OOC: Application
I should start by saying that I will not be keeping RED Scout's memories of Mayfield intact -- he will be starting anew. :)
Name: Celes
Personal LJ: sodium
Contact Info: AIM = REDScoutonFire
Other Characters Played: None! But I did play this cheerful fellow very briefly around July 2010!
Preferred Housing: n/a
Character Name: (RED) Scout, though he has no 'real' name in canon. I figure I can make one up here to give him a last name, so I'll go with Timothy Jones. He would much, much rather be referred to as Scout, though, and in most cases won't answer to his actual name.
Character Series: Team Fortress 2
Character Age: No official age is given for him in canon but he appears to be around 20 years old.
Background:
Information about Team Fortress 2: http://tf2wiki.net
Information about Scout: http://tf2wiki.net/wiki/Scout and http://tf2wiki.net/wiki/Meet_the_Scout
Team Fortress 2 is a First Person Shooter game that unfortunately has very little plot. The plot that is there is a very simple one. Basically, one company in control of one side of the world is constantly at arms with the company controlling the other side, both of which are given the orders to capture parts the other company controls by a mysterious woman with simply a title for a name. Since the plot is so basic, there really isn't much information given about the classes one can play as. Their history, for the most part, is up in the air, though the official website for the game does occasionally have comics starring the classes posted. These comics can give you a bit of information, but not much.
All that is known about Scout is that he was born and raised in Boston, and being the youngest of eight in his household, learned at a relatively young age to train his legs to the point where he could outrun his older brothers and beat them to the fights they were hoping to engage in. Of course, after finally being able to outrun his brothers, Scout adopted a strong method of offense, with his favorite weapon being a baseball bat dubbed The Sandman. Also occasionally using a pistol (The Scattergun or The Force-A-Nature), Scout grew to become a decent fighter, though he never thinks twice about using his speed to his advantage.
Personality:
Scout is, in short, a very boisterous and energetic young man. Spewing out insults such as 'chucklefuck,' 'chucklenuts,' 'blockhead,' and 'knucklehead', he clearly doesn't care about being even the slightest bit friendly to anyone, even his teammates. On occasion, he will slip out a 'thanks,' but it's pretty rare, and when it happens, it's inevitable that it won't be long until another insult comes flying out of his mouth. His accent is sometimes hard to decipher, since it's a heavy Boston one, but once someone is around him long enough they tend to pick up on the way he says things. (For the most part, words ending with an 'r,' like 'liar,' adopt more of an 'ah' sound at the end, like 'liah'.) He is also very boastful -- this can prove to be annoying to others, and it clouds the Bostonian's mind where he can't see any faults that he has. In the Meet the Scout video, he's seen saying that he's 'a big deal,' and that his muscles are 'beautiful'. In all honesty, one can barely see any muscles at all, proving that Scout has a fairly large ego, at least in that sense.
A big ego isn't the man's only personality flaw. He's also extremely impatient -- in the Meet The Spy video, he is seen literally yelling at the Soldier on his team to hurry up and unlock the door to the room in their base with important information hidden in a briefcase because they have no time to waste. Scout despises wasting time. In fact, as soon as a mission starts in the game, Scouts are usually the first class to run the heck out of the respawn point and toward the action. Life is short and there's only so much time to get stuff done, right? At least, that's Scout's point of view.
Scout, being the youngest class in Team Fortress 2, still obviously cares about his mother, which is evidenced by some of the things he says when the player earns an achievement while playing as him. He quite happily says, "hi, Ma!" and "look at me, Ma!" then, meaning that he's hoping his mother is paying attention to what he's doing and is hopefully proud of him, though he'd most likely never go out and actually announce that specifically. He also has a fondness for baseball, which can also be tied to the fact that he's still pretty young. He wears the same type of trousers a professional baseball player wears, as well as a batter's helmet and athletic shoes, and his main weapon is a baseball bat, which he swings with ease, most likely due to watching and studying his favorite teams play on television. If he actually shows interest in another person, (which is extremely rare and only shown in one of the official Team Fortress 2 comics), he may bring up baseball with them as it's a subject he's fairly knowledgeable in.
He enjoys caffeinated beverages, his favorite being a concoction known as Bonk! Atomic Punch. (How he obtains these beverages is pretty much unknown, and he seems to have a relatively large supply of them.) These drinks amplify his energy, though even without them he's known to literally bounce off of walls. Usually his energy is used to dart away from the enemy as soon as he whacks them with either his trusty bat or the baseball hit by his bat, so he suffers minimal, or preferably no damage, and Bonk! Atomic Punch helps him even further by speeding up his step to push him out of harm's way. The fact that he drinks so many of these beverages probably proves that Scout isn't the healthiest man, in that he doesn't eat and drink things that are 'good' for him. In the Jarate advertisement, Scout is seen eating a taco, and in an official drawing, he mentions hot dogs. Nowhere does he ever mention anything remotely healthy, and though it's pretty evidenced that he cares about his mother, he may not actually listen to everything she suggests he should do. Either way, he's a fast-talking, even faster-moving force to be reckoned with, and his poor eating habits don't seem to affect his ability to fight.
Abilities: Scout is extremely fast. After drinking a certain type of Bonk! Atomic Punch, he is able to run fast enough to completely deflect any sort of damage dealt to him, and other types of the drink cause him to simply run really, really fast -- faster than normal, even, and normally he's the fastest class in Team Fortress 2. Being fast allows Scout to obtain secret information about the enemy, which is undoubtedly very, very helpful for his team to capture all of the points. Scout can also double-jump, and being the only class with that ability, can easily get out of harm's way and/or attack enemies before they can even figure out what hit them.
Though, being fast and small has its downfall, in that Scout takes a lot of damage when he is hit. Running away after shooting an enemy with his pistol or smacking them with The Sandman is usually the smartest course of action for the boy to take, since only a few hits cause him to pass out completely and, in the canon of Team Fortress 2, get sent back to the respawn point.
Sample Entry:
Aw GEEZE.
I go ta bed and wake up in a completely new place and I don't like it. Not at all. Dis ain't my bed or my room, and I know my shirt didn't look like ...
[There's a slight pause, then the 'clackclackclack' sound of footsteps quickly darting across wood flooring.]
MyhatwhereismyhatWHERE IS IT?
Man, where's my freakin' hat? I know I had it before I wentta sleep. Who took it?
And where's my headset?
[Very slight pause.]
My hands are bare! I can't play ... can't play ball like dis, crap!
[One can now hear the sound of something hitting a wall, then an exclamation of pain from Scout's mouth.]
Hngh... Hand's not hurt enough ta stop me from kickin da ass'a who took my freakin' stuff! Show yourself, knucklehead!