The Darach

**Jennifer Blake**, also known as the **Darach and the Dark Druid**, (real name; **Julia Baccari**) is the main antagonist of Season 3A of *Teen Wolf*. According to Alan Deaton, she was a Darach, a dark Druid who forsaken mission to maintain the balance of nature to dark magic.

## Summary

She was the former Emissary of Kali's pack, but her Alpha brutally mauled her and left her for dead. Wanting revenge on the Alpha Pack, Julia chose a new identity, Jennifer Blake, and decided to perform numerous ritualistic sacrifices in hopes of building up enough power to kill Deucalion and the Pack. To do so, she posed as the English teacher of Scott McCall, Stiles Stilinski, Lydia Martin and Allison Argent during their junior year of high school. Throughout the season, she claimed the lives of twelve civillians, whose abilities were added to hers.

Though she successfully killed Kali in retaliation for her betrayal of their friendship and left the Steiner twins on the brink of death, she was unable to defeat Deucalion until the lunar eclipse rendered him powerless. Ironically, Jennifer became powerless as well after Derek tricked into restoring the Alpha's vision. Her last Mountain Ash defense was broken by Scott during his ascension to Alpha status, allowing Deucalion to claw her throat out. Desperate to survive, she crawled towards the Nemeton to regain her health and strength, only to be killed for good by Peter Hale after she recognized his plans of taking Scott's True Alpha powers for himself

She was portrayed by Haley Webb, who also portrayed Janet Cunningham in *The Final Destination* and Lauren Huxley in *Sugar Mountain*

## Analysis

* Jennifer used to be a sweet young woman. She was a druid emissary for Kali and she maintained balance. While everyone came to her, it was her duty to advise her Alpha and other werewolves. (Pre-Series Good nature)
* Kali and Jennifer used to have a close and loving relationship. It was heavily implied that they had romantic feelings for each other due to Kali's rather questioning interactions with some of the female characters on the show such as Lydia Martin, Marin Morrell and Cora Hale. (Pre-Series)
* She was genuinely hurt and betrayed when Kali killed her and the entire pack just so she could join the Alpha pack formed by Deucalion. (Descent into villainy)
* After witnessing the supernatural world of Beacon Hills, Jennifer shows she can be emotionally fragile, skittish and fainthearted, and mentions having previously been in therapy. Nonetheless, she keeps an open mind and remains supportive towards Derek and Scott's friends afterwards, even after having been taken hostage by the Alpha Pack. However, this persona is all a carefully crafted act.
* After receiving power from the Nematon, Jennifer became obsessed with revenge as well as Derek Hale after he unwittingly had performed a virgin sacrifice when he killed Page on the roots of the nematon in the basement. (Descent into villainy) However, because she lied to Derek about who she was, and manipulated him into a romantic relationship, she essentially raped him.
* Used her powers to get several animals to commit suicide and mask her horrible-scarred face: she made crows fly into the window of the hospital and the school in the Season 3 premiere. A suicidal deer crash into Lydia and Allison's car, pets biting their owners such as Lydia's dog Prada, and inadvertently causing all the animals in Alan Deaton's Animal Clinic to commit suicide. (Does sent into villain and indirect causes)
* To get the power she needed to defeat the Alpha Pack, Jennifer plotted to kill five sets of innocent humans as "sacrifices" so she could, regardless of their age or gender. (Series 3).
	+ Jennifer is utterly remorseless over killing innocent people including teenagers so to be bestowed the power from her sacrifices.
	+ Throughout the story arc, she managed to kill twelve innocent civilians to increasing her beauty and acquiring abilities like exceptional superhuman strength, healing of herself and others and heightened knowledge and strategic skills.
	+ Abducted Heather, Stiles' childhood friend by forming an hallucination of wine bottles apparently crashing down on Heather. She later killed Emily, a lesbian teenager who was out there trying to have sex with her girlfriend Caitlin and an unnamed security guard.
	+ These murders also included Boyd's friend Kyle from a military program at school and several of Scott, Allison, Lydia and Stiles's teachers (such as Stiles' former babysitter, Tara Graemre, Mr. Westover, and Adrian Harris).

