Gaia

"The reason why people want to gain things is to earn happiness. It is so difficult for people on the fringe of society to hope for happiness. I feel as if there are more important things than money, fame or power. And thus I became a person who gives happiness. By helping those in need, I feel like... a powerful magician who has the power to give happiness."

Gaia, also known as The Mother, Mother Nature, or Mother of All, is the Primordial Goddess of the Earth. She is the mother of Sylvia, the lover of The Grim Reaper, and the daughter of The Void.

Appearance
Gaia is a very beautiful woman. So beautiful, in fact, that anyone who sees her would be instantly captivated by her striking beauty.

Personality
Gaia is a kind, caring, bright, strong-willed and charismatic woman on the outside where she is said to care deeply for others and wanted to help them achieve happiness. However, once angered, Gaia's external expression changes: She deeply does not want people to make her angry, as once she is, nothing good can come out of it. Even The Grim Reaper himself, who is known to not fear anything, has expressed his shivering displeasure to seeing Gaia angry. Her anger can cause earthquakes, thunderstorms, can wither plants, and can even kill animals, plus many more things if she remains this way. There is only one person in the whole world, matter of fact universe, that won't flinch in the slightest to her anger, though that is mostly because said person cannot experience fear: and that person is Zorya. According to Zorya, if Gaia's anger reaches it's full capacity, Earth itself would be destroyed. She often says, "Don't anger the mum of the world," as a response.

However, Gaia is truly a very happy, calm, and polite person. Her speech pattern are rather old-fashioned, often using words such as 'thee' to refer to someone, though she has been learning more 'modern' ways of addressing people.

Gaia is earnest, compassionate, and trusting to a fault. She held a bitter grudge against anyone who broke that trust or otherwise hurt her, though she would still be willing to help that person. She is extremely dedicated to any cause she pledges herself to, as Grim noted that the only way of stopping her would be killing her.

Gaia was dissatisfied with her existence as a God. She disliked the strict rules governing her, and also admitted to not understanding the void that birthed her. While at first she longed to return to home during her station on Earth, she grew hungry for humanity and risked the wrath of her family by falling for the sake of her own happiness; this shows that Gaia had a certain recklessness and selfishness. Unlike many other Gods, Gaia viewed humans as superior to her own kind; she especially valued their capacity for emotions. Her attachment to humanity was one of her strongest traits: she tore out her own powers to experience life as a human.

Background
Gaia (the Earth), "the ever-sure foundation of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus," was the first deity to be born after 'The Void', the gaping emptiness, came into being. She was followed by Tartarus (the Underworld) and Nyx (Night). Some believe that these three were, in fact, all children of the dark primeval void, but, most probably, they belonged to the same – the very first – generation of gods.

Gaia had assisted God in created 'Earth', and everything in it, from the skies, to the trees, to the ground. She was also in charge of the creation of numerous races which would walk the Earth. Once God found out Erebus (Darkness) had corrupted Lucifer into his rebellion, he sentenced Erebus to death. However, Gaia intervened and insisted that, instead of killing Erebus, they would banish him from heaven. She said she did not want to see unnecessary blood being spilled. She managed to convince God, who did not kill Erebus, and instead banished him to the Earth him and Gaia were in the process of creating (where he would soon be in possession of the void, Gaia's parent). After this, Aether (Upper Sky) had fallen in love with Gaia's determination, confidence and kind heart, and soon became her lover.

Via Aether, Gaia brought forth one child: Uranus (the Sky), and after, without a mate, brought forth two other children: Ourea (the Mountains), and Pontus (the Sea). First, she mated with her oldest son, Uranus, and gave birth to eighteen children. The first twelve of them were the Titans: six females (Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Tethys), and six males (Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Cronus). Next, she bore the three Cyclopes (Brontes, Steropes, and Arges), and, finally, the three Hecatoncheires (Cottus, Briareos, and Gyges). Afterward, Gaia mated with Pontus and brought into being five more children: Nereus, Thaumas, Phorcys, Ceto, and Eurybia, who were primordial sea gods.

