Téa Gardner/Synopsis

== Biography==
===Early Life===
Téa Gardner was born in Domino City to a hard-working couple who were also business partners. Due to the nature of their work, they often had the burden of large workload and thus were unable to spend much time with their daughter, thus Téa became very lonely for most of her childhood. However, her loneliness was greatly eased after she enrolled in high school, where she formed strong friends ships with some of her fellow students: Yugi Muto, Joey Wheeler, Tristan Taylor, and Bakura. She was also the first friend Yugi made in school and thus the two formed a strong bond. Sometime before the start of the series, she became aware of the spirit of the millennium puzzle, the former pharaoh Atem. They too became close friends as the years went by her developing feelings for both him and Yugi but was far to shy admit it to either of them.
 
===Duelist Kingdom===
===Battle City===
Following the start of the preliminary rounds of the Battle City tournament, Téa, now wearing a yellow handbag purse, accompanies Tristan as they journey to Yugi’s house, wanting to join and support him in the coming duels. When both arrive, however, they learn from Solomon that Yugi had already left earlier in the morning to get a start on the tournament. This upsets Téa, who berates and elbows, Tristan insisting that they should have left earlier to catch Yugi. When Tristan makes excuses, Téa accuses him of trying to impress Serenity on the phone, much to his embarrassment. Solomon nevertheless reassures them and decides to join them as they look for Yugi. The three of them then travel through Domino for some time but are unable to find Yugi.
Eventually, they find themselves on a footbridge when they suddenly hear Joey’s voice coming from down below. When they check they see him chasing a young boy who stole his duel disk.
Téa watches on as Tristan jumps down and catches the young thief before returning Joey’s duel disk to him. Questioning the young man, he explains that someone stole his deck, and he wanted a way to play in the tournament. When they ask who stole it, he describes a guy with "bug eyes and head like a blue beetle," and the gang realize he's talking about Weevil Underwood. 
===Virtual World ===
When the blimp that Téa and her friends are on nearly arrives at Kaiba Corp Island, it is sucked into the underwater lair, of Noah Kaiba. Téa along with Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Duke, Serenity, Mokuba and Seto emerge from the blimp to investigate. Here they are confronted by their old enemies the Big Five who want revenge on Seto and seek to steel the brothers' and the others' bodies in order to escape to the real world. Téa and her friends are then sucked into the Noah’s Virtual World. 
Once she is trapped inside the Virtual World, Téa is separated from the others and transported to eerily deserted desert gorge with large rock formations. Hoping to find her friends, she then starts walking through the gorge, calling out in the hopes of someone answering her. With no reply, she then starts to ponder about the mysterious location, taking a moment to stop and remark how it is like a virtual-Grand Canyon. 
Creeped out by her surroundings and with her friends missing, all Téa can do is continue to walk as she is unknowingly being spied on by a strange humanoid creature from behind the rocks. Soon after, while complaining a bit about the heat, Téa hears some rocks falling down from some of the rock formations. 
When she looks up, she briefly sees the creature that was spying on her, before it retreats back behind the rocks. Startled, Téa asks out loud what it was she just saw. She receives a terrifying answer when she soon finds herself surrounded by the four Hitotsu-Me Giant hunters with axes and clubs as weapons.
Téa attempts to stay calm by slowly stepping back as she thinks to do this (In the original Japanese version, she just takes a step back without thinking). But her first step accidentally results in her stepping on a loose pebble which provokes the giants to attack her. The leader Hitostu-Me Giant roars ferociously before jumping into the air from the cliff he was standing on and then throwing its axe at Téa. While the axe does miss her, the sheer force of it impacting the ground forces up a number of tiny but sharp rocks into the air. One of these rocks strikes Téa right under her left eye, leaving a little bleeding cut (In the U.S.A. dub, Tea's cut was censored for brutal violence). 
This made Tea terrified and also reel as she actually groans in real pain from the attack, covering her wound. Though her tiny wound hurts, she has no time to rest as the giants continue to advance upon her, forcing her to make a run for it. As she flees, she screams desperate and frantic pleas for someone to help her, but no one comes. 
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(This bit was censored in all countries around the world due to graphic imagery).
As she runs, Téa is only barley able to outpace the three giants pursuing her, including the leader who inflicted her wound. This, however, is actually part of the leader’s plan. Téa is completely oblivious to the fact that the three chasing her are merely forcing her into the direction of their fourth comrade as he hides behind some of the rocks. Téa realizes this all too late, for whence she approaches the rocks, the hiding Hitotsu-Me Giant appears in front of her and blocks her path. With nowhere left to run, Téa stands petrified with fear as the cyclops hunter strikes the vulnerable young and cute teen girl with his claws, painfully knocking her to the ground unconscious. 
(End censorship warning)
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With Téa knocked out from the giant’s blow, the leader of the pack then takes the unconscious girl and throws her over his right shoulder, with his right arm holding onto her stocking covered legs, while he wields his recovered axe in his left. Leading the way, the leader orders the pack to return to their lair, as he holds onto the captured Téa. Sometime after the giants begin their return, Noah watches their progress from his Virtual Control Chair. Using one of his holographic screens, Noah briefly watches the giants as they march down the canyon with the captive Téa. He then zooms in on Téa’s face, showing her with her hair completely upside down as the leader carries her off deeper into the canyon. This all to Noah’s amusement, laughingly remarking that he is pleased that Téa has “met” his Hitotsu-Me Giants. 
