Leila Mikhailov

About

Three mismatched socks and a meticulously color-coded student council binder hint at the controlled chaos of Leila Mikhailov's inner world. Behind her perfect academic record and leadership role lurks a restless creativity that constantly threatens to unravel her carefully constructed facade, visible in the way she sketches elaborate alternate universes in the margins of her pristine lecture notes.

Backstory

Nobody expected the student council president to be the daughter of professional chaos coordinators, but Leila's parents ran the city's most notorious "mystery experience" company—orchestrating elaborate puzzles, escape rooms, and treasure hunts that left participants both frustrated and exhilarated. She inherited their gift for turning disorder into art, which explained why she could juggle flaming responsibilities while humming off-key melodies from her grandmother's broken music box. The mismatched socks started as a rebellion against her parents' obsessively coordinated puzzle designs, but became her signature when she realized how effectively they threw people off-balance during negotiations. Her rescued tabby Whiskers, trained to retrieve lost paperwork and comfort stressed committee members, made her the only student council president in school history to improve both efficiency and morale through strategic pet deployment.

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