ARCANARUM

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Name: Scott McCall 
Age: 16 
Canon: Teen Wolf 
Canon Point: End of Season 2 
History: http://teenwolf.wikia.com 

Personality: 

Scott McCall is Beacon Hills’s local boy-scout mama’s boy.   




Alright, not quite a boy-scout (at least not intentionally) but definitely close. Though his teachers sometimes believe otherwise, a few years without his father has done nothing to turn him into anything less than the average highschooler who sometimes just happens to do above-average things. That is, if you don’t count his being a werewolf.   

 

Oh, that werewolf thing? He doesn’t exactly enjoy it. Scott’s facing a sort of Miles Morales-Spider-man situation; he respects the power and does what he feels is right with it, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t think it hasn’t ruined his entire life. At first, he just wanted to be normal (a trait the other teen werewolves didn’t share) but his sense of duty drove him to use his powers to help his friends– and even people he didn’t trust. Liberal in his platonic love and romantic in a way that rivals Disney princes, Scott never seems to be alone when he’s at his best. With his friends around to support him– or, alternatively, with the fate of his friends in his hands– Scott can be a real hero. Alone, however, he can start to sulk and get into bad situations (usually involving hunters in the snowy woods). It makes sense then, that the anchor to his humanity when the full moon hits is the love of his 16-year-old life; Allison Argent, the daughter of the hunters trying to kill him and the rest of the wolves. Women like Allison, Lydia Martin, and Mrs. McCall play a strong role in Scott’s life, too; Scott will do just about anything Lydia tells him to and will do anything in his power to be with Allison. For his mother, Scott even takes a bullet and still tries to keep his being a werewolf a secret from her to protect her. When his mother is seen crying over a (second) romance gone wrong, Scott is morose; when his mother tells him to do anything he can do to help his werewolf friends, Scott seems energised. Though his father is absent, he seems to be doing just fine with his mother’s leadership.  

 

Though his being a werewolf has put a bit of a rain on his parade (even with a much-appreciated boost to his LaX skills), Scott seems to always be a ray of sunshine. Like a small puppy, Scott almost always has a smile on his face and is easily amused and entertained. He even laughs at all of his best friend Stiles’s jokes– though he doesn’t always get them. Stiles is more than just a best friend to Scott, however; one could consider them brothers. Always at each other’s sides, they come as a package deal: ScottandStiles. Though they don’t share Scott’s ‘furry little problem’, these two are rarely seen getting in trouble without getting in it together and share every detail of their lives together– even the more sexual parts that Stiles isn’t sure he wants to hear. 

One of the easiest ways to piss the puppy off is to either hurt his friends or put them in grave danger. Scott even turns cold against Lydia when Stiles is upset she’s rejected him– but against bigger threats like Derek, Kate, and Gerard, Scott has gotten into more than a few altercations trying to defend his friends. His concern and need for other people to be around is just proof that even without wolf powers, he was meant to work in a pack. Scott might not always be the most social, but he’s definitely an extrovert; he takes energy from being with other people, not alone. Scott would be lost without him in more than one way: while he always tries to do the right thing, he says in canon that he never has any idea what he’s doing. This is where Scott and Stiles complement each other the most; Scott keeps Stiles in check, and Stiles does the same for him. When one of them wants to do the wrong thing (and perhaps abandon their friends or their problems) the other will remind them what the right thing is– and usually, their opinions will switch, and they’ll still keep each other in check.     

 He’s more than a little stupid when it comes to street-smarts and... general common sense, but he’s got a heart of gold. Unfortunately for Stiles, Derek, or anyone else who gets to hear it, he seems to believe that yelling will help other people get his points– or will help him understand things. Stiles and Derek do not appreciate the yelling. This has yet to deter him from doing it.  
  While Scott generally tends to have a hero’s disposition, he’s also got a temper. Luckily for his friends, he’s not violent; he’s a pouter. When with his mother, he can be whiny, and with Derek he can be downright infantile. If something doesn’t go his way, he’s been known to stay in bed all day or pout and avoid his friends. If someone has to face his pout, they have to be careful; Scott might not agree, but he’s infamous for having a cute, puppy like pout and grin. 

