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The Planet or The People

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Gaia (ガイア, Gaia) is a religious organization that worships the planet, and particularly, the Key. The organization has been around for millennia and is led by an individual referred to as the Holy Woman.

Members of Gaia are referred to as Gaians (ガイア主義者, Gaia shugisha).

Spoiler Warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Story[]

An organization that opposes the superhuman-driven and pro-humanity Guardian, Gaia is a religious group that believes in the will of the planet above all else. However, disguised in this, Gaia is actually a haven for people who have given up on the world or downright hate it. In fact, they seem to pinpoint who the "true believers" really are by testing them on their levels of frustration with the world and how easily they would dispose of their lives. Gaia is made up of regular people without powers of any kind, but it's also a home for familiar summoners and ex-Guardian members who have abandoned the organization.

Since religious cults are not generally seen in a positive light, Gaia uses Martel as a front, showing themselves as environment-conscious scientists. The Martel meetings are the main recruiting ground for Gaia's actual activities.

The Holy Woman, in this case Sakura Kashima, and her disciples, are the core of the organization. She performs "miracles", mostly by helping disabled children to talk and whatnot. However, these "miracles" are just Kashima partially transcribing her own mind into someone else's. This does, in fact, change the children's situation, but it also makes them mostly think exactly the same as the Holy Woman. We could say that this doesn't "heal" children as much as it changes their actual personalities.

To find the next Holy Woman, Kashima has an orphanage that attends to children with disabilities: the Enishi House. There, she transcribes part of her own mind to them. When she's close to dying, one of them will start inheriting her memories and the collective memories of all the Holy Women before that. With Kashima's death, the transcription is complete, and so there's a new Holy Woman. This happens in Akane Senri's route, where she's appointed the new Holy Woman of Gaia.

Gaia is a relatively disorderly organization, and so it has many factions which fight each other for power.

Factions[]

The Holy Woman and her Disciples[]

The Holy Woman is the one who leads the main branch of the organization. As mentioned by Akane Senri and further explained by Suzaki, the status of 'Holy Woman' is actually something that is spread by transcribing minds. Candidates for the Holy Women are young girls without any will to live or hopes for the future.

As Akane Senri explains, the first Holy Woman was a young girl who could heal people's physical and mental wounds by transcribing herself. Her talents where so praised that she was heralded as a type of savior. However, people began to call her a fraud and began persecuting her and all of her followers. As she was being burned alive she tried to heal the injured with her power, but a part of the person she healed broke off and turned into a monster, which promptly began to attack people. The girl despaired and burned to death afterwards. Throughout many years many other young girls began awakening as Holy Women, retaining the memories of all the previous women.

Members of this faction:[]

Sakura Kashima (current Holy Woman at the start of the Common Route timeline)
Akane Senri (current Holy Woman after Sakura Kashima's death)
Chihaya Ohtori (summoner of Gaia)
Sakuya Ohtori (strongest familiar and Chihaya's bodyguard)
Kotarou Tennouji (if Akane's Route is chosen, bodyguard)
Tsukuno (Akane's Secretary)
Iko Fuku (disciple and Enishi House caretaker)
Shimako (Holy Woman candidate)

The Board of Directors/Suzaki's Group[]

Suzaki's Group is a part or Gaia opposed to the idea of destroying humanity in order to save the planet, and so he is in direct opposition to Sakura Kashima. He proposes to use familiars as a source of energy in every household in order to lessen the damage done to the planet by humans. After Sakura dies he split from Gaia and began publicizing falsified information about Gaia to weaken the Holy Woman's faction. Suzaki also mentions that he used to love Sakura, but could not accept the idea of sacrificing the human race to save the Earth.

Members of this faction[]

Shuuichirou Suzaki (CEO)
Tasakago (Bodyguard)
Board of Directors

Random Summoners[]

The random Summoners are three individuals who use the power to kill aimlessly. It's implied that they're mercenaries Suzaki brought in to help him find the Key before Sakura Kashima, but they ended up getting out of control.

Subordinates of Summoners[]

Tenma (summoner, controls Krivoy Rog)
Midou (summoner, controls Fuego)
Tenjin (summoner, controls Kilimanjaro)

Trivia[]

The term "Gaia" came from the Latin word meaning "earth."

