i want to feel powerful.

• ( + ) compassionate: Allison is compassionate to nearly a fault. She first meets Scott after having brought an injured dog she'd maimed with her car, to the veterinary clinic where he volunteers. She's shown throughout the season to be concerned with the safety and well-being of her family and friends, and especially Scott, many times over, even where there's no physical danger; she holds Scott's hand underneath their desks surreptitiously, while his coach/teacher is berating him in front of the class. She values her friends' feelings and wants them to become emotionally stronger, such as when she admonishes Lydia not to dumb her intelligence down in front of Jackson.


• ( - ) vengeful: This is a trait that Allison doesn't really start to portray until the very end of the season, when she sees Lydia lying injured and unresponsive in the hospital, following the attack by the Alpha werewolf at the Winter Formal. At this point Allison has been told by her aunt Kate what their specific family legacy is - hunters of supernatural predators - and she and Kate set out to kill Derek Hale, believing him to be responsible for Lydia's injury.
  Even earlier in the season, though, Allison displays this trait; she breaks up with Scott, despite her feelings for him, because she believes him to be lying to her about something, and she's not going to blindly go along with whatever it is that he's hiding from her.
  She doesn't sit around and wait for someone to take action, when things are wrong and need to be made right - she takes the initiative and does it herself. This trait will have disastrous consequences for her, in future seasons.


• ( - ) gullible: Allison is intelligent, but she's easily manipulated, particularly by members of her own family. She allows her father to delude her and lie to her for many years, in terms of her family's ties to hunting; she falls prey to her aunt's influence and helps her hunt down Derek and Scott when Lydia is injured by the Alpha, believing Kate's insistence that they're only going to capture the werewolves and not kill them. Later on, in season 2, she falls under her grandfather Gerard Argent's malevolent influence when her mother unexpectedly commits suicide and she's left emotionally floundering.


• ( - ) impulsive: Because she's someone who takes action when she sees injustice and she isn't content to simply sit by and watch on the sidelines, Allison can be a bit reckless. This manifests positively sometimes by her quick thinking when she's put on the spot, such as when she and Scott are caught red-handed having searched her aunt's belongings for any specific types of werewolf-killing ammunition and Allison produces a condom she'd swiped from Kate's bag when they're confronted, but it also means that combined with her curiosity streak, she'll seek out danger more often than not. This is especially the case when her friends' lives are at risk or threatened, such as with Lydia during the Winter Formal.

Though only human and not with any particular supernatural abilities, Allison is a highly-skilled hunter; she's very adept with a recursive bow and arrows, able to hit almost anything dead-center on target, and she's also proficient with daggers and an array of other melee weapons for fighting and close combat. She's athletic and spry, with an unusual amount of grace honed from years of gymnastics.

- compound recurve bow & quiver of arrows
- argent family silver necklace
- sprig of wolfsbane