I’m repeating myself but I keep getting questions about Scott’s “True Alpha” powers.
Scott has no “True Alpha” powers because “True Alpha” isn’t a status. It only describes
a method of achieving the regular alpha status.
Let me repeat that – true alpha is the method it is not a special status.
In the Teen Wolf Universe most either inherit an alpha spark or steal it.
But there is a third way to get one.
Deaton: It's rare.
Something that doesn't happen within a hundred years, but every once in a while a beta can
become an alpha without having to steal or take that power.
They call it a "true alpha".
It's one who rises purely on the strength of character, by virtue, by sheer force of will.
Scott’s moral superiority was enough to push his little werewolf spark up to alpha level.
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.
And in Scott’s case, he made that extra bit of power himself.
It’s an unusual way to attain the status.
Most people are not that good and so it doesn’t happen often.
But Scott has no special powers beyond being able to make more werewolves, a little bit
more strength and faster healing which are things that all alphas claim.
Now, one canonical caveat - because Scott’s spark is unusual and unique to him because
he made it inside himself – it is not compatible with any other spark in the Teen Wolf universe.
My theory is that all the alpha sparks were made by Zeus, all at the same time, when he
transformed a single family of 50 into wolves back in Arcadia.
All werewolves in the world today are linked to that divine lightening and all alpha werewolves
in the world today except Scott got their little bit extra from that original Zeus spark.
Scott’s extra didn’t come from Zeus – he made it himself so his alpha bits are not
compatible with any of the other werewolves.
A regular beta or omega werewolf could try to steal Scott’s spark but they wouldn’t
be able to keep it because it’s simply not compatible with the spark they have.
It wouldn’t stick with the new host.
The exception to that is that anyone Scott shared his spark with – in the current universe
that’s Hayden and Liam – could take his alpha spark because they are the only ones
who are fully compatible with it, because they were made from that specific spark.
What follows is a spoiler for Teen Wolf: The Movie. It’s from the trailer that was
released at ComicCon so it’s out there but if you’re avoiding spoilers you have about
three seconds to ditch this video. Three. Two. One.
This tiny sliver of a scene and my analysis of it suggesting that it looks like Scott
is taking someone’s pain and that it reminded me of when Derek did it for Cora – prompted
a lot of people to ask if Scott could lose his alpha spark by transference as Derek did
in the healing process.
The answer is yes – he could.
Will it happen?
I don’t know but it certainly could because the transference of energy does flow both
ways as Deucalion described in Season 5.
Deucalion: Feel that Theo?
That's the secret to taking power.
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.