Marie-Jeanne Argent

## Marie Jeanne Valet

**Marie-Jeanne Valet** (1730-1790 at age of 46) was the first huntress and the progenitor of the Argent Family and predicted by leo Wyatt that Marie-Jeanne must have been Allison's past life.

## History

### Early Life

Marie-Jeanne was the younger sister of Sebastien Valet. She lived in France during the 1740s and became a skilled huntress who did not believe in the supernatural.

Marie-Jeanne often visited a local tavern, where she befriended the owner, Rene. He saw her reading a letter from her brother, who was fighting during the Seven Years' War in North America. Rene assured Marie-Jeanne that one day, Sebastien would return. From the next table over, Marie-Jeanne overheard guests, including the Magistrate, Monsieur Tolbert. They were discussing La Bête; a dangerous beast that began killing and terrorizing the entire countryside with many conflicting sources of what it looked like. Tolbert told the patrons at the end that until the king sent his best men to hunt the creature, it was up to the villagers to create their own. At that moment, Sebastien had returned from his war with his companion, Marcel, claiming his sister was the best huntress in the village. Marie-Jeanne was happily reunited with him and embraced Sebastien. Once their tearful reunion was over, Tolbert approached Marie-Jeanne and asked if she was willing to lead their hunting party, to which she laughed and replied that she hunted animals, not rumors. However, after a young man, Henri Argent came into the tavern with the body of a young boy in his arms, Henri explained that Emile was attacked and that his last words were "La Bête." Even though she did not believe in the supernatural, Marie-Jeanne agreed to lead a hunting party after the Beast.

Unfortunately, her hunting party was slaughtered and everyone but Marie-Jeanne survived. When she saw the creature, she shot at it with an arrow, only to be badly scratched on her thigh by its claws. Marie-Jeanne fled, but she was saved by Henri, who quickly threw a jar full of Mountain Ash in a line around them. Shocked to learn from Henri that the "Beast" was a werewolf and wanting to kill the werewolf, Henri taught her how. They laced alcoholic drinks with mistletoe, which was what all werewolves were allergic to. She, at first, believed Marcel was the Demon Wolf after he told her to look in the cellar, where Marie-Jeanne found a slaughter of menwomen and children. However, her theory of Marcel being the demon wolf was proven wrong when she noticed the wound, she inflicted on him had not yet healed. Marie-Jeanne realized that Marcel couldn't be the Beast but was rather just covering for him.

Unfortunately, while Marie-Jeanne was away, Sebastien had violently reacted to the mistletoe-laced wine. Upon seeing his blue werewolf eyes, Marie-Jeanne angrily confronted Sebastien, who informed her he had become a werewolf ever since he drank rainwater out of a wolf's paw print in the woods. Marie-Jeanne threatened to expose him to the entire tavern but refrained from doing so when Sebastien threatened to wipe out everyone in it.

Not letting her brother intimidate her into silence, Marie-Jeanne quickly ran to Henry's cabin, where she revealed her discovery and how she needed his help to kill her brother before he hurt any more innocents, He suggested that they needed something that would use the Beast's size and weight, deciding on a pike. Valet and Argent created a tip mixed with wolfsbane and mountain Ash, which was made into the shape of a fleur-de-lis. After it cooled, Marie-Jeanne merged the sphere in her blood under the light of a full moon.

### Hunting her brother

   For 3 years, Maria hunted down her brother and managed to track him down on June 19, 1767, in the mountains. She used the pike to kill Sebastien finally. Even though her brother gloated that even though he would die, he would die in infamy, as his name would forever be remembered and feared. However, Marie-Jeanne announced her plan of "damnatio memoriae" (erasing his name from history, so people will forevermore just remember him as 'The Beast').

### Marriage to Henri Argent

After killing the Beast to save her village, Marie-Jeanne and her village erased Sebastien from the records, so he would forever be remembered as "the Beast of. Even after her brother's death, Marie never left Henry's side. Soon their partnership turned into a romantic relationship. To further erase her brother's name from history and distance herself from La Bête, Marie took his last name to disconnect herself from the Beast that terrorized France. They married and became the ancestors of a long line of supernatural hunters.

## Personality

Marie-Jeanne was a very moral person who did not tolerate innocents being threatened. Her descendants Allison and Chris, who both developed Marie-Jeanne's need to protect others. She was a very warm and caring person, as she constantly worried about her brother when he was away during the Seven Years' War in North America. Upon learning he was the beast, Marie Jeanne's love for her brother disappeared. Instead, her sense of honor and duty caused her to slay him hserself to spare more innocent humans of its reign of terror.

Much like Allison, Marie was headstrong, independant and stubborn. and could not be bossed around by anyone.

According to Gerard, Lydia Martin, the best friend of Marie's descendant, Allison, both girls were very similar. Like Lydia, Marie is a skeptic of the supernatural and modest about her abilities. She did not believe the rumors that the Beast was a supernatural being and mistook it as a wild animal. However, Marie changed her mind when she saw it with her own eyes and could no longer deny the supernatural.

## Skills

As a human, Marie-Jeanne possessed no supernatural abilities. However, she had many skills, including being such an expert hunter of mundane animals that all the men in her village proclaimed her to be the best hunter in Gévaudan, choosing her to be the leader of the hunting party for the Beast. According to Marie-Jeanne, she knew every inch of the forest in her village like the back of her hand and had hunted nearly every animal under the sun. As a hunter, she was extremely skilled in weaponry, particularly with a longbow and crossbow, much like her descendant, Allison Argent.

She was also shown to be a quick learner after Henri taught her what he knew about Werewolves, using her newfound knowledge to create a plan to identify the Beast by lacing the tavern's wine with mistletoe. She was also shown to be a very observant woman, having noticed Marcel acting suspiciously while locking his cellar, realizing that he couldn't be a Werewolf after his hand continued to bleed instead of healing quickly, and rapidly figuring out that Marcel had to be covering for her brother, Sebastien, with regards to his skills as the Beast.