Scott Howl

* Monster Roadtrip
* Monster Prom
* Monster Camp

> ***"Scott Howl (21), a werewolf athlete who compensated for his rather small brain with a stupidly huge heart."***
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> *- Scott's introduction*
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**Scott Howl** is one of six main love interests in *Monster Prom*.

## Appearance

Scott is a werewolf, and he has slightly pointy ears and a brown tail. He’s buff. His hair is a medium brown color, and he has facial hair, as well as hair on his arms and chest. His eyes are dark blue.

## Biography

Scott was born 21 years before the events of *Monster Prom* to unknown parents at least a few years after the leader of his cousins, The Wolfpack. Like his cousins, Scott's parents abandoned him when he was very young, leaving them all to live with and be raised by their shared grandmother.

When he was 15, six years before *Monster Prom*, by which time he was already attending Spooky High, he met Vera Oberlin by chance when they did their morning jogs on the same path. He was convinced these shared aspects instantly made them friends, much to her annoyance. Vera attempted to avoid Scott many times over many weeks by changing her schedule and route, but he kept showing up to cheer her on, offer her water, and generally act as a friend, completely oblivious to her disdain. She tried to convince herself that putting up with his stupidity was another way to test her endurance. After over a month of this, Scott suddenly did not appear during one of her jogs, and Vera claimed to have felt relieved. Later that day, she learned he was sick and staying home, and, upset, remarked that he would be his parents' problem then; the Wolfpack then explained that they and Scott have no parents. Vera then brought soup to him at home, and the first thing Scott did was apologize for not joining her that morning to jog.

At some point prior to the events of *Monster Prom*, some Japanese businessmen saw Scott practicing some sports moves and, seeing how strong and fast he was, wanted to use his face to show that their snacks are strong and fast. Scott agreed to their request to be the new mascot of their product, "Scott Snacks", which became very popular in Japan, making him somewhat famous there. As it was on a full moon, and he was in werewolf form, Scott does not remember exactly what happened that night. When offered a royalty for his likeness by the businessmen, Scott instead asked for a lifetime supply of "Scott Snacks" because he didn't know what a royalty was. He feels "a bit bad" for doing so though, and so sometimes still buys them legitimately to support their business.

After the events of *Monster Prom*, Scott joined many of his friends in attending Camp Spooky, where he worked with Polly as a Prank Master. While there, he also attended a photography class with Joy Johnson-Johjima, which she claims has been good for him (for unspecified reasons), even if he frequently makes mistakes in the process.

A year or so after the events of *Monster Camp*, Scott and Polly go on a long roadtrip to reach an exciting destination. During the trip (if the players choose) Scott will reveal that he's become interested in astronomy but fears trying to learn about will take away from him being the best at sports.

## Personality

Scott loves his friends, sports, cheerleading, and being a werewolf. He often cheers on his fellow students, even if the cheerleading isn't necessary or wanted. Even so, Scott never seems bothered or deterred by this.

Scott is also not very bright. He dislikes words longer than ten letters, and he is often shown having difficulty counting. In addition, he occasionally mentions how he "totally knows how to read," indicating that he may be illiterate, even if there's some instances of him reading without trouble. Scott is aware that he is not very smart and at times can get self-conscious and self-deprecating about his self-perceived stupidity if he worries it has caused him to offend someone or mess up something he was trying to do.

As shown whenever the Wolfpack show up, Scott struggles between sticking with his family and being his own person with his own friends.

Scott has a "stupidly huge heart": he is a very kind, loyal and sincere person who never intends to hurt anybody; even when he does bad things, it's out of ignorance, not malice. He very easily assumes anyone is or can be his friends simply through having a few things in common, like going to the same school and engaging in the same simple activity. He is hard to anger and tend to see the positive side of everything.

Along with Polly, Scott is a member of the "PRANK MASTERZ", a group that pulls pranks (that may or may not be harmful) on other people, and occasionally each other.

In terms of romance, Scott does not care at all about "stats" (such as money, smarts, boldness, etc.), he will love a person no matter what for who they are, so long as they take care of their relationship.

