Gwyndala

Gwyndala or more commonly known as Gwyn is the deuteragonist of the 2021 animated series serving as the tenth series of the Star Trek franchise, .
She is a young Vau N'Akat female originally living on the Tars Lamora penal colony in the Delta Quadrant as a lieutenant to her father, The Diviner, until she is taken hostage by a gang of young prisoners. strip of the Protostar ship. At first, she tried to return to her father until the latter reluctantly abandoned her in favor of the Protostar to complete his secret plans. Heartbroken, Gwyn abandons her old life and joins her new friends on their journey to reach the United Federation of Planets and join Starfleet.
She is voiced by who also played a young Maleficent in Maleficent and Lucy MacLean in Fallout.
==Physical appearance==
As a member of the Vau N'Akat species, Gwyn has gray skin and light red markings on her nose and ears. His face is facially similar to a human except that her cheeks have two downward-sloping features. Her hair is long and wavy while being held in pigtails by rings, the roots sharing the same color as the skin while the tips are dark grey/dark blue. Her eyebrows and eyelids are brown, her eyes are olive green, and her lips are a darker shade of gray than her skin. In terms of height, Gwyn is slightly smaller than Janeway but is bigger than Dal by a head but arms and shoulders leaner in comparison.
Her normal clothing mainly consists of a light blue sleeveless top underneath a kind of dark blue breastplate, an epaulette on the right shoulder and a thick bronze collar. She also tackles a brown belt from a big pocket and a long fabric on the right thigh, blue pants and stylish knee high boots. On her arms, she wears mittens as well as her Heirloom on her right arm and an additional gauntlet on her left forearm. As the Diviner's lieutenant, Gwyn wore a hooded cape. During missions or encounters with other species, she wears a Starfleet uniform. After joining the Federation, Gwyn wears a new Starfleet uniform with Vau N'Akat features while retaining her mittens but now wearing the Heirloom on the lapel of her right hand. After becoming the captain of the USS Prodigy, Gwyn wears a red uniform with gray and black parts.
==Skills & Abilities==
Gwyn is an accomplished multilingual due to the intense training her father gave her from birth, allowing her to read or speak foreign languages with ease. She also manages to assimilate the basics of a non-corporeal species using communication based on sound instead of words. At the same time, her language learning allowed her to learn many alien cultures most notably Klingon, Tellerite, Caitian, and Brikar (to name a few).
Her intensive training also includes astrophysics and starship mechanics, which allowed her to operate the Protostar the very first time she boarded and reprogram Janeway easily and later give her upgrades to her holographic program. Gwyn also possesses martial arts skills and is an agile fighter, On the genetic side, Gwyn has the ability to thoughtfully manipulate a golden substance that she calls her Heirloom, thus being able to transform it into melee weapons, a shield or various objects. Naturally, Gwyn has a higher healing ability than a human. She is also immune to most telepathy, a Medusan cannot read her thoughts.
==Personality==
Gwyn has a deep fascination with foreign cultures, especially fluency in languages and would become enthusiastic about learning about new cultures and languages. She particularly appreciates speaking the standard language rather than the Vau N'Akat language.
In her early days, Gwyn turned out to be a serious person, sometimes cold, strategic, cultured and loyal to her father, even if she did not approve of his cruel methods of ruling the colony and did not like to serve a purpose she does not know the meaning. She also showed a softer side towards a Caitian child, reassuring her and taking care of her for a time. Moreover, she purposely threatened the Kazon bringing the slaves to send himr to dig in the mines if he brought back another young child. 
She has a mutual dislike of the crueler Drednok, easily sickened by his vicious methods. Due to growing up in Tars Lamora, Gwyn has long considered most of the Unwanted to be just common criminals, though she was softer towards them, such as when she asked Dal about Zero in more civilized and gentle ways than Drednok. Although Gwyn is naturally less cold than her father, she is capable of being intimidating and threatening when questioning someone, as she did with Dal when his sarcasm began to irritate her after she mispronounced a metaphor and she refused to let someone like him make fun of her, showing some arrogance similar to her father. When Dal offered her a place with his friends to go with them, Gwyn pragmatically refused and later engaged the gang in battle.
As a hostage on the Protostar, Gwyn showed a more irritable side, quickly becoming angry when the gang ridiculed her or kept her locked up. Despite her situation, she remained convinced that her father will come to retrieve her, calling Dal a fool for believing he can escape the Diviner. Although she briefly softened after the compassionate Rok-Tahk brought her food and scolded her for believing the Unwanted were just criminals, Gwyn continued to try to reach her father but failed, didn't want to go on the offensive against an upset Rok, even cowardly trying to reason with her that she was only obeying her father. Back in jail, Gwyn grew more bitter, going on sardonics with Dal to recall the time he thought they could have been friends. During her second escape, Gwyn would not hesitate to abandon the gang on the planet Murder if it meant going back to her father.
