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i am making your story I swear-

Should I show my oc in the meantime?

This in regards to an ask about my favorite scenes.  

Season 4:  “He said we shouldn't try. But now I've got you. I got an Alpha.”

As a matter of fact, Violet, you do.  I love this scene from I.E.D. (4x05) because it shows that Scott, like all other alphas, is fully capable of violence, he simply chooses not to indulge in it.  It shows that Scott, like all other werewolves, is fully capable of anger, he simply chooses not to indulge it.  No one would blame him if he tore Violet’s head off in an act of self-defense.  She wasn’t a helpless victim forced into attacking him or twisted by an incautious Bite or dark experiments into an out-of-control monster.  She was an assassin trying to collect the twenty-five million dollar bounty on his head.  She was part of a team who had killed at least one werewolf and were targeting many of his friends.  He had the opportunity, the capability, and more than enough reasons to end her.  He chose not to.

Did Scott sometimes get his ass kicked because he was reluctant to resort to violence?   Absolutely.  That’s the price you pay for valuing other’s lives regardless of what they mean to you.   The show repeatedly focused on the pointlessness of revenge -- it’s theme was everyone has darkness in them, even the best of us.  When extremist fandom tries to argue that the world would be so much better if Scott (but more often Stiles and Derek and Peter) would just kill the people who threatened them, they forget the lesson of the show -- anyone can threaten them.  Not just hunters, not just other werewolves, not just other supernatural creatures or knowledgeable humans, but anyone -- even Sydney, the senior worried about passing the SATs because her parents can’t get her into college.  Ruthless killing to make yourself safe creates a world of corpses.  

Season 5A: “Let me see it.” “It’s fine.” “Let me see it.”

I love this scene in Parasomnia (5x02) for the same reason I love the one I talked about above, though the show comes at it from the opposite angle.  Sure, it’s a testament to Scott’s and Stiles’ friendship, but it’s more than that.   Stiles has not had a good day.  He’s shouted at people in the library, “I don’t need anyone!”   He’s dragged Liam into stalking Theo.  He got caught by Theo in an embarrassing situation.  He’s frustrated and angry at himself and he takes that anger out on Scott.  “Because you trust everyone!”   Scott does trust everyone, except of course Derek and Peter, and Gerard, and Deucalion, and the twins, and Noshiko, but let’s not go through the first sixty episodes of the show and find all the people that Scott didn’t trust because Stiles’s anger isn’t about Scott, it’s about his own sense that Scott shouldn’t trust him.  

Scott has every reason to not focus on helping Stiles or to brush off that Stiles is in pain.  Stiles has expressed -- in an aggressive fashion -- that he doubts Scott and that he thinks Scott is dangerously wrong.  He’s been mean and thoughtless.  But Scott doesn’t, because Scott’s compassion isn’t reserved for those who deserve it or those who treat him well.  He’s going to help Stiles the way he helped Derek at the beginning of Season 3A, the way he will help Peter in Season 6a.  He’s helping them because they need help.  And that’s all.

Season 5B: “Go upstairs.”

I love this scene in The Maid of Gevaudan (5x18) because this is the ultimate choice that Scott makes.  He’s preparing to die in the same place he felt his heart stop before, but this time, it’s his choice.  He’s been fighting La Bete for the entire episode, and he can’t beat it.   But he won’t -- not can’t, but won’t -- run away while the Beast kills the people hiding in the library.   There’s nothing good in this library for him.  He’s not far from where Theo revealed himself as the First Chimera and then stuck his claws into his chest.  He’s not far where Liam announced that he wanted to kill him and beat him to the point of death.  He’s not far from Allison’s initials.  He has every reason to run.  He can survive.  They can’t.  He probably knows who they are, but they’re not his friends. One of them, Nolan, will even become his enemy.  But he’s helping them because they need help.

And he’s ready to die for that.

This is ultimate expression of the True Alpha path that he started on.  This is what Deaton believed, what Boyd acknowledged, what Deucalion obsessed over, what Kate and Peter could never understand.  When people talk about Scott being weak or arrogant or stupid, they miss the entire point of the story.  It’s not weak to find another way other than violence; it’s not arrogant to have hope for everyone; it’s not stupid to put others before yourself.

Season 6B: Waiting for the Fall

I love this scene in Raw Talent (6x02) because this is the payoff.  Theo is homeless and lonely, and he just had a frightening encounter with something that he doesn’t understand.  He was a power-obsessed, manipulative product of twisted science and an abusive upbringing.  He’s a sarcastic, sneering atheist and realist who doesn’t believe in anything or anyone.  And right there in that moment, he’s struggling to call someone for help.  Who?  Not the police.  Not the powerful.  He’s struggling to call Scott, the person who will help him because he needs help.

This is how a True Alpha changes the world.  This is how any hero like Scott McCall changes the world.  Teen Wolf had a lot of flaws -- huge, gaping, ugly flaws -- but it had a powerful theme and it stuck to it.  What would Allison have become if Scott had ran in fear when he found out her family hunted werewolves?  What type of blood-soaked alpha would Derek have become by trying to recreate his family through violence?  There are so many lives that Scott made better simply by being willing to try: Stiles’s, Lydia’s, Chris Argent’s, Liam’s, and so on.  

In summary, I love this show.