Irma Lair

Irma Lair
Human Guardian New Power
Publication information
Publisher	Disney
First appearance	W.I.T.C.H. #1 (April, 2001)
Created by	Elisabetta Gnone
In-story information
Alter ego	Irma Lair
Place of origin	Earth
Team affiliations	W.I.T.C.H.
Abilities	Flight Hydrokinesis Cryokinesis Hydro-thermokinesis Water-based abilities Ice generation/control Creation of rain, waves, tidal waves, whirpools, and tsunamis Snow, hail, & blizzard creation Steam and fog creation Change the color of clothes Limited mind-control Control over the seas and oceans Hydromancy

Irma Lair is a fictional character in the comic book W.I.T.C.H. and the animated series of the same name. Irma is a thirteen-year old teen, who is going through her last year of middle school/early high school at the Sheffield Institute. She is also a member of W.I.T.C.H.. Her family consists of a 7 year-old half-brother (in the comics) or brother (in the cartoon) named Christopher Lair, Tom Lair (her father), and Anna Lair (her stepmother in the comic and mother in the cartoon). She has light-brown, slightly wavy hair and greenish-blue eyes. Irma's birthday is March 13, and her sign is Pisces. Her favorite school subject is geography. She is voiced by Candi Milo and Damayanti Quintanar in Mexican Spanish.

Personality

Irma is a funky, cheerful, optimistic, sarcastic and a humorous person. Compared to the other members of W.I.T.C.H., she is the cockiest member of the team and she often appears to be the least serious as she is known to crack jokes about almost anyone she comes in contact with. Despite her tendency to joke around when faced with a problem, she is a kind-hearted person who cares about those she has relationships with. Her optimistic ways sometimes irritate the other members of W.I.T.C.H, especially Cornelia.

When necessary, she exhibits leadership qualities. Irma also almost always wants to be center stage and, depending on the person, can or can't hold grudges for long. She also has a big appetite, revealed by the time she devours all of Mrs. Rudolph's cookies without a care for them being possibly poisoned, unlike the other more cautious Guardians.

Profile

Irma is thirteen years old. She has light brown hair and blue eyes. Her birthday is given as March 13, making her a Pisces. She lives in a house with her policeman father Tom Lair, her pesky little seven-year-old brother Christopher Lair (who only misbehaves due to copying his sister's immaturity), and Anna Lair, who is her stepmother in the comics and her mother in the animated series. In the comics she has a pet turtle named Leafy, in whom she confides all her secrets.

Irma likes taking long baths and showers, shopping, rock music and making up nicknames. Her idol is Kamilla, a rock singer, but she's also a big fan of soccer player David Addams. Irma is crazy about boys and has had many different crushes, first on Andrew Hornby (but nothing happened between them) and after she has a sweet friendship with Joel. But her first love was Stephen, her only real boyfriend. She is good friends with a boy named Martin Tubbs, who has a monster-sized crush on her, but in the second season she proved that she had slight feelings for him. She can often be seen using her powers for personal gain.

As the Guardian of Water, Irma controls water as well as having other advanced powers. She can shoot water from the palm of her hands and can shape it to work for her needs. Her theme color is turquoise and her symbol is a blue wave crest.

When Irma transforms into her guardian form her body grows lean and supple, she wears a shirt that is blue and has swirls on the bottom,a purple (or pink) mini skirt, blue and green tights, purple ankle boots, and a pair of pixie wings. Irma's hair grows longer and is put into a sleek hair do.

Powers

Irma has the ability to control the element of water(Hydrokinesis/aquakinesis). She eventually starts manipulating bodies of water to stop rushing water or create shapes like swords and can create a bubble of water filled with air to travel underwater. She can also manipulate the water in the clouds to make it rain and control water pressure allowing water under her control to grab objects or even slice through metal, rock, and leather. At the beginning, Irma could not pull water out of the air but after a while, she learnt how to do it. In the animated series she can create water out of thin air and attacks mostly with blasts of liquid water that she creates from her hands.

Later when the Guardians powers are fueled by the energy used to create the Veil, they begin manifesting new powers. Irma gains the ability of mind control, able to influence and control people's actions, such as making her father go easy on her to avoid grounding or breaking another free from outside mind control. She cannot override the effects of Nerissa's enthrallment spell but when the power of those things weaken she is able to break it.

