Sean Cameron

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Sean Hope Cameron is a fictional high schooler on the television show "". He is portrayed by Daniel Clark. He left the show in season four, but returned for season six.

Personality

Sean is the token bad boy at the school. His reputation in the first season is just that due to a fight in Wasaga Beach where he deafened another kid in one ear. His parents were drunks in Wasaga and he was known to be an extreme delinquent there. His attitude is mostly considered anti-social, due to his constant way of starting fights or to be reckless. However, he is sincere and loyal to his friends (for example, standing up for J.T. and Toby when Jay harasses them).His bad boy status isn't confirmed until the season three episode "Gangsta, Gangsta" when he starts to hang out with Jay Hogart, he leaves his bad persona and starts to do well in school at the end of season three. After the shooting in season 4, he left Toronto to live with his parents in Wasaga Beach to deal. He returns to Degrassi in season 6 with better plans for his life, such as to graduate high school and open a shop called Cameron's Custom Cars, until he is expelled for drugs at school and sent to jail for several charges.

It is unknown how it was revealed that his middle name was Hope but it has been agreed upon in many different aspects of the show such as character descriptions and even the official fan website.

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Sean was actually the 5th character to not appear in the first 7 episodes. He used to go to Degrassi but then he moved up north, to Wasaga Beach. His first episode is his second first day of school in seventh grade, and he isn't excited. There is someone who was excited to see him (Emma Nelson), who thinks he is cute, and begins to have a crush on him. At the dance that night Jimmy Brooks told Sean there is an after-party at his house and then brought up the fact that Sean was a grade seven, because the party was for eighth-graders only. Sean held Jimmy up to the wall and kept shoving him up to it and yelling at him for continually reminding him of his remedial status. Emma saves Sean by asking him to dance, just before Principal Raditch would have seen him.

Sean's social worker suggests he join the basketball team. Sean does so, and is envied by Jimmy. Jimmy grows afraid of being cut from the team over Sean, and takes drastic measures to look better than him. Jimmy, who does not have Attention Deficit Disorder, takes his friend Spinner's Ritalin which boosts his game. Jimmy then fouled Sean on purpose and gets cut from the team any way.

Ever since Emma asked Sean to dance he's started to like her. Sean asks Emma to go on a date. Emma says yes and both she and her mom are excited. When Sean comes to pick Emma up her mom makes them wait there to take a picture and then they left. They were going to go eat some food. On the way there Emma gets bird droppings on her sweater so she has to go back home and change. Her mom takes another picture. When they got there Emma had verbal diarrhea. She just kept saying things she didn't want him to hear. As they were leaving, Emma thought she had thrown away her wallet with the tray, so Sean searched in the trash can and found nothing. It turns out Emma had it in her pocket the whole time.

Sean has proven numerous times that he's in love with Emma. He sticks up for her humiliating dance at the cabaret, signs her petition for a tampon machine in the girls' washroom, and dances with her at the school dance. They are finally considered an item.

But when exams near, Sean gets nervous for the media immersion exam. He begins to study with Emma who finds out why he left Wasaga Beach. Sean had deafened a kid in one ear in a fight. After the MI exam, Sean thinks he failed it and will fail at everything. Emma tries to convince him it would all be okay, but he tells her he fails everything anyway and storms off.

After a very close encounter with Jimmy they want to fight after school, Sean has had it to the top with him. Mentioning the grade seven thing and everything. Neither Emma nor Ashley wants them to fight. It's up to the guys to decide if they want to listen to their girlfriends. Jimmy told Sean, "Man, why are we doing this? This is stupid!" Sean retorts by asking Jimmy if he is "chicken". Jimmy tells Sean he'll see him after school. Sean shoves Emma, who walks away surprised. Sean wants to apologize and stutters from embarrassment. Ashley doesn't even want to be bothered with Jimmy.

On the last day of school, Toby and Ashley's parents leave for the weekend and they are both allowed one friend over. J.T., who'd noticed Toby had been swooning over Emma the entire year, invites Sean to come over and hang out to teach Toby how to be bad. They only convince him to come when they lie that Emma will be there.

