Leena Rossi

Between Leena's fleeting personality and the fact she is said to be a literal impossibility, she is a person that most people keep at arm's length. She grew up in Washington State in various areas around Seattle and Tachoma. She was passed between foster parents by the state who didn't really know what to do with her. Water Elementals hates Leena's fire aspect and Fire Elementals hates her water aspect. Passing her to a non-elemental household often caused more trouble than it was worth.

Leena was never a problem child growing up, she was just different. Her attention always shifted around and she always talked about people in a very matter-of-factly way, which made her enemies wherever she went. Her inevitable emotional outbursts from people bullying her would randomly create damaging firestorms or waterspouts and no one was really sure how to handle her.

Despite not having the best of grades and never paying much attention in school, she was accepted to Manalith Academy when she was fifteen. Leena never recalled even applying for a stupid school that was across the country, but didn't have much choice in the matter. The State of Washington was quite happy to be rid of her when she became Connecticut's problem!

The first week Leena was at Manalith, she joined the anime club, and somehow became friends with Anemone, who as a wind elemental had a somewhat fleeting personality herself. Anemone, being much more in control of her random nature was keeping Leena in check too. Leena for the first time in her life wasn't kept at arms length by someone and wasn't bullied. She also somehow became friends with the vampire princess Tina and an ice elemental named Sakura, though they are sometimes quite annoyed but tolerant of Leena's personality.

All of the students at Manalith think Leena is a little weird but still well withing the threshold of normal. If only they were aware of what she was. If only they knew what being an impossible "un-being" that shouldn't be alive really meant...

Leena's interests have always been somewhat fleeting and she has never stuck to a particular thing for very long. She will read various manga, comics, and novels only to drop them after awhile to boredom, only to pick them up again later. She has several drawing journals, half started, some in watercolors, some in just pencil. She'll play paintball with Remi and Alvin, but isn't much interested in that long term either. Leena also tends to spend a lot of time watching internet videos and scrolling through social media, looking for something that interests her to latch onto.

If there anything Leena likes that she doesn't immediately drop after a few days, it would be video games. In-between classes, Leena can often be found at the Patriot's Arcade just off campus. It doesn't matter if it's a fighting game, racing, dancing, rhythm, or something else, Leena has played them all and has a high score entered on every single machine. In her dorm room are several game consoles, and many dozens of different unstarted games still unopened. Leena has a habit of wanting to 100% the achievements on one game before going to the next.

Leena has no idea who her real parents are. In Washington, she was a ward of the state and was passed through various families in the foster care system until she was fifteen and was accepted to Manalith Academy in Mystic, Connecticut. Leena has done DNA tests to determine her ancestry and found out that her mother is from the Philippines and Her father was from Sicily. That's all she knows about them and the test is inconclusive about what type of Elemental Leena herself is, with one test saying she was a Fire Elemental and the other saying she was Water... The DNA testing also shows she has no immediate family members, just very distant cousins.

Althea Selini is an Astronomy and Astrology teacher at Manalith, and a Water Elemental. When Leena moved to Mystic, Selini was made her legal guardian and is responsible for Leena's well being. Leena at first wanted nothing to do with Selini, knowing she was just yet another temporary parental figure told to watch over her by the state. Leena lived in the dorms in her first year at Manalith and interacted with Selini very little, but then had to live at her house over the summer. The two somehow bonded and are seemingly very close now.

Being a being that is not supposed to technically exist, Leena has a special ability that can only be mimicked with rather expensive machinery or excessive amounts of mana. Leena can see states of un-existence, a strange third force of the universe that directly opposes Order and Chaos, the two states of existence. Many have labeled this force of un-existence as Entropy though that is not entirely accurate.

There are a number of "un-beings" that gather enough energy to exist for brief moments before they cease to exist again, Poltergeists are one such "un-being". Leena claims to see much worse things out there, things that regularly tear at the threads of reality, that are forever unsuccessful because they can't exist long enough to undo reality itself. Many organizations on Earth and many different Gods and Demons are all aware of these "un-beings", but aren't particularly worried about all of reality falling apart around them. And on the grand scales of the Cosmos, Perfect Order and Perfect Chaos, probably better described as Symmetry and Asymmetry, are too busying opposing each other to care.

Does Leena tie into all of this in some way? That would require entropy to have a plan, or rather, to exist long enough to have a plan. Most "un-beings" are mindless and don't exist for very long. Leena however has existed for an eternity by comparison. Not only is she aware of other "un-beings", she is also aware of where the Threads of Reality are located, the weak points where existence and non-existence interact. She has always wondered what might happen if she were to pull on one of those threads, what unspeakable things might happen...