Lydia’s banshee powers manifest before the beginning of Season 1 in such a way that she can see and talk to the dead. When Laura dies she is drawn to Lydia by her scream and gets Lydia to help her with stuff. Stiles notices Lydia seems distracted and out of it when Spring Semester starts up, he follows her and finds out about Laura when he touches Lydia and can see Laura’s ghost. Stiles is a magical amplifier (a little bit of ash becomes enough to complete the ring) and can see what Lydia sees when he is touching her and other people can see it when they touch him.
-Derek gets to see and talk to his sister again, and his self-flagellating tendencies present themselves in a multitude of ways
-Scott wonders what is up with Stiles and becomes friends with Erica (Erica and Scott eventually become werewolves due to their health issues/ investigating in the woods and ‘the alpha’ bites them)
-Jackson figures out things are weird with Lydia and Stiles and eventually wants to become a werewolf but under Laura’s guidance he has to prove his worth (by helping the abused kid who lives across from him)
-hunters don’t discover Laura’s body cause she and Lydia hide it
-Allison and family show up eventually anyway (no Kate though?)
-Malia is in the woods somewhere and someone should probably take care of that
-Cora you maybe want to hang out this time?