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Scott McCall ([personal profile] banded) wrote2013-08-03 12:00 pm
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Not quite The Breakfast Club, Significant Neutral
2x7, 23:22-end.
Form: A memory stone that you have to touch with someone else. Both will see the memory.

- You'll notice that some of Scott's memories are on the longish side or encapsulate an entire episode. This is in part because time in Teen Wolf actually moves kind of slowly, so if I broke things up by scene, he'd have like 300 memories. So, as a note!
- My description of this episode in my spreadsheet was as such: "Detention in the library. And then being called to the principal's office. Terribad conversation with Allison's mom. And then going back to shelving. The kanima freak out happens and then they take Erica to Derek. And then joining Derek's pack. "We'll do it my way."
- ... Jackson has a restraining order against Scott and Stiles. He calls them tools, so he's generally bad. "I'm going to kill him." But he doesn't mean it, though Jackson is frustrating.
- Jackson is a new entity.
- Matt is also a new entity.
- Isaac's mentioned, his dad was killed. Other people are being killed, too, and they're discussing who's killing people.
- Erica is also a new entity. Jackson's parents died. Jackson is rich and going to become richer at age eighteen.
- Then Scott is called to the principal's office. (Full name here: Scott McCall.) He shows up and Allison's mom is doing some ... really intense pencil sharpening. And then asks Scott if he's having sex with her daughter. ... This seems like another parental threat! Given the whittling of a pencil down by a sharpener to nothing. (Obviously, Scott is having sex with Allison.)
- Scott goes back to the library and they're discussing the death of Jackson's parents.
- Kanima myth: seeks out and kills murderers.
- And then the kanima attacked that Matt guy.
- Erica is also a werewolf.
- Jackson is a ... half-lizard ... thing ...? That's really strong. He leaves a message after punching Scott: "Stay out of my way or I'll kill all of you."
- Erica is having a seizure. She's insisting on going to Derek and only Derek.
- Then they bring Erica to the underground train station where Derek breaks her arm and stabs into it.
- ... Batman is mentioned in this memory. "Stiles, you make a good Batman."
- Scott goes after Derek and says, "You know who it is, you just wanted Erica to confirm it." Scott offers to join Derek's pack, but only on one condition: that they catch Jackson, not kill him, and they do it Scott's way.
- The underlying factor to this is that Scott knows he's being manipulated by Allison's grandpa to do this. He also will likely know that he wants to not be manipulated by Allison's grandpa, but he won't know anything else yet. This is just part of why he joins Derek, and though it's revealed in the later episodes, it's important to this memory.
- The other thing is that Derek is confirmed as an alpha. Scott doesn't really want to work with him nor does he trust him. This is three generally "Derek is not a great person" memories in a row, so that's going to solidify his view of the guy.
- Pastebin of the script for memory sharing purposes.

In Aather, this is going to amp up Scott's need to protect everyone he cares about ... and even people he doesn't. See, even if he's being manipulated by Evil Grandfather, he really does want to save Jackson (even if he's frustrated with him earlier on, Scott McCall saying "let's kill him" is never meant with any seriousness). Scott is pretty big on protecting everyone, and he will begin to get some of his annoying protective qualities. Allison has to go do something kind of important, and Scott feels like it's a big deal to leave her to do it rather than helping her. It won't completely put him into that position yet, but it will in time. That's one of his pretty big flaws, after all. (Scott never reaches Riku-levels of protectiveness, but he does have times where his view of protecting someone gets in the way of seeing their own autonomy. It seems to be something that he will have to spend a while working through, because as of last episode, he really isn't there yet.)

The other thing is that he knows his relationship with Allison is still a secret. Allison's mom is also very intense. But while their relationship is a secret, he also feels like all this secrecy and stuff is starting to hurt things, maybe destroy them.

This memory will be a pretty big clue for Scott that things aren't just girls running through the woods naked, but that things are pretty awful. Her running through the woods naked was shrugged off because he joked and laughed in that memory, but he's going to reflect back on it in context with this one and see that things are probably not okay. This is now three memories where things are Not Okay. It's a neutral memory because while Allison's mom kind of vaguely threatens him and people are dying (which for Scott is awful, because he wants no one to die ever), it's not as impacting as some of Scott's more negative scenes. And that's in context, which says a lot: Scott is used to this sort of thing happening.

This will tone Scott's cute puppy behavior down a bit, though. It will boost his need to help and urge him to start working through things in Aather (such as the plot) in order to do what he can. Before, he thought he had time, and though he wanted to help people, he figured that he could do it once he knew what was going on. Scott is definitely seeing things differently now. It won't be a startling change, because he was getting there on his own, but "I'm going to do this" and actually doing it are two different things.