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Character Name: Lydia Martin
Canon: Teen Wolf
Canon Point: 2.12, the morning after Jackson is revived as a super cool kawaii werewolf.
Background/History: Teen Wolf: The Lydia Martin Show!
Personality: Before getting into the nitty-gritty of Lydia's personality, it's important to briefly go over one aspect of Lydia's life that the Teen Wolf wiki sadly glossed over, which is her home life. Which sucks. Mr. and Mrs. Martin divorced recently, and it was apparently pretty messy - so messy that both parents started using Lydia as a means of one-upping each other and proving who was the 'better' parent, even going so far as asking her to choose who she was going to live with after the divorce. It's fair to assume, then, that Lydia's home life has been incredibly unstable in the past several years, with her parents constantly fighting. It's also heavily implied in the show that she is suffering severe emotional neglect at the hands of her parents. She seems to live mostly with her mother, who deals with her emotional response to seeing Peter as the alpha in season one by medicating, possibly even sedating her so heavily that she mistakes one of her classmates for Jackson. What does all this mean? Well, Lydia can't get attention and validation at home, because her parents are too consumed with hating each other to have time to attend to her needs, so Lydia seeks attention outside the home. In effect, Lydia has two personalities: the one she created to get attention from her peers, and the more genuine Lydia under the surface.
Surface Lydia has a heavy focus on external beauty, which often serves as a mask for her true emotional state. While she might be angry as hell or scared out of her mind on the inside, if she's beautiful and put together enough externally, she thinks she will be internally. One of the most significant Lydia-centric scenes of the first season shows Lydia after first catching sight of Peter as the alpha at the video store. Her face is tear-streaked, she's clearly terrified, but she doesn't allow herself any time to process what she's seen. Instead she cleans herself up and reapplies her makeup, straightens her hair, and hides her reactions to everything she's experienced.
She has a good reason for hiding her emotional state. Fear and empathy don't fit well with her cooler-than-thou, mean girl exterior, and Lydia feels as though she needs to be a mean girl in order not only to be popular, but to be the most popular - not just to be liked, but to be loved. If her parents aren't going to love her, her peers are damn well going to worship her. She acts cool and uncaring not because she actually is, but because it's adaptive, in a way: it gets her a certain level of admiration as an untouchable popular girl, and it keeps her from getting hurt. Because of her parents' emotional betrayal, she doesn't trust people very much, and it's easier to keep people away than to deal with the pain of someone getting close and then hurting her. If anyone does try to penetrate her cool exterior, she relies on her quick wit and abrasive sarcasm to keep people at arm's length. But, of course, she has to keep that wit under wraps to some extent, lest the general student body realize that she's not only a power-hungry popular ditz, but incredibly smart. Smart people, Lydia seems to reason, aren't liked, they definitely aren't popular, they're not normal - they're a threat.
The thing is, Lydia's kind of a genius. Literally. Genius-level IQ, incredibly focused on school, with all kinds of incredibly intense goals. Most people wouldn't notice how smart she is because she keeps it under wraps, but she's excellent at chemistry, math, Latin - she wants to win a Fields Medal when she grows up - basically, she's going to outpace everyone else from Beacon Hills the second she leaves high school. She's also pretty athletic, although she keeps that hidden, too, because her boyfriend, Jackson, is apparently emasculated by her being better at him at . . . anything.
Despite her intelligence, Lydia is definitely a teenage girl in most things. For instance, she tends to trust her emotions more than her intellect, such as when she trusts the vision of young Peter Hale despite her verbal acknowledgment that he's an incredibly creepy dude. She likes the attention he gives her, so she overrules her brain and her instincts in order to keep that attention going.
She also tends to be emotionally volatile. This may be exacerbated by whatever cocktail of pills she's taking at any given moment, as well as because her friends have this annoying tendency to keep her out of the loop in incredibly important situations. The less information she has, the more she wants to act, and the more poorly informed her decisions are going to be, which in turn just makes her more upset. It's a horrible downward spiral of teenage emotions leading to poor decisions leading to even more extreme teenage emotions. Furthermore, surprises and the unknown can paralyze her if she doesn't know what's going on. Lydia works best when she has hard facts and a solid plan; when she doesn't, she flounders and either freezes without taking any action or acts impulsively.
