Editing Meggan Puceanu (section)

==General Notes==
Aila has a great fondness for both Iotian and Trill cultures. She will occasional act the part of the Iotian gun moll. She also speaks fluent Trill. 

She habitually carries a tricorder – depending upon it to make objective judgments – and she suffers anxiety if separated from a trustworthy sensor device. She even sleeps with it under her pillow. 

Aila has a great affection for Wonderland and Looking-Glass, identifying with a girl trapped in a world of unreality. 

Empathic Metamorphosis: Aila's empathy enables her to sense the emotions of sentient living creatures. This ability gives given her an affinity for languages and other communications systems. Her empathic powers also make her sensitive to surrounding moods, and she will subconsciously (and sometimes consciously) alter her facial features and overall physical appearance depending on situations in which she finds herself. Although she retains better control of her form as an adult, Aila may exhibit entirely involuntary changes when she is under stress. She is somewhat vulnerable to certain telepathic manipulation. She can also be very negatively affected by dark emotions and she is particular at risk if in the company of superstitious/fearful people. She may reflexively give actual form to the anxieties of those around her. In an extreme such situation, those that perceive her to be (or expect her to become) a monster might actually cause her to become one. She would ultimately manifest the traits they imagine she possesses. 

Conjecture: Given enough time, she could conceivably adapt to an inhospitable environment, but the conditions of her surroundings would have not be inherently or immediately lethal. And there must be someone present who expects that she will survive the ordeal. For example, she might be expected to grow fur to adapt to extreme cold. She would still have to have enough time to affect the metamorphosis since her physical changes do take time. Any such climate that would instantly freeze living tissue would still cause her to die of exposure. No such transmogrification has arisen yet, but it is a theoretical possibility. Also not outside the realm of the possible but (again) a condition that she has never been experienced, is that she could gradually mimic/adopt non-Kriosian, species-specific characteristics – if the stimulus to do so was great or long enough. This could have the effect of letting her adopt physical and/or mental abilities not typically associated with her own species.