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✖ PLAYER:
Name & DW Journal: Katie, superkappa
Plurk: superkappa
Birthdate & Age: April 14th, 1987, 26 years old
Characters played in Ophiuchus: none
✖ CHARACTER:
Name: Allison Argent
Canon: Teen Wolf
PB/Image: http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/34800000/Allison-allison-argent-34870982-1110-1016.jpg
Info links:
Canon Point: 3x19, after falling asleep in the hospital waiting for news about Isaac.
Gender & Sex: Female
Age: 18
Birthdate/Sign: So technically, a lot of the Teen Wolf characters got "official" birthdays on the calendar but even the powers that be have admitted these were wrong and didn't fit the timeline of the show. Allison transfers to Beacon Hills in the Winter -- and we know her birthday is before Lydia's which is March -- which means hers is January or February, most likely. I chose January 19th and Capricorn for her birthdate because of the three available (Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces) the negatives of the Capricorn fit her best. Allison is shown to be particularly unforgiving time and time again -- this quality is a driving force in her arc in season 2 when she decides to go after Derek and his pack for biting her mother. She's also shown to be anxious and a perfectionist time and time again -- an example of this being when she freaks out while she has to sew Scott back up and she imagines her mother berating her for being afraid and crying. We also see that her worst fear is herself when Lydia poisons everyone with Wolfsbane. She is hypercritical of herself, complaining about how she's always yelling for help -- she's pathetic. As far as the positive traits go she has often shown how hard working she is (she takes being a hunter and helping people very seriously) and she takes the traditions of the Argent family to heart -- though sometimes she feels the need to rewrite them. She is fearless in that she doesn't let her fears stop her -- she talks about being scared all the time more than once but time and again she shows her ability to rise to the occasion and push past it.
Tattoo: On her right shoulder blade
Suitability: Allison is suitable for this game because she has always been show to have a very healthy sexuality. Often with the men in her life (Scott, and then Isaac) she's the one who makes the first move or take control of the situation. She's not afraid or timid about her sexuality -- she was even willing to show her father she was stealing condoms from her aunt -- she's not at all ashamed or timid about that part of herself.
Power: Allison is human, no canon abilities here. She is going to get the starting Earth power of summoning, however.
Personality: (300 word minimum - paragraph form!)
"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.
✖ SAMPLES:
"Ophiuchus" First-Person Network Entry:
[The audio feed opens up to Allison reading a letter, her voice sounding more than a little skeptical.]
"Dearest Allison" -- really? Dearest? That's not creepy sounding at all. "It is with great urgency that we welcome ̞you to Ophiuchus. For your bravery, you have been chosen from among all the times and galaxies to aid us."
I appreciate the compliment to my bravery and all -- very flattering, I assure you -- but if it's all the same, I'd rather go home.
But, having read the rest of it, I have a feeling what I would rather happen doesn't actually matter at all, does it?
I won't bother reading the rest, I assume everyone got something like this. I don't know who the twelve are and I'm not particularly inclined to believe that my world is actually in danger because of all this -- not without some solid proof to back this up.
Until then? I remain a little skeptic about all this, which seems like the smart way to go.
[And with that she ends the feed.]
"Cebalrai (logs)" Third-Person Prose Entry:
Allison remembers falling asleep at the hospital -- she had insisted on staying there until they would let her see Isaac. Of course, the doctors refuse to let her in because she isn't family but she doesn't care -- Isaac doesn't have anyone else. He doesn't have family. And he's like this because he tried to protect her (it's her fault, she should of stopped him) -- she's not going to leave him.
Except she isn't given a choice about it. Because when she wakes up she's not in the uncomfortable hospital chair at all anymore. In fact she isn't anywhere she recognizes at all -- which is more than a little alarming. Her first thought that is that maybe her mind is playing tricks on her again (but she closed the door, she thought) -- or maybe the nogitsune. That's always possible.
She looks around, trying to orient herself with the area as she picks herself off the ground. She remembers the Argent training -- you should always learn the lay of the land before anything else. Figure out the exits, don't let your opponent trap you. That sort of vigilant thought comes to her almost like second nature now.
It's then that she notices it -- the pang on her shoulder. She shrugs off her jacket to reach behind her. On her right shoulder blade she can just barely feel the raised skin -- it feels like a mark of some sort. A tattoo.
It doesn't give her any answers about where she is -- only more questions. Which means one thing:
She needs to find someone who can give her answers.
