tags: angst!, mention of alcohol, fake character death, grief, doomed childhood best friends.
Neighbor childhood friends Leon Kennedy x Reader where you both live in the outskirts of a shitty town and love to play fight, roll around in the mud, climb trees, play hide and seek in the tall cornfields and are perpetually covered in band-aids. Making the other one convince each other's parents to give you some more money to buy ice cream in the summer. There's one day when a branch breaks as you're climbing one of the trees at the edge of a field, and Leon wastes no time placing you on his bike and speeds home. With your leg now broken, you expect the rest of the summer to be super boring, but Leon is always there finding ways to entertain you. "Don't cry! Mom bought me a new board game we can play, and look! They gave me soooo much money, we will eat tons of ice cream!" ♫ Underdogs - Benjamin
High school Leon Kennedy x Reader where, after a whole childhood of being in the same classroom, you get separated. You make up for it by spending the time off school at the arcade, reading comics or listening to music and trying to learn how to play an instrument. Leon gets shy as he hits puberty and doesn't understand when girls hit on him. You hate every boy that hits on you and convince yourself it's just because of their lack of personality. Not that maybe you like Leon. I mean... Feeling your chest tighten when your best friend falls asleep on his notebook while trying to teach him math because the sun reflects beautifully on his hair and eyelashes is a normal thing... right? ♫ Stop This Song - Paramore
Pre-RE2 Leon Kennedy x Reader where you move to college and Leon goes to the police academy in the same city. The time you spend together gets shorter, but the parties are fun. Except for when he talks to you about the girls that hit on him or the few dates he went on. You never say anything about your feelings because you'd rather keep your best friend than screw things up. Besides, you can't compare to the girls he seems interested in. There's one time where you are both at a friend's house party, drunk out of your minds, and the urge to kiss him nearly takes over you. Your heart breaks a little more when he finishes police academy and is sent to another city for work. "Raccoon City? That's, like, three hours away..." You don't know that his heart has been quite broken for a long time, too. ♫ Impose - Bad Omens | ♫ Sports - Beach Bunny
RE2 Post-Raccoon City incident Leon Kennedy x Reader where Leon gets a box with all of his belongings that were left at the apartment. You feel like you could die from the grief, the moment your phone rang and his adoptive parents told you Leon Kennedy was dead replays in your head over and over again. No body. Just a symbolic tombstone drowned in flowers and a picture. You spend days in your childhood bed, empty. Your therapist suggests that you write a letter to process your feelings and you end up sending it, like a dumb idiot, where it will sit in his apartment's mailbox forever. Leon sobs as he reads it. So much lost time and no way to fix it. He has to pretend he's dead to the world and, in a way, he really is as his heart shatters at the thought of never being able to see you or hold you again. ♫ Specter - Bad Omens | ♫ nihilist blues - BMTH
In between 1998 and RE9 Leon Kennedy x Reader where you drop out of college and settle into the small town you have always called home and where everyone is nice and understanding. As the years pass and you start getting involved in the community more, a "For Sale" sign catches your eyes and somehow you end up fulfilling your childhood dream. The coffee shop is cozy, pastries always fresh, cake always sweet and it smells of coffee and... flowers. You stopped trying to understand it years ago, the mysterious bouquet that waits for you at your cafe's door every single day without fail, always different kinds of flowers that paint your workplace in the most gorgeous colors. You never fall for anyone else again, your heart buried in that plot of land with a tombstone and no body. Besides, grief is love with nowhere to go. ♫ Carry Me Out - Mitski
notes: i finally got this out of my system. english is not my first language so please be understanding. i love angst. dipping my feet into writing again, this machine's gears are a bit rusted. i might add a Post-RE9 section, i was so tempted but this was getting long. i have many things i'd like to post hehe also, peep the song links for every section woah! let me know what you think and thank you for reading.