Malia Tate

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## Malia Tate

* Human
* Partial Shift
* Full Shift

## Biographical Information

### Occupation

* Beacon Hills High School Student  (Graduated)
* Member of the Hale Pack (Formerly)
* Member of the McCall Pack (Currently)

### Species

* Werecoyote (Formerly)
* Evolved Werecoyote

## Family Information

### Family Members

* Talia Hale †  (Paternal Aunt)
* Peter Hale  (Father)
* Corinne (Mother)
* Henry Tate (Adoptive Father)
* Evelyn Tate † (Adoptive Mother)
* Laura Hale †  (Paternal First Cousin)
* Derek Hale  (Paternal First Cousin)
* Kylie Tate † (Adoptive Younger Sister)
* Eli Hale (First Cousin, Once Removed)
* EJ Mikaelson (Honorary Nephew)
* Andrea Mikaelson (Honorary Niece)
* Blade Mikaelson (Honorary Nephew)
* Artemis Mikaelson (Honorary Niece)

## Supernatural Information

### Significant Kills

* Evelyn Tate (unintentionally)
* Kylie Tate (unintentionally)
* Halwyn (indirectly; with Lydia Martin) (2nd time)

## Physical Appearance

### Eye Color

* Brown (Human)
* Glowing Yellow (Werecoyote) (Formerly)
* Glowing Blue (Werecoyote)

## Appearance

### Played By

* Shelley Hennig

**Malia Elizabeth Tate**, born **Malia Hale**, was introduced in Season 3 as a supporting character and was promoted to a main character in the fourth, fifth, and sixth seasons of MTV's *Teen Wolf*.

Malia was born to the Werewolf Peter Hale and the Werecoyote assassin Corinne, inheriting her mother's Werecoyote genes and unintentionally taking a portion of her mother's power at birth. Upon realizing Corinne's resentment toward her newborn daughter for taking her powers, Talia Hale took all memory of Malia from her father using a memory-manipulation ritual and put Malia up for adoption to protect her. Malia was adopted by Henry and Evelyn Tate, who raised her as their own alongside their daughter Kylie on a ranch in Beacon Hills.

While driving with her mother and sister, Malia was attacked by an unknown individual, causing the car to crash into the Preserve. The stress of this event paired with the full moon overhead caused Malia to shift into her coyote form for the first time. Since she had no idea of her supernatural heritage nor any control over her abilities, Malia lost control, inadvertently attacking and killing Evelyn and Kylie before running away. The guilt of this act led Malia to stay sheltered away in the Preserve, still in her coyote form, for the next eight years until being discovered by the True Alpha Werewolf Scott McCall and his human best friend Stiles Stilinski. The two realized who and what Malia was and worked with the rest of their pack to turn her back into her human form.

Afterward, Malia was briefly sent to Eichen House to help adjust to her return to the human world, where she met officially Stiles following his admittance to the facility. Once Malia was released from Eichen House, she sought out Scott and Stiles and joined their pack, fighting alongside them through the various supernatural and human threats against them. During this time, she learned the truth about her parentage and the identity of both her biological mother and father. When it became clear that her biological mother, the Desert Wolf, was behind the attack that killed Evelyn and Kylie, and now after Malia and her power, Malia became determined to find and kill the Desert Wolf. However, after reconciling with Scott McCall and the McCall Pack, Malia instead decided to simply steal her mother's powers with Belasko's talons before having her imprisoned in Eichen House for her crimes.

In Season 6, Malia struggled with her control over her Werecoyote side as a result of the Wild Hunt and her anchor Stiles's temporary erasure. In this time, she relearned how to take her full coyote form. Throughout the season, Malia took on a more active role in the pack while preparing for graduation, ultimately passing summer school so she could graduate along with her friends. Her relationship with her Alpha Scott McCall also developed into a true romance that endured even in the flashforward to two years in the future in the series finale.

**Malia** is a member of the **Tate Family**, the **McCall Pack**, and the **Hale Family**.

## Early Life

Malia was born in the fall of the mid-1990s to the Werecoyote assassin known as the Desert Wolf and a Werewolf, Peter Hale. However, the circumstances of her birth remain a mystery. What is known is that she was adopted by Henry and Evelyn Tate and that Peter's memories of Malia's birth were taken from him by his sister Talia with the Werewolf memory sharing ritual. Malia was raised at the Tate Family's ranch, and her adoptive parents had a biological daughter, Kylie, some time later.

