Kate Argent

* Human
* Werejaguar

**Katherine Argent**, more commonly known as **Kate Argent** or **La Loba**, is a supporting character on *Teen Wolf* and was a major antagonist in Season 1 and Season 4. She is the daughter of Gerard Argent and an unnamed mother, the sister of Chris Argent, the sister-in-law of Victoria Argent, the niece of Alexander Argent, the aunt of Allison Argent, and a descendant of Marie-Jeanne Valet and Henri Argent. She was first introduced as an Argent Hunter sent to Beacon Hills in January 2011 to help her brother Argent deal with the new Alpha ravaging Beacon Hills.

However, in time, it was revealed that Kate was responsible for setting the Hale House Fire six years earlier, which killed the famous Alpha Werewolf Talia Hale and most of her family, excluding her brother, Peter Hale, and her three children, Derek, Laura, and Cora. Peter Hale, a survivor of the fire who had recently become the Alpha, finally got his revenge on Kate by clawing out her throat at the end of Season 1.

However, unbeknownst to Peter, he had actually scratched Kate so hard that it transformed her in the same way an Alpha bite would have. In a surprise twist, Kate ultimately turned into a Werejaguar instead of a Werewolf, and a fellow Hunter family known as the Calaveras, who have charged themselves with upholding the Hunter Code, captured Kate and attempted to force her to kill herself before Kate's first full moon as a supernatural creature, as per the Hunter tradition.

Instead of doing what was expected of her, Kate faked her death and attacked as many as six of their Hunters before she escaped to the Temple of Tezcatlipoca, otherwise known as *La Iglesia*, where she found a pair of Berserkers who protected her and helped her survive, although she later admitted she had no idea why exactly they did this.

Despite the fact that she was still struggling with controlling her shifts, Kate was intent on three things: finding out the identity of The Benefactor, who had put her name on the Deadpool hit-list for $12 million; gaining enough control over her transformation that she could rejoin the Argent Hunters; and getting revenge on Scott McCall for what she believed was his singular role in the decimation of her family's legacy.

Unfortunately for her, she was outmatched by the McCall Pack's many allies, who teamed up with the Calaveras and her own brother, Chris Argent, and she was forced to flee after her Berserkers were destroyed. Since then, Kate has been on the run while the Calaveras and Argent work to hunt her down, though as of Season 6A, they had yet to be successful at capturing her.

In the second half of the final season, Kate finally resurfaced, having heard that her father was looking for a vial of rare yellow wolfsbane and wanting to find it herself so she could use it to earn her way back into her family's good graces. She eventually figured out that the wolfsbane was in the possession of Derek Hale, who was on the run after being falsely accused of murdering a pack of Werewolves in Brazil who had actually been killed by Gerard and Tamora Monroe's Hunter Army.

She tracked him to the Hale Vault in North Carolina by following the FBI agents who were pursuing him, and just as the agents were attempting to arrest Derek, Kate jumped in and killed them, disarming both Derek and her own brother, Argent, and stealing the wolfsbane for Gerard, in spite of Argent and Derek's arguments that this would not cause Gerard to forget that she was what he hated—a shapeshifter.

As they predicted, Gerard gladly accepted the wolfsbane from her before cutting her out of their plan and forging a bullet with the leftover wolfsbane that he used to shoot her in the chest. However, once it became clear that Scott McCall had overcome Gerard's plans and defeated both Monroe's Army and the Anuk-ite, Kate summoned the strength to maul her father to death in retribution for how he treated her. It is unknown whether or not Kate was able to survive the yellow wolfsbane poisoning, but considering she had done so once before in *Smoke and Mirrors*, it is likely that she did.

Kate is a member of the **Argent Family** and has a mysterious connection to the Aztec jaguar god **Tezcatlipoca** and the **Berserker** species.

## Early life

Kate, just like her older brother Chris Argent, was raised into the world of hunting supernatural creatures. However, unlike her brother, Kate allowed her father, Gerard Argent, to get into her head and manipulate her like they both would do years later with Allison Argent. Gerard poisoned Kate's mind, making her into the bloodthirsty savage that she is today. *("Relics")*

Because of her upbringing, Kate was raised to believe that all supernatural creatures should die, which is what led her to orchestrate the Hale House Fire seven to eight years ago. It can be assumed that, upon reaching age eighteen and gaining all of the skills necessary to become a Hunter, she forged a silver bullet as a testament to the Code as is the Argent Family tradition. *("Alpha Pact")*, *("Silverfinger")*, *("Insatiable")*

In the early 2000s, she began a relationship with the then-teenage Derek Hale, and after gaining his trust, she used their relationship against him in order to gain information about his family. Kate then set her plan to destroy the Hale family into motion by first getting close to Adrian Harris in order to use his chemistry background to learn how to get away with arson, and then hiring Reddick & Unger to set the fire, which they did.

