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C H A R A C T E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: Chris Argent
Canon: Teen Wolf
Original or Alternate Universe: OU
Canon Point: end of 312 Lunar Ellipse
Number: 045 or RNG
Setting: Teen Wolf is set in Beacon Hills, a fictional town in modern northern California with one distinct difference from the world we know
History:
Before we begin....
Once upon a time, long ago in the french province of Gévaudan there was a beast that terrorized the countryside, killing its victims by ripping their throats out and partially devouring their flesh before moving to the next. The beast was eventually defeated by one man, who rose to fame in the hunting world. That man was Argent and his first kill, La Bête du Gévaudan, was a werewolf.
Fast forward to more modern times and the descendants of Argent are still touting the name and hunting the supernatural with one strict code of conduct to guide them: Nous chassons ceux qui nous chassent ( we hunt those who hunt us. ) Under the guise of weapons dealers, Chris Argent and his family move from town to town in the states doing their thing and, most likely, still trapping and consulting on the supernatural on the side. After a stint in San Francisco the Argents move back to their old stomping ground in Beacon Hills, just as an old case was bubbling back to the surface.
Season one
Laura Hale, the eldest living and sane member of the Hale family, is found severed in two in the forest preserve in Beacon County, and shortly after all hell breaks loose. There’s a new alpha in town and after one unlucky Scott McCall falls prey to it as new beta. Derek, Laura's younger brother, also raises suspicion arriving just as this all starts. He gets on Chris and the hunters' radar in a bad way upon his arrival. Chris makes it clear to him that he better not cause any trouble in their city or risk facing the consequences, something he doesn't really need to spell out for Derek but he breaks the window in on his Camaro for good measure. The line is drawn between the werewolves and the hunters then and there, which is very unfortunate for the newly turned and completely confused Scott.
From the moment Chris' daughter Allison shows an interest in that floppy haired McCall kid he is wary. The once severe asthmatic jumping to the top of the lacrosse team roster was already bad enough without the hunters being on the lookout for betas. When Chris' sister Kate arrives in town ( after shooting Derek with a wolfsbane bullet, no less ) she attempts to facilitate more family time between the boy that caught Allison's attention and the rest of the family. Needless to say it’s awkward, Scott already well aware that Allison's family is filled to the brim with people who wanted him dead.
With the recent killings and even a video store break-in being linked to a mountain lion, the town is in a tizzy and it only continues to get worse. Knowing Derek is a beta ( albeit, not one causing the problems ) the hunters begin setting all of their focus on him in hopes that he can lead them to the second beta or, ultimately, the alpha. After a run-in outside of the school following his parent-teacher conference where he learns his daughter ditched school to hang out with Scott all day, Chris shoots and kills an actual mountain lion in the Beacon Hills High parking lot. Its reign of terror comes to an end and all is well from that day forward…
Actually it’s only the beginning.
After Scott and co get attacked at the school and blame Derek for a number of murders in the city he essentially becomes a fugitive and puts him on the run from the hunters and the police alike. Jackson Whittemore, the co-captain of the lacrosse team who was stabbed in the neck by Derek’s claws and has a wound there that just won’t heal, lets his curiosity about Scott get the best of him and gets pulled into the crazy world of werewolves and hunters. Of course he gets on the Argent’s radar pretty much instantly ( they’re an observant bunch ) after they suspect that he’s the second beta, much to Scott and Stiles’ chagrin.
It all comes to a head after the winter formal dance. Chris runs into Jackson wandering outside of the school and is able to get the name of the second beta in town out of him. Imagine the shock of finding out his daughter’s “ex”-boyfriend is a werewolf. As a hunter, Chris is livid, and he forces McCall to show his hand in front of the newly enlightened Allison by attempting to mow him down with his car.
With Lydia in the hospital after being mauled by the alpha, Peter Hale ( twist! ), Chris goes down to the hospital to get some answers about what the hell is going on and where exactly Scott is. It’s then, mid-roughing up Stiles and using scare tactics on Jackson, that the allegations about Kate burning down the Hale house reach Chris’ ears. He’s defensive about the situation but of course Stiles doesn’t back down like a smart person would in this situation. Chris begins to second guess everything his sister has done with this massive violation of the code.
The final showdown takes place at the Hale house, Chris threatening to put Kate down if she tries to kill Scott, a “child”, and Derek. He confronts her about what she did, her violation of the code they were suppose to follow, but she doesn’t care. The fight against the alpha finishes with Peter ripping Kate’s throat out in front of Allison. Derek kills his uncle and becomes the alpha ( which was a dick move considering that was Scott’s one ticket out of lycanthropy ) and Allison takes a level in emotional problems and huntress in one fell swoop.
At the end of it Chris leaves the necklace at the site, pointing the police in the direction of the real arsonist and helping to close that case.
