Nia Teppelin

Nia Teppelin is one of the main characters from the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann series.
==Charactah Account==
After a particularly traumatic event in his life, Simon stumbles across a box that the drill he recovered from the mines can open. When opened, out of it pops a young, naive girl with pastel blue and yellow hair: Nia. She turns out to be the daughter of Lordgenome, and is thus the princess of the Beastmen. She develops into Simon's love interest.
Nia is a kind, caring, sweet and soft-spoken girl who always likes people to be happy and she is highly empathetic to others, especially Simon. She naturally tried to help Simon when he was distressed over Kamina's death, saying that he isn't helpless on his own and shouldn't be so dependent on Kamina, but ends up upsetting a heart-broken Yoko to the point where she shouted at her and stormed off. She is never intentionally mean and almost always has a smile on her face even when she was fading away in the last episode of the series.
Through her travels with Team Dai-Gurren, Nia opts for a change in her personality a little. She eventually follows Kamina's words and believes in Simon with her entire being. Also in her travels, she shows a rational thought process similar to Yoko and is very willing to stand up against the odds when need be. Likewise, she is a bit rash though and will not hesitate to throw herself into the fray to try and reason with the enemy. In season 1, she does so three times (though one of them was addressing soldiers about them sacrificing themselves.). In this regard, Nia can often be oblivious to certain words and meanings due to her sheltered life.
==Appearance==
===Anime===
*Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
*Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Movie 1: Childhood's End
*Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Movie 2: The Lights in the Sky are Stars
*Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Movie Special: Viral's Sweet Dream
*Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Kirameki Yoko Box - Pieces of Sweet Stars
*Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Parallel Works
*Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Parallel Works 2
===Light Novels===
*Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
===Manga===
*Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
*Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Gurren School Edition
*Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Spiral Boy
===Video Games===
*Dai-2-Ji Super Robot Taisen Z Hakai-hen
*Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
==Trivia==
*One minor recurring theme that presents itself during the series both before and after the time-skip was that during the two times she is captured (first by Guame and then by Antispiral) she keeps a fiercely optimistic attitude (saying with a straight face that she won't die even though Guame has a gun pointed at her face, or courageously declaring Simon won't fail in saving her as Antispiral starts dissolving her structure) only to tear up the moment Simon comes to save her.
*Nia narrates the next episode previews from episode 8 up until the final episode of season 1. Her quotes are used as the titles for those episodes, which have a font that displays her character.
*Another recurring theme is her lack of common knowledge: She misunderstands many of the phrases Kittan used during his "interrogation" during the Beastman War arc, and it continued to years later when Simon proposes to her and turns him down, only to have Kiyoh and Kiyal explain it to her later.
*Nia's appearance is strikingly similar to Lordgenomes when he was young before the first Anti-Spiral war. This includes his short light blue/pale blonde hair, and his pale skin.
*Gainax has stated that 7 years is a long time, and that Simon and Nia "did what had to be done" during the timeskip.
*Gainax stated that during the 7 years before Season 2, Nia went out and traveled the world "like a real princess".
*Nia and Simon had exactly 1 week before the wedding and spent it on an island. Gainax made no further comments on why though.
*Gainax also said that Nia held on to her existence with fighting spirit, but eventually her time would come to an end, and things such as her nose or hand would start to disappear and various parts of her would start to wither. This was possibly why she disappeared quickly rather than over time.
*Despite being the Chef, no one seems to enjoy her food except Simon, who enjoys the food, not merely just because she made it, but he finds it delicious. Interestingly enough, according to the Otoko series and the Gurren Gakuen-Hen manga, Kamina also enjoys her food.
*In episode 11, Simon gives Nia an emerald like gem he found while digging out of the Beastmen's prison. This mineral is believed to be the same one held in Nia's wedding ring.
*In the ADV dub, Nia was originally going to be voiced by Luci Christian.
*Nia’s death is referenced in Samurai Jack season five ending when Ashi dissappears from Jack's sight since she couldn’t exist without Aku. It should be noted, however, that Ashi's disappearance is the result of time adjusting its flow accordingly to Aku's death in the past, meaning that Ashi herself might still exist in the future albeit not as Aku's descendant.
*Her English voice is provided by Hynden Walch, the voice of Starfire and Princess Bubblegum.
==Gallery==
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==External Links==
*Nia Teppelin at Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Wiki
Category:Characters
Category:Females
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