## Skills and Abilities

* **Strength**:
* **Sports Skill**:
* **Monster Abilities**: As a **therianthrope**, Scott has the following abilities:
	+ **Animal Physiology**:
	+ **Transformation**:
* **Monster Weaknesses**: As a **therianthrope**, Scott has the following weaknesses:
	+ **Silver**:
	+ **Chocolate**:

## Role

### Monster Prom

In *Monster Prom*, Scott is one of the primary love interests.

### Monster Camp

In *Monster Camp*, Scott has been relegated to a side character. Aside from being encountered regularly throughout Camp Spooky, he, along with Polly Geist, is one of the "Prank Masterz".

## Stat Requirements

### *Monster Prom*

#### Single-Player

* **Short**: 10+ **HEARTS**
* **Long**: 20+ **HEARTS**

#### Multiplayer

* **Short**: 8+ **HEARTS**
* **Long**: 10+ **HEARTS**

Scott has no stat requirements other than getting a certain amount of "love points" with him, which is an invisible stat that isn't easily traceable.

## Relationships

* **Amira Rashid**: Amira and Scott have great chemistry. For one, they love the same things: video games, sports, any kind of competitive activity in general. And even if Amira sometimes makes the wrong decisions when competing, Scott doesn’t mind, because he trusts her blindly. Also, Scott’s endless energy mixes explosively with Amira’s eternal flame. Once together, they can’t stop. They’re perfect buddies.

* **Brian Yu**: Brian and Scott have a great time together. Scott's cheerfulness compliments Brian's chillness while both of them are great team players. Brian loves playing sports from time to time, and Scott is his boy for that. And since Scott is such a golden-hearted good boy, he's OK when Brian's energy is down again and he feels like resting. Let's not forget that Brian likes dogs, too, and that should mean something!

* **Oz**: Scott is so loyal and good-hearted that he makes everything a bit easier for Oz, who can get really insecure. He doesn't feel like Scott might end up abandoning him, and that's a huge relief. Also, Scott's tendency to think everything everyone says is smart also plays well to Oz's lack of self-esteem. On the other hand, sometimes Scott's over-the-top energy can be a bit exhausting. And while they both share some interests, they honestly don't share that many!

* **Vicky Schmidt**: Vicky and Scott have a great relationship based on the fact that both are cheerful and care deeply about bringing the best out of their friends. Vicky loves to lead teams while Scott loves team play, so they combine quite naturally. Also, Vicky’s constant effort to understand everyone is valuable, since she doesn’t care when Scott has a bit of a hard time understanding situations. Instead of getting angry, she prefers to explain everything to him, blindly trusting his raw potential.

* **Coach**: Scott greatly respects and admires Coach.
* **The Coven**: If the LOCKET route is failed, Scott is shown to have dressed up as the Coven (himself dressed as Joy and wearing Faith and Hope puppets on his hand) and have been imeprsonating them throughout the entire route.
	+ **Joy Johnson-Johjima**: While attending Camp Spooky, Scott and Joy take a photography class together. Joy claims, for unspecified reasons, that the class has been good for him, but is exapserated at his stupidity impeding his efforts (such as photographing the wrong things or letting his fingers get in the way of the lens).

* **Dahlia Aquino**: Dahlia and Scott have a great friendship. One could say their friendship is... BUFF. Dahlia tends to see the strengths in people (except Damien) and she's not super brilliant herself, so she honestly doesn't see Scott as someone who's dumb. Instead, Dahlia sees a great team player that's always eager to offer endless loyalty and a stream of ideas... which she fails to see as bad ideas. Scott also appreciates Dahlia's love for loyalty and teamwork. Together they're unstoppable (as long as no one requires them to be smart)! And, of course, they both love working out and pushing their loved ones to become their best selves.
* **Family**:
	+ **The Wolfpack**: Scott is the Wolfpack's cousin. Like him, their parents abandoned them when they were young, but they were old enough to remember what they were like (in their words, "total fuckups"). The Wolfpack do love Scott, but consider emotionally harassing them to be their way of coping with their unstable home life. Such harassment includes insulting the things he enjoys, such as calling *PokeMan* nerdy, and pulling mean pranks on him. They are also possessive and controlling of him, frequently getting angry at him whenever he spends time (particularly on full moons) with people other than them, and trying to force him to choose between his friends and his family. They live together with their grandmother.
	+ **Grandmother**: Scott lives with his grandmother ("grandma") together with the Wolfpack.
	+ **Parents**: Scott's parents abandoned him when he was very young (young enough to have no memory of them, while the Wolfpack were old enough to remember their own parents). For a time, he had issues accepting that they were gone and would never come back, including believing that they still provided them with Christmas presents.

