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Scout is a TTRPG character played by Gawr Gura in Mythbreakers. She supported her family by forging horsehoes and weapons. After escaping from a man-eating mine and learning that her parents have a warrant out for their arrest, she and her sister moved from Belt-Buckle to Mythton to start a new life.
Gura revealed Scout’s design during her tutorial session.
Scout has a slight farmer’s tan, freckles, green eyes, and long, layered, unkempt, wavy, blonde hair that goes down to her waist. She wears a pair of goggles on her head, and bandages wrap around her left eye. An orange bandana wraps around her neck, hiding the front of her chest.
Covering her upper body is a white undershirt and brown crop top that exposes her toned arms and abs. She wears dark brown gloves. On Scout’s lower body are jeans that have been torn and patched over time, a belt with a buckle with the letter B and some tools, and tall brown boots.
Scout is kind to old people, is obsessed with watching old samurai and western films, and likes doing donuts with her father’s old Ford to blow off steam. Coming from the countryside, she distrusts city folk, but this starts to change when she saves Doctor Nice. When something is on her mind, she feels compelled to sate her curiosity, leading her to discoveries such as the truth about the mines near her homestead and the world of cockroaches behind the mirror in the motel.
Scout lacks empathy and can be selfish due to having to make things work by herself. She gets angry when she’s not able to understand something or when people are hiding the truth from her. She is sometimes intimidating and violent, such as when she performed a chokehold on Doctor Nice and tackled and tied a homeless person.
Growing up in Belt-Buckle has taught her rural survival skills. She is strong and can craft weapons using ores. However, a lifetime of working in the forge has dampened her hearing. Scout was never taught to read, so she cannot read things like phone books.
Scout earned a living for her family by forging metals into horseshoes and weapons. How she got top-tier materials to make the best blades and swords was the subject of the town gossip, but she thought the answer was simple: her father got the materials from the mine near their house. Scout liked to enjoy hard work, making blades, and watching samurai flicks and westerns. But due to the worsening condition of her father’s health, she needed to pick up the pace for the sake of the family. Her story started one fine morning when she made donuts with Papa’s Ford to let off steam and tried to do a jump, but instead crashed into a fence.
She decided to start on her chores, so she went to the market to get eggs. Remembering that the doctor who arrived recently was the talk of the town and thinking he was suspicious, she asked Eunice the grocer where he lived so she could greet him. After getting the directions, she found his trailer, learned that his name was Doctor Nice, talked to him about a variety of things, gave him an egg, then intimidated him with a chokehold before leaving. When she returned home, her sister greeted her, and after some fuss Scout convinced her to fix the fence she broke earlier. Scout kicked the door open, delivered the eggs to her mother, kissed her on the cheek, then went to the forge.
Scout decided to make a new pickaxe for her father. After much hard work, she made the finest pickaxe in her life. Then as she was making a shiv, her father walked in, greeted her, and gave her a few tips on making the blade. She told him how she introduced herself to the doctor and how he was putting her on edge, and he agreed that he was acting fishy. He also let her know that an old friend Betsy would be staying over at their place. Scout finished the shiv, and her father gave his approval.
They returned to the house to find that Betsy joined them for breakfast. Scout ask her why she was staying over, and Betsy said that while she was too old, she didn’t feel good about staying in an old folks home, and opted to stay at Scout’s instead because she liked her family. Then after breakfast, Scout said that she would be going to the mines. Her father didn’t want her to go, and they argued for a bit before he warned her not to go in too deep. As she exited the house, she saw Doctor Nice ringing the doorbell, asking to see Betsy. Scout’s father came outside and shouted at him, and the doctor decided to leave. Scout briefly expressed curiosity about whether the city folk knew something that country folks didn’t before going to the mines, promising to be back by supper.
When Scout returned to the forge, she was surprised to find that all the metal had disintegrated into dust. She checked and saw no signs of anyone being around the area. She then smelled and tasted the dust, noting that the taste had a hint of bacon.
Seeing that it was getting late, she went back to the house and explained the situation to her father. He stormed off to the forge and she followed, complaining about how he warned her not to go into the mines yet now she has no metals to work with. At one point, her father sank to his knees and mentioned how the doctor’s presence was a nuisance. Scout said she would go to his trailer and give him a piece of her mind, but he said it’s not his fault. They argued about her father hiding important information from Scout and how he didn’t want her to know anything about the mines. Scout’s father said he thinks he knows how to fix it, but needed a night to clear his head. He asked her to keep this a secret from everyone except her mother.
