| “ | "Okay, what are we looking for?" "I'm not sure. I'm mostly just following a feeling." "Your feelings usually lead to dead bodies." "Well, let me know if you find one." |
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— Kira and Lydia in Dreamcatchers
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The relationship between the Thunder Kitsune Kira Yukimura and the Banshee Lydia Martin
Kira and Lydia first met in the second half of Season 3, after Kira and her family moved to Beacon Hills from New York City. Kira had overheard Lydia's conversation with the McCall Pack about the symptoms Allison Argent, Scott McCall, and Stiles Stilinski were experiencing after their role in the Surrogate Sacrifice Ritual; it was Kira who suggested that the three were experiencing Bardo. The two then became friends after William Barrow captured Kira and attempted to electrocute her, revealing her true nature as a Thunder Kitsune. From then on, the two became close friends as Kira was accepted into the pack, and the two worked together to solve numerous supernatural events, such as Kira helping the pack locate and rescue Lydia after she was captured by the Nogitsune.
In Season 4, Kira cited her friendship with Lydia as one of the reasons why she didn't want to leave Beacon Hills to return to New York. The two then worked together to figure out the code that Lydia had unconsciously written in a Banshee fugue-state, and were together when they discovered that the code was a three-part hit-list that they began referring to as the Deadpool. When Scott and Kira were kidnapped by the Werejaguar and former Hunter Kate Argent and taken to La Iglesia in Mexico, Lydia rushed to the high school to grab something with Kira's scent so that the pack could more easily find her.
In Season 5, Kira and Lydia attended the Senior Scribe ritual with Scott, Stiles, and Malia. The two then began working together to figure out what was going on with Tracy Stewart, a fellow student who was experiencing horrifying night terrors; after examining her bedroom, Kira and Lydia figured out that she had become a shapeshifter and that her night terrors were leading her to target people who were trying to help her. After the two found Tracy in the Beacon County Sheriff's Station, Kira fought Tracy in order to protect Lydia and her mother, Natalie Martin, and after Lydia was inadvertently injured by Tracy, it was Kira who applied pressure to her wound to help save her life.
When Lydia, who had become catatonic as a result of Theo Raeken's incorrectly performed Memory Manipulation ritual, was admitted to Eichen House and had trephination performed on her, Kira was instrumental in breaking her out, as she had used her powers to siphon the building's electricity in order to cause a brown-out that allowed them to enter undetected. The two then worked hand-in-hand during the final battle against the resurrected Beast of Gevaudan, Sebastien Valet, as well as Theo Raeken; Lydia used her Banshee Scream to turn Sebastien back into Mason Hewitt, while Kira used her electrokinetic powers to defeat Theo, albeit with help from the Skinwalkers.
At the end of Season 5, Kira and Lydia were separated due to Kira's decision to continue training with the Skinwalkers in Shiprock in order to regain control over her Kitsune spirit, though they presumably have remained friends.
Kira and Lydia are also known as Lyra and Lydira by fans
Throughout Teen Wolf[]
In Anchors, Lydia Martin was sitting at a table with Scott McCall, Allison Argent, Stiles Stilinski, and Isaac Lahey at lunch during Beacon Hills High School, where the McCall Pack members were discussing the side effects caused by their Surrogate Sacrifice Ritual to the Nemeton several weeks earlier. The topic of conversation had turned to the symptoms Allison, Scott and Stiles were experiencing, namely: hallucinations and tremors for Allison; hallucinations and loss of control over one's Werewolf transformation for Scott.
Having overheard their conversation, Kira Yukimura shyly approached their table to inform them that she believed to know what was troubling them. Lydia looked at Kira suspiciously and asked her who she was, though her expression softened when Scott identified her by name and revealed that he and Kira were in the same history class. Kira went on to say that the phenomenon is known as Bardo, which in Tibetan means "in-between state," specifically the state between life and death. After explaining that all of the symptoms the trio had experienced happens in the Buddhist cycle of bardo, she revealed that during the different progressive states, a person can have visual and/or auditory hallucinations and can be visited by peaceful and wrathful deities such as demons. Lydia and the others looked extremely concerned when Allison asked Kira what the final state of bardo was, and the new girl replied "Death."
