Tai Pham

Tai Pham is one of the two youngest Green Lanterns after being chosen by his grandmother's ring.

Pre-Green Lantern
Tai Pham's family are the owners of the Jade Market in China Town, Coast City. His grandmother Kim was a green lantern who refused to leave earth due to not wanting to have to leave her home again. She instead promised to keep an eye out and make sure nothing catastrophic happened. The Guardians tried to remove the ring from her but failed due to her extreme willpower.

Tai had a fairly normal childhood where he picked up art as a hobby along with comic book reading. Things changed for him with the weeks leading up to his grandmother's passing. A yellow truck was repeatedly throwing bricks through the window of the shop with racist messages scrawled on them. Tai was managing to keep a cool head about it though and was even able to draw the truck and licence plate.

Legacy
The night after one of these attacks he woke up to find his grandmother's jade ring on his bed. He got up to return it then went back to bed, but the ring returned. He went back to his grandmother's room where she told him that the ring had chose him and that it was his now. He was confused but she fell asleep before she could explain anything else. The next morning she had passed away of old age.

At the funeral Xander Griffin introduced himself to Tai and left him a business card. Afterwards during the evening the ring went to the lantern to recharge, taking Tai with him. An imprint of his grandmother left with the lantern begun to explain the basics of his new situation. He did end up passing out tired.

Over the next couple of weeks he trained under the imprinted ghost of his grandmother in how to use the ring along with meditate (although the meditation didn't get very far). Though he was also haunted by nightmares of himself as a yellow lantern.

He also met with Xander who said some ominous and vague things about innovation and offered to buy the Jade Market.

After spending some time with his friends Tommy and Serena who were suspicious of Xander and his intentions he went to go find the man and found him right outside the store. Serena using her scrabble skills was able to figure out Tression was a anagram of Sinestro.Tai then fought Xander and manged to win, driving him away from the Jade Market and China Town.

Tai now is trying to protect Coast City but frankly has no clue what he's doing, and so far he's manged to stay under the radar but who knows how long that will last.

Mentor
After helping stop a bank robbery Tai made TV and had the Green Lantern John Stewart sent after him. He first encountered John while just in the Jade Market and then quickly after that spoke with his grandmother and discovered he should avoid being found. Cue a lot of panicked planning with his friends ending with getting Xander involved. Xander played on Tai's fears of loosing the ring and the two tried to figure out a plan until Serena contacted John and discovered he didn't want to take the ring. She informed Tai and Tai went to talk with John, after making a rushed comic of his origin story.