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NAME: Scott McCall
CANON: Teen Wolf
AGE: 18
APPEARANCE: Normal Scott | werewolf Scott
CANON POINT: 6x9
BACKGROUND: Teen Wolf at Wikipedia.org | Scott at the Teen Wolf wiki
PERSONALITY: Scott McCall is someone who lives by the beat of his own drum. It's not always obvious until those around him stand back and compare him to the people in his life. While the others are more pragmatic and ruthless, he's decided to take a more individualistic approach to life through compassion. This choice is unique because he was bitten by a werewolf, and werewolves are most commonly known for their violent tendencies (ones that they often can't control). Scott fights against these tendencies, and chooses to use his powers to do right by the people in his life. As a mostly successful victor in that particular battle, Scott has ended up being known as a very rare kind of werewolf: the True Alpha. True Alphas become what they are not because they kill another Alpha werewolf to inherit their powers (which is what's traditional) but because of the strength of their character and willingness to do good. They never kill another living being, but they still have the enhanced characteristics of a very powerful werewolf.
In order to reach this point, Scott had to take a rough path. His initial days as a werewolf led to him desperately shunning his powers, and Scott wasn't opposed to killing the Alpha who made him into a werewolf so that he could regain some normalcy in his life (as he believed this would cure him of his lycanthropy). He wanted nothing more than to shed this extra identity that could lead to him losing control so that he could leave the supernatural behind. After a number of difficult tries, he now embraces his identity as a werewolf, an Alpha, and a leader of a pack of teenagers. In fact, even before he came into his True Alpha status, Scott had a pack already, as he had the ability to band together individuals to work toward a common goal with relative ease.
It's important to understand who Scott was before his lycanthropy to understand how he's become the compassionate and driven individual that he is today. Raised by a single mother, she taught him to be mannerly, to do his chores, and to always do right by her. Like Scott, Melissa McCall is a woman who spends every day of her life trying to save lives (she's a nurse). Because his father was an alcoholic who couldn't be trusted, Scott grew up without him and had to do everything he could to support his mother. Even from a young age, he understood how difficult it was for his mother to manage her job, raising a son, and keeping the bills paid. Therefore, it shouldn't be surprising that Scott comes out with a strong sense of responsibility … but it also makes sense that he struggles with the extra weight of being a werewolf. He desperately tries to relieve himself of this curse at first, and even says that all he wants is to be with his girlfriend, but he comes to learn that nothing's that simple. This lesson is difficult for him to swallow, but he overcomes his selfish desire to be normal so that he can stand toe-to-toe with some of the "typical" (read: needlessly violent) members of the supernatural community in Beacon Hills to try to change their actions.
Behavior-wise, Scott is earnest and solemn in how he often presents himself, and he believes the best of people rather than skipping ahead to cynicism. In fact, some might say that he's too trusting, and they wouldn't be wrong. He does well in expressing when he cares for someone (albeit sometimes through some awkward limboing), and he knows when to motivate someone or go outside of typical situations to show he cares. As a leader, he can easily transition to putting his nose to the grindstone so that he can come out on top: which typically means protecting everyone. That said, he has a silly side, too, one that can be goofy and lighthearted. It's seen less these days with all the responsibilities he carries, but he can be a good mixture of teasing and goofy, as well as clueless. Above all else, he is genuine. He may not know how to get something done, but he will believe it can be done. In fact, it has to be done.
While it's not difficult to become a person Scott cares about, his pack is undoubtedly a collection of the individuals who are most important to him. These days, the pack includes an eclectic mix of individuals, and most of them aren't werewolves. The most important part of the pack is his mother, Melissa, and his best friend, Stiles. Stiles is Scott's balance in a lot of ways. Whereas Scott can be too serious, Stiles is silly and talks a lot. In reverse, Scott can be too trusting, so Stiles is there to be the cynical one who trusts barely anyone. Stiles is the planner in the pack, and the one who makes sure that Scott's unyielding determination can actually lead to results. Otherwise, the pack has evolved throughout the years, and that evolution is in large part because of Scott's influence. Scott also has a habit of rehabilitating his villains. He bears fierce grudges against those who don't change, but he does have a good track record in giving some unlikely people chances.