Following her second failed escape and being forced to cooperate with the gang despite Dal's more than once coldness towards her, Gwyn slowly befriended them after saving them from a planet murderer attack. She would eventually bond with Dal due to their shared appreciation for the stars and the feeling of not really having a loving family. When Drednok intercepts the tape, Gwyn steps in to stop the robot from harming them. After her father abandons her to get the Protostar and her new friends save her, Gwyn is heartbroken and ultimately rejects the Diviner when he attempts to bring her back to his side.
Gwyn subsequently fell into a state of depression and sadness as she no longer felt like she belonged anywhere until Zero made her realize that she belonged among her friends. Once past the stage, Gwyn became more emotionally open than she had been, behaving as playful and cheerful as her traveling companions while exhibiting a new sense of morality worthy of Starfleet ideals, not wanting not let the Unwanted suffer at the hands of her father. She also seemed to have bonded immensely with Dal, managing to convince him to return to Tars Lamora to save the Unwanted by reminding him that he is not alone. Upon learning of her father's true mission to wipe out Starfleet to prevent their people from ever becoming extinct, Gwyn refused to trade one genocide for another and attempted to stop Diviner when he refused to listen to reason.
Since her father's defeat, her memories restored and the discovery of the Living Construct on the Protostar, Gwyn put her dream of joining Starfleet on hold so as not to risk involuntarily harming the Federation, but has not given up helping those that she and her friends can always help. She often shows more open-mindedness and kind-heartedness than her friends, not wanting to leave the sentient or non-sentient living beings to their fate and preferring to see beneficial opportunities on the whole. Gwyn's greatest talent is undoubtedly her ability to empathize, as she allowed Zero to break free from the Borg Collective by encouraging the Medusan to forgive himself and reassuring Dal that he is not a lab failed experiment. She was ultimately able to forgive her father after he was tempted to save her from Asencia's clutches at the cost of his life and tearfully promised him that she would go see Solum one day but she was unsure of realizing his hope that she would unite their people though the Diviner remained convinced of this as he died. After coming to terms with her grief, she was able to calm her friends on her own and then managed to convince the Klingons, the fiercest and cantankerous species to help them to stop the destruction of Starfleet, putting all her heart and ideals into it, while also successfully managing to gain the trust, friendship, and respect of Trij, one of the Klingon captains who arrived and helped them.
Like the rest of her friends, Gwyn had become attached to the Protostar and was sad to have to part with it forever to save the Starfleet armada, not hiding her emotions either when the spaceship exploded. She had also become attached to the Janeway hologram and was even sadder at Janeway's permanent demise. After proving her innocence in Federation court, Gwyn made the difficult choice not to join her friends at Starfleet Academy just yet, believing she had a duty to save the Vau N'Akat first. At the same period, Gwyn and Dal became more intimate to the point of having feelings for each other, sharing a mutual kiss and promising to see each other again, concluding with a hug.
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==Trivia== 
*Ella Purnell also played the villainous character Jinx in Arcana the same year and ironically, Jinx and Gwyndala turned out to be polar opposites to each other.
*She was seventeen when she first appeared, the same age as Dal R'El but it is unknown which of the two is older. Either way, Gwyn is one of the oldest of the crew, though Zero's age is unknown. She probably turned eighteen in the second half of the first season and nineteen at the end of the second.
*Every time she speaks in her native tongue, communicates with some of her people or summons her Heirloom, the veins in her head light up.
*Among the languages that Gwyn speaks other than Vau N'Akat and Standard (English), she knows Kazon, Caitian, Klingon, Brikar and Tellarite. However, she does not understand Murf's language.
*Because of her talent for understanding languages, Gwyn could be considered the Protostar's communications officer. However, she most often acts as Dal's shrewd right-hand, giving her a commander position as well. In Supernova, Part 1, Dal calls her captain as she was about to ask the Klingons for help, presumably to imply her diplomatic skills. Towards the middle of the second season, she becomes the leader of the gang and at the end, Dal offers her the captain's seat of the USS Prodigy.
*Gwyn is the first clone or rather genetic copy of the Star Trek franchise to be a major character. By this status, Gwyn is openly despised by Drednok and Asencia, the former seeing her as nothing more than the Diviner's biggest mistake while Asencia shows more contempt, viewing Gwyn as an abomination and not a true Vau N'Akat.
*Her species has not yet come into contact with Starfleet, so Gwyn cannot be recognized by a DNA scanner.
*It is revealed in Supernova, Part 1 that Dal secretly had a crush on Gwyn, as he misinterpreted Gwyn's words as love confusion and then kissed her. Gwyn's surprised reaction to his act suggests either she never noticed it before or that she may not share the same feeling at the moment. It is later confirmed in Supernova, Part 2 that Gwyn does share the same feelings for Dal, as seen in their kiss.
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