#leon blue

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[thornridgeprep-rpg]

Leon Blue had been always considered a fighter. At birth, he was diagnosed with liver cancer and fought it up until he was fifteen years old when he finally won that battle, forever killing the disease that haunted his childhood years. Three years later, Leon should have been able to look back at this and feel accomplished at getting past a huge obstacle in his life, but he didn't. Looking back at his life, Leon blamed cancer for taking over those vital teenage years, the teenage years that were meant for experiencing things and making their "firsts" for everything. While everyone else was out meeting other people and having their first kisses, Leon was either at home or at the hospital. He couldn't help but feel as if no one wanted to be his friend because he was different, because he had a problem. In fact, this was all in his head. Leon was really shy around girls but it was only because he thought girls wouldn't want to talk to him. In fact, once you got to know him and once you got him to talk, the hard part was trying to get him to shut up.

After spending most of his time on a hospital bed or in his room at home, Leon took up a hobby at simply the age of seven: painting. Experimenting from water colors to acrylics to oils, Leon knew everything there was to know about art itself. It was really a gift to be able to hold so much knowledge about a topic, but Leon saw it as a way to get away from everything, everything he’s had to deal with his entire life. Being able to add color to a canvas using a paintbrush made everything better through his eyes and that was all he needed to get through every day he was still here.

Even after defeating cancer, Leon hasn’t been able to win all his battles. One year before coming to Thornridge, his father passed away suddenly. He wasn’t allowed to know what from or even why he wasn’t allowed to know. The only thing he did know at that time was that he was going to boarding school, all alone, for the first time in his life. 

Skylar Bennett: Leon couldn't deny the fact that Skylar was a little odd but it didn't bother him in the same way it seemed to bother other people. He was willing to accept the quirky sense of humor. He found Skylar much too polite to ask questions about the sickness that stole his childhood and he liked that. It helped him see that cancer hadn't actually ruled his life like he'd previously thought. People could still see past what had happened in his life if they truly wanted to.

Nicholas Huber: One day during Leon’s first few weeks at Thornridge, a group of girls had approached him and started teasing him for being so “socially awkward.” Nicholas, who happened to be walking past them at the time, felt obligated to stop and tell them to quit it. He knew what is was like to be an outcast and not accepted by his peers. Using his outer charm and confidence to shock the group of girls, they left Leon alone. After that day, Nick and Leon became very close. Leon was appreciative of his kindness and acceptance, and Nicholas felt relieved to have someone to talk to about his own hidden “awkwardness.”