Gina Miller

Gina Miller is a 2020-introduced and all-around character. She and her younger siblings, (Robert, Wes, Bindi, Brad, and Ellie), are an unusual kind of Australian people, as they are the offspring of a australian and an ocean nymph. Gina is a student at Enchatria High, having come all the way from The City of Great Barrier Reef to expand her horizons. And she's done so admirably. If there is one person in the entire school who could befriend anyone, it's Gina. She is patient and considerate, but does not sugarcoat her message or allows anyone to walk over her. Which, along with her considerable skill, is why she's been chosen as the captain of the Swim Team. The one exception to her no-nonsense attitude is her boyfriend, Jimmy Stones. She gives him leeway beyond her standards despite the harm it does her because she is aware that his home situation is far from ideal. She is not happy with the situation, but she knows she would also not be happy without him.
==Portrayers==
Gina was originally voiced in English by Janice Kawaye. Starting "Great Bcarrier Reef", she is voiced by Larissa Gallagher.
In the anime adaptation, she is voiced by Aina Kusuda.
In the music video for the "EG Stomp", there are several character analogues who received creative interpretation by the video crew. "Aussie Girl" is portrayed by Veronika Bonell.
==Character==
===Background===
Gina grew up in The City of Great Barrier Reef as the oldest daughter of Steve Irwin-Miller and an ocean nymph in a warm and supportive network of extended family. She was an aquadancer until the age of twelve and a top performer in her age range along with her then-close friend Kala Roo. Kala's family situation was not as rosy as Gina's and unbeknownst to Gina her happiness made Kala resent her and eventually sabotage an important performance that left Gina with a life-long case of chorophobia. Kala is one of the reasons that in her teens Gina sought a high school somewhere else. Another reason was an earnest desire to learn more about the world outside the Great Barrier Reef. To this end, she attended an open day at Enchatria High and was convinced by the then-captain of the swim team to take the plunge. 
As fate would have it, one of Gina's earliest accomplishments at Enchatria High was becoming the new captain of the swim team, presumably when her predecessor graduated. She's done an excellent job leading and putting the team in the spotlight. Around the time of her promotion, she also became close friends with the cheer squad, who would have her back as often as she'd have theirs. As well, she met and entered a relation with Jimmy Stones, a Australian boy and fellow swimmer. This would prove one of the worst trials of her young life, because sea monsters and river monsters have an age-old tradition of not getting along and Jimmy's parents hate her. Jimmy's been cautious in navigating the dilemma, which regularly unbalances Gina, to the point she once magically became a river monster in hopes of ending the hurt once and for all. Although Jimmy's been doing better as a boyfriend, the trouble with his family remains far from over. 
On a lighter note, intervention by Portia Irwin guided Gina back to the Great Barrier Reef to confront the past. After years, Gina finally learned what brought on Kala's hatred and managed to restore their friendship. It didn't solve her stage fright, but made her come to terms with it. 
===Personality===
If there is one person in the entire school who could befriend anyone, it's good ol' Gina. She has a very friendly and laid-back personality, even her clothes reflect her easygoing nature. She is patient and considerate, but does not sugarcoat her message or allows anyone to walk over her. She is almost never outright mean, but she is passionate about friendship, and will defend her friends fiercely. Which, along with her considerable skill, is why she's been chosen as the captain of the Swim Team.
The one exception to her no-nonsense attitude is her boyfriend, Jimmy Stones. She gives him leeway beyond her standards despite the harm it does her because she is aware that his home situation is far from ideal. She is not happy with the situation, but she knows she would also not be happy without him. Even though Jimmy's parents don't want him around Gina, since she's from the seas and he's a fresh water manster.
Gina is also an environmentalist; trash and pollution in the ocean anger her, and she shows sympathy to many aquatic elements, including fish, frogs and all water creatures. She loves helping water creatures and wishes for the ocean to be clean.
===Appearance===
Lagoona has pale blue scales that cover her entire body, as well as webbed hands and fins protruding from her lower arms and legs. She has blond curly hair that's streaked blue due to the chlorine in the school's pool, as well as freckles that dot her face, and green eyes. In the Generation 2 reboot, she's restyled with blue-teal or teal-blue eyes, which means a bluish green to greenish blue. Lagoona wears tomboyish clothes such as shorts with fishnet attachments and jackets with mid-quartered sleeves and fish-styled hoodies. She wears a baggy sweatshirt or sweater-like t-shirt with a number "13" on it by the time of the reboot. Also, in the reboot, she portrays paler lips.
