Lydia Martin

Lydia Martin, is a smart, popular, and beautiful student at Beacon Hills High School on the MTV series Teen Wolf.

She is also a Banshee.

Lydia is portrayed by Holland Roden.

Biography
Lydia has developed quite a bit since she met Allison Argent, Scott McCall, and Stiles Stilinski.

She was, on the surface at least, shallow and spoiled but this turned out to be an elaborate act to hide the fact that she possesses a genius level IQ. She is well versed in chemistry and understands both classical and archaic Latin.

The ruse, along with her relationship with Jackson Whittemore, was part of a carefully orchestrated plan to maintain her popularity at Beacon Hills High School.

Lydia was manipulative with her friends, using them whenever it suited her ambitions.

As the supernatural elements began to close in though, her carefully crafted façade began to fall apart. After being attacked at the winter formal by Peter Hale, she found herself haunted by her attacker. She was later able to show her true love for Jackson and it was that love which saved his life.

Jackson's abrupt move to London, England seemed to leave Lydia emotionally numb. She returned to her "just on the surface" existence and took a number of lovers over the summer, expressing a "love them and leave them" philosophy.

When supernatural threats arose again, Lydia found herself drawn to gruesome murder scenes again and again. She learned she was a Banshee and decided to use her abilities for the greater good... if she can figure out how to actually use her abilities.

She fell in love again too. While she had entered into a purely physical relationship with Aiden to aid her friends in defeating the The Alpha Pack, she developed deeper feelings. She once again suffered genuine heartbreak when Aiden was killed.

Although her feelings may not be as strong for Stiles, they have developed a strong and caring friendship.

Lydia's Age
Lydia is one of the few characters for which we have an firmly established age.

In Omega, Sheriff Stilinski reports Lydia is a "16-year-old" she then celebrates a birthday a few weeks later in Party Guessed making her 17.

In Season 4, Natalie Martin alluded to Lydia's upcoming 18th birthday as "a few weeks" away. It apparently passed off screen.

In Season 5, Lydia is confirmed to be 18 by Deputy Parrish.

Season 1
Lydia makes new friends and is attacked by the Alpha Werewolf. (Read More...)

Season 2
Lydia helps bring Peter back to life and helps Jackson transform from Kanima to Werewolf. (Read More...)

Season 3
Lydia starts having sex with a werewolf, finds out she is a Banshee and keeps finding herself at murder scenes.

Lydia helps Stiles push a Nogitsune out of his head and decides to use her developing banshee abilities to help people. (Read More...)

Season 4
Lydia discovers her grandmother had similar abilities as a banshee and figures out that her IBM computer contained the Benefactor's Dead Pool. (Read More...)

Season 5
Sometime in the future, Lydia is in Eichen House and attempts to escape. The only thing she remembers is that her friends are in danger. (Read More...)

She attempts to help Tracy, a girl dealing with night terrors, with help from Deputy Parrish. (Read More...)

Lydia investigates what happened to Tracy after unconsciously finding another murder scene. She tries to save her mother at the Sheriff's Station and is stabbed by a Kanima tail. (Read More...)

At the hospital, she tries to tell her mother not to say anything about what she saw and, when visited by Parrish, she asks him if she could teach her how to fight hand to hand combat. (Read More...)

She talks to Dr. Valack and learns her hallucination with the Dread Doctors during her surgery may have been real. She records her scream for him in exchange for information. (Read More...)

After reading The Dread Doctors book, she has flashback of her grandmother at Eichen House. She returns to the Beacon Hills Memorial in hopes of sensing more about her vision of the Dread Doctors. (Read More...)

She helps her friends set a trap for the Dread Doctors frequency. She suffers a hallucination of Tracy attacking her and ripping out Lydia's tongue. (Read More...)

She and Mason attempt to help Corey remember his experience with the Dread Doctors. She is appalled when Scott injects his claws into the back of the boy's head to extract the memories. (Read More...)

Lydia uses Parrish to find the Nemeton. She believes he is taking the chimera bodies to hide evidence of the supernatural. (Read More...)

After discovering what Parrish is, she gets knocked unconscious by Theo, who then claws her neck to find the Nemeton. Later, she witnesses the revival of several chimeras and becomes catatonic. (Read More...)

Parrish finds her in the woods and is taken to the hospital. Her mother immediately sends her to Eichen House for treatment, but Dr. Valack uses her to find out more about the Dread Doctor's plan. (Read More...)

Banshee
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Lydia is a Banshee. Peter Hale claims it was his attack on Lydia in Formality that was the spark that activated her innate abilities.

Lydia can emit a high pitch scream which can be used defensively as it harms peoples hearing. She can also sense when someone is dying by tuning into a supernatural frequency that only she can hear. Her grandmother, Lorraine Martin also had this ability.

Quotes

 * "Jackson is gonna perform tomorrow, but he’s not gonna be at his peak and I prefer my boyfriend at peak performance."

- Lydia to Scott in Second Chance at First Line.


 * "What the hell is a Stiles?"

- Lydia to her mother when he comes to see her in The Tell.


 * "Nobody likes a loser."

- Lydia to Scott in Second Chance at First Line.


 * "Never frown, because some one could be falling in love with your smile."

- Lydia to Allison in Formality.


 * "A lot can happen in one night."

- Lydia to Allison in Motel California.


 * "Sweetheart, my last boyfriend was a homicidal lizard, so I think I can handle a werewolf."

- Lydia to Cora in Currents.


 * "I'm something!"

- Lydia to Jennifer Blake in The Girl Who Knew Too Much.


 * "A genius, yes. A psychic, no."

- Lydia to Cora in Currents.


 * "The other night, I helped save someone's life and that felt really good, but when I look at you, all I can think is how you helped kill Boyd. You're not just a bad boy, Aiden, you're a bad guy, and I don't want to be with the bad guys.""

- Lydia to Aiden in Illuminated


 * "I don't believe that. Not all monsters do monstrous things."

- Lydia to Meredith in Monstrous.


 * "I'm in blue. Orange and blue: Not a good combination."

- Lydia to Stiles in Ice Pick

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Season 1