Her top priority is the people she loves, and she's willing to do some pretty poorly advised stuff in order to keep them safe. Exhibit A: doing what Peter Hale says, ever, in any way. And she is a pretty good friend; she's loyal, even though a lot of times she's a little too honest, especially with Allison.
Jackson is a complicated issue, though. She definitely loves him, and he definitely loves her, as intensely as two high schoolers can love each other, which is PRETTY DAMN INTENSELY. However, her issues mingled somewhere along the way with his need for love and family and direction and became a codependent hot mess of a passive-aggressive relationship. She started using him as a pawn in her I'm-popular-pay-attention-to-me scheme and then started seeing him as getting in the way of said scheme because he wasn't good enough, leading her to flirt aggressively with any alpha male who walked by and leading him to try to get better through any means possible, because even Lydia didn't want him anymore. And then Jackson got the bite and it was just a mess. In sum: yep, they love each other, but are really bad at using emotion words to work out their problems. Still, they'll take care of each other first and foremost if they're in danger.
Lydia had a psychic connection with Peter Hale for most of season 2, which was traumatic for her in large part because she had very little idea what was going on for most of that time. She is still dealing with the trauma of that connection and trying to reconcile the fact that she had a crazy dead werewolf in her head. The season 2 finale leaves it kind of unclear whether that psychic link will be maintained after Peter's revival, but after conferring with Flag (Peter's player), we've decided that for the purposes of Haven, the link would have been severed after Peter came back to life.
It's worth noting that at her canon point, much of her surface identity has been stripped away due to the trauma of watching Jackson nearly die, having Peter Freaking Hale in her head, etc. While she'll strive to rebuild it for her own emotional well-being, further trauma may impede that goal, and her more genuine characteristics may come to greater prominence.
Abilities/Powers: Lydia doesn't have any powers as such. However, she is notable in that she's immune to a werewolf's bite, as has been demonstrated in canon (thanks, Peter). This immunity manifested in a period of fugue states in the days following the bite and intense hallucinations. She also experienced vivid visions of Peter Hale, during which he communicated her and gave her instructions on how to resurrect him. Because of this experience she has a basic understanding of how at least one type of wolfsbane works.
Other than that, her abilities are of an extremely intelligent but otherwise ordinary teenager. She's smart as a whip and knows lots of things others her age might not, like how to conjugate a bunch of Latin verbs, but she's not an expert in hand-to-hand combat or anything like that.
Sample Entry: Sassing serial killers is a good defense right.
Sample Entry Two: Lydia was a great fan of routine. Getting up extra early in order to do everything perfectly, from hair to makeup to breakfast. She knew that every morning she would wake lying on her back. She knew the exact shape of the stain on her ceiling. She knew that at least one of her pillows would have made it to the floor while she slept, and she knew that it took her exactly an hour and a half to get ready for school.
So the moment she woke up, she knew something was wrong. She was on her side, that was the first clue. When she turned onto her back, she caught a glimpse of other beds. Sitting up, she counted them - six, nobody in them right now, but a couple had dissheveled sheets, like someone had just gotten up and hadn't had time to make the bed.
She'd checked the weather the night before, because some romantic part of her hoped that it would be sunny after all the stress of last night. Like that song, "I can see clearly now, the rain is gone," or whatever. Rain and psychotic werewolf crap. The Weather Channel had said there was zero chance of precipitation, clear skies and sunny all day.
But when she went to the window now, it was dark and gray outside, hard to tell what time it was but definitely too late to be this gloomy.
She wasn't, she concluded with a strange sense of calm, in Beacon Hills. Nowhere near Beacon Hills. This didn't even look like any part of California she'd seen. And that sign wasn't making her feel any better.
Her mouth set into a hard line. Well, fine. Someone had kidnapped her and brought her somewhere without her consent. People would be looking for her, but that didn't mean she had to just sit here. She'd had more than enough of that.
So. Time to make a plan. Figure out where, and more importantly why. Oh, and who. Because nobody was going to keep her in the dark like this again. Not without consequences.
