Téa Gardner

Téa Gardner (known as Anzu Mazaki in Japan) is one of the two tritagonists (alongside Tristan Taylor) of the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise. She is Yugi Muto’s best friend and love interest. A supportive person who cares about her friends more than anything, Téa often relies on the strength her friends give her and often serves as the voice of support among the gang.
== Biography ==
== Personality ==
Téa is very much acts like and has the interests of a typical sixteen-year-old girl. She has a strong love in fashion, enjoying shopping for new cloths. She also seems to have a likening to reading about gossip and movie stars. She also possesses a somewhat sarcastic and snarky way of speaking. Perhaps the strongest aspect of her personality, however, is her attachment to her friends. Téa loves her friends more than anything, even herself. While she sometimes denies it, she loves spending time with her friends and tries to act as a voice of reason and support to them when they need it. Téa can be pushy with them however, as she does not hesitate to call them out or even sometimes physically berate them when they act immaturely, particularly Joey and Tristan. This has caused her to often grumble that she needs more female friends. Despite this however, Téa loves them unconditionally and works hard to do whatever she can form them. 
=== Friendships ===
Overall, Téa serves as an older sister-figure to her friends. This was particularly shown in the case of Serenity Wheeler, who looked up to Téa as a big sister and this formed a very strong friendship with her. However, she does have a nasty temper which first appeared when first meeting Mai Valentine after the latter mocks Yugi Moto for his Dueling skills.Sadly however, Téa’s attachment to her friends was formed and is part of her hidden insecurities. As a child, Téa’s parents were far often very busy and thus spent little time with their daughter. This lonely childhood caused Téa to yearn for companionship and thus she formed extremely strong emotional bonds with her friends. Another insecurity of her’s, is that she often feels she is useless to her friends and thus secretly diminishes herself as an individual for this. Whenever such an instance comes when her friends are suffering, she secretly blames herself and become greatly saddened from it.
=== Kindness and Empathy ===
Finally, Téa is a very kind and empathetic person. She greatly sympathizes with the plight of others and can become emotional when they explain their pain. She also holds a dislike of violence and is easily horrified by extreme acts of cruelty. Despite this, she is by no means weak-willed and will instantly standup when someone is committing wrong or hurting her friends. Despite this, she is no fighter and will often try to run from a physical altercation. This was seen when the Hitotsu-Me Giants attacked her, as she was visibly terrified of the beasts as they chased her.
== Phyiscal Appearance ==
Téa is a very beautiful young teenaged woman who is sixteen years of age. She is very tall and Caucasian, with long and thick brown hair that almost touches her shoulders. Téa’s standard outfit consists of a light green buttoned, collard tank top, navy short shorts and a light belt, white stockings that extend to her thighs, two large blue platform sandals and blue and pink bracelets on each wrist. At times, she can also be seen wearing a yellow handbag purse by her side. During her encounter with the Hitotsu-Me Giants, Téa received a small cut on her left cheek from the pack’s leader. 
== Powers and Abilities ==
High intelligence
* Skilled Runner: Téa is an average sixteen-year-old teenaged girl and thus lacks any powers or unique abilities. She is, however, very good at running in part due to her long legs. 
* Dueling: Despite not being a professional duelist like Yugi and Joey, Téa is fairly skilled in dueling and has won her fair shair of duels against many challenging opponents, even defeating the likes of Crump of the Big Five. She even beat Joey once in a duel.
* Dancing skills
* Charisma
* Model student
* Rudimentary Duel Monsters skills
==Relationships ==
== Gallery ==
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