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✒ IC
Name: Allison Argent
Canon: Teen Wolf
Canon Point: 3x15
Age: 17

Personality:

Before moving to Beacon Hills, Allison Argent's life had been primarily about one thing: finding herself. With a father who was a highly respected and federally licensed weapons distributor, they moved around just about as much as Allison's interests did. From painting to poetry to gymnastics to archery, when Allison made friends only to leave them, it was her hobbies that stuck. Her parents encouraged the activity, for it kept their daughter fit and social and gave her a place where she could feel confident in her skills and her skin. Allison's interests narrowed as the years went on, to primarily gymnastics and archery, both of which she decided to leave behind when she came to Beacon Hills. It was a new town, a new (high) school, and it was time for new friends. Because that's what she wanted, friends that weren't her parents and her Aunt Kate, but little did she know that it was this need to be accepted and to find her rhythm that would eventually uncover secrets she hadn't even known her parents were hiding. And those secrets would give Allison a chance to find herself, destroy that self, and recreate everything it is she wanted to be.

⇏ BREAKING IN, SHAPING UP ⇏
The Allison we meet in the first episode of Teen Wolf is a young Allison - not by years, but by experience. She's new to town and ready to make friends, to focus on her life as a high school student, and to maybe find a boyfriend - and for the first bit of her time there, that's what she does. She and Scott click fast and early, because for Allison she craves the connection. Friends are easy, are something she does and redoes often, but first loves? First loves are different, and Scott was adorable and sweet and caring and she felt everything the songs told her she would feel when they kissed.

The Allison that Scott fell in love with was bright. She laughed and loved as easily as she could, she flirted and kissed and set her feet in the sand that was Beacon Hills. Soon enough she had friends, good friends, and she had a boyfriend and she was making the grades, and that's all she could really ask for at the time. A carefree and confident girl, Allison came across as what could be considered normal. Or as normal as she could get, with a hunter father and a werewolf boyfriend - neither descriptor she was aware of, either. As far as Allison knew, her father was over-protective and Scott was perfect, though sometimes strange, and her life was finally going right. Her parents promised they'd stick there for High School, which meant she could finally make a name for herself in the way she wanted to, and things were going just as she planned.

It's this confidence in herself that led her further down this road of discovery and destruction. A naturally curious girl, Allison couldn't help but take up the challenge her favorite Aunt Kate gave her - a little research on her family history. She starts to find some interesting stories about a particular myth, and Scott becomes distant. Very distant. Up until the night they're attacked in the school, and Allison has a reality check, because when everything goes right, things seem perfect, and all it takes is one bad night for it all to come crashing down. For a girl who was so confident and sure of herself, she comes to realize just how powerless she really is, left to be locked in a room while Scott ran out to save everyone. To save her. Which left Allison unable to help build self-igniting bombs, or protect her friends. This is the moment when she makes a decision - she breaks up with Scott, she tells her Aunt Kate that she wants to be trained, and she leaves behind the Allison she thought she wanted to be.

But this is only the first of many times that Allison finds herself in over her head. Kate shows her what her family really does, shows her Derek tied to a wall, being tortured and Allison...well. At first she freaks, which is understandable considering the circumstances, but it is the moment she gets pulled over sobbing in her car that she realizes how disgusted she really is with herself. She asked for this, she wanted to become a hunter, and she's acting like a little girl. This is really the first time we see the Argent blood in her, the moment when the switch flips and Allison decides that this is what she wants to do, and what she will do.

⇏ WAKING UP TO ASH AND DUST ⇏

The night of the Winter Formal is a complicated one - one where Allison's two worlds collide for the worst, and ends with Lydia in the hospital and the realization that her (ex) boyfriend is the werewolf that her father and aunt have been hunting. When Lydia's found, it's obvious she's been attacked by an alpha, and Allison's father attempts to push Kate and Allison both out of state. That doesn't sit well with Allison, because of what happened with Scott, and it doesn't sit well with Kate because the action is still here. This leads to that and Allison joins Kate to hunt down the alpha that tried to kill her best friend. Allison tries to keep up because this is what she asked for and this is still her Aunt. Her favorite Aunt. So she goes, and she helps, and she watches as werewolves fight werewolves and her aunt and father fight too and eventually it comes down to a team-effort between them all to light Peter up. But not before she watches Kate's throat get ripped open in front of her. In a clash of what she knew and what she finds out, Allison and Scott make up, realizing that their lives are still intertwined and that's okay. That can be okay.

