Tecna- Fairy of Technology
Tecna is the fairy of technology who comes from the Planet Zenith (AKA the “Third Vector of the Binary Galaxy” in the 4kids dub). In seasons 1 – 5, her bonded pixie is Digit, the minifairy of nanotechnology. (according to a version of the official Winx Club website from 2009) In season 6, Tecna is bonded with Caramel, the minifairy of superstrength. She has two parents who live on her home planet: Magnethia and Electronio.
While she may not be the showiest fairy in Winx Club when it comes to glamour like our girl Stella, Tecna’s intelligence stands behind most of their plans and missions. Her strategic tendencies are shown off very well even in the first season. When the Winx first fight the Trix, she is the first one to shield them from their attacks, and when they go to Bloom’s frozen home planet, she creates a dome around Stella in order to amplify and direct her Sun magic towards melting the snow that’s covering the royal palace. Similarly, when the Winx were looking for a place where Stella had gone before she started to act strange, Tecna searches Magix for it by using her search program.
Zenith / Third Vector of the Binary System is the planet of technology,whose residents don’t show emotions, preferring to be rational and logical. This caused some difficulties for Tecna once she met the Winx, as well as her boyfriend-to-be: Timmy. Her friends would often misunderstand her practicality and objectivity for cold or rudeness. In reality, she was showing she cares about them by offering helpful solutions to their issues. During the season, she developed a crush on Timmy, a nerdy and kind specialist who is every bit as in love with technology as she is.
During season 2, Tecna stays at Alfea to do surveillance on the expedition led by Bloom, Aisha, Stella, Brandon, and Sky, and help them along the way. Her research skills are displayed once she and her pixie, Digit, get suspicious of the new professor at Alfea and decide to uncover his true identity. Even though their assumptions about him being a monster initially get dismissed, they are proven correct later in the season. At this time she begins to struggle with her emotions towards Timmy and the expectations she has towards him, which causes her to dismiss him. Eventually, she manages to trust her feelings and they start dating afterwards.
At the start of season 3 Tecna is the one who helps the Winx get to Andros after it gets attacked, using one of her gadgets. However, she gets to truly shine later in the season, while sacrificing herself to close the gate of the Omega Dimension, a prison for the worst criminals in all the Magic Dimension, the entrance to which is located on Andros. She then disappears for a number of episodes. Everyone assumes she’s gone forever, except for Timmy, who spends days and nights searching for her using technology. It turns out that for days or weeks, Tecna has been surviving the extremely cold climate of the Omega Dimension all by herself, by turning snow into food and creating clothes which keep the cold away from her.
At the start of season 5, we see Tecna once again use her tecno-magic to search for the Sirenix Book in the Magic Archive of Alfea. Because of a dark spell placed upon her phone, she ends up turning into a robot, but once the spell is broken, Tecna’s program ends up being the Winx fairy who finds the Book. During the season, we see her once again struggle with showing emotions, as well as societal norms of what a couple should look like, with Timmy. After taking dating advice from her friends, they go on a date at a restaurant, despite them both finding it uncomfortable. To make matters worse, Timmy is advised to avoid talking about technology by his friends. At the end, they both decide to act in whichever way feels natural to them.
Even though Tecna might sometimes seem cold and too blunt, she cares, loves, experiences hurt, and happiness, just as much as everyone else. She just doesn’t show it in a way that everyone else is used to. She is highly intelligent, competitive when it comes to video games, and is very innovative. She will always be there to help you solve an issue you are facing and protect you when you need it.
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