Cora Hale

> "I am going to pull your tongue out of your head."
>
> - **Cora Hale**

* Human
* Beta Shift
* Evolved Wolf Shift

**Cora Hale** is the daughter of Alpha Werewolf Talia Hale and an unnamed father, the younger sister of Laura Hale and Derek Hale, the niece of Peter Hale, the cousin of Malia Hale, and the aunt of Eli Hale. Cora was believed to be dead by everyone in Beacon Hills, despite having survived the Hale House Fire and was ultimately captured by the Alpha Pack in the late spring to early summer of 2011 after she journeyed back to her hometown to learn more about the rumors she heard about a new Hale Alpha starting a pack.

After being held in captivity for nearly four months along with Vernon Boyd and Erica Reyes (the latter of whom was eventually bitten and turned by Conri Tlanta before Cora and Boyd were saved), she was finally rescued, albeit with many complications. Once Cora had settled down from feral rage caused by the full moon on the night she was freed from captivity, Cora explained that she had run away after the Hale House Fire, believing that her entire family had perished. Despite only being eleven years old at the time, Cora continued to travel south and eventually ended up somewhere in South America, where she settled down with a pack there until six years later, when she heard rumors that a powerful new Hale Alpha was building a pack in Beacon Hills. Cora was initially upset to learn that she had spent the majority of her life alone and believing she was an orphan while her brother and sister were alive and in contact with each other, but she ultimately dealt with this shock and decided to stay and join her brother's pack to help him fight against Deucalion and his Alpha Pack.

Once the Alpha Pack and the Darach had been defeated, Cora elected to return to South America, which led both Derek and Peter to accompany her there before eventually making their way back home, which was around the same time Conri and Derek slept together for the first time, and conceived Cora's nephew, Eli Hale. Cora rejoined the Hale Pack in 2013, after the war between werewolves and hunters, and became a personal trainer when she moved to Queens.

Cora is a member of the **Hale Family** and a former member of the **Hale Pack**.

## Early Life

Cora was born the youngest child to Alpha Werewolf Talia Hale and her unnamed partner at some point in the mid-1990s. When she was eleven years old, her house was burned down by Argent Hunter Kate Argent and her team of co-conspirators, killing somewhere between eight and eleven members of her family (excluding Laura and Derek, who were at school), many of whom were human. This fire left Cora and her uncle Peter (whose 2nd and 3rd degree burns were so severe they left him in a coma for six years) as the only ones who managed to actually escape the burning Hale House with their lives. After believing her family to be dead, she fled south through Mexico and Central America into South America, where she eventually found and joined a Werewolf pack there.

At some point in early 2011, Cora heard rumors of a powerful new Hale Alpha who was building a pack in Beacon Hills, news that severely shocked her, as she was under the impression that she was the only surviving member of her family. However, when she finally made it back to California to investigate this rumor, she was captured by the Alpha Pack, who used her, Vernon Boyd, and Erica Reyes as leverage to get Derek Hale, the new Hale Alpha Cora had heard about, to join their pack as well; unfortunately, in order to be accepted into the Alpha Pack, Derek would have to kill Cora and the rest of his Betas just as Deucalion, Kali, and Ennis did. During their captivity together in the vault of the abandoned First National Bank, Erica grew tired from being a hostage and attacked Kali, in hopes of breaking herself, Boyd, and Cora out of there, but Erica was ultimately overpowered, and before she could be killed, Conri Tlanta grabbed her, and unbeknownst to Cora, he bit and turned her.

## History

After Cora got wind of the Hale Pack being rebuilt, she traveled to Beacon Hills, where she was captured by the Alpha Pack, and thrown into a bank vault with Boyd and Erica Reyes. After Derek's beta, Isaac Lahey escaped from the alphas, Derek retrieved his memories of his captivity, leading Derek and Scott McCall, to formulate a plan with Stiles and Peter Hale's assistance to rescue Boyd, and Erica, as well as Cora, despite not knowing it was her at the time of their plan being made. When Derek and Scott broke into the bank vault, Cora was on edge, due to the fact that the walls were made with hecolite, (also known as moonstone,) which blocks and absorbs moonlight and which had prevented Cora and Boyd from feeling the effects of the full moon for the last three months. As a result, the fact that they were finally feeling the moonlight after being deprived of it so long resulted in Cora and Boyd becoming even more feral and bloodthirsty than most Werewolves, even untrained ones, typically are on a full moon.

It was then that Cora and Boyd revealed themselves to the two, and Derek was nearly stunned speechless when he saw his now-grown-up sister. Cora yelled at him to get out, fearing that she would hurt him, but before they could even consider leaving, Marin Morrell appeared and used Mountain Ash to trap all four Werewolves inside the vault on Deucalion's orders. This seemed to be the final straw for Cora and Boyd, who were unable to resist their urges any longer and who finally succumbed to the effects of the full moon, brutally attacking both Derek and Scott. Though Scott and Derek had more control over their lycanthropy, they were at a disadvantage to Cora and Boyd due to the fact that they weren't resisting any of their instincts. Fortunately for the former two, Allison Argent had sneaked into the bank prior to their arrival and tried to help them by informing them of when Boyd or Cora tried to attack them when they weren't expecting it. Cora and Boyd attacked, and Conri Tlanta opened up the vault, breaking the mountain ash barrier and letting Cora and Boyd loose on Derek and Scott.

After consulting with and gaining assistance from Chris Argent on how to capture Werewolves without hurting or killing them, Argent, Derek, Isaac and Scott formulated a plan to lure Cora and Boyd to Beacon Hills High School in hopes of locking them in the boiler room for the remainder of the full moon; fortunately for them, Allison Argent was secretly helping them behind the scenes to make up for the fact that she had to let Boyd and Cora loose from the bank. When the two feral Werewolves arrived at the school, they seemed to sense that they were going to be ambushed inside and instead jumped over the school, only for Allison and Isaac to steer them back inside and lock the doors from the outside so they couldn't escape. Cora and Boyd clawed at Derek viciously until the sun came up, after which point they were so exhausted that they immediately passed out. Cora was eventually carried back to Derek's loft by Scott while Isaac helped Boyd do the same.

Cora, looking anxious and preoccupied, was working out in the loft while Derek watched with a judging expression. She first did a series of pull-ups on a pipe in the ceiling before dropping to the floor, where Derek suggested that she stop, citing the fact that she was still healing from the trauma of being held captive and running wild on the full moon. Cora irritably retorted that she was done laying around and began doing push-ups, and when Derek's condescending response-- "Then *sit*"—did nothing to stop her, he used his foot to knock Cora off-balance and she fell onto the floor. Angry, Cora demanded to know if Derek was going to help her go after the Alphas, but before he could speak, she began to punch and kick him, forcing him to spar with her despite his reluctance to do so. Unfortunately for her, Derek did not engage, aside from easily blocking her blows and disarming her, which caused her to furiously yell, "Fight back!" When Derek refused to do so, Cora scoffed and harshly stated that she couldn't believe she spent almost four months locked in a vault just for him, adding that she had waited half her life to hear the news of a new Hale Alpha forming a pack. Derek, visibly hurt by her words, tensely replied that he was sorry for disappointing her, but before he could say anything more, the loft's alarm system began to blare loudly.

Cora looked at Derek in confusion and asked him what was going on, and Derek, alarmed, warned her that they had company. Just then, Kali and Ennis entered the loft, and as soon as Cora saw the two Alphas, she wasted no time partially-transforming with her fangs and claws so she could rush toward Ennis. Unfortunately, Ennis was much stronger and easily slammed her onto the concrete floor and held her in a choke-hold while Kali fought Derek for several long minutes, during which time she ultimately stabbed him in the chest with a pipe she pulled from the ceiling. Cora, seeing Derek's condition, shouted at Kali to stop before she killed him; though Kali did stop twisting the pipe, she kept it in his chest, forcing Cora to watch as Deucalion joined the other Alphas in making their pitch to get Derek to join the Alpha Pack, though Derek managed to convince them to let Cora go so she was no longer being choked, a request Deucalion honored as a sign of good faith. Cora then listened as Deucalion told the story of the Alpha Pack and made his pitch to Derek—kill his Betas, become an Augmented Alpha, and join their ranks, while Conri Tlanta, who had stopped Ennis from killing Cora just looked bored and annoyed. After saying what they intended to say, the Alphas left Derek and Cora to think about their offer, allowing Cora to rush over to her brother and help him remove the pipe impaling his chest.

Later, Cora and Peter went to the Beacon Hills Animal Clinic; while they were standing outside, Cora stated that she had no idea why they were there. Peter explained that the clinic wasn't just a clinic, and admitted that since half of the building was made of Mountain Ash, he wasn't actually sure how to get in. Cora scoffed and rolled her eyes as she retorted that they could be like normal people and walk in the door. Just then, they're both startled by a booming Alpha Roar coming from Kali, who had walked outside of the clinic after learning that Ennis had died, not knowing that it was Deucalion who killed him and not his injuries from the battle. The alarm in Derek's loft once again began to sound off early in the morning while Cora was off in another room and Derek was dozing on the couch while reading a book. Cora rushed into the main room to ask him what the alarm meant, but both she and Derek saw the Alpha Pack's symbol spray-painted on his wall of windows, answering the question for them, though Derek grimly explained that it meant the Alphas were coming for him tonight.

When in the loft a few days later, Cora asked what Stiles thought he could do about any of the sacrifices that had been happening, leading Stiles to admit that he believed it was Derek's duty to help out given the fact that he was the one that everyone else was after. Cora, seeing his point, admitted that the Derek of today was much different than the one she knew as a child, and when Stiles curiously asked how, Peter dramatically walked down the stairs and stated that Derek was actually a lot like Scott McCall (and most teenagers)-- unbearably romantic, profoundly narcissistic, tolerable only to other teenagers. Stiles, not knowing much about Derek to begin with, asked what changed, and Peter smirked and stated that he fell in love with a girl. Stiles was skeptical that Derek's personality change was solely due to teenage heartbreak, so Peter reminded him that, when Derek was a Beta, his Werewolf eyes were blue, before asking him if he knew *why* Werewolves could have different colored eyes. Stiles, assuming it was genetic or something, simply shrugged, and Peter revealed that knowing what changed the color of Derek's eyes was crucial to understanding what changed Derek as a person.

Before they could argue further, a Werewolf drew the spiral (the symbol for revenge in Werewolf community) with his claws on the window of the door that leads to the boys' locker room, leading Aiden to believe Derek is there. Ignoring Lydia's warnings and the threat that she would scream to get the attention of others, Aiden came out to the locker room, demanding Derek to come out and show his face, only for the Werewolf to be revealed to be Cora, who attacked him from behind and slashed him across the chest with her claws several times. Recovering quickly, Aiden grabbed Cora in a choke-hold and shoved her to the ground, where she hits the wall with her head. Not paying attention to Lydia's pleas to stop, Aiden grabbed a weight and striked Cora in the temple with it, sending her flying toward Lydia but he was stopped in the nick of time by Conri, who threw him into the wall, and Ethan, the latter of whom reminded his twin of the ultimatum Kali gave Derek several days earlier and none of them would harm Derek or anyone important to him until then. The twins left the locker room and before anyone could see her, Conri healed her and left.

After becoming ill from something unknown, (which turned out to be mistletoe poisoning) Cora was transported to Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital, and Derek remained sit beside her bed until she awoke, much to his relief. When Cora questioned her brother over what was happening to her, Derek replied that he was not sure and promise that he would not leave her before kissing softly her forehead as she rested. Some minutes later, Derek heard Lydia's scream when she was about to be killed by Jennifer Blake, who had just been revealed to be the Darach.

In her hospital room, her uncle, Peter Hale, was doting on her in her room by patting a wet cloth across her face, stopped what he was doing to shout, "Hey! Anyone want to tell me when they're getting my niece out of here?" Just then, Melissa walked into the room to apologize for the delay, only to be stopped in her tracks when she realized it was the man she went on a date with the previous winter, who she knew had both bitten and turned her son Scott McCall and who was killed by his nephew Derek Hale shortly afterward. When she pointed out that he was supposed to be dead, he sheepishly admitted that he got that reaction a lot. Suddenly, before the two could talk further, Cora awoke and projectile vomited onto the floor by their feet; all three of them were alarmed to see that not only had she thrown up black blood, but that it also had Mistletoe berries in it, suggesting that the Darach was involved.

At Derek's loft, Jennifer Blake's identity as the Darach was revealed to Derek Hale, Scott McCall, and Stiles Stilinski, when Conri Tlanta stole the mistletoe Scott was going to use on her and used a wind spell to reveal her true face, and when Derek was about to kill her, Jennifer got him to stop by pointing out that if she was killed, they would never find Noah Stilinski, and she would not be able to save the life of Derek's sister Cora. When Derek looked at her in disbelief, she pleaded with him to call Peter to verify this statement. Upon reaching Peter on the phone, the elder Werewolf confirmed that Cora's condition was worsening—she was in and out of consciousness and had just vomited black blood. Peter was about to reveal that there was also mistletoe in Cora's system when Derek correctly guessed this for himself and hung up. He once again was about to kill Jennifer for what she had done, but Jennifer, Scott and Stiles managed to convince him to hold off, in exchange for Jennifer coming with them to heal Cora.

On the way there, Jennifer insisted that while she was set in her plans to end the Alpha Pack for good, she didn't want Cora to die, and she emphasized that he needed to hear the whole story before he made judgments about her. Upon their arrival, Melissa advised the group that there were two last ambulances, ten and twenty minutes away, that Cora needed to be on before pointing them in the direction of her room. Unfortunately, by the time they got there, they found Cora having been moved by Peter in an attempt to flee from the merged twins, Ethan and Aiden, who were trying to get to Jennifer to prevent her from gaining any more power. The next day, Peter watched Derek taking some of Cora's pain away and murmured, "Careful..." Derek stopped and reassured Peter that he knew that he could kill himself if he went too far with the absorption process but Peter replied he was not talking just about that.

Peter was talking to his nephew, admitting that Derek had not been exactly "Alpha of the year" and asked him to consider what he would be losing. Since he was immersed in guilt and self-loathing following all of his reckless actions that had only put his packmates in extreme danger, Derek confessed that he was no longer concerned about power; on the other hand, Peter reminded him that Kali had given him until the next full moon to join the Alpha Pack and she would be coming for him the next evening, expressing the fact that since Derek was unable to beat her as an Alpha, he surely would not survive battling her as a Beta, only for Derek to look at him in the eyes and reply that he could not care less about it. Peter seemed to understand this was Jennifer's plan all along—the only way Derek could heal Cora was by giving up his Alpha powers, leaving him with no choice but to team up with her to take down the Alphas, and he would need her by his side just as much as she wanted him by her side.

Derek was left severely weak after donating Cora his Alpha spark and she gave him a bottle of water to help him recover his strength. When Derek pointed out that she was better than ever, Cora reminded Derek that she was okay thanks to his selfless action. However, Peter reminded Derek that the full moon was rising and while he drained himself all the way to the red, there was a fully charged Alpha on her way to rip him apart limb from limb. Derek assured his uncle that he would be okay in a few hours, which Peter hoped so because a few hours was all he had left.

Derek and Cora made the decision to leave the loft and return to South America, where she had passed the last six years with another Werewolf pack. After dropping her off, Conri, who had tagged along on their roadtrip to Mexico, slept with Derek, where they conceived their son. Cora would return to the Hale Pack in 2013, after managing to perform the full werewolf shift, and became an official member of the pack, going to trade school in physical fitness, and became a personal trainer.

## Personality

Due to her being orphaned at a young age and going on the run after the Hale House Fire, Cora has grown into a headstrong, independent young woman who is more than capable of taking care of herself. Like her brother Derek and her cousin Malia, she has the tendency to be reckless and impulsive, particularly when it comes to incoming battles, where she is more likely to run straight into danger rather than retreat. Cora is also shown to be extremely mature for her age, regarding the rest of the Beacon Hills werewolves as being stupid, misguided teenagers. However, her opinion of them appeared to have changed following Stiles saving her life while suffering the effects of mistletoe. She was very loyal to her family, especially Derek, though she was wary of her uncle Peter after learning that he had killed her sister Laura. She also had a warrior spirit, as she told Derek that she would support him if he wanted to go into a battle he didn't think he could win, as long as he was willing to die in the battle for a meaningful reason.

