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C H A R A C T E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: Scott McCall
Canon: Teen Wolf
Original or Alternate Universe: Original
Canon Point: end of S3
Number: RNG
Setting:
Beacon Hills, CA is basically a town in our modern day world except that it has a weird propensity to call supernatural creatures to it, and is home to some werewolves and werewolf hunters, in particular. And a Druid. And a Banshee. But other than that stuff, it's just California in 2013.
History:
Scott McCall was born in Beacon Hills to Rafael and Melissa Delgado McCall, a nurse and an FBI agent. Mr. McCall was an alcoholic, and when Scott was five years old, he accidentally pushed Scott down the stairs while arguing with his mother. Scott was briefly unconscious and woke with no memory of the incident, but Melissa through Rafael out of the house and he never came back. He grew up dorky and not very popular, but happy.
Eleven years later, Teen Wolf begins like the opening to a horror movie: rumors of half a dead body in the woods and two teenage idiots setting off at night in hopes of getting a glimpse and quickly end up separated. But even then, Scott McCall was already the hot girl in this story. Instead of ending up torn apart like the dorky sidekick he appears to be, he survives a harrowing attack by a mostly-unseen monster and when he emerges, it's with a remarkably flattering injury and stronger than before. He discovers he can hear conversations happening rooms away, smell gum in someone's pocket, catch every lacrosse ball thrown his way and no longer needs the inhaler he's been relying on all his life. Dogs react weirdly to him, he's sleep walking into the woods, and the resident asshole jock thinks he's on steroids, but who wants to focus on that when he's earned a spot as a starter and gotten a date with the pretty new girl.
His best friend Stiles figures it out before Scott does, but Scott doesn't want to hear it, too caught up in the benefits to take Stiles seriously, even though he wonders if he's losing his mind. The first full moon catches him largely unprepared and also introduces him to Derek Hale, who Scott suspects is the wolf that bit him. Derek is a werewolf, as it turns out, but he's not the one that turned Scott. He does a terrible job convincing Scott of this, acting generally like a creep and threatening to kill Scott if he plays lacrosse, since his sudden prowess is drawing attention to his unnatural new abilities. When Scott and Stiles discover a dead body in Derek's yard and call the cops on him, Scott plays anyway. He manages not to turn into a werewolf in front of everyone, and to kiss Allison, before Derek is let off the hook by evidence that the body is his sister's and she was killed by an animal.
Scott's reluctance to trust Derek is tested when he starts having violent dreams that resemble actual real life attacks. Scott goes to him for help, and following his suggestions Scott figures out that unlike in his dream he was actually trying to protect the victim from the real attacker. Scott still believes Derek was that attacker and confronts him, but Derek claims there's another wolf around, an Alpha, and that that's who bit Scott because he wants Scott in his pack.
Meanwhile, Allison's family turns out to be a clan of werewolf hunters. Her aunt Kate is the most aggressively violent of the bunch, and it turns out she was responsible for a deadly fire that killed most of Derek's family and maimed his uncle Peter. Derek tries to convince Scott to stay away from Allison but of course that doesn't happen, especially once Scott figures out that his feelings for Allison help him control when he shifts into wolfmode. Scott does begin training with Derek, though, working on learning to control and use his werewolf powers and also preventing Derek from attacking people he suspects might be the Alpha.
Instead they come up with a plan to try to draw the Alpha out, and while it works in that it does draw the Alpha to them, it doesn't work in that they don't figure out who the Alpha is, Derek is injured, Scott almost attacks his friends, and Allison gets tired of his shadiness and breaks up with him. Also Jackson, that resident asshole jock, figures out Scott's secret and starts demanding to become a werewolf. Scott just barely manages to keep his secret from unraveling completely, while Peter Hale, the real Alpha, reveals himself and starts trying to intimidate Scott into joining his pack, mostly by threatening his friends and family.
Naturally it's at a school dance where everything comes to a head: Peter forces Scott to telepathically relive the house fire that killed the Hale family and then attacks Lydia and outs Scott to Allison, whose family shows up, shooting Scott and capturing Derek. Allison and her aunt start a full-blown attack on the Hale house and Scott's nearly killed before Allison's dad, Chris Argent, appears to tell them to all chill out a little because they've crossed a line and violated the family's code. Scott and Derek then fight Peter, and Derek kills him. Scott's disappointed because he'd hoped Peter could cure him and make him human again, but Allison gets back together with him so all in all things are alright.
In Season Two, Scott's gotten a better handle on werewolfery and his relationship with Allison has gotten more serious, but her grandfather Gerard shows up and starts cutting werewolves in half, which is obviously going to be a point of conflict. A strange lizard creature starts attacking people and while they figure out that it's something called a kanima, it takes most of the season to sort out who it is. Lydia's suspected at first, along with a string of others.
Meanwhile (what if I started every single paragraph this way?), Derek starts turning disillusioned teenagers to create a pack for himself, which Scott isn't exactly cool with. He tries to stop him but fails at that and then also fails at fooling Gerard Argent into thinking he's a normal human boy who is not dating Allison. Gerard stabs Scott and forces him to agree to spy on Derek's pack in exchange for not murdering Scott's mom. Naturally Scott agrees, and joins Derek's pack to try to stop the kanima attacks, preventing Derek from killing Lydia and discovering that Jackson is the kanima.
Scott manages to capture Jackson and locks him up but gets distracted from guarding it by the need to make out with Allison, and Jackson escapes and presses kidnapping charges. His continuing efforts to capture Jackson and turn him human again don't go particularly well, and include Derek having to save Scott from very nearly getting murdered by Allison's mom. Derek unfortunately bites Allison's mom in the process and because the Argent family has a very strict code, Mrs. Argent then takes it upon herself to commit suicide rather than risk turning into a werewolf.
Peter Hale rises from the dead (yep just going to throw that in there off-handedly. Beacon Hills!) because he's been possessing Lydia into helping him. It involves her throwing a party and poisoning everyone with wolfsbane, but while there Scott figures out that the kanima is being controlled by a kid named Matt, who is otherwise totally unimportant to the plot of the show. Matt holds Scott, Scott's mom, Stiles' dad and a few others hostage, and Scott's forced to shift into wolfmode to protect his mom, leading her to find out his secret. Scott prevents everyone from getting killed, but it leads into a super dramatic warehouse showdown with Gerard Argent. Scott defeats the kanima, and has his suspicions proven correct: Gerard wants to become a werewolf to stave off terminal cancer. Gerard forces Derek to bite him, but discovers that Scott has been replacing his medication with wolfsbane so his body rejects the bite. He survives, but too debilitated to be any further threat for the moment. Jackson, cured of his kanima-ness, instead finally turns into a werewolf and is sent off to London to learn to stop being such a dick, presumably.
Allison is pretty upset about her mother's death and the issues it raises with the whole werewolf/hunter thing and ends up breaking up with Scott, but it's all very amicable and understanding, and he expresses a desire to wait and a faith that they'll figure things out eventually. In addition to losing his girlfriend he's also been kicked off the lacrosse team because all the supernatural nonsense has really taken a toll on his grades. As he remarks to Stiles, he's sort of back where he started: no lacrosse, no girlfriend, no popularity.