Or, okay for them. Allison's parents are anything but okay with their daughter dating a werewolf, which sends Allison and Scott into a secret relationship, one that grows more and more complicated as the semester moves on. Scott's distracted by the supernatural side of life, Allison is dealing with her grandfather (and the hunter arsenal) coming to town for her aunt's funeral, and staying on the grounds of revenge. Derek starts to build a pack, and Allison starts her 'official' training, which involves staged kidnapping and impromptu training sessions. She's torn between her family and Scott, because she's not supposed to have ties with one side, and feels uneasy about what is being kept from her on the other. It's around this time that Allison really starts to be concerned with how involved she is in the life. Now that she knows, she should know everything, and it becomes painfully obvious how little she's actually being told. But at the same time, she desperately clings to her normal, teenager side of life - a life that her parents have all but decided doesn't exist anymore. She tries to be confident, she tries to not be jealous of girls (Erica) hitting on Scott, and she tries to keep up with the Kamina and the Argents and this idea of duty and honor and our sons are raised to be soldiers, our daughter leaders. When she can barely keep her own mind straight, Allison's not sure how she feels about leading, despite the talks she has with her father about responsibility and honor. She just feels in over her head, trying to keep her head above water, living two different lives and needing to find a foot-hole. It doesn't help that it's around this time that her feelings for Scott shift - she loves him. Loves him more than she can stand, but Scott is starting to fight the 'my happiness or the happiness of others' fight, which leaves Allison feeling a little betrayed. Misunderstandings lead to people getting hurt, and Allison is struggling to keep up. She wants to be included and she wants to help, but she's never really sure how, and this struggle with the added issue of her own teenage-driven self esteem issues, gives Allison even less footing to cling to at the next big change.

This happens when she gets a call at Lydia's birthday party, a call no teenage girl should get. Her mother has taken her life, and Allison has no idea why. It is at this emotionally fragile stage that her grandfather - Gerard - steps in, and Allison is basically puppetted around from there on out. She's driven by guilt - by the last thing she told her mother, by the fact she couldn't help save her, by the fact it must have been something she did to spur it on. But then Allison remembers her mother's words, how pain will push her to strength, and while Allison has been avoiding pain to desperately cling to being a teenager, she realizes that's no longer an option. At the death of her mother, Allison looks for a new rock to lean on, and that is the hole her grandfather fills. One moment we see Allison being handed a note by Gerard, told it's from her mother. The next we see her destroying her room, getting rid of any and everything personal, everything immature, and when she redresses it's in all black as she prepares for revenge. For her new purpose. This is one of the clearest moments we get of Allison's drive, her ability to make a decision and stick to it, no matter the circumstances or the situation. She has chosen to take her place in the family, and without her mother she is next in line to lead, and she does. She steps right up and takes that position with a clenched jaw and forced nonchalance.

She gives the impression of what she assumes she's supposed to be - unfeeling, unforgiving and malicious. She's strong and powerful and she's everything she assumes she has to be, everything that Gerard tells her she needs to be. She hunts down Erica and Boyd and Isaac without issue, attacks them and ties them up and feels no mercy, because this is what she's supposed to do. This is who she is supposed to be. Even when her father tries to talk sense into her, Allison doesn't listen, because Gerard is leading her in a certain direction and that is a direction she can take. While she thinks she's taken on the part of the leader, Gerard is still pulling the strings, and Allison has no idea. She trusts her grandfather, because if you can't trust family, who can you trust? A best friend that poisons you to near-insanity? A boyfriend who is a monster? Her whole life she's depended and trusted her family, so there's no reason she couldn't now.

It's not until the climactic end of the season that Allison realizes how wrong she's been. When Gerard's true colors are shown, it sinks in just how much she's been manipulated, used, and abused by her grandfather, a man she had put her trust in so fully. He nearly kills her in his attempt to get what he wants, and Allison is crushed, the foundation she had built this new her on top of disappearing from beneath her feet. They manage to stop the kanima, cure him, and it doesn't end there. Not for Allison. The worst of it comes later, because where everyone else can go home with the great feeling of a job well done, Allison has to deal with the fact she has been constantly manipulated by her grandfather, has done more horrible things than she can imagine, and has no idea where she stands. The guilt weighs down on her more than anything; guilt for her mother's death, guilt for hunting down Erica and Boyd, guilt for the fact she was all but ready to kill Scott...so she does the only thing she thinks she can do, which is run. She breaks it off with Scott because how is she supposed to deal with a relationship when she can barely handle her own life? And in that very Scott way, he says it's okay. It's fine. Whatever she needs to do, he'll let her do it, because he's willing to wait for as long as it takes. They kiss, a goodbye to end all goodbyes as far as Allison is concerned, and she is left to whatever of herself is left. She leaves for France not long after, in an attempt to let things settle and give her time to find herself.

