i'm still trying to decide how i want to to portray leon's parents/his dynamic with them, and what all went down after their deaths. but my running thoughts have always been that he was far closer to his mother than his father. that's not to say leon's father didn't love his kid, they just didn't always see eye to eye, and he had a harder time understanding leon. like, oftentimes in fanon, i see people say that leon's parents were pointblank bad people, or bad to him specifically, and i don't know, i just don't mesh with that idea. obviously they had their issues, and were involved with some pretty bad things, but they loved leon. that being said, i think after they died, and the criminal connections, that obviously a young leon was unaware they possessed, came to light, leon had a harder time finding comfort in their memories, and it led to a bit of a detachment.
regardless, after his parents were murdered, i have decided that leon was taken in by the officer who saved him, and their bond was incredibly strong. leading leon to adopt the man's surname, (kennedy is of irish or scottish descent, so it would make sense for his surname to change considering leon is italian american), and PERHAPSSSS the man's name was scott, or his middle name was scott, which led to leon choosing that for his own middle name, and it's why he's so insistent on the 's' being important.
