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*

## Biographical Info

### Full Name

Julia Akamine Navarro, Maxine Mayari Akamine Buenavista (birthname)

### Aliases

Tattletale (by Julian), Miss Congeniality (by Hiro), Juju/Jules (by Red), Ichigo (by Tadashi & Fred), Leigh (by Tadashi and Gogo)

### Age

16 (start of the series), 17 (end of the series)

### Home

Pasadena, California, Manila, Philippines (formerly)

### Appearances

Agent X (as Megan Bauer, reused costumes and character base), Beyond Worlds (as the actual Léa)

## Personal Info

### Occupation

Third-year high school student in Caltech, dispatch for Big Hero 6 (briefly)

### Family

Unnamed biological father, Lianne Akamine-Navarro (mother), Julius Navarro (step-father), Julian Navarro (older step-brother), Oliver Buenavista (half-brother via biological father)

### Allies

Hiro Hamada, Red Ordonia, Tadashi Hamada, Honey Lemon, Julian Navarro, Baymax, Gogo Tomago, Kenji Katagiri, Fred, Wasabi, Mudpie, Professor Bouman

### Quote

"We make sacrifices for the people we love, be it familial, platonic, or romantic." - to Hiro

## Production Info

### (Voice) Actor or Base

Amree Aguinaldo

Léa's signature

**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.

## **Early Life**

Born on July 9th, 2004, Léa (born Maxine Mayari A. Buenavista) was born to her unnamed biological father (Mr. Buenavista) and Lianne Akamine. At age 2, she and her mother were abandoned by her father when he cheated on her mother and chose his mistress over his family. Léa then developed hatred over her father because of what he did. Years later, Lianne remarries to Julius Navarro, a Filipino policeman who had a son named Julian, who's coincidentally only a year older than Léa, although it was mentioned that he was kind of mean to her and made her do the chores. Léa legally changes her name from Mayari to her current name at age 14- before 8th grade, and before Red Ordonia even knew her.

## **3 Years Prior**

Léa meets her future best friend, Red Ordonia in 8th grade, competing in a badminton competition together and winning. Red tells her about her missing father and Léa volunteers to help. Léa was 14 when she's done something risky and illegal, which is trespassing on the Philippines' major precinct and hacking the police's confidential files. Some cops caught her hacking, but was saved by her step-father who took the beating for her to get her out of trouble, causing him in his first comatose state. After getting caught, Léa and her family moves to California and promises Red she'd find another way to get her father back, not knowing that Red will be moving with them.

## **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. Léa 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 hoodie shirt with black hems and drawstrings tucked into black denim jeans, and white sneakers.

Léa's second outfit is a turquoise colored hoodie sweatshirt with silver drawstrings, and she wears black denim shorts and white sneakers to match. Her hair is let down, and she seems to have a ribbon tied at the back of the crown of her head.

Her third outfit consists of a a carnation colored shirt 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 sneakers. Her hair is left untied and is cut shorter, about shoulder length.

In the reboot, she wears a purple glittered-jacket with a Cancer constellation on the left side, and a number 9 is around her left sleeve. Its "collars" are magenta in color, and it has a star-shaped snap button. Underneath her jacket is a light gray tube top with a black lining on the top. She's also described to be wearing black jeans and black boots. Her hair is cut short, reaching above her shoulders.

## **Relationships**

* **Julian Navarro-** Being siblings, Julian and Léa are close, and in a sneak peek, he considers her as his first best friend. Because of the mishaps Léa has been through in the past, Julian has always been there for her to tell her everything she needs to hear from someone who loves her. Because their parents are often absent, they're both taking care of each other and Mudpie.
* **Red Ordonia-** Red has been beside Léa since 8th grade, and they've done all sorts of things together, like joining the badminton tournament and eventually winning. It's been hinted that Red might have had feelings for Léa in the past, although she never really known it. Léa also showed to go great lengths for Red, even dedicating her lifelong career to help find ways to reunite her with her father.
* **Cameron-** He's known to be close friends with both Léa and Red, and they have a good friendship with each other, often helping each other through tough times. Cameron also likes to tease Léa with Hiro just as much as Red does, and it's hinted he's quite the shipper since he helped Red make a fanfiction of the two against Léa's will.
* **Kenji Katagiri-** Even though their relationship seems to be strained, Léa sees Kenji as a good rival and competition for the top spot in Caltech, and Kenji sees her the same. They're friendly with each other in their own way, albeit showing to Hiro Kenji could come off as flirty towards Léa, and Léa being "dense" and "oblivious" about it.
* **Hiro Hamada-** Léa was mentioned to like Hiro since 5th grade, prompting Red and Cameron's HirLéa ship. She wouldn't say she's mean to Hiro- it's revealed many times that she doesn't know how to act around him since she still likes him. Everytime someone points it out to her though, she denies all knowledge of it, although she knew for herself she admires him for who he is.
* **Tadashi Hamada-** Also being an older brother to Léa, Tadashi seem to be in good terms with her, also teasing her to Hiro. He could also come off as strict and uptight on Léa and not just to his younger brother, often threatening Léa that he has Julian's number and could call him everytime she does something either wrong or reckless in Julian's book, despite having only a year difference.

## **Quotes**

* "Butterfingers."
* "God, your unrelenting skepticism drains me of all energy and happiness." - to Red
* "You have familial problems. As brothers, Hiro and Tadashi should understand. As for me, well... you know why I'm helping you." - to Red
* "Well... that just proves that anyone could be a superhero, doesn't it? If my friend isn't a superhero and he saved you, that means anyone could do the same." - to Oliver
* "Point is, we make sacrifices for the people we love, be it platonic, familial, or romantic. In both our cases, it's platonic." - to Hiro

## **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.
* Her birth name, "Mayari", is a lunar goddess in the Philippine Mythology, which also matches Léa's actual interest and ambition as an astrophysicist.
	+ Léa and Hiro are the only characters in the series to have their names match their interest and occupation.
* She admits that she sometimes can't spell her favorite color right- turquoise- fast enough to her liking.
	+ Turquoise is the assigned signature color for Léa, while Hiro's color is navy blue.
* 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).
* Léa's outfits are actually Amree Aguinaldo (Léa's base)'s clothes when Amree was shooting for Agent X's demo reel as Megan Bauer (except for the Caltech letterman jacket).
	+ Coincidentally in the 8th chapter, Hiro and Léa are wearing their school's clothing; the SFIT sweatshirt and Caltech varsity jacket respectively.
* The person Léa refers to when she says," I have no idea if she's lactose intolerant like someone I know" is most likely Cameron, since his base, Parker Trinh, is a lactose intolerant himself, although it was never confirmed. The only other person we know who has to be slightly picky with his food is Hiro, who has a mild peanut allergy.

## **Gallery**

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