Marie-Jeanne Valet

**Marie-Jeanne Argent** (née **Valet**) is the overarching protagonist of Season 5A of *Teen Wolf*. She is the progenitor of the Argent family, the wife of Henri Argent and the younger sister of Sebastien Valet, the dangerous Beast of Gevaudan. Marie-Jeanne is notable for her deed of ending her brother's reign of terror and starting the long line of Argent hunter family.

Marie was portrayed by Crystal Reed, who also portrayed her descendant Allison Argent.

## History

Marie-Jeanne Valet was born in the small village of Gévaudan, France, where she lived with her older brother, Sebastien Valet. Over the years, Marie-Jeanne became the most skilled huntress in the village. Marie-Jeanne frequently went to a nearby bar and became friends with the owner, Rene. One day, he noticed her reading a letter from her brother who was fighting in North America during the Seven Years' War. Rene comforted Marie-Jeanne by assuring her that Sebastien would return. While sitting at a nearby table, Marie-Jeanne overheard guests including Monsieur Tolbert, the Magistrate, discussing La Bête, a dangerous creature that was terrorizing the countryside. There were many conflicting reports about what La Bête 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, 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 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 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

For 3 years, Maria hunted down her brother and managed to track him down during the winter. She used the pike to kill Sebastien finally. Even though her brother gloated that even though he will die, he will die in infamy, as his name would forever be remembered and feared. However, Marie-Jeanne announced her plan of "damnation memoriae " (erasing his name from history, which would always remember Sebastian as the Beast.)

After killing the Beast to save her village, Marie-Jeanne and her village erased Sebastien from the records and anything signed, so he would be forgotten. She ended up falling in love with Henri, and they married, where she 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.

### Legacy

Marie-Jeanne was first mentioned, albeit vaguely, by Chris Argent during a conversation with his father Gerard in "The Sword and the Spirit."

When Marie-Jeanne's brother was resurrected in 2013, her descendants conspired to use the same spear Marie-Jeanne used to kill her brother. Chris betrayed his father and gave Marie's spear to Scott McCall so he and his pack could kill Sebastian. When he proceeded to kill the young werewolf, Sebastien performed a memory ritual, where he  mistook Scott's memories of Allison as his sister. Distracted, Lydia Martin used her banshee scream to expelled Sebastian Valet from Mason Hewitt's body. With the Beast as its own shadowy entity, Parrish prevented it from escaping and Scott used Marie-Jeanne's spear to kill the Beast once and for all.

Later that day, Lydia and Stiles surmised that Marie-Jeanne must have looked just like Allison because of Sebastien's attempt to kill Scott. Because, this way, Allison had spiritually saved Scott's life once again.

## Trivia

* Allison mentions that it was Henri who killed La Bête after his wife and four children were the first to fall victim to it. However Season 5 contradicts this and shows Marie is the one who killed the Beast. However, it is possibly wrong due to many versions of the story being found online and because of the damnation memoriae punishment Marie-Jeanne inflicted on her brother.
	+ However, this means that Marie is Henry's second wife and that she has 4 deceased stepchildren.
* It is likely that Marie-Jeanne came up with the family code "Nous chassons ceux qui nous chassent" (We hunt those who hunt us).