Léa Navarro

"She's strong-willed and headstrong, that's for sure, but also a starry-eyed daydreamer." - Hiro describing Léa to Tadashi

Official Bio
"Born and raised in the Philippines, Léa Navarro believes in the concept of a parallel universe even if she doesn't actually know what great lengths await her. Oftentimes a little skeptical, but knows there's always an answer to every problem. If there isn't, then she will be there to solve it. - Character dossier"Julia Akamine Navarro, or nicknamed as Léa, is the 16-year-old main female protagonist of Beyond Worlds. She attends Caltech as a third-year student along with her best friend, Red Ordonia, Kenji Katagiri, and her older brother Julian. She wants to be an astrophysicist when she grows up and she plans to have a major in astronomy in college. Léa considers Hiro Hamada as an enemy, but later become friends and soon as love interests.

Amree Aguinaldo serves as the base for Léa, taking her personality and looks.

Role in the Story
Léa attends Caltech as a third-year high school student with Red, who teases her about her "fictional character crush" towards Hiro. She denies all knowledge of it until Red thinks of writing a fanfiction of her best friend and the said character, making an excuse that its purpose is to inspire her for listening about multiverses more. Léa believes that parallel universes do exist; we just don't know how to prove it nor get there.

The next week after hosting for the planetarium show, she meets Scott Sampson, the director of California Academy of Sciences, and introduces a familiar-looking teenager by the name of Hiro Takachiho Hamada. She brushes the thought off that it could be a weird coincidence, but eventually freaks out when she discovers that Tadashi is the name of his older brother and that they came all the way from San Fransokyo to host a Science Fair in the very same university Léa is in.

Personality
Like her brother, she and her family has a close bond and she cares about them especially to her father, even coming off as sacrificing sometimes. She also has her own way of handling bullies as they've been with her throughout her childhood; she mastered how to ignore them and tell them off in a passive-aggressive way.

She considers Red as her best friend as she describes her as her younger sister. Léa also seems to be naturally friendly to new people, although when she sets her sight onto someone who "threats" her or a "bad aura" in her life, she immediately labels them as either her rival (Kenji) or her enemy (Hiro) even without a reason. Léa is more than willing to fix ties with people she's been mean to though- she's the first one to apologize to Hiro when she knew she hurt his feelings, saying what she's been feeling is a hanker sore towards him.

All throughout the story, she remained what Hiro describes her as; strong-willed and headstrong. When she has goals, she's stop at nothing to achieve them and will go great lengths just for her family and friends.

Physical Appearance
Léa has wavy dark brown-colored hair that reaches her shoulders, but oftentimes her hair is tied into a ponytail held up with a black scrunchie, and she has pieces of hair framing her face. When she lets her hair down, it's parted to the right side of her head and she has short fringes. Her eyes are blue in color. Lea has a slender body figure, and her height is recorded to be at least 5'2".

She doesn't leave the house without her headphones on or around her neck, and she usually wears layered clothing; one of which is her favorite outfit consisting of a white spaghetti strap shirt under a blue denim bolero with a single silver button. She wears black jeans and black shoes.

Léa wears a white hoodie shirt with black hems and drawstrings for her second outfit, black denim shorts, and blue high-tops.

Her third outfit consists of a the white shirt she wore, and Léa now wears Hiro's navy blue jacket that he gave her for keeps over the shirt. She still wears the same denim shorts and blue high-tops.

Trivias

 * Her name Léa is pronounced as 'LAY-ah', as highlighted by the acute accented 'E'. Because many people read it as 'LEE-ah', she decided to spell her name that way.
 * The pronunciation problem with Léa's name is a nod to her base, Amree Aguinaldo, where she has to correct people everytime they say her second name 'Majella' wrong, saying "It's pronounced as 'Mayella' with a 'j'."
 * Julia is the name of one of Amree's middle school best friends growing up.
 * She admits that she sometimes can't spell her favorite color right- turquoise- fast enough to her liking.
 * Léa's first appearance isn't in Beyond Worlds as she is first seen in a demo reel of Agent X, in which her name is Megan Bauer (although they share the same trait as being skilled in hacking and programming).
 * When Léa says Julian is only a year older than her, she is technically right since she wasn't supposed to be due on July- she was actually due a month later, which falls on August 9th; four days before Julian's birthday.
 * This also applies to real life, as Léa's base Amree was also supposed to be born on August.
 * Léa mentions that the black and white hoodie shirt she wears is a hand-me-down from Julian. This again is technically the truth since the hoodie shirt actually came from Cj Sanchez, Julian's base.
 * In one line she says in Spanish, "Culpar skating and dodgeball" which means "Blame skating and dodgeball" when translated. As a Filipino and part Spanish, she understands both languages.
 * When Hiro goes to the bathroom to cure his burns, Léa rhetorically asks the readers if they have experienced having first-degree burns before, and that it "hurt like hell", which implies that she may have been burnt by something before.