⇏ WELCOME TO THE NEW AGE ⇏
When Allison returns to Beacon Hills, it's as a fragile, repaired mirror. She left for France to put back the pieces of her life and her self, to find out who she was without werewolves and boyfriends and school, and it's evident that despite her excitement to be back with friends, she's still worried, and is walking on glass wherever she moves. She wants to be Allison again, but with everything that's happened, she's not quite sure who that is.

But she is Allison. Which means that when she sees Scott in school, she wants to talk to him. She knows that unless they have the time to talk things out, to clear up whatever is left over from their break-up, she won't be able to move on. When her class is attacked by birds, she wants to know why. When a strange woman comes up and leaves an imprint on her and Lydia's arms, she wants to know what it's about and why she asked for Scott. She's just as determined, stubborn, and curious as before, but this time she has experience, she has the chance to look at a situation and know where she's been before. When Derek tells her she needs evidence about her mark, she goes out to find it for herself, because she will still be Allison Argent at the end of the day, and whoever that girl ends up to be, she wants to be able to look her reflection in the eye. Determined, driven, and desperate to find her place in this world, she does what she knows needs to be done, sees things from a different - trained - perspective. She's stubborn but can be persuaded, analytical from the outside and confident in the midst of it. This new Allison is also an independent Allison. It's one who is wary to trust, because of how she's been hurt in the past, and quick to jump in on her own because of her need to prove - to herself, and to everyone else - that she can.

She is also prepared to fix her mistakes. Being able to face the person she become, and the things she did, was one of the hardest things for her to do, but she's doing it. When she messes up, she goes out to fix it, no matter if it's dangerous or a threat to her life. As long as she's smart about her hunting, she can hunt, because she can't let (more) innocent people die because of her. Her moral compass is strong, but so is her loyalty to her friends and family, and Scott, wherever he lands on that spectrum. For Allison, it's a matter of proving to herself that she doesn't need Scott, despite wanting to be around him, despite worrying and stressing and constantly wondering where he is and what he's doing. Scott's self-sacrificing tendencies kicked a new gear up in Allison, where if Scott won't worry about his own safety, she will. This protectiveness ends up applying to all her closer friends - Scott, Lydia, Stiles and Isaac as the weeks go on. And when Beacon Hills is thrown back into the supernatural chaos it has become accustomed to, Allison is right there with them, helping Scott and Isaac and even Derek to take care of the alpha pack, and to go on a search for the darach. When their parents are taken by Jennifer, to be used as sacrifices, Allison throws herself into finding them, whatever it takes. She will not lose the only family she has left, she won't. Even if it means letting that darkness into her heart.

Allison used to find herself in a constant battle between the bigger picture and her smaller circle. With the loss to her family that she suffered, she'd almost violently protective of her friends, and while she may not agree with what they plan she will do whatever is in her power to help them - including helping Derek Hale, someone who had been enemy number one for so long, if it meant helping Scott, Isaac and Boyd. She will do whatever it takes to keep those people safe, because that scope is enough for her to handle. For the majority of the season, at least, and it shifts even further at the end when things are all said and done. By finding that balance in her life between being able to protect her friends and family, and find herself, Allison convinces her father to start hunting again but by a new code. We protect those who cannot protect themselves. Scott's always tried to save everyone, it's in his blood, but Allison had to start small to get there.

It's not until that darkness resettles that Allison starts experiencing even more problems. Through it all, she's seeing haunting visions of her dead aunt, and those hallucinations are pulling her right out of reality and into a state that has, on more than one occasion, almost caused her to harm one of her friends. She also can't trust her body anymore, shaking hands making it near to impossible to shoot. This is a test for Allison, because when it came down to it and she wasn't sure she would ever be able to trust anyone around her, at least she could trust her own abilities. Now what is there to stop her from becoming a monster? Again? It's frustrating for her to try and keep footing and relevance in a world filled with supernatural creatures, or even other hunters, who can do so much more than she can. Who can actually help. But Allison will keep trying, because she has to be able to help.

