Carlos, at his computer: Trying to think of a way to put this lightly.
Leon: Uh huh.
Carlos, typing: Dear General Gueiser, I want you dead.
Leon, slowly lowering the newspaper: Try again.
Carlos: Okay…. I would prefer if your absence was punctuated with the appearance of an obituary.
Leon: You can't dress that up in professional language.
Carlos: I believe our correspondence would be the most punctual if there were someone else in your managerial position due to your untimely demise.
Leon: Mi vida.
Carlos: If I had to be put on a CIA watchlist for any reason-
Leon: Mi vida, please.
This is also an AU assuming everyone is alive and well. Well, mostly everyone. Anyways, be warned this does contain ships. Please just ignore them if you don’t like them.
I know I’ve said this before, but I genuinely believe Leon, Luis, and Carlos all live in an apartment together. Leon didn’t get a house since he assumed (correctly) that the government would keep him busy. Luis moved in after the events of in Spain, and he is the only one who really looks after the place since unlike his partners, he doesn’t have a job that keeps him away. Carlos moved in sometime after RE5 but before RE6. Btw, they’re all dating and also with Chris, who hasn’t moved in because he loves his house.
The Burton Family unofficially adopted both Chris and Claire. It’s mainly because they have no parents, and both Barry and Kathy view them as their kids. Plus, both of them visit during holidays that are mostly spent with family.
Manuela got the same deal as Sherry after Wesker was killed (the “work for us or stay in government custody” deal). They never cured her, like they said they were. At first, she was going to say no, but she realized how much she loved helping people out, so she said yes.
Ashley went back to college for a few weeks after RE4. However, it didn’t last long as she ended leaving and trying to be a government agent like Leon. Her dad said no to the idea, but Leon trained her in secret until her dad wasn’t in office. Then she applied and is now a government agent.
Piers sustained a lot of damage from the C-Virus. His mutated arm had to be cut off, and now he has a prosthetic. It was shooting arm unfortunately, but he trained up his sniper skills again to be at what they were, even if it took years. He still produces bio-electricity, but he doesn’t use it often. Regardless, he still is at the BSAA. He’s also the captain of his own team (and I like to think it includes Sophie from the stageplay and Merah from The Marhawa Desire)
Leon can’t cook. I just don’t see him being able to. He orders take out regularly if none of his boyfriends cook dinner. In most cases, it’s Taco Bell because me and my bf believe he has a Taco Bell addiction.
Helena and Jake bond over how important family is to them and how they lost the only people who were their family. It happened when Sherry had both of them over, and when she was gone for too long, they both started to talk and found out they have that in common. My bf doesn’t think they’d get along, but to me, they would when it comes to this.
Speaking of Sherry, after RE6, she ends up selling Simmons’ house (because she was the only one living there) and moves in the same apartment complex as Leon. She wasn’t able to before because of Simmons, but now she has a chance to reconnect with her actual father figure. She visits regularly, even if Leon isn’t there. Luis and Carlos are very nice to her.
Rebecca and Luis are besties because I said so. Look at them, you want to tell me they wouldn’t?
In world where Carla survives, Ada manages to talk some sense into her. They’re not really friends but they’re not enemies either. Ada takes Carla with her since they look alike, and Ada promises they’ll find a way to get her back to normal.
After FBC is shut down, Parker offers a position at the BSAA to Raymond, which he accepts. They work together until RE5, when TRICELL is taken down. The BSAA finds out about Raymond and Jessica giving the company the T-Abyss virus, and Parker tries taking Raymond in, but he fails to. Their relationship afterwards is complicated with Parker not knowing what to believe.
After Raymond is wanted by the BSAA, him and Jessica go back to working together. They take on jobs where they steal viruses and sell them to people.
Sasha and Leon are dating after DAM. They visit one another due to neither of them wanting to force the other to move. I like to think during one of Sasha’s visits, he meets Luis, and the two of them get along, even if Sasha wanted to kill him at first for making Las Plagas. I do believe in a word where this leads to Luis and Sasha dating.
