Livia King

**Lydia Martin** is a main character. She is the adoptive daughter of Latasha Salvatore. She is also the best friend of Malia Tate. When first introduced, Livia could be as described as a shallow, vain, mean girl who played dumb to hide just how smart she truly was; however, after she became friends with Allison Argent, Scott McCall, and Stiles Stilinski, Livia began to shed this persona and has since grown into a brave, compassionate person who genuinely enjoys helping others who are struggling, particularly those who have been traumatized by the supernatural like herself.

## Early Life

Livia was born to two unknown humans in mid-november 1995, She was adopted by Latasha and an unknown man from birth and has attended school with Scott McCall and Stiles Stilinski, Marcus Hale for most of her life, judging by Ryker' comments that he has had a crush on her since the third grade *("Formality")*. At some point during her academic career, her IQ was tested, and she rated a genius-level score of 170. *("Unleashed")* When she was young, she is very close to her adoptive mother Latasha Salvatore, with whom she read many books. Her favorite was *The Little Mermaid* by Hans Christian Andersen, which she loved so much that she insisted she be called Ariel for several months as a child, a trait Latasha found adorable.

## Personality

At the beginning of the series, Livia put on an act of being the vain, shallow, ditzy mean-girl despite having an IQ higher than anyone at her high school, and she and her bestfriend Lydia martin and her then-boyfriend Jackson ruled as the most popular kids at school. However, upon meeting Allison and befriending Scott and Stiles, Livia's fake persona began to fade away, revealing the true Livia underneath—one who was kind, loyal, extremely intelligent (and unafraid to show it), and determined to help people however she can.

Her high-level intellect pushed Livia to read in-depth and complicated textbooks and journals on a variety of academic subjects, and she is especially gifted in the sciences and languages. With regards to mathematics, she once declared that she would be winning a Field's Medal, and she has attempted to get extra credit from her math teacher, Ms. Fleming, by turning in equations based on her own theoretical findings. She has taught herself to speak both Classical and Archaic Latin, a skill that she used to translate the Argent Family Bestiary, and she has been shown to speak Spanish and French at conversational levels. Most recently, she has demonstrated a high level of intelligence in physics, which she applied to explain the supernatural aspects of the Ghost Riders of the Wild Hunt.

## Physical Appearance

Livia is a beautiful, thin, and petite woman with very pale skin, brown eyes, and long strawberry-blonde hair. Her style leans toward the very feminine, and she is nearly always seen wearing dresses or pencil skirts with dressy blouses and high heels or booties.

## Powers and Abilities

Livia possesses all the standard powers and abilities of a Beta-level Werewolf. She also has the ability to, if she was so inclined, steal Marcus True Alpha powers by killing him, as she was turned into a Werewolf by his bite; the other persons who can take his powers is Pernille, Ryker, Camilla, Tascha.

* **Super Strength:** As an Beta Werewolf, Livia possesses superhuman levels of strength. She was seen using this strength to lift up the front end of Liam's decades-old truck with ease. *("Memory Lost")*
* **Super Speed:** As an Beta Werewolf, Livia can run much faster than even the most athletic human beings. She can also run on all fours (hands and feet) in both human and in Werewolf form. *("Heartless")*
* **Super Agility/Reflexes:** As an Beta Werewolf, Livia possess supernaturally enhanced agility and reflexes, she is able to leap so high that she could land on the roof of Eichen House's transformer building in a single bound with only a short running start. Since she was turned into a Werewolf this ability has been heightened.
* **Super Durability:** As an Beta Werewolf, Livia can still sustain open wounds like any other creature, but she is much more durable to blunt force trauma than the regular human.
* **Super Senses:** As an Beta Werewolf Livia, like her wolf counterparts, has extremely sensitive senses of sight, hearing, and smell. She was shown to have an especially keen sense of hearing.
* **Accelerated Healing:** As an Beta Werewolf Livia possess an extraordinarily enhanced healing factor that allows her to heal from most mild to moderate wounds within moments. Her healing ability has become more consistent and potent since becoming a Werewolf.
	+ **Longevity**: Because a Werewolf's rapid cellular healing prevents them from contracting any human illness or condition and replaces aging cells at a constant rate, Werewolves have a tremendously extended lifespan. It is unknown what the average life expectancy of a Werewolf is, but the oldest known Werewolf is Satomi Ito, an Alpha Werewolf who is over 110 years old and who maintains the physical appearance of a woman in her late 50s to early 60s. As a result, it can be assumed that Werewolves, and by extension, Livia herself, could potentially survive decades into her 100s so long as she is not injured or killed first.
* **Shapeshifting:** As an Beta Werewolf, Livia has the ability to shape her features into that of a partially lupine form, which involves glowing eyes, fangs, claws, a ridged brow, pointed ears and large sideburns.
* **Pain Absorption:** As an Beta Werewolf, Livia has the ability to absorb pain from animals, humans, and other creatures through tactile contact. This is usually done by touching the person who is in pain, or the injured body part and drawing the pain into themselves, which manifests as the Werewolf's veins darkening as their body processes it. She was able to use this power intuitively to absorb pain from Liam after he attempted to defeat the Beast of Gevaudan in battle. *("Maid of Gévaudan")*
* **Animal Instincts:** As an Beta Werewolf, Livia is an apex predator, and, as such, she can assert dominance over other animals such as dogs, cats and deer. She can use this ability to force them to be quiet or leave the area, or to stand down if they are acting aggressively. As a result, these animals can often be frightened by the presence of Werewolves.

