Hay Lin

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Hay Lin

W.I.T.C.H. #16 "Nerissa's Seal"

Publisher	Disney
First appearance	W.I.T.C.H. #1 (April, 2001)
Created by	Elisabetta Gnone

Characteristics
Alter ego	Hay Lin
Affiliations	W.I.T.C.H.
Notable aliases	Hay Hay, May Day or Hay Hey (as Irma calls her in the other issues)
Abilities	Controls the power over air. She is able to manipulate the air to do her bidding and is able to recall the past and memories of other people through the use of sound. She is the only Guardian (in the original comics) with the ability to fly (in the TV series, all of them can fly).

Hay Lin is a fictional character who first appeared in W.I.T.C.H. #1 in April 2001. She is the fifth member of W.I.T.C.H., a group of teenage girls who make up the Guardians; the people who guard Kandrakar, the center of the universe, from evil. Hay Lin is Aerokinetic.

Hay Lin was born on June 4 and was raised in the town of Heatherfield. She is always cheerful and full of energy.

She is an extremely creative person who loves to draw, and it’s no surprise that her favorite subject in school is art. She can be considered a geek at heart because of her love to collect comics and alien collectables. She enjoys just about anything related to science fiction.

Her family owns a Chinese restaurant called the Silver Dragon where she often works at to help her family out. She has a habit of writing people’s names, dates, and numbers on her hand so she won’t forget anything important during one of her creative binges. She has a huge crush on the new boy in town, Eric Lyndon.

[edit] Character history

[edit] Before W.I.T.C.H.

Before becoming a Guardian, Hay Lin would work at her family's restaurant and go to school. She would often goof around in her classes and try to turn every project she got into something creative, even if her teachers disagreed with it. One time she was assigned the task of making a kite for a school project and she decided to make an overly fancy Chinese dragon kite and spent all night working on it. Her teacher failed her before she even had a chance to test fly it because her teacher assumed it would not fly on its own because it was too heavy. Luckily for Hay Lin, her connection to the element of Air was established long before she became a Guardian, and her kite turned out to be the only one in the class that managed to fly.

It is slightly ironic that she is the Guardian of Air. While the show and comics use the Classical Elements, (Air, Water, Earth and Fire), Hay Lin is a person of Chinese culture, and Air is not one of the five Chinese Elements. Instead they are Earth, Fire, Water, Wood and Metal (gold).

In the cartoon version, she is voiced by Liza del Mundo.