In Galvanize, Lydia and Stiles worked together to try to figure out what William Barrow was planning to do during his escape from Eichen House's captivity. After several dead ends, they realized that their Werewolf allies were unable to find Barrow in the school because his scent was covered up by the smell of chemicals nearby. The two broke into the chemistry classroom at Beacon Hills High School, where they discovered a code written on the chalkboard that ultimately referred to the elements potassium ("K"), iodine ("I") and radium ("Ra"), spelling "Kira" and realized that Barrow was instructed to try to kill Kira.
Stiles and Lydia then caught up with Scott, who had been knocked out by Barrow so that he could capture Kira. After some brainstorming, the trio figured out that Barrow took Kira to the Electric Substation where he used to work and had tied her up with the intention of exposing her secret Kitsune nature (though the fact that he did this on the behalf of the Nogitsune, who needed Kira's foxfire to activate his possession of Stiles, would not be revealed until weeks later) by electrocuting her. Stiles instructed Lydia to stay inside the Jeep while he and Scott went inside to rescue Kira, allowing her to see the entire town's power grid being shut down due to Kira's electrokinetic powers causing a blackout.
In Echo House, Kira, feeling guilty about her mother's role in summoning the Oni who were hunting down the Nogitsune possessing Stiles Stilinski, volunteered to help Scott McCall, Allison Argent, Lydia Martin, and Ethan and Aiden steal the Shugendo Scroll in hopes that it could tell them how to save Stiles.
The scroll was in the possession of Katashi when he was killed by the Nogitsune, and all of his belongings were taken as evidence by the Beacon County Sheriff's Department and the FBI, who were helping them with the case. Kira, Lydia, and the others' plan was to plant one of Chris Argent's GPS trackers on the armored van that was taking the evidence to federal lock-up, have Ethan and Aiden pretend to have gotten into motorcycle wrecks to block their path, and then steal the scroll from the van.
Unfortunately for them, though Kira was able to plant the GPS tracker, their plan was set off course by the arrival of Kincaid, who was also seeking the scroll, as it was valued at over three million dollars. While Scott and Allison stood in front of Lydia to protect her while bartering with Kincaid, Kira was climbing on top of the van so that she could jump on Kincaid's shoulders in an attempt to knock him out. However, Kincaid easily threw Kira off of him, and she landed near where Lydia was standing, having caught Allison when Kincaid backhanded her. Just as Kincaid began mocking Scott for his perceived lack of strength, the twins arrived and neutralized him, allowing the McCall Pack to steal both the Shugendo Scroll and the $100,000 in cash that Katashi intended to use to buy a gun from Chris Argent.
In Insatiable, Kira joined the rest of the McCall Pack in the hunt for the Nogitsune, who had separated from Stiles and had captured Lydia, presumably for her Banshee powers, knowing they needed to save her before he could harm her. When Kira learned that Stiles intended to be tested by the Oni to ensure that the Nogitsune was truly gone from his body, she arrived at the McCall House and tried to stop him, just as her mother Noshiko Yukimura arrived with an Oni at her side. Stiles assured her that he was the one who asked them to come and let them test him anyway, which fortunately resulted in them branding the jiko kanji (Japanese for "self") behind his ear to ensure that he truly was himself and not the Nogitsune.
Kira later went home with Noshiko, where she let out her frustrations and asked what they were supposed to do until the Oni found the Nogitsune, believing they'd just be sitting around and waiting. Noshiko corrected her by saying that she was going to sit and learn before bringing out their family's game of Go, reminding Kira that Scott had told her that when he and Lydia were in Stiles' mind, they saw him playing Go with the Nogitsune, which could be a crucial hint in beating him. When Kira protested, stating that this wasn't a game, Noshiko informed her that to the Nogitsune, it was, and that if she wanted to save Lydia and Stiles, then she needed to learn how to play before heading to school.
