Melissa McCall

* Mom (by Prescott 'Scott' Halliwell-Trudeau, Syrus Halliwell-Trudeau, and Stiles Halliwell-Trudeau)

## Family information

### Family Members

* Prescott 'Scott' Halliwell-Trudeau (Adoptive Son)
* Rafael McCall (Ex-Husband)
* Syrus Halliwell-Trudeau (Foster Son, his Legal Guardian)

Relationships

* Chris Argent (Boyfriend)
* Rafael McCall (Ex-Husband)

**Melissa McCall** (*née* **Melissa Delgado**) is the adoptive mother of Prescott 'Scott' Halliwell-Trudeau, and basically of Syrus Halliwell-Trudeau and Stiles Halliwell-Trudeau by love and care and son's BFF friendship with them. Melissa is a nurse at Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital who was a hard-working single mother to Scott. She remained in the dark about the fact that her son Scott had been transformed into a Werewolf for most of the first and second seasons, instead believing that Scott was simply experiencing academic and behavioral issues that were causing him to skip school, get poor grades, and get into trouble with his teachers.

However, in Season 2's *Fury* of *Teen Wolf*, she finally learned the truth of Scott's supernatural identity when Matt Daehler, the master to the Kanima, Jackson Whittemore, took her and Sheriff Stilinski hostage, forcing Scott to transform in front of his mother to fight the Kanima in order to save them. Afterward, Melissa was horrified and confused to the point where she didn't speak or look at Scott for nearly a week until she was visited by Gerard Argent, who had taken the master position over the Kanima after killing Matt, and who had Jackson choke Melissa with his tail to blackmail Scott into giving him Derek Hale.

Though Melissa continued to be scared of Scott and initially insisted that Scott simply give Gerard what he wanted, she eventually began to understand just how much her son was needed to protect the town and accepted Scott for who he was before insisting that he take Gerard down, giving him the confidence he needed to successfully enact his plan.

Beginning in Season 3A of *Teen Wolf*, Melissa began to fully immerse herself in her son's supernatural world, acting as an ally to what eventually became the McCall Pack and essentially becoming the pack's second healer by using her extensive nursing and medical knowledge to help the veterinarian and Druid Emissary Alan Deaton in taking care of their injured and sick members whenever necessary. Unfortunately for Melissa, this eventually made her a target to the two villains of the first half of the season, Deucalion and Jennifer Blake, the former of whom intended to use her to manipulate Scott into joining his Alpha Pack, while the latter intended to sacrifice Melissa in her Guardian trio (along with Sheriff Stilinski and Chris Argent) in order to give her the power she needed to kill Deucalion once and for all. Luckily for her, Scott, Stiles Stilinski, and Allison Argent, with help from Derek Hale, Lydia Martin, Isaac Lahey, and Alan Deaton,prevailed and saved the parents from becoming human sacrifices.

Afterward, Melissa continued to assist the pack as an ally by helping them investigate and deal with the various supernatural threats in Beacon Hills, such as the Nogitsune possessing Stiles and the Oni pursuing him, the Deadpool hit-list of supernatural creatures, the Dread Doctors and the Chimeras they created, and the Beast of Gevaudan. She also helped her son with more personal issues such as the return of his father and her ex-husband, Rafael McCall, to their family, and the death of Scott's first love Allison Argent, while also dealing with her own issues such as working double shifts at the hospital to keep up with the bills and her house falling apart due to the numerous supernatural battles occurring there.

In Season 6 of *Teen Wolf*, Melissa took an even more active role in assisting the McCall Pack by accompanying Chris Argent on his hunts, learning a number of skills including how to use the Nine Sacred Herbs as an antidote to the nine supernatural venoms to heal Chris of the wounds he sustained in battle against the Ghost Riders. During this time, she and Chris began developing feelings for each other, which culminated in a kiss in the Phantom Train Station after the two were captured and erased from reality by the Wild Hunt.

