i'm still figuring out what i want to do with zara, but she's going to be about 24 or so, originally from atlanta but moved to la for college and stuck around. i think she's going to be the opposite in that she has a lot to say at any given time, i think she's very unflappable, go-with-the-flow-within-reason and expressive. if nothing else, they could have met at the bookstore? i think she both reads a lot and picks up new hobbies (and then tends to drop them just as fast), so she would be leaving with arms full of cookbooks or books on how to crochet or whatever some time.