Though lustful and unrestrained, Uranus, the Sky, hated his children; so much so, in fact, that he pushed each of them back into the Earth (the womb of their mother) at the very moment of birth. After a while, devastated by grief and pain, Gaia fashioned an adamantine sickle and asked her children to help her oust Uranus from power.

Cronus – who despised his father – was the only one who wasn't afraid to agree to her plan and, following Gaia's advice, he hid at a different place in her womb and laid there in waiting for a chance to attack Uranus. The chance came the very same night when Uranus tried sleeping with Gaia yet again. Cronus stretched forth his hand and hacked off his father's genitals. Afterward, he freed his brothers and his sisters.

The blood which spurted out of Uranus' wound sprinkled Gaia and impregnated her with many more children: the three Erinnyes (or Fates), the numerous Gigantes (or Giants) and the even more numerous Meliads (the Nymphs of the Ash Trees).

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After their creation, Gaia observed humans and became loving of them for their emotions particularly loyalty, forgiveness and love, coming to believe that her own kind were emotionless and without any will of their own in comparison. She also became fond of the idea of chocolate cake and sex. Wanting to experience life as a human herself, she removed her powers through an agonizing process she compared to cutting out one's own kidneys using a butter knife. Gaia and her powers fell separately to Earth at high speeds; to onlooking humans, they resembled meteorites.

Gaia was reborn as the human daughter of an infertile couple in the north, in a small village called Ariamis, on a cold December day with the new name of Wisteria. Because Amy, her mother, had not been able to get pregnant before conceiving Wisteria, she called Wisteria her "little miracle." Wisteria gradually repressed her memories of her origins, and convinced herself that she was a normal human.

18 years later, a fire was set in her house, taking the life of her mother. As she cried at her mother's side, she felt a strong presence, and that's when she met the Grim Reaper, who would, unknowingly to her at the time, become the first person she's ever truly loved. They were lovers before Gaia removed her powers, however due to the repressed memories, Gaia, now going by Wisteria, did not know the grim reaper, though has heard stories.

About a couple years later, she gave birth to a young girl who she called Sylvia. Unknown to her at the time, her daughter was born with a curse, due to her parents being the primordial being of life and the primordial being of death, of which was gravely frowned upon, though she had come to believe it was because Wisteria was a human and the grim reaper was not.

However, just nine years after giving birth to Sylvia, criminals broke into Wisteria's house, killed Wisteria, and kidnapped Sylvia. Thankfully, Sylvia was saved, but Gaia's human form was now dead. As such, her spirit came to rest inside a tree called 'The Mother Tree', of which her power also resided in. She stayed inside, and overwatched everything that happened, but was unable to help in any matters physically.

Powers and Abilities
Nature Manipulation: Gaia is connected directly to the natural world and thus can communicate, influence, manipulate and control nature: all living beings and plants and natural phenomena, such as the weather and geology of the Earth, and the matter and energy of which all these things are composed. She can survive in any natural environment on earth. Gaia can manipulate, tap into, blend and become elements of nature, including air, weather, lightning, earth, stone, metal, water, ice, light, darkness, clouds/mist, magma, fire etc.. She can control animals and plants and mimic their abilities and forms. Because Gaia can communicate with nature, she is instantly familiar with her surroundings, the connection is so deep that the earth can respond to her emotions and desires (blossoming with flowers and calming weather when happy, making skies stormy or cause earthquakes when angry, shifting the landscape to gain the advantage in a fight, etc.) Gaia can purify, heal and generally influence the health of nature, and considering the fact that she's helping the environment, plants and animals act favorably towards Gaia. She has access to every living species of animal on Earth and can also draw strength from them and acquire their abilities. Nature obeys Gaia's every command and operate on a "hive mind", meaning Gaia can control an entire army of animals.

Earth Energy Manipulation: Gaia can create, shape and manipulate the energies of the Earth, including geothermal energy and geomagnetism, as a force to crush objects, cause earthquakes, create force fields, project concussive blasts, form weaponry, and/or manipulate physical aspects of earth, such as rock, etc.

Life Creation: Gaia is able to create living beings or matter using several different ways, these beings can either be completely unique/original, modified/evolved versions of already existing ones or simply normal beings without any major modifications.

