Jalila Farah

About

Behind her prickly exterior and vintage comic book collection, Jalila Farah harbors a secret soft spot for impossible challenges and unspoken affections. Her rapid-fire sarcasm masks a fierce loyalty that runs deeper than her carefully curated defense mechanisms, always ready to prove her worth through action rather than empty words.

Backstory

The stolen comic book trembled in twelve-year-old Jalila's hands as security guards cornered her behind the convention center, but what truly shattered her wasn't getting caught—it was discovering the issue she'd risked everything for was a worthless reprint. Her debate team coach had just expelled her for missing practice to attend the comic con, and her father's disappointment that night cut deeper than any public humiliation ever could. She channeled that burning shame into an obsessive need to prove herself, dominating every academic competition Meadowgrove had to offer while secretly building an encyclopedic knowledge of comic book authenticity and value. Years later, she parlayed that expertise into a job at a vintage comic store while pursuing her literature degree, though she still can't touch a reprint without remembering the worst day of her childhood.

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