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+{{Quote|The Planet or The People}}
-'''Gaia;''''' ''(Earth in Latin) is a religious organization composed up ''summoners, normal people, disciples, ''and their weapons: [[familiars]].
+'''Gaia''''' ''(ガイア, ''Gaia'') is a religious organization that worships the planet, and particularly, the [[Key]]. The organization has been around for millennia and is led by an individual referred to as the [[Holy Woman]].
-Gaia has been around for millinia and is led by who the disciples refer to as the Holy Woman who is currently ''Sakura Kashima, ''after her death (Being poisoned by Tasakago) the title of Holy Woman is given to [[Akane Senri]]. However, do to the beliefs of Gaia some affiliators have strayed from those and Gaia is split into two groups; the other group being led by ''Suzaki.''
+Members of Gaia are referred to as Gaians (ガイア主義者, ''Gaia shugisha''). {{StartSpoiler}}
-Gaia has been studying the earth and has learned that the planet is slowly dieing as a result of humanity's descisions. To save the planet it looks toward the ''salvation ''of the [[Kagari|Key]]. However, the Key's salvation will likely bring about cataclysmic apocalypse that will destroy all of humanity using nature itself as a weapon; saving the planet in doing so. [[Guardian]] an organization opposed to such ideas dattles them frequently around the world.
-==Infilatations of Gaia==
-The '''Holy Woman '''is the one who leads the main branch of the organization, as mentioned by Akane Senri and further explained by Suzaki, the Holy Woman is actually a disease that is spread by transcription of the mind. Candidates for the Holy Women are young girls with seemingly no emotions, do not speak, and have no sense of awareness. Transcription could start as any time in the young girl's life; as it begins, all of the previous Holy Women's memories are transfered to the next chosen girl.
+== Story ==
-As Akane Senri explains; the first holy woman was a young girl who could heal people's physical and mental wounds, her talents where so praise that she was herald as a type of savior. However, people began to call her a fraud and began persecuting her and all of her followers, as she was being burned alive she tried to heal the injured with er power, but the part of the person she healed broke off turned into a monster and began to attack people. The girl despaired and burned to death afterwards. Throughout many years many othe young girls began awakening as Holy Women; retaining the memories of all the previous women (All of which met horrible deaths). The Holy Woman in its sense is actually a disease which turns the "brain cells" of the next chosen girl into familiars.
+An organization that opposes the superhuman-driven and pro-humanity [[Guardian]], Gaia is a religious group that believes in the will of the planet above all else. However, disguised in this, Gaia is actually a haven for people who have given up on the world or downright hate it. In fact, they seem to pinpoint who the "true believers" really are by testing them on their levels of frustration with the world and how easily they would dispose of their lives. Gaia is made up of regular people without powers of any kind, but it's also a home for [[familiar]] [[summoners]] and ex-Guardian members who have abandoned the organization.
-==='''Subordinates of the Holy Woman'''===
-Sakura Kashima (Current Holy Woman before for death)
+Since religious cults are not generally seen in a positive light, Gaia uses [[Martel]] as a front, showing themselves as environment-conscious scientists. The Martel meetings are the main recruiting ground for Gaia's actual activities.
-Akane (Current Holy Woman after Sakura Kashima's death)
+The Holy Woman, in this case [[Sakura Kashima]], and her [[disciple|disciples]], are the core of the organization. She performs "miracles", mostly by helping disabled children to talk and whatnot. However, these "miracles" are just Kashima partially [[transcription|transcribing]] her own mind into someone else's. This does, in fact, change the children's situation, but it also makes them mostly think exactly the same as the Holy Woman. We could say that this doesn't "heal" children as much as it changes their actual personalities.
-[[Chihaya Ohtori|Chihaya ]](Summoner of Gaia)
