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Name: Laura
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Age: 20
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Character Information
Name: Leo
Canon: Pandora Hearts
Canon Point: Manga chapter 55.
Age: 16
Gender: male
History: Leo's beautiful wiki page
Personality:
Leo appears at first glance to just be a nobody. He's a commoner, which makes him basically unfit in the eyes of everyone in his society to even serve a noble scion, which is his role. He comes across as "subdued" and quiet, if a bit odd. One of these things is true--he is a weird kid. He's incredibly blunt about a lot of things and doesn't seem to really give a damn about things that aren't piano, books, or Elliot. On the surface he appears simple, practically one-note: very loyal to his master (Elliot if it were unclear) and a huge bookworm. He is both of these things, true, but he has more going on than people give him credit for.
The thing is, Leo is a very private person. He grew up essentially isolated from everyone in his village because he was "weird," and his parents died when he was young -- and when some strangers came to take him, a 12-year-old boy, away to some unnamed place, no one tried to stop them. Leo admits later that "[he] understood that," because he's repeatedly gone through phases of being "the weird one," and feeling like he was somehow separate from everyone around him and unable to break through to them properly. Essentially, he has been a very isolated, closed-off little guy since he was very young, and this didn't just stop happening overnight -- after he's taken from his village to the House of Fianna, an orphanage that does some creepy experiments on the side, he continues to isolate himself. Although he'll be around other people, he tends to ignore them unless they speak to him first, and if they mess with something particular about him, he's very quick to get upset. Most notably are his hair and his reading, for reasons. The hair, glorious rat's nest as it is, is a method of dealing with the fact that he sees things that no one else can. It's just another thing making him "weird," and if he's going to keep being a weirdo he'd rather be weird because his hair is in his face, so he doesn't have to see things that "aren't there." (What he actually sees are "flecks of golden light" from the Abyss, which is another dimension in Pandora Hearts. Leo, because he has Glen Baskerville's soul in him, can see the light from the Abyss because the Baskervilles are the "chosen ones" meant to protect the Abyss. He spends most of his life not knowing what this shit is, though.)
The thing about getting in the way of his reading is less ... personal. He just likes books. They let him forget about how much his life sucks, essentially a method of escape that developed into a genuine passion. He is very well-read, by this point, though his reading choices tend towards fiction over nonfiction, though apparently he keeps reference books in his school dorm room, so there's that. He's very particular about his reading being interfered with because it's noisy and rude and bothersome, and tries his patience. He responds to interruptions or other harassments with shouting and caustic remarks, depending on who and what is involved. But, to quote dear Elliot in his description of Leo, "as long as no one messed with his books, he was generally in a good mood." Leo doesn't mean to be irritable and snappish, it's just that he's not used to having anyone interested in him in a genuine, friendly way for the first 14 years of his life (parents excluded, and also they died), so he kind of takes everything on the level of "this person thinks I'm strange and they don't like me," or just a plain old "this person is a bother." He doesn't really know what to do with friends as shown later -- he doesn't make them easily. Yes, he's generally a really nice and amiable guy, although he has his eccentricities (casually talking about erotica and teasing people for the sake of teasing, for example), but his social awareness and niceties are kind of surface-level. He assumes, not always inaccurately, that people talk to him because he is Elliot's servant, and therefore his relation with them is secondary. He's capable of friendships, obviously, but he's very inwardly stumbling about it.
Exceptions to this include his fellow orphans and Elliot. Orphans first: the other children at the House of Fianna are basically his family. After he learned how to deal with children, he developed a tough love relationship with them; he won't hold back from scolding them straight up about what they've done wrong, but he always points out that they're family and he's proud of them for doing good things. The House of Fianna is for children who've lost their parents in Chain-related business, which basically marks all of them as Strange, so Leo obviously relates to them and just wants his little "siblings" to be happy. He's also evidently really good with kids these days, as every time he so much as walks down the hall in the orphanage, every single person in the place goes KYA KYA IT'S LEO and tries to hug him. Not kidding.
As for Elliot, he is the most important thing in Leo's life. Entirely serious. Their meeting and subsequent interactions were at first tumultuous -- Elliot interrupted his reading and made a scene about how special it was that he's a noble, which Leo didn't care for at all and just blew him off about. But the more Elliot kept coming back to the orphanage, the more they started to get along. Leo doesn't treat Elliot like he's a noble; he scolds him, actually hits him, tells him he's dumb, the works. He'll tone it down around people who don't like him, for Elliot's sake, but the fact of the matter is that Leo's backtalking and inability to care that Elliot is of the peerage is the reason he even chose him to be his servant in the first place. They balance each other out well, in that Leo tells Elliot when he's being a complete tool and flipping out unnecessarily, and Elliot flips out unnecessarily before Leo can lose his temper and start throwing furniture.