When Malia was around nine years old, she got into a fight with her mother and sister one full moon right before they were getting ready to leave the house on an errand. To this day, Malia cannot remember what the fight was about—all she can recall is that, in her anger, she told them, "I wish you were all dead." While Evelyn was driving their car through the back roads of Beacon Hills, the Desert Wolf appeared in the middle of the road and began to shoot at them, which frightened her so much that she reflexively jerked the wheel away and drove into the nearby nature preserve.

The known details of what follows are still vague as well, but it can be assumed that the stress of the shooting and the detour, in conjunction with the full moon, caused Malia to transform into a full coyote the first time out of stress, which either caused the wreck in the woods or was the result of it. It can also be assumed, due to Malia's blue eyes, that she was so overcome by the effects of her first full moon that she killed her mother and sister before running deeper into the woods, where she would live as a coyote for the next eight years out of guilt for her actions. It took three days before anyone even found the scene of the car crash.

## Personality

Due to Malia spending half of her life living as a coyote she is capable of taking care of herself. Though she has worked very hard to relearn how to live as a human after so many years of living as a coyote, Malia is more in touch with her animal instincts than anyone else in the McCall Pack, even the born Werewolves like Derek Hale.

However, despite her struggles to catch up with her peers in school in academic subjects such as math and history, Malia is quite intelligent, and has shown a strong aptitude for investigating supernatural disasters, such as when she and Derek found Satomi's Pack at Look-Out Point, or when she assisted Stiles Stilinski in shutting down the Deadpool computers. Malia is also a survivor at heart, a trait she picked up in the wild kingdom, though her experiences with her pack have allowed her to shut down her reflexive instincts to flee from danger in favor of fighting and protecting her loved ones. She has also grown a great deal with regards to her personal relationships, whether romantic or platonic, and has quickly developed lasting connections with the members of her pack.

Malia has demonstrated that she hates being lied to, and finding out that someone she cares about has lied to her is one of the worst sins a person can commit in her eyes, as evidenced by her reaction upon learning that Stiles and Scott McCall kept the identity of her biological father (and the fact that she was adopted) a secret. She also continues to carry a lot of guilt for the deaths of her adoptive mother and sister and struggles a lot with her animal instincts to fight and kill.

This has also recently led her to feel a great deal of anger and hatred for the Desert Wolf, now that she knows the truth about what really caused the events that led to the death of her family members, to the point where she has vowed to kill her biological mother before she can kill her first. This has added even more guilt and shame to Malia's conscience, as her desire to get vengeance on the Desert Wolf conflicts with her internal belief in her pack's policy against taking life unless necessary. When Malia feels as though she's going to disappoint the people she cares about, she tends to pull away from them and isolate herself as punishment for the sins she believes she's committing. Despite this, she still cares deeply about her family and pack and will do anything to help protect them, regardless of her own feelings.

However, by the final season, Malia has grown into a confident, self-assured, and content young woman who trusts herself, her instincts, and her pack unconditionally. Her affiliation with Scott McCall and the McCall Pack led her to always choose to do the right thing, no matter what, even if she is still occasionally tempted to respond with violence rather than communication. She also became much better at reading people, correctly assuming that Scott was planning on potentially martyring himself to save the rest of the supernatural community from Monroe's Army, and she understood that Halwyn was so intent on protecting the world from the Anuk-ite that he would die if it meant defeating it.

With Stiles interning with the FBI, Malia became Scott's right-hand person, while Liam was his left-hand person, ensuring that he had fellow shapeshifters at his side whenever needed to back him up. She also became secure in her relationships, developing close friendships with Hope, Josie, Lizzie, Selena, Stiles, Liam, Lydia, Kira, and Derek, while her bond with Scott grew from a friendly Alpha-Beta bond to that of equal romantic partners.

## Physical Appearance

Malia is a very beautiful and attractive, tall, athletic, lean young woman. Her hair is naturally dark brown, but after returning to her human form in 2011, Malia briefly had long, blonde-highlighted hair before cutting it into a short bob and dyeing it her natural color again. Malia's style is rustic and casual, typically choosing to wear cut-off jean shorts or neutral-toned skinny jeans with flannel shirts and trendy hoodies paired with boots. She doesn't often wear much jewelry or makeup, though she may accessorize with tall woolen socks under her boots or knit caps.