Irma also displays more power with her power over water able to freeze and evaporate it at will, dehydrating (AKA sucking the water out of) beings, and creating a gigantic version of herself out of water, using herself as a nexus of this watery giant.

Irma's newest power is known as Scrying, the ability to foresee her present and future in various fluids and in lucid dreams. The former guardian of Water, Cassidy Chacon, also has the same exact powers as Irma.

It is shown that Irma can:

• Create water out of thin air (animated series and by the "New Power" comic arc)
• Manipulate bodies of water
• Solidify water to grab objects
• Create force fields through water
• Create watery shapes that she can manipulate at will
• Freeze objects (by the "New Power" arc)
• Create water bubbles that can travel underwater
• Control and summon rain
• Evaporate water
• Use mind control
• Change the colour of fabric
• Alter the pressure of water to slice through objects
• Throwing beams of aqua energy
• Use enhanced intuition
• Change the physical appearance of others
• Suck water out of plants
• Foresee the future in various fluids and in lucid dreams
• Evaporate beings at will
• Create physical embodiments of herself
• Create force fields through and out of water
• Create Astral Drop
• Breathe underwater
• Healing powers
• Use her own sweat as water
• Manipulate snow and ice
• Use water as whips
• Change water temperature
• Control water pressure
• Use ice claws, spikes and disces
• Use her breath as ice to freeze her opponents.
• The ability to use condensation
• Materialize objects
• Fulfill people's wishes.

Irma's power as a guardian include:

• Flight (animated series and since New Power)
• Teleportation
• Glamouring
• Invisibility

Love life

Throughout the series, Irma is shown to be boycrazy and looking for a boyfriend. She even proudly said that she was, and always will, be a "gorgeous single". Even before the start of the series, in a special, "The Year Before", she was shown looking for a boyfriend. She goes as far as believing in one episode that a one-off character named Jewel, who has special psychic abilities, will keep his promise that he'll tell her who her boyfriend is going to be.

Like most girls in the comic book version Irma has sort of a love life. Irma is the only one in the comics who never had a relationship before, but unlike the others she tried the most to get a boy's attention. This first happened when she used her Guardian form to get into a club to meet a popular boy from school called Andrew Hornby. However he ended up trying to kiss her too soon and Irma accidentally turned him into a toad. Irma tried to get his and other popular guys' attention again by making her body grow. This backfired when her body almost did not change back due to her almost losing her powers.

Martin Tubbs has a crush on Irma and since the beginning he tried to get her attention and tried to flirt with her. Irma at first is not interested in him believing he is a dork and a nerd. When Irma's Astral Drop promised Martin to go on a date, the real Irma was forced to go with him despite her wishes. Despite her feelings and her dislike towards Martin she finds herself enjoying it and finds Martin funny. Martin also helps her with her homework when Irma's grades are going down. Later on, Astral Irma has become so sick of Martin that she calls him a dork and says to leave her alone. Because of this, Martin grows tired of Irma's behavior and decides to ignore her. When the Astral Drop disappears, Irma notices that Martin is ignoring her and tries to follow him and ask him to help her for homework again. However, Martin looks annoyed but still tries to be nice to her. Finally, later Irma talks to him and she tells Martin to give up on them ever being more than friends.

In Planet Boys Matt's cousin, Sean, shows he is interested in Irma and flirts with her openly and confidently. Irma, however, dislikes his behavior and tells him off despite the fact she is blushing. Joel, a friend of Matt's, has recently become close with Irma as they have many things in common and also talk for hours about the subjects they love. Irma also blushes around him. In the meantime Martin started a relationship with his French pen-pal. This shocks Irma and annoys her. Irma also often tries to get Martin jealous about her being with Joel but it does not seem work. Irma also has a hard time focusing on Joel with Martin nearby implying she herself is starting to like Martin, or always liked him without knowing it, and now with him not giving his full attention to her, she is obviously missing it. However, she admits to Joel that she likes him and embraced him in the process, while Joel replied that he also liked her. But they never seem to actually make it clear that their relationship is romantic, implying that the two meant that what they said about being just good friends.

In the new series, Irma finally has an actual boyfriend, named Stephen, who is a relatively new character in the story. She reveals to Stephen that she is a guardian during the New Power arc.

In volume 50 a possible future shows that Irma has become interested in Martin who grows up to be a handsome young man.