Lydia Martin

* Claudia Stilinski (With Noah Stilinski; In defense of Stiles Stilinski) (1st Time)
* Conrad Fenris (Presumably; In Defense Of Jordan Parrish)
* Halwyn (indirectly) (2nd Time)

## Appearances

### Seasons

1-6 + The Movie

Lydia Martin is the tritagonist of *Teen Wolf: Storms and Lost Memories*. She is a Banshee, the best friend of Scott McCall, Malia Tate and Allison Argent, the ex-girlfriend of Jackson Whittemore and the fiancee of Stiles Stilinski. Initially shallow and mean, Lydia showed her true colors by being a girl who cares about her friends and helps protect the town from supernatural threats.

However, Lydia was not aware of her true identity as a Banshee until Jennifer Blake identified her as one when attempting to kill her.

Lydia Martin is a member of the **McCall Pack**, a former student at **Beacon Hills High School** and a junior at the **Massachusetts Institute of Technology**. She is also a member of the **Martin Family**, and will be a member of the **Stilinski Family**, the daughter of Natalie and Mr. Martin, the granddaughter of the late Lorraine Martin and the niece of an unnamed woman.

## Powers and Abilities

As a Banshee, Lydia has a wide range of supernatural powers that can be used for various effects. Due to the trephination performed on her by Valack, she had gained new powers in addition to having some of her preexisting powers amplified, but this has since been reversed by Alan Deaton by filling the hole in her head with mistletoe. However, as the series progressed, Lydia's powers grew stronger and stronger, as did her level of control over them, making her a formidable opponent by the final season. Lydia also has many human abilities and skills that benefit her life in the supernatural world, as well as her pack as a whole.

### Powers

* **Harbinger of Death Sense:** As a Banshee, Lydia can feel when someone has died and can predict when someone is close to death. This is usually accompanied by a trance-like state that draws her to those who are dead or near death, though, with practice, she has gotten better at being aware of what she's doing when this happens.
* **Clairaudience** The ears of a Banshee are naturally tuned to levels of the universe that only they can hear. This gives them the ability to discern details of a person's death (or impending death) through the sounds they can perceive which no one else can.
* **Premonitions**: As a Banshee and Harbinger of Death, Lydia has the power to experience premonitions that allow her to sense a person's death, which usually allows her to discern how a person dies, where they die, and/or what will cause the death in the first place. This power is most often used as an extension of her power of clairaudience
	+ **Astral Premonitions**: Lydia's power of premonitions has recently advanced so much that she was able to astral project herself into a premonition involving a fellow Banshee's memory by touching a mirror.
* **Divination:** As a Banshee, whose powers are often referred to as and/or compared to psychics, Lydia can use divination to gain information about the deaths her Banshee instincts are sensing.
	+ **Sound Divination**: Lydia, using her power of clairaudience, can divine information by using sound vibrations to trigger her ability to perceive supernatural energies. She frequently uses this ability, such as when she plucked on strings to determine that Stiles was dreaming about Eichen House
	+ **Psychometry**: Lydia can discern information about a person's death by making physical contact with an object belonging to the person in question.
	+ **Automatic Writing**: Lydia can enter a trance-like state to gain information through writing or typing. She discovered this ability when she drew the Nemeton while zoned out in class. She later used automatic writing to uncover missing memories of Stiles Stilinksi and restorie it to hers, Malia, and Scott's memories (Superposition)
* **Harbinger Connection:** As a Banshee, Lydia has a somewhat psychic connection to other Banshees, which she can use to telepathically communicate with them, even if they are miles away from her.
* **Banshee Scream:** As a Banshee, Lydia has a powerful voice that can be used to produce various effects based on what is needed at the time. This wail can be used consciously or unconsciously.
	+ **Death Announcement**: Lydia's wail is most often used as a warning of someone's impending death, or as a signal that someone has just died; it is most often used by Lydia after she has found a dead body while in a fugue state. This type of wail was used when she was unconsciously drawn to Derek's loft when it was believed that he was going to die. *("A Promise to the Dead")*
	+ **Premonition Enhancement**: Lydia's scream can also be used to clear ambient noises from her auditory channels so that she can focus her attention on the specific sounds that she needs to hear as part of an auditory premonition. For example, Lydia once used this power when she was unable to truly interpret the sound of electricity that she was picking up with her clairaudience power; after she screamed, she was able to clear out all of the other unnecessary sounds so that she could realize that it was electricity she was hearing and not buzzing flies. *("Galvanize")*
	+ **Concussive Force**: Lydia's wail can be used actively or offensively as well; when a Banshee wail is given focus and direction, it can shatter bulletproof glass, overload electronics, burst eardrums, and create concussive blasts that can throw a full-grown man across a room. Lydia used this ability during her first attempt to break out of Eichen House when she used her screams to augment her already-formidable close-quarters combat skills. She can also channel her scream through her hands, using them to guide the force of her voice toward her target, which gives her greater control over where the power is focused. While her abilities were amplified by trephination, Lydia's scream was powerful enough to shatter Gabriel Valack's skull and instantly kill him, though it is unknown if she retains her scream at this powerful of a level now that the effects of the trephination have been reversed. *("Amplification")*
* **Supernatural Immunity**: Lydia, a Banshee, is immune to many supernatural phenomena. She is not affected by an Alpha Werewolf's bite or Kanima venom. Lydia can handle rowan wood and mountain ash and is unaffected by their barriers. She is immune to Lenore's Banshee aura, which causes hallucinations.
* **Supernatural Sensitivity**: Lydia has been described as someone who can sense and seek out the supernatural by Marin Morrell, and has demonstrated a highly-enhanced intuition regarding the supernatural ever since her Banshee powers were activated in early 2011. Though she seems unable to identify any supernatural creature in her presence like her friend and fellow Banshee, Meredith Walker (whose power was so great that she was able to identify every supernatural creature in Beacon Hills and put them on the Deadpool hit list), she is still very sensitive to supernatural energy