Once Kira arrived at her economics class, she was shocked to find that the Banshee Meredith Walker had escaped Eichen House and came to the school, leading her to immediately call Scott and Stiles, knowing she could help them find Lydia. After Coach Finstock questioned Meredith on why she left Eichen and how she ended up there, he left the classroom to inform Eichen House where she was so she could picked up and returned to the facility. However, before he could do so, Kira chased after him and hurriedly rambled, "Coach, you can't let them take her back. It's hard to explain, but if you let her go back, then really, really bad things are going to happen-- to Lydia, to Scott, and Stiles, and maybe even you. So, please, please don't let them take her." Confused, Coach frowned and asked her who she was, and Kira sheepishly introduced herself as a new student.
Though Coach did call Eichen House, he ultimately did as Kira asked by incapacitating the orderly Brunski with his own taser before they could restrain Meredith, and Kira got her to Scott and Stiles so that she could be brought back to the McCall House to figure out their next move. Meanwhile, the Nogitsune had Lydia locked up in the tunnels of Camp Oak Creek, where she was overwhelmed by all the voices she could hear because of the numerous deaths that occurred there during World War II. Lydia insisted that her friends were going to find her, but the Nogitsune wasn't so sure and hinted at each of her friends' current tasks, including Kira's, which included learning Go.
Back at the Yukimura House, Kira asked her father Ken Yukimura where Noshiko was, and he stated that he didn't know, although he did add that he did know that Noshiko was trying to keep her out of the supernatural world for as long as possible. The two then began discussing the game Go, as the board and pieces were still set up from earlier, including the fact that they had set up the board like it was Kira playing against the Nogitsune. Ken frowned, identifying the white pieces as being in an aggressive style of play, which was typically how Noshiko played the game. Kira quickly realized that Noshiko was planning on killing the Nogitsune herself tonight, regardless of what it could do to the newly separated Stiles, and set off with Scott, Stiles, Allison and Isaac to go rescue Lydia from the Nogitsune's captivity in Camp Oak Creek.
Once they arrived, Kira, Allison, and Isaac went to negotiate with Noshiko (or, at the very least, buy them some time) while Scott and Stiles went into the tunnels to find Lydia themselves. Though they were able to reach Lydia in time and get her out of her prison, Allison ultimately died so that they could do so, devastating Kira and Lydia both.
In The Divine Move, Kira and Lydia were briefly separated in the aftermath of the battle against the Nogitsune and the Oni at Camp Oak Creek, which resulted in the death of their good friend Allison Argent. Kira and her parents, Ken and Noshiko, brough the still-recovering Stiles back to the Yukimura House to regroup, while Lydia went with Scott to the animal clinic to talk to Alan Deaton and see if there was anything else they could do to defeat the Nogitsune.
However, when the Yukimuras and Stiles' discussion turned to the fact that Noshiko had originally trapped the Nogitsune in a jar in the roots of the Nemeton, Stiles realized that they needed to see Deaton, who knew more about the sacred Druid tree than anyone else they knew. Meanwhile, Deaton had explained that the Nemeton no longer had the same power it did in 1943 due to the fact that someone cut it down, but brought up that there were objects made from the wood of the Nemeton at its full power that could possibly trap it, leading Scott and Lydia to realize that the Hale Family's Triskelion Urn, which currently held Talia Hale's claws, was one of those objects.
Just as Scott had contacted Derek, who planned to meet them with the triskele box, Lydia got woozy on her feet and admitted that she got the sudden feeling like they were running out of time. Just then, Kira and Stiles arrived, with the former helping hold the latter up on his feet with an arm around his waist, and Stiles grimly stated that he was starting to feel the same way.
