😡 (gonna assume that was supposed to say 'what would someone have to DO') 👥 💥 🔪
😡 What would someone have to [do to] make them lash out in violent anger?
They wouldn’t have to do much, I think. But it’s very difficult to predict when/if it’s going to happen. He’s visibly thinking about starting a fight with that random guy in the basketball court with what seems to be virtually no provocation . . . but we know so little about Leon that there’s a possibility there was some context for that scene that we never saw. Maybe that guy was a dick. Maybe he was a transphobe. Maybe he had questionable Seinfeld opinions. Who knows?
I definitely think that Leon ‘lashing out’ wouldn’t necessarily look like anger per se, from the outside. Leon strives to be calm at all times, and he more or less succeeds. When he’s committing acts of violence, that looks like shutting down emotionally, disconnecting his emotions, and getting the job done. Look at how different he is in the scene where he’s killing the neo-Nazis versus how he is normally (even while kidnapping Trenton and Mobley). He goes all cold and silent.
👥 Is there anyone they wish they had never met?
Hmm, interesting. I think Leon is largely at peace with the course his life has taken. He has his regrets, but I don’t know that he’d go back and change any of it. That may even be part of why he hates Whiterose; she wants more than anything to change the past, and he thinks that’s stupid.
To some extent, he thinks it would’ve been nice if his life had taken a different course such that he’d never been recruited into the Dark Army . . . but he joined for a reason. At the time, they were offering him a better option than anything he had. He knew what he was choosing.
💥If the world were ending, would they be satisfied with their life?
Yes, actually. But he would want to be able to say goodbye, say “I love you” to the people he cares about. Fuck Whiterose, he’s gonna spend the end of the world with his sisters and Elliot and maybe Carla.
🔪What do they think is scarier: a killer with a gun, or a killer skilled with a knife?
Well first of all Leon is both of those things, so that colors his response to this question. It takes a lot to scare Leon. He’s brave, he’s seen some shit, and he’s also pretty disconnected from everything. He’d say a killer with a gun is a bigger threat, but he enjoys using a gun himself. It’s “neater.” In terms of killers in fiction, if you asked him which was scarier, you would receive an hour-long lecture about framing and music and developing tension and character identification and catharsis, and basically the takeaway would be “it depends on the story.”
