10 Facts About Layla Birch-Fang

1. She has a very strong sense of responsibility. As the eldest of her siblings, she sees herself as the protector of her younger brothers and sister and tends to want to keep an eye on them, whether they want it or not. She also feels responsible for preventing any bad thing she sees happen due to her precognition abilities, even though she can’t always change things. Part of her character arc is learning to both let her siblings have some breathing room and to understand that just because she knows something is going to happen, it doesn’t mean it’s her fault if she just can’t do anything to prevent it. She’s not omnipotent.
2. She’s very neat and well organized and grows anxious when things are disordered in her space. She has a habit of cleaning or organizing when she’s stressed out, be it her own home or other people’s. 
3. She has a very professional dress sense, fitting right into the Interpol dress code before she even was recruited. She typically wears blazers and skirts and always carefully coordinates her outfits (out of the various dark colors allowed by the Interpol dress code.)
4. After years of practice, she was able to hone her precognition abilities to the point she can choose what kind of vision she’s going to have. This is most useful for her work in the Ultra Beast department of Interpol as she’s able to accurately predict when and where wormholes will open up, allowing her team to be able to minimize damage caused by rampaging and lost UBs.
5. She works mainly with the Faller version of her mother, who she refers to as her Aunt off-duty. Faller Anabel has come to see Layla as a sort of surrogate daughter herself over time as well. Layla also ends up working a lot with Ohia, who himself is a Faller and a sort of on-call employee for Interpol, assisting their studies of UBs and the nature of wormholes in Alola along with Weiss, who has psychic powers that allow him to manipulate Ultra Wormholes. She strongly dislikes working with the two younger men however, due to their laid back attitude towards the work, since if there’s one thing Layla hates, it’s not taking serious matters like UBs with the gravitas they deserve. 
6. She first met her boyfriend, Caleb, through their mutual friend Opal. At first she hated his flirtatious and habit of joking around, but over time as she got to know the ‘true’ Caleb under the front he puts up she came to like him, eventually falling for the crafty and well-read, but still fun and cheerful man. He often jokes that he’s the only one who can get Layla to laugh (which is not true, but she does find herself more at ease around him, able to relax and not worry as much about her responsibilities.) 
7. She’s also childhood friends with Rudy and Safir, Roxanne and Brawly’s twins. However, she’s not as close with them when she’s older due to an incident when they were children. The three were exploring near Granite Cave when Layla had a vision of them being attacked by scary looking wild pokémon. She immediately ran back down the beach to where Brendan (who was babysitting them) was, but while she was fetching him to help, her friends accidentally disturbed an injured wild Salamence that was hidden in the foliage. Brendan was able to subdue the dragon with the help of his pokémon, but Rudy still ended up getting a fairly serious injury that left a prominent scar. Since that event, Layla has blamed herself for Rudy’s injury and been somewhat distant from her old friends, especially since while Rudy holds no grudge towards her, knowing she was only trying to help, Safir feels a bit bitter that Layla left them to tell an adult rather than just warning them that there was danger so they could have avoided the entire situation.
8. She used to love watching her father (Wally)’s gym battles as a child, wanting to be like him when she grew up. Originally, she would be brought to watch by Anabel or Brendan, but later on she goes by herself, visiting after school and taking notes on her father’s techniques. As a result, her battle style is strongly influenced by his. Despite working for Interpol currently, she still dreams of one day inheriting the Petalburg Gym from Wally.
9. Prior to joining Interpol, she didn’t know that she would be working with a Faller version of her mother, but Faller Anabel ended up being assigned as Layla’s mentor (definitely done on purpose by the upper management.) Layla ends up introducing her ‘aunt’ to her mother which ends up being a very weird meeting for everyone involved.
10. Layla drinks a lot of tea, of all kinds. She drinks herbal tea to relax, green tea to help her focus, and black tea when she needs an energy boost. Her parents gifted her a fancy box to keep her collection in which is now proudly displayed on her desk at work. She’s very protective of her tea as well, not wanting to share it with anyone and going on a crusade to find the culprit if she finds any missing.