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APPLICANT INFO.
NAME: Elle
CONTACT: khalasar
CURRENT CHARACTERS: n/a!

CHARACTER INFO.
NAME: Malia Tate
CANON: Teen Wolf
AGE: 17
APPEARANCE: cute!
CANON POINT: 4.08 "Time of Death"

BACKGROUND: wiki link!

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.

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.

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. 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.

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. It's because of this that Scott and Stiles keeping her parentage a secret from her hurts; for so long, she had been on her own, and just as she begins to trust, she feels betrayed.

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

ABILITIES:

Malia is a werecoyote. Which is basically a werewolf.

STRENGTHS.

SELF HEALING/CURING.
Self-explanatory; they heal faster than humans and are immune to most diseases. However, she is affected by a weaponized "canine distemper" in 4.07.

HEIGHTENED SENSES.

HEIGHTENED AGILITY/STRENGTH.

TAKING PAIN.
Werewolves and werecoyotes can absorb some of the pain from another living being through touch. However, then they feel the pain themselves, and they can't take all of it.

SHIFTING.
When she wants, Malia can grow fangs and claws. Her eyes also turn a pale blue.


WEAKNESSES.

WOLFSBANE.
Wolfsbane in small amounts can lead to hallucinations. Bigger doses can render them unconscious or kill them.

LUNAR ECLIPSE.
Since their powers are rooted with the moon, they're powerless during a lunar eclipse.

FULL MOON.
They're powerful during the full moon, but it also controls them. Malia has problems controlling herself during the full moon, especially now that she no longer has Stiles as her anchor.

MOUNTAIN ASH.
Salt is to demons as mountain ash is to werewolves/werecoyotes — they can't cross a barrier of ash.

MOONSTONE/HECATOLITE.
Keeps the effects of the moon out of buildings by "scattering the moonlight." If they're kept in a building like this for several months, they won't turn on the full moon and will be extremely intense and uncontrollable when they do turn.

ELECTRICITY.
A constant dose of electricity will keep her from shifting, as well as weaken her.

INVENTORY:

— her clothes.
— cell phone.

WRITING SAMPLES.
NETWORK SAMPLE:

eudio.

LOG SAMPLE:

test drive meme.