Leelavati Ganguly
Leelavati Ganguly (a.k.a. Leela, Leel)
Physical Description
Body Features
Leela is a curvy girl of average height and weight.
Facial Features
Leela has a dusky skin tone and the classic features associated with traditional Bengali beauties. She prefers to wear a bindi, a coloured dot worn on the center of the forehead by Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains from the Indian subcontinent.
Special abilities
Leela is a tiger shifter who can turn into a Royal Bengal tiger. As a shifter, she has extremely high stamina and is very fit and agile. She enjoys all activities in gym class such as high jumps, running laps, and team-building activities such as Capture the Flag, etc.
Leela turned to [Mal], her eyes shining. “Long jumps!” Mal gave her a sardonic thumbs-up, still too winded to say what was really on her mind. Leela missed her sarcasm, though, responding with two thumbs up of her own.Notorious, Legend Valley Academy, Book 1
Apparel & Accessories
Leela wears glasses.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Leelavati Ganguly is the youngest child of two tiger shifters. Her early childhood was spent in the eastern city of Kolkota, in West Bengal, India.
Leela has one elder brother, who is a stunt coordinator for Indian cinema. He also moonlights as a bounty hunter. Her father is a lawyer, and her mother is an activist for women's rights and LGBTQ rights in the country.
Leela is a pacifist and feels that dialogue can help resolve conflicts instead of violence and aggression. As a scholarship student at Legend Valley Academy, Leela is very careful about following the rules and keeping her grades up. She has a good relationship with the Principal and faculty at the Academy, but her tendency to follow the rules has made it difficult to make friends in her class.
In Notorious, Mal is assigned to be Leela's roommate, since no one in her class wanted to room with Leela. Mal and Leela bond over their outsider status and become best friends.
Because of her pacifist nature, Leela is at odds with Carla, a werewolf student in her Shifter Magic class. In Notorious, Carla is paired with Leela in an in-class assignment. She believes Leela is not being aggressive enough during the assignment, which led to their receiving a lower grade than Carla would like. The dispute turns ugly when Carla's boyfriend Micheal Abernathy gets involved in an altercation between the two during a gym class.
With her pacifist nature, Leela feels she doesn't fit in with her family and struggles to accept herself.
“Yes, but you would be living a lie.” Leela shook her head. “You’ll never be really happy unless you’re true to yourself.” “Easy for you to say. You don’t know what I’m going through,” Izzy shot back, goaded into anger. “Don’t I?” Leela raised an eyebrow. “My whole family are fighters. Going back generations. My great-grandfather was a freedom fighter who rebelled against the British. My mother’s an activist who doesn’t let death threats stop her. My dad once broke a guy’s arm cause he tried to grope my mom on the tram.” She shrugged. “That’s how they met, actually. My brother’s a stunt coordinator for Bollywood films. He moonlights with my uncle as a bounty hunter.” Leela sighed. “And then there’s me, the pacifist tiger. I get squeamish when I see blood, I hate fighting, and I think the first step in conflict resolution is having an open dialogue.” She shook her head. “I don’t fit in with my family either, and it took me a long time to make them understand me. But they did. You have to give your family the chance to understand you, too. They may just surprise you.” - Righteous, Legend Valley Academy, Book 3
Gender Identity
Leela identifies as a cisgender female.
Sexuality
Leela is a heterosexual.
Intellectual Characteristics
Leela is a smart and intelligent student who was able to get into Legend Valley Academy on a scholarship. However, she is not naturally gifted in academics.
She is a very hard worker with a strong work ethic who studies hard to maintain the grades needed to earn her scholarship to the Academy.
Morality & Philosophy
Leela is a pacifist who believes in the path of ahimsa or non-violence. However, she believes in 'kicking ass' if she witnesses injustice.
Personality Characteristics
Likes & Dislikes
Leela likes chai. She prefers masala chai, or milky, sweet tea infused with spices such as cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, and fresh ginger. She hates it being called 'chai tea'.
Leela is a fan of the K-pop group BTS, or Bangtan boys. She has decorated her dorm room with their merchandise, and Mal considers her liking to be 'an obsession'.
Relationships
Nicknames & Petnames
Leel
Nicknames & Petnames
Tiger Girl
Alignment
Lawful good
Current Location
Species
Ethnicity
Date of Birth
June 07
Year of Birth
2005
Birthplace
Kolkota, West Bengal
Spouses
Siblings
Children
Current Residence
Waterside House
Pronouns
She/her
Gender
female
Eyes
Brown
Hair
Long, curly, black
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Turns into a Royal Bengal Tiger - orange with black stripes
Height
5'5"
Weight
68 kg
Belief/Deity
Hindu
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