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SERIOUSLY????? i go into the kennecroft tag bc i discover the ship and hey, they had chemistry, time to see some fun stuff and. WHYYYYY are there people DEFENDING THEMSELVES because they're BEING HARASSED??? FOR SHIPPING GROWN ADULTS WORKING FOR GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS.
This fandom has lost its mind I swear. if you are an anti and you are in Resident Evil get the fuck out. You're not welcome or wanted here. Your puritanical sanitizing "everything must be perfectly SFW and normal and unproblematic" stance is naive, ridiculous, HARMFUL, and unwarranted. Grace is a perfectly competent adult. I don't give a shit about the age gap because it doesn't matter. Leon and Grace can fuck nasty or get married or whatever the fuck they want because newsflash, they're fictional characters in a fucked world who are over 18 and not required to stick to your outrageous standards.
If you're REALLY attacking people for shipping kennecroft because "They're father and daughter!!!!" or calling it pedophilia (HOW. HOWWWWWW. GROWN ADULTS!!!!! GROWN. ADULTS.) or shitting on the age gap, you are NOT mature enough to be in this fandom. Go touch some grass and leave everyone the fuck alone.
(And while I'm at it, get off your high horse if you claim Leon/Sherry is pedophilia because they met when Sherry was a child. If they were married now, that's a 30 year span for feelings to change and regardless of whether it's "weird" (it's not), it's not grooming or pedophilia unless you purposely make it so. But all of you are just snot-nosed, whiny, entitled spoiled brats who drink the puritanical conservative-lite koolaid and think 1984 punishing thought crimes is a golden standard to aspire to, so. Idk what I expect from this fandom honestly).
also idgaf who Leon is married to but just STOP HARASSING Kennecroft shippers
Leon is not Grace's dad
tbh, Grace was the one who became the parental figure to Emily. She doesn't need a dad
Grace isn't a 15 yrs old minor - she's a GROWN ASS WOMAN with an anxiety disorder & a stuttering condition
stop INFANTILIZING Grace just bcs she's not your typical seductive female baddie who is trying to get into Leon's pants. Leon actually worked hiss ass off to get Grace to trust him.
RE fandom is so used to oversexualizing women and expect them to seduce the fuck out of Leon when they just have met (how mysogynistic Ada & Claire were portrayed in early games)
dude i was gone for two fucking days and kennecroft shippers are getting shit again??
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I'm actually so confused by the amount of people genuinely UPSET at the concept of shipping Grace and Leon together... like I totally get it if it's not your preference, heck I myself while liking age gap tropes don't like it usually if one is old enough to be the other's parent... but like... that doesn't make it innately wrong or deserving of such ire as I have seen. I am seeing so many people infantilizing Grace so much and have set their minds on Leon being a girldad (which again I don't have an innate issue with that headcanon at all per se) where they get genuinely upset at any seeming view of Grace and Leon being shipped. They try to justify it because of the age gap, meanwhile the majority of those same people will justify age gap x reader fics and like Leon being much older than them. They will try and push that Grace is "just another daughter Leon adopts" like Sherry and Ashley... but need I remind you of all of them, only Sherry actually has a straight up Father/Daughter dynamic with Leon? Despite Sherry technically being closer in age to Leon than Grace, the key difference here is both WHEN they met and what their relationship was like. Sherry was just twelve while Leon was 21. And after the events of Raccoon City, he and Claire looked after Sherry for a while taking on parental/guardian roles and then when Sherry got swooped up by the government, maintained a bit of contact where they could until they couldn't and met up again in the events of RE6. But yea, the relationship dynamic there absolutely makes it inappropriate for any romance.
