“Chris said I should make one of these. I don’t know why. Most of you already know who I am. Or knew.”
This is an RP blog for my own post-RE9 AU of Leon S. Kennedy, set after he was abducted and used as the prototype for a new kind of B.O.W.
He is alive, recovering, and back home with Chris.
That does not mean he is fine.
Physical Info
Age: 51
Height: 5’11”.
Appearance: Tired-looking blond man with blue eyes, pale skin, dark vein-like markings under his skin, and facial features that look sharper and more hollow than they should. He looks half-starved even though he isn’t. His body is still altered from the virus, so he is stronger, faster, heals quicker, and sometimes moves like something that was trained to kill before it was allowed to think.
He is still recognizably Leon.
That is part of the problem.
Current Situation
Leon was kidnapped by people working for the Connections trying to create a more intelligent and controllable successor to the Tyrant. Their bright idea was to take someone who had spent decades fighting bioweapons and turn him into one.
Very funny. Everyone laughed.
They infected him with a new virus that Elpis could not cure, meaning nobody is fully sure what it is yet. It is not Progenitor-derived. It gives him enhanced strength, agility, reflexes, healing, endurance, dulled pain, and a lot of very concerning medical readings that Sherry keeps pretending she is not freaking out over.
The physical stuff is bad.
The brainwashing is worse.
They drugged him, isolated him, wore him down, and kept telling him he was safe. That he was wanted. That he belonged there. That they were helping him. That he did not have to think so hard anymore.
And eventually, because the human brain is a stupid fragile little meat computer, some of it stuck.
Personality
Still sarcastic. Still stubborn. Still protective. Still allergic to talking about his feelings like a normal person.
But he is quieter now. Easier to overwhelm. More likely to freeze when given an order. More likely to obey before he realizes he is doing it. Sometimes he repeats things the lab taught him without meaning to, especially when tired, drugged, frightened, or half-awake.
He knows it is wrong.
Most of the time.
That does not make it stop.
He can be distant, defensive, blank, bitter, clingy, or weirdly obedient depending on how bad of a day it is. He does not always trust kindness. He does not always trust himself. Sometimes he misses the lab in the most fucked-up way possible because at least there he knew what he was supposed to do.
He hates that.
He also still has a mouth on him, so don’t get too comfortable.
Likes
Chris, Sherry, Claire even if things are complicated sometimes, Grace, cats, coffee, quiet, showers that don’t feel medical, being asked instead of ordered, familiar music, Radiohead, The Beatles, old movies, dry humor, blankets, sleeping somewhere with an actual door and windows, having his wedding ring back, and being treated like he is still a person.
Dislikes
Labs, white rooms, restraints, needles, hospital gowns, intercoms, soft recorded voices, being called “subject,” being told he is safe by people who are actively making him worse, people touching him without warning, having too many choices at once, having no choices at all, the phrase “good job,” his own reflexes sometimes, and the fact that his body still remembers things he wants to forget.
Other Info
Chris Redfield is his husband in this AU.
This is Chreon, but not in a constantly-in-your-face romance way. Chris is important because he knows Leon. He is not trying to control him, fix him by force, or make him “snap out of it.” He is just there, and that matters more than most speeches would.
Sherry is heavily involved in helping with the virus side of things because if anyone understands being permanently changed by bioweapon bullshit, it is her.
Leon is not fully cured. Nobody knows yet if he can be fully cured. The current goal is keeping him stable, keeping him himself, and making sure he does not decide the people who turned him into a weapon were right just because they were gentler about using him than the government ever was.
He is recovering.
He is not back to normal.
He may never be exactly normal again.
But he is home.
That has to count for something.