Scott begins Season Three having found his center. He's spent the summer determined to better himself and working hard to achieve it - studying to prepare for the school year, working out, saving money, resisting the urge to call Allison. It hasn't been easy but he's become stronger for it, something he symbolizes by getting a tattoo. It's an especially painful process for a werewolf because of their healing ability, but he fights through the pain to the reward of something permanent, a welcome anchor in a life that's been rapidly changing.
Of course this being Beacon Hills, things continue to change: animals start behaving bizarrely and people start going missing. An Alpha Pack arrives in town and starts attacking people, including Erica (who they kill), Boyd, and Isaac.
At school, a pair of twin alphas who attacked Isaac previously begin antagonizing him and the others and Scott struggles to hold Isaac and Boyd back from violence. The rest of the Alpha Pack goes after Derek and tries to recruit him because the Alpha of Alphas, Deucalion, is concerned about rumors that Scott might have powerful potential and hopes to use Derek to get closer to Scott and either recruit Scott into his pack or force Scott to kill, which would destroy that potential. He and his pack continue to attack Derek and everyone connected with him, leading to a series of battles. In one, Boyd is killed, in another one of Deucalion's pack dies, Derek is believed dead, and Scott takes a serious wound.
Meanwhile, the missing people have started turning up dead in threes and while Isaac and others suspect the alphas, Stiles recognizes that they're victims of Druid-style human sacrifice. He goes to Deaton for help and they discover that a Darach, a dark druid, is probably responsible. Deaton himself is taken but warns Scott of it, and Scott goes to try to rescue him. He nearly succeeds in breaking through the barrier of mountain ash to do so, and in his attempts his eyes turn briefly red. Once Sheriff Stilinski arrives to help rescue Deaton, Deaton tells Scott about his eyes changing color, and that this is a sign that Deucalion's beliefs might be correct: Scott may be a True Alpha, an Alpha who gains that status through sheer force of character and will rather than through killing.
They also discover that the Darach is Jennifer Blake, the new English teacher and a woman Derek has become involved with. For her final sacrifice she kidnaps Scott's, Stiles' and Allison's parents. Running out of time and options, Scott joins Deucalion and the Alpha Pack in an attempt to find her and rescue their parents, but they have little luck. Deaton tells the trio that they may be able to locate their parents through a ritual that involves them all very nearly dying and then being brought back. Though Deaton warns them that the process is dangerous and likely to somehow mark them permanently, they all agree to undergo it, and are able to locate where Jennifer has hidden their parents.
In a final battle against Jennifer and Deucalion in turn, Scott refuses to kill either of them, and finally realizes his True Alpha status. He defeats Deucalion through cleverness, and allows him to go alive, in hopes that he'll change his ways. Jennifer is defeated as well and barely survives, only to be killed by Peter Hale. The parents are rescued in time, and everything returns to-- hahahaha no.
Scott's FBI agent father returns to town to investigate the Sheriff's office, and after their near-death experiences, Scott, Stiles, and Allison suffer strange side effects, vivid hallucinations which in Scott's case involve constantly seeing his own shadow as that of a giant Alpha wolf. Deaton calls this phenomenon an "open door" in their minds that they must now find a way to close. Scott and Stiles also investigate a cold case that the Sheriff now believes may have been a werewolf attack, and eventually track down Malia, the missing girl from the case and now a were-coyote who Scott uses his Alpha powers to help transform back into a human.
The new girl in school, Kira, is abducted by an escaped mass murderer and she's also revealed to have some sort of power over electricity and an aura that shows up in photographs and looks like a fox. Strange hooded figures begin attacking people, including Isaac, Ethan, Aiden, and Lydia. Each of them is left unharmed with a symbol marked behind their ears. Stiles discovers a coded message on a classroom blackboard that seems to have been an instruction to Kira's kidnapper, and then realizes it's written in his own handwriting. Chris Argent reveals that he's encountered the hooded figures before and that they're called oni and their target is usually some sort of supernatural creature. With his help, they visit a member of the yakuza, who informs them that the oni hunt an evil spirit called a nogitsune and the marks they leave indicate that the person bearing them is innocent and still themselves.
When one attempts to test Stiles he destroys it and tells no one. Over the next few days, Scott and the others learn more about the oni and the Nogitsune, tracking its origins to a Japanese internment camp from WWII and learning that Kira's mother is a kitsune who was held in the camp and called on the Nogitsune to help her earn revenge. Instead it possessed her mortally-wounded lover, and though she was able to trap it in the camp for a time, it obviously has escaped again.
Stiles falls more and more under the Nogitsune's control, sabotaging wiring in the hospital, planting bombs in the sheriff's office, and finally allows it full control when Malia's life is threatened. The Nogitsune pits Stiles' friends against each other and several of them are almost killed before Scott and Lydia manage to enter its mind and free Stiles from its control. Unfortunately the Nogitsune escapes, still wearing Stiles' face, and kidnaps Lydia. It takes her to the internment camp and takes control of the Oni, sending them back against Stiles' friends. Allison manages to destroy one with a silver arrowhead, but is stabbed by another, and dies in Scott's arms, professing her love for him. Unable to explain the truth, Scott and the others lie to his father and claim that her death happened during an attempted robbery.
The Nogitsune escapes, and wreaks havoc across Beacon Hills, attacking the Sheriff's station, the hospital, and the animal clinic, where the Oni grievously wound dozens, including Stiles' father, Scott's mother, and Deaton. Scott and his friends make a final stand at the school, where the Nogitsune tries to convince Stiles to kill himself and Scott to help him. They manage to escape after realizing that the Nogitsune's attacks are an illusion and bravely refusing to fight back until the illusion breaks. Outside, Derek and the twins hold off the real Oni until Chris Argent and Isaac arrive. Chris uses Allison's remaining silver arrowheads to destroy the Oni, while Isaac collects and brings to Scott Derek's triskele box, which is powerful enough to hold the Nogitsune's spirit prisoner. Once the illusion inside is broken, the Nogitsune is vulnerable, and Scott's Alpha bite drives it out of the form it has taken. What is left is captured in the box.
Around Beacon Hills, those injured in the attacks heal rapidly, but the dead -- Allison and Aiden -- remain dead. In the following weeks Scott grieves but still attempts to help Malia learn to control her were-powers, and goes back to work with Deaton before he arrives on the Tranquility.
Personality:
Scott McCall is the central point around which the series orbits, a steady, almost fixed point in a universe in flux. From the very beginning of the pilot, we see that Scott is a responsible, hard-working kid: he has a job he seems to care about, he's getting good grades, his mom trusts him with the car, he's determined to somehow make the lacrosse team no matter how unlikely the prospect. He's not popular, but he's not actually awkward, either: he's not intimidated by Jackson throwing him around, and even when they've first met he never flails or stammers around Allison, and he manages to ask her out directly and successfully not long after they meet. He's brave enough to go outside to confront a predator he thinks is prowling around his house, and takes getting attacked by a wolf after falling on half a dead body pretty much in stride. When he's turning for the first time, it's Stiles and Allison he's concerned about more than himself. While becoming a werewolf transforms his life, in many ways it just puts a spotlight on what was already there. These qualities, his steadiness, his bravery, his loyalty and protectiveness don't change no matter what weirdness happens around him.
