Aiden and Lydia

**The relationship between Omega Werewolf Aiden Steiner and Banshee Lydia Martin**

Aiden and Lydia's relationship began shortly after Aiden's introduction in Season 3A's *Tattoo* when they saw each other at school. Immediately attracted to him on a physical level, Lydia sought Aiden out at school and the two began engaging in a friends-with-benefits-style relationship. This relationship grew stronger over time until Lydia learned that Aiden and his twin brother Ethan were actually adult Alpha Werewolves with the power to merge themselves into an extra-large Werewolf and who were members of the Alpha Pack, which had been terrorizing Derek Hale, Scott McCall, and the Beacon Hills packs in an effort to recruit the former two to their ranks.

However, it was shown that Aiden's loyalties had changed when he growled at his packmate Kali when she threatened Lydia's life, and he and Ethan's merged neck was snapped while defending Lydia from the Darach Jennifer Blake. Aiden and Lydia then had a brief break in their relationship after the injuries the twins sustained caused them to revert to Omegas, though Lydia was the only one of the McCall Pack members who stayed in contact with them.

Aiden then got the idea to try to join the pack in hopes of becoming a Beta and having the strength necessary to defend himself from the people he and Ethan "pissed off" when they were Alphas, and he was angered when Scott said no as a result of his part in Vernon Boyd and Erica Reyes' deaths. When Ethan reminded him that the best way to get the pack to reconsider was to do something nice, Aiden began trying to win Lydia back over, even after she informed him that she had recently helped save someone's life and that she wanted to be with a good guy, not with a bad guy.

Despite Lydia's comments, Aiden helped save her life after she was thrust into a hypothermic state after she was scanned by the Oni to ensure that she wasn't possessed by the Nogitsune, and their relationship was rekindled after Aiden and Ethan helped defend Lydia's close friends Scott McCall and Kira Yukimura from the Oni. Their relationship continued until the end of Season 3B when Aiden was fatally stabbed in the chest by an Oni. As he died, Aiden expressed regret that Lydia still thought he was one of the bad guys, but Derek Hale assured him that he would make sure she knew that he was the opposite. Lydia's Banshee instincts caused her to sense Aiden's death, and she was visibly upset when she ran outside and saw Ethan, Derek, and Chris Argent congregated around his body.

In Season 5, Gabriel Valack used his Illusion Casting power to make himself look like Aiden in an effort to prevent her from leaving Eichen House before he could use her powers to figure out who the Beast of Gevaudan was.

**Aiden and Lydia are also known as Laiden by fans**

## Throughout *Teen Wolf*

* Season 3A
* Season 3B
* Season 5A
 In *Tattoo*, Lydia Martin and Allison Argent were talking in the hallways of Beacon Hills High School about Lydia's intent to find a boy with whom to distract herself when suddenly, Aiden and his twin Ethan entered the hall with their motorcycle helmets, immediately catching the girls' notice, though they did not interact with the new students that day.

In *Chaos Rising*, while Allison and Lydia were studying the symbol bruised into their arms by Braeden in the high school library, they saw Aiden and Ethan enter the library and bump into Danny Mahealani. Lydia leered at them and remarked that she wanted one, and when Allison smirked and asked her which one she was interested in, Lydia gave her a look and retorted, "The straight one, obviously." When Allison turned around to follow Lydia's gaze, she realized that Aiden must be whom she was referring to, as his twin brother Ethan was clearly interested in Danny, who looked flustered by the fact that he literally ran into him. Allison turned back around to find that Lydia had fled her seat in order to talk to Aiden herself.

In *Frayed*, Lydia and Allison were driving behind the school bus carrying the entire Beacon Hills High School cross-country team (which included Scott McCall, Stiles Stilinski, Isaac Lahey, Vernon Boyd, Danny Mahealani, and Ethan Steiner) to their meet. Upon seeing that Allison's car was almost out of gas, the two debated what they should do, as Allison wanted to keep following the bus while Lydia argued that they should stop to fill the gas tank, reminding her best friend that they knew where the team was headed and could catch up with them later.

When Allison pointed out that Lydia wasn't there to see what happened during the battle at the Abandoned Mall between Scott and the Hale Pack against the Alpha Pack the previous night, Lydia quietly muttered that she knew who started it, implying that she thought the battle would have never happened had Derek not instigated it. Allison, taken aback by this answer, asked if that was what Aiden had told her, leading Lydia to realize that Allison had invited her on this "road trip" so that she could keep an eye on the pack, the twins, *and* Lydia, all at the same time. Allison turned the subject back to Aiden and Lydia and asked if there really wasn't anything going on between them, causing Lydia to roll her eyes as she applied her lipstick in the flip-down mirror before stating that she was appalled by the insinuation that they were in a relationship.

However, the flashbacks to several days earlier told a different story. In the flashback, Aiden and Lydia had sneaked into Coach Finstock's office, where they began making out. After a moment, Lydia pulled away and gave Aiden a look before asking him what he thought he was doing. When Aiden asked her what she meant, Lydia replied, "Your hands," which Aiden reminded her were on her waist. Lydia sarcastically retorted, "I know. What am I, a nun? Put them somewhere *useful*." This amused Aiden so much that his hands traveled down to the back of her upper thighs before picking her up and wrapping her legs around his waist as he continued to kiss her. A few moments later, Aiden smirked and asked Lydia if that was better, and Lydia smugly replied, "Moderately" before the two picked back up again.

