Marie-Jeanne Argent

**Marie-Jeanne Argent, also known as the First Argent Hunter** was a skilled huntress, the second wife of Henri Argent, and the ancestress of the Argent family, such as Chris and Allison Argent. She was famous for being the **Maid of Gévaudan** the woman who killed the Beast of Geuvadon, who was her brother, Sebastien Valet.

A reputation as a hunter and developing the hunter code let her  to becoming the **First Argent Hunter.**

In 2012, Marie's brother was brought back to life by the Dread Doctors; but Sebastian was ultimately defeated by the young werewolf, Scott McCall, and his allies, Lydia Martin and Jordan Parrish.

## History

Marie-Jeanne was the younger sister of Sebastien Valet. She lived in France during the 1760s 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.

### Hunting for the Beast

#### Homecoming

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.

#### A Dangerous Fight

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. Marie was shocked to learn from Henri that the "Beast" was a werewolf and wanting to kill the werewolf, Henri taught her how.

#### Discovering the Beast's identity

Not willing to do another hunting party and lose more men, Henry and Marie formulated a plan. They laced alcoholic drinks with mistletoe, 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 men, women, 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 they made into the shape of a fleur-de-lis. After it cooled, Marie-Jeanne merged the sphere in her own 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.)

### 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 remembered as "the Beast of Gévaudan."  She ended up falling in love with Henri, and they married.  She took his last name to disconnect herself from the Beast that terrorized France, became the ancestors of a long line of supernatural hunters.

## Legacy

Allison Argent, Marie's descendant who strongly resembles her

At some point after her death, Marie's brother had been forgotten and the family of werewolf hunters descended from Henri and Marie-Jeanne's line fought the supernatural. Both Allison and Marie-Jeanne bore a strong resemblance to each other in both personality and abilities.

Additionally, when she killed the Beast, Marie's husband, Henri was credited for doing it, likely to further disconnect his wife from Sebastien because of damnatio memoriae. They developed a Hunter code issued by Henri and Marie Jeanne, which decreed that hunters do not go after young werewolves and only those who had spilled innocent blood. However, some of Marie and Henri's descendants such as Gerard Argent and Kate Argent were rogue and ruthless hunters much like Sebastien.

Marie-Jeanne was first mentioned, albeit vaguely, by Chris Argent during a conversation with his father Gerard in "The Sword and the Spirit." Also, similar to their descendants Chris, both Marie-Jeanne and Chris were hunters who defended innocent lives and never liked it when their family or friends were threatened.

When Valet's brother was resurrected in 2013, Scott McCall, her descendant, Allison Argent's lover, used the same spear Marie-Jeanne used to kill her brother. While he was distracted, Lydia expelled La Bête's spirit out of Mason with her Banshee scream, Jordan Parrish restrained it, and Scott killed Sebastien with Marie's pike. Later that week, Stiles told Lydia that in Sebastian's final moments. During the confrontation with the Beast, Sebastien proceeded to kill the young werewolf. As the Beast inserted his claws in Scott's neck, he inadvertently performed the memory ritual and was overwhelmed with Scott's memories of Allison. Sebastien mistook her to be his late sister and uttered the name "Marie-Jeanne."  Both Lydia and Stiles surmised that Marie-Jeanne and  Allison must have looked alike and in a way, she had saved his life.