### Abilities

* **Genius-Level Intelligence:** Lydia has an IQ of 170, which is well above genius level. Between how quickly she can learn new skills and her craving for knowledge, Lydia possesses deep knowledge of mathematics, chemistry, physics, medicine, psychology, history, mythology, and foreign languages, which has helped the pack on numerous occasions. For this reason, she is often paired with Stiles to investigate various supernatural crime because of her academic knowledge and Stiles’ advanced detective work.
* **Multilingualism**: Lydia has shown she is fluent in Latin (both Archaic and Classical), Spanish, and French in at least a conversational capacity.
* **Expert Martial Artist:** Lydia was trained by Jordan Parrish, a former Army EOD technician, to fight in close-quarters combat, his movements are based on martial arts like Krav Maga, Karate, Jujutsu and kickboxing. Meredith insistently noted that Lydia learned much more than normal people would in much less time. In flash-forwards in Season 5, Lydia was shown using this ability to fight her way out of Eichen House.
* **Skilled Artist**: Lydia is known for her artistically talented skills. She was able to draw the Nemeton (while using her automatic writing ability). She even drew a detailed sketch of Aiden Steiner.

## Weaknesses

* **Mortality:** Despite being a Banshee, Lydia is still technically human and has no supernatural healing ability. For that reason, she is vulnerable to any physical illness or injury as any other mundane person would be, including fatal ones.
* **Loud Noises:** As a Banshee with a very heightened sense of hearing, Lydia is susceptible to very lurid sounds. For example, Meredith's banshee scream as soon as triggered caused Lydia's ear-bleeding because of the loud pitch.
* **Psychological Turmoil:** Being a Banshee is often Psychologically traumatizing because Lydia is surrounded by death. This can have understandably negative effects on Lydia's well-being.
* **Effects of Trephination**: (formerly) Trephination on Banshees causes them to be overwhelmed by the screams and sensations of every person dying in the world. This amplifies their powers, which eventually becomes too difficult for the Banshee to control, leading to their own death. Lydia underwent the same consequences but it was eventually reversed by Deaton using a mistletoe paste to plug up the trephination hole.

## Relationships

* Allison and Lydia (Best Friends, Sisterly Bond, Former Packmates)
* Scott and Lydia (Best Friends, Packmates)
* Aiden and Lydia (Ex-Fling, Friends, Allies)
* Jackson and Lydia (Exes, Good Friends)
* Lydia and Malia (Best Friends, Sisterly bond, Packmates)
* Kira and Lydia (Best Friends, Former Packmates)
* Jordan and Lydia (Close Friends, Supernaturally Connected)
* Liam and Lydia (Good Friends, Packmates)
* Lydia and Mason (Friends, Packmates)
* Lydia and Theo (Enemies)
* Derek and Lydia (Former Frenemies, Allies)
* Lydia and Tracy (Former Friends, Frenemies)
* Lydia and Natalie (Mother/Daughter)
* Deaton and Lydia (Allies, Packmates)
* Lydia and Noah (Allies/Friends)
* Chris and Lydia (Allies/Friends)
* Lydia and Melissa (Allies)
* Lydia and Meredith (Fellow Banshee, Friends, Allies)
* Lydia and Sydney (Friends)
* Cora and Lydia (Allies, Friends)
* Danny and Lydia (Friends)
* Lydia and Peter (Former Enemies, Allies)
* Lydia, Scott and Stiles (Best Friends, Packmates)
* Kira, Malia and Lydia (Best Friends/Packmates, *"Kira - Ex-Packmate"*)
* Scott, Malia and Lydia (Best Friends, Packmates)
* Lydia and Gerard (enemies)
* Lydia and Monroe (enemies)

1. ↑ Lydia is said to be turning eighteen and Scott is sixteen