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[series]: Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann
[character]: Nia Teppelin
[character history / background]: See here.
[character abilities]:
Cooking that could kill a bear. The only people who can tolerate--and in fact like--Nia's cooking are Simon and Boota. The basic theory is that it takes a certain level of stupidity, GAR and manliness to appreciate Nia's cooking. If you can punch a hole through time-space, you are GAR enough.
Additionally, Nia has some piloting experience. While she isn't a combatant like the rest of the Brigade, she did help Simon fight in two decisive final battles. As she is no longer human, it is presumed she no longer has reproductive capabilities, and therefore no access to spiral energy. However, when she was human, her level of spiral power, while not immense, was as considerable as any other member of the Great Gurren Brigade.
It is also arguable that Nia's iron will is one of her abilities. Through nothing more than the strength of her will and her love for others (particularly Simon), Nia managed to resist the Anti-Spiral's control over her once Simon broke it, and to keep herself alive for a week after the system supporting her life was destroyed.
[character personality]:
A bright, sunny young woman, Nia cares intensely for everyone, and displays an unshakable faith in people once she gets to know them. Her enthusiasm for life is infectious, and her cheer alone is enough to bring a smile to many people's faces. Because of her upbringing, she carries herself with a great deal of grace and elegance, and tends to speak formally to most people.
Nia is highly curious and intelligent, but tends to be tactless with her questions because she doesn't realize if what she's asking is a sensitive subject. Despite this, she's very empathetic and seems to know just what to say to encourage people or cheer them up. Her train of thought, however, can be erratic and......well, strange. Her way of phrasing things can be roundabout and silly, but she gets her meaning across in a very warm and Nia-like fashion.
Nothing gets Nia down: she can stay strong through anything, and put a positive spin on a bad situation. Her will is absolutely indomitable. If there is a wall, it can be broken through sheer faith.
[point in timeline you're picking your character from]: post-series, after her death
[journal post]:
So warm...
[Nia feels the sunshine on her face and opens her eyes. There are tear tracks on her cheeks, but she's practically glowing, she looks so happy.]
Perhaps this is Heaven. How very peculiar. I didn't believe one such as myself would be able to come here...or anywhere, for that matter.
[third person / log sample]:
There are few absolute truths in the universe. Spiral energy has the power to rewrite the very laws of nature, to bend the world to a person's desires if their will is strong enough. Nia Teppelin knew one absolute truth:
She loved the man lying next to her with every fragment of her being.
Her body ached with it; her heart throbbed with it; her soul was suffused with it. She needed to sleep to keep her strength up--just through the end of the week, if she could make it 'til then--but in sleep her mind was her own. She needed to see him, to touch him. He was her raison d'être. He was keeping her real.
She touched his cheek, soft fingers on soft skin, and he stirred. His breath puffed warmly on her arm, and his eyes blinked open; he was too alert for just waking up.
"Nia? What's up?"
Nia smiled. It was an achey, heart-in-her-throat sort of smile. "Everything," she said. "Nothing at all."
Simon smiled in return, a little quirk of the lips like he usually showed when Nia said something Nia-ish. He understood perfectly. Holding his hand out, he drew her down into his arms.
It was unfair how much she was going to miss him when he was the one who would be left behind. But he had her whole heart, and she would be leaving him. She would be leaving everyone: the entire Brigade, her whole great big extended family. Before them she had just been Nia the princess, whose whole world was her tall, intimidating father. Through them she had become Nia Teppelin, whose world was the world itself--a great, wide expanse full of every kind of miracle imaginable. The greatest miracle of all was human life, and having the chance to live it. Nothing--not genetic reprogramming, not multiple dimensions, not even death--could erase the twenty-one years Nia Teppelin had spent on this earth.
[character]: Nia Teppelin
[character history / background]: See here.
[character abilities]:
Cooking that could kill a bear. The only people who can tolerate--and in fact like--Nia's cooking are Simon and Boota. The basic theory is that it takes a certain level of stupidity, GAR and manliness to appreciate Nia's cooking. If you can punch a hole through time-space, you are GAR enough.
Additionally, Nia has some piloting experience. While she isn't a combatant like the rest of the Brigade, she did help Simon fight in two decisive final battles. As she is no longer human, it is presumed she no longer has reproductive capabilities, and therefore no access to spiral energy. However, when she was human, her level of spiral power, while not immense, was as considerable as any other member of the Great Gurren Brigade.
It is also arguable that Nia's iron will is one of her abilities. Through nothing more than the strength of her will and her love for others (particularly Simon), Nia managed to resist the Anti-Spiral's control over her once Simon broke it, and to keep herself alive for a week after the system supporting her life was destroyed.
[character personality]:
A bright, sunny young woman, Nia cares intensely for everyone, and displays an unshakable faith in people once she gets to know them. Her enthusiasm for life is infectious, and her cheer alone is enough to bring a smile to many people's faces. Because of her upbringing, she carries herself with a great deal of grace and elegance, and tends to speak formally to most people.
Nia is highly curious and intelligent, but tends to be tactless with her questions because she doesn't realize if what she's asking is a sensitive subject. Despite this, she's very empathetic and seems to know just what to say to encourage people or cheer them up. Her train of thought, however, can be erratic and......well, strange. Her way of phrasing things can be roundabout and silly, but she gets her meaning across in a very warm and Nia-like fashion.
Nothing gets Nia down: she can stay strong through anything, and put a positive spin on a bad situation. Her will is absolutely indomitable. If there is a wall, it can be broken through sheer faith.
[point in timeline you're picking your character from]: post-series, after her death
[journal post]:
So warm...
[Nia feels the sunshine on her face and opens her eyes. There are tear tracks on her cheeks, but she's practically glowing, she looks so happy.]
Perhaps this is Heaven. How very peculiar. I didn't believe one such as myself would be able to come here...or anywhere, for that matter.
[third person / log sample]:
There are few absolute truths in the universe. Spiral energy has the power to rewrite the very laws of nature, to bend the world to a person's desires if their will is strong enough. Nia Teppelin knew one absolute truth:
She loved the man lying next to her with every fragment of her being.
Her body ached with it; her heart throbbed with it; her soul was suffused with it. She needed to sleep to keep her strength up--just through the end of the week, if she could make it 'til then--but in sleep her mind was her own. She needed to see him, to touch him. He was her raison d'être. He was keeping her real.
She touched his cheek, soft fingers on soft skin, and he stirred. His breath puffed warmly on her arm, and his eyes blinked open; he was too alert for just waking up.
"Nia? What's up?"
Nia smiled. It was an achey, heart-in-her-throat sort of smile. "Everything," she said. "Nothing at all."
Simon smiled in return, a little quirk of the lips like he usually showed when Nia said something Nia-ish. He understood perfectly. Holding his hand out, he drew her down into his arms.
It was unfair how much she was going to miss him when he was the one who would be left behind. But he had her whole heart, and she would be leaving him. She would be leaving everyone: the entire Brigade, her whole great big extended family. Before them she had just been Nia the princess, whose whole world was her tall, intimidating father. Through them she had become Nia Teppelin, whose world was the world itself--a great, wide expanse full of every kind of miracle imaginable. The greatest miracle of all was human life, and having the chance to live it. Nothing--not genetic reprogramming, not multiple dimensions, not even death--could erase the twenty-one years Nia Teppelin had spent on this earth.