Lydia Martin

Lydia Martin, portrayed by Holland Roden, is one of Beacon Hills' most popular students.

Description
Lydia Martin is very intelligent, but often hides this from her peers. She is initially portrayed as a fashionable, shallow and bratty girl. Despite this, she has a friendlier nature, as she immediately befriends Allison on her first day at Beacon Hills. She also shows a certain fondness for Scott. Lydia uses her extreme intelligence to manipulate people around her. She was dating Jackson Whittemore until he dumped her.

Lydia did everything she can to both manipulate, and encourage Jackson, including playing down her amazing intellect, which would likely frighten away many people. She has an intrinsic understanding of psychology and social interaction. She is unusually stylish, and very individualistic in her dress choices. Many of her outfits hint at a dramatic, almost 1950's or film noir influence.

It is hinted she may or may not still have feelings for Jackson and is also hinted she may have feelings for Stiles (Stiles has had a crush on her since third grade).

Biography
In episode three, Pack Mentality, it is implied that her relationship with Jackson is sexual. She expresses an interest in Scott McCall when it is shown that he is exceptional at lacrosse. Until then she had no idea who he was. Its possible that she makes Jackson jealous by paying attention to Scott, and also uses him to motivate Jackson to better performance.

In The Tell, we learn that Lydia is the smartest girl in school. Her teacher has said that her GPA is above an A and said that she wants to test her IQ as she believes her to be a genius both academically and socially. Lydia befriends and likes Allison, however she tends to find Allison to be naive. When Allison asks Lydia for advice, Lydia very maturely and correctly tells her to get protection. This is very typical of Lydia as the comment is sexy and playful, but also very smart and responsible.

Unfortunately despite her achievements and obvious ability her parents do not think well of her, expecting her to collapse because of their nasty divorce so that they can blame each other. This shows that they do not know anything about their daughter, and care only for how they can play her as a card against the other parent.

In Lunatic despite being supportive of Allison’s decision to break up with Scott and telling her she did the right thing – this may have been for her own reasons and benefit despite already having Jackson as her boyfriend – she willingly made out with Scott in Coach’s office.

At the end of Formality, she is bitten in the abdomen by Peter Hale. She is left on the field and found by Jackson and taken to the hospital. At the end of Code Breaker she it is shown that she is not healing from her werewolf bites.

In Season 2, while she is recovering from Peter's attack Lydia has a hallucination in the shower and disappears from the hospital. She reappears two days later confused. She says she can't remember what happened during her "fugue state" but that she "lost nine pounds". (read more...)

Lydia seems to be having hallucinations involving Peter Hale. She sees him at the school, under the ice at the skating rink. (read more...)

Relationships

 * Jackson Whittemore
 * Lydia used to date Jackson Whittemore who was then the best on the lacrosse team. She appeared more dominant in the relationship and usually enforced her will, so Jackson backed down. He dumped her in Season 1.


 * Allison Argent
 * Quite from the beginning Lydia approached Allison to gain her friendship and trust. Allison frequently seeks her advice.


 * Scott McCall
 * As Scott’s skills in lacrosse suddenly improved, Lydia also gained interest in him. She kissed Scott McCall in Lunatic.


 * Stiles Stilinski
 * Lydia ignored Stiles most of the time. In the end of the first season, he told her about his crush on her and his admiration of her intelligence, which she appreciated a lot.

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.

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