James Argent

James Argent is a Werejaguar/Werecoyote Hybrid and a main character on *Legacies*. James is the son of Kate Argent and Aegon De Martel.

## Personality

James is a kind-hearted man who takes pride in treating everybody with kindness. He is brave, courageous, heroic, and valorous when worst come to worse, and stands up in the face of adversity. He is an honest and responsible man who holds his family and friends in a very dear place in his heart, protecting both at all costs. Many aspire to be like him at the Salvatore School but he doesn't let that make him look down upon others, this only makes him further understand people and their goals as well as makes him help others more by showing them the light at the end of the tunnel. James can be unstable, volatile, unpredictable, rash, reckless, careless and can become highly destructive if anyone he cares about gets hurt or he needs to protect someone he cares about.

## Physical Appearance

James is a very attractive young man who has tan skin, blue eyes, and brown hair that he wears tousled with gel. He has also been seen with some stubble on occasion. He is on the shorter end of average height with a lean, athletic build.

## Powers and Abilities

**Werejaguar/Werecoyote Hybrid Physiology:** James possesses the common abilities of a Werejaguar and a Werecoyote.

### Werecoyote Powers

* **Super Strength:** Werecoyotes possess superhuman strength that allow them to do things such as break chains and locks, punch through walls, lift fallen trees and throw grown men across a room with ease. Even Werecoyotes who have passed down a portion of their power to their offspring are notably stronger than normal humans. Born Werecoyotes have been shown to need to initially activate this ability on a conscious level before it becomes a default setting, as shown when Malia, after returning to her human form following eight years of living as a coyote, needed to concentrate to break the lock on the door to Stiles Stilinski's "quiet room" when the two were in Eichen House. After becoming acquainted with her powers in her human-coyote form, Malia's super strength is active at all times.
* **Super Speed:** Werecoyotes can run much faster than even the most athletic humans. They are also capable of running on all fours in both human and in coyote form. Malia was shown running so fast through the woods after catching the scent of blood one night that Chris Argent, a highly skilled marksman, had to use a great deal of concentration to keep his rifle sights on her.
* **Super Agility/Reflexes:** Werecoyotes possess supernaturally enhanced agility and reflexes that allow them to move quickly, jump, climb, and run incredibly fast without difficulty or exhaustion. This includes leaping very high in the air and across large distances, jumping down from several stories high and landing lightly on their feet, and performing a multitude of acrobatic and gymnastic feats such as flips, handsprings, and spinning kicks. This also extends to their reflexes as well, allowing them to perceive and catch projectiles such as balls or arrows before they can be hit and instantly dodging oncoming strikes during battle.
* **Super Durability:** Werecoyotes can take a great amount of physical damage without being slowed down. They are much more durable to blunt force trauma than regular humans, allowing them to be thrown through walls and fall from tall heights with only minor injuries. This durability also enhances their stamina to superhuman-levels, allowing them to endure and fight much longer than a normal human would be able to accomplish even when seriously injured.
* **Super Senses**: Werecoyotes, like their coyote counterparts, have extremely sensitive senses of sight, hearing, and smell. They can see in the dark and across large distances, track scents for up to several miles while also interpreting the chemosignals that indicate identity and emotional states, and can hear whispered conversations from outside of buildings with ease. These abilities help Werecoyotes fight at night, hear approaching enemies, and locating missing people by scent. A coyote's glowing eyes can also be used to see mystical or supernatural phenomenon that cannot be perceived by human eyes, such as the Nemeton while it is hidden or a Kitsune's aura.
* **Accelerated Healing:** Werecoyotes possess extraordinarily enhanced healing factors that allow them to heal from most mild to moderate wounds within moments. Throughout the series, Werecoyotes have been shown to heal from gunshots; stab wounds through the chest, abdomen, and extremities; and broken arms, legs, and spines. They are also immune to all human illnesses and conditions such as colds, cancer, epilepsy, asthma, etc., and cannot get high on drugs or drunk on alcohol because they heal the damage caused by the toxins too quickly. The only known substances that Werecoyotes are not immune to is wolfsbane and the modified canine distemper virus that was specifically designed to kill Werewolves and Werecoyotes. They are also vulnerable to the paralytic effects of kanima venom, though they will recover from their paralysis from it much faster than a regular human would.
	+ **Longevity**: Because a Werecoyote's rapid cellular regeneration prevents them from contracting any human illnesses or conditions while also replacing aging cells at a constant rate, Werecoyotes have enhanced longevity and a decelerated rate of aging, allowing them to live much longer and healthier than normal humans. It is unknown what the average life expectancy of a werecreature is, but the oldest known werecreature is an Alpha Werewolf named Satomi Ito, who is over 110 years old; this indicates that Werecoyotes and their Werewolf cousins have the potential to live well into their 100s as long as they are not killed.
* **Shapeshifting:** Werecoyotes have the ability to transform their features into those of a coyote, which involves glowing eyes (which can either be gold in the case of a Werecoyote who has not killed innocent humans, or blue in the case of someone who has), fangs, claws, a ridged brow, and large sideburns. With practice, Werecoyotes can learn how to only transform a few features as needed, such as only extending their claws to cut something, their fangs to bite something, or simply making their eyes glow to enhance their eyesight or identify themselves as supernatural creatures. After killing a human to protect Luna Hale, James gain Bright Blue Eyes and he gain a more demonic transforming when he turns a black mist will form around him and he will turn into a giant beast of a Werecoyote much like his ancestral relative Sebastien Valet.
* **Pain Absorption**: Werecoyotes, like Werewolves, possess the ability to absorb pain from other living beings through tactile contact. They typically do this through putting their hands on the arm or affected body part of the being in pain and drawing the pain into themselves, which manifests as a darkening of the veins in the Werecoyote's hands that travels up their arms and into their chest, neck, and sometimes even their face, depending on how much pain is absorbed. Malia has used this power to siphon the pain experienced by Corey Bryant after he was burned by Jordan Parrish's hellhound fire, and also used it to absorb the pain experienced by her biological father Peter Hale after he was burned following his trip through the portal between the real world and the Phantom Train Station.
* **Animal Instincts**: Werecoyotes possess the same animal instincts as their coyote counterparts, causing them to instinctively think and behave like a coyote would. This includes being territorial over their living environment, determining whether to fight or flee from danger, and being aroused by the scent of blood after a kill. Malia has especially developed animal instincts compared to her shapeshifter peers, and its unknown if this due to Malia being a born creature, a side-effect of living as a coyote for eight years, something all Werecoyotes possess, or if it is a combination of these factors.