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Other Characters Played: N/A
Preferred Apartment: None
Character Name: Lydia Martin
Canon: Teen Wolf
Canon Point: 2.12, the morning after Jackson is revived as a super cool kawaii werewolf.
Background/History: Teen Wolf: The Lydia Martin Show!
Personality: Before getting into the nitty-gritty of Lydia's personality, it's important to briefly go over one aspect of Lydia's life that the Teen Wolf wiki sadly glossed over, which is her home life. Which sucks. Mr. and Mrs. Martin divorced recently, and it was apparently pretty messy - so messy that both parents started using Lydia as a means of one-upping each other and proving who was the 'better' parent, even going so far as asking her to choose who she was going to live with after the divorce. It's fair to assume, then, that Lydia's home life has been incredibly unstable in the past several years, with her parents constantly fighting. It's also heavily implied in the show that she is suffering severe emotional neglect at the hands of her parents. She seems to live mostly with her mother, who deals with her emotional response to seeing Peter as the alpha in season one by medicating, possibly even sedating her so heavily that she mistakes one of her classmates for Jackson. What does all this mean? Well, Lydia can't get attention and validation at home, because her parents are too consumed with hating each other to have time to attend to her needs, so Lydia seeks attention outside the home. In effect, Lydia has two personalities: the one she created to get attention from her peers, and the more genuine Lydia under the surface.
Surface Lydia has a heavy focus on external beauty, which often serves as a mask for her true emotional state. While she might be angry as hell or scared out of her mind on the inside, if she's beautiful and put together enough externally, she thinks she will be internally. One of the most significant Lydia-centric scenes of the first season shows Lydia after first catching sight of Peter as the alpha at the video store. Her face is tear-streaked, she's clearly terrified, but she doesn't allow herself any time to process what she's seen. Instead she cleans herself up and reapplies her makeup, straightens her hair, and hides her reactions to everything she's experienced.
She has a good reason for hiding her emotional state. Fear and empathy don't fit well with her cooler-than-thou, mean girl exterior, and Lydia feels as though she needs to be a mean girl in order not only to be popular, but to be the most popular - not just to be liked, but to be loved. If her parents aren't going to love her, her peers are damn well going to worship her. She acts cool and uncaring not because she actually is, but because it's adaptive, in a way: it gets her a certain level of admiration as an untouchable popular girl, and it keeps her from getting hurt. Because of her parents' emotional betrayal, she doesn't trust people very much, and it's easier to keep people away than to deal with the pain of someone getting close and then hurting her. If anyone does try to penetrate her cool exterior, she relies on her quick wit and abrasive sarcasm to keep people at arm's length. But, of course, she has to keep that wit under wraps to some extent, lest the general student body realize that she's not only a power-hungry popular ditz, but incredibly smart. Smart people, Lydia seems to reason, aren't liked, they definitely aren't popular, they're not normal - they're a threat.
The thing is, Lydia's kind of a genius. Literally. Genius-level IQ, incredibly focused on school, with all kinds of incredibly intense goals. Most people wouldn't notice how smart she is because she keeps it under wraps, but she's excellent at chemistry, math, Latin - she wants to win a Fields Medal when she grows up - basically, she's going to outpace everyone else from Beacon Hills the second she leaves high school. She's also pretty athletic, although she keeps that hidden, too, because her boyfriend, Jackson, is apparently emasculated by her being better at him at . . . anything.
Despite her intelligence, Lydia is definitely a teenage girl in most things. For instance, she tends to trust her emotions more than her intellect, such as when she trusts the vision of young Peter Hale despite her verbal acknowledgment that he's an incredibly creepy dude. She likes the attention he gives her, so she overrules her brain and her instincts in order to keep that attention going.
She also tends to be emotionally volatile. This may be exacerbated by whatever cocktail of pills she's taking at any given moment, as well as because her friends have this annoying tendency to keep her out of the loop in incredibly important situations. The less information she has, the more she wants to act, and the more poorly informed her decisions are going to be, which in turn just makes her more upset. It's a horrible downward spiral of teenage emotions leading to poor decisions leading to even more extreme teenage emotions. Furthermore, surprises and the unknown can paralyze her if she doesn't know what's going on. Lydia works best when she has hard facts and a solid plan; when she doesn't, she flounders and either freezes without taking any action or acts impulsively.
