Gina Dupain

""For your next birthday, I'll take you on one of my trips!" "Thank you, Grandma! But you know, it doesn't matter where you take me. With you, it's always unforgettable.""

- Gina and Marinette

 is Marinette's Italian paternal grandmother and Tom Dupain's mother. In "Befana", after she mistakenly concludes that Marinette no longer wants to spend time with her, she is akumatized by Hawk Moth into Befana, a candy-themed supervillain.

Physical appearance
Gina is at an average height with short silver (nearly white) hair and dark green eyes.

Civilian attire
On her head, she wears glasses with tan rims and long gold earrings with green circular tops. She wears a black leather jacket with an upward collar and silver flat studs on the shoulders. Her black shirt underneath includes a prism design, with light entering on side of a sphere and a ray of colors coming out of other side. She has black fingerless driving gloves with holes around the knuckles and on the back of her palm, a watch with a red strap on her right arm, and various bracelets on her left wrist: a gray studded bracelet, a gold band, and black band, and a rounded red band. Also, she wears red jeans, a black belt, and black shoes.

When she is riding her motorcycle, she wears a red motorcycle helmet with black edges and gray comfort liner.

As Befana
Befana has reddish-brown eyes, pale green skin, and long, brushed-back hot pink hair with two white streaks. She wears a black mask with red edges on the sides of the face. Her outfit is a black short-sleeved bodysuit with jagged pink edges to the arm and leg sleeves, a large jagged pink-tipped collar above a regular black collar, and a pink and black bow resembling a wrapped candy on the chest. She wears black fingerless driving gloves, spiked black cuffs, black shoes, and two thin black belts around her hips. One belt has a circular red-orange pouch attached to it, and it has a black symbol on it based on their bow. For a weapon, she holds a black gun-like object with a dark gray horn-like barrel, a jagged red stripe around the barrel, a blue rectangle on each side, and a semi-cube end of the handle with colorful objects inside.

Personality
Gina is a very sweet, charming, and caring person. She deeply cares for her family, especially for her son Tom, her daughter-in-law Sabine, and her granddaughter Marinette. As seen in "Befana", Gina is a bit strict, energetic, enthusiastic, and quite ambitious. She is also affectionate, benevolent, and understanding, as she wanted Marinette to have a great birthday and to spend a lot of quality time with her too. Despite this, she can be forgetful and have a hard time adjusting to changes, as she didn't realize that Marinette was no longer a child and that she liked different things from when she was younger.

As Befana, she is more cruel, impatient, and very demanding. She was ardent to render retribution to Marinette for not having rejected opportunities to invest time with her. She is additionally quite stubborn yet can be facetious, particularly when she begins singing her song to her victims. While aggressive and cruel, however, she still acknowledges and is pleased by acts of kindness and selflessness. She is also very prestigious when it comes to manners, even forcing Hawk Moth to ask nicely before he can give her orders.

Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug
Gina loves her granddaughter and visits her on her birthday in order to be able to spend some time with her. However, she forgets that Marinette is no longer a child, mistakenly believing that she is turning 10 instead of 14, giving her candy that she no longer likes, and taking her to places more suitable for younger children. When Marinette asks her grandmother if she can go to the surprise party her friends are throwing for her, Gina allows this but is secretly sad, believing that Marinette is just making excuses in order to avoid spending time with her. As Befana, she angrily targets Marinette, calling her spoiled and believing that she needs to be punished. However, after being deakumatized, she understands that Marinette is growing up and offers to take her on one of her trips for her next birthday.

Gina appreciates Ladybug's heroism, telling her and Cat Noir in "Mayura" that all the Parisians are on their side. As Befana, however, she doesn't like that Ladybug is trying to stop her.

Tom Dupain
Gina cares about her son but gets annoyed with him when he tries to tell her that Marinette is too old for some of the activities she plans on doing with her. When akumatized, she turns him into coal because of this.

Sabine Cheng
Gina appreciates it when Sabine tries to comfort her after mistakenly believing that Marinette didn't want to spend time with her. Even as Befana, she acknowledges that Sabine has always been kind to her, deciding to turn her into a fairy instead of coal.

As a civilian
Gina is very experienced with riding her motorcycle.

As Befana
Befana can fly with the help of her transformed motorcycle. She can also either turn people into coal statues or to fairy minions via her pistol and order them to do her bidding. However, Befana apparently can not touch her own candies or she will turn into a coal statue as shown when Ladybug uses her candies against her.

Trivia

 * Gina's akumatized form was first revealed at a press release held by TFOU.
 * While a Brazilian news article for Season 2 wrote that Befana is the grandmother's name, a crew member later confirmed that the name was not entirely correct.
 * Befana is the name of an Italian old woman who brings gifts to children on Epiphany Eve (January 5th), which is similar to Santa Claus on December 25th in other countries.
 * Gina's shirt's design is a reference to Pink Floyd's album, The Dark Side of the Moon.
 * In power wise her ability to transform people who are nice into fairy-like henchmen just like Heximas because his coal will transforms anyone that are nice into evil elves.
 * According to Marinette, Gina has sent her letters from Patagonia, Australia, Bali, and Estonia.
 * Gina also has an Inuit friend.

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