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About You - The Player
Name: Katie
Age: 25
Contact: superkappa @ plurk
Past Role Playing Experience: I’ve been rping for over ten years now, and for about a year in this game.
New Players (completely optional), if you'd like tell us how you found BTR:
The Character
Name: Allison Argent
Age/Birthdate: 17
Species: Human
*Type: Wanderer
Canon:
*Pre-existing powers: None, though she is a skilled archer. She got into nationals as a kid. She's also adept with a tazer, and daggers as well
*Rift Change, if applicable: Perfect shot. Basically, now, now matter what angle or distance, when she shoots with her a bow/crossbow it will always hit its intended target.
Dreamwidth: compoundbow
Played By: Crystal Reed
Icon: http://www.dreamwidth.org/userpic/5464557/1832928
Appearance:
Allison has a skinny, rather athletic build. It’s from years of doing things like gymnastics and archery. She runs every day, she keeps good care of herself. She’s a tall girl, standing at 5 feet, 8 inches. She has long, wavy brunette hair that she often keeps up in some way to keep it out of her face. She has a rather pale complexion, and she often dresses with a sort of athletic, sporty style to it.
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.
Events:
1. Finding out about the werewolves:
For most of the first season, Allison has no idea what's really going on in Beacon Hills. Though her aunt Kate starts dropping her hints and clues, she never quite totally puts it together until she sees Derek wolfed out for herself. Everything shatters for her then. Suddenly all of Scott's lies, all of her father's lies, everything comes together and instead of feeling empowered she's overwhelmed. She does not know to cope with this reality where monsters are real, where her family hunts them for a living. It changes everything for her. She can never go back to the girl she was before she knew about all of that. The girl who did archery because it was fun, because it was something she liked to do, not for a purpose.
2. Her mother's suicide:
In season 2 her mother gets bit by an Alpha werewolf, Derek. And instead of living life as a werewolf, she decides to kill herself, it's the only way for a hunter to still die with dignity in that situation. She does it in Allison's bed, even. This death, the shock of grief and losing another family member to the wolves (having already lost her Aunt Kate who had been like a sister to her) will motivate most of Allison's actions for the rest of the season, putting her on a hell bent path for retribution. Lives keep piling up because of the monsters in their town, and she can no longer just sit idly by while that continues to happen. This determination will be molded and manipulated by her grandfather as part of his master plan, and if it weren't for Scott and her father's interference, she may have ended up slaughtering all of Derek's betas, which she would have regretted once the grief wore off. This has an impact on her because before this she’s never had to struggle with darkness inside herself. She knows now what she’s capable of when she’s pushed too far, and it’ll be something she’ll have to continue to struggle with. Her grandfather used her like a pawned, set up her mother’s death to get her into that dark place to begin with. Kate burned down a house with people in it. There’s risk of ending up dark in the Argent family, it’s not something Allison actually wants to be.
Writing Sample:
The last thing Allison remembers is curling up in her father's arms, is finally letting herself cry and grieve for everything she's lost. Kate, her mother, Scott, even herself. She doesn't know how she can make things right again, not with how far she's gone. That's why she broke up with Scott, she can't rely on him to fix things. Not this time. She has to do it herself. On her own. She keeps waiting for other people to show her who she needs to be and where has that gotten her?
She almost killed Erica and Boyd. Would have, if it hadn't been for her father. She'll have to thank him, someday.
She must have fallen asleep after crying into his arms, that's the only explanation she can come up with because soon enough she's waking up, curled up in the grass of a park. It's alarming, to say the least, to have gone from the safety of her bed and her family to the someplace wide and open like Grant Park. Not that she knows that's where she is yet.
She scrambles to her feet, awake and alert suddenly. The hunter in her feels bare, vulnerable. She doesn't have any weapons on her, no way to protect herself. Sure, her bow and cross bow were broken right now anyways, but at least her daggers would have been something.
"Derek?" She shouts out, her voice short and accusatory. She assumes it's his fault, that he's taken her for revenge against what she did to his pack. Not that she blames him, she doesn't really, but if he's going to make her pay he could at least have the decency to show his face to her.
She doesn't make much of an impression, standing there in leggings and a shirt, her hair messily pulled back. Her eyes are read and puffy from all the crying she had been doing before, but they're also alert. Maybe she went too far, but she's not going to go back to being weak Allison who always needs to be saved either.
If this is a challenge, she's ready to take it.
