| “ | Boyd: "It's okay..." Derek: "No, no... No, it's not... it's not..." Boyd: "It's all okay, Derek..." Derek: "I'm-I'm sorry." Boyd: "The full moon? That feeling? That was worth it. There's a lunar eclipse... I always wondered what... what that felt like for one of us... for a Werewolf..." |
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The relationship between Werewolves Vernon Boyd and Derek Hale
Boyd was the third and final person Derek had bitten and turned with the intention of adding to his new pack shortly after becoming Alpha. Though Boyd seemingly only agreed to the transformation out of a desire for friends, as he was an outcast in school, he eventually grew to care for Derek and his fellow Betas, Isaac Lahey and Erica Reyes. Derek seemed to value Boyd's silent, observant personality and relied on him as his lieutenant for many of their missions, including the standoff between them and the Argent Hunters in Season 2's Raving.
However, the stresses of being a Werewolf in Beacon Hills at the time (namely the threat of the aforementioned Argent Hunters and the string of violence and murder committed by the Kanima and its master) that Boyd, along with his best friend Erica, decided to leave the pack and seek out another to join in an area that wasn't under so much pressure. Unfortunately for them both, this resulted in them being first kidnapped and tortured by Gerard Argent before being released and then caught and held captive by the Alpha Pack as a way to manipulate Derek, who they wanted to join their ranks.
Despite Boyd leaving the pack, Derek never gave up on looking for them and was willing to do whatever it took to get him and Erica back safely, even if it meant risking his own life; though Derek did survive the rescue, he did get trapped in the bank vault by Marin Morrell and her Mountain Ash and was mauled by the feral Boyd and his long-lost younger sister Cora, who was held captive with Boyd and Erica by the Alpha Pack. Boyd was devastated by the death of Erica at the hands of the Alpha Kali but still rejoined Derek's pack upon returning to the fold.
Boyd continued to be a loyal packmate and Beta to Derek, even as Scott McCall, a recently revealed ascending True Alpha, began to attract his packmate Isaac toward his own pack. He proved this when he and Isaac skipped school upon learning that the Alpha Pack intended to confront Derek at his loft that night; it was Boyd who came up with the idea to flood Derek's loft and use electricity to either weaken or kill the Alphas upon their arrival to the apartment, and this plan would have worked if the Alphas had not been tipped off and cut the power prior to entering.
Though Derek forbade Boyd or Isaac from interfering with his fight with Kali, Boyd was unable to hold back when he saw Kali getting the upper hand, which resulted in him being electrocuted when Stiles, Lydia, and Cora arrived to turn the power back on. The furious Kali then forced her fellow Alphas Ethan and Aiden to hold Derek's clawed hands while they impaled Boyd with them, causing Derek to involuntarily steal Boyd's power and ultimately take his life, as the electrical shock kept him from healing as he normally would. While Derek blamed himself for Boyd's death, Boyd assured him that it wasn't his fault and made it clear that his time as a Werewolf made his life worth it. The guilt Derek felt as a result of losing Boyd (as well as losing Erica earlier in the season) is what ultimately drove him to sacrifice his Alpha spark to save his sister Cora's life after she was poisoned with mistletoe, reverting him back to Omega status.
Fifteen years later, Derek would end up sacrificing himself to allow Jordan Parrish to incinerate the Nogitsune to death, causing him to be burned to death along with the Dark Kitsune and leaving his son Eli to be taken in by Scott McCall and his fellow McCall Pack members.
Throughout Teen Wolf[]
In Ice Pick, Derek had killed his uncle Peter Hale and stolen his Alpha powers, becoming an Alpha in his place. Unbeknownst to anyone but Derek himself, he was building a pack to help him gain power and stand against the Alpha Pack members who were heading to Beacon Hills to recruit him. He turned the abused teen Isaac Lahey and the epileptic Erica Reyes into Werewolves, only needing one more Beta to complete his pack. Boyd seemed perfect for the last spot due to him lacking many friends and having the habit of eating lunch alone, so Derek offered him the Bite.
Knowing that then-Omega Werewolf Scott McCall would likely interfere in his plan to turn Boyd, Derek, accompanied by Erica and Isaac tracked down Boyd and Scott to the high school, confronting them at the ice rink, where Boyd worked. Derek asked both Boyd and Scott to hear Erica and Isaac's opinions about being a Werewolf, with both stating that their lives had improved since they were bitten. Erica and Isaac then lunged for Scott and battled against him, but since Scott had been a Werewolf much longer than either of them, he had more experience and defeated them easily before sliding them across the rink.
Derek joined the fight and literally wiped the floor with Scott (thanks to his heightened Alpha powers) in order to reiterate his original message—that he shouldn't meddle in the personal decisions regarding himself and the members of his pack. After Derek left, Boyd approached the bloodied Scott to reveal that he had already gotten the Bite from Derek; when Scott insisted that he didn't want to be like Derek, Boyd agreed with him and admitted that he actually wanted to be like Scott.
