i'm not your hero

"I freaked out like a girly girl, and I am not a girly girl."

Allison takes a lot of pride in being strong, in not being weak. In fact, there is nothing that drives her more insane than feeling like a victim. The downside is she seems to ultimately view being weak with being feminine in a deep form of internalized misogyny that she gets from her family. The Argents are soldiers, hunters, and though she did not learn that until fairly recently in canon that mentality is still something she carries with her. Something she wears with her all the time. She has to be strong. She needs to be better.

She's also had bad experiences opening up in the past. She's moved around so much in the past that she had to be held back a year, she's seventeen when her classmates are all sixteen. She usually hides this because people make fun of her for being held back. It made her hate her birthday -- until Scott proved to her that that day could still be something fun for her.

Part of Scott's appeal for her is because with him she doesn't have to abandon all of her feminine traits. She can be strong and weak. "Can't I be strong and go to prom," she asks her mother once. She wants to be both, but the concepts are constantly conflicting with one another. So while she's thankful that she can let her guard down with Scott, she also finds herself constantly frustrated because he seems to think she can't take care of herself.

"So what are you good at?"

Allison is young, she's ultimately still trying to define herself as a person. Who she wants to be. She's moved a lot which means plenty of times to reinvent herself. She's tried being an artist, tried being a poet, tried being a photographer, none of those things ever fit right. They weren't her. According to her, she was awful at all of them. But she keeps trying, hoping to discover what will work for her. What is the right fit.

Her one talent she's good at, what she believes in, is her archery. Her dad taught her from a young age, and she was good enough to go into championships for it. When life starts spinning out control in Beacon Hills, she picks it up again as a way to feel like she has power, to regain her agency.

"Well police officers call it stalking"

Allison is the type of person who doesn't take bullshit from people. She's very astute, and she doesn't like when she realizes people are being dishonest. Very quickly in season one she figures out her dad and her aunt Kate are keeping things from her, and soon realizes Scott is as well. Her arc is very much about struggling to uncover the truth of what's going on in Beacon Hills and part of the reason why she ends up trusting Kate as much as she does is because she's the only person who bothers to try to let her in on the truth.

She's also the type to call people on their shit. When Jackson first apologizes to her she straight up tells him she doesn't believe he's being sincere. She doesn't like lies or games, even when they don't directly involve her. When realizing Lydia's been playing dumb for Jackson's benefit, she calls her on it. She wants people to be real, to be honest.

"I thought you were psychic, bitch"

Because she's a girl, because she's just human, people often underestimate Allison and what she's capable of. This is seen in her relationship with Scott in particular as he thinks she can't defend herself, that she can't fight too. But she's from a family of hunters, and she's more than capable of inflicting damage. She's cunning, and smart, and able to figure out good strategy. This is particularly seen when she shoots an arrow at Erica, who easily catches it. We then see, Allison was planning on that, and had coated the thing in Wolfsbane, thus causing Erica to be incapacitated. Erica had seen her just as Scott's human girlfriend, a non-threat, so she went with it. She knows how to work things to her advantage when she needs to.

"Tell me how to fix it, I can fix it."

One of Allison's greatest internal struggles is loyalty. Loyalty to Scott and her friends vs. loyalty to her family and duty. During the second season this conflict comes up again and again. Though she wants to trust Scott more than anyone else, she also knows they're just kids. What can they do? This out of their league. She wants to help, but she can't just stand idly by and let innocent people get hurt by forces they can't stop.

So she informs her family when the situation with Jackson as the Kamina gets out of control. She wants to do right by her family and their cause. Her father has a code. Both Gerard and Kate had given up on the code, hunting recklessly and with their own motives involved. Where Allison wants to fall on that line is a continual struggle. Right and wrong blur more and more in a world where monsters are real and the stakes are higher than she ever imagined.

"She's almost eighteen years old, she knows the difference between revenge and retribution."

Allison suffers two major losses in the series: her aunt Kate and her mother, both because of the werewolves. Before her mother's death she had been toeing the line between the hunters and helping Scott and the other wolves. That the wolves shouldn't be taken down unless they get proven a threat. But the problem is that as time goes? People keep dying and making exceptions seems to have a cost. And the cost becomes too high. So when she's made the new leader of the Argents (the sons become soldiers, the daughters become leaders) she has a point blank order:

Derek has to die. And if his pack interferes? They all die. It's that simple.

Except it isn't. She learns her grandfather had manipulated the whole thing and she realizes she went too far and she gives up hunting completely. It's on then, after the whole brink that she finally lets herself begin to feel her grief, be vulnerable. Allison is greatly a girl at war at herself, between feelings.

She's been the victim and she's been the hunter who goes too far and she doesn't necessarily actually want to be either one of those things. That is her biggest internal struggle.

"Think of something else. Think of me: naked."

That isn't to say Allison doesn't know how to have fun. Earlier on in the series we see her being very playful, especially with Scott. She has a sense of humor, often teasing her friends and those around her. She can deliver snark with the best of them. And though the tone of that humor darkens as her story arc does, it never goes away completely. She often turns people words back on them. She's incredibly sharp.