Name & DW Journal: Katie, superkappa
Plurk: superkappa
Birthdate & Age: April 14th, 1987, 26 years old
Characters played in Ophiuchus: none
✖ CHARACTER:
Name: Allison Argent
Canon: Teen Wolf
PB/Image: http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/34800000/Allison-allison-argent-34870982-1110-1016.jpg
Info links:
Canon Point: 3x19, after falling asleep in the hospital waiting for news about Isaac.
Gender & Sex: Female
Age: 18
Birthdate/Sign: So technically, a lot of the Teen Wolf characters got "official" birthdays on the calendar but even the powers that be have admitted these were wrong and didn't fit the timeline of the show. Allison transfers to Beacon Hills in the Winter -- and we know her birthday is before Lydia's which is March -- which means hers is January or February, most likely. I chose January 19th and Capricorn for her birthdate because of the three available (Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces) the negatives of the Capricorn fit her best. Allison is shown to be particularly unforgiving time and time again -- this quality is a driving force in her arc in season 2 when she decides to go after Derek and his pack for biting her mother. She's also shown to be anxious and a perfectionist time and time again -- an example of this being when she freaks out while she has to sew Scott back up and she imagines her mother berating her for being afraid and crying. We also see that her worst fear is herself when Lydia poisons everyone with Wolfsbane. She is hypercritical of herself, complaining about how she's always yelling for help -- she's pathetic. As far as the positive traits go she has often shown how hard working she is (she takes being a hunter and helping people very seriously) and she takes the traditions of the Argent family to heart -- though sometimes she feels the need to rewrite them. She is fearless in that she doesn't let her fears stop her -- she talks about being scared all the time more than once but time and again she shows her ability to rise to the occasion and push past it.
Tattoo: On her right shoulder blade
Suitability: Allison is suitable for this game because she has always been show to have a very healthy sexuality. Often with the men in her life (Scott, and then Isaac) she's the one who makes the first move or take control of the situation. She's not afraid or timid about her sexuality -- she was even willing to show her father she was stealing condoms from her aunt -- she's not at all ashamed or timid about that part of herself.
Power: Allison is human, no canon abilities here. She is going to get the starting Earth power of summoning, however.
Personality: (300 word minimum - paragraph form!)
"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.
✖ SAMPLES:
"Ophiuchus" First-Person Network Entry:
[The audio feed opens up to Allison reading a letter, her voice sounding more than a little skeptical.]
"Dearest Allison" -- really? Dearest? That's not creepy sounding at all. "It is with great urgency that we welcome ̞you to Ophiuchus. For your bravery, you have been chosen from among all the times and galaxies to aid us."
I appreciate the compliment to my bravery and all -- very flattering, I assure you -- but if it's all the same, I'd rather go home.
But, having read the rest of it, I have a feeling what I would rather happen doesn't actually matter at all, does it?
I won't bother reading the rest, I assume everyone got something like this. I don't know who the twelve are and I'm not particularly inclined to believe that my world is actually in danger because of all this -- not without some solid proof to back this up.
Until then? I remain a little skeptic about all this, which seems like the smart way to go.
[And with that she ends the feed.]
"Cebalrai (logs)" Third-Person Prose Entry:
Allison remembers falling asleep at the hospital -- she had insisted on staying there until they would let her see Isaac. Of course, the doctors refuse to let her in because she isn't family but she doesn't care -- Isaac doesn't have anyone else. He doesn't have family. And he's like this because he tried to protect her (it's her fault, she should of stopped him) -- she's not going to leave him.
Except she isn't given a choice about it. Because when she wakes up she's not in the uncomfortable hospital chair at all anymore. In fact she isn't anywhere she recognizes at all -- which is more than a little alarming. Her first thought that is that maybe her mind is playing tricks on her again (but she closed the door, she thought) -- or maybe the nogitsune. That's always possible.
She looks around, trying to orient herself with the area as she picks herself off the ground. She remembers the Argent training -- you should always learn the lay of the land before anything else. Figure out the exits, don't let your opponent trap you. That sort of vigilant thought comes to her almost like second nature now.
It's then that she notices it -- the pang on her shoulder. She shrugs off her jacket to reach behind her. On her right shoulder blade she can just barely feel the raised skin -- it feels like a mark of some sort. A tattoo.
It doesn't give her any answers about where she is -- only more questions. Which means one thing:
She needs to find someone who can give her answers.