Their partnership continued through the last half of the season, where Melissa did everything she could to help, and at times even protect, her pack's members when Chris' father Gerard Argent and his protégée Tamora Monroe began taking advantage of the Anuk-ite's fear-inducement power and using it to turn the human community of Beacon Hills against the supernatural in hopes of committing a genocide. Once they were defeated, Melissa was seen in a committed relationship with Chris in their hometown.

Melissa is a member of the **McCall Family** and an important ally to the **McCall Pack**, as well as a high-ranking nurse at **Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital**.

## Early Life

Very little has been revealed about Melissa's life prior to her introduction in the series. What is known is that she was born Melissa Delgado, and that she eventually married Rafael McCall and took his last name. *("Galvanize")* While they were together, Melissa enrolled in nursing school, where she eventually graduated and successfully obtained her nursing license. Afterward, Rafael bought her a new watch to congratulate her, which Melissa would later claim was the only thing in their marriage that actually worked. *("Alpha Pact")*

In 1995, the two had a son, Scott, who would eventually develop a severe case of asthma. Rafael's alcoholism reached its peak during this time, and Melissa was witness to many bizarre things that he did while drunk, such as returning home from a night of drinking, sleepwalking into the closet, and urinating in the hamper because he believed it was the bathroom until Melissa snapped him out of it. *("Riddled")*

When Scott was only a few years old, Rafael was drunk one night and got into an argument with Melissa in the hallway. Scott came out of his room to see what was going on, and Rafael grabbed him by the arm to direct him back to his room, only for Scott to try to pull out of his grip. Rafael yanked his arm back while Scott struggled out of his hold, which ultimately led to Rafael accidentally pushing his young son down the stairs, where he landed at the bottom and hit his head so hard that it left a dent in the wood paneling. Scott lost consciousness for a minute or so, and when he woke up, he didn't remember anything, but Melissa was so furious at the harm Rafael had caused to their child that she immediately kicked him out of the house. *("Insatiable")*

Embarrassed and ashamed by his actions, Rafael took Melissa's order to mean that she didn't want him in their lives anymore (when, in reality, Melissa simply was kicking a drunk man out of her house rather than kicking the father of her child out of their lives), and so he immediately stopped drinking cold turkey and moved out. Though Scott has stated that he did live with his father for a brief time after the divorce *("Pack Mentality")*, this arrangement didn't last for very long, and Rafael eventually moved to San Francisco, leaving Scott to live with Melissa once again.

After Rafael left Beacon Hills, he seemingly cut off all contact with Scott and Melissa, and Melissa would later say that the two of them were better off without Rafael in their lives, indicating that their divorce was not amicable. *("The Tell")* From then on, Melissa raised Scott as a single mother, working the night shift (and often working double shifts for extra money) so that she could see Scott off to school in the morning and after school. Despite being divorced from Rafael, she would later explain to Scott that she kept her ex-husband's last name because it was Scott's name as well and wanted to have that in common with him. *("Galvanize").*

## Personality

Melissa is very brave and courageous woman who has been forced to go up against the supernatural several times,and who is dedicated to helping protect innocents against the supernatural despite the fact that she is human herself. She has even been shown to hold her own in these situations, such as how she was able to defeat Ethan and Aiden when they were attacking Scott by shocking them with a defibrillator. As a nurse, Melissa is also a very intelligent woman who is not easily fazed by stressful situations, a skill she developed from years of working as an emergency room nurse, and who has proven herself to be a quick learner ever since she was exposed to the truth about the supernatural world. She is a very hard-working woman, as evidenced by the fact that she has worked countless double shifts and night shifts in order to support herself and Scott, and she manages to keep the household running despite being overworked and underpaid in her position.

Melissa is a compassionate, empathetic, and caring woman with a desire to help anyone who needs it, qualities she passed down to her son Scott, but she has also demonstrated a feisty, snarky, and tough demeanor as well, proving just how complex of a character she really is. She is also so devoted to her son that she was able to bring him back to life after he was killed by Theo Raeken, though she had help from the supermoon that helped to strengthen his durability and healing abilities enough to return to life, even despite the fact that his guilt slowed his recovery. Despite her instincts to protect her son at all costs, she is mature and understanding enough to accept that his work as the True Alpha to the McCall Pack is what keeps their hometown safe from supernatural threats, which is what allows her to keep motivating him to do what he needs to do in order to protect their innocent fellow citizens from harm and actively assisting him in this mission.