The four (Scott, Stiles, Lydia, and Kira) made their way to Beacon Hills High School, where they were planning on both obtaining the urn and also making their final stand against the Nogitsune. Just as they were departing from Stiles' Jeep, Stiles stopped them and made it clear that, while he was aware that they were all concerned that killing the Nogitsune may kill him as well, they needed to stick with the plan and go through with defeating the Void Kitsune for the entire town's sake. They then walked into the front doors of the school and were shocked and confused to find that it had been transformed into a snowy version of Ikeda's garden, where Argent had his first encounter with a Nogitsune in 1988.
In the illusion, the Nogitsune (in the form of the bandaged, post-burn Corporal Rhys) reiterated his promise to kill everyone Stiles loved, one by one, much to the others' horror. When Stiles asked where they were, the Nogitsune answered that they were between life and death, which led Lydia to remember Kira's earlier lesson about the Buddhist afterlife and realize that they were in Bardo. The Nogitsune agreed with Lydia's answer, but warned them that there were no peaceful deities to be found there while silently summoning half of his Oni demons to further emphasize his point. The Void Kitsune went on to explain that he had captured almost all of the territories on the board (the hospital, Sheriff's station, and the animal clinic) and hinted that everyone who had been touched by an Oni's blade would soon die, which included Stilinski, Parrish, Deaton, and Melissa, among many others.
Kira, Lydia, and Scott watched in horror as the Nogitsune offered Stiles a deal—commit the ritual of seppuku (i.e. disemboweling himself with a sword) and let his kaishakunin, Scott, behead him as the killing blow, or else everyone he loved would die. This ultimately led to Scott and Kira beginning to fight the Oni, while Stiles and Lydia, not equipped to fight, hid behind a nearby boulder in hopes of staying out of the main battle. Neither Kira nor Lydia seemed to have any idea what was going on, with Kira reminding everyone that she hadn't even touched a sword until a month ago, and with Lydia insisting that this couldn't possibly be real, though Stiles pointed out that it felt pretty real to him.
After a few more minutes of fighting, Kira was disarmed of her weapon, and Stiles, unwilling to let anyone else get hurt on his behalf, rushed over and grabbed Kira's katana off the snow-covered ground before preparing to stab himself in the stomach with it. Scott and Lydia quickly began arguing with him to stop, as Lydia believed it was just another trick the Nogitsune was playing, but the Void Kitsune insisted that he was no longer playing any tricks before encouraging Stiles to give up the game, adding that they had no moves left. Just then, Stiles caught the sight of a school textbook laying in the snow in the reflection of the sword and looked around to see a classroom desk several meters away.
Realizing that this was indeed just an illusion, Stiles declared that they had a "divine move" and encouraged his friends to stop fighting, insisting that, while it looked and felt real, it was just an illusion created by the Nogitsune. This caused the four to bravely form a single-file line, with Scott and Kira protecting the human Stiles and Lydia in the front, so they could push past the Nogitsune and break through the doors, where they found themselves back in the high school with none of the injuries they sustained in the illusion.
However, before they could react further, the Nogitsune (now in Stiles' appearance) sneaked up behind them, backhanding Kira so hard that she was disarmed of her sword yet again and throwing Scott into the row of lockers, leaving Lydia to hold up the still-weak Stiles as they backed away from the furious trickster. The Nogitsune ranted that they were fools to think they could beat him at his own game, as he was one thousand years old and couldn't be killed. Lydia, though clearly afraid, managed to smugly remind him that, while they couldn't kill him, they could change him, as they learned from the Shugendo Scroll.
When the Nogitsune realized what they were threatening, Stiles pointed out that he couldn't be a fox and a wolf, just as Scott appeared behind him and bit the Nogitsune in the shoulder as he screamed in pain. As soon as Scott pulled away from him, Kira, having regained her katana, used it to stab the Nogitsune through the back, causing his body to turn into stone and collapse into dust as it released its soul in the form of a fly, which Isaac, fresh from the fight against the rest of the Oni, was able to catch in the Triskelion Urn. They were all mildly concerned when Stiles briefly fainted, but he soon came to and reassured them all that he was going to survive, though they were then rocked by the news that Aiden had been fatally wounded in the fight against the Oni.