## Powers and Abilities

**Werecoyote Physiology:** Malia has demonstrated several abilities associated with the Werecoyote. She has super strength, speed, agility/reflexes, durability, senses, healing, pain absorption and partial Shapeshifting. Malia has also joined Scott's pack; on one confirmed instance her Werecoyote eyes will glow whenever Scott howls, suggesting that she does have a supernatural connection to him as his packmate and that she is a Beta in his pack despite being a Werecoyote who was not bitten by him. She is also more in tune with her coyote side after living in the wild for almost a decade, so she can use her abilities much more efficiently than her were-creature peers, though she had to be taught to consciously use some of her powers. Even though Malia possess all the abilities of a Werecoyote, she also possesses abilities that seem to be more exclusive to her, which include:

### Powers

* **Advanced Shapeshifting:** Malia possesses the ability to fully transform into a true coyote. Malia demonstrated this ability for the first time when she was eight years old and spent the next eight years living as a true coyote in the woods. However, since being returned to her human form in 2011, Malia is still learning how to use the full extent of her Werecoyote abilities, but she has recently relearned how to fully shift into a coyote after being unable to consciously/actively do so, likely as a result of stealing the powers of her mother, the Desert Wolf.
* **Super Strength:** Supernatural strength is common for all Werecoyotes. However, due to stealing her mother's powers, Malia is far stronger than the average Werecoyote or Beta. Because of this, she likely is one of the strongest in the Pack, second to Scott, a True Alpha.
* **Super Senses:** Malia has shown to be an extremely skilled tracker as evidenced by the fact that she has been able to easily track people within the underground tunnels beneath Beacon Hills, whereas most supernaturals find it difficult or even impossible because of the conflicting scents of sewage and chemicals.

### Abilities

* **Animal Knowledge:** Due to Malia having spent half her life in the woods in her coyote form, Malia has very advanced knowledge of the animal kingdom and how predatory animals live and behave. Even though Malia has since learned a great deal about living as a human after spending so long as an animal, her first instinct is to behave like a coyote, which has helped the pack in numerous encounters with animals and rabid supernaturals.
* **Expert Combatant:** Malia's generally brave nature and willingness to fight in conjunction with her supernatural physical abilities have made her one of the best fighters in the McCall Pack, She was able to win in a battle with the Kanima/Werewolf Tracy Stewart, even though she had just recently recovered from being paralyzed by Tracy's venom, and held her own against the half-Berserker Chimera Noah Patrick. Over time, her fighting skills continued to advance, as seen when she was able to take out four Ghost Riders at once, something that other supernatural beings such as Corey Bryant, Theo Raeken, Liam Dunbar, and even her own father Peter Hale found difficult.
* **Pain Tolerance:** Malia has shown to have a high tolerance for pain, and can handle it much better than her supernatural peers. This has led her to volunteer to get hurt if it means she can gain information or an advantage for the pack, and she always refuses any pain control measures when she's injured. The latter was evidenced in *Relics*, when refused any pain medication and grabbed the forceps out of Melissa McCall's hands before she pulled the bullet out of her own leg, frustrated by the fact that Melissa's attempts to be gentle was causing long-term moderate pain rather than the momentary severe pain caused by her own efforts.
* **Hale Lineage:** As a member of the Hale bloodline, Malia can use her claws to open the doors to the Hale Vault underneath Beacon Hills High School.

## Weaknesses

As a Werecoyote, Malia possesses all the standard weaknesses associated with the species. This includes electricity (which can weaken or even kill her depending on the voltage), Wolfsbane (which can weaken or kill her depending on the potency, strain, and method of exposure), *letharia vulpina* or "wolf lichen," and the modified canine distemper virus. She is also somewhat vulnerable to the effects of heightened emotions and full moons like most werecreatures, though she has learned enough control to be able to resist transforming except for certain rare occasions. She is also vulnerable to the lunar eclipse during the period when the moon is in the Earth's umbral shadow, as Werecoyotes, like all werecreatures, lose their powers, including their super strength, healing, and shapeshifting abilities.