Faith Labonair

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## Faith Labonair

* Season 3
* Season 6
* Psychopomp

## Biographical Information

### Turned

* By Ennis  (As a Rejected Werewolf, in 2004)

### Species

* Untriggered Werewolf  (Originally)
* Rejected Werewolf  (Rejected the bite)
* Spirit in Limbo (Currently)
* Psychopomp (Currently)

## Family Information

### Family Members

* Inadu's Mother †  (Distant Maternal Ancestor)
* The Hollow †  (Distant Maternal Ancestor)
* Mr. Labonair  †  (Biological Father)
* Mrs. Labonair  †  (Biological Mother)
* Unnamed Adoptive Parents
* Jackson Kenner  †  (Brother-In-Law)
* Hayley Marshall-Kenner  †  (Older Paternal Sister)
* Derek Hale  (Former Boyfriend)
* Hope Mikaelson  (Paternal Niece)
* EJ Mikaelson  (Paternal Great-Nephew)
* Andrea Mikaelson  (Paternal Great-Niece)
* Blade Mikaelson  (Paternal Great-Nephew)
* Artemis Mikaelson  (Paternal Great-Niece)

## Supernatural Information

### Significant Kills

* Herself  (Indirectly; as a willing sacrifice)

### Cause Of Death

* Broken spine after rejecting an Alpha Werewolf's bite

## Physical Appearance

### Height

* 5'3"  (Feet)
* 1.60  (Meters)

## Appearance

### Played By

* Danielle Rose Russell

**Faith Labonair** is a minor character who appeared in Season 3 and Season 6 of *Teen Wolf*. Though she only appeared a few times her life and death has had a significant part in the history of Beacon Hills. She was a sophomore at Beacon Hills High School in the early 2000s when she first met Derek Hale, who was then fifteen and a star player on the basketball team. Though he was a popular jock and she was a quiet, shy artist who enjoyed painting and drawing, the two eventually fell in love with each other and developed a romantic relationship.

After being given the Bite without her consent by Ennis, an Alpha Werewolf, Faith began to reject the transformation and was brought into the root cellar of the Nemeton, where she begged Derek to kill her and end her suffering. Derek was devastated, but complied with her wish, unknowingly performing a virgin sacrifice that gave the mystical tree a spark of power that it had not had in years. It can be said that Faith's death was one of the catalysts for the events of Season 3A, as it was the power of her sacrifice that allowed Jennifer Blake to enact her plan to kill the Alpha Pack. Eventually her soul would merge with Hope Mikaelson's.

## Early Life

Almost nothing is known about Faith's early life accept that she is the younger sister of Hayley Marshall-Kenner and the aunt to the all powerful tribrid, Hope Mikaelson. She did mention that she had seen several things that no one could explain to her, indicating that she had been exposed to the supernatural even before meeting and beginning a relationship with Derek Hale.

## History

Faith made her first and only physical appearance in the flashbacks in Season 3A's *Visionary*, which were told from Peter Hale's perspective in order to explain to Cora Hale, Hope Mikaelson, and Stiles Stilinski how Derek Hale's eyes turned blue when he was still a Beta. In the episode, she was seen practicing her art in Beacon Hills High School's art room. However, she was quickly interrupted and distracted by the sound of rowdy boys playing with a basketball in the hallway outside the room. When she went out to request that they leave, she ran into the then fifteen-year-old Derek with his friends and told them that, last time she checked, basketball was played in the gym. Derek smirked and told her that they could play basketball wherever they had a basketball. She calls him out before heading back into the art room.

Feeling bad about how he treated her, Derek approached her in the art room and apologized before asking for her name. Faith retorted that she would only tell him her name if he could draw part of the human body. Derek smirks at starts drawing, to which he drew a very horrible eye. She gives him a small smile before Faith reluctantly told him her name, but when Derek tried to introduce himself, she cut him off and stated that she already knew his name. Despite their rocky first meeting, the two eventually fell in love and began a romantic relationship, with Derek visiting her daily in the art room. One day, he asked her if he was distracting her, but Faith claimed to have laser-like focus, a claim that was eventually proven untrue when he began kissing her neck. Though Faith jokingly said that she hated him, Derek insisted that she loved him, which she didn't deny.

They would also meet at the Abandoned Distillery outside of town to make out and be alone, where, one night, Faith admitted that she was afraid that the only reason Derek liked her was because she didn't initially like him. Derek assured her that this wasn't the case. He even asked why she picked him. Before Faith could respond, he caught a faint scent of blood nearby before hearing footsteps approaching them and insisted that they needed to leave, even despite Faith's protests that she didn't hear anything. What Derek was sensing was the torture and death of one of the Beta werewolves in Ennis's pack the previous night, and the summit of four different werewolf packs—Ennis', Kali's, Deucalion's, and Derek's own pack, which was led by his mother Talia, assisted by his older sister Laura.

At school the next day, Derek was visited by a younger-version of his uncle Peter, who commented on how perfect Derek and Faith were for each other before suggesting that their relationship would end badly whenever Faith learned that Derek was a werewolf. Though Derek insisted that this wouldn't happen, Peter argued that it *always* happened before hinting that there was a way to prevent this—by turning Faith into a werewolf. Over the next few days, Peter continued to make his case, reminding Derek that there were more Alphas currently in Beacon Hills than there had ever been before and that Talia wouldn't be willing to do it herself. He insisted that giving Faith the Bite would ensure that she would stay young and beautiful and would also allow her to protect herself.