+To find the next Holy Woman, Kashima has an orphanage that attends to children with disabilities: the Enishi House. There, she transcribes part of her own mind to them. When she's close to dying, one of them will start inheriting her memories and the collective memories of all the Holy Women before that. With Kashima's death, the transcription is complete, and so there's a new Holy Woman. This happens in [[Akane Senri]]'s route, where she's appointed the new Holy Woman of Gaia.
-[[Sakuya Ohtori|Sakuya ]](Strongest familiar and Chihaka's bodyguard)
+Gaia is a relatively disorderly organization, and so it has many factions which fight each other for power.
-[[Kotarou Tennouji|Kotarou ]](If Akane's Route is chosen; bodyguard)
+==Factions==
+===The Holy Woman and her Disciples===
+The Holy Woman is the one who leads the main branch of the organization. As mentioned by Akane Senri and further explained by [[Suzaki]], the status of 'Holy Woman' is actually something that is spread by transcribing minds. Candidates for the Holy Women are young girls without any will to live or hopes for the future.
+As Akane Senri explains, the first Holy Woman was a young girl who could heal people's physical and mental wounds by transcribing herself. Her talents where so praised that she was heralded as a type of savior. However, people began to call her a fraud and began persecuting her and all of her followers. As she was being burned alive she tried to heal the injured with her power, but a part of the person she healed broke off and turned into a monster, which promptly began to attack people. The girl despaired and burned to death afterwards. Throughout many years many other young girls began awakening as Holy Women, retaining the memories of all the previous women.
-Tsukuno (Akane's Secretary)
+==== Members of this faction: ====
-Tsuruhashi (Disciple)
+* [[Sakura Kashima]] (current Holy Woman at the start of the Common Route timeline)
+* [[Akane Senri]] (current Holy Woman after Sakura Kashima's death)
+* [[Chihaya Ohtori|Chihaya Ohtori ]](summoner of Gaia)
+* [[Sakuya Ohtori|Sakuya Ohtori ]](strongest familiar and Chihaya's bodyguard)
+* [[Kotarou Tennouji|Kotarou Tennouji ]](if Akane's Route is chosen, bodyguard)
+* [[Tsukuno]] (Akane's Secretary)
+* [[Iko Fuku]] (disciple and Enishi House caretaker)
+* [[Shimako ]](Holy Woman candidate)
+===The Board of Directors/Suzaki's Group===
-[[Shimako ]](Holy Woman candidate)
-==='''Suzaki's Group'''===
-Suzaki's Group is a part or Gaia opposed to the idea of destroying humanity in order to save the planet. Suzaki committed a sort of ''coup d' etat ''with the disciples of Gaia as well as the holy woman who was Sakura Kashima at the time. He proposed to use familiars as a source of energy in every house hold in order to lessen the damage done by humans to the planet. After Sakura died he split from Gaia and began publicizing falsified information about Gaia to weaken the organization. Mentioned by Akane, Suzaki actually loved Sakura, but could not accept the idea of sacrificing the human race to save the Earth.
+Suzaki's Group is a part or Gaia opposed to the idea of destroying humanity in order to save the planet, and so he is in direct opposition to Sakura Kashima. He proposes to use familiars as a source of energy in every household in order to lessen the damage done to the planet by humans. After Sakura dies he split from Gaia and began publicizing falsified information about Gaia to weaken the Holy Woman's faction. Suzaki also mentions that he used to love Sakura, but could not accept the idea of sacrificing the human race to save the Earth.
+==== Members of this faction ====
-'''Subordinates of Suzaki's group'''
+* [[Suzaki|Shuuichirou Suzaki]] (CEO)
+* [[Tasakago]] (Bodyguard)
+* Board of Directors
+===Random Summoners===
+The [[random Summoners]] are three individuals who use the power to kill aimlessly. It's implied that they're mercenaries Suzaki brought in to help him find the Key before Sakura Kashima, but they ended up getting out of control.
-Suzaki (CEO)
+==== Subordinates of Summoners ====
-Tasakago (Bodyguard)
+* [[Tenma]] (summoner, controls [[Krivoy Rog]])
-==='''Random Summoners'''===
+* [[Midou]] (summoner, controls [[Fuego]])
+* [[Tenjin]] (summoner, controls [[Kilimanjaro]])
+== Trivia ==
-Random Summoners are three individuals who use the power to kill aimlessly, yet claim to hunt for the Key.
+* The term "Gaia" came from the Latin word meaning "earth."
+[[Category:Groups]]
-'''Subordinates of Summoners'''
+[[Category:Factions]]
-Tenma (Possible leader)
-Midou (Hot headed pyro; in more ways than one)
-Tenjin (Close friend)