leila townhome
EAGER ENTOMOLOGIST
EAGER ENTOMOLOGIST
Happy, wholesome, busy, tireless -- but also aloof, forgetful, pushy and a little invasive, Leila is a person who chronically leaves things half-finished in the process of being an unstoppable force of nature. Thankfully, she at least seems to be a force for good! And she'll pick up the things she's been neglecting... eventually. Stuff like paperwork tends to be put off until she has a break from being a busybodied people person and getting overly animated out on the field. She works as a forensic entomologist at the local police department, as well as having an adjunct teaching position at the college and being on call with other state services and police departments elsewhere in the region when they need her expertise.
ASK NOT FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
Some years ago Leila survived a car wreck that ended up killing a prized student of hers, and in the aftermath she acquired two pieces of emotional baggage: unrelenting survivor's guilt, and an intense fear of human mortality. She's painfully aware that losing people she cares about (and conversely, those around her losing her) is not a matter of if, but when, and this feeds into how relentlessly she approaches her life and her relationships with her friends. It has made her desperate to do as much as possible with her life, with other people, and for other people, half to distract herself from her fear and half as a bargaining mechanism. She's stuck in an existential crisis, and the way she's trying to handle it is not healthy.
BRIGHTENS UP A ROOM
There's always adequate lighting around Leila for her to get her work done, and barring that there's always a way to make the lighting adequate. The moon will be unusually bright, or there will be a car idling nearby, or the light switch in the long-abandoned building will still work -- however it happens, those darling photons never fail to reach her when she needs them most.
ANYTHING ELSE?
Mid-40's, white, with butt-length straight strawberry-blonde (but likely silvering in patches) hair normally pulled back with a simple headband. I can never remember her eye color because she wears obnoxious pink-tinted large round glasses most of the time. The image doesn't accurately reflect how she dresses because it's from a setting in which she's a space colony captain. 