## Skills

* **Medical Training**: With Melissa being a registered nurse at the hospital, she has acquired a great deal of medical skills and training. The fact that she has been able to perform these kinds of procedures and other treatments such as chelation therapy and injecting cortisone into vocal cords suggests that she may be a nurse practitioner, an advanced-practice nurse who is only a step below that of a general physician, giving them the authority to conduct histories and physicals, perform complicated procedures, and prescribe medications. She often uses her advanced medical and nursing knowledge in conjunction with Alan Deaton's expert veterinary knowledge in order to help treat the various supernatural creatures (and those humans sickened or injured by the supernatural) in Beacon Hills.
	+ She managed to save Danny's life after he was brought to the ER with tension pneumothorax by using an open-ended syringe to release the air in his pleural cavity, which had created so much pressure that it was smothering him. *("Currents")* She identified the symptoms Stiles Stilinski was experiencing during his possession by the Nogitsune were almost exactly the same as the symptoms his mother, Claudia Stilinski, experienced as a result of her fronto-temporal dementia. *("Silverfinger"), ("Riddled")* She was shown to be capable of performing an autopsy a skill she has utilized several times; first, when she and Stiles identified the Darach's sacrifice victims had been killed by the three-fold death *("Fireflies")*, a second time when she and Alan Deaton examined the body of Satomi Ito's Beta Reed Schall, allowing them to determine that he had died from a weaponized and modified canine distemper virus*("Weaponized")*, and one last time on the flayed corpse of Aaron after his DNA and appearance were stolen by the Anuk-ite. *("Sundowning")* She helped keep her ex-husband Rafael McCall alive after he was seriously wounded by an Oni demon, stabilizing his wounds while the McCall Pack fought them off. *("Silverfinger")* Melissa attempted to save Hayden Romero's life using intravenous chelation treatment to filter out the Dread Doctors' Modified Mercury serum after she was given an overdose of the substance, but it was ultimately unsuccessful due to the fact that the mercury had been scientifically modified. *("Status Asthmaticus")* After her son Scott McCall was killed by the Chimera Theo Raeken, Melissa managed to resuscitate him with CPR despite him having been without a breath or heartbeat in over fifteen minutes, due in part to the power of the supermoon to trigger his accelerated healing ability. *("Status Asthmaticus")* When Lydia Martin was slashed in the throat by Sebastien Valet's claws, Melissa managed to help her get her voice back by injecting cortisone into her vocal cords. *("Apotheosis")*
* **Botany/Herbalism**: Melissa has also recently learned some supernatural methods of healing people, primarily how to use the Nine Sacred Herbs of the ancient Anglo-Saxons to heal someone exposed to supernatural toxins. She used the combination of these herbs (which includes mugwort and honey as a binding agent) to heal Chris Argent of the poisoned whip lashes sustained by the Ghost Riders *("Ghosted")*, Peter Hale from the full-body burns he suffered as a result of traveling through the Rift between the real world and the Phantom Train Station *("Heartless")*, and Corey Bryant from the wide variety of wounds sustained by Garrett Douglas' torture. *("Riders on the Storm")*
* **Resourcefulness**: Despite Melissa's lack of combat and weaponry training in comparison to her peers (such as the Hunter Chris Argent, the former soldier and current police officer Noah Stilinski, her ex-husband and FBI Special Agent Rafael McCall, the ancient Celestial Kitsune Noshiko Yukimura, etc), she has demonstrated that she is very good at thinking on her feet and improvising when the occasion arises. She was able to separate the merged then-Alpha Werewolves Ethan and Aiden Steiner at the hospital by shocking them with a defibrillator, *("The Overlooked")* and has used other objects as makeshift weapons as well, such as baseball bats. She has become quite proficient at using the taser she was given by Argent, preferring it to a lethal weapon such as a true firearm. *("Said the Spider to the Fly")*
* **Supernatural Knowledge**: Throughout the years as an ally to her son's pack of humans and supernatural creatures, Melissa has learned a great deal about the supernatural world and how to survive in it as a human. She has learned how to wield Mountain Ash and has protected her loved ones with it on several occasions, as she has rowan wood (mountain ash trees) in the baseboards of her entire house. *("Silverfinger"), ("The Beast of Beacon Hills")* She has an extensive understanding of the healing processes of the supernaturals in her care, allowing her to hypothesize that the Hellhound Jordan Parrish's smoking wounds had something to do with his then-unknown supernatural identity. *("Creatures of the Night")* She was knowledgeable about the fact that only a Beta of his own making could steal the True Alpha spark of her son *("Creatures of the Night")*, and has used her wisdom regarding the Nine Sacred Herbs to save the lives of several allies.

