Hello there.
You might have noticed that my video output has been more frequent over the past
week or so. That is because I’m in a brain phase where each idea I have sparks two more ideas.
Like the thing I did on druids got me thinking about the darach and that got
me thinking about how some villains died well and others not so much.
Now, if I were a wise YouTuber, I would save up these video ideas and just keep
to my regular weekly release schedule, get ahead of the game in other words.
But no one ever accused me of being a wise YouTuber so here I am again.
The thing I did earlier in the week about Peter “controlling” Lydia
got me thinking about the werewolf spark and led to a bit of an epiphany.
Actually, I can track this particular train of thought right through my last several videos back
to the druid thing because the original werewolf spark came from the Greek god Zeus. And I believe
that original divine lightening bolt is still flowing through the Teen Wolf universe today.
If you’re here watching anyway, you really should consider subscribing. Or you can just
peruse through the channel. I bet that if you have a question about Teen Wolf,
I’ve probably answered it at some point in an earlier video.
As I said, I was researching the druid thing, the fact that the power of the
telluric currents is actual electricity and that the original werewolves were
created by Zeus’ lightning bolts and suddenly I’ve got a theory.
Anya (singing): I've got a theory. It could be bunnies.
Um, no. Not bunnies. My theory was that the werewolf spark is literally
Zeus’ lightning bolt, a bit of divine electricity, still flowing through all werewolves today.
Again, this is my personal theory and while there are elements of canon involved,
the conclusions are mine alone.
First some science. Right now your body is producing about a hundred watts of electricity.
All human cells are fired up with the stuff and our brains are crackling with it.
Deaton: Life is energy.
Energy doesn't just disappear.
So, Zeus got mad at Lycaon and zapped him and 49 of his sons, turning them into wolves.
In doing so, he irreversibly changed the electricity in their bodies
giving it a touch of the divine or a bit of a curse, depending on your viewpoint.
Gerard: The part that's lesser known is how Lycaon sought out the
druids to help turn him back to human.
and they couldn’t remove Zeus’ lightning
but they could teach the wolves to shapeshift back to human.
Zeus’ power remained in these first alpha werewolves and a tiny piece of
that divine spark was passed on whenever they fathered children or when they bite someone.
Derek: You've been given something that most people would kill for.
The bite is a gift
Now, I’d always thought this was a poetic turn of phrase. But what if
it’s literal. Alpha werewolves gift a bit of that Zeus power to people they bite.
Each time a tiny bit of the divine spark passed into another person,
it turned them into a werewolf. That little spark wasn’t as strong as the original,
but the original also wasn’t diminished by passing it on. It remained the
alpha spark as originally created by Zeus.
Peter: It's that spark of power that makes you an alpha.
That spark that intensifies the color of your eyes from a bright yellow into a searing red.
That’s my theory. The werewolf spark is electrical
and traces all the way back to the original inciting incident in ancient Arcadia.
It would actually explain quite a bit of what we saw werewolves do.
Just this week I did the thing on how werewolves can transfer information
directly into another person’s nervous system.
Memories are a combination of electricity and chemical storage.
The werewolf spark works in a similar fashion. It is shared through a bite or a deep slash when a
part of the spark from the Alpha doing the biting or slashing is transferred to another person.
The back of the neck thing we saw when they were doing the memory transference is a more
controlled version of this. It’s a skill to send memories down the connection but
any connection that’s deep enough seems to make a direct link to another person’s nervous system.
It apparently takes much deeper penetration to actually cause
spark sharing and transformation, but you get the idea.
And this theory also might explain why Alphas feel a bit of ownership over their betas. Part
of the their spark now resides in another person. It could be why Peter seemed to control Scott
in Season One, calling him out to the woods and sending him to kill his friends in Night School.
If my theory is correct, the red we saw in Scott’s eyes back then
was a reflection of Peter’s spark overriding Scott’s free will,
basically connecting to that bit of itself inside Scott.
And since energy cannot be destroyed, when an Alpha is killed by another werewolf,
that extra Zeus spark leaves the body and connects with the spark in the killer.
Derek: I'm the alpha now.
When a werewolf is killed by a human or dies by some other means, the energy attaches itself to
a living spark with the strongest familial link. That could be how inherited Alpha Status works.
We also saw that time Derek used up his Alpha spark doing the impossible and healing Cora.
His spark wasn’t destroyed. He was still a werewolf after, but he gave
that alpha energy to her to reinforce her spark and cure her. Under my theory,
the Hale spark is now divided in both of them but neither has enough of it to be alpha.
Again, it’s just my theory and it could be completely wrong. It certainly doesn’t
necessarily explain things like drinking water from a wolf’s paw or True Alphas. Unless ...
No.
Wait a second.
Bear with me here. Every werewolf regardless of status has a bit of
Zeus’ divine spark. It’s not as strong as the original Alpha sparks but it’s still divine.
What if, by being a good person, morally superior and well-loved by
your pack, you increase the power of that bit of spark that you have?
True Alpha’s are so good that their
own spirit adds a touch of the divine to their existing spark and pushes it up to Alpha status.
That would also explain why only werewolves Scott shared his spark with
can take his Alpha spark because it is unique to him
and therefore incompatible with all the other sparks in the world.
Actually, this makes sense on a wider scale. Werewolves with the support of their pack,
that emotional backing that lone wolves seem to lack,
would, over time, add their own positive energy to the sparks.
On the darker side of that equation, it could be why Deucalion got more energy
from killing his own betas. They’d spent their lives adding to the little bit of
spark that he gave them. When he took it back, it was stronger than before.
Deucalion: Take their pain. Take their life. Take their power.
It's all or nothing. You take until there's nothing more to give.
That's where you find the spark of power.
And then you take that as well.
Hmm. That seems to leave only the Beast and his wet paw print situation.
Yeah, I got nothing on that. Maybe it’ll come to me later.
Thanks for being here. Comment with your thoughts on my theory if you have any.
I’ll see you next time we go back to Beacon Hills.