What does change most is his own attitude toward being a werewolf. At first, Scott is set on trying to find a way out, some sort of cure to return him to being human and he spends most of season one trying to search out the Alpha for that reason. When Derek kills Peter and removes Scott's only remaining chance at that, he's forced to come to terms with the fact that he's stuck as a werewolf forever. It doesn't always go well, it's clear that he's floundering trying to find a balance between his new supernatural life and his regular life. His grades get so bad he gets kicked off the lacrosse team, he disappoints his mother, and takes Stiles for granted. It really takes Scott that whole year and the summer after to get used to juggling both and the expanding circle of people who are aware - his mother in particular - definitely helps, and the development of the idea that his friends and family are his pack regardless of whether or not they're werewolves, as does the fact that he actually managed to outsmart Gerard in the end and to save Jackson. The additional support and that success help to set him up for Season 3, in which he is starting off confident and on a good path, and finally manages to begin really fulfilling his potential as a leader.
In general, most people would look calm compared to Stiles Stilinski, but Scott McCall really does manage to be impressively chill throughout the series. He's rarely freaked out to the point that he loses control, almost never loses his temper, and keeps his cool well enough to repeatedly make surprisingly clever choices in difficult situations. Whether it's turning into a werewolf for the first time or being taunted about having to kill his best friend by an evil chaos spirit while getting attacked by magical ninjas, Scott keeps his head.
This isn't to say that he's an emotionless automaton who never feels fear or anger and laughs in the face of danger. A lot of things in Scott's world are pretty damn frightening and as much as he's usually good at holding himself together he's not going to deny being afraid. When things are scary, he calls them scary. He calls the Alpha twins converting into one giant wolf terrifying, and isn't above running away when it's the most sensible option. When people threaten his mom and his friends, he gets pissed; when Stiles snarks in tense moments sometimes he snaps at him; when his girlfriend dies, he cries. But when presented with difficult situations, forced to choose between helping two different friends, Scott generally (and especially in later episodes) doesn't lose it, doesn't get paralyzed by indecision or sent spinning by emotions. He makes a call and he gets to work but it's conviction and determination, not pride or lack of feeling, that let him do that.
Peter calls him "blandly moral" and in some ways, that's true. Scott has a very strong sense of right and wrong and is doggedly devoted to doing the right thing and protecting people, especially those he cares about but everyone, in the end. Throughout the series he does his best to prevent people from killing each other, even in situations where the person about to be killed is dangerous and has been hurting those he loves. Where for many people on the show the default plan is always murder, Scott is always willing to do whatever it takes to avoid that. He does everything he can to save Jackson, and later Boyd and Erica, even when they've become a danger to others. When he's suspicious of Derek the worst that he does is get him arrested. He even lets Deucalion live, despite all the trouble he caused. Ethan and Aiden, the Alpha twins, were responsible for plenty of harm to Scott and his friends, but he not only goes out of his way to prevent Boyd and Isaac from attacking them, he lets them hang around and try to join his pack afterwards. It's fairly clear too that it's less their past misdeeds that are holding them back from being accepted into Scott's circle and more their present attitudes. He doesn't forget, but he's willing to forgive.
The chief exception to this rule is probably the way Scott handles Gerard Argent. Scott not only manages to cleverly outwit Gerard but he does so essentially by poisoning him with wolfsbane. It doesn't kill Gerard, but it does prevent him from saving himself from cancer and restrict him to sitting around coughing up black sludge while in significant pain. Gerard not only cruelly murdered a bunch of people but he directly threatened Scott's mom as well and manipulated the entire situation, causing pain for everyone Scott loves and never showing a shred of remorse or anything but the most selfish of motives. Scott may draw the line at murder, even here, but that doesn't mean he believes everyone is redeemable or should be let off the hook. Later, he threatens Gerard directly, because as determined as he is to take the moral high road, he has learned that to some extent, with some people, it pays to fight fire with fire.
Another significant moment when we see him act more harshly with someone is with his father. When Mr. McCall finally tells Scott the truth about the night he left them, about being a drunk and accidentally shoving Scott down the stairs, he apologizes and Scott brushes him back,clearly still angry. For someone like Scott, who could never dream of turning his back on his friends, who fought through the early days of werewolfing when he worried he might hurt people and found a way to avoid it and turn his strength to protecting them, running away and staying away for ten years like his father did instead of facing up to his mistakes is unthinkable.
Scott's sort of selflessness, as Derek says, involves standing up again over and over no matter how many times he gets hit and finding new ways to fight back. He repeatedly lets himself be a punching bag to protect others, and it's only during the incident at the motel where he is heavily influenced by the Darach that his willingness to sacrifice himself gets turned to that more maudlin point of telling himself that if he were gone the people around him would be safer. When he isn't being ensorcelled, he never considers running away from Beacon Hills and the people who need him.
He grows into this leadership more and more as the seasons go on, and that's probably the biggest change in Scott throughout the series. While he starts off with potential it takes some time to grow into his Alpha role. His first instinct is nearly always to be a good influence on people but it isn't always to lead them. That's something he develops most notably in season three, and it comes both from his werewolf powers and the force of his personality as he starts to find himself able to use his "wolf voice" to calm Isaac down, and manages to convince a vengeful Boyd not to attack the twins on the bus. When he makes decisions, more and more people listen to him. Part of that could be chalked up to the fact that Scott's decisions have proven to be good ones throughout the course of the series while any other potential leadership figures (Derek, Peter, even Chris) are basically disasters, but that just adds to the growing respect for Scott and his own faith in himself and reliance on his own judgment.
Still, while he is a leader he's not the sort who is precious about his power or control. He's usually extremely respectful of the abilities of others, even those like Allison and Stiles who don't have supernatural powers. He considers them members of his pack whether or not they're werewolves, and values them as highly as those that are. When they don't do what he asks them to do, usually by showing up in dangerous situations he'd advised they avoid, he doesn't get angry, and is always appreciative of the help they provide. When Scott and Derek's pack battle the Alphas, he warned Allison how dangerous they were and for the first time we saw him make a point of emphasizing how much stronger and quicker than her he is. But he followed it up by telling her that the Alpha Pack should scare her because it scares him, and when she turned up at the battle anyway his reaction wasn't the typical "I told you not to come!" but instead his thanks for her assistance.