Scott's tendency to go above and beyond for just about anyone is both his greatest trait and his most fatal flaw. It's through this tendency that numerous villains on Teen Wolf have taken advantage of his kindness. He will do just about anything (sans killing) to protect his important people, and failure always leaves its mark. Numerous occasions in the show have shown Scott experiencing mental breaks as he struggles to protect people (especially when he fails). A wolfsbane-induced hallucination even leads to him nearly committing suicide as a result of these failures. The wolfsbane exacerbated his depressive tendencies, but it's clear throughout the show that his self-esteem is largely bolstered by how much he can help others. He struggles with just about everything, and feels like it's all up to him to make sure people are safe. If he chooses not to kill, is he doing enough? If he's not willing to protect people from someone who could be dangerous, has he done the wrong thing by trusting the wrong person? These questions continue, to the point where Scott starts to make other people's poor choices his own. He doesn't let other people make mistakes, often to the point of being accidentally insulting. If something went wrong, it's always on him.
His other greatest flaw is a failure to see beyond his own attempts to protect others, and becoming rather shortsighted in the process. Sometimes Scott thinks it's a great idea to not tell people things, and instead just go out of his way to protect them by lying through omission. This choice never works out for Scott, and season five's second half shows him growing to realize that he does need to communicate better with those in his pack. He can't just protect them without listening to them. The problem is that he sometimes gets it in his head about what's good for people in his life, and it leads to unfair expectations. It leads to the break between him and Stiles in season five because Stiles killed someone in self-defense, and in season six, it leads to him being hard on Liam for not being prepared to both be a leader of his pack and of the lacrosse team. Even when Stiles and Liam try to communicate with Scott about this, they often lead to talking to a wall who's already made up his mind. There's a definite difference between the stubborn Scott in these two scenarios, but chipping away at that stubbornness is sometimes the best anyone can do.
To Scott's credit, he is finally looking to his future so that he can accept a path in life that both allows him to protect others and do right by himself. Although he doesn't believe he can manage it, he's begun to put in the work necessary to apply to college so that he can become a veterinarian. Some part of him struggles with this decision, but he cares for both people and animals so much that he has the right mindset to do well. His choice shows a more mature Scott, one who's more intelligent and able to think outside the box. He's grown up a lot, and now he's found a choice for himself to go forward. He just needs to believe in himself.
ABILITIES:
Werewolf/lycanthropy: In the first episode of Teen Wolf, Scott is bitten by an alpha werewolf (and only Alpha werewolves can pass on lycanthropy). This leads to the following abilities:
Heightened senses: Scott can hear, smell, and see better than the average person (to a great degree). He has trained this ability so that it's not overwhelming to him as an individual.
Quick recovery from injuries/healing: Scott is able to heal from injuries much more quickly than the average person. However, his healing can be inhibited by emotional guilt or profound separation from important people. This occurs on numerous occasions for him. In part in connection to this, Scott's werewolf status prevents him from getting sick or having the asthma he had before he was bit.
Enhanced agility: Scott has increased speed and reflexes, making him magically good at lacrosse … and able to run oddly on all fours through Beacon Hills. Even if that can't be faster.
Increased strength: Scott has considerable strength as a werewolf. He can bust down doors, break chains, and more.
Pain relief: Scott is able to draw away someone's pain. When he does it, he has black lines on his hand to make someone feel better.
Sensing emotions/chemosignals: Scott is able to feel the emotions in a room. More than that, he's also able to go to a place where there is a strong emotional resonance and figure out what might have happened (emotionally, rather than anything else). It's a limited degree of empathy.
Werewolf transformation: Most of the transformations on Teen Wolf are limited. Scott ends up with a protruded brow, increased sideburns, slightly pointed ears, claws, a predator's teeth, and red eyes (due to his Alpha status).
Memory experience: By sticking his claws into the back of someone's neck, Scott is able to retrieve lost or obscured memories from someone else. He's also able to help jog someone's memory through this tactic.
Full moon anchoring/training: Through extensive emotional training, Scott is able to control himself from transforming at inopportune moments. While his original anchor had been his girlfriend, Allison, their breakup led to him finding strength in himself: and being his own anchor. Part of Scott's ability to anchor is found in positivity and care for the people around him.