* Knows how to keep the facade as a "sweet, loving" teacher".
	+ Jennifer is genuinely polite to the students. In Season 3x01, Jennifer talks to Scott with kindness while being aware of his tendency to miss classes. He promises that his commitments to being a student, a friend and a son will not be ephemeral (temporary). She is apparently amused by Scott's charms but she rolled her eyes, presumably hinting her annoyance at his jokes.
	+ When Cora and Boyd Attack her in the boiler room she is Frozen in fear and looks genuinely afraid to do something. However, she has powers at this point which means she could have caught against them. However she likely faked her defenselessness just so Derek could save her and that way it'd be easier for her to start a romantic relationship with him. (Facade).
	+ When Derek comes to check in on her in season 3 episode 4, Jennifer and him and change bantering with each other. She apparently smiles upon seeing him and they apparently start a romantic relationship. However, she's probably really smiling because everything is going according to plan and her obsession with Derek is starting to emerge.
	+ She is held captive by Kali, Ethan and Aiden in "Currents" when they do battle against Derek, Isaac and Boyd. While Jennifer is apparently genuine about Derek losing Boyd, she is in shock of what happened.
* Jennifer looked horrified when crows crashed into the school. However, this was merely a front. She was the one who sent the crows to commit mass suicide so her plans could be carried out.
* In "Unleashed," she kidnapped Kyle, a band teacher and Adrian Harris and sacrificed them in a similar manner. of the three virgins .
* Jennifer brings Derek to his loft and uses her healing powers to cure him of her powers. She seems genuinely happy about this and they start kissing, with Derek unaware that Jennifer was healing him.
* As the Darach, Jennifer laced the  Coach's whistle with purple wolfsbane. Every time he whistled, the werewolves inhaled it.
	+ Boyd and Aiden were trying to commit suicide and Isaac cowered underneath his bed. Lydia and Stiles saved them by using a flare and burning the wolfsbane out of their systems.
	+ Scott also tried killing himself by dousing himself in gasoline and holding a flare. However, Stiles appealed to him through their brotherly relationship and saved him. She willed the flare to light the gasoline and nearly killed Scott and Stiles until Lydia knocked her two friends out of the way.
* While Danny was being treated by Melissa McCall at Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital, Jennifer astral projected into the car of Dr. Hilyard, who was replacing the mysteriously missing on-call doctor and was on her way to work. She used her Darach zoopathy to cause a swarm of moths to fly into Dr. Hilyard's car, where they flew at her face and distracted her so much that she nearly wrecked her car, making it easy for the Darach to capture her. The doctor's still-running car slowly drove into the hospital parking lot only meters away from where Scott and Ethan were arguing.
* Abducted Alan Deaton and tried to have him sacrificed. By having him  killed like Dr Hillyard. She left him hanging by his wrists in the bank vault and put mountain ash around it so Scott couldn't save him. Stilinski showed up and saved Deaton.
* Poisoned Cora and Danny with wolfsbane for various reasons. Cora fell in and was sent to the hospital, while vomitting the mistletoe and the lood.
	+ She poisoned Cora so she could get Derek to join her side as she was the only one who could save his sister. She later poisoned Danny because his research with telleric currents could warn the heroes that she was controlling them. However, Danny was later saved/healed by Melissa McCall, Scott's mother.
* Poisoned her fellow teacher with mistletoe. During the memorial recital, the teacher ends up breaking a piano cord and slashes her throat, making her the last philosopher.
* As she killed Mr. Westover, Chris tries to shoot at Jennifer but fails. Allison and Isaac inadvertantly let her get away.
* In "The Girl Who Knew Too Much," Jennifer began seeing Lydia as a threat to her plans after Lydia saved Scott and the other Werewolves from their suicide attempts, saw her drawing the Nemeton's roots in her journal and predicting that Mr. Westover was taken. She stole Aiden's phone and sent Lydia a text, saying they needed to talk because it was a manner of life or death. Lydia was lured away from the recital went to Jennifer's classroom, when she suddenly heard the demonic chanting of the Darach's sacrifice. Jennifer bashed Lydia on the head, knocking her out cold. She was also the first person who recognized Lydia as a "Banshee" and revealed the younger woman's true identity as the Weeping Woman. She then compared Lydia to herself, quoting Shakespeare by stating that they "look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't." When Lydia begged her to stop, Jennifer said she wished she could, but that Lydia didn't know the Alpha Pack like she did. Fortunately, Lydia was saved by Noah Stilinski, who the Darach later abducted to be the first "guardian" of her final sacrifices.
* Despite Stilinski once saving her life, Jennifer had no qualms against him being one of her sacrifices for her five-knot sacrifices. She abducts him when he tries saving Lydia Martin. She brutally injured Scott McCall, enough for him to bleed form his mouth and abducted Noah infront of his son, Stiles.
* When Scott and Stiles tell Derek that Jennifer was the Darach and trying to murder Lydia Martin, she pretends to have no knowledge. However, Scott and Stiles are already onto her and they expose her to Derek when Scott uses mountain Ash against her. When her cover is blown, Jennfier tries to run like the coward She is. However, Derek grabs her by the throat and tries to kill her for poisoning his sister until Stiles and Scott stop him by reminding Derek that they need her to save Stiles' father. Took pleasure in mocking Scott, Stiles and Derek because they "needed" her to save Cora and Stilinski.
* In the hospital, Jennifer manipulates Scott, Derek and Stiles into taking her to the hospital just so she can abduct Melissa and make her her third sacrifice. This causes Scott to temporarily join the Alpha Pack.
* In "Lunar Eclipse," Jennifer killed Kali and apparently, Lydia's boyfriend Aiden and his brother, Ethan, much to Lydia's horror. Jennifer told Lydia she wanted her to "scream" so she could lure Derek and Cora back to the Hale loft. As Cora went to check up on her friend, Jennifer got Derek to help her finish Deucalion once and for all. Despite Cora's protests, Derek joined Jennifer, leaving Cora and Lydia alone.
* The lunar eclipse came to an end, forcing Jennifer to create a perfect circle of Mountain Ash as a last defense. Determined to save his friends and the parents, Scott pushed through the Mountain Ash. While Jennifer mocked him, she lot her confidence when he used his sheer willpower and ultimately allowed him to break the circle, rising to True Alpha status at last. Scott threatened to kill Jennifer if she did not stop the storm, even if it meant tainting his newly-acquired Alpha status. Deucalion insisted nothing would change the color of his eyes and clawed Jennifer's throat out himself, saving Scott the trouble.
	+ Additonally Jennifer was afraid of Scott when he became a True Alpha.
* As Jennifer predicted, Peter was planning to kill Scott and steal his Alpha powers. He conspired with Kate Argent so she could have her revenge on the McCall pack, unjustly blaming them for Allison's death. Kate turned Scott into a Berserker, hoping the Pack would either kill him or Scott would kill them.
* Also Jennifer taking Allison's, Scott, and Stiles' parents led to their temporary death, sacrifice and resurrection. Scott, Allison and Stiles are wrecked with darkness in their hearts for the rest of their lives. They gave power back to the Nemeton, which lead to more powerful and dark creatures to Beacon Hills, including the Nogitsune, The hellhounds Halwyn and Cerberus and the Dread Doctors.