Jed Tien

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## Biographical Information

### Occupation

* Student and Honor Council Member  (Werewolf Representative) (Formerly)
* Alpha of the Salvatore Boarding School Pack (Formerly)

### Titles

* Jackass Jed  (by Josie)
* Teen Wolf, Magellan  (by Kaleb)
* Wingman (by Ben)

### Species

* Werewolf  (Triggered) (Currently)
* Spirit in Limbo  (Formerly)

## Supernatural Information

### Significant Kills

* Unnamed Father  (first kill)
* Unnamed Jogger (as a zombie)
* Zombie Minotaur
* Unnamed Criminal (second kill)

## Physical Appearance

### Height

* 6'0" (Feet)
* 1.83 (Meters)

## Appearance

### Last Seen

* *Just Don't Be a Stranger, Okay?*

**Jedidiah "Jed" Tien** is a former recurring character in the first and second seasons of *Legacies*, making his debut in the fourth episode. He has since been promoted to main as of the third season. He is a werewolf and alpha of the Salvatore School's wolf pack.

## Early History

Jed was a member of a werewolf pack in which his father was the alpha. Jed knew his father as an abusive bully and their pack had harsh ways of initiating new wolves into their ranks. Jed's father pitted him and his friend Trey against one another, believing he would kill him to activate his curse. Instead of killing Trey, he saved his life, killed his father, and turned into a werewolf for the first time and ran off. Dr. Saltzman and Dr. Mikaelson eventually found him, and joined the Salvatore Boarding School for the Young & Gifted, eventually becoming the alpha of the werewolf pack.

## Throughout Legacies

### Season One

In *Hope is Not the Goal*, he goes up to Rafael and Josie and tells Josie to leave. Rafael stands up and starts talking to him. Jed wants Rafael to submit into his pack, but Rafael leaves with Josie.

Later, he and his pack ambush Rafael in the hallway. Jed explains that it's simple to submit, all he has to do is tell them who he killed since he's recently triggered his curse. Rafael attempts to flee, but they have the upper hand and begin beating him up to make him submit but are stopped when Josie shows up to help him by casting a pain infliction spell. They eventually disperse and Jed gives Rafael another good kick to the stomach before following his buddies.

Later that night, he and the other wolves are playing basketball. They lose the ball and it makes it way over to Rafael, who returns it. Taking advice from Josie, Rafael reveals what triggered his curse. Jed tells him to kneel down but reveals to be joking and Rafael joins them in the game.

In *Malivore*, before the Honor council elections, he refused to support Rafael in voting for Landon to stay at the school. Later Rafael challenges him for the Alpha position in the Salvatore Boarding School pack and loses to him. In a fit of rage over losing his position, Jed later beats Landon up, blaming him for all that's happened. Before he could go further Jax starts fighting him and Jed knew he couldn't beat a tribrid. According to Emma, afterwards Jed ran away and she went to search for him.

In *There's a World Where Your Dreams Came True*, Lizzie Saltzman makes a wish to Ablah that Jack and Hope Mikaelson never came to the Salvatore boarding school. In the new wish reality, Jed comes to the boarding school, which is struggling financially due to lacking that Alex never gave a startup donation, as a potential recruit for the school. Lizzie and Josie show Jed around and introduce him to his alpha, Luis.

When Lizzie makes another wish, that the Salvatore Boarding School had never been started, Jed is instead recruited as a student at the Mikaelson Boarding School. He, Kaleb, Pedro, Artemis, Jack, and Hope respond to Lizzie exposing magic at Mystic Falls High School and is instructed to form a perimeter.

Again, Lizzie makes another wish with Ablah, resulting in a wish reality where Jack and Hope Mikaelson were never born. This new reality is apocalyptic, where supernaturals are exposed by Klaus and Alex Mikaelson and Triad Industries relentlessly hunt them. Lizzie promises to take him to the resistance who would smuggle him down to Mexico for safety. This reality, however, is wished away by Lizzie when she wishes that Ablah never encounters the monster that sent her to Malivore. The resulting wish essentially 'resets' reality, leaving Jed's fate unknown.

