Name: Taika

Voice Actor: Vincent Tong (Aki from megaman fully charged)

Gender: male

Species: tabby tiger

Occupation: Blazing Lotus junior archeologist and archivist expert

Affilation: Blazing Lotus

Home: Makai, Keanu Island

Family: Unknown

Likes: exploring, traveling, bright colors, astrology, the stars, constellations, food, swimming, seashells, crafting, puzzles, sunsets, glow in the dark stuff, Koki

Dislikes: being alone, danger, dark places and dark colors, lies, scary things

Description:

"This scrappy kid is Taika. It's not the first time that the Blazing Lotus took in an orphan. But this kid here knows a ton about archeology stuff. Even the amulet of Magic"

Taika is a member of the Blazing Lotus, serving as it's junior archeology expert, and junior archivist

Backstory:

A young orphan on Keanu Island in Makai, Takei has surpringly immense knowledge in artifacts and Magicae's history, having traveled around a lot. One day, the young tiger cub founded one of the missing shards of the Amulet of Magic.

He alerts the Keanu Island locals with one being a friend of his as well as the son of the cheif. Taila requests his friend to notify the Blazing Lotus and meet him at the ruins where the shard was found so he could meet with them both personally and privately.

When the team arrives, Taika captures Hops, believing he is after the shard since he knows about the bunny's betrayal to the team. They run into trouble and the team help Taika. He gives them the shard but in return asks to join the team. Learning he is in an orphan, the Blazing Lotus welcome him in their team and their family.

Appearance:

Taika is a tabby tiger cub with aqua green eyes.

He wears a red shirt with golden details that shows his stomach, a blue, and white short sleeve hoodie where the sleeves have an opening starting from his shoulder downward. There's also a brown, green and yellow design on the front of the hoodie. Taika also wears aqua green and dark blue pants with stars, crescent moon and sun designs on the sides. There's also a brown rope tied around his waist with some beads and feathers on the ends.

Taika wears a necklace, bracelets, a string of mineral and even some accessories on his tail crafted by seashells, gems and minerals.

Personality:

Taika is a positive and energetic tiger cub. He always curious and loves adventures and exploring. He's really smart, clever and sometimes easily flustered. He is optimistic, well-behaved, and full of passion for adventuring

He leans on caution and always opts towards avoiding needless risks in order to ensure the safety of himself and his friends.

When danger's near, he prefers to hide behind the other team members for protection. But that doesn't mean he's a coward. Despite being scared in the face of danger, Taika will do the right thing and jump in to help his friends.

Abilites:

Craftsman: Taika is shown to make various types of accessories

Mineral elemental attacks: using a variety of magic minerals, Taika can use any kind of elemental attack

Trivia

- his name is Māori for "tiger"

- at first, his name was going to be Tumen

- Tabby tigers (also called golden or strawberry tigers) are tigers with a rare color variation that closely resembles a tabby cat

-Taika is one of the few members of the Blazing Lotus not related to any of previous team members. This includes Leon and Flare

-Taika is one of the four tiger seen in the series along with Kuneychi(half tiger), Sultan and Lâohǔ

-He's the second newest team member to join the Blazing Lotus, the first Leon and the third is Flars

-He's also the second youngest team member along with Koki

- Taika's outfit is combination of the various fashions from the other places in Magicae (his shirt is from Shanghua, the hoodie from Sumitra, the pants from Makai and the accessories are from the other locations too)