True Alpha werewolf: In part because of Scott's integrity, Scott is a true alpha werewolf. He began as a beta, but he has now maintained this status due to his lack of willingness to kill anyone. This doesn't mean that people can't kill on Scott's behalf, or that he can't commit violence, but he can't kill or he may lose his status.
In addition to having flashy red eyes, being an Alpha grants Scott additional abilities:
Passing on lycanthropy: Via a bite (or a very, very, very deep cut of his nails—though this is treated as extremely rare on the show and Scott isn't the one who does it), Scott can make other werewolves. In game, if this ever comes up, I will discuss it with the moderators before I proceed (and obviously after discussing it with the player in question). That said, Scott is extremely reluctant to pass on the bite without good reason.
Bond with pack: Via his bond with his pack, Scott is able to sense when they are in danger, hear them more easily from a distance, and more. Scott has a … unique pack in show, but this is more prominent with other shapeshifters.
Enhanced werewolf abilities: As an Alpha, Scott has an increased version of all the above-mentioned abilities.
Alpha howl: This howl has two purposes. One, it allows him to communicate with his pack over long distances. And secondly, it allows him to calm a shapeshifter down whether or not they're in his pack, possibly returning them to a human state if they're out of control.
INVENTORY:
The clothes on his back
His cell phone
CANON: Teen Wolf
AGE: 18
APPEARANCE: Normal Scott | werewolf Scott
CANON POINT: 6x9
BACKGROUND: Teen Wolf at Wikipedia.org | Scott at the Teen Wolf wiki
PERSONALITY: Scott McCall is someone who lives by the beat of his own drum. It's not always obvious until those around him stand back and compare him to the people in his life. While the others are more pragmatic and ruthless, he's decided to take a more individualistic approach to life through compassion. This choice is unique because he was bitten by a werewolf, and werewolves are most commonly known for their violent tendencies (ones that they often can't control). Scott fights against these tendencies, and chooses to use his powers to do right by the people in his life. As a mostly successful victor in that particular battle, Scott has ended up being known as a very rare kind of werewolf: the True Alpha. True Alphas become what they are not because they kill another Alpha werewolf to inherit their powers (which is what's traditional) but because of the strength of their character and willingness to do good. They never kill another living being, but they still have the enhanced characteristics of a very powerful werewolf.
In order to reach this point, Scott had to take a rough path. His initial days as a werewolf led to him desperately shunning his powers, and Scott wasn't opposed to killing the Alpha who made him into a werewolf so that he could regain some normalcy in his life (as he believed this would cure him of his lycanthropy). He wanted nothing more than to shed this extra identity that could lead to him losing control so that he could leave the supernatural behind. After a number of difficult tries, he now embraces his identity as a werewolf, an Alpha, and a leader of a pack of teenagers. In fact, even before he came into his True Alpha status, Scott had a pack already, as he had the ability to band together individuals to work toward a common goal with relative ease.
It's important to understand who Scott was before his lycanthropy to understand how he's become the compassionate and driven individual that he is today. Raised by a single mother, she taught him to be mannerly, to do his chores, and to always do right by her. Like Scott, Melissa McCall is a woman who spends every day of her life trying to save lives (she's a nurse). Because his father was an alcoholic who couldn't be trusted, Scott grew up without him and had to do everything he could to support his mother. Even from a young age, he understood how difficult it was for his mother to manage her job, raising a son, and keeping the bills paid. Therefore, it shouldn't be surprising that Scott comes out with a strong sense of responsibility … but it also makes sense that he struggles with the extra weight of being a werewolf. He desperately tries to relieve himself of this curse at first, and even says that all he wants is to be with his girlfriend, but he comes to learn that nothing's that simple. This lesson is difficult for him to swallow, but he overcomes his selfish desire to be normal so that he can stand toe-to-toe with some of the "typical" (read: needlessly violent) members of the supernatural community in Beacon Hills to try to change their actions.