Season two
Scott and Allison are banned from seeing each other but obviously that doesn’t last long. While putting Allison under more strict surveillance might help, the Argents kind of have their hands full dealing with things. Like worrying about the repeatedly alpha bitten Lydia they are confused about not turning, or the new beta that refuses to leave, or, most of all, the impending doom of the family patriarch coming to town. ( hint: these things are all connected. )
Gerard’s arrival at Kate’s funeral and the subsequent severing in two of a wandering omega/lone wolf despite not killing anyone is an albatross for all the things the man wants to do in the town. Even before Gerard arrived the Argents were on-edge, and his takeover of the local high school was only the beginning. Allison learns quickly what it really means to be a hunter.
And literally, because Chris kidnaps her from the gas station and ties her up in the abandoned Hale house to teach her the first of her hutner training lessons ( which is pretty standard according to the guy in charge of timing her. )
There’s a growing amount of murder in the town, though these are more brutal than that “mountain lion” issue. The lizard like creature, called a kanima, is killing seemingly innocent people and getting the attention of the new wolf pack and Scott’s scooby gang alike. All signs in the Argents’ mind point to Lydia, but while Allison is on bff stalking detail ( which is fine considering Derek wants her dead anyway ) Chris takes one of the kanima’s victims to Deaton, a local vet and druid werewolf spirit guide, for analysis. They get a clearer picture of what they’re dealing with and the weight of the threat posed by something like that left unchecked.
We get another awkward dinner gathering in which an uncomfortable Victoria and Chris fumble through keeping Scott’s secret from a seemingly oblivious Gerard. This isn’t particularly significant, it just wouldn’t be an Argent party without some awkward Scott McCall in the mix.
Chris’ concern for Gerard’s growing influence over his daughter reaches its pinnacle after his wife is bitten by the alpha Derek and turned into a werewolf. It only makes sense for Victoria to kill herself rather than live like that which she hates, and Chris stays with her, holds her, and ultimately shoves the knife into her stomach for her before the moon comes out. It’s a heavy blow to both Chris and Allison, but Gerard uses the opportunity as a means to get into his granddaughter’s head.
Chris’ influence in the hunter operations grows less and less as he opposes Gerard and a newly prejudiced Allison’s ideas to take out the kanima. The conflict gets to the point that Chris pulls away from them completely and after witnessing his daughter almost kill two of Derek’s betas, shifts his alliance to help Scott. In the end Chris finds himself to be right when Gerard reveals his plans to control the kanima and get the bite from Derek to heal away his cancer. Thankfully Scott was smart enough to do something about it and they were actually able to defeat him with minimal effort.
Well done, Scott! ( Something Chris Argent will never say. )
Season three
With their family basically wiped out ( except Gerard, who they dragged away and stuck in a home for some reason ) Chris and Allison uproot once again and hit the road at the end of the school year, spending it in France. Yup. Just months of ridiculous hunter fun in France.
When they return to Beacon Hills and their swanky new apartment, they do it without upholding their previous position as werewolf hunters and instead try to live a little normally ( despite Chris still keeping copious amounts of weapons in the house...for arms dealing! ) In proper Beacon Hills fashion, that doesn’t last long.
The first day of school features a scene from The Birds and Chris promptly takes Lydia and Allison home because weird singular events involving animals is never a good sign. Though most of this plot unfolds with Chris Argent in the background, with all the information he’s gathered by the end of the season, I think it’s safe to say that he was looking deep into this strange new development from day one.
Day one of what, you ask? Why the ritualistic sacrifices of course!
While Derek’s got 99 werewolf problems ( the bitch comes later ), there are a whole slew of strange killings popping up throughout town as well. While on the surface they seem random albeit similar and well executed, the pattern doesn’t reveal itself until you look closer. Virgins, warriors, philosophers—all of these people are being killed with a sort of theme with oddly specific locations for the bodies.
Despite their agreement to end the hunter thing Chris makes a hidden map of all the places the bodies were found and his predictions of where others will show up. Perhaps it’s not so bad considering Allison is going around helping to fight alpha wolves and doing detective work. It’s only in their untrusting snooping that they figure out what the other one is doing. Neither of them really gave up the hunter life. Chris even begrudgingly helps Scott and Derek wrangle their friends that got loose on the full moon, teaches them all a few tricks of the werewolf hunting trade. They eventually set their lame attempt at not being hunters aside and lend Scott and Derek a hand taking care of their alpha and darach situations.
It’s when the Darach is assembling the last pieces of her sacrificial puzzle that Chris allows himself to get captured, the last Guardian she needs to complete her spell. Chris, along with Stiles’ father and Scott’s mother are stuck in an old cellar at the base of the tree the Darach got her power from, tied up and waiting to be sent to the slaughter. In their place their children, Stiles, Scott and Allison, sacrifice themselves to save the lives of their parents. It works and though they gave the Darach exactly all the power she needed, in the end she and alpha pack were decimated.
