Stiles and Lydia

### Intimacy Levels

Kissed in Alpha Pact and Riders of the Storm, Packmates in the McCall Pack, Close Friends, They're both protective of one another, Both are willing to risk their lives and die for the other, They're in love with each other, They have a strong connection, Romantic partners as of the end of the series

### First Met

Childhood  (3rd grade) *Second Chance at First Line*  (first onscreen mutual interaction)

## Family Information

### Status

Dating; In Love, Boyfriend and Girlfriend, Packmates, Best Friends, Soulmates

**The relationship between Human Stiles Stilinski and Banshee Lydia Martin.**

The relationship between Stiles and Lydia was incredibly one-sided at first, as Stiles had developed a crush on Lydia as early as the third grade, but Lydia, who was in a long-term relationship with Jackson Whittemore, didn't notice or acknowledge Stiles' existence until they were sophomores in high school. However, after Peter Hale killed Laura Hale to become an Alpha and subsequently gave the Bite to Stiles' best friends Scott and Adella McCall, the supernatural world began to affect the lives of Stiles, Lydia, and the rest of their friends, which caused them to start spending more time with each other.

From there, Lydia and Stiles' relationship grew from mere acquaintances through mutual friends to Lydia begrudgingly tolerating Stiles. Things finally started to improve in February of 2011 during their sophomore year, when finally, after Lydia was convinced to attend the Winter Formal as Stiles' date by Lydia's best friend Allison Argent, she began to see Stiles as a nice guy who liked the *real* her when it became obvious that he was one of the few people who knew that Lydia was actually a literal genius with an IQ of 170. Stiles intervened when Peter attacked Lydia on the lacrosse field and offered himself up to save her life, and after she was hospitalized, he spent the entire weekend sleeping in the lobby to make sure she was okay.

The pair got somewhat closer throughout Season 2, though the fact that Stiles, along with Allison, Adella, and Scott, wanted to ensure Lydia's safety by keeping her in the dark about the supernatural (combined with the terrifying side-effects Lydia was experiencing on her own as a result of her newly-activated Banshee powers and Peter's spiritual possession of her mind), led Lydia to be ostracized from all of her friends for several months. Fortunately, once Lydia was finally informed of everything that was going on after it was revealed that Jackson, a newly-turned Kanima, had been resurrected by his powers, she and Stiles proved themselves to be an excellent team when they arrived just in time to prevent Jackson from killing everyone.

However, though Stiles and Lydia quickly became close friends after Lydia joined the McCall Pack, their relationship wasn't romantic, although Lydia did kiss Stiles in the middle of Season 3 in order to snap him out of a panic attack. Whether Lydia had genuine romantic feelings for Stiles remained unknown, and Stiles' crush on Lydia seemed to be put on hold while both of them hooked up with and dated other people throughout Season 3, Season 4, and Season 5; Stiles had brief flings with Heather and Caitlin before beginning a romantic relationship with Malia Tate, whereas Lydia had a romantic relationship with Aiden and a flirtatious friendship with Jordan Parrish.

In *Memory Lost*, Stiles finally admitted to Lydia that he loves her before he was taken by the Ghost Riders and erased from her memory. In *Superposition*, though Lydia doesn't know who is missing from her life, she informed Scott, Adella, and Malia that she thought she loved them, indicating that Stiles' earlier confession is reciprocated. In *Memory Found*, Lydia confessed that she does love him and that everything changed after she kissed him to stop his panic attack in Season 3's *Alpha Pact*.

Upon reuniting in *Riders on the Storm*, Lydia confessed that she didn't reply after Stiles told her, "Remember that I love you" right before he was captured by the Ghost Riders However, Stiles said she didn't need to say it and the two shared a passionate kiss. After the defeat of the Riders and Garrett Douglas, Stiles and Lydia seemingly began a real romantic relationship, with Stiles acknowledging that "everything's changed" when Scott remarked that everything felt like it always had. When Scott and Stiles were planning their post-high school lives, Stiles revealed that Lydia was planning on driving him to Washington D.C. to help him move into his dorm before she left for M.I.T. and left Scott his Jeep.

In the second half of Season 6B, Lydia and the rest of the pack avoided telling Stiles about the Anuk-ite and Monroe's army of Hunters, both because they knew he wanted them to head off to college and forget about Beacon Hills and because they knew that he was loving the internship with the FBI that he had gained and didn't want to give him a reason to leave it and return to danger after they had just risked everything to bring him back. As a result, Stiles was slightly put out when he came back to town with Derek Hale to find his home in the middle of an all-out war between humans and supernatural creatures, but he immediately jumped in to help the pack fight back against those attempting to harm innocent people. In the flashforwards to two years in the future, it appeared that Stiles and Lydia were still in a relationship.

Both Lydia and Stiles have proven their dedication to their strong relationship, by doing everything they can, including putting themselves in danger, in order to protect each other. For example, Lydia went to extreme lengths to learn how to use her powers to save Stiles from his possession by the Nogitsune, to the point where she even asked her attacker, Peter Hale, for assistance, while Stiles broke into the closed unit of Eichen House without reliable backup in order to save Lydia from being consumed by her powers after Gabriel Valack performed trephination on her. Lydia also showed herself willing to use her Banshee powers to save Stiles after he was attacked by a Ghost Rider, and, later on, a phantom version of his mother Claudia that was conjured by the Ghost Riders from Noah Stilinski's pain.

***They are referred to as "Stydia" by fans.***