Malia hale

Malia Tate (born Malia Hale) was introduced in Season 3 as a supporting character and was promoted to a main character in the fourth, fifth, and sixth seasons of MTV's Teen Wolf.

Malia was born to the Werewolf Peter Hale and the Werecoyote assassin known as the Desert Wolf, but ultimately inherited her mother's supernatural genes by becoming a Werecoyote herself, unintentionally taking a portion of her mother's power while she was being born. However, upon realizing the Desert Wolf's resentment toward her newborn daughter for taking her powers, Peter's sister Talia Hale used the Alpha memory-manipulation ritual to take Peter's memories of Malia's conception and birth before stealing Malia and putting her in the adoption system to get her away from her biological mother. Malia was then subsequently adopted by Evelyn and Henry Tate, who raised her as their own alongside their younger biological daughter Kylie on a ranch in Beacon Hills.

However, when she was nine years old, an assassination attempt by the Desert Wolf while she was driving with her adoptive mother and sister led their car to wreck in the Beacon Hills Preserve, and the stress of the event paired with the full moon overhead caused Malia to shift into her coyote form for the first time. Since she had no idea of her supernatural heritage nor any control over her abilities, Malia ended up inadvertently attacking and killing Evelyn and Kylie before running away. The guilt of this act led Malia to live as a true coyote in the woods for the next eight years until she was finally discovered by True Alpha Werewolf Scott McCall and his human best friend Stiles Stilinski. The two realized who and what Malia was and worked with the rest of their pack to turn Malia back into her human form.

When Malia was around nine years old, she got into a fight with her mother and sister one full moon night before they were getting ready to leave the house on an errand. To this day, Malia cannot remember what the fight was about-all she can recall is that, in her anger, she told them, "I wish you were all dead." While Evelyn was driving their car through the back roads of Beacon Hills, the Desert Wolf appeared in the middle of the road and began to shoot at them, which frightened her so much that she reflexively jerked the wheel away and drove into the nearby nature preserve.

Malia has demonstrated that she hates being lied to, and finding out that someone she cares about has lied to her is one of the worst sins a person can commit in her eyes, as evidenced by her reaction upon learning that Stiles and Scott McCall kept the identity of her biological father (and the fact that she was adopted) a secret. She also continues to carry a lot of guilt for the deaths of her adoptive mother and sister, and struggles a lot with her animal instincts to fight and kill.

This has also recently led her to feel a great deal of anger and hatred for the Desert Wolf, now that she knows the truth about what really caused the events that led to the death of her family members, to the point where she has vowed to kill her biological mother before she can kill her first. This has added even more guilt and shame to Malia's conscience, as her desire to get vengeance on the Desert Wolf conflicts with her internal belief in her pack's policy against taking life unless absolutely necessary. When Malia feels as though she's going to disappoint the people she cares about, she tends to pull away from them and isolate herself as punishment for the sins she believes she's committing. Despite this, she still cares deeply about her family and pack, and will do anything to help protect them, regardless of her own feelings.

However, by the final season, Malia has grown into a confident, self-assured, and content young woman who trusts herself, her instincts, and her pack unconditionally. Her affiliation with Scott McCall and the McCall Pack led her to always choose to do the right thing, no matter what, even if she is still occasionally tempted to respond with violence rather than communication. She also became much better at reading people, correctly assuming that Scott was planning on potentially martyring himself in order to save the rest of the supernatural community from Monroe's Army, and she understood that Halwyn was so intent on protecting the world from the Anuk-ite that he would die if it meant defeating it.

With Stiles interning with the FBI, Malia became Scott's right-hand person, while Liam was his left-hand person, ensuring that he had fellow shapeshifters at his side whenever needed to back him up. She also became secure in her relationships, developing close friendships with Stiles, Liam, Lydia, Kira, and Derek, while her bond with Scott grew from a friendly Alpha-Beta bond to that of equal romantic partners.

Malia is a very beautiful and attractive, tall, athletic, lean young woman. Her hair is naturally dark brown, but after returning to her human form in 2011, Malia briefly had long, blonde-highlighted hair before cutting it into a short bob and dyeing it her natural color again. Malia's style is rustic and casual, typically choosing to wear cut-off jean shorts or neutral-toned skinny jeans with flannel shirts and trendy hoodies paired with boots. She doesn't often wear much jewelry or makeup, though she may accessorize with tall woolen socks under her boots or knit caps.

Season 3

After years of being a werecoyote, Malia is turned back into a human. She later seeks out Scott to help her shift at will.

Season 4

She begins dating Stiles and discovers that Peter Hale is her father.

Season 5

She begins to search for her birth mother, Corinne, The Desert Wolf using any resource she can from Braeden to Theo Raeken.

When Malia confronts her mother, she learns why Corinne tried to kill her.

Season 6

Malia appears for the first time in coyote form since Season 3. She helps the pack investigate missing people and determines they are still alive due to the lack of blood but says she can't smell any sign that they were ever in their car.

Malia awakes in the corner of her room, glancing over at the chains that lay on the floor. She meets up with Lydia at the school, she's growling at people, clawing her desk, she suffering from lack of control, and doesn't know what to do.

Malia loses control as she makes up for a test, her claws come out as her eyes begin to glow, then shifting into a coyote and making her way to the school basement.

Malia hears dying screams while on a run through the preserve. The smell of blood led her towards the incident, however, she was shot by Chris Argent before she could further investigate.

After recognizing the distant howl and scent of a dying werewolf, she and Scott track it to the woods. As Malia approaches, she quickly realizes that it's Peter.

Malia hallucinates her dead adoptive mother and sister, as well as Theo. He offers to kill her. Theo shoots her, Malia falls back, directly in between her mother and sister as they pull her into the ground.

Malia repeatedly punches Theo as he lays on the ground, he puts in no effort to fight back. With her claws out, she plans on finishing him off, however, Scott and Liam intervene.

She and Scott fight the Ghost Riders long enough for Liam and Lydia to get away. Malia saves Scott before they can kill him, however, not even the two of them is enough to hold the Riders off for long.

Malia enters the cooling chamber shortly after Scott. She finds herself in the library, where each book represents a memory. She soon finds the shelf with all her memories of Stiles.

She musters a small amount of love for Peter to call him "Dad" in order to snap him out of his trance in the Ghost Rider's dimension.

Malia joins Liam and Mason in the sewers leading from the school, where they discover a large pile of dead rats, all of which smelled like fear. However, Malia repeated a number of times that this wasn't her concern.

Malia and Scott interrupt Argent's weapon trade just as it was going south. After retrieving Argent's inside man, who was unconscious and in the midst of the gun fire, Malia took out one of the firing soldiers.

Malia, Scott, Liam, and Lori searches the woods for Brett. They tracked him into the tunnels, where Scott was badly wounded. After a couple failed attempts, Malia successfully took some of Scott's pain.

Malia warns Scott against attending the peace summit alone with a werewolf hunter. She was certain that it was a trap, and that he would get himself killed.

During the standoff with the Hunters, Malia panics and willing to forget about Jiang and Tierney to save herself until Scott clams her down.

Malia and Scott attempt to avoid the sensors after getting trapped in Gerard's armory. Malia comes up with a plan to escape through skylight, but the plan fails when she triggers the sensors.

Malia allows Peter access to her memories in order to give him a better understanding of the threat they were all facing.

After helping Lydia break into the morgue to make contact with Halwyn, they remove the bullet from his skull, which revives him. Malia asks him how to stop the Anuk-Ite.

She and Scott go to Deucalion to learn how to fight blind and eventually ends up in the crossfire of the hunters who track them there.