Leila Adler

Name: Leila Adler

Nicknames: None

Age: 13

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

Personality: Leila tends to be a quiet girl. She’s friendly to those who are friendly to her, while she tries to ignore those who aren’t in the hopes that they’ll forget about her. This, however, is only a mask: underneath, she is a storm of emotion, volatile and violent. It terrifies her, sometimes. Thus, she prefers to stay out of the way and let others walk all over her than confront them and risk losing control of that inner rage.

Looks: Leila’s a fairly average height for her age, about 5’3, with pale, coppery skin and dark, ruddy-brown hair, so she looks like a bronze sculpture of a girl, with strong Native American features—high cheekbones, full lips, a broad, prominent nose, and a solid chin—and dark blue eyes, the color of the night sky.

Divine Parent: Unclaimed

Powers: Leila has the power to create small, devastatingly powerful storms—rain, thunder, gale-force winds, the whole works—veritable tempests in a teacup, about the size of a city block at largest. While she generally can’t create a mini-hurricane without some effort, the effect starts to build whenever Leila is afraid or upset, which unfortunately can lead to anything near her becoming soaked by spontaneous rainclouds. While she can’t control natural storms, winds, or electricity, Leila can manipulate the elements of her own personal storms, directing the lightning, moving the clouds for cover, or ever riding the winds to fly. She also has several minor powers including healing with exposure to electricity and perfect night vision.

Backstory: Leila’s mother was born in Fort Rupert, Canada, as a member of the Kwugu’l nation of the Kwakwaka'wakw people. At 18, she left home along with her twin brother and moved to Vancouver, where she met Leila’s father only a few years later. She soon had a falling out with her brother, who thought that the older white American man was using her, and his opinion seemed to be borne out when Leila’s father vanished when her mother was three months pregnant. Leila’s mother was heartbroken and, hoping to rebuild her life somewhere else, moved to London, where Leila was born. She eventually got over her lost love and, three years after moving to England, married the man who gave Leila his last name and became her new father.

Leila’s life for the next nine years was uneventful. She grew, and learned, and endured the teasing of her classmates about her decidedly un-English looks and her difficulty with school. She seemed to drink in the London fog that always swirled around her, drawn like iron filings to a magnet, and vanished into the background. She knew instinctively what the alternative was, and rejected it. She was not that vicious. Then, when Leila was twelve, her life changed forever.

After the fact, the police determined that it had been an electrical fire. Nearly half of Leila’s tower block burned; her parents were the only casualties. Within a few days, as soon as everything could be arranged, Leila was on a plane across the Atlantic to her uncle in Vancouver, who was to be her new legal guardian. She wasn’t there very long. On her thirteenth birthday, she vanished from her uncle’s house without a trace.

The next thing Leila remembers after falling asleep on the night before her birthday was waking up a month later in a strange bed in a New York apartment belonging to a girl who introduced herself as Claudia Dilogos. Claudia told Leila that she’d found her unconscious in an alley, being threatened by a pair of ghouls, by following an anomalous weather system. She told Leila that she was probably a demigod, explained what that meant, and arranged for Leila’s transport to Camp Half-Blood.

Strengths:

• Leila’s young; she still has time to figure out who is before her past choices lock her onto a particular path.
  
• Despite the tragedy that’s already found her, Leila’s still fundamentally innocent. Some might dismiss that as naiveté; they would be wrong. There’s a certain strength in freedom from moral compromise that not even the Olympians can claim. Leila has it, and that makes her dangerous.
  
• Leila has a great deal of untapped potential, waiting for her to rise to the situation.
  
• After a unit on Greek mythology in her first year of secondary school, Leila knows somewhat more on the subject than most children her age.
  

Weaknesses:

• While many demigods have tragedy in their pasts, Leila lost her family only recently, and she feels very alone and vulnerable, with her parents gone and everything she knew on the other side of the ocean.
  
• Leila doesn’t quite know how to control her own powers yet, which can be dangerous both to herself and to those around her, and she’s scared to learn to use them, as she secretly fears her abilities may have caused her parents’ deaths.
  
• Leila doesn’t have any experience fighting, and her natural talent as a demigod can only get her so far against more practiced opponents.
  
• Leila’s fatal flaw is Indecision; she’s not quite sure who she is or who she wants to be, which can paralyze her when she comes to a crossroads.
  

Weapon: Leila doesn’t yet own a weapon.

Other: This took me so much longer than it had any right to. Stupid ear infection.

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