### Werejaguar Powers

* **Super Strength:** Werejaguars possess incredible superhuman strength, to the point that they appear to be on par with Alpha Werewolves. This was demonstrated during Kate Argent's battle against the True Alpha Scott McCall, who she managed to defeat, although her Berserker weakened him first and helped her through the duration of the fight and she had the element of surprise. It's also possible Scott was not trying to hurt her, as he still possessed great love for Allison and Chris.
* **Super Speed:** Werejaguars possess superhuman speed that allows them to run faster than even the most athletic human beings. Veteran Hunter Chris Argent admitted that he was having difficulty tracking his sister Kate and her Berserkers, who he said were too fast for him to follow.
* **Super Agility/Reflexes**: Werejaguars possess superhuman agility, allowing them to jump extremely high and far in a single bound and perform various gymnastic and acrobatic feats. Kate demonstrated this enhanced agility when she jumped through the wall of windows in Derek's loft, which was at least a dozen floors from the ground, indicating that she could jump extremely high and far without tiring her out before her battle with Scott and Kira. This agility also extends to a Werejaguar's reflexes, allowing them to easily dodge attacks and projectiles such as arrows and bullets before they can be hit.
* **Super Durability**: Werejaguars, while being vulnerable to open wounds like slashes and punctures, are extremely durable to blunt force trauma, allowing them to endure severe blows with only minor injury. Kate jumped through a wall of plate-glass windows without being slowed down. Additionally, even open wounds such as being shot with various bullets doesn't seem to slow Werejaguars down, though it can anger them enough to force them to transform against their will.
* **Super Senses:** Like their jaguar counterparts, Werejaguars possess extremely sensitive and acute senses of sight, hearing, and smell. With their enhanced sight, they can see much farther than normal humans and have perfect eyesight in the dark, as well as being able to see supernatural phenomenon that cannot be perceived by human eyes, such as a Kitsune's aura or the Nemeton while it is hiding itself. With their enhanced sense of smell, Werejaguars can track scents for up to several miles, so long as they are not covered up by stronger scents like chemicals or washed away by the rain, and they can also interpret individual human scents, allowing them to discern the personal identity and emotional state through chemosignals. A Werejaguar's enhanced hearing can allow them to hear extremely quiet sounds that would ordinarily not be picked up by human ears, such as whispered conversations from several yards away. These senses, while working together, can help a Werejaguar significantly in battle, aiding them in fighting at night, hearing the footsteps of approaching enemies before they can get close, and locating missing people by scent.
* **Accelerated Healing**: Like their fellow Werecreatures, Wolves and Coyotes, Werejaguars have immensely accelerated cellular regeneration, allowing them to heal from mild to moderate wounds within moments. Werejaguars' healing seems to be even more rapid than the average shapeshifter, as Kate Argent has not only shown that she can be shot multiple times without being slowed down, but her healing ability was so advanced that it actually resurrected her after she was killed by Peter Hale; he clawed her so deeply when ripping out her throat that she was transformed into a Werejaguar, and her healing ability, enhanced by the impending full moon, brought Kate back to life so she could complete her transformation. Additionally, this enhanced healing ability gives Werejaguars an immunity to human illnesses and conditions, and prevents them from becoming drunk on alcohol or high on drugs due to their bodies healing the damage too quickly for the effects to be felt.