He does sometimes lose track of things though, most notably in the way he often takes Stiles and his contributions for granted. Being a normal person, the group's only non-supernatural non-supernatural-hunter, and having been Scott's best friend for so long, it can be easy for Scott to overlook him and all he's done, or at least to forget to mention that he's noticed. With so many huge, weird things going on all around Scott, sometimes Stiles ends up getting the short end of the stick in the attention department. Scott loves Stiles like a brother, but for much of season two in particular Stiles is no longer the number one priority in his life, and it's clear that for Stiles that stings and it takes Scott a while and some pretty frank conversation to notice. The second half of season three however brings Stiles back into focus in the most unfortunate way possible, and at the canon point requested here, Scott is likely to be feeling pretty guilty about his prior neglect and especially protective of the best friend he just almost lost.
And then there's the person he did lose: Scott's relationship with Allison has been both an anchor and a point of conflict and while their relationship got him into trouble and occasionally made him very stupid, to have her suddenly gone from his life is a rug pulled out from under him. Even though they weren't together anymore it was always clear there were still feelings between them, and when Scott told her he believed they'd find their way back together eventually, he meant it. She was his first love, and despite his interest in Kira he wasn't over Allison when she died. That she died professing her love for him isn't going to make getting past that any easier. While he's capable of holding himself together enough to go back to work and manage day to day, all of Scott's considerable natural resilience is required to keep things together.
His mother is a huge help, especially since she knows the truth. They've clearly always had a very close relationship, and Scott is immensely protective of and proud of his mother. Keeping his secret from her was difficult and a burden, and he hated having to lie to her and especially to disappoint her. Since she learned what's really going on she's been even more help and support and he relies on her as much as he admires her.
The flip side would be Derek and Peter Hale, who he neither admires nor relies on. Derek has been a help in the past and Scott accepts him as an ally but more than that would still be a stretch at this point. Scott has trouble trusting Derek because Derek's instincts have so often been at odds with Scott's. Derek's one of those kill first ask questions later types that Scott just can't stomach, and between that and Derek's habit of keeping secrets (so many secrets) from him, Scott finds him very difficult to put any faith in. How do you trust a guy who won't even tell you how old he is? He doesn't hate Derek or even really dislike him, but they have been in many ways opposites both in worldview and personality and they've clashed too often to really be friends yet. They are heading in that direction though - season three shows Derek having been positively influenced by Scott, and they work better together than they have in the past, particularly when Stiles is missing. Derek more and more is showing the sort of protective instincts toward people that Scott does, and an understanding and even approval of Scott's methods, and it isn't going unnoticed and bodes well for their future.
And then of course there's Peter, who is basically everything Scott despises in the world put together - nasty, murderous, manipulative, cruel, dishonest, capricious. Peter is the only person Scott has ever seriously considered killing when he believed doing so was the cure to being a werewolf. He almost certainly wouldn't have done it, but that's how much he dislikes Peter Hale. He hasn't made a real move against him since except to counter Peter's own schemes, but there's a definite hostility there that Scott doesn't generally display. It's similar to how Scott treats Gerard Argent, another master manipulator who has killed numerous innocent people and toyed with Scott's friends and family for his own personal gain. These are the sort of people that Scott really hates, more even than Deucalion or Jennifer who were both bad people that needed to be stopped but at least came from places of narrower personal revenge that he can sort of understand even as he disapproves.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:
Werewolves in this canon are enhanced above normal human capabilities in several ways. This includes their senses as well as strength, speed, agility, and stamina. They also heal very quickly in most cases, and Scott can use that healing ability to absorb someone else's pain and, if he needed to, he could bring someone seriously ill back from the brink of death with that same ability though he would probably lose his Alpha status by doing so. Being Alpha grants him some additional strength, and the ability to cow other non-alpha werewolves, wolves, coyotes, and dogs by howling/roaring at them or sometimes by talking in a special werewolfy voice. (Yes, really. I know that's a terrible description.)
Werewolf weaknesses include wolfsbane, which causes a weird black bile to pour out of their mouth or their wounds and can be fatal. Mistletoe is also dangerous, and mountain ash can be used to create a barrier werewolves can't cross though Scott's True Alpha abilities make him less subject to that limitation than others.
Inventory:
3 outfits
1 cellphone, fully charged
1 silver arrowhead
Appearance: Scott's average height and build, with dark hair and eyes that are usually brown but turn red when he's wolfing out. He also grows really terrible muttonchop sideburns, pointy ears, claws, and fangs when that happens.
Age: 17
S A M P L E S
Log Sample:
Scott shut the door behind him and leaned against it. He was glad to discover he wasn't alone here -- obviously he wasn't alone alone, the showers made that pretty clear, but that Stiles and Derek and Isaac were here, too. That was a relief and not just because it was nice not to be in space on his own, which it was, it totally was, but the idea of leaving Stiles behind right now, after everything that had just happened…. That would've been the worst. His mom would manage, he knew she'd be upset but she'd manage until he got back. She and Sheriff Stilinski would figure something out, and at least they had each other to talk to. But Stiles, right now. If he thought Scott had left him after all that.... Just the idea made his teeth clench. And Isaac had been a mess, too. He needed to be there for them right now, make sure they didn't do anything stupid. More stupid than somehow ending up in space, anyway. How the hell-- he wondered if he'd finally found a problem even Deaton didn't secretly know the answer to.
But then there was the part that had him slowing peeling himself away from his friends, glad he had a door he could close on them. Stiles hadn't been sure whether to tell him, he could see it in his face and he guessed he couldn't blame him. It might've been better not to know, but he would've found out eventually anyway. He didn't even know what he was feeling. How could it be disappointing to learn that someone who was dead was still out of his reach? Peter Hale's resurrection aside he hadn't even really had hopes to get up so how could they be let down now? Part of him wanted to throw himself into finding out how. How had she been here? How could he get her back? If it was possible, he had to try, didn't he? But was that what she would've wanted? The Argent family code must've had a rule about coming back to life.
Scott groaned and dropped his head into his hands, crossing the narrow room to flop into a chair and settle his head on his arms on the desk. He stared at the wall for a while, and then decided: first things first. If there was a way to get Allison back he had to at least find out what it was, what it would cost, what it would mean for her. But before that there were people who were already here and alive and he owed them something, too. And apparently there were more of them than he knew. He took a deep breath and let it out again, and then sat up and switch on his comms device.
Comms Sample:
[ Hey, a new arrival who knows how to use video chat. Scott's got the camera set up on the table and himself more or less centered in the frame when he hits the button to record or broadcast. He lifts a hand and gives a bit of a wave to go with his curl of a friendly smile. ]
Hey. I'm Scott, and I guess some of you know me already? Stiles-- my friend Stiles, he told me that I've been here before, umm. But I don't remember. Sorry about that. [ His smile this time is apologetic, and comes with a shrug, shoulders hiked up toward his ears and then dropped. ] So I'm hoping that anybody who remembers me being here, if we were friends or whatever, come let me know? Sorry that I don't remember you, but I'm sure we can figure it out. So if you wanna come talk or something, come by whenever or send me a message or something? I guess I'm pretty much free whenever. [ He lifts a hand and lets it thunk back onto his thigh out of sight. ]
So yeah, that's all. See you around.
