a stupid phrase," Scott says, rolling onto his knees and finding cover behind a wall of trees. "You aren't begging for anything," he whispers to Deucalion.

Deucalion grins, showing a little fang. "I might be persuaded to beg for another taste of your lips." Scott swallows his groan. The hunters seem to be dispersing, assuming they've run further into the forest. It will be easier to pick them off now, one by one.

"You've not answered my query," Deucalion says, as though they're lounging by the pool. "About another kiss." Scott rolls his eyes. "For the last time...." Request a Ficlet

#teen wolf #scott mccall #deucalion #truedemon #teen wolf rarepair #teen wolf rarepair character of the month #they go on like that until forever #or scott kisses deucalion for real #whichever comes first