Derek eventually was convinced by Peter to go through with this plan, and allowed his uncle to enlist Ennis, who had recently lost a Beta and who needed to fill the hole in his ranks, to give her the Bite before luring Faith to the school with a note. However, upon hearing Faith's terrified screams for help, he lost his nerve and attempted to fight Ennis, despite only being a teenage Beta against a humongous and powerful Alpha. Derek's actions proved to be fruitless, because Ennis had already bitten Faith when Derek intervened, and she was desperately trying to crawl away.

Derek, at a loss for what to do, brought Faith to the root cellar of the Nemeton where he had hidden several days earlier after being confronted by Hunters in the Beacon Hills Preserve. When Peter arrived shortly afterward, he pointed out the fact that Faith was expelling black fluid from her mouth and nose and asked him what was happening to her. It was eventually revealed that she was rejecting the Bite, and Derek, not knowing what else to do for her, stayed with her and periodically took her pain to try to help her. It was then that she revealed that she always knew that Derek was different due to his strange mannerisms and the multiple instances of witnessing supernatural events in town. Derek was shocked that Faith knew all this and liked him anyway, but Faith insisted that she loved him and told him why she picked him and why she fell in love with him. Derek tried to take her pain again, but it ultimately flowed back into her of its own accord. Faith, realizing that she was dying, begged Derek to end her life, and though it was obvious that Derek didn't want to go through with it, he snapped her spine on the roots of the Nemeton to end her suffering, not realizing the significance of this act. Because Derek took an innocent human life (despite it being for a good reason), his golden glowing Beta eyes turned bright blue.

In *The Overlooked*, Jennifer Blake informed Derek that the reason why she survived Kali's attack when the Alpha killed her pack to join Deucalion's Alpha Pack was because of the spark of power the Nemeton gained when Derek unknowingly sacrificed Faith, a virgin, on the roots of the tree stump. This power allowed her to stay alive long enough to be found by the police and ultimately allowed her to return to Beacon Hills to finally end the Alpha Pack for good, making Faith's death one of the catalysts that allowed their final battle to happen.

The Anuk-ite took Faith's appearance when attempting to kill Derek Hale in the hallway of the high school. When Derek heard her voice and footsteps approaching him, he immediately extended his fangs and claws and squeezed his eyes shut, knowing that making eye contact with the Anuk-ite would result in him being petrified into stone.

The Anuk-ite tried to bait Derek into opening his eyes, using Faith's voice, appearance, and mannerisms to try to trick him into thinking she was real. "Faith" asked, "Don't you wanna look at me?" before then wondering he was going to let "him" hurt her again (in this case Ennis biting her to turn her into a werewolf) and if he was going to leave her for dead. When "Faith" asked him if he was willing to love her again, Derek growled that she wasn't real.

"Faith" went on to ask him if he thought she sounded real, followed by once again asking, "Can't you look at me?" When he senses how close "she" is to him, he stumbled backward in an attempt to avoid her as "she" begged him to open his eyes and look at her. When she added, "Please?", Derek became angry and tried to blindly take a swing at her, only for "Faith" to use her superhuman agility to catch his wrist before he can make contact with her. "She" asked, "Don't you want to look at me one more time? Don't you want to remember me?" and held his arm until his claws finally retracted, allowing her to more easily put his palm against her heart and slowly tug it down her abdomen.

"Faith" then asked if he wanted to remember them together, and when she saw that he had stopped fighting against her hold, her voice took a demonic-sounding tone (much like when the half of the Anuk-ite had taken the form of the Beta Werewolf Quinn) as she demanded him to open his eyes, and as soon as Derek's eyes opened from fright, he made eye contact with the Anuk-ite, who had taken his true form and petrified him into stone, though Derek was eventually returned to his normal state after Scott and Stiles defeated the Anuk-ite with Mountain Ash.

## Personality

Faith was shown to be a sweet and loyal young girl, though she had no difficulty standing up for herself against others who were giving her trouble. She was very much in love with her boyfriend at the time, Derek Hale, and was aware of the supernatural goings-on in her town, though she kept this knowledge to herself. She also seemed to love art, and devoted herself to painting every day. She was also shown to be an introverted, kind teenager who had a few friends and usually sat at lunch with her friends or alone so she could study, read a book or even draw.

## Physical Appearance

Faith stands at 5'2" tall and dressed in the casual clothing typical of the early 2000s, with baggy jeans and sweaters. She was in the 10th grade in the year of 2003 . She was shown to wear crop tops, tie knot shirts and combat boots. As a Labonair, Faith has a Crescent birthmark on her right shoulder, similar to that of her mother and distant relatives, Eve, Lana, and the Hollow.

## Name

* **Faith:** from the English word, Faith means complete trust or devotion.
* **Labonair:** may be derived from Bonaire. This interesting name has a number of possible origins, each with its own distinct derivation. Firstly, the surname may be of Old French origin, derived from the Old French term "bonnaire", from the phrase "de bon(ne) aire", meaning "of good bearing or appearance", and adopted into Middle English as "boner(e), bonour", gentle, courteous, handsome, thence used as a nickname for someone thought to embody these qualities. The surname from this source is found particularly in England and Scotland; one Thomas Boner was the first of the name to be recorded in Scotland as a charter witness in Aberdeen in 1281. Secondly, Bonner may be an Irish (County Donegal) translation of the Gaelic "O'Cnaimhsighe", descendant of Cnaimhseach, a byname meaning "Midwife". Finally, the surname may be of Welsh origin, as an Anglicized form of the patronymic "ab Ynyr", son of Ynyr, a personal name derived from the Latin "Honorius", Honoured.