At dinner, Scout ate chicken tender casserole with tater tots and her troubles melted away. Afterward, she tried to sneak out the window only for her mother to ask if she was going anywhere. Then she went to talk to Betsy, asking if she believed in dark magic and if she knew what to do if she found something she couldn’t explain. Betsy told her to seek out people who have the answers, as this was what she did when she didn’t know how to grow certain crops. Scout asked her about Doctor Nice and learned that Betsy had a disease. Feeling uneasy and suspicious of everyone, Scout flipped through the phone book and ended up falling asleep at the kitchen table.
The next morning, Scout woke up and went straight to the forge. Her father entered afterward, carrying a large batch of beautiful metals. When he explained that he was restless and did some mining in the middle of the night, Scout expressed doubt about his ability to do so with his failing health. Scout pretended that she was going back to the house for breakfast and saw that her father seemed distressed. Then he turned to see her and asked if she was going to leave, and she asked if he made a pact with the devil, upset that she had no way to explaining how the metals turned into dust and that he was still keeping secrets from her. They argued briefly before heading to the house for breakfast. While her sister acted as if nothing was wrong, her mother seemed sad. Scout asked where Betsy was, and she said she had a heart attack and passed away, and that she drove her to the hospital late at night and was tired. Feeling out of it, Scout said she would skip breakfast and start work.
But that was a lie: Scout was actually trying to get the doctor to accompany her to the mine. After going to town, asking Eunice for directions, and briefly stopping by Old Crinkle’s to hear him talk about werewolves, she ended up at Doctor Nice’s trailer. She knocked on his door and told him that Betsy died from a heart attack, which confused him because he knew her heart was healthy. Scout told him to bring a weapon and come with her to the mine. Before leaving, he called his parents to let him know his location.
They explored the mines and found that the dust in the minecarts matched the dust she found in the forge. Deeper inside, Scout discovered that the walls were made of a beautiful metals that if dipped in water were able to change between iron, bronze, silver, and gold. She showed this to the doctor who was in disbelief. Continuing deeper, they walked through a tunnel made of pulsating bricks. Scout tested the bricks by poking them with her shiv, which felt as if she stuck it into something spongey. Surprisingly, the knife hardened completely into stone. She managed to extract it with her pickaxe.
Then Doctor Nice called her attention to a dark area with a light coming from the ceiling. Scout remembered that this place was actually the bottom of the well from near her house. They smelled something horrific, which turned out to be a dead body. Furthermore, the doctor identified it as Betsy’s from the metal plate near the knee, as she needed a leg replacement. At that moment, as if the walls were breathing, holes opened up in the rocks and teeth sprouted out. Both of them ran to the entrance, but Doctor Nice tripped. Then Scout heard a voice in her head telling her to come back. Scout tripped and felt herself sinking into the floor. The voices in her head spoke of a blood price that needed to be paid. Yelling that she would never sign a contract with a mine, it told her the contract was already signed. She then realized that her parents had old folks over at their house so they could sacrifice them to the mines for previous metals.
Scout then had the idea to climb up the well and ran back, telling the doctor to come if he wanted to live. With a great effort, she managed to climb out of the well and checked for anything to help Doctor Nice out before she made a makeshift rope with her belt and bandana. With that lifeline, the doctor barely made it out of the well with severe burns. Scout performed simple first aid to stop his bleeding while getting her sister to get painkillers from the medicine cabinet and call for help.
About half an hour later, a van pulled up and the sheriff approached them. She briefly asked for the situation then helped take the doctor away for medical assistance. Scout’s confused sister asked what happened, and Scout said she’d explain after they went back to the house.
It was nighttime when they made their way back. Scout’s parents were nowhere to be seen, and it was just her and her sister alone. Scout explained everything and expressed uncertainty at how to deal with this situation before mentioning that she was thinking of moving away from Belt-Buckle. Her sister respected her decision but wanted to find her parents first.
Then the telephone rang, and Scout was relieved to hear Doctor Nice on the other end. He said he explained the whole situation to the sheriff and that she was on her way to meet Scout. Right then, the doorbell rang, and she held him on the line before putting on pants and greeting the sheriff, who told her that at 3 AM she received a distressed call from a cellphone belonging to Betsy, and that there was a warrant out for her father’s arrest, and that her parents might have fled. Scout was unsure what to do and how to deal with the townsfolk asking questions, so the sheriff suggested that she visit an acquaintance in Mythton. She handed her a business card before leaving.
Picking the phone back up, Scout wished the doctor well. He said he would return to Mythton because he had the feeling that old people wouldn’t die anymore. Scout mentioned also going there and offered to pick him up from the hospital the next day before hanging up. She told her sister that as her new motherly figure, they were going to the city, so they would need to pack their things.
The next morning, the girls loaded up the Ford which was strangely still there (but the tractor was missing), stopped by to pick up the doctor, then headed for the Mythton.
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