In Abomination, Boyd was in the Railway Depot with Derek, Isaac, and Erica, where he watched as their Alpha trained the latter two Betas. Boyd smiled in amusement when both Erica and Isaac kept performing the same attacks over and over again.
At somepoint, Boyd rose to his feet and left the stands to join his new packmates, just as Derek was demanding Isaac and Erica to try anything less predictable. However, when Isaac complained about his broken bones, Derek broke his arm to reiterate the purpose of his lessons—he was teaching his new Betas how to survive rather than fight, as the Argent Hunters would not stop until they killed the four of them. Boyd and Erica started to grow frightened from their Alpha's harsh and aggressive manners. Derek finally let go Isaac to remind the teens that not only the Argents were a problem but they also had to deal with the unknown being that killed Isaac's father and, more recently, a mechanic last night, so, with these threats in mind, Derek would have to teach his new wolves as much as he knew ASAP.
In Venomous,
In Raving,
In Party Guessed,
In Battlefield,
In Master Plan,
In Tattoo,
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In Chaos Rising,
In Fireflies,
In Frayed,
In Currents,
In Visionary, in the wake of Boyd's demise, a guilt-ridden Derek decided to put distance between himself and his other packmates and remaining family members and was not seen in the next two days following Boyd's passing, according to Cora. At the end of the episode, he was seen at the Abandoned Distillery, which was where Derek and his teenage girlfriend Paige Krasikeva spent most of their time together. He was staring with grief at the spiral that Ennis had carved into the wall with his claws nearly a decade ago, implying his intention to get his revenge on the Alpha Pack for killing Erica and forcing him to kill Boyd.
In The Girl Who Knew Too Much, Derek met with Jennifer for the first time since Boyd's death. She was initially mad at him because the "I needed to be alone" was the worst excuse ever but then realized that he was still mourning Boyd's death and backtracked her comments. Despite Derek's attempts to reassure her that he returned to check if she were safe, she insisted that she had not felt like that lately, with the main reason being Ethan and Aiden walking around the school like they had nothing to do with the death of one of their fellow students. Derek assured her that he wouldn't let the twins nor the rest of the Alpha Pack harm her and asked her to return to the loft with him, but she refused, saying she not only had three more class to give but she was also organizing a recital to honor those who died the last weeks. They kissed one last time before they parted ways.
In The Overlooked, Jennifer was revealed to be the Darach committing human sacrifices through Beacon Hills and she became stuck in an elevator in Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital with Derek after the Alpha Pack members, who invaded the hospital to kill Jennifer, forced Melissa McCall to shut down the power to the hospital. Jennifer confessed that she had made oaths with the different human trios to "loan" her their power so she could make the Alpha Pack pay for their crimes against the human and supernatural populations and that their actions would never be overlooked like she was.
Derek insisted that the Alpha Pack couldn't be beaten but Jennifer was reminded of Boyd asking Derek what would happen to a Werewolf during a lunar eclipse. Although Derek did not have the time to tell Boyd before he died, he knew the answer. When asked the question, Deek reluctantly admitted that Werewolves would lose all their powers for the duration, giving Jennifer the perfect plan to take down Deucalion and the other Alphas.
In Alpha Pact, Isaac and Derek managed to take Cora back to the loft, where she was still suffering and dying from the effects of the Mistletoe that Jennifer used to poison her. When Derek had no idea if she was dying nor what to do to save her, Isaac blamed Derek for allowing Jennifer to manipulate him for so long and ranted on how his impulsivity and hot-headedness resulted in the deaths of both Boyd and Erica and pointed at the dying Cora, ranting, "You are doing nothing!"
Isaac began leaving the loft, intent in helping the future McCall Pack members in rescuing Melissa and Sheriff Stilinski from Jennifer's clutches, adding that Derek could stay there and "perfect the art of doing nothing" before he left for good the Hale Pack, contributing to Derek's grief and awareness that he had been a terrible leader and Alpha to those around him.
Overwhelmed with grief and guilt over how he put his packmates in danger because of his pursuit for more power, Derek ignored Peter's warnings that his Alpha powers were his power to fight back against Kali and decided to perform a ritual that would allow him to transfer his Alpha spark to Cora so she would have enough power to heal from the mistletoe.Trivia[]
- Though Boyd was the third and final person Derek turned in order to join his pack, he was the fourth of five people Derek had bitten during his short time as Alpha; Derek had bitten Jackson Whittemore immediately after stealing Peter Hale's Alpha powers with the hope that the bite would kill him, and he inadvertently bit Victoria Argent while trying to save Scott McCall from her, though he knew she would never be part of his pack.
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