Kira, Malia and Lydia

**The relationship between Kitsune Kira Yukimura, Werecoyote Malia Tate and Banshee Lydia Martin.**

The trio friendship between Kira, Lydia, and Malia took some time to fully form. Kira and Lydia became friends first after Kira moved to Beacon Hills and joined the McCall Pack in early Season 3B. However, following Malia's release for Eichen House near the end of the season, she also joined the McCall Pack and became close friends with Kira and Lydia, with the two helping Malia reconnect with her humanity after living the last eight years of her life as a coyote among the flora and fauna in the Beacon Hills Preserve.

Though Lydia took some time to warm up to Malia, Kira and Malia became fast friends, and as a result, the three eventually became a close-knit trio of girlfriends by the end of Season 4. In Season 5, they were shown spending even more time together, as they attended Senior Scribe as a group with Scott and Stiles, and Kira and Lydia even gave Malia driving lessons. Though they briefly drifted apart during the end of Season 5A and the beginning of Season 5B, it was not due to issues with their friendships, it was merely due to the individual personal problems with which each of the girls was dealing causing them to self-isolate; Kira was losing control of her Kitsune spirit and accidentally killed a Chimera in a blackout, Malia was becoming more determined to kill her biological mother (the assassin known as the Desert Wolf) after learning that she was responsible for triggering the deaths of her adoptive mother and sister, and Lydia was busy exploring her connection to Jordan Parrish since their Banshee and Hellhound spirits seemed bonded in some way.

Fortunately, the girls were quickly reunited in mid-Season 5B, and have since become closer than ever, with Kira and Malia breaking into Eichen House in order to help the rest of the pack break Lydia out. However, Kira left Beacon Hills at the end of the season to return to Shiprock, New Mexico and continue learning control over her powers from the Skinwalkers, breaking up their trio somewhat, although the three remain close friends.

## Throughout *Teen Wolf*

* Season 3B
* Season 4
* Season 5A
* Season 5B

In *More Bad Than Good*, Scott and Stiles tried to help Stiles' father, Sheriff Stilinski, solve a cold case involving three members of the Tate Family—a mother, Evelyn, her adoptive daughter Malia, and her biological daughter Kylie, who seemingly got into a car accident eight years earlier and were then attacked and eaten by coyotes, with Malia's body never being found. This led to the revelation that Malia was a Werecoyote who had been in her fully-shifted coyote form for the last eight years and living in the Beacon Hills Preserve near where the car accident occurred.

After Scott and Stiles stumbled upon her coyote den in the woods, Stiles stole a baby doll he found at the crash site in hopes that Scott could eventually use the scent to track her, only for Malia to track the scent of it to them at the high school. Unfortunately, Stiles had a panic attack shortly before her arrival, causing Scott to rush him to the bathroom to try to calm him down and leaving the bookbag with the doll in Ken Yukimura's history classroom. As a result, Ken's daughter Kira Yukimura, a classmate of Scott and Stiles', took the bookbag to them in the locker room, where she was promptly attacked by coyote-Malia and rescued by Scott.

This led to Lydia joining Scott and Stiles (along with their fellow packmates Allison and Isaac) to work together to turn Malia back into her human form, both to prevent her from attacking others like she did Kira, and also to ensure that her adoptive father Henry Tate, who believed Malia to be the actual coyote who ate his wife and daughters, from hunting and killing her. They were ultimately successful in this feat, with Scott using his Alpha Roar to force her to turn back after eight years of living in her animal form.

In *The Divine Move*, Kira and Lydia were standing at their lockers at Beacon Hills High School, discussing the aftermath of the McCall Pack's battle with the Nogitsune, when it was revealed that Malia Tate, who had recently been returned to the human world after eight years living in the Beacon Hills Preserve in her full-coyote form, would be enrolling at the school for the next semester. Coach Finstock led Malia down the hallway to show her around the school, which led Kira and Lydia to smile at Malia, who smiled back at them, as they headed down the adjacent hall.

In *The Dark Moon*,

In *Muted*,

In *The Benefactor*,

In *I.E.D.*,

In *Weaponized*,

In *A Promise to the Dead*,

In *Smoke and Mirrors*,

In *Creatures of the Night*,

In *Parasomnia*,

In *Dreamcatchers*,

In *A Novel Approach*,

In *Required Reading*,

In *Strange Frequencies*,

In *The Sword and the Spirit*,

In *Amplification*,

In *Lie Ability*,

In *A Credible Threat*,

In *The Beast of Beacon Hills*,

In *Apotheosis*,
## Trivia

* They were the only girls in the McCall Pack until Hayden Romero joined the pack following being bitten by Scott McCall.
	+ As a result of this status, Liam Dunbar often simply refers to the three as "the girls."
* All three girls in the trio are of a different supernatural species.
	+ Kira is a Thunder Kitsune, Lydia is a Banshee, and Malia is a Werecoyote.
* Kira, Lydia, and Malia each have close friendships individually and together, such as Kira and Malia, Kira and Lydia, and Lydia and Malia.
* Their trio has been somewhat downsized since Kira has left Beacon Hills to return to Shiprock, but it is presumed that the three continued to try to keep in touch while she's gone.
* All three girls have locked lips with Scott McCall at least once throughout the series.
* The first letter in their respective names follow each other through the alphabet (K, L, M = Kira, Lydia, Malia).
* Each girl fits one of the three most natural common hair color as Lydia is the redhead, Kira the brunette, and Malia the blonde.