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Did I say 3 times Leon was a catboy? I miscounted. 6 times Leon was a catboy in official material (that I am aware of. There may be more. If you know of more, do share.). And at least in one of them, he wore the cat ears willingly. He put them on his own head of his own accord.

Once or twice is a joke, three times is marketing, four and onward is telling. He's probably looked in the mirror and went "meow" at least once.

There's also the cat in Destiny that's named after him.

(I'm not actually sure if the Asteria commemorative art is supposed to have him as a cat or something else. Close enough.)

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Alright I failed with Marian, let's see if there's more pajamas that I don't know about

DC manga Leon's pajamas are a blue gown

Pachislot Stahn's pajamas are a dark blue tank top and white pants

Everyone's seen Stahn's Asteria pajamas already but whatever

The blue on his sleeping cap doesn't match the rest of his pajamas.... (and he doesn't wear socks, but he wears a robe? Is he cold or not??)

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I looked into the anniversary encyclopedia because I got impatient and a very cool person using a very cool name uploaded them and a ton of other guides

(*´艸`) They call Stahn's hair 見事. Rays also says his hair is in surprisingly good health and really nice to touch and beautiful and 立派. They gotta start drawing his hair more like the Asteria art where it's all fabulous 'cause it usually looks like neglected straw to me lmao

Really... this depiction of his hair is far more worthy of most of the praise it gets. But I think it's also the only time it's ever been like this. Some of Kasukabe's art has him with kinda uncanny looking hair sometimes but I guess it looks softer than the usual depiction.

Yeah, the Asteria art is probably the go-to if they want to visually convey his hair is "nice" without compromising on the wild shape too much.

...Ah, anyway...

The first note on Leon is also ( .;´;_ゝ;｀:,) But I don't think I understand the very first part of it well enough. Something like "Thinks the lowest of others more than anyone else, but is also wishing for love more than anyone else." It has a better flow in Japanese but I don't know how to grammar my English to work as well. His second page feels like it's retconning some stuff even from DC? I'll patiently wait now for better people to translate it, but something I think I read on it specified that he wishes for Marian's happiness above all else, which... I would sooner write (not translate) as "wellbeing" since that's pretty dang incorrect since she explicitly does not want him to be doing the things he does for her and he should damn well know it won't make her happy.

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Leon has eventually gotten his ice cream in a few different ways.

Philia becomes his ice cream slave in Radiant Mythology

(And he regularly eats 50 scoops in one sitting. Leon 50 Scoops Magnus.)

4koma in the DC manga (not sure how seriously we're meant to take them)

(He says they're not as good as Marian's home made sweets)

Kasukabe's artbook

(Stahn with matcha flavor and Rutee with cherry! The patch changed matcha to mocha for some reason.)

Tales of Kizna artwork (It was for the last hurrah of the game? I think? What a nice note to go out on...)

(Stahn got two and the one he finished eating is even a winner stick!)

(...Following the line of Leon's waist from above his hand to below his hand... the shape doesn't seem to match up... Unless this particular artist has their own ideas about Leon's figure)

Stahn asks him to get ice cream together in Rays

(I don't know if they end up getting ice cream or not, but they do walk around the food stalls together, which made Stahn happier than he's been in a long time)

.........

And of course. Teehee.

I wonder if there's more that I haven't seen yet?

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Leon kept asking Marian to join him for meals and tea, but he never offered to help her with any of her tasks until the shopping scene? I feel like that's a subtle nod that his affections for her are mostly self-centered. Along with disregarding her wishes regarding her hostage status, I wonder how much he actually considers her feelings and what she wants? I wonder how much of the real Marian Leon even knows, too? Despite her genuine kindness for him, she keeps a certain distance between them that he doesn't seem to notice.

魔人闇 also kind of makes me feel uncomfortable in that regard, too. He normally says the attack name fondly and gently (except in RM where he's really angry for some reason). But. It feels like such a villainous thing. Pure darkness. Demonic Darkness. Darkness is not always evil, but. The DC manga does sort of frame it that way, and as something that needs to be broken. It's the attack he first defeats Stahn with, and it's also the final attack that he ever uses, and Stahn cuts through it with one of his two light element attacks, 灼光拳. As Leon's reeling, he thinks of it as radiant and warm, internally picturing it as a small flame in his hands, marveling at it and holding it close. When he reaches out, he thinks of the group as illuminating.

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Okay you see the problem is

The problem is

They all let Leon have a choice in the matter.

Depending on the iteration, they either kicked his ass until he couldn't realistically fight anymore, they pulled their punches because they didn't want to fight and prolonged it too much, or they didn't even really get to fight in the first place.

It's 4v1 at worst, 7v1 at best, he weighs fucking 106 pounds, JUST LET THE HEAVIEST OF YOU TACKLE HIM WHILE HE'S FIGHTING EVERYONE ELSE AND DRAG HIS ASS OUT OF THERE KICKING AND SCREAMING. DIRECTOR'S CUT MANGA IS STUPID, LEON'S SIDE IS STUPID, DON'T LET THEM FOOL YOU INTO BELIEVING HE COULD WIN 7v1.

Don't waste time with words!! If you absolutely must fight, do not trust a dumbass 16 year old child who has been emotionally manipulated and is under incredible amounts of stress to make a good decision, let alone in a timely manner!! Do not wait for him to decide to take your hand, scruff that tiny 5'1" twink the moment he's tired and GOOOOOO.

THIS KID'S NOT EVEN OLD ENOUGH TO VOTE YET, WHY ARE YOU LEAVING THE CHOICE TO DIE ON THE TABLE FOR HIM

I realize some of them are only a mere 2 years older than him, but literally everyone else besides Chelsea IS AN ADULT!! YOU ALL!! SHOULD KNOW BETTER!!!