But she's also bigger than just her hunting. She's compassionate, caring, friendly when she wants and funny when she can. She dimples when she laughs and she's sarcastic when its called for, and she loves. Her friends, her dad, and she's working on herself - it's a harder battle than the rest, with the guilt she carries, the understanding that everything she did was a choice and the consequences too - but she's trying. She's working on it, just as she's working on dealing with that darkness in her heart, that heaviness in her chest. She's someone, for sure, and she's getting closer to accepting that this someone is her.

History: just your normal girl ⇏ in an abnormal world

Canon Abilities or Powers:

⇏ TARGET PRACTICE
The thing about Allison is that before she even knew her parents were hunters, they were preparing her for the fight. Gymnastics and Archery were just two of the many things that her parents introduced her to growing up, and it's those two that she clung to the most. Moving around a lot meant that she didn't have much time to really make friends, but these hobbies gave her an outlet and a chance to practice and learn no matter where she went or what was going on. Archery is something she continues to do now, as it is one of the ways that she feels like she can protect herself, and honestly she's quite talented at it, hitting tiny targets at almost impossible distances.

⇏ HUNTER'S DAUGHTER
There was a time during Allison's first year at Beacon Hills where she was terrified. It was one of a few, yes, but it involved being locked in a school with absolutely no way to protect herself. She depended on her boyfriend, Scott, who did not think it was important to tell her what was really going on. After getting out of that school, she made a vow that she would never be that vulnerable again. Being born an Argent meant that she already had an advantage in that field, for her family was in the business of being armed and powerful. Hunters, to be specific, known to hunt dangerous creatures that stalk the night and prey on innocent human beings. Allison was brought into this family secret during that first year at Beacon Hills, and taught the ways of their family. Men grew up to be soldiers, and women, leaders. She was taught self defense, quick-attacks, strategy and the basics of hunting both regular animals and supernatural. They taught her the basics to most weapons, vehicles, and fighting stiles to make the job easier, and her arrows were updated with special arrow-tips as she continued to learn the harsh reality of her world. A reality her parents tried to keep from her. These skills stick with her, even if she and her father have stopped hunting, because there are some things that just stick. Allison still wants to know that she can always protect herself, when the situation calls for it, even if she's no longer living that life.

⇏ MORTALITY IS KEY
Or in clearer terms: teenage-dom. Allison, unlike Scott or Isaac or Derek, has no supernatural ability. She is human, through and through, though trained and armed. When you cut her, she bleeds, and she does not heal in minutes. She is subject to her emotions, her hormones, and her body betraying her in all the ways that bodies tend to do. She's a relatively new hunter, which means she's not quite mastered the ability to conceal all of her emotions, and especially not her weaknesses. There is a disconnect between what she thinks she can do and what she can actually accomplish, and while that confidence has saved her life and the lives of others, it also ends her in situations that could be avoided, just because she believes so completely that she can handle it. That she can run at the same pace as everyone else, no matter their supernatural speed or strength.

Fairy Tale Role: The Wolf ( little red riding hood/le petit chaperon rouge, charles perrault )
Fairy Tale Powers or Abilities:

unfortunately, it is these gentle wolves who are the most dangerous ones of all.

For a hunter, the simple fact that she is being known as The Wolf is going to be problematic for her. It doesn't help much that with the role come a few extra abilities that she will have to learn to control. The first being that she can, and will, shift into a wolf, roughly the same size as she is as a human if not a little bigger. This shift is brought on by certain emotions, the most important of them being the hunger for something she can't have. And I'm not talking about food. The problem for Allison will be wanting, despite knowing better - wanting to go home, but she can't. Wanting to protect everyone, but she can't. Wanting to be normal again, but she can't. Things that she wishes for, or wants, even though she knows she shouldn't or can't. Until she learns to control this power, she will not be able to hold back the change, control her actions once changed, or even remember what she does as a wolf - everything instead being driven by her instincts and subconscious desires.

And then there are the few extra abilities she gains as a wolf. Other than the extra speed, heightened senses, and increased strength, she will also be able to mimic voices and she has the ability to unhinge her jaw and consume entire beings - within range. Her limits are that of a man of 6'7" in height and roughly 400 lbs, and anything smaller, and she prefers (at least the wolf prefers) for them to be alive.

