Mia

"*It's not rubbish, and you know it. You're using romance to escape from reality, you think that as long as you have a boyfriend, you don't need friends, and your life will be just like a romance drama. But you're just selfishly defending on Jacob! You're not in love! You're just in love with the idea of being in love! Carly...true love isn't easy to understand. But we will understand it when we grow up!*"

**Mia** is one of the main protagonists of the Candy Series and a member of Candy JEM. She is Joni's best friend since kindergarten. Together, they befriended Emilia while training for a singing competition. She designed Candy Meow, the mascot of Candy JEM as a symbol of the friendship between herself, Joni and Emilia. She is also skilled at handicrafts, which is the main reason why she wants to become a fashion designer in the future.

## Appearance

* Mia's full appearance in Season 1.
* Mia as an adult in Joni's dream.
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Mia has a striking resemblance to her mother. She is a fair-skinned young girl in her late tweens with olive green eyes and long blonde hair that reaches her lower back. She has a slender figure and is the tallest among Joni and Emilia.

Like almost all of the other characters, Mia does not consistently wear the same type of clothes or keeps the same type of hairstyle, but she is often seen with her sidelocks tied up in form of braids and her clothing mainly consists of dresses.

Mia is considered to be cute and attractive by most kids around her age. Her ideal good looks make her admirable and even being liked among her male schoolmates.

In Joni's dream as an adult, Mia has long curly blonde hair and she wore a white long sleeved shirt over a pink undershirt and a sky blue office skirt. Additionally, she was also seen carrying a brown shoulder bag.

Mia's new look in Season 2 includes her sidelocks no longer being tied into braids and she has one portion of her hair tied in the form of a braid behind her head with the remaining hair hanging free until her lower back.

## Personality

Mia is a bashful, soft-spoken yet polite and pure-hearted young girl, and is the peacemaker among her friends. She often comes off as a meek and timid girl, because her overwhelming kindness can render her inability to respond or act of fear of offending somebody. Having little faith and confidence in her own opinions and thoughts causes her rather pessimistic nature.

Because of her warm and lovable nature, she is greatly adored by several of her classmates thus making her one of the popular students in school. And often treats her friends, and sometimes even strangers, with kindness and generosity. Mia has rarely been shown to be in a bad mood, and can tolerate her friends' eccentricities.

In keeping with her friendly motherly role, she always listens and respects her friends' opinions and problems, genuinely caring for her friends and does not hesitate to lend a helping hand.

Throughout the series, she displays her sensitive nature and would get hurt greatly whenever somebody or something hurts her, mostly verbally than physically.

## Abilities

### Arts

Mia was shown to be good at sewing, visual arts (noticeably drawing and painting) and making handicrafts, and described her abilities at doing so as a "hobby". Though there are no solid evidence for her skills in painting, but several characters in the series did mention her being skilled at it.

Throughout the series, Mia had display her talent in sewing, drawing and handicrafts on numerous occasions. Including the time when she was able to mend the scarf of an unnamed member of a boy band, Guys Generation, in a short amount of time and also scored perfect scores in her arts at school.

Because of her talent in arts, in Dreams Take Flight: Ambition, Mia revealed that she had the ambition of becoming a fashion designer in the future.

### Singing

Mia has proven herself to be an expert at singing. Denial to her own natural talent, many characters had praised her singing voice. And this is also one of the few reasons for Candy JEM's victory in their school's singing competition in Reaching for the Stars: Friendship.

### Physical Strength

Mia displayed a high level of physical strength for her age. Emilia and Joni had commented about this in several books. She was also shown to be able to knock out Derek with little effort in the climax of The Hero's Quest: Self-Improvement in order to protect Charles from getting punched by Derek.

### Mental Intellect

Placing as the fifth in her class, Mia did display a high level of academic intelligence.

## Other Media

### Candy Careers Card Game

Mia, along with many other characters, are depicted and designed in several cards as performing different type of occupations. She is designed as the following:

* Cartoonist
* Cheerleader
* Manicurist
* Chef
* Screenwriter
* Chief Purser
* News Broadcast Producer

### Candy Cuties

Mia, along with all of the other characters of Candy Series are featured in the spin-off Candy Cuties Series. Mia appears in all the current volumes.

## Character Interview

In the official 2018 fanbook, Mia was interviewed on several questions:

1. **Question:** What are your talents?

* **Mia's answer:** Sewing and making crafts.

2. **Question:** What do you think about Charles?

* **Mia's answer:** Cero's kind and helpful. Whenever I'm in danger or trouble, he's the first to appear and help me.

3. **Question:** Does Charles have a special place in your heart?

* **Mia's answer:** Yes! I was always afraid of getting close to boys, but I feel at ease when I'm with him. Talking to him is as easy as talking to girls.

4. **Question:** Richard once made you sad by badmouthing you. Have you ever thought of taking revenge?

* **Mia's answer:** No. I've forgiven him since he's apologised.

5. **Question:** People say you're as kind and beautiful as an angel. What do you think of this?

* **Mia's answer:** It's... n-nonsense! (blush)

6. **Question:** What are one of the things you fear?

* **Mia's answer:** Eating food prepared by Joni.

7. **Question:** What's your father like? Everyone's curious.

* **Mia's answer:** My father works overseas and rarely comes home. However, we do video-call often. If there's a chance, I hope everyone will be able to meet him!

8. **Question:** What is it about Joni and Emilia that you admire the most?

* **Mia's answer:** I admire Joni's courage; I wish I could be as brave as her. And I admire Emilia's calmness, unlike me, she doesn't panic in difficult situations.

## Trivia

* In the official Candy Series characters' stats, several information of Mia are revealed:
	+ Mia's blood type is A.
	+ Mia's favorite things are crafting materials, C-Daigon and cute accessories.
	+ Mia's hobbies are sewing and handicrafts.
* In Kitchen Capers, it was revealed that Mia's favorite fruit is strawberry, as mentioned by Joni who was making fruit jelly in cooking class.
* Mia was ranked first in the 2014 Candy Series characters popularity poll.

* According to the official 2018 *Candy Series* Fanbook:
	+ Mia's birthday is on September 14, hence making her a Virgo.
	+ Mia's interests are crafts, sewing and singing.
	+ Mia's favorite food are salad, cake, egg cuisine and strawberries while she has no least favorite food.
	+ Mia's strongest subjects are Chinese, Bahasa Malaysia and English while her weakest subject is Mathematics.
	+ Positive traits of Mia includes her kindness, gentleness, cleverness and politeness.
	+ A negative trait of Mia is her timidity.
	+ Mia joins the singing club in her school.
	+ Mia's favorite dressing style are innocent young girl outfits and dresses.
	+ Mia's pastimes are making crafts, doing house chores and taking her siblings for walks in the park.
	+ Mia's motto is "Be concerned and help others according to one's ability".
	+ Mia's personal stats are:

## References

1. ↑ Mia's birthdate in Fanbook's Character Stats, see Trivia
2. ↑ Fanbook's character stats
3. ↑ Mia's hobbies and likes in Character Information, see Trivia
4. ↑ Mia's hobbies in Fanbook's Character Stats, see Trivia
5. ↑ Mia's favourite food in Fanbook's Character Stats, see Trivia
6. ↑ Dreams Take Flight: Ambition, page 16
7. ↑ Season of Blossoms: Growing Up, page
8. ↑ Style with Substance: Savvy, page 50
9. ↑ Dreams Take Flight: Ambition, page 16
10. ↑ Top of the Class: Academics, page 19
11. ↑ Kitchen Capers: Cooking, page 71
12. ↑ http://candymeow-series.wikia.com/wiki/File:CSpoll.png