When Sean arrives, J.T. reveals that he has bought Ecstasy from his cousin. Sean instantly recognizes it (a hint that he has done E before) tells them he will split it and goes downstairs. He switches the ecstasy with an aspirin pill, and gives the real ecstasy to Ashley to throw away. When he returns, J.T. finally calls Emma, Manny, and Liberty who show up later. When Emma sees Sean is there, she says that she wouldn't have gone if she'd known he'd been there.

Sean, upset from his encounter, runs into Ashley (who has since taken the ecstasy he'd given her to throw away and been chastised by her boyfriend Jimmy for taking drugs) who pulls him into her room. She tells Sean that everyone expects her to be the good girl and him to be the bad guy. Their vulnerabilities catch up with them and they kiss. Sean, then leaves the house after his make out session with Ashley.

On the way out, he sees Emma crying. She leans on Toby as he sadly walks away.

During the original airing and many airings after, Daniel Clark acted as a commentator to this episode. During the commercials, he would tell viewers facts about ecstasy and explain why Ashley was acting the way she was.

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Sean meets a new kid named Craig Manning. Craig and Sean started hanging out and getting to know each other. What Sean didn't know was that Craig was beaten and abused by his father. Sean and Craig mostly tell each other everything.

Craig then asks Sean if he wanted to run away with him, to British Columbia. Sean asks Craig if he gets beaten by his father, a scene was cut in both Canada and United States until recently where Craig attempts to commit suicide on the tracks of a via train. Sean quickly pushes him out of the way in the nick of time which prompts Craig to run away. Sean finds Emma, and she must put aside her indifference to him to help him find Craig.Dialogue with Joey Jeremiah and Emma, and between Joey and Craig about the train was also cut. Craig soon moved in with Joey, and Sean and Craig began a long friendship. He appears in the episode "Drive," where he, Marco, Craig, and Spinner "borrow" a car from Joey's lot and win tickets to a concert, but are soon scolded for taking the car from an angry Joey, who later rips the tickets to shreds.

Just when Ashley is finally recovering for her ecstasy mishap, Sean decides to call her and ask her out. Ashley quickly agrees. This doesn't go over well with Ashley's friends, however, who drop her for being a "slut," and breaking Jimmy's heart again, who thought they were going back out. She breaks off the date with Sean who is annoyed to discover she's choosing Paige, Hazel, and Terri over him. The two never had a connection again.

The wedding between Spike and Snake is so close. Emma gets to invite some of her friends. At the moment she's not thinking of inviting Sean, meanwhile they're both still madly in love with each other. Manny Santos decides to take matters in her own hands.. so she invites Sean then Emma tells her to uninvite him, she did and then Emma invites him again. At the wedding Emma didn't find anyone there who catches her eye, until she saw Sean. Sean was standing up against the tree with his leg up, posting, keeping it cool. Emma came over to him, then they started talking.. Later on they started dancing. Even after they danced there was a romantic kiss at the end.

When Sean's brother Tracker is fired from his work, he becomes discouraged. He becomes even more discouraged when he goes to eat dinner at Emma's house. He feels inferior to their financial situation, and decides that he will inevitably be a drunk. When he is getting water, he secretly pours vodka into his glass, and returns to the table.With an angry buzz, he becomes defensive when Spike offers him the left overs. He takes it as an insult, and storms off. Emma, embarrassed by her parents, goes to find him at Jimmy's party. Sean betrays his renewed friendship with Jimmy by stealing his parents' booze. When Emma finds him, he's drunk. When Emma tries to go talk to Sean in private he doesn't go, and ends up accidentally dropping the bottle. Jimmy finds what Sean has done and ends up kicking him out. Emma calls on Spike to come and get them at Jimmy's. The next day, Sean thinks it's over between himself and Emma. Emma tells him that he isn't a failure, and he doesn't need to rely on alcohol. Sean, who was under the impression it was in his genes, finally promises not to drink.