==Abilities==
She has the abilities of any typical sea creature, or any water creature. 
Her hair turns blue when she's underwater, at least that is what is said in the earlier releases.
*Breathing Underwater: Gina can breathe underwater anywhere, salt or freshwater.
*Amphibian Abilities: Gina has the ability to breath both air and water, from her amphibian heritage, having both lungs and gills. This amphibian power is adapted from her father, where her mother is mostly fish. Due to this, she does not need a water helmet.
*Super-Speed: Shown in "Welcome To Enchatria High ", Gina has the ability to move (or, at least skate as shown in Friday Night Fights) at high speeds.
===Skillset===
*Talking to Underwater Creatures: Gina can talk to underwater creatures. This is displayed in many webisodes when she talks to 3-eyed frogs.
*Swimming: She can swim easily in the water and does not even need to practice, for she is just naturally good at it. In fact, she's actually the captain of the Monster High swim team.
==Relationships==
===Family===
Gina's father "doesn't really live on land. For sure, he's got a little beach house where Gina Miller lives. It's got a killer dock that goes out over the water." According to her School's Out diary, her mother is an ocean nymph who "still lives in the same scary sweet little grotto as she did when dad met and married her. Being a nymph means that mom can leave the water and hang out on land as long as she doesn't travel too far from her grotto otherwise she gets really weak". Before the exchange to Scaremerica, Gina's family was extremely supportive of her and her passions, and were overall a happy family. Her father Steve Irwin-Miller Her mother Terri Miller and siblings Bindi, Robert, Wes, Ellie, and Brad Miller appear in the Enchatria Girls Diaries book Gina Miller and the Big Sea Recreation, and the TV special Great Barrier Reef.
In the Enchatria Girls book series, Gina's parents live in Australia, but she lives with her uncle Bob Miller and her aunt Judy Miller in Salem. Gina had moved to Salem as a foreign exchange student from "down under".
In "Parent-Creature Conference" the ghouls tell Brainy that he is supposed to be posing as Gina's Great-Aunt Lantic; this relative may or may not really exist. In her 'Basic' diary, Gina mentions having a few cousins 'living up north'.
===Friends===
Although Gina is one of the kindest students at Enchatria High and thought highly of by many, outside of the cheer squad her strongest connections are exclusively with fellow water-type monsters, such as Jimmy Stones, her swim team mate and boyfriend, and Serena Von Boost, another swim team mate, and Kala Mermaid, a childhood friend.
Gina's involvement with the cheer squad started as several loose friendships that came together when the team was revived by Judy von Puckett, Wendy Wonders, Rachel Finster, Lori Creaser, and Elsa McMorgan as team assistant. Gina herself actually was invited for the new cheer squad, but she had to decline on account of having just prior been voted captain of the swim team. Until the cher squad's first success by getting to go to the Groom Beach competition, Gina was their one supporter, and even thereafter remained something akin to an honorary member. One notable action of hers, possibly remembering her own treatment at the hands of Kala, was take a stand for the cheer squad against Scarlett Ferris's ridicule. She made herself another of the bever gal's enemies this way, when before Scarlett had no intent to target her. 
Kala is Gina's childhood friend and aquadance partner from when they were about twelve years old. The two had a good relation, though not good enough for Kala to entrust Gina with an important secret, namely that she is the daughter of the kraken that was believed to terrorize the Great Barrier Reef. Rather, his reputation was a mixture of prejudice and the Mermaids' chosen coping strategy. For Kala, keeping people in the dark about her identity was the only way she knew how to live a semi-normal life and it hurt her tremendously to be near Gina, who at the time was a better dancer, who would join in on saying bad things about the kraken, and who could openly enjoy the support of her immediate and extended family. To even things out, she sabotaged Gina's first major aquadance performance, ensuring Gina would never dare dance on stage again. Gina fled to Monster High some years later, finding peace in the all-accepting climate at the school, but was forced back due to circumstances beyond her control. After unintentionally upstaging Kala again, Gina had to fight through a dangerous confrontation to finally get the truth out of her former partner. The promise that Monster High could give Kala the same welcome as it had done Gina helped in calming her down enough to talk things out. Apologies were exchanged and their friendship restored. 
