Hay Lin
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| Hay Lin | |
 Hay Lin transforming into her Guardian outfit |
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| Publisher | Disney |
| First appearance | W.I.T.C.H. #1 (April, 2001) |
| Created by | Elisabetta Gnone |
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| Alter ego | Hay Lin |
| Place of origin | Earth |
| Team affiliations | W.I.T.C.H. |
| Notable aliases | Hay-Hay, Hay or Hay-Hey (as Irma calls her in the other issues) |
| Abilities | Controls the power over air. She is render herself and others invisible, possesses a high level of superhuman hearing and is able to recall the past and memories of other people through the use of sound. Empathic precognition. In the comic, she is the only Guardian with the ability to fly, but all five Guardians can fly in the cartoon. |
Hay Lin 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 Chinese. Hay Lin is the "H" in W.I.T.C.H., anagram of the girls' names. She is voiced by Liza del Mundo in the animated series of the same name.
Hay Lin (age 13) was born on June 4, thus bearing the sign of the Gemini, and was raised in the town of Heatherfield. She is always cheerful and full of energy, and very optimistic.
She is an extremely creative person who loves to draw, paint, and sketch. It’s no surprise that her favorite subject in school is art. She can be considered a slight comic-alien nerd at heart because of her love to collect comics and alien collectables. She enjoys just about anything related to science fiction, air, or art. Despite this, Hay Lin is not superb at Physical Education, as shown when she herself once says she shall need to get into shape after running.
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, numbers and anything else that might come in handy on the back of her hand or arm so she won’t forget anything important during one of her creative brainstorms. She has a huge crush on the new boy in town, Eric Lyndon, who likes her just as much.
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[edit] Powers
Air Guardians have the ability to manipulate air currents. Since sound waves travel through air, the Air Guardian can also hear sounds from a great distance. They can also touch an object and get a complete history of where it has been, recognizing the types of air. The Air Guardian also has a greater power of empathic precognition than the other Guardians. Hay Lin used to get dreams prior to Elyon's coronation in which she was Elyon and was sitting on a throne, the same which Phobos later used to drain Elyon's powers. The Air Guardian also has the power of Invisibility, although in the comics, all the Guardians can become invisible.
[edit] Elemental Abilities
Hay Lin has power over air. She can create and manipulate the aspects of wind and the air. Hay Lin can levitate objects using her elemental power, and, in the comic book, she is the only member of the group who can fly but can temporarily give others the ability to fly. In the TV show, all the Guardians can fly still, Hay Lin is the one who can fly the highest and quickest among them. In the TV show, Hay Lin has shown an ability to control the temperature of the air, and often uses this power to freeze enemies. She also can create tornadoes.
[edit] Advanced Elemental Abilities
Hay Lin can recall people's memories by listening to their favorite music and creating sonogramms with the sound to show them the images of their past, and also learn the history of an object by the sound it makes. She can also get the history of an object by touching it and closing her eyes. When she does this, she is feeling the atmospheres the object was in and how it was touched. In the TV Show, Hay Lin is the only one who can become invisible and make other things invisible. In the comics, all the girls can become invisible, and Will was actually the first one to find out how. In the TV Show, Hay Lin can hear sounds, noises and voices from great distances, explaining this is because sound vibrations travel through air. She can create constructs of solid air and optical illusions and is also able to remember people's past thruogh holographic projections.
[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 didn't approve of it. Once, she was assigned the task of making a simple kite for a school project. She decided to make an overly fancy Chinese dragon kite and spent all night working on it. Her teacher failed her before Hay Lin even had a chance to fly it because her teacher assumed it would not fly on its own and that it was far too heavy to even lift off the ground. Luckily for Hay Lin, her connection to the element of Air (even though she didn't know it) 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).
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