Which is a thing that he does. Leo actually has a really violent temper (one time he tried to beat someone to death with a vase -- for trying to cut his hair), but according to his own words, seeing Elliot lose his cool helps him regain his composure by comparison. It's not like he's constantly on edge waiting to snap, but when he does go overboard, he goes overboard hard. Throwing furniture, still not a joke. He chucks a table and chair set at Elliot for not shutting up and listening to him. But normally he's in a good mood and super pleasant, honestly.
Back to Elliot, Leo holds Elliot "in very high esteem." Elliot is the singular focus of basically his whole life, by this point, and he would do anything for him. Including murder. Including killing himself. He really really really admires Elliot and all his righteous ideals, and does his best to not only keep him behaved, but encourage him and be a good little supportive servant. Elliot will always be his number one, no matter what, and he really doesn't see a problem with this. If other people take issue with always being second, if anything at all, compared to Elliot, well, that's their problem. Leo is fiercely loyal and would do anything in his power to protect Elliot, even if most of the time it looks like they just argue all the time and Elliot does all the protecting. Leo tends to be a bit subtler than some people in this canon about his ridiculously all-consuming loyalty. At the same time, Elliot makes him feel very, very bad. But he doesn't know that.
See, there are a few memories Leo has of terrible things happening -- that no one else believes happened. Elliot almost dying and Leo sealing his wounds with an illegal contract to the Chain that attacked him (complicated.) being one of them -- he remembers it clearly, it haunts him to recall the image of Elliot suspended above him impaled through the chest, but Elliot is fine. Elliot tells him it was just a dream, and Leo believes him, because Elliot wouldn't lie and he desperately needs that to be the truth. Leo cannot actually handle losing Elliot -- later in canon he does and he loses his mind from the trauma and the guilt. Because if anything happens to Elliot, Leo is convinced that it's his fault, and he already feels terrible about those things that he isn't even sure are true. So, at the same time Elliot is the only truly good thing in his life, he also is the unwitting source of all Leo's guilt and trauma.
So there it is. On the surface Leo is a kind of strange guy who likes books a lot and calls his master a dummy like five times an hour; under that he has a temper like a bear trap and a lot of confused bad feelings. Hooray!!
Abilities Information
Fighter or Sacrifice?: Fighter. Not for any particular respect for authority or natural inclination to follow orders (he is a servant, but his servant experience isn't exactly at all typical -- and it's not even that he disrespects authority, it's more of an ambivalence but he does what he's told), but more because of the actual fighting involved. Leo is very well-read and well-spoken, and quick to react with the right thing to say to whoever is causing conflict. Thinking of spells and verbalizing them quickly wouldn't be a problem at all. He also won't hesitate to resort to violence if his other half is in danger, so ~hesitating in battle~ wouldn't even register as a possibility.
Canon abilities: Uh nope. Technically he has the soul of a pseudo-immortal closer-to-otherworldly-than-human fellow in him, which makes him capable of a bunch of needlessly complicated things, but at the canon point he'd be from these are all irrelevant, because he very pointedly shuts out the influence of the old dead guys in his head. That's not even really an ability, ah.
Name: n/a
Samples
First Person:
[Okay so he's mostly figured out which way up to hold this thing. He's not used to technology, alright, it took some effort. Get a load of his huge glasses, they're stylish and modern in that not-at-all way.]
Is this on? Hm- Well, I'll continue anyway. My name is Leo, and as much as being abducted into someone's fantasy novel is interesting, I need to find someone.
That is to say, if there's anyone by the name of Elliot Nightray around, please tell him- [some nerd is looking for you? he's sorry? oh god please be okay?] -that he's an idiot. You should probably say it's from me.
That's all for now. Thank you.
[He gives a cheerful little smile and then fumbles with the phone.
And fumbles. ... and fumbles.]
How do I make it stop?
Third Person:
Leo remembers turning a corner in Isla Yura's mansion amidst the chaos. He remembers some number of red-cloaked figures, remembers a blow to the head. And then he wakes up in a forest.
Something is wrong. Before he has time to orient himself enough to move far, some strangely-dressed individual takes him to a brightly lit, even stranger place with more people who rattle off a lot of things that don't make sense to him and pass him some illogical device, smooth and heavy, that's supposed to let him communicate with other people.
He's fairly certain the look of skepticism he gives the person who tells him that one will go down in history, that's how disbelieving he is. But then he's handed a key and shuffled off to a room with some furniture and some absolutely bizarre things, like a box that's cold on the inside only. What's going on here? His ear twitches, and--why does he have extra ears.