Behavior-wise, Scott is earnest and solemn in how he often presents himself, and he believes the best of people rather than skipping ahead to cynicism. In fact, some might say that he's too trusting, and they wouldn't be wrong. He does well in expressing when he cares for someone (albeit sometimes through some awkward limboing), and he knows when to motivate someone or go outside of typical situations to show he cares. As a leader, he can easily transition to putting his nose to the grindstone so that he can come out on top: which typically means protecting everyone. That said, he has a silly side, too, one that can be goofy and lighthearted. It's seen less these days with all the responsibilities he carries, but he can be a good mixture of teasing and goofy, as well as clueless. Above all else, he is genuine. He may not know how to get something done, but he will believe it can be done. In fact, it has to be done.
While it's not difficult to become a person Scott cares about, his pack is undoubtedly a collection of the individuals who are most important to him. These days, the pack includes an eclectic mix of individuals, and most of them aren't werewolves. The most important part of the pack is his mother, Melissa, and his best friend, Stiles. Stiles is Scott's balance in a lot of ways. Whereas Scott can be too serious, Stiles is silly and talks a lot. In reverse, Scott can be too trusting, so Stiles is there to be the cynical one who trusts barely anyone. Stiles is the planner in the pack, and the one who makes sure that Scott's unyielding determination can actually lead to results. Otherwise, the pack has evolved throughout the years, and that evolution is in large part because of Scott's influence. Scott also has a habit of rehabilitating his villains. He bears fierce grudges against those who don't change, but he does have a good track record in giving some unlikely people chances.
Scott's tendency to go above and beyond for just about anyone is both his greatest trait and his most fatal flaw. It's through this tendency that numerous villains on Teen Wolf have taken advantage of his kindness. He will do just about anything (sans killing) to protect his important people, and failure always leaves its mark. Numerous occasions in the show have shown Scott experiencing mental breaks as he struggles to protect people (especially when he fails). A wolfsbane-induced hallucination even leads to him nearly committing suicide as a result of these failures. The wolfsbane exacerbated his depressive tendencies, but it's clear throughout the show that his self-esteem is largely bolstered by how much he can help others. He struggles with just about everything, and feels like it's all up to him to make sure people are safe. If he chooses not to kill, is he doing enough? If he's not willing to protect people from someone who could be dangerous, has he done the wrong thing by trusting the wrong person? These questions continue, to the point where Scott starts to make other people's poor choices his own. He doesn't let other people make mistakes, often to the point of being accidentally insulting. If something went wrong, it's always on him.
His other greatest flaw is a failure to see beyond his own attempts to protect others, and becoming rather shortsighted in the process. Sometimes Scott thinks it's a great idea to not tell people things, and instead just go out of his way to protect them by lying through omission. This choice never works out for Scott, and season five's second half shows him growing to realize that he does need to communicate better with those in his pack. He can't just protect them without listening to them. The problem is that he sometimes gets it in his head about what's good for people in his life, and it leads to unfair expectations. It leads to the break between him and Stiles in season five because Stiles killed someone in self-defense, and in season six, it leads to him being hard on Liam for not being prepared to both be a leader of his pack and of the lacrosse team. Even when Stiles and Liam try to communicate with Scott about this, they often lead to talking to a wall who's already made up his mind. There's a definite difference between the stubborn Scott in these two scenarios, but chipping away at that stubbornness is sometimes the best anyone can do.
To Scott's credit, he is finally looking to his future so that he can accept a path in life that both allows him to protect others and do right by himself. Although he doesn't believe he can manage it, he's begun to put in the work necessary to apply to college so that he can become a veterinarian. Some part of him struggles with this decision, but he cares for both people and animals so much that he has the right mindset to do well. His choice shows a more mature Scott, one who's more intelligent and able to think outside the box. He's grown up a lot, and now he's found a choice for himself to go forward. He just needs to believe in himself.
ABILITIES:
Werewolf/lycanthropy: In the first episode of Teen Wolf, Scott is bitten by an alpha werewolf (and only Alpha werewolves can pass on lycanthropy). This leads to the following abilities:
True Alpha werewolf: In part because of Scott's integrity, Scott is a true alpha werewolf. He began as a beta, but he has now maintained this status due to his lack of willingness to kill anyone. This doesn't mean that people can't kill on Scott's behalf, or that he can't commit violence, but he can't kill or he may lose his status.
In addition to having flashy red eyes, being an Alpha grants Scott additional abilities:
INVENTORY: