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- ★ NAME: lydia martin
- ★ AGE: 17
- ★ CANON POINT: 4.12, "Smoke & Mirrors", end of episode/season.
- ★ CANON INFORMATION: lydia @ teenwolf.wikia

- ★ PERSONALITY:

Lesson one in the Lydia Martin Bible of Life: keep up appearances, no matter what. While she has a great deal of depth and many, many, many different layers as a person, the most important thing in the world to her is social status - at least on the surface. The loudest, most glaring trait that Lydia possesses is her keen dislike for losers. She appears completely shallow and conceited; she always looks good, and she keeps a very high social standing. She dates the captain of the lacrosse team, she loves makeup and keeping her hair gorgeous and making sure she has an extremely fashionable wardrobe... She tries very hard to always avoid associating with those on a lower social tier with herself. She is the Queen; make no mistake about that. Appearances are important to her; not just her own, but the appearances of others. She refuses anything but the absolute best for herself and for those she chooses to grace with her friendship. Which includes... Well. Fitting in. Fitting in is very important. It's both one of her best and worst qualities. Her determination to always be at the top of the social ladder is something she even feigns stupidity for. Her parents aren't even aware of her intellect; she hides it that well. They're presented at a teacher meeting and as the teacher in question begins to present Lydia, they make a verbal assumption that her grades are poor when, in fact, Lydia has a higher GPA than almost the entire Beacon Hills student body combined.

In reality, Lydia is genius-levels of intelligent. She's incredibly sharp-witted both academically and practically speaking. She knows both classic and archaic Latin, and has one of the highest grade point averages at BHHS, nearing a 5.0. She claims, when admitting that she knows Archaic Latin, that she "got bored" with classic Latin, so she decided to learn Archaic as a new challenge. Despite her natural thirst for knowledge and the natural curiosity she's imbued with, she forces herself to appear dumbed-down in order to remain popular. There are several times throughout the series where she says something very intelligent, then covers it up by acting as if she was asking it as a question. The masks she wears are there to protect herself, and to keep her high social standing without worries. There is nothing more important to her than the adoration and acceptance of her peers, particularly those considered popular, and being popular means you're supposed to care less about your smarts and your grades. She covers up her natural aptitude for learning, always. It all comes back around to status.

Let's talk about status again for a moment. Status, and power, and social dominance. Lydia Martin is the Queen Bee. She's not necessarily Regina George levels of terrible human being, but she definitely has the admiration of her peers, and she likes it that way. Her birthday party is always the party of the year, for example. Everyone's always invited without invitations even being sent out, because Lydia simply assumes (and isn't wrong) that everyone knows when it is, knows the way it's going to go, and wants to come. Even the socially unsavory can come. It's the biggest party of the entire year. She is the princess, the queen, hell - the supreme goddess - of social butterflies, and she wears her crown with pride and dignity.

She can also be extremely manipulative in a way that is hurtful to those around her, so long as she's the one who comes out on the positive side of the equation. Even when it comes to her nearest and dearest. For example, after Jackson breaks up with her and exhibits awkwardly quasi-flirtatious behavior toward Allison, and Scott and Allison are splitsville, she makes a move on Scott and basically makes out on him, not necessarily with him since he doesn't really reciprocate, under the guise of showing gratitude for his bravery - but really it's just a way to sting back at Allison and Jackson. She plays Scott into her hands by lying and telling Scott that Allison doesn't even look at him romantically anymore, to get him to be more receptive to her strawberry-flavored lipgloss. Even those closest to her heart aren't completely immune to her vicious self-protection tactics.

All of this is the Lydia we first come to know. The Lydia that begins the series in a relationship that she plays off as being completely about status, rather than something deeper ( when in reality, she loves Jackson, truly loves him ), that begins the series willing to step on toes and walk on faces to get what she wants. But this is not the Lydia that exists today. This is a part of her, aspects that will always be a part of her, and her past, but now? Now that her life has changed? Things are different. And underneath all of that surface, underneath the guise of shallow status-seeking sharklike mean girl, there is a young woman who is driven simply because that's her predisposition. She is driven by intellect, she is driven by ambition, she is driven by emotion. She has a great deal of depth. She refuses to appear vulnerable, though she actually feels very exposed once the world around her starts to crumble. Her friends keep her in the dark, but based on her own outwardly displayed ignorance, they also fail to see that she's putting puzzle pieces together and starting to figure things out on her own. She's not just intelligent, but intuitive. It doesn't mean that she's able to cope well, but she does have a keen instinct when something is wrong. Not necessarily to survive, but to be able to tell when something is wrong in general. However, she doesn't show her vulnerability when she's in control of her faculties; that doesn't always happen.