Life Manipulation: Gaia can manipulate the life of a living thing, such as granting them extra lives, change their lifespan, grant life to anything, resurrect/reincarnate the dead, etc.

Life Mastery: Gaia can create any form of life (human, animal, plant, supernatural monsters, etc.) and control them to do her bidding, when the creatures are no longer useful, Gaia can annihilate them instantly. She can also revive extinct creatures (Dinosaurs, etc), give life to fictional ones (Dragons, Werewolves, etc.), and potentially create whole armies.

Power Bestowal: Gaia can give superpowers to others, either permanently or temporarily. Because of this, sometimes she is called 'The Giver'.

Power Mixture: Gaia can merge two or more powers to create new powers as well as different combinations.

Life-Force Manipulation: Gaia can create, shape and manipulate life-force, the fundamental force that allows life to appear/exist, grow and flourish throughout the universe. She can control her own personal life-force that dwells within her, allowing her to achieve untold power and great abilities considered to be beyond that of normal beings. Gaia uses physical, spiritual, and mental powers to control her life force.

Vine Manipulation: Gaia can generate vines and other extended plant based material, whether by drawing them from already existing vines, or by manifesting them anywhere she wants.

Life Vision: Gaia can see, or generally detect, the lifespan of herself or others by perceiving the remaining lifespan and date of their death.

Earth Manipulation: Gaia can create, shape and manipulate earth and "earthen" elements including most solid objects, specifically all minerals and mineral compositions regardless of their state (mountain, boulder, sand or dust), dirt, soil, etc. She can also manipulate metals such as iron, copper and titanium. Offensive uses of this power include extracting huge boulders from the ground and hurling it at the enemy at high speeds, impaling the enemy with countless spikes from the earth and in some cases creating giant golems or other creatures from earth and utilize them for combat. Defensive powers include shaping huge walls or barriers from the ground, creating an omni-directional wave of rocks/stone around Gaia to defend from all attacks and covering herself with armor made from earth. Supplementary uses of this power include flight by standing on a piece of levitating earth and enhanced movement by skating on the earth and gaining enhanced senses from sensing the earth.

Ecokinetic Invisibility: Gaia can become invisible when in/on/touching nature.

Ecoscience: Gaia knows everything about ecosystems, nature, the environment and everything related to it. As such, she knows everything within nature, and the deep secrets that lie within, and around it. Gaia knows everything when it comes to nature and the environment because all its secrets are revealed, knowing all the ways and reasons of how nature is supposed to work.

Nature Unity: Gaia can become one with nature/natural forces, her soul/spirit sensing a great deal of peace and content. Animals will be less aggressive or even lose their aggressiveness against Gaia altogether. Gaia can sense and feel the living creatures and their emotions from the entire world. She can also empathize with plants as well, knowing when to water them and when to plant them. She can also make plants grow/regrow/regenerate when damaged.

Season Manipulation: Gaia is able to manipulate the seasons, as well as draw from the concepts each season is connected.

Trivia

 * Gaia's name means 'land' or 'earth' in Ancient Greek.


 * According to the creator:
 * Gaia likes: Sylvia, The Grim Reaper, Peace, Love, Happiness, Loyalty, Forgiveness, Her children, Chocolate cake, Sex, Humans
 * Gaia dislikes: Violence (unless someone hurts the people she cares about), Uranus

Quotes

 * "My power, Life... Hacked it out and fell. My mother, Amy, couldn't get pregnant—always called me her little miracle... she had no idea how right she was."
 * "Life... arise... Be born, a new existence!"
 * "Life. Death. Taking it, giving it. I give life. I take it. With everything my powers can do... Really Miss... What can't I do?"
 * "After all, a mother defends her children."
 * "You don't understand what I felt before Cronus killed Uranus under my command. I felt such pain when Uranus refused his own children, and pushed them back, yet continued to sleep with me. I had to do something, and so I had to do this, or else life would've never progressed so far. I still feel guilty, even though Cronus absolutely despised his father."
 * "I offer you a gift. Take it. It will give you strength... help you on your journey. And now they will fear you."