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Age: 25
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Currently played characters: N/A

Canon Source: Teen Wolf
Canon Format: TV Show
Character's Name: Allison Argent
Character's Age: 17
Sex: Female
Species: Human.
Character Suitability: over sixteen

Character History: http://teenwolf.wikia.com/wiki/Allison_Argent
Point in Canon:
Allison will be coming from the end of season 2 which means she'll be coming from a really rocky place for her. After her mother commits suicide, Allison ends up going a very dark route, ruthlessly going after Derek and his pack. She's so blinded by her grief and need to feel like she can take power back in the situation that she does not even realize that her grandfather has been using her like a pawn in all of this. After Gerard dies she breaks up with Scott, needing the time to figure herself out -- to get herself in a better place again. She then goes home to her father and curls up in his arms, crying. It'll be shortly after this that she would be arriving in game -- all of these events still acute and fresh in her mind. The presence of people she attacked like Erica and Isaac in the game will make it difficult for her, but is something she needs to deal with as well.
Previous CR: N/A

Character Personality:
"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.
Appearance/PB: http://compoundbow.dreamwidth.org/icons?view=all

First Person Sample:
http://roadrunnermuses.dreamwidth.org/8618.html?thread=471722#cmt471722
http://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/771407.html?thread=490700367#cmt490700367
http://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/772282.html?thread=491360186#cmt491360186
http://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/665838.html?thread=434877422#cmt434877422
http://gorysortofstory.dreamwidth.org/3047.html?thread=249575#cmt249575
http://gorysortofstory.dreamwidth.org/3047.html?thread=255207#cmt255207

Third Person Sample:
A hunter always pays attention to their surroundings. It's one of the first lessons Allison learned when her father started training her. Of course, she isn't supposed to be a hunter anymore -- not with how far she went (not after all the people she hurt) -- but things don't always work the way they're supposed to. Actually, they pretty much never work the way they're supposed to. This is a lesson Allison is learning rather quickly, and via trial by fire more often than not.

She can't remember how she got here but this tunnel feels never ending. She keeps alert, turning her head constantly. She can hear sounds in the distance. There's something here with her and whatever it is, she's pretty sure it isn't human. It doesn't sound human. It doesn't sound like a werewolf either -- but after the Kamina she knows there's a lot of other creatures out there as well.

The worst part of all of this though is the fear, the way her heart is pounding her chest. She's weaponless and acutely aware of it. She can't believe she made the mistake of not keeping her weapon on her at all times, it's a rookie mistake. She's better than that -- or she should be anyways. It makes her feel vulnerable and that's a feeling she's never been able to handle very well if at all. She wants to be strong. She's told Scott time and time again that she can protect herself and yet right now she feels terrified. And she hates it.

So she swallows it down, trying to turn that fear into something she can use. "Is anyone out there?" She calls out, stepping out further into the tunnel. She can't see anything ahead of her or behind her for that matter. If something's out there she'd rather draw it out so she knows what to expect. What she's going to be going against.

"Hello?" She calls out again, a little louder now. As she keeps trying to lure out whatever's in the tunnel towards her she kneels, groping the ground for something, anything she can use for a weapon. She may be alone, and she may be scared but she refuses to go down without a fight either. She may have given up hunting but this is about survival -- and more than anything else, Allison is determined to survive.

Which is why she keeps moving forward. There has to be a way out from the darkness and whatever is in here with her. She has to believe that. And she'll find it on her own. She doesn't need help, and she definitely doesn't need someone to come save her. She's better than that.

She's handled worse than this before, right?

"Come on," She screams out in frustration, hearing more sounds in the distance in response. Her body tenses and she turns around -- but she still sees nothing. All there is is darkness and noises and that feeling that something is out there.

The question just happens to be what.