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Things are slow between Sean and Emma, because she's been busy with Snake's cancer and the new baby. Sean witnesses Jay Hogart, Alex Nuñez, and Towerz, the bad kids in school, break into a vending machine. They give him a candy bar, and he meets up with Emma. However, his bad reputation hasn't made him look innocent in the vandalization of the vending machine, and Mr. Raditch interrogates him about it. Sean, angry that he'd been accused, attacks Jay in front of the school and the two fight.

In the Principal's office, however, the two begin to bond and form a friendship.

When Sean goes to "Clean The Ravine" with Emma, he wants some time to kiss. They lay down in the ravine and begin to make out when Kendra Mason interrupts. She walks away, and Sean continues to kiss Emma who pushes him off. On the way back into school, Sean is sulky. Emma calls him pathetic for hanging out with Jay, and he calls her boring.

He, thinking it's over, hangs out with Jay that afternoon. Jay decides to break into the media immersion room and steal some stuff. When Jay wants to take the synthesizer, Sean encourages him to take Snake's new Alienware laptop instead.

The next day, Emma comes to make up with Sean in front of Jay. Sean informs her it's over and she leaves. Emma suspects he's behind the thefts at school.

School marm Liberty Van Zandt isn't quite immune to love. She, who had just recovered from a long crush on J. T. Yorke, switches to Sean. Sean tells her bluntly that he doesn't like her and gives her advice to go for Towerz, one of Sean's friends who is crushing on her. Liberty takes the advice.

This was one of the side stories to "Accidents Will Happen," the two part episode dealing with Manny Santos' and Craig Manning's pregnancy. The episodes were shown in the United States. They also made two "mini episodes" on The-N, one of which was Liberty's short lived crush on Sean.

Emma, still hurt over the break up and jealous of Sean's new girlfriend Amy, begins to fall for the new guy, Chris Sharpe. But when Emma and Chris start to date, she convinces him to help her sabotage Sean. They go to Raditch, and lie to him, saying they saw Sean load equipment into Jay's car. When Raditch goes to search the car, Emma and Chris come to watch. Sean confronts her, asking if she was the anonymous source. Raditch overhears and asks if there's something Sean wants to say.

Sean: Yeah. Go to hell.

Sean is punished with two months worth of Saturday detentions.

"Take On Me" has been criticized for completely misrepresenting Sean. His lines and actions are transformed to make him more like John Bender from The Breakfast Club. The episode was based on the aforementioned movie. His character has been criticized to be too hyper active and offensive. After this episode (possibly even when he and Ellie meet on the roof) he goes back to being the Sean he was before and after the episode.

In this episode, he, Toby Isaacs, Hazel Aden, Ellie Nash, and Jimmy Brooks share a Saturday detention where they bond and become fast friends. Sean's turbulent relationship with Jimmy is even finally mended. When the group go on the roof, Sean and Ellie look at the sky and bond after Sean admits to her that he has been stealing from the school and Ellie shows him her cutting scars. Instead of freaking out, Sean traces along her scars with his fingers slowly going up her arm until he reaches her hand. He presses his fingers in hers and they lay there, holding hands.

The two decide they like each other. They're both the subjects of many rumors, due to his criminal ways and her cutting tendencies and alcoholic mother. Sean changes his mind though when Ellie drops a tape recorder which she had been using to tape their conversations during detention in an attempt to solve the school thefts. Sean crushes the tape recorder and he leaves, angry with Ellie.

On Monday, Ellie apologizes to Sean. She tells him that she's sorry for recording the conversations. She gives him the real tape with his confession of stealing and Sean accepts the apology and they begin dating.

Sean surprises Ellie by visiting her at her workplace and asks her to go with him to a movie. Knowing that she and Marco Del Rossi already have plans, she accepts anyway. When she arrives at the movie theater with Marco in tow Sean is not happy.

The next day at school Sean walks outside only to find that Ellie is having lunch with none other than Marco on the steps of Degrassi. He squeezes in between them and pushes Marco further away until he gives up and leaves. Ellie is clearly angered by Sean's reaction and he admits that he just wanted to be alone with her. She leaves mad.

