Gaia

Gaia
First Appearance:	It's Kind Of A Birthday Present 1.01
Played By:	Keisha Castle-Hughes
Gender:	Female
Age:	22 (false), 20 (actual)
Occupation:	Nurse
God/Goddess:	Not a goddess yet but thought to be Frigg
Relatives:	Bryn (adoptive father)

Gaia is a hospital nurse in her first year after training, and she’s also Axl and Zeb’s flatmate – which is a good thing since there is at least one person in the flat who’s got their act together.

Biography

Early Life

Gaia was born to a God and a Goddess, though by Bryn's account, they were unfit to be parents, even by the low standards of Gods. When she was a baby, the unusually small Giant Bryn was sent to kill her in an attempt to stop the prophecy of Frigg and Odin's reunion. However, Bryn was unable to complete the task upon laying eyes on her, and hid her on Waiheke Island, pretending to be her father and sending word that he had killed her to the Giants. When Jacob arrived to follow up the task of killing her, he fell into a similar predicament but constantly lied about locating her. As she grew up, Bryn made arrangements to look after her, including changing her age slightly so that she would be just over a year older than she actually was. (Everything Starts With Gaia)

Season 2

Gaia returned to the old flat, and after Jacob had left after trying to find her there, asked Axl if she could move back in. (Frigg Magnet)

Gaia's party-girl look

However her behavior was extremely and increasingly eratic, to Axl and Zeb's surprise, wanting to go out drinking, cursing more, and flirting with a complete stranger. Bryn arrived to try and take her back to Waiheke, though Axl eventually managed to convince him to back off. (Charlie Truman)

Later, as Gaia was rearranging furniture following a dream she'd had and quitting her job, Bryn and Jacob arrived without warning and demanded that Gaia flee with them, though she refused, sneaking out the window, but spraining her wrist. As she tried to start the car, Bryn, Jacob and Axl came bursting out of the house, claiming that a large man had walked in looking for her, and Gaia assumed that it was part of a drug-deal gone wrong on Bryn's part. As they arrived at Mike's bar, Michele agreed to tend to her injury, and after Gaia explained that she had quit her job, Michele called Stacey and Ingrid over for a drinking party. Whilst chatting, Gaia said that she had been doing odd things lately (although she did not think she was being wierd), which intrigued the three Goddesses. After smoking a joint Ingrid had offered, Axl arrived back and said that Bryn wanted to explain things. At Gaia favourite place, the beach, Bryn and Axl told her that she was to become the Goddess Frigg, though she burst out laughing in disbelief (Everything Starts With Gaia)

The Goddesses and Gaia

Realising that she wasn't going to listen while she was stoned, Axl and Bryn took her home. The devastation, the arrival of a man named Derrick who seemed to reinforce what they had been saying, and Axl's insistance made Gaia insecure, and fled the flat to Mike's bar. Asking to speak with Mike in private, Gaia told him her suspicion that Axl and Bryn were losing their minds, however Mike was able to convince her of the truth, and asked the Goddesses to ease her transition into her new reality. With Zeb's life on the line since he had been kidnapped by the Giant Eggther, Gaia agreed to go and try and save him since it was her Eggther wanted. However as the meeting wore on, Eggther gave up on trying to kill Gaia, even though she was at his mercy, after Zeb managed to convince not to. Though the celebration at Mike's bar lightened everyone else's spirits, Gaia was afraid that because she and Axl were bound to be with one another, she would no longer have a free will. At that moment, a van pulled up and masked men kidnapped her and drove off. (Magical Fluffy Bunny World)

Personality

Considering her mother died when Gaia was born, and that she was brought up on Waiheke Island by her solo father Bryn, who is an organic vegetable grower and nudist who discovered, in mid-life, that he was gay, Gaia is a modern miracle of genetics, proving that common sense can overcome many obstacles.

Gaia is one of those people who, most of the time, gets what they want, not through tantrums and hand-bag tossing but through reason and quiet determination. She negotiated her freedom and passage off the island of Waiheke from an over-protective father who wanted her to live at home forever; she bargained her way into a flat with a guy who she thinks is pretty cool over the opposition of his best mate; and she gets on with life and work the best she can – even with a seemingly unrequited crush on the cool guy in question.

Gaia is a good chick. She holds the flat together. She tells the guys off when they’re being dicks. And she keeps her true feelings under wraps because, well, that’s the way she rolls.

Relationships

She has had a crush on Axl for a long time, and despite this she has never had the courage to front up to him, instead watching as Axl attempts relationships with other women. She eventually decided to find someone else and through her father met Jacob, whom she has had a brief fling with, however she couldn't stop caring about Axl and eventually decided to break it off. However when Axl admitted his feelings for her, the two made love, with the intention of breaking it off with their respective partners. Yet Axl's apparent reluctance to call off his marriage to Eva put Gaia off, not wanting to be 'the other woman', and decided to move with Jacob back to Waiheke.