Her top priority is the people she loves, and she's willing to do some pretty poorly advised stuff in order to keep them safe. Exhibit A: doing what Peter Hale says, ever, in any way. And she is a pretty good friend; she's loyal, even though a lot of times she's a little too honest, especially with Allison.
Jackson is a complicated issue, though. She definitely loves him, and he definitely loves her, as intensely as two high schoolers can love each other, which is PRETTY DAMN INTENSELY. However, her issues mingled somewhere along the way with his need for love and family and direction and became a codependent hot mess of a passive-aggressive relationship. She started using him as a pawn in her I'm-popular-pay-attention-to-me scheme and then started seeing him as getting in the way of said scheme because he wasn't good enough, leading her to flirt aggressively with any alpha male who walked by and leading him to try to get better through any means possible, because even Lydia didn't want him anymore. And then Jackson got the bite and it was just a mess. In sum: yep, they love each other, but are really bad at using emotion words to work out their problems. Still, they'll take care of each other first and foremost if they're in danger.
Lydia had a psychic connection with Peter Hale for most of season 2, which was traumatic for her in large part because she had very little idea what was going on for most of that time. She is still dealing with the trauma of that connection and trying to reconcile the fact that she had a crazy dead werewolf in her head. The season 2 finale leaves it kind of unclear whether that psychic link will be maintained after Peter's revival, but after conferring with Flag (Peter's player), we've decided that for the purposes of Haven, the link would have been severed after Peter came back to life.
It's worth noting that at her canon point, much of her surface identity has been stripped away due to the trauma of watching Jackson nearly die, having Peter Freaking Hale in her head, etc. While she'll strive to rebuild it for her own emotional well-being, further trauma may impede that goal, and her more genuine characteristics may come to greater prominence.
Abilities/Powers: Lydia doesn't have any powers as such. However, she is notable in that she's immune to a werewolf's bite, as has been demonstrated in canon (thanks, Peter). This immunity manifested in a period of fugue states in the days following the bite and intense hallucinations. She also experienced vivid visions of Peter Hale, during which he communicated her and gave her instructions on how to resurrect him. Because of this experience she has a basic understanding of how at least one type of wolfsbane works.
Other than that, her abilities are of an extremely intelligent but otherwise ordinary teenager. She's smart as a whip and knows lots of things others her age might not, like how to conjugate a bunch of Latin verbs, but she's not an expert in hand-to-hand combat or anything like that.
Sample Entry: Sassing serial killers is a good defense right.
Sample Entry Two: Lydia was a great fan of routine. Getting up extra early in order to do everything perfectly, from hair to makeup to breakfast. She knew that every morning she would wake lying on her back. She knew the exact shape of the stain on her ceiling. She knew that at least one of her pillows would have made it to the floor while she slept, and she knew that it took her exactly an hour and a half to get ready for school.
So the moment she woke up, she knew something was wrong. She was on her side, that was the first clue. When she turned onto her back, she caught a glimpse of other beds. Sitting up, she counted them - six, nobody in them right now, but a couple had dissheveled sheets, like someone had just gotten up and hadn't had time to make the bed.
She'd checked the weather the night before, because some romantic part of her hoped that it would be sunny after all the stress of last night. Like that song, "I can see clearly now, the rain is gone," or whatever. Rain and psychotic werewolf crap. The Weather Channel had said there was zero chance of precipitation, clear skies and sunny all day.
But when she went to the window now, it was dark and gray outside, hard to tell what time it was but definitely too late to be this gloomy.
She wasn't, she concluded with a strange sense of calm, in Beacon Hills. Nowhere near Beacon Hills. This didn't even look like any part of California she'd seen. And that sign wasn't making her feel any better.
Her mouth set into a hard line. Well, fine. Someone had kidnapped her and brought her somewhere without her consent. People would be looking for her, but that didn't mean she had to just sit here. She'd had more than enough of that.
So. Time to make a plan. Figure out where, and more importantly why. Oh, and who. Because nobody was going to keep her in the dark like this again. Not without consequences.