Lydia Martin | TEEN-WOLF

Born:March 1994 Status:Alive Education:Beacon Hills High School Species Banshee Gender Female Height 5'3" (1.60 m) Hair Color Strawberry blonde Eye Color Green Family Members Mr. Martin (father) Natalie Martin (mother) Lorraine Martin † (paternal grandmother) Unnamed maternal aunt Maddy † (paternal step-grandmother) Martin Family (paternal family) Relationships Jackson Whittemore (ex-boyfriend; in or before kissed) Scott McCall (affair/kissed) Unnamed men (one-night-stands) Brandon (one-night-stand) Lydia Martin is a main character and the current female lead of Teen Wolf. She is the daughter of Natalie Martin and Mr. Martin, and the granddaughter of Lorraine Martin and her wife Maddy. Lydia was born to Natalie Martin and Mr. Martin in mid-March 1994 and has attended school with Scott McCall and Stiles Stilinski for most of her life, judging by Stiles' comments that he has had a crush on her since the third grade ("Formality"). At some point during her academic career, her IQ was tested, and she rated a genius-level score of 170. ("Unleashed") When she was young, she was very close to her paternal grandmother Lorraine, with whom she read many books. Her favorite was The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen, which she loved so much that she insisted she be called Ariel for several months as a child, a trait Lorraine found adorable. ("Monstrous") When Lydia was in elementary school, her grandmother was sent to Eichen House; while Lydia's parents were sure that Lorraine was mentally ill, in reality, she was a Banshee experiencing premonitions of impending deaths. ("Time of Death") One day, Lorraine performed trephination on herself while in the bathtub at Eichen House, which caused Natalie to be called to help deal with it. Though the young Lydia was told to stay in the car, she eventually got bored and followed her mother inside, where she found Lorraine surrounded by a pool of blood. Lorraine saw her in the doorway and stated, "They're coming, Lydia. They're coming for all of us," but for some yet-unexplained reason, Lydia repressed the memory until she read Gabriel Valack's novel The Dread Doctors, which was intended to trigger suppressed memories, specifically those that were suppressed by the Dread Doctors themselves. ("Required Reading") According to Lydia, her mother made her go to a hypnotist when she was ten years old to help her stop biting her fingernails. ("Memory Found") It has also been implied that Natalie and Mr. Martin's marriage was not great when Lydia was growing up, and the constant fighting between Lydia's parents seemed to affect Lydia's behavior, likely contributing to the mean-girl persona she adopted until mid-way through high school. Natalie also once mentioned that, after their divorce, Mr. Martin gave Lydia the option to choose which parent she would live with, which appeared to have harmed Lydia's self-esteem; Lydia seemingly chose her mother, Natalie, and was shown living with her the entirety of the series. ("The Tell") Despite this, Lydia excelled in school and demonstrated exceptional leadership qualities, something that surprised both of her parents during her sophomore year parent-teacher conference. Personality Academically, Lydia is one of the finest students I've ever had. Her AP classes push her GPA above a 5.0. I'd actually like to have her IQ tested. And socially, she displays outstanding leadership qualities. I mean, she's a real leader. A Beacon Hills High School teacher about Lydia At the beginning of the series, Lydia put on an act of being the vain, shallow, ditzy mean-girl despite having an IQ higher than anyone at her high school, However, upon meeting Allison and befriending Scott and Stiles, Lydia's fake persona began to fade away, revealing the true Lydia underneath—one who was kind, loyal, extremely intelligent (and unafraid to show it), and determined to help people however she can. Her high-level intellect pushed Lydia to read in-depth and complicated textbooks and journals on a variety of academic subjects, and she is especially gifted in the sciences and languages. With regards to mathematics, she once declared that she would be winning a Field's Medal, and she has attempted to get extra credit from her math teacher, Ms. Fleming, by turning in equations based on her own theoretical findings. She has taught herself to speak both Classical and Archaic Latin, a skill that she used to translate the Argent Family Bestiary, and she has been shown to speak Spanish and French at conversational levels. Most recently, she has demonstrated a high level of intelligence in physics, which she applied to explain the supernatural aspects of the Ghost Riders of the Wild Hunt. As someone who seems to be good at everything she tries, Lydia is also attracted to talented people, which was made evident at the very beginning of the series when Scott McCall caught her interest after his newly gained Werewolf powers made him a formidable lacrosse player; this pattern of romantic interest in talented people was further evidenced by her relationship with Jackson Whittemore, who was known for being an ambitious overachiever; Aiden Steiner, who was a powerful Alpha when they met who had the power to merge with his twin brother, Ethan; and Stiles Stilinski, who was not only very intelligent in his own right and an expert at making connections during investigations, but who also knew how smart Lydia was even before she was ready to let others see it and who admired her for it. Being bitten and attacked by Peter Hale not only triggered her latent Banshee abilities, which likely would not have manifested until age eighteen otherwise, but also allowed him to possess her mind long enough to manipulate her into resurrecting him with a ritual involving the full moon. During this time, Lydia experienced fugue states, hallucinations, nightmares, and other terrifying symptoms that severely diminished her state of mind along with her social status at school. Even after Peter had left her consciousness, she has still regularly been traumatized by the deaths she would come to witness and the corpses to which she was drawn as a result of being a Harbinger of Death. Physical Appearance Lydia is a beautiful, thin, and petite woman with very pale skin, green eyes, and long strawberry-blonde hair. Her style leans toward the very feminine, and she is nearly always seen wearing dresses or pencil skirts with dressy blouses and high heels or booties. However, due to Lydia's developing fighting skills, she has recently started to wear shorts and jeans more often than dresses and skirts because they're more practical, given that she may need to fight at any moment; despite this fact, she still prefers to wear boots rather than sneakers. She typically wears her hair at least partially pulled away from her face and tends to braid it up in a milkmaid style. She likes to keep her eye makeup to a minimum in favor of wearing bold colored lipstick, and occasionally wears thin chain necklaces or simple rings to accessorize. Lydia has a papillion named Prada. Lydia is left-handed and has an IQ of 170. Lydia is notable for frequently wearing floral-patterned dresses, shirts, and skirts. Lydia is portrayed as the most sexually active of the main cast, as implied and displayed throughout the series through her relationship with Jackson Whittemore