Cora Hale

Cora Suzanne Hale (b. June 1994) is the daughter of the legendary Alpha Werewolf Talia Hale and Samuel Clarke, the younger sister of Laura Hale and Derek Hale, the niece of Peter Hale, and the cousin of Malia Tate. She is the sister-in-law of Aurora Pierce and Colette Destiny. She is the aunt of Talia, Bexley, Declan, Clarke, Emery, and Bonnie Hale.

Cora was believed to be dead by everyone in Beacon Hills, including her own brother Derek, until it was revealed that she had, in fact, survived the Hale House Fire and was ultimately captured by the Alpha Pack in the late spring to early summer of 2011 after she journeyed back to her hometown to learn more about the rumors she heard about a new Hale Alpha starting a pack.

After being held in captivity for nearly four months along with Vernon Boyd and Erica Reyes (the latter of whom was eventually killed by Kali a few days before the other two were found and rescued), she was finally rescued by Derek, Scott McCall, and Allison Argent, albeit with many complications.

Once Cora had settled down from feral rage caused by the full moon on the night she was freed from captivity (due to her prison cell having hecatolite, a mineral that blocked her from feeling the moonlight the whole four months she was locked up), it was eventually explained that Cora had run away after the Hale House Fire, believing that her entire family had perished. Despite only being eleven years old at the time, Cora continued to travel south and eventually ended up somewhere in South America, where she settled down with a pack there until six years later, when she heard rumors that a powerful new Hale Alpha was building a pack in Beacon Hills.

Upon her release from captivity, Cora was initially upset to learn that she had spent the majority of her life alone and believing she was an orphan while her brother and sister were alive and in contact with each other, but she ultimately dealt with this shock and decided to stay and join her brother's pack to help him fight against Deucalion and his Alpha Pack.

Once the Alpha Pack and the Darach had been defeated, Cora elected to return to South America, which led both Derek and Peter to accompany her there before eventually making their way back home, though they ran into a bit of trouble on the way; when the Calavera Family of Hunters captured Derek and Peter, it was initially assumed that they believed Cora to be a shapeshifter known as La Loba. However, it was eventually revealed that La Loba was not Cora, but was instead Kate Argent, who had become a Werejaguar also known as "The Bone Woman" after being deeply scratched by Peter when he was still an Alpha. As far as it is known, Cora remains safe and sound somewhere in South America, likely with the pack she lived with in the years after the fire, though the Beacon Hills supernaturals, including Derek and Peter, haven't seemed to receive much, if any, news from her since she resettled there.

Cora is a member of the Hale Family and a former member of the Hale Pack.