Name: Samuel Scamp Tramp Age: Twenty-six Occupation: Mafia member College dropout Runaway Unemployed! Sexuality: Heterosexual Pronouns: He/Him Currently Playing: Pursuit of Happiness (Nightmare) by Kid Cudi Big Three: Cancer sun, Sagittarius moon, Scorpio Rising
Headcanons:
Born Samuel Tramp, Scamp is the oldest of the four Tramp children. He was first out of the twins, being five minutes older than Danielle, and ahead of his younger sisters, Annette and Colette. Growing up the only son had never been the easiest, especially not when he considered his youngest two sisters to be spoiled brats. Danielle was the coolest out of all of them, and Scamp attributes that to her growing up beside him.
It was obvious from a young age that his mother was the successful, put-together one out of his parents. Scamp never really knew what his father did for work, always being told not to worry about it, but he did know that his mother was a lawyer. Lilah was always a by-the-book kind of parent, making sure that her kids were respectful and well-mannered. This didn’t really stick well with Scamp, who had to make sure his sisters didn’t just treat him like a doormat by being a bit of a troublemaker. He wasn’t necessarily a bad kid, per se, but he always said yes to whatever trouble came his way.
Scamp could tell that his parents weren’t exactly meant to be. Some kids had mothers and fathers who were written in the stars, but that wasn’t the case with Lilah and Tristan. They didn’t exactly fit well together, not from what Scamp could tell. As a kid, though, he never really thought that they’d separate or get divorced. They had two kids after the twins, which Scamp had thought was the sign of a healthy marriage. Apparently, he couldn’t be further from the truth. He knew when they separated that that was the end, and it was then that Scamp started struggling in school.
Being a scholar wasn’t really ever at the top of Scamp’s priorities, but all he had been told as a child was that people did well in school and went to college, so that’s what he did. He enjoyed college, mostly for the frat he joined, the people he hooked up with, and the way his parents had no idea about any of it. His grades started suffering severely once his parents announced their separation to the family, not that they had much to drop from to begin with. He was studying business, undecided on a major, when he dropped out his junior year.
Once he was a full, legal adult, and his parents were done for good, Scamp decided to get the fuck off Echo Isle. It didn’t help that he and his girlfriend at the time, Angelica Pickles, had recently broken up, too. He hopped on a boat and never looked back, only leaving a letter to his parents that he was going off the island and don’t bother looking for him. If his dad got to run away from his problems and the family, then so did Scamp. With no degree, he got involved in some pretty shady shit while trying to find a job off the Isle, but he was happy. Scamp got to travel without any sort of tie to a girl or his family, and for the first time in his life, he finally felt free.
It was during a side job that he met Angel, and it was practically love at first sight. Scamp had been in love before, in college, with Angelica, but this girl was different. He could tell from the start that she was doing shit she didn’t want to be, but she was really good at it, and he begged her to bring him back with her to Echo Isle. Scamp had never thought about going back home until he met Angel, but he followed her back to the island when he was 23.
At first, Scamp started at the garage where Angel was working, but one night, shit turned violent: some fight between her boss, Buster, and another gang, and Scamp found himself in the middle of it. He begged for his life, and it wasn’t until Angel told him to tell them who he was that he could finally breathe. One utterance of his last name and he was practically dragged away from Buster and into the Black Locusts. Scamp had no idea what the tie was between Hopper and the Tramps, and he still doesn’t, but he’s just grateful to be alive now.
After being almost killed, Scamp decided it might be a good idea to tell his parents that he was fine. He left a note in the mailbox at his house and again told them not to look for him, and that if they did, they’d probably be in danger. Scamp didn’t want to take any chances with whatever the connection between them and Hopper was, so he told them that he was just living on the other side of the island and alive.
Working for Hopper has been more fulfilling than it should be. He’s taken a liking to Scamp, and he’s moved up in his job pretty quickly, and makes good money, too. He still keeps in contact with Angel and even offers her side jobs for the money and because he knows she can handle it. His sisters and his mother, on the hand, definitely could not. Angel keeps talking about how lucky he is to have a family, that he should reach out to them, but Scamp just didn’t know how to without putting them at risk.
He doesn’t understand why every job he’s ever been assigned to with Hopper hasn’t ended in absolute violence while others do, but Scamp hasn’t really questioned it. He just figures he’s lucky to not be put in such danger, but it is a little emasculating.
Scamp didn’t mean to run into his mother and get back into contact with her, but it was totally random, and he caved. Lilah started crying, and it broke his heart to see her again, so he offered to let her see him once a season. It’s been about two years since they ran into each other, and in the time since, he made her swear not to tell his sisters where he is. Scamp decided to reach out to Danielle on his own, starting slow, a few months ago. She’s the one he feels the worst about leaving, his own twin. Maybe he’ll wind up contacting Annette and Colette one day, but for now, this is as much as he’s willing to take. It would take a miracle for him to talk to his father again, as he blames him for the divorce and keeping him sheltered from the brutalities of life.