Later at the Dot Ellie tells Marco she is going to break up with Sean for his rude behavior towards Marco and he tells her that he doesn't blame Sean for wanting alone time with her. He even refers to himself as "Marco, the human security blanket" and tells Ellie that Sean could be good for her if she lets him.

The next day at school Ellie finds Sean in the hallway. Sean already thinks that him and Ellie's relationship is over but she reassures him, apologizing and claiming that she has never been in a real relationship before. He tells her that he doesn't hate Marco for being gay, he just wanted to spend time alone with her. She says she has never had a real relationship before, and tells Sean that if she doesn't get it then she could ask him. She accepts, they kiss, and are happy again.

When Tracker gets a new job far away, he tells Sean they will have to move. Sean, angry that he would be held back another year, pleads to stay. Ellie is gloomy due to his impending departure. However, when Sean finds out that he can live on his own on student welfare he takes the opportunity.

His house soon becomes a party house when Jay begins to invite people over for parties. Things are fine until Amy, who is jealous of Sean's new girlfriend, Ellie, drinks too much and gets alcohol poisoning. Sean and Ellie argue to Jay that they should call the police, but he disagrees. Against Jay's wishes, Sean calls the police and an ambulance temporarily breaking his friendship with Jay.

Sean's grades, which have been faltering, start to return to normal when he stops the parties.

Sean, guilty of his old bad ways, admits that he stole Mr. Simpson's laptop to Mr. Simpson. Mr. Simpson is immediately angry and refuses to talk to Sean. Sean goes to the end of the year dance to try and patch things up, but Mr. Simpson is reluctant.

When Mr. Simpson leaves the dance, his car is broken. Sean tells him that he will fix his car for free, no matter how much labor it takes. Mr. Simpson quickly forgives Sean.

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Ellie had been spending a lot of time with Sean, which includes sleeping over at his house. Their relationship gets deeper and stronger than ever. So strong that Sean wants Ellie to move into his apartment with him. When Sean asks her to move in for good Ellie has a tough decision. Sean even mocks Ellie's mothers alcohol problem, Ellie decides that her alcoholic mother needs her more than ever since her father is still in the Middle East, so she declines Sean's offer. When Ellie's mother almost burns the house down, Ellie tells her mother that she can stay at Ashleys until their place is repaired, instead she moves into Sean's house. The next day everyone is throwing a house-warming party for the two, but when Ellie's mom walks in the party, she takes Ellie back and slaps Sean and tells him to stay away from her and Ellie, Ellie decides that that is the last straw for her. She shows her mom her cuts and tells her that she can't continue to live with her. Ellie decides moving in with Sean is the best decision and she brings along a new pet for "their" home, a feisty ferret named Bueller.

When Rick Murray returns to Degrassi with a hand gun to get revenge on the people who pulled a prank on him, he shoots Jimmy, and encounters Sean, Emma, and Toby. As Rick advances on Emma, Sean, afraid for his own life but also of what Rick is capable of, tries his best to talk Rick out of shooting anyone. As Rick points the gun at Emma, Sean grabs the gun in an attempt to stop him. A gunshot is heard, and they both fall to the ground.

As a suspenseful element, the show goes immediately to commercial and doesn't reveal that Rick didn't survive the tussle until minutes later.

After the shooting, the students try and cope with "dealing" exercises set up by the teachers. Sean thinks it's all a joke though. He storms out of the school, and is met by a vindictive reporter for the local news. Sean learns that she interviewed his parents. He and Ellie enter the news van to see the footage. When he sees his mother crying over him, he thinks it's a joke because he hasn't talked to them in years, and throws the monitor onto the ground.

Along with Jay, Ellie, and Emma, Sean, driving Jay's car, heads to Wasaga Beach, so Sean can confront his past. He, first, yells at his parents for acting like they cared. They tell him they did care, and he tells them if they'd cared he would have been living with them. He angrily leaves and the four go to the beach to cool off.