* **Kale**: Scott and Kale, along with Damien, are all fans of *PokeMan*.

* **Damien LaVey**: Damien and Scott are a classic case of 'boys will be boys'. When they're together, they always end up wreaking havoc in the silliest ways possible. Some of their favorite pastimes are playing *Pokeman* and trying to sneak creatures onto the school premises for no good reason. These two trust each other to death and they will always have each other's backs. They value that neither of them is judgmental about the other, so they can feel safe and OK just being themselves.Damien and Scott are both big fans of the *Pocket Humans* (also known as *PokeMans*) franchise, including the original video games, the card game, and the *PokeMans GO* mobile game, which they enjoy playing, are both very knowledgeable of, and enjoy cosplaying for. While Damien purposefully abuses and neglects to care for his Pocket Humans, Scott cares for them well. The two of them also very frequently capture wild magical animals (such as griffins and owlbears) for various wacky plans, such as sneaking them into school to wreak havoc, launch business ventures, and bringing them to game nights.

* **Liam de Lioncourt**: Scott and Liam are an unexpected duo (as Scott says, "fandom buddies") who enjoy discussing the things/media they love on wikis and forums, such as the *Dragon Heat* book series or *Star vs. The Forces of Evil*. In the case of the latter, they disagree on shipping the character of Marco Diaz with either Star Butterfly ("Starco") or Hekapoo ("Markapoo"), as Marco technically became an adult while in another dimension that experienced time differently than on Earth, while Star remained a teenager, and Hekapoo is most likely an adult; Liam dislikes Marco/Star and supports "Markapoo", and Scott supports "Starco". However, even if their opinions differ, they remain amicable, and in the case of *Dragon Heat*, agree their opinions are still superior to most users' on the *Dragon Heat* wiki. Liam claims he engages in "passionate fandom discussions only as an ironic way of celebrating low culture, which (he) truly despise(s)."

* **Miranda Vanderbilt**: This pair is full of innocence and they’re childish to an absurd degree. Also, their total lack of understanding of how the regular world works (Scott being rather simple and Miranda being filthy rich), gives them zero ability to assess most of the situations they face. But they don’t know that… instead they tend to think their ideas are genius and, when together, there’s no way to tell them otherwise.

* **Polly Geist**: THE PRANK MASTERZ! Scott and Polly are great buddies. They love doing stupid crazy stuff and enjoying life. They share lots of interests and traits, especially the fact that it’s hard to anger them and they tend to see the positive side of everything. Together they’re the PRANK MASTERZ and love pulling pranks, even if they often end up being horrible and catastrophic.

* **Vera Oberlin**: Scott instantly assumed he and Vera were friends when they first met because they attended the same school and both ran in the morning. He initially got on Vera's nerves, but his warm personality and shared experience of being abandoned by their birth parents eventually endeared him to her greatly. Scott is extremely interested in the snakes Vera has on her head. He cheers them on when they eat, making it a sport. While this does annoy Vera, Scott seems unaware of his actions causing her annoyance. Despite this, she is his friend and, along with Damien, helps Scott out of a situation involving the Wolfpack.