Your Name: Cass
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C H A R A C T E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: Scott McCall
Canon: Teen Wolf
Original or Alternate Universe: Original
Canon Point: end of S3
Number: RNG
Setting:
Beacon Hills, CA is basically a town in our modern day world except that it has a weird propensity to call supernatural creatures to it, and is home to some werewolves and werewolf hunters, in particular. And a Druid. And a Banshee. But other than that stuff, it's just California in 2013.
History:
Scott McCall was born in Beacon Hills to Rafael and Melissa Delgado McCall, a nurse and an FBI agent. Mr. McCall was an alcoholic, and when Scott was five years old, he accidentally pushed Scott down the stairs while arguing with his mother. Scott was briefly unconscious and woke with no memory of the incident, but Melissa through Rafael out of the house and he never came back. He grew up dorky and not very popular, but happy.
Eleven years later, Teen Wolf begins like the opening to a horror movie: rumors of half a dead body in the woods and two teenage idiots setting off at night in hopes of getting a glimpse and quickly end up separated. But even then, Scott McCall was already the hot girl in this story. Instead of ending up torn apart like the dorky sidekick he appears to be, he survives a harrowing attack by a mostly-unseen monster and when he emerges, it's with a remarkably flattering injury and stronger than before. He discovers he can hear conversations happening rooms away, smell gum in someone's pocket, catch every lacrosse ball thrown his way and no longer needs the inhaler he's been relying on all his life. Dogs react weirdly to him, he's sleep walking into the woods, and the resident asshole jock thinks he's on steroids, but who wants to focus on that when he's earned a spot as a starter and gotten a date with the pretty new girl.
His best friend Stiles figures it out before Scott does, but Scott doesn't want to hear it, too caught up in the benefits to take Stiles seriously, even though he wonders if he's losing his mind. The first full moon catches him largely unprepared and also introduces him to Derek Hale, who Scott suspects is the wolf that bit him. Derek is a werewolf, as it turns out, but he's not the one that turned Scott. He does a terrible job convincing Scott of this, acting generally like a creep and threatening to kill Scott if he plays lacrosse, since his sudden prowess is drawing attention to his unnatural new abilities. When Scott and Stiles discover a dead body in Derek's yard and call the cops on him, Scott plays anyway. He manages not to turn into a werewolf in front of everyone, and to kiss Allison, before Derek is let off the hook by evidence that the body is his sister's and she was killed by an animal.
Scott's reluctance to trust Derek is tested when he starts having violent dreams that resemble actual real life attacks. Scott goes to him for help, and following his suggestions Scott figures out that unlike in his dream he was actually trying to protect the victim from the real attacker. Scott still believes Derek was that attacker and confronts him, but Derek claims there's another wolf around, an Alpha, and that that's who bit Scott because he wants Scott in his pack.
Meanwhile, Allison's family turns out to be a clan of werewolf hunters. Her aunt Kate is the most aggressively violent of the bunch, and it turns out she was responsible for a deadly fire that killed most of Derek's family and maimed his uncle Peter. Derek tries to convince Scott to stay away from Allison but of course that doesn't happen, especially once Scott figures out that his feelings for Allison help him control when he shifts into wolfmode. Scott does begin training with Derek, though, working on learning to control and use his werewolf powers and also preventing Derek from attacking people he suspects might be the Alpha.
Instead they come up with a plan to try to draw the Alpha out, and while it works in that it does draw the Alpha to them, it doesn't work in that they don't figure out who the Alpha is, Derek is injured, Scott almost attacks his friends, and Allison gets tired of his shadiness and breaks up with him. Also Jackson, that resident asshole jock, figures out Scott's secret and starts demanding to become a werewolf. Scott just barely manages to keep his secret from unraveling completely, while Peter Hale, the real Alpha, reveals himself and starts trying to intimidate Scott into joining his pack, mostly by threatening his friends and family.
Naturally it's at a school dance where everything comes to a head: Peter forces Scott to telepathically relive the house fire that killed the Hale family and then attacks Lydia and outs Scott to Allison, whose family shows up, shooting Scott and capturing Derek. Allison and her aunt start a full-blown attack on the Hale house and Scott's nearly killed before Allison's dad, Chris Argent, appears to tell them to all chill out a little because they've crossed a line and violated the family's code. Scott and Derek then fight Peter, and Derek kills him. Scott's disappointed because he'd hoped Peter could cure him and make him human again, but Allison gets back together with him so all in all things are alright.
In Season Two, Scott's gotten a better handle on werewolfery and his relationship with Allison has gotten more serious, but her grandfather Gerard shows up and starts cutting werewolves in half, which is obviously going to be a point of conflict. A strange lizard creature starts attacking people and while they figure out that it's something called a kanima, it takes most of the season to sort out who it is. Lydia's suspected at first, along with a string of others.
Meanwhile (what if I started every single paragraph this way?), Derek starts turning disillusioned teenagers to create a pack for himself, which Scott isn't exactly cool with. He tries to stop him but fails at that and then also fails at fooling Gerard Argent into thinking he's a normal human boy who is not dating Allison. Gerard stabs Scott and forces him to agree to spy on Derek's pack in exchange for not murdering Scott's mom. Naturally Scott agrees, and joins Derek's pack to try to stop the kanima attacks, preventing Derek from killing Lydia and discovering that Jackson is the kanima.
Scott manages to capture Jackson and locks him up but gets distracted from guarding it by the need to make out with Allison, and Jackson escapes and presses kidnapping charges. His continuing efforts to capture Jackson and turn him human again don't go particularly well, and include Derek having to save Scott from very nearly getting murdered by Allison's mom. Derek unfortunately bites Allison's mom in the process and because the Argent family has a very strict code, Mrs. Argent then takes it upon herself to commit suicide rather than risk turning into a werewolf.
Peter Hale rises from the dead (yep just going to throw that in there off-handedly. Beacon Hills!) because he's been possessing Lydia into helping him. It involves her throwing a party and poisoning everyone with wolfsbane, but while there Scott figures out that the kanima is being controlled by a kid named Matt, who is otherwise totally unimportant to the plot of the show. Matt holds Scott, Scott's mom, Stiles' dad and a few others hostage, and Scott's forced to shift into wolfmode to protect his mom, leading her to find out his secret. Scott prevents everyone from getting killed, but it leads into a super dramatic warehouse showdown with Gerard Argent. Scott defeats the kanima, and has his suspicions proven correct: Gerard wants to become a werewolf to stave off terminal cancer. Gerard forces Derek to bite him, but discovers that Scott has been replacing his medication with wolfsbane so his body rejects the bite. He survives, but too debilitated to be any further threat for the moment. Jackson, cured of his kanima-ness, instead finally turns into a werewolf and is sent off to London to learn to stop being such a dick, presumably.
Allison is pretty upset about her mother's death and the issues it raises with the whole werewolf/hunter thing and ends up breaking up with Scott, but it's all very amicable and understanding, and he expresses a desire to wait and a faith that they'll figure things out eventually. In addition to losing his girlfriend he's also been kicked off the lacrosse team because all the supernatural nonsense has really taken a toll on his grades. As he remarks to Stiles, he's sort of back where he started: no lacrosse, no girlfriend, no popularity.