Eventually, after marching for some time, the giants finally reach their underground lair. The Leader continues to carry Téa as he brings her inside their cave, unceremoniously throwing the beautiful and young teenager down onto a giant stone stalactite with a flat surface. Upon hitting the stone surface, Téa remains unconscious, but utters moans of pain as her body squirms. As she squirms, the leader and two other members of the pack stand right above her, sadistically enjoying her agony, before returning to their den at the bottom of the cave.
Hours later, Téa regains consciousness, after drops of water from a stalagmite fall onto her face. When she awakens, she is initially confused by her new surroundings and begins pondering both how she got inside the cave and how to get out. Her pondering comes to an end after she hears a roar coming from below. Looking down she is startlingly reminded of the giants’ attack realizing that they brought her here after the they knocked her out. Soon after, she suddenly starts to briefly wince in real pain from her wound. 
Trapped on top of the flat stalactite and her cyclops kidnappers down below, Téa is trapped and entirely at their mercy. After some time, the giants begin cooking a large cauldron. To her fright, Téa realizes they broke her here to cook then eat her. Finding a loose vine, Téa starts climbing on the walls of the cave towards its only exit, a large hole in the ceiling. When she is halfway through, the giants spot her and begin climbing after her. Even though she makes it to the surface first, she has no time to rest as they are still pursuing her. 
By the time the giants reach the top, Téa has gained much headway. The Hitotsu-Me Giant who knocked Téa out attempts to kill her throwing an axe, but like before it just barely misses. Téa continues to run as the giants quickly continue their pursuit. Though she has managed to outrun them, she is stopped in her tracks when she comes to a ravine overlooking a fast-running river. Between the ravine and the approaching Hitotsu-Me Giants, Téa is cornered. 
However, she notices a nearby rope-bridge and runs to cross it. When she arrives though, she is initially hesitant upon noticing how unsteady it is. That combined with the ever-closer Hitotsu-Me Giants, causes Téa to become overcome with fear. But through the memory of her friends, she finds the determination to cross the bridge. She is not even halfway however, when the giants reach the bridge as well and begin crossing. They nearly reach her, but their combined weight and that of Téa’s causes the bridge to fall apart. Though Téa is fortunate enough to hold onto a surviving portion of the falling bridge, the Hitotsu-Me Giants are not so lucky and fall to their deaths in the river below. 
With her former captors dead, Téa starts to climb the remainder of the bridge to safety. As she climbs, she makes sarcastic remarks about the perils she has faced, including about “man-eating cyclops freaks”. Eventually, Téa reaches the top, but passes out on the desert floor from exhaustion soon after.
=== Back to Battle City ===
=== Waking the Dragons ===
=== Grand Championship ===
Téa doesn't have a prominent role in the Grand Championship arc, but as always she's Yugi and Joey's cheerleader throughout their Duels.
Téa also meets and despises Vivian, because of her feelings for Yugi and personality. She also develops a habit of saying the line "I need some female friends" whenever the others start getting on her nerves.
=== Dawn of the Duel ===
Téa, Tristan and Joey accompanied Yugi to Egypt so they could help the Pharaoh figured out his memories. She also had noticeably had a change in clothing and was now wearing white heels, a red skirt and a black tank top. The Pharaoh presented the Egyptian God cards to the Tablet of Lost Memories and was pulled into the Shadow RPG, where he would find out his memories. However, after discovering that Yami Bakura followed him, the gang went after Yami.
Later, Téa figured out that the key to stopping Bakura was to tell the Pharaoh his real name, as it was also the key to unlocking his memory. The gang was betrayed by Tristan, who was possessed by Bakura and almost killed, but jumped to a cliff and saved themselves. Téa pulled Yugi up, who was hanging onto Joey and then both her and Yugi saved Joey. When they found Tristan, he revealed that he had been possessed by Bakura and Dueled Yugi.
Téa noted that Yugi had to Duel without Yami. Yugi still won. Once they found Yami, everyone had to join in the final battle with Zorc Necrophades. During said final battle, when her monster "Fire Sorcerer" was destroyed while fighting,,Tea suddenly felt some serious pain coursing through her body which caused her to groan in real pain while giving herself a hug while she groans. Soon, she, alongside her friends, gave Yami his name by thinking of the symbols and putting them on a necklace-like item. Yami then remembered who he was and revealed that his true name was Atem. Atem was then able to Summon The Creator of Light to destroy Zorc Necrophades. The gang then returned to the real world.
=== Ceremonial Battle ===
Téa is mostly seen torn with the idea of Atem passing on the spirit world. As she believes that, though he deserves to reunite with those in his past and finally achieve peace, she also doesn't want him to leave because of the feelings she has for him. Thus, she usually appears having this mental debate within herself, with the outcome ending in her crying. However while dealing with this emotional turmoil, she displays a happy facade to the rest of the group, especially around Yugi and Atem. During the beginning of the Duel, she outwardly supports Yugi to win but inwardly wishes Atem to be victorious so that he can't leave. However as the Duel progresses she increasingly cheers on Yugi to the point where she shocks herself on how she changed sides of who she wanted to win.
However though Yugi won the Duel in the end, her feelings for Atem had not weakened and she is saddened to such an extent of the possibility of him leaving, that just as the spirit of the Pharaoh is about to pass through the gates of the afterlife, she tries to run after him however her attempt is stopped by Joey, also tearful alongside most of the Pharaoh's friends. All witnesses of said last match then run narrowly in time to escape, look up at the sky in Egypt ending the anime once the last words are spoken.
=== Ceremonial Battle ===