Lydia Martin

**Lydia Martin** is a female Banshee and the tritagonist/main female protagonist of *Teen Wolf*. She is the only daughter of Natalie and Mr Martin, the girlfriend of Stiles Stilinski, who is a human and the best friend of Allison Argent, Scott McCall, and Malia Tate.

She learns that her grandmother was also a banshee and proving her power is hereditary. However, it is unknown if Lydia's children will have powers too, but Phoebe Halliwell surmised that if they have a girl, she probably will.

She was initially introduced to the most popular girl as Beacon High School, who hides behind a mask of her intelligence and insecurities through sarcasm and arrogance. However, Lydia's friendships with Stiles, Scott, and Allison let's her true self shine. After being bitten by Peter Hale during the winter of 2011 at the formal, her latent Banshee powers activated. Now Lydia uses her newfound powers to help her pack mates in the McCall Pack.

## Personality

At the start of the show, Lydia is introduced as the mean and shallow popular girl at Beacon Hill High School. She showcases this by ignoring both Scott and Stiles despite them knowing each other since they were 6 years old. However, this is just a front; instead, Lydia is selfless and pure heart, especially after becoming best friends with Scott McCall, Stiles Stilinski, and Allison Argent.

At the end of Season 1, Lydia is bitten by the then Alpha Peter Hale; this bite does not turn her into a werewolf. Instead, it activates her banshee powers, abilities she inherited from her paternal grandmother. Because of this new transition, Lydia's personality changes. Though unfortunate, after being bitten by Peter, encountering evil spirits, and the death of her best friend Allison, Lydia matures exponentially. She cares about all of her friends and does anything to protect them.

She also has a complicated relationship with the Argent family. While she was very close with Allison and eventually came to trust Chris Argent, Lydia is unwilling to listen to Gerard unless it is absolutely necessary and deems Allison's Aunt Kate to be a "sociopathic bitch."

## Physical Appearance

Lydia is a beautiful young woman with long red hair, green eyes and fair skin. However, she is beautiful because of her originality, strong will and kind heart.

## Powers and abilities

* **Harbinger of Death Powers**
	+ **Sonic Screaming:** With guidance from Meredith, Lydia can now use her scream as a weapon similar to the and was told to find her own way how to use it "as a bullet than a explosion" like Meredith did many years ago. She was able to break bulletproof glass. To break the Beast away from Mason Hewitt's body, Lydia screamed his name very loudly and was able to exorcise Sebastian's Spirit out of her friend. Lydia also uses the scream to supernaturally enhance weapons to kill creatures when it's impossible. When the first bullet fired by Noah Stilinski failed to kill the Phantom version of his wife Claudia, he tried again based on Lydia's instruction. This time she used her supersonic scream at the same moment the bullet was fired, enhancing it and allowing it to kill the phantom.
	+ **Death Sensing**
	+ **Danger Intuition**
	+ **Death Whisper**
	+ **Premonitions**
		- **Astral Premonitions**
* **Extra-Sensory Perception**
	+ **Clairaudience:** The faculty of perceiving, as if by hearing, what is inaudible.
	+ **Enhanced Hearing**
* **Divination**
* **Psychometry**
* **Automatic Writing**
* **Telepathy**
* **Banshee/Hellhound Connection:** Because Banshees and Hellhounds were connected, Lydia has a spiritual connection to Jordan Parrish, which is why they grew to become close friends.
* **Supernatural Immunity**
* **Supernatural Detection**
* **Sound Wave Generation**
* **Sonic Combustion**
* **Sound Manipulation**

### Abilities

* **Genius Intelligence:** Even from the start of the series, Lydia was considered a child prodigy and genius. Because of her intellect, Lydia was accepted into Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lydia has an IQ of 170, having knowledge in mathemetics, chemistry, physics, medicine, psychology, history, mythology and foreign languages. She investigates supernatural crimes, due to her academic knowledge and Stiles' understanding of law enforcement.
* **Charisma**
* **Multilingualism:** Lydia is fluent in Latin (both Archaic and Classical), Spanish, and French in at least a conversational capacity.
* **Skilled Artist:** Lydia drew a very detailed picture of the Nemeton's roots she initially mistook for a tree. However they realized this must have been the place where Jennifer was holding the Sheriff Stilinski, Melissa McCall and Chris Argent hostage.
* **Combatant:** Lydia was trained by Jordan Parrish

## Relationships

### Romances

* Stiles Stilinski - Details on the complicated but loving relationship between Lydia and her boyfriend, Stiles Stilinski. (See Stydia)

### Friendships

* Scott McCall - Details on the alpha-beta/brother and sister-like friendship between Lydia and her best friend (See Scydia)
* Allison Argent - best friend and sister-like relationship. (See Allydia)