Deucalion: Defiant aren't you?
Braeden: Because I know something. I know you're afraid of him.
Deucalion: Of a teenage boy?
Braeden: Of the man he'll become.
Deucalion: I'm aware of a certain potential threat.
It's just not true to say that Deucalion was scared of Scott like
like a little kid is scared of the dark. It's more accurate to say that Deucalion
thought of Scott the way conservatives think of socialists. The mere idea of a true alpha is so
alien to Deucalion's emotional status quo that it threatens his entire way of thinking.
There's another exchange that's important to this aspect of the Deucalion/Scott dynamic.
Morrel: He wants a true alpha in his pack. He thinks it's you.
Scott: Then what is he waiting for? What does he want me to do?
Morrel: He wants to make a killer out of you. That's what he does.
Scott: But if I kill someone, I can't be a true alpha. Right?
Morrel: You want the psychologist's perspective? He's an obsessive
who both desires you and is threatened by you.
Morrel does a good job of explaining Deucalion's specific brand of crazy.
He is desperate to possess the rare thing but at the same time he can't bear for the rare thing to
exist. The latter part of that psychosis is the key to answering the overall fear question.
Why does the idea of Scott as a true alpha [ __ ] with Deucalion so much?
My own diagnosis of Deucalion, based on how he formed the alpha pack and
their subsequent reputation, is one of deep trauma leading to psychosis.
The incident with Gerard and the subsequent physical trauma of blinding paired with the
betrayal of his beta trying to take advantage of his perceived weakness,
created the Deucalion we met at the start of season three.
The person that emerged from all that was psychotic in the classic sense
that he's no longer in touch with reality.
No, that's not quite right. Let's say he rejected the reality that he'd known before and made a
new life around an entirely false reality that all power comes from violence and destruction.
He quite literally became a zealot of his own religion. He convinced Ennis to
join him by promising that Deucalion's way was the only way to gain enough power to
stand toe-to-toe with the hunters and to seek revenge. Ennis in turn brought Kali
into the fold. She was apparently blinded by love for Ennis because her actions with Jennifer
suggest she wasn't actually on board with Deucalion's whole philosophy.
Then Deucalion began looking for unique alphas to add to the pack.
He was thinking that this would somehow increase his power in a new way.
He found the twins and the boys had been abused in their packs so they were
totally on board with killing everybody once they had the power.
But they too showed doubts in the truth of the Church of Deucalion.
So now we come to Scott McCall a bitten werewolf who somehow managed to defeat an insane
and powerful alpha, stop a kanima, and bring Deucalion's nemesis Gerard Argent to his knees.
Rumors spread quickly. The werewolf community in northern California is apparently small enough
for word to travel and Deucalion set his sights on possessing Scott.
But here's Deucalion's dilemma, a true alpha, which everyone agrees Scott had
the potential to become, would be a powerful addition to his pack.
But a true alpha would also prove definitively that violence and destruction
are not the only way to gain power.
In other words, Scott, by his mere existence,
proves that everything Deucalion stands for is a lie.
For Deucalion's worldview to stand, Scott must not become a true alpha
and must only gain power the way Deucalion did, by killing.
Any other outcome is unacceptable because it will shatter all of his delusions.
This overwhelming desire to preserve this altered reality leads Deucalion to make stupid
and self-destructive moves like wasting all the time advantage he had before the lunar eclipse
in a futile attempt to get Scott to kill Jennifer.