Gina Angel is a major character in the Wild Arms: Twilight Venom cartoon, leader of ROOF. Three years before the events of the series, Gina was the lover of Sheyenne Rainstorm. Sheyenne, however, was still very much a reckless womanizer which often drove Gina into fits of jealous rage. After Sheynne was victorious in a gun duel, Gina used an ARM to shoot and apparently kill Sheyenne. In her grief and rage, she accidentally triggered Faluna's Twilight Venom system. This destroyed the town of Paskiarka, leaving many dead.
With Twilight Venom's activation, ROOF was awakened to the renewed presence of their "goddess", Laila. As Sheyenne returned to his hometown in his new, artificial body and met up with is former love again, ROOF seized her. In the showdown between Sheyenne and ROOF, Gina was apparently killed, devastating Sheyenne.
Gina, however, would live. Once her body was reclaimed, ROOF set about instilling false memories into her to recreate her into their "Goddess" directly. Now named "Laila Lai" (Japanese:ライラ・ライ), she would enter bouts of seeming insanity and amnesia. This version of Gina was rescued by Sheyenne and Golgol Thirty in an accidental encounter. Unfortunately, ROOF's programming won out and Gina, as Laila, returned to ROOF as their leader.
Driven by obsessive desire, strong enough to attract Lucied, Gina sought to reunite Sheyenne's mind with his body (which was reprogrammed as Keanu Fallwind). When the truth of Laila Margaret was finally revealed upon Keanu's death, the false memories of "Laila Lai" were shattered and Gina's true memories and personality reasserted themselves.
After some years from the end of the series, Sheyenne, now an adult in his new body, returns to Paskiarka be with Gina, giving them both a much-deserved happy ending.
Laila Margaret[]
Ten Thousand years before the events of the series, Laila Margaret (Japanese:ライラ・マーガレット)[1] was the commander of the Terran Punitive Forces. As the Yggdrasil terraform project on Filgaia began to fail, Laila was given orders to purge the planet in order to start over. To this end, she made use of the Twilight Venom system on the dark moon Farluna to launch barrages against the population of the planet.
Despite her willingness (even eagerness) to follower her orders, her apparent vengeful streak was sharply at odds with her love and affection for the Filgaian rebel leader, Keanu Fallwind. When Keanu went to her to negotiate a cease-fire and withdrawl from Filgaia, she misinterpreted his gesture as an attempt to hide 'another woman'. Filled with rage and panic, Laila shot and killed Keanu. Dying, he revealed the truth of his intentions and affections, which only resulted into sending Laila into madness.
In a final act of desperation Laila inserted a sample of both her DNA and that of Keanu into Filgaia's leylines in a plan to reincarnate their bodies at some point in the future. The plan worked, somewhat, as they were reborn into Sheyenne Rainstorm and Gina Angel. Laila, however, preserved herself in a nannite stew and secretly led the powerful agency known as ROOF in order to keep Filgaia isolated and subservient. Her plan was to seize Gina Angel and implant her own memories into the new body in order to fufill her fantasies of ruling the world along with her long-lost love.
Laila's plans were ultimately undone with Keanu's suicide and Sheyenne's rejection of her plans. In her rage she once again activated Twilight Venom, but that system would be destroyed by Sheyenne and the most powerful form of the anti-Twilight Venom system, Bator. Laila's final fate is not actually shown, but it is believed that she allowed herself to finally die along with the last of her dreams.
References[]
- ↑ ワイルドアームズ トワイライトヴェノム - Wikipedia (Japanese)
