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[animalize]

• This app contains SPOILERS for Season 5 of Teen Wolf. You've been warned!

Player Information

Name: Elle
Age: I am not Benjamin Button. Still over 18.
Contact Info: pm!
Other Characters: Clarke Griffin (coleader)

Character Information

Name: Malia Tate ( occasionally referred to as Malia Hale )
Canon: Teen Wolf
Age: Teen Wolf sucks at ages. Canon seems to suggest she's 18 though.
Gender: Female
Canon Point: 5.05, "A Novel Approach"
Background Link: Wiki link!
Inventory: The clothes on her back, her cellphone ( which I'm assuming will lose power, and no houses will have chargers? lmk! ), house keys, etc.

Personality:

❝The reason my sister and mother are dead is because I almost ate them on a full moon.❞

Malia is a wild child — literally. When she was 9 years old, Malia had an argument with her mother, saying, "I wish you were all dead." Turns out that night was the full moon, and she lost control in the car and started transforming; she believes herself responsible for her mother and sister's death in the car accident. Overcome with guilt and grief, she transformed fully into a coyote to avoid dealing with it; for the next 8 years, she lived in solitude as an animal. This has effected her personality tremendously.

Firstly, Malia became accustomed to solitude and not having to abide by social conventions; because of this, her return to civilization was rocky. She played by the rules of the animal kingdom — kill or be killed, abandon (or eat) wounded allies, etc. Throughout the 4th season, she slowly began to improve her social skills. She became much more attached to those she would have left for dead, stating "I'm worried about everyone." These days, she's still blunt and extremely literal; figurative speech is more difficult for her to grasp, and she prefers to say exactly what she means, whether it's socially acceptable or not.

She also missed the point in development where most people develop shame. Malia rarely shows embarrassment. Being singled out in a high school class you really shouldn't be taking because you haven't gone to school since you were 9 is embarrassing for anyone, but when it comes to things like bodily shame, she doesn't have it. When asked what she's doing showering in the boys' bathroom at Eichen House, she says, "I don't care. In the woods, there was no boys' and girls' room." Boy or girl, she really doesn't care if they see her naked. After all, she spent years wearing nothing but a fur coat.

For the most part, she's difficult to embarrass. She isn't the self-conscious type, and doesn't really care about the opinions of the few people she's loyal to. Malia's not fully human. She's learning how to balance the coyote and the girl. She still has a ways to go, but her transition actually went very smoothly for someone who lived as a coyote for years.

This is because even though she was physically a coyote, Malia was never quite able to shed her humanity. Her den contained belongings that were completely out of place for a coyote, most notably her younger sister's doll, which she developed an attachment to. She may have been running away from her guilt, but she was never fully able to escape who she was.

After shifting back to a human, guilt is one of her strongest emotions. She describes it as making her "sick to [her] stomach," explaining it in a very guttural and physical way rather than mental. This guilt stays with her, and only grows when she discovers her true parentage — she's descended from murderers, Peter Hale and the Desert Wolf. As she learns to drive in the fifth season, she begins to have flashbacks to the accident; Malia recalls another car in the road that night, a detail she had forgotten, and suddenly remembers a figure shooting at their car. This changes her view of that night, and more so, of the Desert Wolf — the woman she's convinced was shooting at the car.

When Stiles tells her killing doesn't run in a family, she replies, "Maybe it does in mine." One of her fears is turning out like them, a killer. She doesn't show many reservations towards killing when she deems it necessary — to eliminate a potential threat, in self defense — but certainly doesn't want to be a murderer of innocents. At first, she suggests killing a girl, Tracy, without much hesitation. Tracy is being experimented on by the antagonists of the season, the Dread Doctors, and had recently killed her father and psychiatrist. She asks, "How do you know she's not going to kill us?" However, after she realizes Tracy believes she's still in a night terror, Malia confronts her and talks her down back into reality rather than killing her. Unfortunately, Tracy's killed by the Dread Doctors directly afterward — something that Malia tries to stop and is disturbed by.

This indicates that she clearly has empathy towards others. She just doesn't sugar coat things; it's because she's brutally honest, not because she doesn't care. Malia especially cares about the aforementioned people who've earned her unwavering trust and loyalty. She doesn't dedicate herself to others easily, but she will protect and care for anyone who earns it. Loyalty begets loyalty and trust begets trust for her.