After the dust settles Chris is ready to hang up his bowgun, but Allison stops him. As the matriarch and future leader of their family she tells him she wants to continue her hunter training and implement a new code.
Personality:
When we initially meet Chris Argent we don't see him as a father, a civilian, or an ordinary sort of guy. We see him as a hunter first and foremost, with a ruthless and intimidating approach to handling what he suspects to be a threat to the safety of the people in the town. He calls out Derek Hale, a newly returned werewolf in town, and sets the record straight for him then and there that if he causes any troubles then he's in for being hunted down and taken out. Cold and heavy handed in his dealings despite the few dark, dry and humorless quips he lobs, this is the Chris Argent we see throughout the series—from his no holds barred methods of training his daughter to his unsubtly lancing commentary about Scott McCall at awkward family dinners. Essentially, Chris Argent is not messing around. Ever.
With exposure to the supernatural—werewolves in particular—and a centuries-long wealth of knowledge about the things that go bump in the night, Chris has developed a prejudice against that which he hunts. He has seen first hand the price we all pay for even just one wolf left unchecked on a full moon night, knows what they are capable of at their worst and their best. No matter how in control they are, he refuses to back down on the idea of there being a potential threat in each and every werewolf. The hunter in Chris cannot ignore that possibility, even in those that earn a sliver of his trust after proving themselves ( Scott McCall is no exception. )
Biases aside, Chris Argent upholds the code that the supernatural hunters go by, the code that says they will only hunt what hunts humans. It's a simple phrase that lends itself to much more meaning, the first in the list of things they honor. Despite knowing the destructive capabilities of a werewolf on a full moon night, they don't hurt children ( that includes teenagers, usually. ) Without proof of their being killers—like with the Hale family and the other packs that we now know the hunters were very aware of—the hunters will let the fledgling rivalry be and allow them to live, even going to lengths to keep those loose on full moon nights wrangled away from the civilians they could harm. Cold and heavy handed as his approach is, they aren't doing this for their own personal gain or glory. Chris believes the Argents do what they do to protect people from all the things filling the family bestiary. When he sees his daughter growing into using her gifts and knowledge to help her friends ( despite being werewolves ) and come up with a brand new family code: We protect those who can't protect themselves.
It's a pattern that despite embracing as a provider for his family he seems to want to break the cycle of with his daughter. He even went as far as leaving Beacon Hills, a hotbed for supernatural activity, to raise Allison out on the road and shield her from that world for as long as possible. Chris and his wife have embraced the life as hunters even in their travels, selling arms and continuing the family business even outside the confines of the home he left behind, but with the life of a hunter more well hidden from his daughter he could hold out exposing her to the family secret, spare her the impact of being exposed to that world too soon. Perhaps Chris and Victoria saw what it did to Kate and the others, though it's implied that it's not just her parents that are concerned about when and how Allison is exposed to this world. This long-held concern is only the beginning of Chris' doubt.
There are cracks forming in the nobility of the honorable code the Argents uphold and from the moment Chris returns to Beacon Hills he begins to see them for himself. Learning about Kate's horrible act of burning down the Hale house, a fire that didn't only kill werewolves and children but also humans and innocents, was only the beginning. Upon Gerard's return after Kate's funeral Chris begins to piece his father's scheming together, so see how he manipulates their knowledge and position for his own gains. Gerard even went as far as to twist his daughter, a girl that we can only assume experienced the same mental break as her niece over time, to commit horrible acts and use all of the "weapons" at her disposal to take out the Hales in one fell swoop. Chris, despite his place in the family hierarchy, bucks against Gerard's influence and tries to pull his daughter away from the hold he has over her.
It's not until his wife is bitten by a werewolf that we see a more compassionate side of Chris shine through. This is a man who loves his wife and his family more than he cares about the code, would do anything despite everything he's sworn himself to just to find a way to keep his wife and the mother of his child alive. Of course Gerard insists they have no other options and Victoria, his tough-as-nails partner in the hunting world, would have it no other way and die with some dignity rather than face the world as the thing they hunt like animals. The loss is a heavy blow to father and daughter alike, and while Allison turns that hate-fuelled momentum into becoming a huntress extraordinaire with the same ruthless and reckless abandon as her aunt Kate, we see Chris using it to do what he believes to be right. He leaves Beacon Hills with his daughter for months to let the dust settle and reassess his place in the hunter world, a game he claims to be out of despite hunting the darach upon their return.