In *I'll Tell You a Story*, with Rafael still suffering from the lunar psychosis, Jed wonders if he's doing okay. He's been in gym class for an hour, affected by his unstable emotions which heavily distract him throughout the session - in the process, Rafael is almost hit with a ball. Before Jed could say anything else, Rafael snaps at him and takes the ball from his hands.

Later, Jed steps in between a confrontation between Rafael and another vampire student, both gearing up for a fight - Rafael's eye's glowing yellow and the vampire's eye's turning red and veiny. Roman Sienna steps in as well and quells the vampires, and Jed calms down Rafael and the other werewolves.

That night, Jed comes to Rafael. He tells him that he needs to find some help. Rafael scoffs at his sentiment and tells him not to pretend to care about him. Jed doesn't but he does care about the pack and they follow their alpha. Jed continues, that having an alpha who can't control himself means the pack gets hurt. Despite his own shortcomings as a leader, the pack is *everything* and if he cared about them, then he shouldn't let his pride get in the way.

In *There's Always a Loophole*, Jed agrees to help Hope find Landon and joins Kaleb, Josie and Lizzie. Despite is previous differences with Rafael, Jed tells him he's their Alpha and views Landon as part of the pack - he's willing to help. As they load up, they're stopped by Triad Industries and quickly discover they don't have magic to defend themselves. They're forced to let them inside the school.

Once inside, Triad instructs the students that they're looking for an artifact known as the Chalice of Arimathea. and believe that the school has it in its collection. They instruct the students to find it and then they'll leave. In the meantime, Jed and Kaleb work with MG to devise a plan to take back the school once they have their magic back. MG wonders if he remembers his opening move from last year's Wickery game, to which he does. MG instructs him and Kaleb to spread the word and wait for his signal.

With magic restored, Jed follows MG's plan and begins the assault on the Triad guards. Kaleb tosses him a metal pot and slides across a table and kicks a guard to the floor and bashes the pot on another guard. He tosses the pot to another student and continues to attack guards until he's restrained. Pedro and Sebastian however zip-ties the guards feet catching him off balance allowing Jed to escape. He gives Pedro and Sebastian a high five for the assistance and Kaleb carries the young two students off to safety.

### Season Two

In *This Year Will Be Different*, he tells the other students to let Landon through as he was the one to defeat Malivore. He listens to the new headmaster, Vardemus, as he makes his speech to the students. Later, he attends class with Landon and Josie, and mentions how the new headmaster hasn't tried to kill them, to which Josie tries to stand up for her dad, but keeps quiet. He then looks when a witch runs out of the classroom after she is inflicted with a spell by Josie.

In *Screw Endgame*, he helps Rafael with moving the equipment for the DJ. He later attends the decade dance with the rest of the students.

In *I Couldn't Have Done This Without You*, he is in the gymnasium with the other werewolves getting ready to play a game of dodgeball when Landon and Sebastian walk in. He asks about Raf and starts the game with the others. After Sebastian gets hit by the ball, Jed shows a friendly attitude towards him. At lunch, he and the other werewolves face off against the witches and vampires when Alyssa Chang purposefully cuts her hand. He leads the werewolves out so no other problem can ensue.

In *This is Why We Don't Entrust Plans to Muppet Babies*, he is seen making out with Alyssa on Hope's bed until she walks in. He quickly gets up and apologizes to Hope. Later, after the Qareen has spread more discourse among the others, he and Kaleb argue, getting ready for a fight with each other.

In *What Cupid Problem?*, he attends a Super Squad meeting with Landon, Wade, Druscilla, and Pedro about the Cupid problem. He agrees with what Landon says, but decides to go off and find the girl he wants to express his feelings for. He interrupts Alex and Klaus' conversation. He tell her she is the only one who understands him and welcoming her into the pack and that she should divorce Klaus.

In *You Can't Save Them All*, he is teamed up Kaleb and MG to find the magical equipment that was stolen. He tries to get MG to get the magical moth working so they can get the arsenal back quicker, but Kaleb tells him to stop giving orders. They are is some obvious tension, with MG thinking it's the vampire-werewolf faction issue. He grabs the moth from MG, shakes it and gets it to work, and the three walk.