In *Currents*, after Danny Mahealani was poisoned with mistletoe and nearly died while hanging out with Aiden's twin brother Ethan, Scott accused them both (and, by extension, the Alpha Pack) of having malicious intentions by pointing out that the moment they arrived in Beacon Hills, Ethan immediately hooked up with Danny, and Aiden quickly did the same with Lydia. This forced Ethan to admit that they were instructed by Deucalion to get close to Danny and Lydia because they knew one of them would be important to Scott, and they now knew it was Lydia.

The next day at school, Aiden and Lydia were seen making out again in their usual spot (Coach Finstock's office outside of the boy's locker room) when suddenly, the fire alarm went off. Though Aiden was eager to ignore it in favor of continuing to hook up, arguing that high school fire alarms never actually warned about a *real* fire, but Lydia retorted, "That's exactly the kind of thing you'd expect two dumbass students to say just before getting burned alive." Aiden rolled his eyes and put on his shirt as Lydia instructed him to walk out first, which he ultimately did after one last kiss and smirk.

She was about to wait a few moments before following him out when suddenly, Cora Hale appeared in the doorway and confronted her by stating that she didn't think Lydia had very good taste in guys. Lydia, annoyed, asked her if they had a problem, and Cora revealed that she had been sent there by her brother Derek to "kindly" ask her to stop seeing Aiden, though she added her own threat to this request-- "Which means that if I catch you with him again, I'm not going to pull the fire alarm... I'm going to pull your tongue out of your head." The two girls continued to bicker with each other over Lydia's relationship with Aiden until Stiles Stilinski finally broke them up upon seeing Cora roughly grab Lydia's wrist.

That night, Cora, Lydia, and Stiles had rushed to Derek's loft upon learning that Kali had attacked him there and that their original plan hadn't worked, only to find that Kali, with help from Ethan and Aiden, had forced Derek's claws into Vernon Boyd's chest until he died and Derek involuntarily stole his power. This caused Lydia to start to second-guess her relationship with Aiden.

In *The Girl Who Knew Too Much*, Aiden is seen making out with Lydia until she confronts him about killing Boyd.

In *Lunar Ellipse*,

In *More Bad Than Good*,

In *Galvanize*, after Aiden's comeback, he and Lydia make out in an office.

In *Illuminated*, Aiden sets up a Halloween Party for Danny, trying to prove to Lydia that he is not a "bad guy". When Aiden and Danny search for Ethan at the party, he sees Lydia lying on the ground by attacking by the Oni.

In *Riddled*, Aiden helps Lydia search for Stiles. He tells Derek of Stiles suspicions that he helped Barrow.

In *De-Void*,

In *Insatiable*, when Ethan and Aiden are trying to find Lydia, they are shot at with bullets laced with wolfbane and are both hit several times. They are saved by Derek.

In *The Divine Move*, when Aiden is killed by the Oni, Lydia felt his death and cried at Stiles Stilinski's shoulder. Gabriel Valack used his Illusion Casting powers to appear as Aiden when Lydia attempted to escape from Eichen House, where he informed Lydia that she couldn't leave yet because her treatment wasn't done. Valack continued to masquerade as Aiden until Lydia realized that he wasn't real, after which point he returned to his usual appearance in order to continue to question her about the events that occurred before she was admitted.

## Trivia

* Danny and Ethan, Scott and Stiles, Allison and Isaac, Allison and Lydia and Aiden and Lydia are the four main pairings in featured in Season 3A.
* After Lydia rejected Aiden for being a bad guy, Aiden tried to change his way of life before becoming an ally to the McCall Pack. His actions included helping Danny Mahealani set up his Halloween party, helping Derek Hale and Ethan protect Scott McCall and Kira Yukimura from the Oni, helping figure out what was going on with Stiles Stilinski, and helping fight the Nogitsune, the latter of which led to his death.
* When Aiden died, he remarked that Lydia never believed he was a good guy anyway, causing Derek Hale to promise to inform her that he was.
* Lydia lost her best friend Allison Argent and her boyfriend Aiden within one day of each other.
	+ Allison was fatally stabbed in the chest by an Oni's *ninjato* during the battle between the McCall Pack and the Nogitsune-controlled Oni at Camp Oak Creek in Season 3B's *Insatiable*.
	+ Aiden was fatally stabbed in the chest by an Oni during the fight between Derek Hale, Ethan and Aiden Steiner, Chris Argent, and Isaac Lahey against the Nogitsune-controlled Oni the following evening in Season 3B's *The Divine Move*.
* When escaping Eichen House in Season 5, Gabriel Valack used his Glamouring power to appear as Aiden Steiner, as he knew Aiden's visage would cause Lydia Martin (who was attempting to escape the facility and help her pack after awakening from catatonia) to hesitate long enough for him to get her back into the building.
* Lydia and Aiden's actors, Holland Roden and Max Carver, were in a romantic relationship in real life for several years until they split in 2016.

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