Gaia is a refugee living in Downtown Tha.  Her homeland is unknown to the residents of Tha but many assumptions are made based on her ambiguous ethnic appearance.  She was sent by her parents to make a living in Tha in hopes that she will have a better life than they did.  She was meant to flee with her twin brother Geo, but unfortunately the warring forces in her homeland took her brother as a boy soldier.  She remains mysterious, disinterested in Tha’s consumerist culture and the people that blindly follow it.  She strives to be a successful healer and perhaps even learn the arts of politics so that when she returns home she can bring peace to her land.  She is skilled in many mystical ways that the people of Tha don’t understand, but at the same time she is still human.  She gets irritated when orientalists approach her with ignorant overexaggerated believes about her and her mother culture.

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Issues addressed:

- Refugee children

- Child soldiers (slight)

- War

- Orientalism

- Consumerism vs. Traditional society

Gaia is supposed to be representative of people all around the world.

Appearance

I want Gaia to be very exotic  in appearance.  Brilliant coloured eyes, darker skin, coloured hair…something that cannot be depicted.  Although since my characters tend to be weird colours anyway, I suppose that won’t be hard.