Scott Camacho

Scott Camacho is one of the two main protagonists of Red Star. He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, lived there until he was seven, and later moved to the rural Sunnyvale, Texas after the death of his older brother. Struggling with the loss, Scott was introduced to his neighbor Richard who he formed a very close and unbreakable bond with. As a teenager, he inherited his grandmother’s ability to see the spiritual dimension. A mechanic and artist, he works at his self-owned business Red Star Auto Repair & Body Shop, and is a notoriously cheerful and optimistic individual with a contagious attitude, but is also incredibly and alarmingly fearless even in the face of apparent death.

Biography
With their oldest son Gary graduating high school soon, Rodney and Kelly Camacho (age 35) decided to have their second son, Scott, born 17 years after Gary in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Gary deeply loved and cared for his baby brother, and dedicated nearly all of his free time to Scott, even after starting classes at the nearby Spartan College. However, in 1972, when Scott was two, Gary was suddenly and unexpectedly selected in the Vietnam draft lottery, and was forced to leave the country for three years. During this time, Gary often stayed in touch with his parents and with Scott by sending him Polaroid photos of airplanes and writing letters about his experiences. Scott quickly inherited his brother's admiration for war planes, and the two created a pretend plane called the Red Star, making themselves the pilots. Following the end of the war, Gary decided to temporarily remain in Vietnam to help with restoration efforts, as he had grown attached to the people living there -- though, he often came home to visit his family and Scott. After Scott began attending school, he found himself frequently bullied due to his overly cheerful disposition and chattery personality, and became extremely self-conscious as a result. His brother provided him with incredible advice and a number of important lessons that Scott would carry with him for the rest of his life. He came to rely heavily on his brother despite Gary's insistence that Scott try to become more independent.

In 1977, Gary was unexpectedly killed following a raid on the Vietnamese village he had been living in, having died a hero after escorting and saving many people living there at the time. Scott was left deeply shaken and shattered by the loss of his brother, and realized how truly alone he felt in the world without him. Scott's parents, also suffering from grief, noticed their son's struggles and decided it would be better for them to move to a new place, in a more open area, for a fresher start. This is what led them to move into a vacant house in sub-rural Sunnyvale, Texas, in 1978.

Living across the field from them was the Greenhill family (or a very small portion of it), who did not take kindly to their arrival. However, Scott quickly took a strong interest in the Greenhills' son, a quiet and timid boy named Richard who was the same age as him. He attempted to befriend him to no avail, seeing how Richard was incredibly overwhelmed by the sudden attention. Scott noticed

Appearance
With lean muscle, strong posture, and a cheerful face, Scott is an incredibly handsome and youthful-looking man even in his middle-aged years, looking a great deal younger than he actually is. He has a light brown skin color with a generous amount of freckling, thick dark brown hair, and striking golden eyes inherited from his mother. He has never had great eyesight and therefore always wears very large, rounded glasses. He is fairly short (5'5"), though as a child he had finished growing in middle school, having been much taller than Richard until that point. He usually has some sort of very light facial hair, but like Richard, he shaves extremely often (though he is a regular participant of No Shave November). Scott has three notable scars, the first being on his forehead above his left eyebrow, originally created after falling into Blackwater Pond at age 7, but was later reopened by Stuart Greenhill when Scott was 18. He has one large, long scar traveling diagonally from the top of his left shoulder all the way to the middle of his left pectoral, also created after falling into Blackwater Pond. His last scar is a long one on his left shoulder, very close to the previous scar, that was a result of a grazing bullet shot by Howard Greenhill.

Powers
Scott has the supernatural ability to see and interact with spirits, as well as enter the spiritual dimension when unconscious or asleep. This is an ability which he inherited from his grandmother, who in turn inherited it from her father.

Trivia

 * From the day of his brother's death until he was 18, Scott kept a framed image of Gary by his bed, which he spoke to nearly every night as a form of comfort. He stopped doing this after first speaking with Gary's spirit, symbolic of him finally letting go of the grief.
 * During an argument with Richard while hiding from Richard's parents in downtown Dallas, Richard accidentally bumped into a table and knocked over and shattered the glass on Scott's framed portrait of Gary. Rosa Camacho believes this to have been the event to have finally triggered Scott's supernatural abilities.
 * Scott graduated with a class rank of 6 out of 135 students in his high school class.
 * Scott was very involved in school activities, particularly as a member of student council and the drama club. He was incredibly popular amongst students, particularly girls, and though he was friendly toward them, he never had a strong connection with any of them as he had with Richard. He never played with any other kids unless Richard was there, too. Most kids were confused by his strong friendship with Richard, and though Richard was considered to be weird initially, he became even more of a freak as people took their jealousy out on him.
 * Scott is homosexual and is completely oblivious to any girl having a crush on him, even to this day.
 * Scott is a Cancer in western zodiac and a Dog in eastern zodiac. He has an ESTP personality type and would be a Gryffindor (lol)
 * His favorite kind of ice cream is rocky road.
 * Scott had finished growing by the 7th grade. Richard reached the same height in the 9th grade, and after the two shared their first kiss, Richard proceeded to go through a rapid growth spurt to his current height. Scott still wishes that Richard was smaller, because then he felt like he could more easily protect him.
 * Scott has a strong love of Disney movies, especially the Aristocats, which is his favorite.
 * Though Scott deeply adores werewolves, he prefers staying human. Scott attempted to persuade Richard into transforming him once when they were teenagers as a last-ditch effort to protect Richard from his family, but Richard adamantly denied this request, saying that he did not want Scott to suffer as he had.
 * If Scott were a werewolf, he would be significantly smaller and slightly less fluffy than Richard, with a golden-brown agouti color.

Behind the Scenes

 * He was named after Scott Cawthon.
 * His last name, Camacho, comes from a former friend of mine who had the same last name. The same friend also chose Scott's birthdate.
 * Scott was created alongside Richard in early 2015, and was my interpretation the faceless tutorial character, or the "phone guy" from the Five Night's at Freddy's series. This character had very vague details and almost no canon information regarding his backstory, appearance, or otherwise, and was left largely to fan interpretation. Scott was a co-worker of Richard's, and would later die after being slaughtered by animatronics in the first game. As I fleshed out the relationship between Scott and Richard, my attachment to them outgrew my love for Five Night's at Freddy's, and so they both broke off to become their own characters, entirely unrelated to the franchise.