Scott begins Season Three having found his center. He's spent the summer determined to better himself and working hard to achieve it - studying to prepare for the school year, working out, saving money, resisting the urge to call Allison. It hasn't been easy but he's become stronger for it, something he symbolizes by getting a tattoo. It's an especially painful process for a werewolf because of their healing ability, but he fights through the pain to the reward of something permanent, a welcome anchor in a life that's been rapidly changing.
Of course this being Beacon Hills, things continue to change: animals start behaving bizarrely and people start going missing. An Alpha Pack arrives in town and starts attacking people, including Erica (who they kill), Boyd, and Isaac.
At school, a pair of twin alphas who attacked Isaac previously begin antagonizing him and the others and Scott struggles to hold Isaac and Boyd back from violence. The rest of the Alpha Pack goes after Derek and tries to recruit him because the Alpha of Alphas, Deucalion, is concerned about rumors that Scott might have powerful potential and hopes to use Derek to get closer to Scott and either recruit Scott into his pack or force Scott to kill, which would destroy that potential. He and his pack continue to attack Derek and everyone connected with him, leading to a series of battles. In one, Boyd is killed, in another one of Deucalion's pack dies, Derek is believed dead, and Scott takes a serious wound.
Meanwhile, the missing people have started turning up dead in threes and while Isaac and others suspect the alphas, Stiles recognizes that they're victims of Druid-style human sacrifice. He goes to Deaton for help and they discover that a Darach, a dark druid, is probably responsible. Deaton himself is taken but warns Scott of it, and Scott goes to try to rescue him. He nearly succeeds in breaking through the barrier of mountain ash to do so, and in his attempts his eyes turn briefly red. Once Sheriff Stilinski arrives to help rescue Deaton, Deaton tells Scott about his eyes changing color, and that this is a sign that Deucalion's beliefs might be correct: Scott may be a True Alpha, an Alpha who gains that status through sheer force of character and will rather than through killing.
They also discover that the Darach is Jennifer Blake, the new English teacher and a woman Derek has become involved with. For her final sacrifice she kidnaps Scott's, Stiles' and Allison's parents. Running out of time and options, Scott joins Deucalion and the Alpha Pack in an attempt to find her and rescue their parents, but they have little luck. Deaton tells the trio that they may be able to locate their parents through a ritual that involves them all very nearly dying and then being brought back. Though Deaton warns them that the process is dangerous and likely to somehow mark them permanently, they all agree to undergo it, and are able to locate where Jennifer has hidden their parents.
In a final battle against Jennifer and Deucalion in turn, Scott refuses to kill either of them, and finally realizes his True Alpha status. He defeats Deucalion through cleverness, and allows him to go alive, in hopes that he'll change his ways. Jennifer is defeated as well and barely survives, only to be killed by Peter Hale. The parents are rescued in time, and everything returns to-- hahahaha no.
Scott's FBI agent father returns to town to investigate the Sheriff's office, and after their near-death experiences, Scott, Stiles, and Allison suffer strange side effects, vivid hallucinations which in Scott's case involve constantly seeing his own shadow as that of a giant Alpha wolf. Deaton calls this phenomenon an "open door" in their minds that they must now find a way to close. Scott and Stiles also investigate a cold case that the Sheriff now believes may have been a werewolf attack, and eventually track down Malia, the missing girl from the case and now a were-coyote who Scott uses his Alpha powers to help transform back into a human.
The new girl in school, Kira, is abducted by an escaped mass murderer and she's also revealed to have some sort of power over electricity and an aura that shows up in photographs and looks like a fox. Strange hooded figures begin attacking people, including Isaac, Ethan, Aiden, and Lydia. Each of them is left unharmed with a symbol marked behind their ears. Stiles discovers a coded message on a classroom blackboard that seems to have been an instruction to Kira's kidnapper, and then realizes it's written in his own handwriting. Chris Argent reveals that he's encountered the hooded figures before and that they're called oni and their target is usually some sort of supernatural creature. With his help, they visit a member of the yakuza, who informs them that the oni hunt an evil spirit called a nogitsune and the marks they leave indicate that the person bearing them is innocent and still themselves.
When one attempts to test Stiles he destroys it and tells no one. Over the next few days, Scott and the others learn more about the oni and the Nogitsune, tracking its origins to a Japanese internment camp from WWII and learning that Kira's mother is a kitsune who was held in the camp and called on the Nogitsune to help her earn revenge. Instead it possessed her mortally-wounded lover, and though she was able to trap it in the camp for a time, it obviously has escaped again.
Stiles falls more and more under the Nogitsune's control, sabotaging wiring in the hospital, planting bombs in the sheriff's office, and finally allows it full control when Malia's life is threatened. The Nogitsune pits Stiles' friends against each other and several of them are almost killed before Scott and Lydia manage to enter its mind and free Stiles from its control. Unfortunately the Nogitsune escapes, still wearing Stiles' face, and kidnaps Lydia. It takes her to the internment camp and takes control of the Oni, sending them back against Stiles' friends. Allison manages to destroy one with a silver arrowhead, but is stabbed by another, and dies in Scott's arms, professing her love for him. Unable to explain the truth, Scott and the others lie to his father and claim that her death happened during an attempted robbery.
The Nogitsune escapes, and wreaks havoc across Beacon Hills, attacking the Sheriff's station, the hospital, and the animal clinic, where the Oni grievously wound dozens, including Stiles' father, Scott's mother, and Deaton. Scott and his friends make a final stand at the school, where the Nogitsune tries to convince Stiles to kill himself and Scott to help him. They manage to escape after realizing that the Nogitsune's attacks are an illusion and bravely refusing to fight back until the illusion breaks. Outside, Derek and the twins hold off the real Oni until Chris Argent and Isaac arrive. Chris uses Allison's remaining silver arrowheads to destroy the Oni, while Isaac collects and brings to Scott Derek's triskele box, which is powerful enough to hold the Nogitsune's spirit prisoner. Once the illusion inside is broken, the Nogitsune is vulnerable, and Scott's Alpha bite drives it out of the form it has taken. What is left is captured in the box.
Around Beacon Hills, those injured in the attacks heal rapidly, but the dead -- Allison and Aiden -- remain dead. In the following weeks Scott grieves but still attempts to help Malia learn to control her were-powers, and goes back to work with Deaton before he arrives on the Tranquility.
Personality:
Scott McCall is the central point around which the series orbits, a steady, almost fixed point in a universe in flux. From the very beginning of the pilot, we see that Scott is a responsible, hard-working kid: he has a job he seems to care about, he's getting good grades, his mom trusts him with the car, he's determined to somehow make the lacrosse team no matter how unlikely the prospect. He's not popular, but he's not actually awkward, either: he's not intimidated by Jackson throwing him around, and even when they've first met he never flails or stammers around Allison, and he manages to ask her out directly and successfully not long after they meet. He's brave enough to go outside to confront a predator he thinks is prowling around his house, and takes getting attacked by a wolf after falling on half a dead body pretty much in stride. When he's turning for the first time, it's Stiles and Allison he's concerned about more than himself. While becoming a werewolf transforms his life, in many ways it just puts a spotlight on what was already there. These qualities, his steadiness, his bravery, his loyalty and protectiveness don't change no matter what weirdness happens around him.