Which brings us to emotional trauma and how that has completely and totally flipped her world inside out. Lydia Martin has been through a lot since Allison Argent and Derek Hale came to Beacon Hills. She witnessed an alpha werewolf bust through the window of a movie store and run past her car, after which she had to be heavily medicated to avoid fits of paranoia and terror. At that point, she still didn't have much of a clue, really, what was going on - at least not that she didn't have to dig for herself. The second huge turning point came when Peter Hale attacked her and bit her on the Lacrosse field. She recovers physically, eventually, and is shown to be immune to the effects of werewolf bite. She neither turns, nor dies. However, once she wakes up, she begins to have powerful hallucinations that leave her terrified and panicked, and she goes missing. Completely naked, wandering aimlessly, in a fugue state. Through what seems like psychic manipulation and being almost possessed by Peter's essence - which it is assumed is transferred to her through his bite - she brings him back to life. Everything involving him frightens her, and she loses a great deal of sleep, begins to have nightmares, but she never complains about it outwardly.

Lydia is not a weak person, by any means. She's incredibly strong, and at the very least her unwillingness to outwardly display any weakness she does feel is almost a fault. She isn't good at asking help from her friends or the people she cares about; she'd much rather take it on herself, because she feels she should be able to based on her own competence, but also based on something deeper. Let's take a moment to talk about Jackson. He is Lydia's first love, and when he breaks up with her abruptly, she plays it off like it's nothing. However, she loves him deeply, and it really does hurt her. She never shows it. This trait is one that doesn't seem dynamic. After he seemingly dies in her arms, after being brought back to his humanity by none other than herself, then comes back to life... All of her emotions are raw and right there on the surface. He is the key to her heartstrings. Between seasons two and three, he leaves to go to London. This is possibly the most prime example of her inability to allow her emotions to rise to the surface, of her refusal to show weakness. It is clear, through a few simple moments and nuances, that his leaving is tearing her apart inside. But she hides it by being flippant, and going through a series of purely physical lovers. She even tells Allison that she doesn't want a boyfriend, she wants a distraction. She is as flirty as she's ever been, and she goes after boys like it's her job... But she never keeps them around. They are nothing more than a way for her to keep from falling apart outwardly. She never shows how much Jackson's departure hurts her, not intentionally, and hardly even admits it to herself.

Now. Nightmares that aren't centered around Peter Hale. In season three, Lydia begins have nightmares in which a person's death is depicted and she wakes up screaming. She also starts to go back into fugue states and finds herself waking up at the scene of the deaths she previously dreamed of. For instance, she wakes up screaming, and leaves to go replenish her ibuprofin stash, but finds herself at the scene of a pool, where she discovers a mangled body and the ground covered in blood. These are abilities that bother and frighten Lydia, and at first, she balks against them. She denies them even after she is told directly that she is a Banshee, clinging to the normalcy she so desperately wishes still dominated her world, despite the fact that her world is no longer the one she used to know. She suppresses them for awhile, trying to avoid them, to ignore them, as much as she can, but despite her best efforts it keeps happening. Eventually, she concedes to them and says she'll use her abilities to help people. It's one of the most selfless things she's ever done, and it shows a huge amount of growth from the self-serving girl we first met. This step is a big one.

She also embraces the fact that she's no longer at the top of the social food chain. She has true friendships, even with someone like Stiles to whom she hardly ever gave the time of day before. She is less guarded, over time, and slowly begins to open up more. Really, she just tries to avoid showing her vulnerability to protect herself from getting hurt. Lydia doesn't enjoy pain. But she does begin to genuinely, outwardly show that she cares about the people she considers her friends, instead of just caring about them inwardly. She still has difficulty accepting their help or being gracious when it's given to her without asking, but she's getting better. She's opening up. She's letting the deeper inside out, by and by, the more the world changes around her. She recognizes that she has to be willing to change with it if she wants to keep, and help, her friends and loved ones.

- ★ COURT ALLIANCE: Seelie ;

Lydia is, if nothing else, a person who abides by a general sense of goodness. She has some sassy mean girl tendencies, but nothing outside of normal teenage girl stuff, and she leans on the side of the good guys and the "normal" ( read: societal standard ) order of social hierarchy. She's best suited for the finer, lighter things in life. I would put her somewhere in between neutral and chaotic good on the nine types scale.

- ★ ABILITIES:

For all intents and purposes, Lydia is a normal human. However, she is special, in that she possesses immunity to werewolf bites. She cannot be infected or turned. She's also identified as a banshee. She can tune into a supernatural frequency that only she can hear and emits a powerful scream when she senses someone dies. These are abilities she doesn't fully embrace yet, and it's suspected that there's more to her than just those abilities, but that she represses them.

- ★ INVENTORY:

( 1 ) blue dress
( 1 ) cellular phone
( 1 ) pair of shoes
( 1 ) pair of underwear
( 1 ) bra

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