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INFORMATION;
Character Name; Allison Argent
Canon; Teen Wolf ➳ ( general show wikia | character specific wikia )
Canon Point; ~~Beginning of 2x09 ("Party Guessed"), just after Allison drops off Matt at his house and then checks the window for a meetup time from Scott and finds none.~~ AS OF 12/1/13, Allison has been canon updated to post 2x12.
Age; 17

House;

Freya

Power; Charm!

Personality;

Out of everyone in Beacon Hills (that we see on a regular basis), Allison is the happiest, the one who laughs the most. Despite everything that's going on in her life, Allison is usually able to focus on the good things. She doesn't let all of the bad stuff weigh her down until it starts piling to unbelievably painful levels. Despite the fact that her boyfriend's a werewolf - which her family hunts - and her aunt dies, then things get crazy complicated with the kanima (who they eventually find out is Jackson, someone Allison actually cares about as a friend) who starts killing people, Allison doesn't actually snap until her mother dies. Up until that point, there's always something good to focus on, something that makes the rest of it bearable. (Usually that good thing is Scott.)

She is also the one person that is being torn in so many different directions: her family and their duty to hunt and kill werewolves, her boyfriend (who feels like the love of her life) who is a werewolf, a desire to help protect both Jackson and the people that he (as the kanima) is hurting. She's constantly trying to find her footing and figure out what decisions are the best ones to make. Usually, when it comes to all of this, Allison follows her instincts; she tells her father everything they know about the kanima despite the fact that she's not entirely sure she should because she feels like she and her friends are too young/in too much danger. It causes issues with Scott, but she still feels like it was the right thing to do, at least until it all blows up in her face. She's struggling constantly with being both a seventeen year old girl who just wants to enjoy life and the daughter of a family of werewolf hunters torn between her duty and her love.

Allison has a very big heart as well. She gives Jackson a chance to actually become a friend instead of writing him off despite his very rude, arrogant ways and despite doubting him when he first apologizes. He opens up to her, even for a brief moment, while he treats everyone like dirt, including Lydia. It's that brief moment that makes Allison start wondering if maybe there's something more to him than he's letting on and the two actually start to bond. She is strangely forgiving; when it comes to things like being blown off or people (like Jackson) treating her badly, she is quick to forgive and give a second chance. But when her trust is betrayed, it sometimes takes longer for her to actually forgive the other person and stop doubting them.

She also loves Scott fiercely, more so than she probably should, and that causes her to be torn in other ways between him and her family, which she also loves despite their flaws. She is constantly at battle with herself and them, stuck in between her werewolf-boyfriend and her hunter-family, both of which she wants to be with/be part of. She doesn't want to lose anyone because people are so stuck in their ways, but she also doesn't know how to make them come to terms with one another. So she's constantly walking this unbelievably thin line between the two and trying to find some sort of balance that will make everyone involved happy.

Like most regular old teenagers, Allison loves testing boundaries. She's constantly undermining her father where Scott's concerned (continuing to date him after her father holds him at gun point, sneaks him into her bedroom as much as possible, sneaks out to meet him every night) and she's always testing to see just how much she can surprise him (while her aunt is drilling Scott about taking something from her bag - with her dad right beside her - Allison says it was her and shamelessly pulls a condom out of her pocket). She doesn't really seem to do the same with her mother, but judging solely on the fact that she hardly has any sort of interaction with her, Allison is likely closer to her father. (Going so far as to say she's a daddy's girl - or was when she was younger - isn't a far stretch.) But she loves both of her parents dearly, despite the fact that she doesn't agree (right away) with them being hunters/what they do.

The one thing that Allison struggles with the most is her strength. Or, more precisely, feeling weak and powerless. In a world filled with supernatural beings that shouldn't exist, Allison feels that being a plain old human girl isn't enough. She needs something more to make herself feel strong and safe. After being cornered in the school with her friends by something she was told (and didn't believe) was Derek Hale, Allison told her aunt that she never wanted to feel that weak and powerless again. She wanted to feel like she could protect herself, like she wasn't just some pathetic little girl who needed Scott - or anyone else - to save her. So she starts training with her aunt and picks up archery again.

She's got incredible aim and she tests this newly found (or rediscovered, since she did archery when she was younger) strength in numerous different ways, but it still doesn't feel like enough. She is still human in a world filled with werewolves and if that bow is taken away from her, Allison's left screaming for help. (Later on in the episode she's taken from, Allison hallucinates shooting herself in the stomach and taunting her about being weak, driving the whole thing home to a scary degree.) She knows some self-defense and has some skills from six years of gymnastics, but there's always that underlying fear of not being strong enough to save her own skin. It's something that motivates her constantly, especially now that she's dealing with the supernatural.

Part of the issue, of course, is the fact that her mother has likely drilled one thing and one thing only into Allison's head ever since she was young: you can always do better. (Alternatively: your best is never good enough.) This almost overwhelming urge to be the best at everything is shown in how she tells Scott about all the things she tried when she was younger (painting, photography, poetry) and how she said that every single thing she did was horrible/that she wasn't good at it. To her, because of her mother who believed the same exact thing, Allison believes that you should either be the best in what you do or you shouldn't do it. (This is also where her issues with being weak stem from, if her mother's death scene and comment about "People will say I was weak" are any indication.)

Another one of Allison's biggest traits is how curious she is. She is constantly trying to understand situations and picking up on little things that make her question what people are telling her (like conflicting stories about her aunt and her car troubles when she first came into town). She doesn't necessarily let on that she has doubts or questions, but whenever they arise, she constantly works to try to get to the answers. That trait doesn't only come into play with supernatural things, either; when Scott starts avoiding her because Derek tells him she's a weakness, Allison keeps trying to talk to him (even switches lab partners so they have to work together) until he relents.

SAMPLES;
Network Sample;

In which Allison and Stiles worry about a missing Scott and head out to try to track him down.

In which Allison asks Derek for help even though he's the last person in the world (or one of the last) that she wants to team up with.

In which Allison has to try to keep warm in two different scenarios: one with Jackson (who she really doesn't want to be trapped in a room with) during a snowstorm, one with Stiles in a freezer.

Log Sample;

This wasn't the Scott that Allison had grown to know and love. He wasn't the type to just lash out at her like that; usually he would listen to her side of things and then react. (And even then, he would usually take her side.) But the way that he had yelled at her, told her to stay out of the way, and then for there to be no time on the window? It felt like a whole other person, someone she hardly knew instead of the one boy that managed to throw her entire plan off course and steal her heart.

Sometimes - very, very rarely - Allison regretted not sticking to her no boys until college rule. There wasn't even a guarantee they were going to stick around once the kanima mess was sorted out (assuming something else didn't pop up), but the idea of leaving Scott hurt more with every passing day.

She felt like she had been slapped across the face with his reaction, but she didn't feel she made the wrong choice. Not entirely. She certainly didn't agree with her grandfather's plan to storm into the rave and kill Jackson (because he was still Jackson deep down somewhere), but they were just teenagers, even Scott. It was better to pull in people that knew how to handle this, that could figure out ways to protect the town rather than constantly guessing at every turn. The only real regret she had was that she didn't know how to convince Gerard to go about this a different way, to try to get Jackson to work through his issues and break the connection between him and whoever his master was.

It didn't make her heart hurt any worse, though, as she drove herself home and resigned herself to a night alone in her bedroom, wondering if Scott was going to talk to her the next day.