What does change most is his own attitude toward being a werewolf. At first, Scott is set on trying to find a way out, some sort of cure to return him to being human and he spends most of season one trying to search out the Alpha for that reason. When Derek kills Peter and removes Scott's only remaining chance at that, he's forced to come to terms with the fact that he's stuck as a werewolf forever. It doesn't always go well, it's clear that he's floundering trying to find a balance between his new supernatural life and his regular life. His grades get so bad he gets kicked off the lacrosse team, he disappoints his mother, and takes Stiles for granted. It really takes Scott that whole year and the summer after to get used to juggling both and the expanding circle of people who are aware - his mother in particular - definitely helps, and the development of the idea that his friends and family are his pack regardless of whether or not they're werewolves, as does the fact that he actually managed to outsmart Gerard in the end and to save Jackson. The additional support and that success help to set him up for Season 3, in which he is starting off confident and on a good path, and finally manages to begin really fulfilling his potential as a leader.
In general, most people would look calm compared to Stiles Stilinski, but Scott McCall really does manage to be impressively chill throughout the series. He's rarely freaked out to the point that he loses control, almost never loses his temper, and keeps his cool well enough to repeatedly make surprisingly clever choices in difficult situations. Whether it's turning into a werewolf for the first time or being taunted about having to kill his best friend by an evil chaos spirit while getting attacked by magical ninjas, Scott keeps his head.
This isn't to say that he's an emotionless automaton who never feels fear or anger and laughs in the face of danger. A lot of things in Scott's world are pretty damn frightening and as much as he's usually good at holding himself together he's not going to deny being afraid. When things are scary, he calls them scary. He calls the Alpha twins converting into one giant wolf terrifying, and isn't above running away when it's the most sensible option. When people threaten his mom and his friends, he gets pissed; when Stiles snarks in tense moments sometimes he snaps at him; when his girlfriend dies, he cries. But when presented with difficult situations, forced to choose between helping two different friends, Scott generally (and especially in later episodes) doesn't lose it, doesn't get paralyzed by indecision or sent spinning by emotions. He makes a call and he gets to work but it's conviction and determination, not pride or lack of feeling, that let him do that.
Peter calls him "blandly moral" and in some ways, that's true. Scott has a very strong sense of right and wrong and is doggedly devoted to doing the right thing and protecting people, especially those he cares about but everyone, in the end. Throughout the series he does his best to prevent people from killing each other, even in situations where the person about to be killed is dangerous and has been hurting those he loves. Where for many people on the show the default plan is always murder, Scott is always willing to do whatever it takes to avoid that. He does everything he can to save Jackson, and later Boyd and Erica, even when they've become a danger to others. When he's suspicious of Derek the worst that he does is get him arrested. He even lets Deucalion live, despite all the trouble he caused. Ethan and Aiden, the Alpha twins, were responsible for plenty of harm to Scott and his friends, but he not only goes out of his way to prevent Boyd and Isaac from attacking them, he lets them hang around and try to join his pack afterwards. It's fairly clear too that it's less their past misdeeds that are holding them back from being accepted into Scott's circle and more their present attitudes. He doesn't forget, but he's willing to forgive.
The chief exception to this rule is probably the way Scott handles Gerard Argent. Scott not only manages to cleverly outwit Gerard but he does so essentially by poisoning him with wolfsbane. It doesn't kill Gerard, but it does prevent him from saving himself from cancer and restrict him to sitting around coughing up black sludge while in significant pain. Gerard not only cruelly murdered a bunch of people but he directly threatened Scott's mom as well and manipulated the entire situation, causing pain for everyone Scott loves and never showing a shred of remorse or anything but the most selfish of motives. Scott may draw the line at murder, even here, but that doesn't mean he believes everyone is redeemable or should be let off the hook. Later, he threatens Gerard directly, because as determined as he is to take the moral high road, he has learned that to some extent, with some people, it pays to fight fire with fire.
Another significant moment when we see him act more harshly with someone is with his father. When Mr. McCall finally tells Scott the truth about the night he left them, about being a drunk and accidentally shoving Scott down the stairs, he apologizes and Scott brushes him back,clearly still angry. For someone like Scott, who could never dream of turning his back on his friends, who fought through the early days of werewolfing when he worried he might hurt people and found a way to avoid it and turn his strength to protecting them, running away and staying away for ten years like his father did instead of facing up to his mistakes is unthinkable.
Scott's sort of selflessness, as Derek says, involves standing up again over and over no matter how many times he gets hit and finding new ways to fight back. He repeatedly lets himself be a punching bag to protect others, and it's only during the incident at the motel where he is heavily influenced by the Darach that his willingness to sacrifice himself gets turned to that more maudlin point of telling himself that if he were gone the people around him would be safer. When he isn't being ensorcelled, he never considers running away from Beacon Hills and the people who need him.
He grows into this leadership more and more as the seasons go on, and that's probably the biggest change in Scott throughout the series. While he starts off with potential it takes some time to grow into his Alpha role. His first instinct is nearly always to be a good influence on people but it isn't always to lead them. That's something he develops most notably in season three, and it comes both from his werewolf powers and the force of his personality as he starts to find himself able to use his "wolf voice" to calm Isaac down, and manages to convince a vengeful Boyd not to attack the twins on the bus. When he makes decisions, more and more people listen to him. Part of that could be chalked up to the fact that Scott's decisions have proven to be good ones throughout the course of the series while any other potential leadership figures (Derek, Peter, even Chris) are basically disasters, but that just adds to the growing respect for Scott and his own faith in himself and reliance on his own judgment.
Still, while he is a leader he's not the sort who is precious about his power or control. He's usually extremely respectful of the abilities of others, even those like Allison and Stiles who don't have supernatural powers. He considers them members of his pack whether or not they're werewolves, and values them as highly as those that are. When they don't do what he asks them to do, usually by showing up in dangerous situations he'd advised they avoid, he doesn't get angry, and is always appreciative of the help they provide. When Scott and Derek's pack battle the Alphas, he warned Allison how dangerous they were and for the first time we saw him make a point of emphasizing how much stronger and quicker than her he is. But he followed it up by telling her that the Alpha Pack should scare her because it scares him, and when she turned up at the battle anyway his reaction wasn't the typical "I told you not to come!" but instead his thanks for her assistance.