Afterward, she somehow got in contact with Garrison Myers, the insurance investigator, who she then somehow convinced to declare that the fire was an accidental occurrence due to faulty wiring. For years, Kate got away with not only conspiring and orchestrating an arson, but the murder of eight to eleven members of the Hale Family as well, and her bias that she held towards all supernatural creatures is what allowed her to do this and feel no remorse thanks to Gerard's teachings. *("Wolf's Bane")*, *("Co-Captain")*, *("Code Breaker")* She then left Beacon Hills for six years, though it is unknown where she lived prior to her return to her hometown in January 2011.

At an unknown point in time, Chris Argent witnessed Kate murdering a supernatural creature in cold blood, justifying her behavior by creating a convincing case that lethal force had been necessary. Though Argent disagreed with Kate's action, he still did nothing to stop her, a decision that still haunts him to this day, as evidenced when he told this story to Malia Tate and described the look of bloodlust in Kate's eyes as she killed the creature. *("Relics")*

## *Personality*

*Having been raised and trained from a very young age to view any and all supernatural creatures with bigotry and hate by her ruthless father Gerard, Kate is a tough and fearless woman, as well as sadistic, prejudiced, and extremely bloodthirsty. She never turns down any chance to hunt down, torture, and kill supernatural beings as she sees fit, regardless of their guilt or innocence. She has repeatedly broken the Hunter's Code by also causing the deaths of humans and children as collateral damage, evidenced by the fact that she burned down the Hale House without remorse or contrition. Kate is also very smug regarding the carnage she brings upon those who she believes deserves it, and is always extremely confident in her ability to take down any threat that comes her way.*

*Kate is extremely manipulative, something she also inherited from her father. She is rife with sexual innuendo, using her coquettish swagger, charm, and sexuality to endear herself to men in order to get what she wants and undermine the work of those she sees as enemies. She seduced Derek Hale into an affair when he was still a teenager so she could betray him and use the information he unwittingly gave her to kill his entire family and pack. She appears to like younger men in general, as she has made similar comments about Scott McCall's puppy-like brown eyes, Jackson Whittemore's model-esque looks, and Stiles Stilinski's general boyish appearance as well. When she de-aged Derek in a ritual to turn him back into his teenage self, she saw no issue with kissing and making out with Derek, despite the fact that there was now nearly a fifteen-year age difference between them.*

*Despite being a sadist, Kate is capable of caring for her family, her niece Allison Argent and her brother Chris Argent in particular; she allowed Peter Hale to kill her in hopes of him sparing Allison's life, and she ordered her Berserker to retreat before it could give Argent the killing blow during their battle in Argent Arms International. She was even willing to turn Scott into a Berserker and trick his pack into killing him in revenge for what she believed was his decimation of their family and his killing of Allison. Unfortunately, her love for her family stops short of her lethal tendencies, as she attempted to manipulate Allison into becoming a ruthless Hunter without restraint to use for her own ends in a manner similar to how Gerard manipulated Kate (and how Gerard would later manipulate Allison after Kate's death).*

## *Physical Appearance*

*Kate is an extremely attractive young woman of around thirty years of age, with long dark blonde hair, green eyes, and tanned white skin. She has a feminine yet athletic build with a compact, fit, and slim body due at least in part to her profession as a Hunter, which requires regular intensive exercise. Upon her transformation into a Werejaguar, Kate gained the power to shapeshift, giving her the ability to transform her features into that of a jaguar, such as purplish-blue skin with black spots, bright green glowing eyes, and long, sharp claws and fangs.*

## *Powers and Abilities*

Werejaguar ***Physiology:** Kate presumably possesses all the standard powers and abilities of a Werejaguar and was seemingly above-average in terms of her power level after only a short time in being supernatural. She possesses superhuman strength, speed, agility, durability, senses, and accelerated healing possessed by all werecreatures, along with the animal instincts of a jaguar.*

* ***Shapeshifting:** She has the ability to shapeshift her features into that of a jaguar as well; this includes bluish-purple skin with black patches, glowing bright green eyes, long and sharp fangs and claws, and a ridged brow.*

* ***Super Strength:** Her strength was so powerful that she could fight against the True Alpha Werewolf Scott McCall, who had been a Werewolf much longer than she had been a Werejaguar, and whom Kate managed to overwhelm due to having the element of surprise on her side; Scott's reluctance to seriously harm Kate (as a result of his love for his former girlfriend Allison and his good friend Argent, who are Kate's niece and brother, respectively) also likely played a role in how easily she bested him in battle.*

