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character. CHARACTER NAME: Allison Argent SERIES: | Teen Wolf Wiki | Wiki | Wikia CANON POINT: End of Season 2 AGE: 17 APPEARANCE: Picture here PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY: PERSONALITY: Allison is a very typical teenage girl in the sense that she leads a normal life with no interruptions to her daily routine. She goes to school (regularly even), gets good grades, dates a boy fairly steadily, and hangs out with close friends. What Allison doesn’t realize is that underneath her normal life is a life she wasn’t really prepared for. It’s when Allison meets this life that her world comes crashing down around her and she’s forced to make a decision about the type of girl she is and the type of girl she wants to be. As a teenager Allison is more mature than most the kids her age. Her family has always treated her with respect and she loves them for it. The great bond between her and her parents helps Allison shape herself as a young woman. Unlike most she’s not tempted to act out or behave badly or go crazy in order to get attention or break out of control. She attends school daily and never skips on a class and she gets top grades. That’s not to say she’s brilliant, but maybe just slightly smarter than the average person and a lot more devoted than a person her age. Without the need to act out Allison finds things that disrupt her routine a little hard to cope with. Usually they’re small things, like the class jerk behaving in a kind way towards her that throws her off her game. Sometimes it’s a boy talking to her and challenging her own strict decision not to date at her new school. When faced with small circumstances Allison can sometimes be caught off-guard, even flustered, but she’s usually able to get herself back on track and direct the flow of conversation into an area she’s comfortable with. Being taught to respect her elders, and most of all herself, Allison is a lot stronger than the girls her age. She doesn’t need to be any different from who she is for attention. She’s naturally herself and very comfortable in herself. She doesn’t over think things or try to calculate what might be the right thing to say or do in a situation. An example of this is ignoring Lydia’s critique on her clothes and going with her own flow. However she’s not invincible. Things can get deep inside her and when they do she obsesses over them. The things that take her out of her natural routine and keep her out of it are the things she tends to focus the most on. Sometimes it can just be a breakup where she agonizes over what is the right thing to do in the situation and what she needs to change. But sometimes it can go deeper and when it does it can consume her until she sorts things out and sets things on what she deems as the right path. Allison is also slightly stubborn. She doesn’t typically listen to advice and thinks she knows what is best for herself. She doesn’t apply this philosophy to others because she knows she’s not the authority on others, but to herself she tends to think she knows what’s best regardless of what people tell her. That’s why when her world gets shaken these core values of hers become harder and harder to keep and she has to take a better look at herself. When confronted with something she’s never seen or knows how to cope with Allison agonizes over it endlessly. The night the school is attacked and she thinks she’s going to die changes everything for Allison. It makes her take a step back and look at herself and the bubble she’s been living in as a normal girl. She’s natural and casual and carefree, these are things she enjoys, but she feels like she’s too sheltered from the world and thinks herself weak in the school. “I want to not be scared. That night in the school, I felt utterly weak. Like I needed somebody to come in and rescue me. I hate that feeling. I want to feel stronger than that. I want to feel powerful.” This thought process shapes Allison’s life from then on. Everything Allison does after this is about making sure she’s not weak. She starts to train herself and evaluate the weaponry her family keeps. She turns to the one person willing to give her power, despite that person doing some pretty disturbing things with her power. Allison doesn’t stop in her search to feel stronger and not weak. She is desperate to keep from feeling like a victim. Allison also tends to prioritize the more shaking things over others. Such as learning about the existence of hunters was less terrifying than feeling weak when she was nearly killed. For her it was more of a bonus, a way to access strength, so she never really had issues coping with that reality. However learning her boyfriend was a werewolf, and her enemy now, rocked her world harder than anything else. Knowing her family would hunt and try to kill him, and that she was part of it. However she still prioritizes strength over him when she sees Lydia after being attacked by wolves, and therefore ignores the other problems to take care of the biggest she struggles with. This desperation is also her greatest weakness. It causes her to bend too easily to the will of others who promise her power, especially her family. She turns a blind-eye to a lot of things in order to gain power from her aunt, including how her aunt tortures a man and