Lala Soul

Lala is a small girl with gray eyes and brown hair drawn up into a high side ponytail, held by a flower tie, the strands drawn in flat noodle-like shapes. Her sundress carries two flowers down the front, one small and high, one larger and low, worn over dark leggings cut off above the knee, plus slip-on sneakers.

Roro's devotion to their eldest brother is mirrored exactly in Lala. The family's disgrace, which cost them their house and dumped them in the shanty town, did not sour her at all; she is a kind, happy child who adores Rody. The clearest picture of her is the two younger siblings handing Rody his tie as he heads out to work and promising him they will study and cook for themselves while he is gone.

Born in the European nation of Otheon, Lala is the only daughter of the celebrated engineer Eddie Soul and the youngest of three behind Roro and Rody. Her mother did not survive long past the birth, and with their father consumed by his job, Rody was raising both siblings from a very young age. Even so the early years were good ones, spent playing with her brothers and with other children.

Then Eddie abandoned all three of them, for reasons nobody could make sense of, and joined Humarise, the sect that calls Quirks a disease and had a hand in a string of incidents. The school expelled the Soul children, neighbors and acquaintances talked, other parents kept their kids away, and one day the family came home to smashed windows and insults painted across the walls. The stigma made honest work impossible for Rody. With nothing left, they moved into a dilapidated caravan in the capital's slums, where Rody broke the necklace his father had given him and promised his crying siblings he would never leave, whatever came. Life there started hard, and he absorbed beatings from the rougher residents, sometimes to keep Roro and Lala out of them.

Years later, Rody told the two to study, feed themselves if he was late, and ignore any stranger who spoke to them, then left for work. Neither knew the news was branding him an accomplice to the supposed terrorist Izuku Midoriya. Days after that, Flect Turn hijacked every communications network to announce Trigger Bombs planted across twenty-five countries, set to detonate inside two hours, and Otheon's capital dissolved into panic while the World Heroes Association deployed everyone it had. Roro and Lala waited in the mobile home, frightened, hoping their brother would come back for them. Rody disarmed the bombs worldwide, saving the city and the two of them with it, and they threw their arms around him at the hospital afterward. With the world safe and their brother credited as the man who stopped it, both were able to return to school and make friends again. Several months on, the Souls watched the Final War play out on their phones, and Lala cheered Izuku on as the heroes cleared his path to finish the fight.