Tanya Leong(AYA Character)

Tanya Leong is the main protagonist of A Young Alliance. She is half Chinese-Malaysian(on her father's side) half Thai(on her mother's side). She, along with Aidan, Raphael, Yuto, Thaiyo, Ankit, Zoe, Sheryl, Charlie, Jamie and Shion are the founders of The Young Alliance Organisation consisting of foreign, half foreign and Thai-Chinese students from school.

Appearance
She has long dark brown hair, brown eyes and lightly tanned skin. She often tied her hair in various hairstyles but her main casual hairstyles are half pigtails/bunches/twintails and 2 small braids on the side of her head with her hair tied up in a ponytail. When she is in school, she brings a black school bag. When she is outside school, she wears a variety of clothing. At home, she wears a light green t-shirt and black shorts. When she goes outside, she wears her casual clothing. They consist of a green short-sleeved shirt above a white long-sleeved shirt, blue jeans and white Adidas shoes. During the rainy season, she wears a blue sweatshirt over a white shirt, blue jeans and green and white high-cut converse shoes. In cooler months, she wears a pastel green hooded sweatshirt over a yellow shirt, blue jeans and green and white high-cut converse shoes. In special events, she wears a green dress shirt, blue jeans and green and white high-cut converse shoes along with a green headband. In some events, she wears a yellow rolled sleeved flannel shirt over a green shirt, blue jeans and white high-cut converse shoes. In Singapore, she wears a dark green unzipped hoodie over a pastel green shirt, blue jeans and white Adidas shoes. When she goes to school, her school uniform consists of a long-sleeved white blouse, a green checked necktie and knee-length skirt, white socks and leather shoes. She often wears a dark grey blue jacket with her uniform. Her scout uniform consists of a dark green short-sleeved blouse with pockets, dark green skirt, dark green hat with a gold scout symbol on it, her name on the right pocket, a purple global scout symbol on her left pocket along with a gold girl scout symbol and 1 red star indicating she's in Grade 7, a brown belt with a gold buckle, white socks and red leather shoes. She has 2 PE outfits, one consists of a red and white polo shirt, black and red jogging pants, white socks and white low-cut shoes and the other is the same but she has a sea green polo shirt indicating she is in the green team like her classmates. She has her hair tied into 2 French braided pigtails with some black hair clips and black ribbons at the end of each braid. She stands on average 12-year-old height.

Personality
Tanya is smart and optimistic. Though there are some times she can be easily affected by racism from the previous year and lose her focus. She is also tough and outgoing. She is also respectful though she and the other foreign students were accused of being disrespectful by the head teacher. She is also playful and immature. She is also loyal towards her teammates.

Etymology
Her first name, Tanya is the Slavic hypocoristic of Tatiana. It is now quite commonly used as an independent given name in the English-speaking world. Tanya is also of Hebrew origin derived from the Aramaic term meaning 'it was taught in Baraita' which is Biblical teaching.

Abilities
Tanya is bilingual which means she can speak Thai and English and knows a bit of Chinese. With the help of the crystal, she can glow like the moon at night, shoot asteroids from her hands and control things with her mind with telekinesis.

Trivia

 * Tanya first made her debut in Season 1 Episode 3 though she appeared along with Jamie, Charlie and Shion sneaking up to the original members in previous episodes
 * Tanya has been best friends with Zoe
 * Tanya is of Chinese-Malaysian and Thai descent
 * She is buddhist
 * She is 12-years-old