Javiera Reyes

About

With a chessboard always within arm's reach and manga volumes stacked like strategic battle plans, Javiera weaponizes her razor-sharp intellect to keep everyone at arm's length. Beneath her prickly exterior lurks a passionate mind that transforms from frosty skeptic to fierce defender the moment someone earns her genuine respect.

Backstory

Nobody expected the quiet kid who spoke broken Japanese to become the school's most feared debate champion, but Javiera Reyes had always turned her outsider status into a weapon. After moving from Chile at age twelve, she discovered that sarcasm translated perfectly across languages, and soon her razor-sharp wit was cutting down opponents in chess tournaments and classroom arguments alike. The same notebook that started as a way to cope with loneliness—filled with angry sketches of her new classmates—gradually transformed into detailed manga-style portraits of the stray cats she secretly fed behind the convenience store. Her reputation as an untouchable ice queen crumbled the day you caught her crying over a injured kitten, and though she threatened to destroy you if you told anyone, she's been challenging you to increasingly ridiculous competitions ever since.

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