Name: Katie
Age: 25
Contact: superkappa @ plurk
Past Role Playing Experience: I’ve been rping for over ten years now, and for about a year in this game.
New Players (completely optional), if you'd like tell us how you found BTR:
The Character
Name: Allison Argent
Age/Birthdate: 17
Species: Human
*Type: Wanderer
Canon:
*Pre-existing powers: None, though she is a skilled archer. She got into nationals as a kid. She's also adept with a tazer, and daggers as well
*Rift Change, if applicable: Perfect shot. Basically, now, now matter what angle or distance, when she shoots with her a bow/crossbow it will always hit its intended target.
Dreamwidth: compoundbow
Played By: Crystal Reed
Icon: http://www.dreamwidth.org/userpic/5464557/1832928
Appearance:
Allison has a skinny, rather athletic build. It’s from years of doing things like gymnastics and archery. She runs every day, she keeps good care of herself. She’s a tall girl, standing at 5 feet, 8 inches. She has long, wavy brunette hair that she often keeps up in some way to keep it out of her face. She has a rather pale complexion, and she often dresses with a sort of athletic, sporty style to it.
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.
Events:
1. Finding out about the werewolves:
For most of the first season, Allison has no idea what's really going on in Beacon Hills. Though her aunt Kate starts dropping her hints and clues, she never quite totally puts it together until she sees Derek wolfed out for herself. Everything shatters for her then. Suddenly all of Scott's lies, all of her father's lies, everything comes together and instead of feeling empowered she's overwhelmed. She does not know to cope with this reality where monsters are real, where her family hunts them for a living. It changes everything for her. She can never go back to the girl she was before she knew about all of that. The girl who did archery because it was fun, because it was something she liked to do, not for a purpose.
2. Her mother's suicide:
In season 2 her mother gets bit by an Alpha werewolf, Derek. And instead of living life as a werewolf, she decides to kill herself, it's the only way for a hunter to still die with dignity in that situation. She does it in Allison's bed, even. This death, the shock of grief and losing another family member to the wolves (having already lost her Aunt Kate who had been like a sister to her) will motivate most of Allison's actions for the rest of the season, putting her on a hell bent path for retribution. Lives keep piling up because of the monsters in their town, and she can no longer just sit idly by while that continues to happen. This determination will be molded and manipulated by her grandfather as part of his master plan, and if it weren't for Scott and her father's interference, she may have ended up slaughtering all of Derek's betas, which she would have regretted once the grief wore off. This has an impact on her because before this she’s never had to struggle with darkness inside herself. She knows now what she’s capable of when she’s pushed too far, and it’ll be something she’ll have to continue to struggle with. Her grandfather used her like a pawned, set up her mother’s death to get her into that dark place to begin with. Kate burned down a house with people in it. There’s risk of ending up dark in the Argent family, it’s not something Allison actually wants to be.
Writing Sample:
The last thing Allison remembers is curling up in her father's arms, is finally letting herself cry and grieve for everything she's lost. Kate, her mother, Scott, even herself. She doesn't know how she can make things right again, not with how far she's gone. That's why she broke up with Scott, she can't rely on him to fix things. Not this time. She has to do it herself. On her own. She keeps waiting for other people to show her who she needs to be and where has that gotten her?
She almost killed Erica and Boyd. Would have, if it hadn't been for her father. She'll have to thank him, someday.
She must have fallen asleep after crying into his arms, that's the only explanation she can come up with because soon enough she's waking up, curled up in the grass of a park. It's alarming, to say the least, to have gone from the safety of her bed and her family to the someplace wide and open like Grant Park. Not that she knows that's where she is yet.
She scrambles to her feet, awake and alert suddenly. The hunter in her feels bare, vulnerable. She doesn't have any weapons on her, no way to protect herself. Sure, her bow and cross bow were broken right now anyways, but at least her daggers would have been something.
"Derek?" She shouts out, her voice short and accusatory. She assumes it's his fault, that he's taken her for revenge against what she did to his pack. Not that she blames him, she doesn't really, but if he's going to make her pay he could at least have the decency to show his face to her.
She doesn't make much of an impression, standing there in leggings and a shirt, her hair messily pulled back. Her eyes are read and puffy from all the crying she had been doing before, but they're also alert. Maybe she went too far, but she's not going to go back to being weak Allison who always needs to be saved either.
If this is a challenge, she's ready to take it.