Aine Freesia Daher

Áine Freesia Daher (later Daher-Sonnen) is the third Apostle to be recruited and the human identity of Leo during the Apostles Arc. During the first two Apostle novels, she attends the Hestia Cooking Institute to train to become a pastry chef. In the second novel, she and Salacia Jordan Sonnen marry and return as Goddesses in the final one.

Appearance
Civilian

Áine is tall with an obvious womanly figure. Untransformed, her hair is an auburn color with slight curls in it that's usually kept in a braid that reaches her thighs. Her eyes are a honey amber color with cinnamon skin and usually wears a belt with an Ankh belt buckle. Her Apostle Mark is the symbol for fire, an equilateral triangle, and is located on her sternum.

Her school uniform consists of a white, 8-button chef's jacket that's rolled up past her elbows, with a matching hat, black pants and shiny black shoes, as well as a bistro apron with red pin strips and a red scarf. This doesn't change with the seasons like the other school uniforms, as she changes into it at the beginning of the school day and changes back into regular clothes at the end of it.

Apostle
Transformed, her hair becomes loose and curls at the end, turning a bright red color and her eyes turning golden. Her costume is a red strapless dress with a pleated skirt and a split on her left leg. Her legs have gold, knee-high gladiator sandals with 3-inch heels, as well as gold bracelets and armbands with sheer fabric covering her arms between. Around her waist is a gold belt, studded with red-orange tetrahedrons. On her left thigh is a garter of gold lace and a red ribbon tied in a bow. Across her forehead is a gold circlet with a ruby in the center. She has red tetrahedron earrings and a large gold choker with an Ankh around her neck, her Apostle Mark clearly shown.

Personality
As the eldest of the Apostles, Á ine has a very mature and calm demeanor. As a friendly person, she usually has a smile on her face, though not as bright and cheerful as Salacia. She's able to keep herself together in most stressful situations but breaks down when reminded of her mother's death.

However, Á ine has shown to be perceptive about another's secrets and not above manipulating that person with it to keep people in line, though usually not out of malice.

Name Meaning
Áine (A-nya) ~ The Irish goddess of midsummer, fertility, love and sometimes crops and the moon. She was named this because her hair at the time of birth looked like flames.

Freesia ~ A beautiful, fragrant bell-shaped flower with many different symbolisms, but is often used to mean "friendship". Áine received this name in wishing that she has many friends.

History
Áine was conceived during a fling between her mother and an Italian businessman after her mother graduated from a Parisian cooking school. Her mother opened her bakery before giving birth, and enjoyed success in her business while raising her daughter. Áine had a relatively happy childhood living with her mother, and enjoyed watching her bake and run her store. She'd expressed desire to follow in her footsteps and go to the same cooking school that her mother had graduated from and continue running the store.

When she was twelve, there was a loud noise downstairs in the bakery and Áine's mother went to check it out after calling the police. Áine secretly sneaked behind, and saw as her mother was shot by a burglar and died on the scene. The police showed up soon after and apprehended the culprit and took Áine into their custody until her grandmother could come and get her.

Áine moved to Gaia with her grandmother after the bakery was sold.