Hay Lin

Pet:
None

Home:
Until issue 81 the Lin family lives above the Silver Dragon restaurant. Later they move to White Mountain, a district at the edge of Heatherfield. The reason is that their restaurant is going so well, that they decided to use the space of the top floors to expand the restaurant. While at first Hay Lin doesn't like the new house, she quickly changes her mind due to it's airy traits. The house is called "dragonfly" and was built to withstand even the strongest of winds.
But due to the big load of work in the Silver Dragon they half ways move back in.

School:

Same as the other girls, Hay Lin goes to Sheffield Institute. Hay Lin is in Class 2B when the comics start, together with Irma and Taranee. She sits at the back of the class by the window with Irma left to her and Taranee behind her.
She loves artistic classes and hates... well, pretty much everything else. Especially physics. She likes to sit....

Traits:

Hay Lin is a dreamy and preoccupied girl with a favour for aliens. She is extremely creative and skilled with her hands when it comes to any kind of art. She doesn't go with trends, she sets new ones and seems resistant to any kind of embarrassment - unlike most teenage girls. She's very cheery and silly sometimes, inventing new words to express her amazement or joy. But Hay Lin's head is up in the clouds and so she bumps into people, is generally clumsy and things easily slip her mind. One reason why she writes things onto her hand. With all the ideas in her head she tends to have a very messy room.  She also has long conversations on the phone and sleeps in often. The latter makes her more than once run after the bus because she's late. She also has nightmares often and falls out of bed. Change is a difficult thing for her. She doesn't like it and has a hard time accepting it.

Style:

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Hobbies:
Hay Lin, similar to Irma is rarely shown doing sports. The two joke around being good at eating and hanging on the couch. Still, she joins the others at Jensens dance academy and does like to roller skate. She's more of an artist, loves to draw and designs and sews her own clothes. Later she makes different kinds of jewellery out of her brace for the other girls and she helps out several times at the school's theatre with costumes and scenery. In issue .... she discovers music for herself and starts playing bass.

Habits:
Hay Lin writes a lot on her hand. Things she shouldn't forget, things that come to mind or simple doodles. Taranee once said she'd get ink poisoning sooner or later.

Likes:
Space stuff! A lot. She loves stars and aliens and anything that somewhat has to do with space and is the one most eager to get to know other races across the worlds Kandrakar protects.
She's also very talented when it comes to all things arts and tinkering and enjoys it even more. Apart from designing and sewing clothes, she likes drawing, mixing teas, building paper dragons, jewellery or origami.
Throughout the comic Hay Lin is also seen inline skating. She seems to enjoy it a lot even though she is clumsy at the same time.

Dislikes:

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Love interest:

Her first known love is Eric Lyndon who she met one summer vacation in issue 18. Later Eric moves to another town and while at first, the relationship endures and Hay Lin even visits him, at some point there is no more mention of Eric. Instead Wesley appears and is Hay Lin's temporary love. 

Friends:

Outside of W.I.T.C.H. Hay Lin doesn't seem to have many friends. Unlike the other girls she rarely hangs out with anyone but her fellow-guardians, her current boyfriend or her grandmother. She becomes introverted when surrounded by other peers though she has less problems getting along with adults. She is seem a couple of times having good conversations with elders.

Entrusted Artefact:
The map of Twelve Portals.

Element:
Air

Basic Powers:
Hay Lin can lift pretty much anything into the air. Objects or even people. She can make them float to wherever she wants and is the only one in the team who can fly - at least until the girls receive their second transformation. She can create winds of different strength, blow away enemies or extinguish or feed fire. Later she can create and control entire tornados or use her powers to blow away smells, objects, and much more.
When below water she can create air bubbles - similar to Irma.

Her power usually looks like silver clouds or trails of smoke.

Communication Powers:
Most of the girls have a way to communicate with their element. Hay Lin can communicate with Yan Lin in Kandrakar through windbells for example, so early on her power refers to sounds.
Also she says the air would whisper to her when she enters Meridian for the second time. She can experience the city simply by listening.

Guardian Powers:

Being a guardian seems to come with a set of powers all of the team can use:

• Transformation - at first triggered by Will through the Heart of Kandrakar but later on, each girl can transform into a guardian without the Heart of Kandraka. When in guardian form, the five girls look a few years older.  Unlike some of the others, Hay Lin only uses this magic once when the gang pretends to be university students to travel to Mermaid Isle. Hay Lin uses this power on rare occasions to create or transform drawings, pictures or other paper products.
• Dislocation - Will first learns it from Caleb. Dislocation is being done by putting both forefingers facing each other, left on top, in front of the body. A small ball of white-blue magic will appear and literally dislocate the person performing the magic to a place they focus on. Later in the comics the girls even learn to use dislocation to exchange their powers.
• Invisibility - The girls can become invisible at will.
• Speed - It is easily forgotten but the very first time the girls transform, Will notices that she's a lot faster than usual. I presume that this goes for all the girls.

Nymph Gift:

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Other Powers:

Hay Lin developes a sense of hearing that lets her interpret sounds and see the memory of the equivalent object. For this she has to recreate a sound for example throw the object to the floor or in case of a music box, make it play. Then the sound echoes in her head until she starts to see images. At first they are blurred and jumbled and after time become more clear.

Not much is known about Hay Lin's childhood. Apart from her parents and grandmother she seems to haven't had any contact with other relatives or know much about her parents' former life. In a special paper on Hay Lin's childhood it is said that her creativity came from one morning when she was seven years old. As she awoke there were colorful lights floating along the walls and ceiling. She couldn't quite believe her eyes until she saw Yan Lin standing in the room with a lantern that had colored glass. She had build it herself and little Hay Lin thought it so pretty she decided to create things herself. After that she started tinkering and drawing and doing all kinds of artsy stuff.

Every oracle gifted the readers with a vision of the future. While Will was the only one to see Endarno's (who was really Phobos at that moment), all of them watched Himerish's possible future, the first one and they even had a choice with Yan Lin's, the last one.