how Allison herself is called on to become like the rest of her family and hunt werewolves. Even when seeing the man she loves become her enemy before her eyes she keeps her focus on keeping that strength rather than losing herself to weakness again. Allison can lose herself trying to over correct the things that disrupt her life. In trying to correct the problem of weakness disrupting her daily life, she goes too far the other way and loses the kind heart and good soul she has in an effort to show everyone that she’s more than that. Without the influence of manipulative people, Allison regains a sense of herself again. She doesn’t mourn the loss of her aunt, having finally seen what the woman really was. Instead she falls back into her natural ways as a normal teenager with normal teenage problems with the addition of helping Scott. In the back of her mind, however, is always the nagging thought that she’s weak and runs to others for help. It’s only a matter of time before that trigger is set off again and she’s set on a path she finds hard to come back from. Scott is a complicated part of her life to piece into any one thing. He falls into all categories of her life. She’s never really the same without him as she is with him. Without him, Allison tends to lose herself and fall prey to the will of her family. With him, she’s never more herself. However she recognizes that sometimes she can be too dependent on his strength and not her own. Allison loves Scott. No matter how much he complicates her life, she knows one thing will always be true. She wants him and will never not want him. Sometimes they go through patches that are rough, sometimes she has to discover herself outside of him and forces separation on them to do so, but she always comes right back to him. Allison does all she can for Scott while trying to remain true to herself, and thankfully he doesn’t often ask her to do things that go against her natural order. Even then she does her best to trust him and let him take the lead. It’s only when they’re apart that she starts to fall to pieces herself. Scott is to her what she is to him. He is her strength, that gives her the courage and the desire to push on. He’s her love, the one she trusts above all others even family. He’s her anchor when things are out of control and she wants to feel back in control. He’s everything to her and he shapes her in so many ways. She never resents him or hates him, even when he’s the enemy. Even when he keeps things from her. She still tries to make things work for him because he matters to her that much that sometimes her own strength gets put on the backburner for him. She doesn’t mind taking the step back if it’s to follow Scott. Allison tries to find a balance, she struggles so much with it, but it’s hard to find a balance with so many outside forces pushing in on her, and none of them ones that she wants to give up. Her friends, family, and Scott. She keeps them all and does her best to make them work all while trying to find herself. "If they try to help him we kill them, all of them." Despite all that she does to strike a balance in her life, the outside world can press in on Allison more than anything else. Allison's family is always pulling Allison in an opposite direction from her heart. The discovery of Allison and Scott's relationship makes it harder for the two of them to be together. Allison's father strictly bans the two from seeing each other. But unable to separate herself from someone she loves, Allison still chooses to see Scott when her family isn't looking. With a new threat in Beacon Hills and her Grandfather around, it becomes easier for Allison to follow her heart and let her family chase around the Kanima while she helps Scott with the same task. This confliction becomes essential when the Kanima becomes more dangerous in the town. When Scott neglects to speak with Allison, Allison makes the mistake of confessing to her parents what she knows of the Kanima so that someone can stop the danger before it spreads. It's only after that Allison realizes that this tear between her family and Scott has caused a conflict at the party where they all hunt the Kanima down. This conflict leads Scott to distrust her and keep her further distanced from him to work alone. Having failed in the strength Allison strives so hard for starts to wear at Allison in a way no one can comprehend. Scott's inability to count on Allison leaves him distant from her during the Kanima attack. Everyone's hiding things from Allison to protect her, but it only causes her balance and strength to fall more out of place and slowly she begins to come apart. "Look at you. Yelling for help. Always yelling for help. It's pathetic!" Allison takes this lack of trust and distance as a sign that she's weaker than she thought. This is only confirmed, in her mind, by the death of her mother at Derek's hand. This is a critical point for Allison. She's without the support of Scott and her grandfather's influence grows more with her. Because of his influence and Allison's self-doubt, he's able to use her mother's death to make Allison into the leader of the Argent family and sound the call for Derek's head. During this time, Allison finds a new kind of strength. She finds strength in her resolve for revenge, but misses how it slowly consumes her and pushes her