Layla
Layla (also known as Aisha in the "Rai-Uno" original version) is a fictional character from the Winx Club animated series. Layla first appears in the first episode of Season 2, La Fenice D'ombra (translation: The Shadow Phoenix) (4kids dub: Back to School).
Personality
Layla is seen in the first episodes of season two, it is apparent that she is determined and fearless. In her very first appearance, we observe her trying to rescue the pixies that will later become bonded to the individual members of the Winx Club. Through her conversation, we get a glimpse of her powers, and receive a few hints about the villain of the season, Lord Darkar.
After escaping with only one pixie, baby Piff, she stumbles to Alfea, where she is found by the members of the Winx Club, and faints. She shows a deep love and caring for the pixies, who are obviously her close friends. The Pixies trust her very much - Layla is one of the few people who know of Pixie Village. Layla gives practical advice and always provides a shoulder to cry on.
She continuously shows this caring nature throughout the show, comforting Musa after her conflict with her father, and calming Flora's nerves when she experiences qualms about her feelings for Helia.
She has tried to develop independence. She appears to be a feminist, and can perform any task that the specialists can. She even, at one point, takes control of the Wind Raiders from Riven.
Layla was raised in a very traditional setting. Her parents believed that princesses should conduct themselves in a strict orthodox manner, and scrutinized her every movement and thought. As a result, Layla had a very isolated childhood, excepting the times when she escaped from the palace.
Because of this, Layla has not had many friends. After her best friend Anne moves away when Layla is young, her only friends are the pixies of Pixie Village.
In most of season 2, the show seemed to revolve around Layla instead of Bloom and the other girls, but at the end, it focused on Bloom again because Lord Darkar tried and succeeded temporarily to turn her evil.
Layla loves sports and dancing. She is 17 (18 in season 3) years old and her birthday is June 15th. Her first interaction with girls her age comes when she arrives at Alfea. Having been so isolated for such a long time, many times, she holds back, and worries that she doesn't know how to be a good friend. As the months progress, though, she slowly opens up and becomes good friends with all of them.
Layla is extremely opinionated and open minded. She is as intuitive as Stella, and when asked to, gives practical and pragmatic advice. She is also a talented dancer, and speaks many different languages. She is called Aisha in the original Italian.
She is strongly against romantic entanglements with boys, as seen in episode 18 of the 3rd season. This is likely because of an arranged marriage from her parents, mentioned in episode 9, but only brought up again in episode 18. Nabu is the man her parents want her to marry. And under the name Ophir helps her various times throughout season 3. She does find out he is Nabu and they get together at the end of the series.
Seasons
Season 2
She appears in Season 2 and becomes the 6th Winx Club member.
Season 3
She was the first to recieve her echantix
Season 4
coming soon
Appearance
Civilian
Layla is an African-American girl with long, wavy dark brown hair and cerulean eyes. Her daily outfit is comprised of a soft purple tank top with a small blue colored wave logo on it, a khaki miniskirt, khaki hiking boots, and soft purple leg warmers. She also wears a soft purple sleeveless hoodie, accompanied by khaki-trimmed denim jeans.
Winx
Her Winx outfit is a sparkly green shoulder top, a sparkly green mini skirt atop green mini shorts, and green boots. She also wears a green sash connecting her top and skirt, and several silver rings around her outfit and on her arms. Layla's wings are sky blue with mauve tips. Her Charmix is a leaf pin and a waist bag in the shape of a water gourd.
Enchantix
Layla in her Enchantix
Layla's Enchantix outfit consists of a frilly (likely a reference to seaweed), cyan strapless top decorated with magenta and yellow, a matching skirt, and banana yellow gloves. Her wings are outlined with her signature lime green, decorated with pink pearls (referring to her ocean-based powers), and filled in with yellow and magenta to match her outfit. Her hair gains streaks, and is braided around a cyan forehead tiara (also bearing pearls that are the color of Morfix), before flowing into pigtails. Like the other Winx Club girls, Layla has barefoot sandals, connected by flower-shaped buttons. Later in the season, her outfit changes back to her usual spring green color, possibly due to the introduction of Bloom's Enchantix, which is similar in color, since Bloom's Enchantix is incomplete. She is the first member of the Winx Club to earn her Enchantix. Her fairy dust is an aqua-marine bottle surrounded by a green ring w/an aqua-marine knot on top.
