I was just thinking about how the Argent family is matriarchal, with the girls trained to be leaders and the boys trained to be foot soldiers, and how the family fell apart when a man took over and refused to give up power he was never supposed to have.

And how Talia Hale was a very rare Alpha who could take full wolf form (something that requires evolving, as per Derek's remark at the end of s4), and while she wasn't as idealistic as Deucalion, she was on board with trying to reach some sort of peace with the hunters, and Laura inherited her Alpha powers naturally when Talia died, without having to kill her, herself. I bet Talia also came to power in a similar way, through lineage rather than murder (unless it was explicitly stated otherwise in the show and I missed it). Easy enough to headcanon that the Hales, too, were matrilineal/matriarchal when the pack still existed.

Peter was never meant to be an Alpha. Neither was Derek. They were both pretty terrible at it, for different reasons. And now I'm thinking one of those reasons is that Laura was meant to pass that power down to a daughter one day, or to her little sister, Cora.

And Mekhi Phifer 🥵

Holy fuck, this man is sexy! 😍

👆Father

👆Son

Dells has no idea, until Mac comes to see the game. Ty awkwardly introduces Mac as "your dad" (and that's how Dells learns he and Ty don't have the same father) and he and Mac move away from everyone to talk.

Mac had a pretty great career as a pro ball player, and never quite outgrew his fuck the baseball groupies phase (it was never an issue with his boyfriend - now husband, now that they're both retired - Roper anyway; half the time they shared women) until that one pregnancy scare that turned out to be more than just a scare. He admits to being kind of a dick to Dells' mom about it, so she refused to let him be in his kid's life.

Dells struggles to wrap his head around being the son of a super fucking famous baseball player.