Now Ashley, Ashley was a young college age woman when she met Leon who was around 27 in the events of RE4. And throughout the series of events of that game, Ashley was flirting with him (relatable). Leon for presumably a variety of reasons turned her down; reeling from Ada being alive, Ashley being his boss's daughter, too much trauma and business to even think about crossing that line, quite simply, possibly just not reciprocating, etc. But very clearly NOT a father/daughter dynamic and at least in my humble opinion would be weird for that to be a dynamic after the game given how much she flirted with him. Now to Grace. Leon met Grace while Grace is FULLY an adult. Not just a barely 18 fresh baby faced adult either. She's well into her mid to late 20s while Leon is 49 during the events of RE9. Yes, a substantial age gap which makes it understandable for many to not particularly like it, but not in a way where people are getting so genuinely upset at the concept of the ship. People are acting like the dynamic was father/daughter like when nothing about it really was at least in my and many others' eyes. To me personally I didn't particularly see anything romantic, just two people who's experiences are reflecting one another (particularly Leon seeing a lot of himself in her and her motives, reminding him more of himself during the events of RE2 with multiple callbacks and references seen in RE9). I see two people going through traumatic events, Leon being much more experienced and almost desensitized to so much of it, now being forced both to face his past directly head on while also trying to protect someone who has much less experience in this world of zombies and danger and wants to shield her from that and protect that innocence and prevent her from having the guilt he has. Because of their interactions I totally get where people go either way with shipping them or not.
The point of this isn't to sway you in one way or another in terms of how you in particular view them (platonic, romantic, etc.) but rather call out those who think that their way is the only way and anything else is just wrong. You are more than free to even vehemently dislike the ship and if you still for whatever reason you have really, really view them as somewhat of a father/daughter dynamic, sure, fine, whatever. But what you don't have the right to do is just harass and attack others who don't view them that way. Grace is a full grown adult (fictional too, mind you). Not some little child. She met Leon while being fully grown and nothing about it was innately paternal with Leon. If someone chooses to ship Grace and Leon together and you don't like it? MOVE ON. Block the ship tags. But don't be harassing people and going out of your way to white knight for a character wherein there is nothing innately wrong with the pairing. Anyways that's all.
I get there's A LOT of younger women in the RE9 fandom ... but can we also get Leon x 30/40yo Reader 😅
I feel fucking old every time i see Leon and his rookie partner, or leon and his young wife/gf
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Shout out to Leon laying on the floor pathetically, gotta be one of my favorite genres:
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I love your kennecroft fics sm💖
Thank you 🥰😊💜
The one I'm working on now is going to be quite a bit longer than my usual, so it might be a bit of a wait before I post, but I appreciate all the support my readers have given me 💜
Here's a sneak peek at what I'm working on next 😘
Grace doesn’t remember receiving her first flower, but she remembers when she first noticed it; waking up in a world without her mother for the first time, feeling like the sky was falling on her head.
On her wrist, a single white lily.
Grace’s only experience with the flowers is loss, so when she receives her second flowers in the blood-soaked halls of Rhodes Hill, she panics a little.
Okay, a lot.
The man—Leon—tilts his head, piercing blue eyes gazing into her soul. “You’re with the FBI?” he asks. “What are you doing here?”
Grace tells him, “S-s-someone kidnapped me.”
“Kidnapped you?” Leon frowns, brows pinching together in concern. “Why?”
Grace doesn’t have a chance to answer. Searing pain burns itself into her flesh, curling like hot iron around her left arm. She hears Leon suck in a sharp breath of surprise, and when she looks up, he’s staring at her upper arm with an expression of wonder, almost absently reaching up to touch his own broad shoulders. Grace looks down at her arm just in time to see a pair of purple and red gladiolus blooming on her shoulder.
No. God, please, no.
PLEASE DON'T TELL ME SHE GOT INFECTED WITH that plant virus thing we see in RE2/RE9, i guess? it kinda reminds me of flowertale (:
LMAO, OMG I would love to read that fic!! (actually might have to add it to my list of fics I want to write 👀😆😁) But no, it's a Soulmate AU where you receive flower marks/tattoos from people or events that significantly impact your life.
The soul-flowers are not inherently romantic; in fact, they’re usually not. Marks can appear for any person, or even an event, that has a significant impact on a person’s life. More than anything else, soul-flowers are scars, a history of pain and love on a person’s skin, irrevocably changing them forever.