Malia will protect those she cares about in any way, including physically. Most likely physically. She's an aggressive coyote! It's what she knows. When she first sees Stiles in Eichen House, she punches him in the face. She's a physical person — as evidenced by her physical description of guilt — and seems to find it easier to express her emotions through her actions. So when you piss her off... get out of the way. She often rushes into fights without considering the level of risk; her mindset is almost always "I can take them." She's headstrong and impulsive, but also brave. Maybe suicidally so, but still brave.

The only thing she's not brave about is school. She nearly walks out of a math class after seeing the equations on the board. Tests are horrifying for her, and the thought of not making it to senior year with the rest of her class gives her quite a bit of anxiety. It's understandable. This girl hasn't set foot in a school in 8 years. Last time she was there, she was in 4th grade. They immediately throw her into 11th grade; that's about seven years of missed school. Of course she's freaked out.

Even though it scares her, she tries. She tries really hard. Malia cares about how well she does in school — even math, although she hates it. She manages to pass her junior year, which is pretty much a miracle considering she had to deal with assassins trying to kill all the supernatural creatures in town during that year. One of Malia's defining traits is intense determination. What Malia wants to accomplish, she will. She perseveres through any challenges and rarely gives up.

Discovering her father is Peter Hale throws her for a loop. She starts to wonder if evil like that is in her blood; her first impression of him was literally Satan in a V-neck, so it's safe to say she doesn't want to be anything like him. She's also searching for her mother, but the Desert Wolf doesn't appear to be an innocent, sweet flower, either. Peter has made a few attempts at reaching out to her, but she hasn't been receptive. Eventually, Malia learns to reject this side of her — she's Malia Tate, not Hale. Though she's bound to Peter by blood, she isn't by anything else. Her family is her adoptive family. She's learning to control her animal side so that nothing like the car accident ever happens again, having many humanizing moments, and overall? She's trying to be a better person than Peter ever was.

So much of what she's become post-coyote has been shaped by her pack — they're her main support system, and she's become very loyal. Originally, she only cared about Stiles; they had a shared experience of staying in Eichen House, the mental institution she ends up in after showing up after 8 years in the wilderness, and although their relationship starts off rocky, he's the first person she says she wouldn't just leave. ("I would never leave without you," she says, then looks back at the others. "Them, I would leave.") He's the first to help her acclimate to life as a human again, and his patience doesn't go unnoticed.

Slowly, she starts to care about Scott, too. Despite her initial annoyance at being forced back into human life by him, he helps her with the supernatural side of things, teaching her control. He's the leader of the pack, after all, and a pretty good one. That fosters trust. Eventually, she settles in as a real member of the pack, her relationships with the others blossoming. She's closer to Kira and Lydia than she is Liam; they help teach her to drive, Lydia writes her math notes, etc. They're the teen girl presence in her life, and they just so happen to have a common experience of being supernatural creatures.

Then there's Theo. Stiles doesn't like him, but Malia expresses confusion at why they're not supposed to trust him. He's a random outsider, but Theo shows an interest in her, however, and ends up being the only one who knows about her Desert Wolf flashback. (Turns out she trusts him simply because he's half-coyote, and although she doesn't know it, she can sense it.)

Those are her people. She starts to expand the list of people she cares about, but in the end, these are the ones that will always come first; they're the ones who've fostered a sense of loyalty. They're the ones she fights for.

❝Rules of the wild kingdom don't apply to friends.❞

Flavor Abilities:

Werewolves (or in this case, werecoyotes...) can change their eye color at will! Malia can flash hers pale blue.

Suitability:

Malia is no stranger to horror. Whether it's being targeted by paid assassins, finding out her biological father is a sociopath, or watching the girl she tried to save die before her eyes, she's constantly surrounded by it. Still, she perseveres — Malia is nothing if not determined. Despite this, she finds it difficult, saying "I'm not like Scott. I can't handle another body" a few episodes later than her canon point. Malia's still new to caring about people, and it troubles her; she's intensely loyal, and would likely form a small group of people that she'd protect like a guard dog.

She's also impulsive and bull-headed, meaning she might try some things others haven't. Her main goal will be getting over the walls, which will prove pretty difficult without her abilities. Speaking of that, her depowering will be concerning — she was born like this, so she's never been without her powers. Everything will be much more muted, which will definitely add to a sense of powerlessness for her.

RP Samples:

network & action, test drive.
inbox, eudio.
action, eudio.