* **Longevity**: Because of a Werejaguar's enhanced healing ability that replaces aging and damaged cells at a constant rate, they, along with their fellow shapeshifters, possess an incredibly expanded lifespan. It is unknown how old a Werejaguar can live, but the oldest known Werecreature, the Alpha Werewolf Satomi Ito, is 110+ years old while maintaining the appearance of a woman in her mid-late 50s to early 60s, indicating that a Werecreature could possibly live decades longer than even that. This also allows a Werejaguar and their fellow animal shapeshifters to maintain their youthful appearance for a longer period of time.

**Shapeshifting:** Werejaguars by definition are shapeshifters, allowing them to transform their physical features into ones that resemble their jaguar counterparts. When a Werejaguar shifts, their eyes glow green, their teeth and fingernails extend into fangs and claws, and their skin changes from its usual shade to a dark bluish-purple with darker spots. This transformation can be a conscious or unconscious act. While a Werejaguar can shift on command, they can also involuntarily shift as well if they do not have control over their transformations, especially during periods of extreme emotions such as anger or fear, or during a full moon.

* **Glowing Eyes**: Werejaguars possess eyes that glow jade-green, which presumably allows them to generate brightness and see in the dark clearly.
* **Claw Retraction**: Werejaguars possess claws that are long and extremely sharp, which are strong enough to tear a person apart. This was demonstrated by Kate Argent when she lost control of her transformation and mauled a gas station attendant to death after he walked into the restroom in which she had locked herself.
	+ **Memory Manipulation** **(Possibly)**: Werejaguars, like their Werewolf and Werecoyote counterparts, are possibly able to manipulate a person's memories through the use of their claws, which are inserted into the base of the neck of their target, creating a connection between the two.
		- **Memory Reading (Possibly)**: If they are able to manipulate memories, they would also be able to read the memories of others**.**
		- **Memory Implantation (Possibly)**: If they are able to manipulate memories, they would also be able to implant memories into the minds of others, which can either be the memories of others, or false memories manufactured by them.
		- **Memory Suppression (Possibly)**: If they are able to manipulate memories, they would able to suppress the memories of others.
		- **Memory Erasure (Possibly)**: If they are able to manipulate memories, they would be able to completely erase the memories of others.
* **Fang Retraction**: Werejaguars possess retractable fangs that are similar to their human teeth, only sharper and longer, that can harm others.
* **Skin Color Shifting**: Werejaguars can change their own skin color from its usual shade to a dark bluish-purple with black jaguar-esque spots.

**Jaguar Instincts**: As an animalistic shapeshifter, Werejaguars possess the same animal instincts as their jaguar counterparts, giving then intuitive instincts as to how a real jaguar would behave. Since jaguars are predators, Werejaguars can presumably assert dominance over lesser creatures such as dogs, cats, and deer, just like Werewolves and Werecoyotes, and share a jaguar's hunting, predatory and solitary instincts.

**Magic**: Werejaguars can utilize supernatural forces, usually through rituals, in order to achieve any effect they desire.

* **Ritual Magic**: The only known Werejaguar, Kate Argent, demonstrated the ability to perform certain magical or mystical rituals to defy the laws of the human world. Both of the rituals she performed required Kate to transport her victims to the Temple of Tezcatlipoca. It is unknown if this is a power that all Werejaguars possess.
	+ **Ritual Manipulation**: Werejaguars can create, modify and manipulate rituals of any kind.
	+ **Age Manipulation**: Werejaguars can manipulate the age of organisms and possibly non-living objects. Her first ritual was one involving wolfsbane. His de-aged form only possessed the knowledge, memory and skills of his younger self, so he didn't remember any of his packmates, could not control himself on full moons, didn't remember that the Hale House Fire had happened, and thus also didn't remember that it was Kate who caused the fire. It was later revealed that Kate had performed this ritual to turn Derek back to an age where he still trusted her so she could manipulate him into giving her the Triskelion Medallion, which she believed to be a truly mystical talisman that could give her control over her Werejaguar transformations.
		- **Age Shifting**: Through this ritual, Kate was able to that temporarily de-aged Derek Hale from being an adult man in his mid-20s to his 16-year-old self.
	+ **Berserker Conversion**: Through rituals, Werejaguars can convert people (including supernatural beings) into a Berserker. The second ritual Kate performed also involved wolfsbane and a special room in La Iglesia, where she used a bear skull to turn Scott McCall into a Berserker.
		- **Power Granting**: Through converting people into Berserkers, they can give them the powers of these creatures.