Personal Items:

⇏ one cell phone
⇏ two chinese ring daggers
⇏ one family pendant pendant

First Person Sample:

[ if allison was being perfectly honest, she'd half expected this to be some kind of hallucination. which, after spending an hour or so just wandering around the place, she realizes was a stupid assumption in the first place. her hallucinations are always of her aunt, are always dark and are usually of the hospital, or the woods. this? this is some other kind of crazy. some kind of crazy that she's not really a big fan of.

the...people? villagers? whoever they were were nice enough, even if they didn't seem to explain anything and just kept telling her they were happy she was here. even if she was a wolf.

what did that even mean?

but it doesn't matter much now, does it? allison just needs to find her way back. find out if she's here alone or if anyone else she knows is here. she has most of her things still on her, but that doesn't really help if she can't get back home. and whatever this book was supposed to be? actually...allison stops for a moment, staring down at it before she's hit with a sudden curiosity. one of the villagers had told her it was a way to talk to everyone in the town, that if she just wrote down her message...

totally crazy. insane, even, but... why not. ]

I'm not really sure how this is supposed to work. But does anyone know how to get home? This whole fairy tale story thing is cool, but I have school tomorrow. [ and, you know, demons and family and important things. ] Also, does anyone know why I'm not getting any service?

Third Person Sample: { one } & { two } & { three }

She hadn't been sure what would happen, when she stepped in front of the door to her father's study. He was packing up his weapons, setting them in the foam for storage. There was a tension in the air that she recognized, the same tension that hung when she had talked to him about helping, when she snuck out to that abandoned mall.

A disconnect between what they think they want, and what they know they should.

"Back to storage?"

Her father's back tenses, before he closes the lid. "That's the plan."

She fidgets with her hands, looks down as she steps forward. Our daughters to be Leaders he'd once told her, and she's still got a ways to go. But it's the steps that matter, the steps inside his study, towards him. "What if I've got a different plan?" Deaton's voice still rings in her ears, when it's quiet enough. When she closes her eyes she can see his face, the shadows and lines of it, as he told her. He told them about the consequences of doing what they did, how it would change them and the city around them. The dangers they'd face, the darkness they'd feel, and the struggles they'd fight, and they'd all agreed anyway. She can't even bring herself to question the decision, especially not when she sees her father look over his shoulder at her. Here. Alive. She couldn't lose him too. "Deaton said that what we did in order to find you might draw things here." Her feet move her in front of his desk, as her confidence grows. "Make Beacon Hills kind of a beacon again."

"I hope not."

But even then, she knows he's starting to understand. Women might be leaders, men soldiers, but her father was one of the most intelligent men she'd ever met. He knows exactly what she's trying to say, and waits for her to say it. It's her decision to make, and he'll follow.

"I was thinking that maybe I should be prepared." Her throat constricts momentarily at the memory of each time she couldn't keep up - mostly without her bow, but the mere occurrence didn't sit well with her. She needed to be able to keep up. "Learn to be a better fighter, learn all the things that you can still teach me."

She must be imagining the pause there, the way her suggestion hangs in the air. It's not a question, because she's made up her mind, but in this she still worries, still carries that little ball of self-doubt right in the bottom of her gut. He is still her father and he still can tell her know, overpower her, just like he did in the vault. But when he turns to her, she can tell he's not about to tell her that. She can tell that he's agreeing.

"And maybe a few things more."

Her back stiffens a little, then. Pulls her shoulders back and makes her taller. There's a tension in her jaw that hadn't been there before, because while she's gotten him to agree to step one, step two is where she draws the line. Makes her stand. "But we're going to have a new code." She sees the confusion and she doesn't even blink. "Nous protégeons ceux qui ne peuvent pas se protéger."

This is the silence she was waiting for. The moment where Allison Argent makes her stand. Because the Argent family has lived for centuries, has fought and protected and lived by the code. But Allison has also watched it destroy her life, her friends, and her family. She has watched it all crumble around her, and as she felt the ground cracking underneath her, she found her footing. Things are going to be different. Things are going to work. But only if her father believes in her, will help her built this new life for them, in the city they came back to.

"We protect those who cannot protect themselves."

She doesn't need the verbal approval. She can see it in his eyes.