* ***Magic:** In addition to these shapeshifting powers, Kate appears to have some form of magical or mystical powers, as she was able to perform several rituals that have never been seen before. The first involved encasing Derek Hale in a tomb while wrapped with wolfsbane, which de-aged him almost ten years to the appearance and memories of his sixteen-year-old self. The effects of this ritual lasted for several days, though it is unknown whether it simply wore off, or if Kate had control over its duration and ended the spell at a specific time for a specific reason.*

* ***Berserker Conversion:** Kate also notably had the ability to not only control pre-existing Berserkers (two of whom waited for her at La Iglesia after her transformation was complete and served her with unwavering loyalty until they were destroyed) but she could also create them as well. She demonstrated this ability when she covered Scott McCall's face with a bear skull to turn him into a Berserker, even despite the fact that he was already an Alpha Werewolf; she did this with the hope that doing so would cause Scott's pack to kill him under the mistaken belief that he was one of her pre-existing Berserkers, though this plan was ultimately unsuccessful. Kate's magical or mystical abilities have yet to be explored further than this thus far, and it is unknown if these are common powers possessed by all Werejaguars, or if it is specific to Kate herself since she is the only full-blooded Werejaguar to appear on the series thus far.*

## *Weaknesses*

*Kate possesses all of the known weaknesses of Werejaguars, which consists of (though, due to the lack of knowledge on this species, may not be limited to) Mountain Ash and wolfsbane, specifically the yellow variety, as it was shown to have weakened Kate after she was hit by several high-powered rounds filled with the herb when nothing else had successfully done so thus far. However, not even the Wolfsbane seems to be capable of killing her, as it appeared to only weaken her and her powers and slowed down her normally-rapid healing factor.*

*This may possibly be due to the fact that jaguars are a feline species, unlike wolves, coyotes, and foxes, which are canine species who are normally adversely affected by Wolfsbane. Since shapeshifters, in general, tend to be vulnerable to electricity, it is possible that Kate, as a Werejaguar, has a vulnerability to electricity (and, by extension, weapons such as tasers, as well as supernatural creatures such as Kitsune and certain Chimeras who possess electrokinesis), too, though this has yet to be confirmed.*

## *Equipment*

* *Handguns*
* *Sniper Rifle*
* *Sawed-off Pump Shotgun*
* *Taser Wand*
* *Straight Razor*
* *Wolfsbane-filled ammunition*

## Trivia

* Although Kate is a Werejaguar, she was turned by the former-Alpha Werewolf, Peter Hale.
* Kate is the only character to be turned by a scratch thus far in the series, a feat that, according to Peter Hale, is extremely rare and has one-in-a-million odds of occurring.
* She had a very close relationship with her niece, Allison Argent, and it was the death of Allison that led to Kate finally seeking revenge on Scott McCall, Allison's ex-boyfriend whose transformation into a Werewolf and involvement in Allison's life caused Kate to blame him for Allison's death and the decimation of her family.
* Kate has a greater tolerance to yellow wolfsbane than many creatures, as she was shot by Argent with a bullet filled with it and still managed to survive *("Smoke and Mirrors")*, which also makes it likely that she survived the second bout of yellow wolfsbane poisoning caused by the laced bullet with which Gerard shot her. *("The Wolves of War")*
* Like her father, Kate seems to be very well-read, as she has demonstrated the same knowledge of Sun Tzu as he has, and told Scott McCall the legend of Actaeon and Artemis in Greek mythology, which she used as inspiration for her plan to turn him into a Berserker and sic his pack on him to kill him.
	+ In the legend, Actaeon stumbled upon Artemis, the virgin goddess of the hunt, fertility, the moon, young women, and animals, while she was bathing nude in a nearby lake. When she caught him watching her bathe, she became so furious that she turned him into a deer and set his hunting dogs off to kill him.
* There are rumors that Kate's actress, Jill Wagner, may have had a brief fling with Derek Hale's actor, Tyler Hoechlin, in the spring of 2014, but this not been confirmed by either actor.

## Relationships

* Argent and Kate (siblings, enemies, former allies)
* Allison and Kate (niece/aunt, former allies)
* Kate and Gerard (father/daughter, enemies, former allies)
* Derek and Kate (former romantic partners, enemies)
* Kate and Scott (enemies)
* Kate and Victoria (sisters-in-law, allies)
* Kate and Peter (ex-enemies, former allies)
* Kate and Araya (enemies)