An unknown amount of time later, Kira and Lydia were standing next to Lydia's locker, where Kira was confessing that she wished she knew what to say to all of them in the aftermath of everything that happened with Allison, Aiden, and everything else, but she wasn't sure how much space or time to give them. She sighed and pointed out that she was still just the new girl at school, but Lydia, who caught sight of Coach Finstock with a familiar face down the hallway, leading the girl on a tour of the school, correctly guessed that Kira wouldn't be the new girl for long. Kira and Lydia then watched as Coach led Malia Tate down the hallway past them, with both girls smiling in welcome at Malia, which the Werecoyote returned in kind, foreshadowing their future friendships and trio in the upcoming season.
In The Dark Moon, Lydia and Kira Yukimura were among the McCall Pack members (along with their leader, Scott McCall, Stiles Stilinski, and Malia Tate) in search of Derek Hale, who they believed to have been captured by the Calavera Family of Hunters. Once there, Kira and Lydia split up, with the former infiltrating the club with Scott and Malia while the latter joined Stiles in seeking out the Calavera clan's matriarch, Araya, with the intention of bargaining with her for Derek's release.
However, it was quickly revealed that Derek was not actually in the Calavera family's possession, and the pack was ultimately incapacitated and locked up in the club bathroom while Araya interrogated Lydia personally on her Banshee powers and how exactly they worked.
Wanting to get an idea of the kind of Alpha Scott was and how he planned on using his newly gained status, Araya and her son, Severo, set up a test that involved shackling Scott and Lydia and forcing Kira, the only one of the pack members who, as a Kitsune, was immune to the effects of electricity, to electrocute Scott in increasing voltages if he did not answer the questions Araya asked to her liking; if Kira refused, then Severo would electrocute Lydia instead, forcing Scott to comply due to the fact that, as a Werewolf, he had the power to heal quickly from any injury, unlike Lydia.
Despite her reservations, Kira did as Scott asked and turned the dial on him to avoid hurting Lydia, though when Araya insisted on turning the dial to ten, she refused, only for Araya to do it herself and shock Scott instead of hurting Lydia as she had threatened. This torture eventually led Scott to realize what Araya was trying to tell her-- Kate Argent had survived her injuries at the hands of Peter Hale and had turned into a shapeshifter and still had her vendetta against the Hale Family, which was why she had kidnapped Derek.
Her message having been delivered and now knowing that Scott was not a threat to humans, Araya let the pack go and sent them to La Iglesia, an abandoned Mexican temple where she believed Kate to be hiding, with the mercenary Braeden hired to guide them there in hopes of getting both parties what they wanted—Araya would get the captured Kate, and the pack would get Derek's freedom.
On the way to the ruins of the temple, Kira and Malia, who were either not in Beacon Hills or in coyote form in the woods, respectively, when the issues with Kate had originally happened, questioned Scott, Stiles, and Lydia on the former Argent Hunter, leading Lydia to explain that she was their late friend Allison Argent's aunt and a "sociopathic bitch" who had caused the Hale House Fire that killed the majority of Derek's family.
After Stiles' Jeep broke down, Kira and Lydia once again split up, with Kira going with Malia to investigate some movement nearby that was eventually revealed to be one of Kate's Berserkers, while Lydia stayed with Stiles to help him repair the Jeep so they could meet up with Scott and Braeden at La Iglesia. Once there, all in attendance were stunned to find that Scott and Braeden had found Derek, but he had been mysteriously de-aged to approximately sixteen years old.
In 117, the day after the pack returned from La Iglesia, following the de-aged Derek's escape from the animal clinic, Kira met up with Lydia while Scott and Stiles worked on trying to get the memory-lapsed Derek to trust them enough to come with them.
