“the chance of Liam becoming a true alpha is less than zero. He lost any chance of that happening the moment he tried to kill Scott, making his own choice to attack his alpha to save his girlfriend” Liam has every right to prioritize Hayden over Scott, the guy who assaulted him out of jealousy, kidnapped him, and bit him against his will. Also: Liam doesn’t need an obnoxious “true alpha” title to be relevant (unlike Scott.) He beat the crap out of Scott effortlessly despite being only a beta.
Little troll, you should know, before you start feeling in any way important, that the only reason I’m responding to you, is because right now I need a distraction. My father died three days ago, and we’re having his funeral in two days. Just to show you how meaningless you and your bullshit are to me
I know it’s hard for you to accept that Teen Wolf didn’t focus around your bland boring cliché white faves.
See if Teen Wolf had been your typical cliché show, it would have had a basic boring and bland lead like Stiles. The typical sarcastic asshole you see on every single show out there, who can be used as the bland self insert with no actual personality for viewers to have to give a fuck about.
That or the typical cliché dark broody anti hero, like say Derek, whom you also see on every single show out there.
That’s the usual combo. It’s cliché, it’s overdone, it’s boring as fuck. It’s pretty much the fast-food of fanfic. Like going to McDonalds. You know the food sucks, but it’s familiar, and you know just what you’re going to get every single time.
Instead Teen Wolf focused on a character who was different. Who wasn’t your typical cliché reckless hero throwing himself into fights without thinking. He wasn’t like Stiles, or Derek, or Liam... you know, the usual, the kind of hero, you get in every single show out there.
Instead they took the heart of the show, the kind one, the gentle one.The one who thinks before he acts, and tries to talk things out instead of getting into needless fights. Who encourages the others to think of solutions other than murder as their first option. The one who in most other shows is the moral center that everyone looks to for guidance and support, and made him the lead instead.
Scott was awkward, and flawed, but he grew, learned from his mistakes. Even if often his worst mistake was going along with Stiles bad ideas.
And unlike your usual lead, when he made a mistake he took responsibility for it.
When he accidentally hurt Liam, after being egged on by Stiles, he went to look him up in the hospital, because he knew he screwed up. Which lead to him saving Liam’s life, and unfortunately to having to bite Liam to keep him from falling. Unlike Peter, Scott didn’t abandon his newly bitten beta. Unlike Derek, he didn’t trick him into a situation where hunters would try and capture and/or kill him. Instead, he tried to keep him safe. Scott’s not the best at acting impulsively (that’s more Stiles’ thing), but he was trying to help Liam, and keep him from hurting anyone.
But after that screw up with introducing Liam to his new life, he didn’t give up on him. He tried to copy Derek’s method, the whole ‘we are brothers now’, because it was the only example he had. And when that non surprisingly didn’t work, he still kept trying. Not to control Liam, or to manipulate him, like Derek did to Scott, but in order to protect Liam, because he knew Liam needed it. Even if Liam didn’t yet know so.
He found his own way to help Liam, and for months after that, he spent training Liam, taking care of Liam, protecting Liam, supporting Liam, being there for Liam in a way that no one was there for Scott, when Scott needed it the most.
Not because Scott got anything out of it, but because unlike Derek, unlike Peter, Scott is a good Alpha, and he cares for others before himself.
I know you look at any excuse to denigrate Scott, because it pisses you off that the Latino hero of the show was a better person, and a better werewolf than your white faves. That Scott as a character was so much more interesting than your white faves, that the grand majority of teen wolf fics, feel they have to take Scott’s personality, and give it to Stiles, and/or Derek, in order to make their white faves even halfway interesting enough to write about
I know it pisses you off that Scott managed to become a True Alpha, a position he gained in part by standing up to Derek and Peter, a storyline that was not some ‘chosen one’ cliché, but was instead a step in his development, as part of his story of growing up. That Scott needed to learn to realize who he was as a person. That he didn’t have to become like Peter, or even like Derek.That he could be better than either of them.
Other people like @princeescaluswords have already written better meta on what it meant on Teen Wolf to be a True Alpha. And why there is no chance that Liam would ever become one.
In big part because he lacks both the virtue, the strength of character and force of will, that Scott displayed over and over.
Other people have already written better meta on how the only reasons Liam managed to win that fight were threefold.
1.Scott wasn’t fighting to kill, or even defeat Liam. He was trying to keep Liam from making the worst mistake of Liam’s life. Because he knew what it would do to Liam, if he managed to kill someone.
2. The supermoon, and how it affected Liam who gave in to it, vs Scott who was fighting it
3. Scott had been poisoned with wolfsbane by Theo.
All of which were made clear in canon.
Scott righteously could have killed Liam for that attack. He had every right to either kill or exile Liam, for that attempted murder, for leaving Scott vulnerable to Theo. But Scott didn’t do so, because he is a better person than that. Which is once again, part of what makes him a True Alpha.
the fact that he cares about others before himself. And often does so at expense of his own needs.
See, for all its flaws, Teen Wolf did something, a lot of shows refuse to do. It said that physical strength does not make you better than people. That just cause you can beat someone up, does not make you ‘the hero’, it does not make you right.
That killing is too black and white a solution, and that revenge is a cycle that will only end if you reach out your hand and try for other options.
Those are the lessons it taught through Scott McCall, and what makes him the hero and the lead of the show, and what made the show worth watching.