further and further over the edge. Consumed with grief and pain, Allison strikes out at innocent people and hurts people in every way she can to find her revenge. She rarely stops to think about her actions, she just acts. Even going so far as to hunt the Kanima despite knowing who it is. Allison believes she's doing what's right, though, because of how twisted her mind has become since people have begun manipulating her. It isn't until the truth behind her grandfather's intent comes out that Allison finally snaps out of it. She takes a long look at what she's done and what she's become due to grief and her grandfather's manipulations. He used her as a pawn in his games for life, immortality, and power, and that drove Allison further and further away from what she had always wanted to be and into someone she didn't recognize anymore. After this Allison is left with a loss of purpose and direction in life. She's repentant for the things she's done, and what she was made into. She realizes how far from herself she's gone and wants to try to get back to that, but thinks that it'll take time. She needs time to properly process the death of her mother, the things that she did, and reevaluate where she's going and how she can be who she always wanted. She makes the ultimate sacrifice, cutting Scott loose so that he doesn't have to wait for her while she takes this time evaluate her life. Deep down inside the old Allison is there somewhere. She's just been loss in a world of hurt and manipulation and grief and separation. She's still searching for that balance in her life, she just has more to work through than she did before. Where once she thought she was stable, now she realizes that this is only the beginning of her self-discovery. Self-doubt and pain tinges her world view from the death of her family members and the mistakes she's made. She still loves the things she used to love, though, but she needs time to sort them out where they belong and change herself to be a person deserving of those things and able to hold onto them. ABILITIES: Allison is a normal human being. While she has no powers, she has, however, taken eight years of gymnastics. She is also trained in a variety of bows (longbow, crossbow, compound bow, and recurve bow) and assumed she knows how to use a gun like the rest of her family as well. However she does prefer bows and arrows and is a pretty good marksman with a bow. She can also use knives/daggers efficiently and accurately but isn't a master at them. POSSESSIONS: - Clothes on her back: + tank-top + leather jacket + skinny jeans + boots - necklace with family pendant - two knives - one recurve bow - one quiver + 6 silver-tipped arrows - ID and credit card - keychain with car keys and house keys samples. JOURNAL ENTRY SAMPLE: So we're all just okay with this? Because I'm not okay with being kidnapped onto a creepy ship in the middle of nowhere! [ The girl on the screen looks frustrated and angry and on the verge of being upset. But no. That's probably not what's best. She takes a deep breath and tries to gain back her calm. She looks apathetic, nearly sad when she does. ] What's the point? I mean, why are we all here? There has to be a reason right? Just tell me what the reason is so I can fulfill it somehow and get out of here. THIRD-PERSON SAMPLE: It was hard to accept when things spiral out of control and your life gets turned upside down, but that was exactly what had happened to Allison. Where once she had a firm grasp of reality, now her world was changing and she had somehow fallen behind and in doing so had caused a lot of damage to others and herself. So she had to go back to the beginning in order to go any further. Or so she thought. It seemed logical. If things made sense once upon a time, go back to that point and try over again. Not that things would ever be the same again. She notched an arrow and let it fly, burying itself in the bark of a tree. Images of her mother in the hospital swam before her eyes. No. Things would never go back to the days when her mother had been alive. When Allison had been full of support and happiness. So maybe this time around she would learn to build her own support. She wouldn't need to depend on anyone else. She would really become strong this time. Another arrow shot across the clearing and landed above the first. She wouldn't let herself be swayed so easily this time. People wouldn't tell her what she should do, she would decide what was right herself. No one would have that kind of hold on her again. That didn't mean there was no room in her life for kind words or advice, her father's wisdom would always be welcome now. But she wouldn't just accept things, she would really look at them and come to her own terms herself. That's how she would get strong this time. Again, she loosed an arrow across the clearing. One by one, she would build her resolve. One by one, she would build her strength. She would be someone who could be depended on, rather than depending on others. She wouldn't fail again. Tears clouded her eyes as she yelled, releasing another arrow. Her aunt, her mother, Scott. Dead or gone from her. Slipped from her fingers because she had failed. Because she'd been wrong. Everything inside of her hurt, still. How could she ever be strong when she had failed so miserably? Would she ever find strength?