She'll get other people out of tough spots too. When her Aunt Kate and her father corner Scott, sure he had been snooping around the house, she holds out a condom, saying she's the one who broke into her Aunt Kate's room. Not only is she getting Scott off the hook, but she's also showing that she's not afraid of her family knowing she has sex. She has a very healthy sense of sexuality in general - something that can be rather rare in a girl of her age. She's not afraid to ask Lydia for tips so she can take initiative with Scott, making the first move more than once. She doesn't feel a reason to shy away from that side of her, she doesn't feel any shame in it.

”There’s no such thing as fate”

Ultimately, Allison is a realist. She believes in a world where things aren’t pre-determined. Anything can happen. When she breaks up with Scott at the end of season two he seems so sure they’ll get back together someday. But she isn’t sure at all. She can’t be. Not when she doesn’t even know who she is anymore. She has to figure that out before she can be with him or anyone else. And while he’s a hopeless romantic and optimist, she can’t afford to be, not anymore.

I’ve made mistakes. Gerard is not my fault

Allison is extremely self aware in season 3 . She knows she went too far before – but she also knows she can’t just be afraid to fight again either. She wants to take responsibility for her actions, she wants to be a better person – but she refuses to be blamed for the sins of her family either. Not that they don’t weigh on her anyways. Since finding out the truth about her mother’s death she’s begun hallucinating her, and it seems to be something she’s still struggling to come to terms with. It’s a work in progress.

I hated that feeling, I wanted to feel stronger than that.

Allison struggles to be a survivor, to live and keep fighting. To find out she might be dead, that she might be in some sort of in between, Purgatory sort of world would be jarring for her. I think it’s something she’d really struggle with because in a lot of ways she would see dying as a sign of weakness, as proof that she wasn’t strong enough. As a character who is constantly trying to prove herself (to everyone but especially herself) that kind of finality wouldn’t be something she’d accept easily. She’s lost a lot of people, she’s seen a lot of her family die and she isn’t ready to join them – nor is she ready to leave her father all alone either. Finding a way home will be at the front of her mind for at least a while.

The fact that Erica is here – someone who she herself found the dead body of – will probably make her really consider the fact that maybe they are all dead though.

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Abilities:

Though Allison is very human she’s a skilled hunter, especially adapt with a bow and arrow. She also knows how to fight with daggers and use a taser as well. On top of that she runs and keeps in shape, constantly pushing herself to her limits. She also has excellent balance and grace from years of doing gymnastics.

Inventory:
- 1 print dress
- 1 stripped sweater
- 1 hair band
- 1 bra
- 1 pair of underwear
- 1 pair of socks
- 1 pair of shoes
- 1 Chinese ring dagger (girl doesn’t go anywhere without arming herself a little)
- 1 wallet with her student id, cash, etc in it
- 1 android cell phone

Suite: I think the Fire Sector would suite Allison the best, after looking through all the different options carefully. She’s been shown to be a very passionate person – one with a nasty temper when it’s pushed too far. She’d rather fight and take action than wait. Also it being one of the wealthier areas would suit her as her family was of the upper-middle class variety due to the money her father made as a security adviser and weapons dealer (though his real job was being a werewolf hunter). Not to mention the Argents are an old family and there’s implied money there. It looks like there’s room in F1-2A? I think two or three levels would work well for her.

In-Character Samples:
Third Person:

We protect those who can't protect themselves.

Allison had been proud of herself at coming up with that, honestly. She doesn't want to stop hunting, stop fighting for the people she cares about but she knows the way the Argents have been doing things so far hasn't been working. Look at Gerard, Kate, her mother -- even herself. They have to do things differently this time. They won't be hunters -- they'll be protectors. Her father had seemed to like the idea. Which was good because she knows it's not something she can do on her own. There's still so much she has to learn.

She hasn't earned her silver bullet yet.

And she's not going to anytime soon apparently. Because she's woken up in this strange place -- which is apparently on top of a giant turtle. Which is all sorts of strange (which is saying something when you used to date a werewolf).

Deaton had told them that Beacon Hills was going to become a Beacon again because of what they did. So even if they don't have the Darach or the Alpha Pack to worry about anymore it doesn't mean they're home free. It doesn't mean they can just stop free.

It doesn't mean she can slack. She needs to be home, so she can fight.

She's been led back to her suite in the Fire Sector -- where there's fire everywhere but nothing seems to burn. It's strange, to say the least. It'd almost be cool if she wasn't stuck here against her will. But she is. And while it's comforting to hear there might be a few familiar faces here it doesn't make the situation any easier to deal with.

She needs to get home. She knows this more than anything else. She can't protect anyone, she can't do anything from here.

Network:

[Allison sits down in her suite in the Fire Sector, opening up the video function. She smiles a little awkward.]

Hi. I've done the new girl thing a lot in my life but I'm pretty sure I've never done it to such extremes before.

[New to a city is one thing -- new to a world? That's a whole other.]

I'm Allison Argent. [Beat]

I have a question actually -- is it true what they say about time not moving the same back home? Because I'm kind of all my father has left and he's going to freak out if he notices me missing.

[To say the least. No one wants to see the Chris Argent version of Liam Neison in Taken.]

I'd ask why everyone seems to just be okay with the fact that we're living on a giant turtle but I'm guessing that's one of those things they didn't really have answers for. Maybe a Stockholm Syndrome sort of situation? The longer you're hear the more you just accept the strangeness of the situation.

I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case.

[There's another pause as Allison decides she doesn't have much else to say.]

I guess I have time to figure it out for myself, don't I?

[And with that, the feed cuts.]