Patrick (from Infinite Darkness) is also dating Leon, but unlike Sasha, he doesn’t date anyone else Leon is dating. He also visits more frequently than Chris and Sasha because he lives a floor or so above Leon. He often brings sweet little gifts for Leon, but there are times where he has stuff for Carlos and Luis too.
Because of CV, after Wesker survives RE5, he brings some people he knows back to life. Excella is first just because Wesker wanted to see if what he’ll do would work, Steve is a second as test, Krauser is third because he still had his body stored elsewhere, and Annette and Birkin are last because Birkin’s body needed a few things before he was finished (he dug their bodies up shortly after RC blew up just in case). He just wanted a group of people he could work with (I know the RE4R erased Krauser working for Wesker, but I like it, so-), so he only uses Steve and Excella to carry out stuff for him, even if they don’t want to.
Because Excella x Carla has consumed my every thought, I like to think during one of Excella’s assignments, they meet. I like the idea of this being their lesbian awakening. They meet up a couple times after this before any relationship is formed between them.
Ark adopted Lott and Lily after Survivor because I refuse to live in a world where he didn’t. I like to think him and Leon met up afterwards, and Leon just stares at the two kids. Ark instantly says, “They’re not yours, don’t worry,” as a joke. Yes, I ship them. Yes, Leon helps Ark raise them. No, I don’t care if it doesn’t make sense.
Jill and Chris are neighbors. Rebecca, Claire, and Piers also live on the same street as them. Because of that, the five of them often hang out or do game nights (which sometimes include other RE characters as they invite friends).
Btw, Rebecca and Claire are dating. They also live together. Like Sherry does with Leon, she also visits Claire’s place, even if Rebecca is there, and Claire isn’t. They get along well.
Moira, Sherry, Ashley, Manuela, Helena, Piers, and Jake are all close friends. Moira, Ashley, and Manuela meet each other and everyone else at a game night Chris hosted, and they all get along.
After RE8, Heisenberg moves in to the Winters’ house, which Mia doesn’t like. She knows Ethan loves him, but she doesn’t like that man. She also doesn’t like the idea of Rose being left alone with Heisenberg. Regardless, he doesn’t do anything bad with Rose. He tries his best, even if he’s not used to kids.
Sheva, Carlos, Parker, and Barry are good friends with each other. They initially met when Jill became a captain of her own BSAA team, and she wanted them to be apart of it. I have yet to come up with a name for this team.
Bruce and Fongling are still together after Dead Aim. They work together too because he got her a position. Also, Leon and Bruce know each other, they met while training, and they’re friends.
I like to think all of the main characters of Outbreak keep contact after RC. Alyssa’s death years later brings them all a bit closer. I also like to think Yoko was affected the hardest since they were good friends.
I know there’s a theory that HUNK trained Jake, and I like to think it’s true. Despite that, Jake never knew his real name. He’d love to be that level of mysterious, but he never gets it right.
Alright, ending the hcs here. I might post a part two to this. Remember these are my hcs, don’t go crying because they don’t match yours.
you do know why i ship carlos with leon right? like, this wasn't simply a whim or haha funny rare pair stuff (though it is just fun in general). BUT it's also an interesting dynamic in they both went into careers by choice and by force but for opposite periods of time
carlos "apparently" rolled into mercenary life from childhood into early adulthood and then was under forced employment from umbrella for a little while
leon chose to be a cop (gross) but only got to be one for a little while before he was thrown into forced employment by the us government for his adult life
Carlos' formative experience lets him catch bullshit from a mile away during his forced employment, and Leon's lack of formative experience means he's just going to take everything because he doesn't have the ability to filter the nonsense out during his forced employment
so if I can just squeeze these two together right when Leon starts to get cocky and has the general respect of his peers, I can have Carlos provide that brain cell to tell Leon he does, in fact, have bargaining power for his life sentence. whether or not Leon absorbs that information and when that absorption happens is the fun part to write!
"that doesn't have to be romantic tho", yeah, but i want them to fuck sloppy and be mushy as well, its a package deal, carlos gets leon's package up his-
I'm in the middle of getting ready to move, so I've had little energy to write for this ship and less energy to draw it. It's a miracle I got this out at all, but I've wanted to do one of these for a while! Hopefully everything is legible.