  

Extrovert though he may be, he wasn’t always respected in school to have more than a few friends. People were always amiable toward him, but Scott used to have asthma (preventing him from getting a good spot on the lacrosse team) and was known to be a huge nerd. Seeing as how his grades don’t reflect a study-type of nerd, it can be assumed that Scott loves comic books and other ‘nerd culture’ themes, though he isn’t shown in canon to be so into them as to be stereotyped by these interests after his improvements on the lacrosse team. 
 


 

Redeeming Scott’s immaturity, temper, and... somewhat obvious lack of common sense, however, is his incredible ability to assume the best of people. When Derek first arrives in town, he is reluctant to accept Stiles’s allegations that Derek might be a murderer. When Derek insists that Deaton, Scott’s boss at the veterinary clinic, is the monster killing things in Beacon Hills, Scott is unwavering in his belief in Deaton’s innocence. Allison confides that she’s 17 but still a sophomore, and while other people would call her stupid, Scott correctly assumes that Allison’s constant moving around forced her to be held back a grade. When both Jackson and Lydia are accused of being the monster, Scott holds to their innocence and believes that whichever of them it is, they must not know they’re killing people– and when Matt, the boy who first controls that monster, starts flirting with Allison, Scott doesn’t believe him to be a threat or even disrespectful. Though he isn’t always right in his assumptions, Scott always believes in people and believes they’ll do what’s right just as much as he wants to do the right thing himself.   

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ABILITIES/STRENGTHS   



In canon, Scott is a non-traditional werewolf. He has claws, grows fangs, and develops strength, speed, agility, and the abilities associated with wolves but never looks very much less than human. He also lost his asthma problems as soon as he became a werewolf. He has a lower-pitched and possibly louder howl than Derek, though this has not been shown to be of any significance in canon. He has gold werewolf eyes as opposed to blue like Derek, and this significance is projected to be discussed in an upcoming episode.   


WEAKNESSES

 

Scott worries very easily. He’s got a temper that can lead him into pouting and when he’s confused, he has a habit of yelling as though yelling will help everyone understand him (or at least help him understand things himself.) He’s incredibly naïve and isn’t always the smartest. In fact, he’s rarely the smartest– and as he’s said in canon, he basically never has any idea what he’s doing. While he has a good heart, he tends to underestimate how bad people can be, and he has trouble trusting certain people. He sometimes allows his wolf-powers to affect his disposition and cause him to be more of an ass than he is, though he is shown to have almost complete control of those powers.   

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ARCANARUM   
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Story: Disney's Balto 
Story Character: Balto 

Plans: I plan for Scott to develop Balto’s physical characteristics in a were-wolf like style, so that he does end up bipedal but with the physical appearance of Balto. (This is to keep him along the same lines as his castmates and force him to sympathise/empathise with them in ways he might not be willing to at first.) He’ll lose his problems with asthma first, since Balto is a healthy dog, then gain a tail, ears, and slowly more physical characteristics. His speed will improve in subtle steps with each gain; at first he’ll believe it’s his werewolf powers coming back, but then realise it’s actually Balto’s speed he’s attaining. Balto’s senses will come to him in a similar way.   

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 SAMPLES 
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First Person: Have a click.   

Third Person:

Scott refuses to leave his bed the first day. His bedroom does not smell of his mother’s pancakes; he cannot hear her singing in the kitchen and she has not come upstairs to make sure he has left his bed. He cannot hear the revving up of her car as she heads for the hospital, and he can’t see the golden halo of light filtering through the off-white curtains she hung up for him when he was too old for Toy Story and Power Rangers. Scott’s life is not the same right now, and for a little while longer, he lets himself enjoy the tranquility of hiding under the sheets.   

It's not the way his lungs would close up and forget that they’re supposed to let air out, forcing Scott to tuck his head between his knees and wait until he can breathe again. It’s not the sudden lack of red in his vision, nor is it the way he can’t tell what people are thinking. It’s not the sudden dulling of his senses or even the fact that he is somewhere he has never been before. It’s the fact that he is here almost alone, with no way to know if his mother is okay, that makes every bone in Scott’s body shake and his lungs begin to swell and constrict– that makes his eyes prickle so much he hides in the safety of his sheets.