Christian Garcia

**Christian Garcia** is the deuteragonist of the series, The Special. Christian is the only son of Javier Garcia and the late Estelle Garcia, the best friend of Lino Freeman, the ally and teammate of Kiara Tarron, Theo Caine, Roxy Cortez and Rafael Cortez.

Christian is a junior in high school with aspirations of becoming an engineer, alongside his best friend, Lino Freeman, a martial artist and painter/graffiti artist. His life took a turn after his best friend, Lino Freeman's discovery of his mother's lineage's divine-based origin and came into his supernatural abilities. He then joins Lino on his quest to find the ancient fabled Stone of Dreams, a lost artifact of untold power and becomes a crucial member of the Guardians, with a newfound understanding of supernatural technology. Along the way, he meets other supernaturals, including: Kiara Tarron, an alien princess from the planet Tamaran, Theo Caine, a supernatural being of unknown origin with mysterious powers over darkness and Roxy and Rafael Cortez, twin psychics with supernatural mental abilities.

## Biography

### Early Life

Christian was born to Javier and Estelle Garcia in Manhattan, New York. Ten years ago, Christian's mother, Estelle, was exposed to an unknown toxin and was subsequently diagnosed with breast cancer. At this point, he was living with his father and grandparents. One night, two years after Christian's father, Javier, took Christian, along with Lino to say goodbye to his dying mother. Christian gave his mother a music box he made himself, to which she told him to never stop inventing. Afterwards, Estelle told Lino to always protect and take care of Christian and that he's going to need him. The boys hugged her, just as she went into cardiac arrest which scared Christian and he ran away, while Lino watched Estelle pass away, then ran after Christian. Subsequently, Christian was primarily raised by his grandparents, while his father left to explore the country and hunt down the people responsible for Estelle's death.

## Physical Description

Christian is a teenager with dark tan skin, due to his Cuban heritage.

## Personality

Christian is said to be one of the most brilliant minds.

## Powers, Abilities & Weaknesses

### Powers

* **Ice Breath**: Christian unknowingly used this ability to blow out the candle on his birthday.

### Abilities

* **Genius-Level Intellect**: Christian is a child prodigy who is said to be one of the most brilliant minds on the East Coast. He was referred to as "brilliant" by Javier Garcia, given that the latter is one of the smartest people in the world, this is high praise.
	+ **Master Engineer**: Garcia was three years old when he built his first machine, with encouragement from his mother. He created and designed an artificial intelligence system, known as Oracle. He built a spirit detector in his metallurgy class in the span of a couple months using custom parts and others gathered from a junkyard. According to Doctor Carter, the machine had less than a one in a billion chance of finding the substance, but it worked. Sirius learned that it could detect the frequency of spirit through water, stones and even objects that had spirit.
	+ **Master Scientist**: Garcia's differential equations class allowed him to find Euler formula during a flight test of his drone.]