She earned her Enchantix In the 6th episode of season 3, when Mermaid Queen Larissa promised to Layla that she could use her staff's healing powers to cure blindness that Baltor had cast on her. Despite this, Layla elected to use the staff on Larissa herself after a kraken attacked her. Layla would later cure her blindness herself with the powerful fairy dust on her wings (noted as one of the most powerful healing substances in the magical universe).
Believix
Layla in her Believix
Layla's Believix outfit consists of a beautiful turquoise blue tube top, of sorts, with a lime green elbow-length right sleeve and a pair of turquoise blue pants that stop below her knees with lime green tutu-styled ruffles on both the bottom of the pants and around the waist below a teal waist band. Her feet are covered in a pair of shin-length, teal and pink high-heeled, lime green platform boots. A lime green choker with golden diamonds hanging down from them are around her neck and a turquoise blue band atop her head. On her left arm in an elbow-length, handless peach-colored glove white a lime green bangle is on her right wrist with a light fuchsia bow hanging from it. Lastly, in addition to her hair being at ankle-level and the pink highlights in her hair, Layla's wings are now arch-shaped and lined in turquoise green, with a shifting sea green and ocean blue-designed background in the wings.
Magical abilities
Layla is from Planet Tides She has the power of Morfix, a pink fluid that she can morph into any shape she wants, and she wishes to master all the fluids after perfecting her skills at Alfea, while her friends help her.
Layla's powers are entirely based around the liquid Morfix, but she hopes to control all liquids through magical training. She usually just blasts columns of the liquid from her palms, an attack called Oceanic Blast, or she shapes it intodifferent objects. However, she can also create solid walls of crystallized Morfix for protection and shape it into various shields and barriers, sometimes in the shape of spheres, nets, and cages. Layla is able to shape Morfix into a number of projectiles, such as needles, spikes, etc. Layla can create binding ropes and chains of Morfix to trap enemies. She can create blasts of Morfix that becomes solid when touched. Layla is able to generate Morfix that travel as water. She can cause Morfix to surround an entire area or person and attack them with a huge wave of Morfix. Layla can cause Morfix to explode and reform into a continuous explosive attack.
Layla has been known to also create useful but very strange things with Morfix, such as an 18th century cannon hoist for climbing down a cliff, when a simple strong rope would have been much more logical.
Transformation
Layla's transformation sequence is rapid but surprisingly detailed. Firstly she screams and flexes her arms, and there is a brilliant white flash. Layla spins and her ranger outfit is replaced by her Winx outfit bit-by-bit in a green glow. Layla then flies down into her finishing pose. For Charmix, her pin appears on the shoulder then the bag appears on the waist. Since the ranger outfit was not her usual casual outfit, a different version where her outfit appears in a flash of light (like Stella's sequence), with the sash appearing separately, was used after the trip to the Under Realm.
Notably, her transformation sequence does not have hands being crossed at any point, nor does she have a background shape.
Enchantix
Layla's Enchantix transformation sequence is quite short. First, she tilts her head southeast and her hair floats and then braids itself. Next, light comes over her arms, chest, and waist and forehead. Then, her outfit forms. After that her wings come out, expanding like a butterfly's.
Believix
Layla's Believix transformation sequence is long and extremely detailed in contrast to both her Winx and Enchantix transformation. Firstly a burst of magic falls on the water and slowly, the water starts to rise and surrounds her, one by one her clothes starts to materialize as she twirls around, first her boots then her leggings and skirt, and finally her top. Second, bubbles from the water covers her neck and suddenly with a brilliant white flash her choker materializes, and so does her headband. She closes her eyes and flexes her ams, her gloves suddenly materializes, followed by the formation of her wings, she strikes a dancing pose, opens her eyes and strikes her finishing pose.
Layla was voiced by Vasthy Mompoint in the 4kids version until September 29, 2007.