They forget the shooting by playing around in the sand until Jay spots the kid Sean deafened, Tyler. He works at a jet ski rental booth, and they approach the booth. Jay insults Tyler by calling him retarded, and Tyler tells Sean that he heard he got into a fight at Degrassi. He asks Sean when it would stop, because a kid died this time. Sean tries to attack him, but Ellie and Jay break it up.

Sean rents a jet ski, and rides off into the waves at an alarming speed. He soon crashes and Tyler comes to the rescue. Sean, still feeling down, returns home. His mother admits that they made a lot of mistakes, but sending him to Toronto was the best decision they ever made. For them, it was the only way to keep Sean out of jail. He tearfully admits that he may have killed Rick. His mother hugs him, and his relationship with his parents is mended.

But when the time comes to leave, Sean tells the others he's not going. Sean decides to stay in Wasaga Beach with his parents. Ellie and Sean exchange "I Love You's" but even then Ellie is upset Sean is staying behind, yet she also pitied him for not expressing his feelings to her, she runs to the car in tears. Emma looks back at Sean from the back window as he watches the car drive away.

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Sean returned to the show after being absent for a season. He returns back to Degrassi with a more calm attitude and with the intentions of finishing high school there. Though he has other plans also. Emma and Peter run into Sean the day before school begins and find out that he's coming back to Degrassi. Sean is willing to rekindle his relationship with Emma. Emma knows that she is still in love with Sean, but knows that she doesn't want to break Peter's heart. Emma suggests going back out with Ellie, to which Sean responds "Forget Ellie. I know who I want, and I think you do too."

That day, he helps Peter customize his new car, getting Peter instantly hooked on street racing. After a race, Emma and Sean run away from the cops together and make out.

After Emma tells Peter that she wants to go on a break, Peter instantly realizes it's over Sean. Peter plants drugs in Sean's locker and Sean is later expelled from school. Sean decides to race Peter for revenge. During the race, a car pulls out ahead of Peter, and Peter swerves towards Sean's car, causing Sean to hit a near-by jogger. Jay tells Sean to run away, and Sean runs to Emma's house. Sean tells her that she's the only one that cares. Emma replies back that she doesn't care about him anymore, that she can't, as she is trying to get her life back on track. She then tells Sean that he has to turn himself in. Sean then turns himself in to the police, with tears in his eyes.

Sean is thrown in prison, and is completely miserable. He gets in fights regularly, and his face has become extremely bruised as a result of being attacked by a group of people at a lunch line. Emma comes to see him for his court case, for which Sean's defense attorney doesn't show up. Emma starts to raise money for a new lawyer, but doesn't succeed. Instead, Snake finds a public defense attorney who will show up.

Sean soon makes it out of prison and returns once and for all to finally get his life straight. Shortly after his return he begins working with Jay as a mechanic. He also resumes his relationship with Emma. On the surface everything appears all right, but Sean senses something isn't right. Sean begins to notice that there is something wrong with Emma and Jay when they are near each other, though they both tell him he's imagining things. Sean eventually gets Jay to confess about the incident at the ravine, much to his dismay. He proceeds to quit his job, break things off with Emma, and attempt to leave once again. This time, only to come to the conclusion that his relationship with Emma means more to him than her past mistakes. He returns to reconcile and once again move on with the next part of his life.

When Emma and Sean finally decide they are both ready to take the next big jump in their loving relationship, they run into a multitude of problems. Manny has decided to throw a party the same night they have plans, and said party has become out of control. Emma ends up very stressed out and begins drinking. When they finally end up alone, Emma is drunk and ends up vomiting. All attempts at a romantic evening are thrown out the window pending news of the next event, J.T.'s death.

Sean and J.T. weren't that close, but when J.T. was killed by a student from Lakehurst, Sean was enraged and when they learned of his death, he remarked that he would kill him (the guy that killed J.T.) if he saw him again, and that he wanted to get in a room with the psycho who killed J.T. Emma told Sean that he is in prison.