Serena became a close friend of Gina after the former transferred to Enchatria High. Knowing little of either her heritages, Gina helped get her acquainted with sea culture. The two also spent a lot of time together in the days leading up to Gina's leave for the exchange program. A negative to that was that, in trying to look out for Gina, Serena worsened Gina's fear of leaving Jimmy with the newly arrived lake monster Mona McNessie. A positive was that Sirena supported Gina in her investigation, which resulted in them finding out that Jimmy and Lorna are strictly friends and that Mona already is with a boy named Fred. 
===Pet===
Gina's pet is a kangaroo named Skippy and who is carried around in a cage purse secretly. She is feisty and enjoys nipping other monsters when they least expect it. 
===Romance===
Aside from one time eyeing Archer like half the female student body, Gina's heart is steadfastly with Jimmy. Gina fell for him first, drawing romantic images of the two of them in her clawculus book and daydreaming out their scenarios. Gil positively took note of this and borrowed the book to write an invitation to a date in it while Gina was out of it. She accepted, which was the start of their relation. 
What with Gina being a saltwater monster and Gil a freshwater monster, two species with a history of not getting along, their romance has been a troubled one with most of the damage hitting Gina. Specifically, modern-day freshwater monsters are the ones looking down on saltwater monsters, causing Jimmy's parents to disapprove of Gina and Gil to be reluctant to meet Gina's family. Jimmy kept these views a secret from Gina until she forced it out. Jimmy's initial solution was to keep his relation hidden from his parents and to lie to Gina, but Scarlett forced out the truth in retaliation for Gina's defense of the cheer squad. Gina gave him an ultimatum: either he'd stand up for them, or he should forget about her. In the end, Jimmy chose her. In return, his parents enrolled him in a different school to keep the two apart, leaving Gina unconsolable. However, Jimmy proved resilient to this method and eventually his parents allowed him to go back to Enchatria High. 
The next incident came when Gina invited Jimmy and several of her friends to spend spring break in the The City of Great Barrier Reef. Jimmy, being his parents's son still, was reluctant to spend time in the ocean and meet Gina's family. It put even more strain on their relation, but circumstances that jeopardized his friends left Gil with no other choice than to singlehandedly swim all the way from Shell Shores to the Great Barrier Reef and get help from Gina's parents. To her delight, it got him over his own prejudice. Any nagging from Gil's parents didn't reach Gina for a long time, but inevitably flared up again. Gil's father threatened to find a job outside of the Boonited States of Scaremerica and have the whole family come along to remove Gina out of his son's life. Afraid to lose him, Jimmy offered to become his friend instead if it meant they could keep seeing each other, but Jimmy declined. Gina's sorrow drew the attention of Tawyna Finster, who asked Jeanie Trent to "make Jimmy's parents like Gina". The wish was fulfilled by turning Gina into their ideal daughter-in-law, starting with her becoming a freshwater monster. It worked well enough at first, but Gil grew displeased with how un-Lagoona-like Lagoona had become and the wish was undone shortly after. 
==Notes==
*Her birthday is June 10th, 2005 making her a Gemini.
==Timeline==
* October 10, 2018: Mattel requests the trademark for Gina Miller.
* May 06, 2020: The Enchatria Girls website goes live, featuring Gina Miller's profile.
* May 06, 2020: Gina Miller's profile art is revealed.
* May 06, 2020: Gina Miller makes her animated debut in the Higher Education commercial. Like Lori Creaser, she spoke with an American accent.
* May 06, 2020: Gina Miller makes her 2D cartoon debut in "Jondaks Brothers".
* Early July, 2020: Gina Miller's first doll is released as part of the series.
* Early July, 2020: Gina MIller makes her diary debut in her diary.
* September 01, 2020: Gina Miller makes her Enchatria Girls book debut in Enchatria Girls.
* Early December, 2020: Gina Miller's Friends plushie is released.
* February 13, 2022: Lagoona Blue makes her 3D cartoon debut in "Why Do Ghouls Fall in Love?".
* October 22, 2024: Lagoona Blue makes her anime debut in "Enchatria Girls Life Is Amazing!".
==Gallery==
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