Martin Family

The **Martin Family** is one of the primary families in Teen Wolf whose backstory has slowly been expanded on throughout the series. The known members of the Martin family include Lorraine Martin, her wife Maddy, her son Mr. Martin, her daughter-in-law Natalie Martin, and her granddaughter Lydia Martin.The family appears to have lived in Beacon Hills for generations, at least since the 1970s. The family is also filled with technical geniuses, Lorraine became a computer programmer with IBM in the 1970s and Lydia Martin became a polymath genius who was accepted into MIT as a junior due to the AP credits she had upon graduating.

The family was mostly notable for their bloodline of Banshees, women who were harbingers of death and drawn to/channeling natural forces.

## Members

### Lorraine Martin

Lorraine Martin was a banshee, The mother of Mr Martin, the widow of Maddie, former mother-in-law of Natalie, and Paternal grandmother of Lydia. Her powers are where Lydia gets hers.

According to Lydia Martin, "She used to work in San Francisco for IBM. She was there on a weekend, catching up on work. She started hearing this sound, like rain... But, when she looked out the windows, all she saw was blue sky." This was actually her having a banshee premonition of her wife Maddy dying in a rain storm. She and her granddaughter, Lydia were very close and often read "The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Anderson.

She was later admitted into Eichen House and was murdered by the orderly, Brunski, staged as a suicide.

### Maddy

**Human; Deceased**

Maddy Martin was the was the wife of Lorraine Martin, step-mother to her unnamed son, step-mother-in-law to his wife, Natalie Martin, and step-grandmother-in-law to his daughter, Lydia Martin.

She passed away in a rain storm on an unknown date. This event, which her wife Lorraine had a Banshee premonition of, caused Lorraine to become obsessed with understanding more about her abilities, leading her to be forcibly admitted to Eichen House, where she was eventually killed.

Suspiciously, she and her wife were a brunette / redhead duo just like their granddaughter Lydia in her best friend Allison.

### Natalie Martin

**Natalie Martin** is a character featured on *Teen Wolf*. She is the mother of Lydia Martin and the current principal of Beacon Hills High School.

She was unaware of the supernatural for the first four seasons. However, Natalie became aware of the situation after seeing Tracy Stewart,a Kanima-Werewolf Chimera Hybrid, attack her. In season 5b, Natalie blamed Stiles and the McCall pack for Lydia's catatonic state after Theo Raeken's memory ritual left her traumatized. However, after Natalie learned Dr Gabriel velec was abusing Lydia at Eichen House after seeing pictures of the procedure, Natalie became more accepting of the Supernatural especially after Stiles and his pack saved her daughter.Due to her husband's strained relationship with his mother, Lorraine and Natalie were quite close.

### Lydia Martin

**Lydia Martin** is a banshee whose powers were activated when Peter Hale bit her. She is the daughter of the estranged Mr Martin and Natalie Martin, the primary love interest of Stiles Stilinski, and the granddaughter of Lorraine Martin as well as the best friend of Allison Argent, Scott McCall, Kira Yukimura and Malia Tate. She is also close friends with Mason Hewitt, Liam Dunbar, and Corey Bryant, a good friend of Derek Hale, Noah Stilinski, Meredith Walker, Melissa McCall, and the ex-girlfriend of the late Aiden Steiner and Jackson Whittemore.

Lydia was introduced as the most popular girl in school before making bonds with the three main characters. 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.

She is a member of the McCall Pack, a former student at Beacon Hills High and the MIT and a worker at the San Francisco's Energy Company.

### Stiles Stilinski

Stiles is Lydia's boyfriend and has been her best friend for years.

## Trivia

* The Martins have been family friends with the Stilinski Family for at least two generations. (as Claudia and Natalie were friends in high school as were Stiles and Lydia).
* Interestingly Lydia and Lorraine are one of the banshees who has "L" as an initial.