Emma and Sean decide to take the next step in their relationship for real. Emma makes sure nothing is in the way this time, everything is ready, no pressure, all essentials bought, absolutely nothing can go wrong. That is, until her step-dad finds out. She takes the situation head-on and has no issues with him knowing. However, it is apparent that when confronting this issue around Emma's step-dad Snake, Sean is quite a bit nervous himself.

Sean and Emma are still angry about J.T. So when Manny starts dating Damien, things start to flare. And when Manny, Damien, Sean, and Emma are at The Dot, Mia is there and asks Damien how the guy who killed J.T. was. Damien says he doesn't know; Mia then confronts him and says that she thought he was friends with him. Damien denies it, and Mia says that she went to Lakehurst too. Sean jumps in and asks Manny, "So who are you loyal to, your new Lakehurst crush or your dead friend?" Manny asks for Emma's help and Emma tells Manny, "You're sleeping with the enemy." Manny and Emma then end their friendship for a little while, with Manny saying these words, "I'm so glad I moved home cause now I don't have to see your mean, judgemental, stuck up little face anymore." At the cheerleading finals, Lakehurst is in the middle of their routine when Emma, Sean, Toby, Liberty, Derek, Danny, Mia and some others start chanting, "Go home Lakehurst!!" After that, Manny and Emma get into it and Damien says, "Now I know why Manny was your only friend. She was a saint to put up with your crap." Sean then says, "Take a big step back Lakehurst guy!" and then they all end up in a fight.

In the Degrassi Mini "What if Jimmy had not been shot", it depicts Jimmy bragging to Spinner & Craig about receiving a full basketball scholarship to North Carolina while Sean is shown sitting with Ellie looking on (the mini hints at the fact that if Jimmy had not been shot then Sean would then had stayed at Degrassi and in his relationship with Ellie). Jimmy then says he wants to hit the clubs with everyone in celebration in which Sean then angrily responds by saying that he would not be allowed in the club in his condition. Sean then reveals that he is in a wheel chair and that he's the one who would have been shot by Rick if Jimmy had not been.

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Sean returns for a short stay on leave from the Army. He shows no jealousy upon learning that Emma is dating Damian, as he feels they have each now moved on. Snake and Spike invite him to stay at their home during his brief leave.

When Snake mentions wanting to improve his own physical fitness, having spent his long suspension primarily lounging, an appreciative Sean offers to coach Snake in the gymnasium and develop a training regimen for him. The next day, the two visit the Degrassi gym and Sean drives Snake hard. When Sean pushes Snake too far and Snake tells him, "Thats just about as much stress relief as one teacher can take." Sean begins screaming at him "What are you weak?! You can't fake this; you got to train. You got to do it again and again until your perfect! Or you will die! Is that what you want?!" Snake chases after Sean after the young man runs out outside; Sean confides in Snake that he is afraid of going to war. Snake comforts him, and Sean tells him he's a good teacher. Snake responds by telling Sean that he had a lot of practice on a kid who hated teachers, but was pretty good at gym; Sean tearfully asks him, "Do you think he turned out okay?"

The next day, Sean prepares to depart and asks to pose for a new photograph with Emma, who readily obliges.

Relationships

*Emma Nelson
**First Relationship:
***Start Up: "Friday Night" (111)
***Broke Up: "Under Pressure" (114)
****Reason: Sean, riled up during a fight with Jimmy, pushes Emma on the ground because of her interference.
**Second Relationship:
***Start Up: "White Wedding, Part 2" (213)
***Broke Up: "Gangsta Gangsta" (306)
****Reason: Sean begins hanging out with Jay and Emma does not approve.
**Third Relationship:
***Start Up: "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" (608)
***Broke Up: "Hungry Eyes" (709)
****Reason: Emma moved on.

*Amy
**Start Up: Sometime before "This Charming Man" (313)
**Broke Up: Sometime before "Accidents Will Happen, Part 2" (315)
***Reason: Amy finds someone else.

*Ellie Nash
**Start Up: "Take on Me" (316)
**Broke Up: "Back in Black" (409)
***Reason: Sean moves back to Wasaga Beach with his parents after the shooting.