The two young women had just pulled into the gas station when Kira received a text that informed them that Scott was planning to seek out assistance from Derek's uncle Peter, with Kira adding that Scott wanted them to meet up with Stiles at Scott's house, a plan Lydia immediately declared to be "horrible," though she did acknowledge that they'd had worse, such as their trip to Mexico.
This gave Kira the opportunity she was waiting for, allowing her to nervously stammer, "About that... Remember how we were in the club, and you and Scott were hooked up to electrical cables?" When Lydia dryly replied that she vividly recalled the experience, Kira continued to ramble for a moment before getting to the point-- if it had been Kira's hand on the dial connected to Lydia, and she had to turn it up to ten, would Lydia be angry?
Lydia sighed before smiling at her encouragingly, assuring her that she would not be mad, because she would know that Kira didn't have a choice, correctly assuming that Kira was concerned that Scott was angry with Kira for having done the same thing and making it clear that Scott felt the same way. She went on to add that she had no reason to worry, because Kira was a "katana-wielding, badass Kitsune" and Scott couldn't be more into her.
With Kira having been cheered up, Lydia changed the subject to the reason for their pit-stop, instructing Kira to take the Beacon Hills Credit Union card from the card holder on the driver's side visor and use it to pay for gas while Lydia went inside. Kira was initially distracted by the sheer number of cards lined up in the visor before she noticed the fact that the car already had a full tank and frowned in confusion.
Concerned, Kira got out of the car and started walking toward the gas station's store, where she eventually found Lydia staring blank-faced at the building. Upon seeing Lydia's expression, Kira frowned even more and asked her if she was okay, but Lydia simply looked exhausted as she advised her friend not to look. Ignoring Lydia's advice, Kira followed Lydia's line of sight to the nearby public restroom, where the door was wide open and a gas station attendant was viciously mauled to death inside. This revealed that they had been drawn there due to Lydia's status as a Banshee and a Harbinger of Death.
Meanwhile, Scott and Malia went to Derek's loft to talk to Peter about the de-aged Derek, where they revealed that Peter had inadvertently turned Kate Argent into a Werejaguar when he clawed her throat out a year earlier, and Peter, in turn, revealed that Derek and Kate had once shared a romantic and sexual relationship when Derek was a teenager. Unfortunately, they soon learned from Stiles that Derek had been taken from the McCall House by Kate, leading Scott, Malia, and Peter to call Lydia in hopes that her genius brain could help them figure out what Kate needed from him.
Lydia broke the news about the gruesome murder they had stumbled upon and informed them that they had already called Stilinski so that the Sheriff's deputies could come check it out, and Scott asked if they could send them pictures of the crime scene, forcing Kira and Lydia to gingerly step around the piles of blood to document the scene around them. Lydia, looking ill, remarked, "To be honest, I have a 4.0 in AP Biology, and there are parts of the human anatomy I have never seen before on these walls..." to emphasize the sheer carnage that they had found.
The group then determined that Kate was the killer, but that she had slain the attendant on accident due to the fact that she still didn't have control over her transformations yet. Kira and Lydia later rushed to the [[Beacon Hills High School|to back up the rest of their friends in stopping Kate from using Derek, but quickly got split up, with Kira finding Scott and Malia battling a Berserker in the catwalk while Lydia ran into Stiles and ultimately located the Hale Vault underneath the school, where an unknown person had just stolen $117 million in bearer bonds from Peter's safe while he was battling Kate.
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In The Benefactor,
In Smoke and Mirrors,
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In Parasomnia,
In Dreamcatchers,
In A Novel Approach,
In Required Reading,
In Strange Frequencies,
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In Amplification,
In Lie Ability,
In Apotheosis,Trivia[]
- Kira and Lydia are one of the main female friendships in the later seasons of the series, along with Lydia and Malia, and Kira and Malia.
- Both were friends with Allison Argent and were deeply affected by her passing; Kira because she witnessed it first-hand, and Lydia because, as a Banshee, she felt her best friend die before she Banshee screamed as a result.
