Wait. Wait a dang minute. I have a theory.
So I know one of the discussions I’ve seen floating around is ‘why Theo’. What made the DDs specifically go after this one 9 year old boy, what made him special. And here’s my little take on it.
What made Theo special? Nothing. We know the DDs target kids in bad situations - see; Tracey, Josh, Corey, etc - kids who can disappear for days at a time without anyone raising any red flags, and from that we can assume Theo and Tara’s parents were maybe not great too. We also know they’ve been playing at making chimeras/trying to make The Beast for quite a number of years.
So who’s to say Theo wasn’t just one of another batch like the S5 chimeras? Ten years earlier, starting with younger kids, maybe, and that being The First Chimera is being the first chimera that survived. Why? That’s the fun part. There’s any number of explanations; because he was stubborn, because he’s a survivor, because there was something slightly different in his genetic makeup that unlocked the next puzzle piece in the DD’s jigsaw Frankenstein, because he refuses to die and it adds just another layer to the nuance of parallels between him and Scott. Normal nothing loser kid becomes Something Else and the support system they have in the aftermath structures their entire life.
And the best part is Theo probably doesn’t even remember, just knows that once he was a Success, the First, but that wasn’t quite enough and the Doctors moved on and he’s spent the rest of his life chasing the feeling of being important in the worst way possible.
Something about the idea of Season 2/3 Scott looking at his baby pack at the time with that sweet summer child vibe they had before The Horrors started Happening and going ‘I don’t know what I’d do without you guys’ and then the scene cutting to a sixteen year old Theo murdering some guy because he’s spent seven years being moulded into a weapon to be aimed and fired because he might not have been good enough for The Beast but he was still an excellent tool for furthering the cause.