## Weaknesses

* **Wolfsbane**: As a Werewolf, Scott can be weakened or killed by exposure to wolfsbane, depending on the species and the method of exposure. Inhalation of purple wolfsbane has been shown to disable Scott's accelerated healing ability, which thereby causes Scott's asthma to return and has been shown to provoke him terrible hallucinations. Nordic Blue Monkshood is fatal to Werewolves while Yellow Wolfsbane can weaken, sedate and even kill Werewolves as well, depending on the method of exposure and potency. The only known ways to cure wolfsbane poisoning of a Werewolf or other were-creature are burning out a wound caused by a wolfsbane-laced weapon or applying to the wound the ashes of the strain the Werewolf was exposed to. However, yellow wolfsbane poisoning can be treated by surgically slicing open the chest of the poisoned Werewolf and allowing the yellow wolfsbane gas to come out in the form of a cloud.
* **Letharia Vulpina**: As a canine were-creature, Scott, like other Werewolves, Werecoyotes, and Kitsune, can be weakened by exposure to letharia vulpina, otherwise known as "wolf lichen" because of its toxic effects toward the canine species.
* **Electricity**: As a Werewolf, Scott can be weakened or killed by exposure to electricity, depending on the level of voltage used. Lower voltages will disable his healing ability and prevent him from transforming, while higher voltages can severely slow or even stop Scott's heart completely. For this reason, electricity, typically in the form of cattle-prod tasers, are one of the most common weapons Werewolf hunters use against their prey. However, this weakness has also been used to Scott's advantage, as Kira's electrokinesis applied to Scott's heart allowed him to fake his own death to try to lure out the Benefactor. Since becoming a True Alpha, Scott's ability to tolerate electricity has increased tremendously, to the point that he was able to break through strong chains despite being shocked by Araya and Severo Calavera at the highest level of their generator. He was also able to run out of Eichen House with Kira, who had lost control of her powers due to the telluric currents there and was producing hundreds of lightning bolts that had hit and burned Scott; this level of electrical shock was enough to previously put Isaac in the hospital for several days, while Scott was able to recover within hours.
* **Full Moon**: Though being a were-creature is considered a gift in the supernatural world due to the increased speed, stamina, and healing that it provides, it also comes with a price, which is that the Werewolf, Werecoyote, or Werejaguar is beholden to the phases of the moon. During a full moon, werecreatures without training will become overcome with a rabid anger that will cause them to attack any living creature they come upon, which is why they all must learn control to avoid exposure and harm to innocent civilians. The full moon will make a Werewolf stronger, but it will also make them more rabid and chaotic, which makes them easily hunted by supernatural hunters. This has become less of a weakness for Scott, now that he has learned to maintain his humanity during full moons, but under certain conditions, Scott is still capable of losing control during this time.
* **Lunar Eclipse**: During the phase of a lunar eclipse where the moon is completely covered in the earth's umbral shadow, a Werewolf or other were-creature will lose all of their powers, including their super strength, accelerated healing, and shapeshifting abilities, making them vulnerable to anyone seeking to take advantaged of this weakness and harm or kill them.
* **Modified Canine Distemper Virus**: One of the assassins in the Deadpool, The Chemist, created a modified version of the canine distemper virus that could sicken both humans and any canine shapeshifter, such as Werewolves, werecoyotes, and kitsunes. Scott, Kira, Malia, and Stiles were all exposed to the virus at the PSATs, and the former three nearly died from its effects. However, consuming wild purple reishi mushrooms are known to cure a the virus and prevent those who ingest it from being infected in the first place.
* **Loud Noises**: As a Werewolf with heightened senses, Scott is vulnerable to sounds at certain frequencies. For example, the Argent hunters are known for using ultrasonic emitters that produce an extremely high-pitched noise that only animals and people with supernaturally enhanced senses can hear. Conversely, there are also certain subsonic, low-pitched sounds that can be used against werecreatures as well, as a group of Deadpool assassins used in *Perishable*. Sounds at this low frequency can cause Scott and other werecreatures to become incredibly disoriented, woozy, nauseous, and unable to control their bodies, to the point that others have mistaken them for being drunk. In this state, they are unable to defend themselves due to the sounds making them weak and unable to stand, walk, talk, or see clearly.
* **Mountain Ash Barriers**: Werewolves, like the majority of supernatural species in the show, cannot cross barriers made of mountain ash. Though Scott has shown that he can break through smaller and less powerful barriers of mountain ash, thicker and stronger barriers are much more difficult, if not impossible, for him to overcome.

## Relationships

* James and Kate Argent (Mother/son, Love/hate)
* James and Aegon De Martel (Father/son, Close bond)
* James and Luna Hale (Romantic Interest, Good Friends)