[hider=Kai-Huei "Kayla" Lin - The Goldmar Incident: A Superhero Roleplay (Jan. 24, 2013-Nov. 25, 2014)]Name: Kai-Huei "Kayla" Lin
Age: 21
Sex: Female

Appearance: Kayla is 4'11". She wishes she was a little taller at times, but her Taiwanese heritage sees fit that she be forced to the stepladders. Her black hair flows down to the small of her back and is kept tied in a ponytail at almost all times. Her deep brown eyes are framed by a pair of glasses with a thin black frame holding the lenses in place. Her skin is a deep tan, deepened by years under the California sun. There aren't many curves on her body, but she's never paid it any mind anyway. It's her brain that's the valuable organ.

Her outfit consists of a interchangable number of single-colored blouses covered by a trio of rotated zipper-up sweaters; white, green and blue. She always wears blue jeans and high sneakers, even in the supposedly balmy Michigan summers. It still doesn't compare to home. To remind her of it, she wears a silver chain adorned with a small peach spiral shell hanging from it.

Personality: Kayla is predictably focused on her studies. Schoolwork comes first. That is what her parents drilled into from an early age. That's remains true to this day, especially considering the current family dynamic. She is also relatively reserved. Back home, she had a rather large network of friends, mostly Asian descended. However, Michigan does not have a similar ratio, and she has felt isolated at Goldmar. As such, she does not speak to many people outside of class mandated interactions.

Biography: Kai-Huei was born in San Jose, California to Chang-Wen and Kai-Ting Lin. The Lins had moved from their native Taiwan a year earlier, as Chang-Wen accepted a promotion from Acer to move to Silicon Valley and oversee American production. Kai-Huei was the apple of her parents eye...for about two years. That was when she got a sibling, her younger brother Chang-Tsung. A traditional patriarchal Chinese family, Chang-Tsung was seen as the proper heir to the family, and despite her head start, Kai-Huei was now playing catch up on the younger competition.

As the kids neared school age, the family started to Americanize itself. Chang-Wen became Wendell, Kai-Ting changed to Tina, Kai-Huei adopted the name Kayla and Chang-Tsung was now Cameron. Kayla got off to a flying start in grade school establishing herself near the top of her class, which is hard to do in fingerpainting. However, even as she remained at the top of the class, Cameron proved he was ready to surpass her. As they progressed through the school system, Kayla kept receiving top marks, but not only was Cameron matching her, but he was achieving it in a quicker time. He was skipped ahead from Grade 1 to 2 and in high school, while Kayla spent time socializing with people and heading up a tutor group, Cameron kept right on the studies, completing more classes per term and graduating right along side his big sister. For Kayla, it was almost ridiculous, and the praise that he got at home made it even worse.

When it came time to apply for university, both Lins went for all the big schools in the States. Kayla was pinning her hopes on the fact she had enough extracurricular activities on the application to get her accepted into Harvard, but she still applied to a couple of safety schools just in case. On the day letters were sent out, the mailbox outside was bulging with packages. There were two packages from Cal-Berkeley, two from Stanford, two from Goldmar...but only one from Harvard. That Crimson pack had Cameron's name on it.

Kayla was crushed, her parents were ecstatic, Cameron just stood there beaming with that stupid smirk of his, as he put another one over on his older sister. Kayla couldn't understand it, but she did know one thing. If she stayed in California, she'd never hear the end of it from her parents on how well Cameron was doing in Harvard. So she took the out of state option and enrolled at Goldmar. Now in her final year of her undergraduate double major in Physics and English, she's preparing to move onto her Masters, while Cameron is doing likewise in Massachusetts. Kayla has been trying to get something on her brother to prove she has surpassed her brother in at least one aspect, but in her parents eyes, it's numbers that matter and Cameron's consistent 4.0 has proven hard to overcome at a perceived lesser university.

Notes: Kayla is a loose fan of the Oakland Athletics, but nothing fanatical. She lives in a one bedroom apartment about a block from the university, where she spends most of her free time studying and cooking.

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