## Relationships

* Melissa and Derek Hale (Friends, Allies)
* Melissa and Hayden (Friends, Allies)
* Melissa and Liam Dumbar (Friends, Allies)
* Melissa and Lydia Martin (Friends, Allies)
* Melissa and Malia Hale (Friends, Allies)

* Melissa and Mason (Friends, Allies)
* Melissa and Rafael (Friends, Allies, Ex-Wife/Husband)
* Melissa and Prescott 'Scott' (Mother-Son Relationship)
* Melissa and Stiles (Surrogate Mother-Son Relationship, Friends, Allies)
* Melissa and Syrus (Surrogate Mother-Son Relationship, Legal Guardian and Foster Mother, Friends, Allies)
* Melissa, Prescott 'Scott', Stiles, and Syrus (Group Friendship, Famillial Relationship)
* Chris, Melissa and Noah Stilinski (Trio Friendship)
* Melissa and Noah Stilinski (Friends and Allies, and basically co-parents of Syrus, Prescott 'Scott', and Stiles)
* Melissa, Noah Stilinski, Prudence 'Prue', and Andrew 'Andy' (Group Friendship)

## Notes

* It was revealed that Melissa's maiden name is Delgado, suggesting that, like her husband Rafael, she may have Hispanic heritage.
* Melissa and Noah Stilinski secretly kept in touch with Prudence 'Prue' Halliwell and Andrew 'Andy' Trudeau during the first ten years of Syrus, Prescott 'Scott', and Stiles' life, and knew about wiccan witches and whitelighters, which doesn't make sense of why Melissa didn't want to believe it when she supposively found out about the supernatural and werewolves.
* Melissa and Noah Stilinski always helped Syrus' adoptive grandparents keep Syrus safe from his adoptive parents, by either always letting him stay the night and/or would pick Syrus up from school instead of his adoptive parents when Syrus' adoptive grandparents couldn't.
* Melissa quickly embraced the supernatural world after being introduced to it in Season 2's *Fury* of *Teen Wolf*, although she did have a brief period of fear in which she rejected the truth due to being overwhelmed by the revelation that her son Scott and terrified by the threat of Gerard Argent and the Kanima under his control, Jackson Whittemore.
* In *Teen Wolf*, due to Melissa, Chris Argent, and Noah Stilinski's positions as guardians to their children, Prescott 'Scott', Allison, and Stiles, plus Syrus, and the fact that they assist their children in guarding the innocent townspeople of Beacon Hills, they were targeted by Jennifer Blake as part of the "Guardian" trio in her Darach human sacrifice ritual. Chris, Melissa and Noah's trio relationship is a parallel to that of their children, Allison, Scott and Stiles.
* Based on the medical procedures Melissa has been seen performing throughout the series, it is likely that she is not just a registered nurse (RN), but a certified nurse practitioner (CNP), an advanced practice nurse who is capable of prescribing medications and performing complicated procedures under the supervision of a physician.