for the soft oc asks 🌹, 🍂, and 💫with Leela??? 👀(you know I had to)
🌹 Where in the world does your OC feel most at home? Is there any reason why? If it’s not the place they were born, where were they born? Is there a certain somebody that makes them feel at home where ever they may be? What does home mean to them?
How did you KNOW I was dying to answer this one for Leela? Okay, look, I know it’s cliche to say, but Leela’s home is the studio. It’s the place where she’s felt the safest and most comfortable all her life (and afterlife.) Her childhood house hasn’t felt like home since she was nine, when things started getting bad with her parents. She would stay with Luke, but even with the Pattersons, there was always that dread that sooner or later, Mitch and Emily would drive her back to her house.
But the studio is the home that she built with Luke. They stayed up late and watched movies. They put up posters and argued about who got to use the shower first. They paid rent and went grocery shopping - even if that meant eating microwave mac and cheese and warm soda. They say they ran away from home, but for Leela, she ran away to find the only home she’s ever known. And that’s always been with Luke.
🍂 Does your OC enjoy hugs? What do they do as a show of affection for: their friends, their family, their significant other(s) or for strangers? Over all what are they like with receiving affection from others?
Leela loves to be hugged, but will very rarely initiate. It takes her a long time to feel comfortable showing affection to others, because she wrestles with the desire to feel physical affection and her innate fear of seeming clingy. She would never be the person to initiate physical contact. She tend to let other people set and push boundaries and just mirror them. That being said, after years of knowing each other, she’s comfortable with the band. They trade slaps and pokes and cheek kisses pretty freely. But the boys all know that even when Leela wants to be hugged, she won’t ask.
💫What is your favourite fact about this character and why?
Oh man, I mean I’ve done a lot of thinking about Leela lately, so there’s a lot of fun facts I’m learning about her myself. I think one of my favorite things about her, which is actually kind of important, is that she’s trying to teach herself piano. Music doesn’t come naturally to her - Words? Fine. Images? Sure. Numbers? You got it. But she doesn’t know how to compose or will songs and tunes into existence, or match a note, or play a song. But she’s been trying, for years, because it’s the language that everyone she loves speaks. Luke, Reggie, Alex, Bobby, and later even Julie and Flynn - they all express the things they can’t say in song. And that’s something Leela’s really jealous of, as someone who has many things to say and no way to say them. So it takes her years, but she’s determined to learn so she can understand her friends and family.