Name: Tiana Emerald Gates

Born: October 22, 1998 -- Las Vegas, NV

Status: Pre-Immortal

Primary Weapon: Katana

Secondary Weapon: Rapier

Tiana is a tall, graceful young woman. Though she looks weak, she's learning to become deceptively strong and agile. Her mentor is Duncan MacLeod. Tiana is Native American, Greek and French. She has brown hair and big, brown eyes. She has full, pouty lips and a sincere smiled. Overall, she appears to be a weak, innocent young woman.

She's been through so much that she's neither weak nor strong emotionally, leaving her in an emotional limbo that she's working on getting out of. Tiana is very sincere and open, although she's slowly growing more secretive. Only her true friends know her well and she seems to have very few true friends. She had high hopes for herself although her eventual Immortality will reek havoc on her future in the art world.

Tiana was raised in L.A. and San Francisco. Her mother was a junkie and dragged Tiana from place to place in her search for jobs and drugs. Seeing first hand the damage drug abuse had on her mother, Tiana vowed to remain clean although she had a tough time keeping that vow at one time.

In 2005, at the age of 7, she met her French father. He was at a convention in L.A. Upon meeting her, he refused to let Tiana into his life. He told her he was a well-respected and married doctor who had paid for sex with Tiana's mother during a tough time in his marriage. He gave her some money and asked that she never tell anyone they had met. Distraught, the young girl turned her anger and frustration into art. By the tender age of 11 Tiana had created over 75 original works of art.

At 17, she graduated from high school in L.A. and promptly moved out. Her mother overdosed on heroin and cocaine a few days later. Although she attended the funeral, she rarely visits her mother's grave anymore. What little respect she had for her mother remains with her today, keeping Tiana sane. She feels even today that the only good thing her mother ever did for her was sparing no expense when it came to Tiana's education.

In 2016, she enrolled in college -- attending the same university where Duncan taught. She became fascinated with him and the two became friends for a short time. After graduating in 2020, she moved into a studio apartment in Seacouver. She eventually became the lover of a man named Christian Crawford. He attempted to get her pregnant in order to become her husband and cash in on her success. His attempts failed and he left her in May of 2021.

Feeling abandoned and vulnerable, Tiana created some of her best work. In 2022, she put her freetime to use and signed up for self-defense classes. They temporarily restored her fragile self-confidence. In January of 2023, she was raped and beaten by two men. Tiana went into a nearly catatonic state, creating art which reflected the conflict she felt within herself. Confused as to why she couldn't bear a child, she consoled herself with alcohol before realizing she was becoming her mother. In a moment of rage and tumult, Tiana trashed her apartment.

After cleaning up the mess in both her apartment and her life, she created a collection that bared her soul. It was at the showing of those pieces that she saw Duncan again. Duncan sympathized with Tiana and took her in, explaining to her what the future ultimately held in store for her. It was as if the holes within her had been filled by this new knowledge. Since that day, Tiana has lived and trained with Duncan in preparation for her evident first death and coming Immortality.