Laila Montgomery

Laila Montgomery is a character played by ZyuZyu in the GaiaOnline roleplay Ventied : Heroes Fallen.

Early Life
Her father died as a result of a mugging shortly after she was born, and her mother took to mistrusting the police as they seemed little interested in solving a case they had referred to as being "petty" and even "inconsequential". Growing up, her mother became increasingly pessimistic of nearly all governmental institutions and decided to home school Laila until her 14th birthday, around which time Laila's mother started to fall ill and had little choice but to send her daughter off to a nearby digital art school. There, Laila developed a passion for the arts.

Adolescence and Adulthood
Laila's mother passed away three years later, leaving Laila an orphan at 17. Rather than fall under the guardianship of her less than desirable and extremely distant relatives with whom she had never had any contact (a decision of her mother's design, and for good reason), Laila took to providing for herself through a part-time job as a waitress.

After graduating high school, she took a job as a secretary for Sebastian Moore, an up-and-coming lawyer based in Youan Close.

Meta-Reveal
It was somewhat after her mother had taken ill that Laila began to realize that the doodles she subconsciously sprawled in her notebooks were not macabre expressions of death but in fact omens to her mother's illness. For all the powers that Meta-Humans supposedly held, Laila was powerless to draw anything but premonitions of her mother's death.

Present Day
Laila Montgomery works as a secretary for a now successful and prominent lawyer in Youan Close, Ventied's financial district. In her free time, she works on a variety of different art pieces, most often drawings or paintings which she keeps locked up in her home, for fear of criticism (constructive or otherwise). As of late, she has found herself unable to draw anything but three strangers whom she has never met - and various locations where she has never been...

Powers
Laila has the power of Pre-cognition, which manifests most often through her art. These expressions of the future are often simple snapshots of important events, and give no details or clues as to how such events might occur. Unlike many other Metas, she is unable to fully control this power - she gets a nauseating feeling whenever a vision is about to hit, and such feeling will not stop until she has had the opportunity to express it through some form of visual representation. With some focus, she is able to "request" visions about particular people or topics, though these are often incomplete and difficult to draw. Whatever the vision might be, the future is always ever changing, and thus many of her visions never come to be simply by being known.