As the three continue walking, the blue light emitting from the moth goes out. Kaleb and Jed began arguing, until MG steps in, thinking it's the faction thing. Kaleb reveals to him it's about Alyssa, and the two begin arguing again until MG points out the zombie jogger, with the blue light from the moth coming on again. They follow the zombie and Kaleb knocks him down, while Jed grabs a piece of wood and stabs him through the head, effectively killing him and grabbing the other moth hanging around the zombie's neck. He and Kaleb begin arguing again while MG hears something and goes into the abandoned trailer.

In *Life Was So Much Easier When I Only Cared About Myself*, Jed is visibly upset at the death of Alyssa Chang at Josie's hands, and brings her lifeless body into Alaric's office.

In *Facing Darkness is Kinda My Thing*, Jed helps Kaleb film memorial videos for Lizzie's "funeral". He and Kaleb find that not many people have happy memories of Lizzie, therefore the two must create their own video, albeit this is difficult as they too do not have fond memories of Lizzie. They later sing at Lizzie's funeral but are interrupted by MG when he realizes the two are a laughing stock.

### Season Three

In *This is What It Takes*, Jed was invited to spend some time with Alyssa, MG, and Kaleb at a rented house with a pool. They all had stayed behind at the school after they went on break after everything that happened to Landon. However, their efforts were turning up empty, and they needed to get away and reset. Jed and Alyssa found themselves alone at the house, and took advantage of their company. Aware of Adella and Kaleb's arrival, he strolled out of the house, stark naked, to retrieve some pizza for Alyssa, who called him sweetie.

## Personality

Jed is confident and arrogant due to being the Alpha of the school pack. He has a temper, which is common among werewolves and wants new members to submit to him. He seems to be a little rude towards other students that are not werewolves, such as Josie. He can, however, joke towards a new packmate with a serious look on his face. He is also a violent bully. He assaulted Rafael for previously refusing to submit to him and later Landon, blaming him for his misfortune after Rafael took his alpha status. He is also lazy as he made his werewolf subordinates read his books instead of him.

However, he had been shown what made him such a bad alpha and changed it ways. He started to look after Rafael and even went as far as helping the Super Squad find Landon. After Rafael turned into a werewolf for a while, he resumed his position as Alpha and became a better one, celebrating the fact that Landon destroyed Malivore, even though it was Hope, but they had no memory of her after throwing herself in the pit.

As the year progressed, Jed has matured and became someone that the Super Squad can trust and their friends.

## Physical Appearance

He has short, black hair and dark brown eyes. He wears a striped blue and navy blue shirt with the boarding school symbol on the left breast side. He also has tall stature and an athletic build.

## Powers and Abilities

Jed possesses all the standard powers and abilities of a non-Evolved werewolf.

## Weaknesses

Jed has the typical weaknesses of a non-Evolved werewolf.

## Relationships

* Jed and the Salvatore School Wolf Pack (Allies/Some are Friends/Alpha)
* Jed and the Super Squad (Allies/Friends)
* Jed and Rafael (Ex-Subordinate-Leader/Ex-Classmates/Ex-Enemies)
* Jed and Alyssa (Ex-Classmates/Ex-Friends with Benefits)
* Jed and Adelina (Former Classmates/Friends/Former Crush)
* Jed and Kaleb (Former Classmates/Friends)
* Jed and MG (Former Classmates/Friends/Leader)
* Jed and Cleo (Former Classmates/Friends)
* Jed and Finch (Ex-Rivals/Former Classmates/Pack/Confidante)
* Jed and Ben (Boyfriends)
* Jed and Trey (Friends/Childhood Crush)

## Name

* **Jed** is a masculine given name or nickname. It is usually a short form of Jedidiah. Jedediah is a Hebrew given name that means "beloved of the Lord" or "friend of God".
* **Tien** is a Chinese word and surname with multiple possible meanings dependent on how it is written in hanzi.

## Trivia

* He is the first werewolf to be seen wanting a new member to submit before taking them into their own pack.