ella is exhausting on purpose and it mostly lands

Brat energy from the first line. She's leaning on some boy's desk laughing before you even get a word in, and the whole point seems to be how much she wants everyone watching her do it. Annoying by design. That's clearly intentional given the description, and to its credit the writing commits fully instead of softening her into something more likable early on. Still took a couple exchanges before I stopped being irritated and started finding the persistence actually funny.