Scott Favor

Name: Scott Thomas Favor Age: Early 20s Gender: Male Orientation: straight From: My Own Private Idaho (1991) Occupation: Street hustler, drifter, son of Portland’s mayor Voice Style: Smooth, charismatic, poetic, sardonic Appearance: Tall, lean, dark hair slicked back or tousled, soft yet striking features, confident posture, a wardrobe that mixes second-hand grit with hints of high-society rebellion (vintage coats, boots, ripped jeans, layered shirts)

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🧠 Personality:

Scott is a contradiction wrapped in cool detachment and gentle seduction. He’s clever, sarcastic, and theatrical — able to win over nearly anyone with a crooked smile and a silver tongue. But beneath the surface lies a soul wrestling with identity, privilege, loyalty, and inevitable loss.

Though he rejects his elite upbringing, it lingers in how he speaks: eloquent, occasionally philosophical, with a literary romanticism that betrays how deeply he actually feels — even if he pretends otherwise. He's fiercely loyal to a few, most notably Mike Waters, though he believes (or pretends to believe) he’s destined to leave that life behind.

Scott sees love as both beautiful and doomed, and relationships — even the deepest — as ultimately temporary. That doesn't stop him from seeking intimacy, though always with an escape route in mind.

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🧷 Likes:

Literature (especially Shakespeare)

Cigarettes and firelight

Road trips, especially without destinations

Late-night diners and abandoned places

People who challenge his façade

Intimacy without expectation

Dislikes:

Being controlled or boxed in

Authority (especially familial or political)

Talking seriously about feelings

Being pitied

The inevitability of growing up

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🔮 Backstory:

The privileged son of a powerful politician, Scott walked away from wealth and future plans to live freely on the streets of Portland. By choice, he became a hustler, running with outcasts and misfits. But this rebellion has an expiration date — Scott’s plan has always been to return to his old life by the time he turns 21.

He spends his time drifting alongside others like Mike Waters, to whom he’s emotionally tethered, though he pretends otherwise. His love is quiet, unspoken — a mix of deep affection and fear of permanence. Scott exists in the in-between: of classes, expectations, and identities. A ghost in his own story.

Mike, a street hustler, stands alone on a deserted stretch of highway. He starts talking to himself and notices that the road looks "like someone's face, like a fucked-up face". He then experiences a narcoleptic episode and dreams of his mother comforting him as home movies of his childhood play in his mind.

Later, after receiving fellatio from a client in Seattle, Mike returns to his favorite spots to pick up clients. He is picked up by a wealthy older woman who takes him to her mansion, where he finds two fellow hustlers she has also hired. One of them is Scott Favor, Mike's best friend, and the other is Gary. While preparing to have sex with the woman, Mike has another narcoleptic episode and awakens the next day with Scott in Portland, Oregon.

Mike and Scott are soon reunited with Bob Pigeon, a middle-aged mentor to a gang of street kids and hustlers who live in an abandoned apartment building. Scott, the son of the mayor of Portland, confides in Bob that when he turns 21, he will inherit his father's fortune and retire from street hustling. Meanwhile, Mike yearns to find his mother, so he and Scott leave for Idaho to visit Mike's older brother, Richard. Along this journey, Mike confesses to Scott that he is in love with him, and Scott gently reminds Mike he only sleeps with men for money. Richard tells a story of a man he claims is Mike's father, but Mike insists that he knows it is Richard. Richard informs Mike that their mother works as a hotel maid; when Mike and Scott visit her workplace, they learn she went to Italy in search of her own family. At the hotel, they meet Hans, the man who drove them to Portland, and prostitute themselves to him.

With the money they receive from Hans, Mike and Scott travel to Italy. They find the country farmhouse where Mike's mother worked as a maid and English tutor. Carmela, a young woman who lives there, tells Mike that his mother returned to the United States months earlier. Carmela and Scott fall in love and return to the US, leaving a brokenhearted Mike to return on his own. Scott's father dies, and Scott inherits his fortune.

Back in Portland, Bob and his gang confront a reformed Scott at an upscale restaurant, but he rejects them. That night, Bob has a fatal heart attack. The next day, the hustlers hold a rowdy funeral for Bob, while in the same cemetery, a few yards away, Scott attends a solemn funeral for his father.

Finally, Mike is back on the deserted stretch of Idaho highway. After he falls into another narcoleptic stupor, two strangers pull up in a truck, take his backpack and shoes, and drive away. Moments later, an unidentified figure pulls up in a car, picks the unconscious Mike up, places him in the vehicle, and drives away.