Gina Silverstein

**Gina Silverstein** (三ノ輪銀, *Minowa Gin*?) is one of the main characters of Season 8 of *Guardians of Harmony*. She is a helpful, brave, and spirited 11 year-old girl.

## Bio

### Appearance

Gina has grayish-brown eyes and matching hair, cut short with thin, longer 'tail' tied neatly on the back of her head. She wears a flower-shaped hairpin every day, and her Harmony Mark is an axe flanked by two orange fists facing inward.

As a civilian, she wears a dark gray long-sleeved dress with a red skirt and a red scalloped collar, silver tights, white cuffs, and red lace-up boots.

As a Guardian of Harmony, she has a mostly red-colored suit with grey and white undertones. Her hair is also tied into a ponytail with a significantly larger red ribbon. The suit itself appears to be designed in a way that restricts as little movements as possible, completed by an open-tail coat-like cloth which provides the chest area, back, forearms, and legs with additional protection. Her Harmony Gem, shaped like a narrow triangle, is on her left forearm.

### Personality

Gina is a kind, energetic girl, with a lot of spirits and positive attitude. She is a tomboy but has a girly side. Her main interests consist of sports and different kinds of competitions. During her free time, before she became a Trainer, she looked after her younger brother. That, along with her helpful nature which made her give a hand to everyone needing it, often caused her to be late for her classes and meetings.

### Relationships

* **Sarah Weber**/**Teryn Belle**: One of Gina's fellow Guardians. Their personalities are vastly different, as Gina is tomboyish and playful while Sarah is serious and studious, but they bonded and became very good friends until Gina's death. When she died, Teryn (as Sarah) named her sniper rifle "Shirogane" in Gina's memory.
* **Sandra West**: Another of Gina's fellow Guardians. When they first started their lives as Guardians and Trainers, they could not work together, but they became good friends as time went on. They bonded over their duties as Guardians and their normal lives, and Gina's death was very hard on Sandra. Gina's philosophy about being a Guardina was something Sandra (and ultimately her friends) took to heart.
* **Cheren Harkabune**: Her very close friend. Bianca initially thinks that Gina is a romantic rival for Cheren and gets extremely furious and jealous, thinking she is taking Cheren away, but Gina clarifies that it isn't that and with Cheren's approval, she wishes for their friendship to remain a friendship and never develop into romance to avoid that possibility alltogether.

## Magical Abilities

In her Guardian of Harmony form, Gina has enhanced physical abilities such as speed, strength, agility, and invulnerability to physical damage.

Gina's specialty is launching into a head-on assault and protecting her friends from the enemies' attacks. She is both physically stronger and more resistant to damage than the others. She uses twin axes as her weapons, which perfectly suits her direct way of fighting.

She also comes with her Elemaximum form (which only appeared twice), featuring a giant white mechanical tiger-like walker. It has blonde armored plates and orange lightings. It has the ability to climb through walls and its claws can slash through objects.

## Guardian of Harmony

Gina is the Guardian of Fighting Spirit. She is a Fighting Elemental who represents the Element of Bravery and her theme color is red. Her weapon is two axes.

### Attacks

* **Spirited Punch** - Her main purification finisher.

## GoH Analysis Card Profile

The Guardian of Fighting Spirit, with a helpful and courageous nature. Despite her spirit and positive attitude, and love of helping others, she does have a reckless side when somecreature is wronged or in danger, sometimes at the cost of her own safety. Her Element of Harmony is Bravery.

## Trivia

* In the Japanese dub, compared to Sumi's refusal to even use English loanwords, Gin uses English phrases in her speech rather often, such as *mai furendo* (my friend), *mai buraza* (my brother) and *naisu idea* (nice idea). This does not happen in the official English dub.
* Gina's Japanese name (Gin) is pronounced with a hard G, not a soft one like one may assume. Even in the English dub, this is retained whenever Cheren calls her GinGin.
* When Gina uses her most powerful attack, the holes in her axes light up with an effect resembling the Tomoe pattern in Shinto mythology.
* Her wish is for her friendship with Cheren to not develop into romance, after Bianca initially mistakes her for a romantic rival and she has to clear this up.
* She doesn't have a witch form, due to her death before she could become a witch. She also doesn't get Stage 5 for the same reason.
* Gina is the Guardian with the shortest tenure, as she only appears for a few episodes, which is likely no more than a few weeks.