Peter Hale

Peter Hale. He is the younger brother of the late Alpha Talia Hale, the uncle of the late Laura, Derek, and Cora Hale, and the biological father of Malia Tate.He was also the Alpha who turned Scott McCall into a Werewolf, and who bit Lydia Martin and activated her latent Banshee powers.

Peter is an intelligent, manipulative, and power hungry person who is always looking for an advantage in life, regardless of which form it comes. He is very adept at reading people, and uses his knowledge of how people work to manipulate them into doing what he wants them to do, such as when he tried to give Melissa McCall the Bite and when he threatened to attack Allison Argent in order to coerce Scott McCall into joining his pack. Due to growing up as the younger brother to the well-respected and powerful Alpha Talia Hale, Peter developed an inferiority complex that caused him to constantly strive for more power and a higher status, and he insisted that the Hale Pack needed to be stronger and more ruthless against the hunters. As it turned out, Peter's fears were not totally unfounded, as Talia's diplomatic approach to dealing with the hunters allowed them to be easily killed by Kate Argent. After the fire, Peter's thirst for power and revenge became so great that he planned on killing anyone who was even so much as remotely involved in the arson plot; to this end, he lured his own niece Laura to Beacon Hills and ended up killing her in order to become the Alpha himself. Peter claims that the killing of his niece was unintentional, but Scott, Stiles, and Cora seem to believe otherwise; though the memories Peter shared with Scott lent credence to Peter's claims, as well as that fact the Peter was at the time driven by instinct. However, it was later revealed that Peter, with help from his nurse, purposely lured Laura back to Beacon Hills using the dead deer with the revenge spiral burned into its fur. This suggests several possibilities as to his motives; Peter could have been at least considering stealing Laura's Alpha power prior to her return to town, which indicates premeditation, or he could have wanted to gain her help in seeking his revenge and lost control when she rejected him. Regardless of which explanation is the truth, what is certain is that Peter did intentionally summon Laura to Beacon Hills.After being resurrected as an exceptionally weak Omega, Peter demonstrated his patient and scheming nature when he decided to bide his time and regain his strength before returning to his plan to become an Alpha once again. He isn't against helping others when it suits him, but he will rarely do so without making a deal to gain something in return; it might be money, an object, a favor or information, but whatever it is, the payment he demands will always benefit him somehow. Peter is exceptionally observant, and always pays attention to those around him, carefully filing away details and secrets that are revealed by others in his presence in case they can help him gain an advantage later on, particularly when it comes to the McCall Pack after they slowly stopped viewing him as a direct threat to their work in protecting Beacon Hills

Peter is a handsome, muscular man of medium stature with brown hair, blue eyes, and lightly tanned skin. He's a sophisticated man who often wears well-tailored jeans and blazers with henleys or v-neck t-shirts, the latter of which has gained him the nickname "Satan in a V-Neck." Peter often has a goatee or facial scruff and has taken to wearing his hair smoothed back in an elegant style. He appears to be in his mid-late 30s due to Werewolflongevity, but according to his hospital records, he's actually in his 40s.

Super strength: Peter' strength is such that he shattered the surface of a stone support column in the Hale Vault with a backhand and was able to knock out a Beta-level Werewolf in one punch, a fact that even Derek found shocking. Super Speed: Peter is and has even appeared out of nowhere at times; during his time as a captive of the Wild Hunt, Peter startled Stiles by appearing next to him when seconds earlier, he was a fair distance away. Super Durability: Peter is much more durable and resistant to blunt force trauma than the average Werewolf, as evidenced numerous times, including his battles with the the twins at the hospital, surviving a Wolfsbane-laced tomahawk to his chest, and surviving severe, full-body burns on three separate occasions. Super Senses: Peter' senses are very acute, with his sense of smell being so sensitive that he was able to track the Werejaguar Kate Argent into the sewer underneath the water treatment plant even despite all the chemicals in the water she was using to cover her scent, and he was able to identify his daughter Malia's scent from several floors away after being separated for over three months. Shapeshifting: Like all Werewolves, Peter has the ability to shapeshift his features into those of a wolf; when he was an Alpha, he was able to transform into a monstrous, bestial wolf, though this ability has since been lost.

Healing Disruption: As an Alpha Werewolf, Peter used to have the ability to cause wounds in Beta or Omega-level werecreatures that partially disrupted their regenerative abilities and thus caused them to take longer to heal than normal. Memory Manipulation: Peter is adept at using his ability to view the memories of another person by piercing the back of their neck with his claws and entering their mind. However, this process is typically only performed by Alphas, due to the amount of control and practice it takes to do it without causing paralysis or death to the person whose mind they're entering.

Skilled Manipulator: Peter is extremely good at manipulating others into doing as he wants, due in part to his highly-attuned ability to read people and understand their motivations. He knows exactly when to play nice and pretends to be an ally and when to finally reveal his true plans.

Skilled Tactician: Peter has an exceptional ability to plan his schemes in advance, which, when paired with his patience and ability to keep his plans close to the vest, allows him to fly under the radar without anyone knowing what he's up to.

Peter possesses the standard weaknesses of an Omega-level Werewolf, including vulnerability to wolfsbane, mountain ash, Letharia Vulpina or "wolf lichen," the Modified Canine Distemper Virus, and electricity. He is also susceptible to the effects of the full moon and supermoon, though, as an older born Werewolf with decades of experience, Peter has not struggled with the moon's effects since before his brief stint as an Alpha. Peter, like all werecreatures, is also vulnerable to the effects of the lunar eclipse, which will cause him to lose his powers for as long as the moon is in the earth's umbral shadow.