## Physical Appearance

Cora was a petite, beautiful young woman with pale white skin, large brown eyes, and hair that had been dyed reddish-brown with blonde streaks underneath. She dressed in a practical fashion, preferring active wear such as spandex leggings and sports bras to train, or jeans and flannel t-shirts for every day life. She wore no makeup, nor did she wear jewelry, preferring a simple style.

After rejoining the Hale Pack in 2013, Cora remained a practical dresser, but thanks to the fashion advice from the hunter, who she became close to after giving her health advice, Diana Winchester, Cora began adding more elegant clothing into her wardrobe. Her hair became wavy, and she began highlighting it on occasion, and she even got a septum piercing, which Malia enjoys styling with her clothes.

## Powers and Abilities

Cora possesses the common abilities of a Beta-level Werewolf, including

* **Superhuman Strength**
* **Speed**
* **Agility**
* **Reflexes**
* **Durability**
* **Senses**
* **Accelerated Healing**
* **Pain Absorption**

She can also shapeshift her features into that of a wolf, causing her brow to become ridged, her ears to become pointed, her sideburns to grow thick, her eyes to glow bright gold, and her teeth and fingernails to grow into fangs and claws. As a born Werewolf and someone who had been on the run for much of her life, Cora was much more in-tune with her lycanthropy and her animal instincts than the bitten Werewolves of Beacon Hills, and as such, she had no issue transforming into her Beta form whenever the situation arose.

Cora is also one of the Hales who is able to fully shift into a wolf, having learned to do so before officially joining the Hale Pack. Her wolf has the pattern of the red wolf.

## Weaknesses

Cora possesses the common weaknesses of a Werewolf, including:

* **Wolfsbane**
* **Mountain ash**
* **Electricity**
* **Ultra/subsonic noises.**

She is also vulnerable to Lunar Eclipses, which will cause her and all werecreatures to lose their powers for the length of time that the moon is in the Earth's umbral shadow.

## Etymology

* **Cora**: Cora is a Latinized version of the Greek name *Kore*, which means "maiden" and was used as an epithet for Persephone, the goddess of the springtime as well as the Queen of the Underworld in Greek mythology. Cora wasn't used as a given name in the English-speaking world until after it was employed by James Fenimore Cooper as the name of a character, Cora Munro, in his novel *The Last of the Mohicans* (1826). In some cases, Cora may be a short form of the feminine given names Cordula, Coraline, or Corinna, and it is also the name of an indigenous ethnic group located in Western-Central Mexico. Interestingly enough, Cora Hale's first name is a variation of the name of her cousin Malia's biological mother, Corinne, and thus their names both share the same meaning of "maiden."
	+ Variants of the name in other languages include: Corinna, Korinna (Ancient Greek); Cornelia (Ancient Roman, Dutch, Italian, Romanian); Kornelija (Croatian, Serbian); Kornélie, Nela (Czech); Cokkie, Corrie, Lia, Lieke (Dutch); Corinne, Cornélie (French); Korina, Kore (Greek); Kornélia (Hungarian, Polish); Corina (Romanian).
* **Hale**: Derived from a geographical locality, "at the hale," i.e. "hall" (either as a proprietor or servant at a residence there). It is also derived from the Old English *healh*, meaning "nook" or "hollow." In northern England, the name often has a specialized meaning, either denoting a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river, or as a patch of dry land in a fen. It is also sometimes a habitational name from any of the several places in England that shares the same name.

## Relationships

* Derek and Cora (Brother/Sister, Packmates)
* Cora and Peter (Niece/Uncle)
* Talia and Cora (Mother/Daughter, Former Packmates)
* Cora and Laura (Sisters, Former Packmates)
* Cora and Eli (Aunt/Nephew, Packmates)
* Cora and Stiles (Allies, Packmates)
* Cora and Isaac (Friends, Packmates)
* Cora and Erica (Friends, Love Interest on Cora's side)
* Cora and Deucalion (Former Enemies)
* Cora and Ethan (Former Enemies, Packmates)
* Cora and Conri (Packmates)
* Cora and Danae (Packmates, Friends)
* Cora and Diana (Good Friends, Packmates)
* Cora and Theo (Friends, Packmates)