## Trivia

* Various in-game events imply the following information, which may or may not be considered canon:
	+ If tempted by a treat or reward, he can do almost anything. This includes becoming incredibly intelligent, and even knowing things he could not possibly know.
	+ In a Gym event, he is shown to have several (no less than three) baby brothers, referred to as "pups". This is more than likely not canon, as his parents abandoned him when he was very young, and thus would not have had children after him.
* Scott loves watching stars because they are "shiny and nice". As mentioned in one of his normal successful endings and depicted in the Stars polaroid, Scott has a passion for astronomy, and says he may like to become an astronomer someday. He gives his own names to constellations.
	+ This is most likely a reference to werewolves transforming because of the moon, as well as the common trope of "stupid" characters having knowledge of astronomy to make them seem smarter or deeper.
* Scott is almost exactly named after the protagonist of the movie *Teen Wolf*, Scott Howard.
	+ At one point, the developers considered naming him "Oz", after werewolf Daniel "Oz" Osbourne from *Buffy the Vampire Slayer*, before the name was eventually assigned to the player character Oz for different reasons.
	+ His last name, "Howl", is also an obvious reference to him being a werewolf.
* His birthday is July 7th, making him a Cancer.
	+ He shares his birthday with a friend of Julian.
	+ As the game is implied to take place in the year it was released, 2018, this would make Scott's birth year 1997/1998.
* He is allergic to both silver and chocolate, though he still eats chocolate all the time.
* He likes hardcore and dubiously healthy energy drinks, muscles, "whatever Coach says he should like", and *Die Hard* movies.
	+ He dislikes "finishing second and getting a deadly silver medal", words longer than ten letters, and fireworks and vacuum cleaners.
* As stated in the official Discord by Julian, as they are cousins of Scott, some members of the Wolfpack share his surname of Howl.
	+ Based on this, is can be deduced that Scott's grandmother had a minimum of three children, including two sons and one daughter; two sons would have presumably kept their surname Howl upon marrying/mating, and then sired Scott and at least two ("*some*") members of the Wolfpack, and her daughter(s) would have presumably adopted the surname of her lover(s) and sired the remaining Wolfpack member(s).
* Most official artwork depicts Scott as left-handed.
	+ If this is canon, he shares this trait with Vera Oberlin, and possibly Liam de Lioncourt and Polly Geist.
* Scott's whipped cream sprite from the *Monster Camp* demo is likely based on a scene from *Not Another Teen Movie*, in which Jake Wyler (a football player who represents the "popular jock" archetype) wears a "whipped cream bikini".
* Scott's robot costume in *Monster Camp* is directly based on the "Tin Soldier" item set for the Soldier character in *Team Fortress 2*.

## Appearances

### Monster Prom

* COKE/CAGE
* CORPSE
* FAMILY
* FELLOW STUDENT
* FLOPPY DISK
* FOURTH WALL
* FURRY
* GHOST
* ICE QUEEN
* IDENTITY
* LEMON
* LOCKET
* NARRATOR
* ORGY
* PRANK MASTERZ
* SUPPORT GROUP
* YAOI

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 https://twitter.com/monsterprom/status/1280562726331441152 Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; name ":3" defined multiple times with different content
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 FAMILY
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 ICE QUEEN
4. ↑ ''Monster Prom'' refers to "Scott Snacks" as both "biscuits" and "meat treats", and in ''Monster Camp'' they more closely resemble potato chips.
5. ↑ Monster Prom (Game)
6. ↑ File:Scott Snacks New.png
7. ↑ File:Monster Camp End Credits.png
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Monster Camp
9. ↑ https://twitter.com/btflglitch/status/798443160024317952
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Prank Masterz Polaroid (physical copy)
11. ↑ https://twitter.com/btflglitch/status/1097788845352017921
12. ↑ https://twitter.com/monsterprom/status/1234477790457626629
13. ↑ Stars Polaroid (physical copy)
14. ↑ Football Polaroid (physical copy)
15. ↑ Paintball Polaroid (physical copy)
16. ↑ Beach Polaroid (physical copy)
17. ↑ LOCKET
18. ↑ Gym Polaroid (physical copy)
19. ↑ COKE/CAGE
20. ↑ SUPPORT GROUP
21. ↑ Poker Polaroid (physical copy)
22. ↑ DRAGON HEAT
23. ↑ Fair Polaroid (physical copy)
24. ↑ CALCAREERS
25. ↑ https://btflglitch.tumblr.com/post/183053414550/what-exactly-is-the-origin-behind-ozs-name
26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 https://btflglitch.tumblr.com/post/184994321095/lore-reveal-scott-has-the-birthday-of-a-friend-of
27. ↑ https://twitter.com/btflglitch/status/791801681713438721 (see this image)
28. ↑ https://twitter.com/monsterprom/status/1161792131276705792