All things considered, Chris Argent is the sort of man you want to have on your side in a fight. He's a secretive, cold, calculating strategist with a wealth of knowledge about weapons, combat, and survival at his disposal after doing this hunter gig for so many years. With his family's insight to the supernatural world he has information on things that reach far beyond druids informants, mountain ash and werewolves, and uses this information to build his hunting strategy ( like, for example, tracking and predicting the darach's patterns and plans well before the others could piece it together. ) Sometimes his aggressive and brutal methods can be questionable and morally ambiguous, like roughing up teenagers and smashing in car windows to get a point across, but ultimately it comes from a desire to keep people alive. He believes in what he does, enough so to do what he can and push aside his prejudices and team up with people who were once enemies—like Scott and Derek—if it means saving lives.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:
Badass Normal
Chris Argent is just an ordinary guy with a wealth of knowledge at his disposal and some serious combat training. His weapons of choice are two Desert Eagles, but rifles, knives, crossbows, swords; you name it, he's probably proficient with it. He's usually seen using tools, weapons and his own cunning to get the job done rather than physical prowess but he's no weakling. He can hold his own and take a hit.
Big game hunter
Hunting werewolves and druids is a bit more complicated than bears and tigers. Trapping and tracking supernatural humans takes a lot more strategy. A lot of his methods are about figuring out and exploiting weaknesses, finding patterns, and all around outsmarting his targets. This takes foresight and knowhow which is probably partially passed down over the generations of Argents and partially trial and error. Chris takes his time to learn his environment, learn his enemy and come up with a strategy before he acts. Though sometimes running in with guns blazing works fine too.
Only human
He bleeds without a healing factor, is susceptible to diseases, and doesn't turn into a lunatic every full moon, just like the rest of us.
Inventory:
( 2 ) .50 AE Desert Eagles, fully loaded ( 7 round magazines each )
( 1 ) black jacket
( 1 ) collared shirt ( black )
( 2 ) pairs of jeans ( grey, dark blue )
( 3 ) black shirts
( 2 ) bullets ( one silver, one wolfsbane )
( 1 ) bestiary flash drive, the future is here!
( 1 ) pocket-sized sonic emitter
( 3 ) knives ( standard issue army combat knife, two smaller ones )
Appearance:
Age: We aren't given an age officially, but based on his daughter's age and the actors, he's probably in his early 40s.
S A M P L E S
Log Sample:
Coming back to Beacon Hills doesn't feel as ceremonious as it should, but Chris prefers it that way. They travelled at first, wandering their way across the country despite having a game plan. Allison was as good a companion as anyone needed in mourning, quiet and calm yet somehow always knows when to speak and when not to. She helps him clear his mind of the fog brought on by Gerard coming to town and leaving a path of destruction, the truth about Kate, his wife...
God, he misses his wife. Allison does too, he can see it in her eyes sometimes in the pauses between sentences, the way her eyes and nose look just like her mother's. They're reminder enough, just the two of them. They don't need that house to remind them.
"Pack your bags," he finally says one day in a hotel room on the outskirts of Dallas. "Our flight to Paris leaves in three hours."
It's on the way home, sitting on their flight home when Allison asks him about hunting. The words leave her mouth and that relaxed expression of his shutters closed, breaks way to something more serious. In every way Allison is the next matriarch of the family, but at 17 she's still his daughter, he still wants to protect her in the ways he could before they went back to that werewolf infested town.
He takes a breath and considers his response carefully like he always does in these talks. Over the summer spent just the two of them they talked more than they ever have, skirting around these topics without quite avoiding them entirely. Discussing Beacon Hills and how Chris will approach re-entering that world isn't their father-daughter bonding time; It's strategy.
"I think it's best for this family if I step down from hunting. For now." He turns to get a good look at her, to try and read something out of that even expression of hers. Allison can, when she wants to, be a very difficult read. "What do you think? We'll do what you think is best."
And he means it.
Comms Sample:
[ it didn't take long for him to figure it out, between what the others told him and the information posted on the network. the situation is clearly capture, despite there not being a clear reason for it. he flicks through the compilations of information passed around on the network, scans logs for anything remotely useful. most of it is disturbing if anything, but not wholly useful on its own. if anything it's just continuing to make chris increasingly more wary of the people he's stuck there with in addition to the ship itself.
when the video starts there's a stern man about in his forties with greying hair and a neutral expression on his face that comes into frame. ]
Haven't been here long, I've only experienced one...jump, I think they called it. I'm beginning to notice a pattern with people being brought here. Not just one or two from the same place, but handfuls with different memories half the time. Tell me, has there ever been problems from home brought on the ship? Or are captors all I need to worry about?
[ his words are weighty and even despite the occasional friendly smile here and there. he can't help but load the question a little, hope that someone plopped in here from beacon hills has the good sense to tell him whether there are kanimas or packs of alphas in their future. ]
I'm looking for a device that can read the data off of this. [ chris holds up a small black flash drive attached to an otherwise empty silver keyring. ] USB, standard flash drive circa 2011. Message me if so. I have nothing but the essentials with me to trade, but maybe we can arrange something.