He does sometimes lose track of things though, most notably in the way he often takes Stiles and his contributions for granted. Being a normal person, the group's only non-supernatural non-supernatural-hunter, and having been Scott's best friend for so long, it can be easy for Scott to overlook him and all he's done, or at least to forget to mention that he's noticed. With so many huge, weird things going on all around Scott, sometimes Stiles ends up getting the short end of the stick in the attention department. Scott loves Stiles like a brother, but for much of season two in particular Stiles is no longer the number one priority in his life, and it's clear that for Stiles that stings and it takes Scott a while and some pretty frank conversation to notice. The second half of season three however brings Stiles back into focus in the most unfortunate way possible, and at the canon point requested here, Scott is likely to be feeling pretty guilty about his prior neglect and especially protective of the best friend he just almost lost.
And then there's the person he did lose: Scott's relationship with Allison has been both an anchor and a point of conflict and while their relationship got him into trouble and occasionally made him very stupid, to have her suddenly gone from his life is a rug pulled out from under him. Even though they weren't together anymore it was always clear there were still feelings between them, and when Scott told her he believed they'd find their way back together eventually, he meant it. She was his first love, and despite his interest in Kira he wasn't over Allison when she died. That she died professing her love for him isn't going to make getting past that any easier. While he's capable of holding himself together enough to go back to work and manage day to day, all of Scott's considerable natural resilience is required to keep things together.
His mother is a huge help, especially since she knows the truth. They've clearly always had a very close relationship, and Scott is immensely protective of and proud of his mother. Keeping his secret from her was difficult and a burden, and he hated having to lie to her and especially to disappoint her. Since she learned what's really going on she's been even more help and support and he relies on her as much as he admires her.
The flip side would be Derek and Peter Hale, who he neither admires nor relies on. Derek has been a help in the past and Scott accepts him as an ally but more than that would still be a stretch at this point. Scott has trouble trusting Derek because Derek's instincts have so often been at odds with Scott's. Derek's one of those kill first ask questions later types that Scott just can't stomach, and between that and Derek's habit of keeping secrets (so many secrets) from him, Scott finds him very difficult to put any faith in. How do you trust a guy who won't even tell you how old he is? He doesn't hate Derek or even really dislike him, but they have been in many ways opposites both in worldview and personality and they've clashed too often to really be friends yet. They are heading in that direction though - season three shows Derek having been positively influenced by Scott, and they work better together than they have in the past, particularly when Stiles is missing. Derek more and more is showing the sort of protective instincts toward people that Scott does, and an understanding and even approval of Scott's methods, and it isn't going unnoticed and bodes well for their future.
And then of course there's Peter, who is basically everything Scott despises in the world put together - nasty, murderous, manipulative, cruel, dishonest, capricious. Peter is the only person Scott has ever seriously considered killing when he believed doing so was the cure to being a werewolf. He almost certainly wouldn't have done it, but that's how much he dislikes Peter Hale. He hasn't made a real move against him since except to counter Peter's own schemes, but there's a definite hostility there that Scott doesn't generally display. It's similar to how Scott treats Gerard Argent, another master manipulator who has killed numerous innocent people and toyed with Scott's friends and family for his own personal gain. These are the sort of people that Scott really hates, more even than Deucalion or Jennifer who were both bad people that needed to be stopped but at least came from places of narrower personal revenge that he can sort of understand even as he disapproves.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:
Werewolves in this canon are enhanced above normal human capabilities in several ways. This includes their senses as well as strength, speed, agility, and stamina. They also heal very quickly in most cases, and Scott can use that healing ability to absorb someone else's pain and, if he needed to, he could bring someone seriously ill back from the brink of death with that same ability though he would probably lose his Alpha status by doing so. Being Alpha grants him some additional strength, and the ability to cow other non-alpha werewolves, wolves, coyotes, and dogs by howling/roaring at them or sometimes by talking in a special werewolfy voice. (Yes, really. I know that's a terrible description.)
Werewolf weaknesses include wolfsbane, which causes a weird black bile to pour out of their mouth or their wounds and can be fatal. Mistletoe is also dangerous, and mountain ash can be used to create a barrier werewolves can't cross though Scott's True Alpha abilities make him less subject to that limitation than others.
Inventory:
3 outfits
1 cellphone, fully charged
1 silver arrowhead
Appearance: Scott's average height and build, with dark hair and eyes that are usually brown but turn red when he's wolfing out. He also grows really terrible muttonchop sideburns, pointy ears, claws, and fangs when that happens.
Age: 17
S A M P L E S
Log Sample:
Scott shut the door behind him and leaned against it. He was glad to discover he wasn't alone here -- obviously he wasn't alone alone, the showers made that pretty clear, but that Stiles and Derek and Isaac were here, too. That was a relief and not just because it was nice not to be in space on his own, which it was, it totally was, but the idea of leaving Stiles behind right now, after everything that had just happened…. That would've been the worst. His mom would manage, he knew she'd be upset but she'd manage until he got back. She and Sheriff Stilinski would figure something out, and at least they had each other to talk to. But Stiles, right now. If he thought Scott had left him after all that.... Just the idea made his teeth clench. And Isaac had been a mess, too. He needed to be there for them right now, make sure they didn't do anything stupid. More stupid than somehow ending up in space, anyway. How the hell-- he wondered if he'd finally found a problem even Deaton didn't secretly know the answer to.
But then there was the part that had him slowing peeling himself away from his friends, glad he had a door he could close on them. Stiles hadn't been sure whether to tell him, he could see it in his face and he guessed he couldn't blame him. It might've been better not to know, but he would've found out eventually anyway. He didn't even know what he was feeling. How could it be disappointing to learn that someone who was dead was still out of his reach? Peter Hale's resurrection aside he hadn't even really had hopes to get up so how could they be let down now? Part of him wanted to throw himself into finding out how. How had she been here? How could he get her back? If it was possible, he had to try, didn't he? But was that what she would've wanted? The Argent family code must've had a rule about coming back to life.
Scott groaned and dropped his head into his hands, crossing the narrow room to flop into a chair and settle his head on his arms on the desk. He stared at the wall for a while, and then decided: first things first. If there was a way to get Allison back he had to at least find out what it was, what it would cost, what it would mean for her. But before that there were people who were already here and alive and he owed them something, too. And apparently there were more of them than he knew. He took a deep breath and let it out again, and then sat up and switch on his comms device.
Comms Sample:
[ Hey, a new arrival who knows how to use video chat. Scott's got the camera set up on the table and himself more or less centered in the frame when he hits the button to record or broadcast. He lifts a hand and gives a bit of a wave to go with his curl of a friendly smile. ]
Hey. I'm Scott, and I guess some of you know me already? Stiles-- my friend Stiles, he told me that I've been here before, umm. But I don't remember. Sorry about that. [ His smile this time is apologetic, and comes with a shrug, shoulders hiked up toward his ears and then dropped. ] So I'm hoping that anybody who remembers me being here, if we were friends or whatever, come let me know? Sorry that I don't remember you, but I'm sure we can figure it out. So if you wanna come talk or something, come by whenever or send me a message or something? I guess I'm pretty much free whenever. [ He lifts a hand and lets it thunk back onto his thigh out of sight. ]
So yeah, that's all. See you around.