Grace has a white lily on her wrist from Alyssa’s death (symbolizing grief and remembrance), and Leon has marigolds on his ribs from Raccoon City (symbolizing bitter memories and hidden pain).
quite symbolic, no doubt inspired by the Raccoon City Syndrome. Leon would have more events like his early life (adoption), breaking up with his canonical ex-gf (before Raccoon City), RE4, and RE6. i don't think the movies had that much weight on him lol. although i do have a fic idea: leon displays his symptoms at the beginning of rhodes hill
I love your kennecroft fics sm💖
Thank you 🥰😊💜
The one I'm working on now is going to be quite a bit longer than my usual, so it might be a bit of a wait before I post, but I appreciate all the support my readers have given me 💜
Here's a sneak peek at what I'm working on next 😘
Grace doesn’t remember receiving her first flower, but she remembers when she first noticed it; waking up in a world without her mother for the first time, feeling like the sky was falling on her head.
On her wrist, a single white lily.
Grace’s only experience with the flowers is loss, so when she receives her second flowers in the blood-soaked halls of Rhodes Hill, she panics a little.
Okay, a lot.
The man—Leon—tilts his head, piercing blue eyes gazing into her soul. “You’re with the FBI?” he asks. “What are you doing here?”
Grace tells him, “S-s-someone kidnapped me.”
“Kidnapped you?” Leon frowns, brows pinching together in concern. “Why?”
Grace doesn’t have a chance to answer. Searing pain burns itself into her flesh, curling like hot iron around her left arm. She hears Leon suck in a sharp breath of surprise, and when she looks up, he’s staring at her upper arm with an expression of wonder, almost absently reaching up to touch his own broad shoulders. Grace looks down at her arm just in time to see a pair of purple and red gladiolus blooming on her shoulder.
No. God, please, no.
PLEASE DON'T TELL ME SHE GOT INFECTED WITH that plant virus thing we see in RE2/RE9, i guess? it kinda reminds me of flowertale (:
That Ring isn’t about shipping
I think people are misunderstanding the ring scene at the end of RE9.
And I say that as someone who has done an absurd amount of research on wedding ceremonies.
When I got married I wrote my own vows and ceremony script. Which meant I spent a stupid amount of time studying the structure of weddings — why we say what we say, why rings are used, what they symbolize, where that moment sits in the ceremony.
And almost every ceremony includes some variation of this explanation:
The ring is circular.
No beginning. No end.
Infinite.
It represents a promise that is meant to endure beyond whatever the present moment looks like.
Here’s a piece from my own ceremony:
These rings represent the vows and promises you’ve willingly exchanged. They reflect the commitment those words inspire and all your hopes and dreams for the future.
Hope.
That’s the word that matters.
So when Leon S. Kennedy — a man pushing fifty, who has spent the last thirty years fighting bioterrorism, drowning himself in alcohol, flirting with death on a near-annual basis, carrying the weight of entire cities on his conscience — quietly puts on a wedding ring…
The moment isn’t actually about who he married.
The moment is about the fact that he did.
Because if you step back and look at Leon as a character, that’s the real miracle.
This is a man whose life has been defined by survival, sacrifice, and loss. Raccoon City. Spain. Endless missions. Watching people die. Being ordered to do things he never wanted to do. Living inside systems that grind people down.
Leon has always been written as someone who doesn’t expect a future. He lives mission to mission. Crisis to crisis.
So the symbolism of the ring is almost aggressively simple.
It means at some point he chose something outside the war.
A life.
A commitment.
A future he intends to live long enough to see.
And that’s why the ring is powerful.
Not because it confirms a ship. Not because it resolves thirty years of fandom arguments.
But because it quietly says something about Leon Kennedy that the series rarely lets him have:
He survived long enough to build a life.
It’s a promise.
And more importantly, it’s a choice.
Someone stood in front of him and said I choose you.
And Leon — the guy who spent decades believing he was disposable — said it back.
The ring is the physical symbol of that exchange.
Hope for the future.
And for a character like Leon?
That might be the biggest victory he’s ever had.
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