## Weaknesses

While incredibly powerful, Werewolves possess a number of weaknesses which can be exploited by hunters, humans and other creatures.

* **Wolfsbane:** Wolfsbane, also known as aconite, is an extremely toxic herb for Werewolves, though different strains have different effects. Most forms of wolfsbane will kill a Werewolf if the infection it causes reaches their heart, though there are ways of expelling the herb from their bodies, such as ingesting ashes of the strain in question, literally burning the wolfsbane-infected wound, or surgically excising the vapor from their chests.
* **Electricity:** Werewolves are incredibly vulnerable to electricity, which, for unknown reasons, seems to interfere with the nature of their abilities. For this reason, Hunters have been known to use cattle-prod tasers to incapacitate wolves in order to capture them, and will hook them up to car batteries with electrical wires in order to torture them. Lower voltages will simply prevent a wolf from transforming or healing, while higher voltages can easily knock out or even kill a Werewolf.
* **Letharia Vulpina:** *Letharia Vulpina*, a species of lichen known as "wolf lichen," is a neon-green moss that has been used for centuries to poison wolves, foxes, and coyotes by mixing it in with their food. Though this lichen does not appear to be fatal to Werewolves, Werecoyotes, and Kitsune, it does seem to weaken them considerably for several days until it wears off.
* **Modified Canine Distemper Virus:** An assassin in the Deadpool named The Chemist invented a modified version of the canine distemper virus that can weaken and kill Werewolves. Those who are exposed to this virus will begin to sweat before slowly losing control over their transformations, either because they can't transform into a Werewolf or because they can't transform back from the Werewolf form into their human one. It then starts to cause them to begin bleeding black blood from their noses, ears, mouths, and nail-beds, and to develop darkened veins around their eyes, mouth, and temples. From there, the Werewolf is then stricken completely blind, after which point they will only have minutes to live. Fortunately, it has been discovered that ingesting wild purple reishi mushrooms are both a cure and a vaccine for this virus.
* **Full Moon:** Though being a Werewolf is considered a gift in the supernatural community due to the increased strength, speed, durability, and stamina, and healing abilities that it provides, it also comes with a price, which is that the Werewolf becomes extremely feral, bloodthirsty, and easy to anger on the full moon, when they are at the height of their power. For this reason, Werewolves must be trained to control themselves on full moons in order to prevent harm and exposure to bystanders and to avoid the wrath of the Werewolf Hunters who patrol wooded areas during the nights of the full moon for just such a loss of control.
* **Intense Emotions:** The transformation into a wolf can be easily triggered by intense emotions such as anger, fear, stress, or any other sensation that increases the heart rate, which, especially for newly bitten Werewolves, puts them at risk of losing control and can result in harm to innocent civilians, exposure to the human world, and can also put the Werewolf at risk of being killed by a Hunter as punishment for anything they did while transformed.
* **Loud Noises**: Because of a Werewolf's very heightened sense of hearing, they can be incapacitated by noises at extremely loud decibels, as well as sounds at ultrasonic and subsonic frequencies. Examples of the former cases would be a Banshee's scream *("The Girl Who Knew Too Much")* or microphone feedback *("A Credible Threat")*, and examples of the latter would be the ultra-sonic emitters used by the Argent Hunters to disorient and lure a Werewolf into a trap *("Chaos Rising")*, or the subsonic music used by the Deadpool assassins that made Liam, Malia, and Scott behave as though they were drunk. *("Perishable")*
* **Lunar Eclipse:** During the phase of a lunar eclipse where the moon is completely covered by the Earth's umbral shadow, Werewolves will be cut off from the source of their powers and will be subsequently reverted the state of a normal human for the duration. Though this phase typically only lasts ten to twenty minutes, it is still a very vulnerable period for Werewolves, which makes it an excellent opportunity for hunters and less-powerful supernatural creatures to attack, as a Werewolf will be unable to access their enhanced strength, shapeshifting, and healing abilities.
* **Mountain Ash**: Rowan wood, or the ashes that result from burning it (known as mountain ash), are effective barriers against the supernatural, including Werewolves. If a building is surrounded by rowan or mountain ash in an unbroken circle, a Werewolf will be unable to enter it, nor will they be able to leave it if they are in the building when the circle was created. For this reason, many Druids, Banshees, Chimeras, and other humans who are "in the know" and can safely handle mountain ash use it in order to protect themselves or to create traps for Werewolves and other supernatural creatures.

## Relationships

* Livia and Marcus Hale(Close friends, Packmates, Alpha/Beta bond)
* Livia and Ryker Dagon(Best friends, boyfriend/girlfriend, Packmates)
* Livia and Pernille Salvatore(close friends, adopted siblings, packmates)
* Livia and Camilla Raven(close friends, packmates)
* Livia and Tascha Hannesbo(close friends, packmates)