Leo takes a moment to stare at the ground and wonder which of the dukedoms has it out for the Nightrays so much that they would not only kidnap a mere servant, but find some way to mutate him into some strange cat creature. There is a mirror in the room and he peers at himself a bit apprehensively--oh, the ears blend in with his hair. Well, that's fine. He forgets about them and pretends not to notice the tail, because there are more important things to deal with than his unfortunate mutation.
The fact remains, he thinks, that he has no idea where Elliot is. And that was his goal, wasn't it, when he was running around, before those ... Baskervilles? knocked him down. He doesn't know where he is or how long he was unconscious on that forest floor, and--Elliot. His chest feels tight and his mind races to the worst possible things, Elliot is injured or lost in that forest himself which means he's been taken as well or worse--the heavy device from the strangers makes a noise in his hand, evidently protesting being squeezed as hard as he's been doing. He looks at it, then hesitantly touches one of the buttons on the side, making it blink to life and, gracious, what kind of mad little thing is this?
They told him he could communicate with it. Somehow.
"Okay," he says to it, seriously, and wonders briefly if he's doing it wrong. "Answer my questions. ... Please."
The screen goes dark. Leo makes an indignant noise and taps furiously on it, what a useless device-- "Are you listening?!"
Anything Else? nope!
Name: Laura
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Character Information
Name: Leo
Canon: Pandora Hearts
Canon Point: Manga chapter 55.
Age: 16
Gender: male
History: Leo's beautiful wiki page
Personality:
Leo appears at first glance to just be a nobody. He's a commoner, which makes him basically unfit in the eyes of everyone in his society to even serve a noble scion, which is his role. He comes across as "subdued" and quiet, if a bit odd. One of these things is true--he is a weird kid. He's incredibly blunt about a lot of things and doesn't seem to really give a damn about things that aren't piano, books, or Elliot. On the surface he appears simple, practically one-note: very loyal to his master (Elliot if it were unclear) and a huge bookworm. He is both of these things, true, but he has more going on than people give him credit for.
The thing is, Leo is a very private person. He grew up essentially isolated from everyone in his village because he was "weird," and his parents died when he was young -- and when some strangers came to take him, a 12-year-old boy, away to some unnamed place, no one tried to stop them. Leo admits later that "[he] understood that," because he's repeatedly gone through phases of being "the weird one," and feeling like he was somehow separate from everyone around him and unable to break through to them properly. Essentially, he has been a very isolated, closed-off little guy since he was very young, and this didn't just stop happening overnight -- after he's taken from his village to the House of Fianna, an orphanage that does some creepy experiments on the side, he continues to isolate himself. Although he'll be around other people, he tends to ignore them unless they speak to him first, and if they mess with something particular about him, he's very quick to get upset. Most notably are his hair and his reading, for reasons. The hair, glorious rat's nest as it is, is a method of dealing with the fact that he sees things that no one else can. It's just another thing making him "weird," and if he's going to keep being a weirdo he'd rather be weird because his hair is in his face, so he doesn't have to see things that "aren't there." (What he actually sees are "flecks of golden light" from the Abyss, which is another dimension in Pandora Hearts. Leo, because he has Glen Baskerville's soul in him, can see the light from the Abyss because the Baskervilles are the "chosen ones" meant to protect the Abyss. He spends most of his life not knowing what this shit is, though.)
The thing about getting in the way of his reading is less ... personal. He just likes books. They let him forget about how much his life sucks, essentially a method of escape that developed into a genuine passion. He is very well-read, by this point, though his reading choices tend towards fiction over nonfiction, though apparently he keeps reference books in his school dorm room, so there's that. He's very particular about his reading being interfered with because it's noisy and rude and bothersome, and tries his patience. He responds to interruptions or other harassments with shouting and caustic remarks, depending on who and what is involved. But, to quote dear Elliot in his description of Leo, "as long as no one messed with his books, he was generally in a good mood." Leo doesn't mean to be irritable and snappish, it's just that he's not used to having anyone interested in him in a genuine, friendly way for the first 14 years of his life (parents excluded, and also they died), so he kind of takes everything on the level of "this person thinks I'm strange and they don't like me," or just a plain old "this person is a bother." He doesn't really know what to do with friends as shown later -- he doesn't make them easily. Yes, he's generally a really nice and amiable guy, although he has his eccentricities (casually talking about erotica and teasing people for the sake of teasing, for example), but his social awareness and niceties are kind of surface-level. He assumes, not always inaccurately, that people talk to him because he is Elliot's servant, and therefore his relation with them is secondary. He's capable of friendships, obviously, but he's very inwardly stumbling about it.
Exceptions to this include his fellow orphans and Elliot. Orphans first: the other children at the House of Fianna are basically his family. After he learned how to deal with children, he developed a tough love relationship with them; he won't hold back from scolding them straight up about what they've done wrong, but he always points out that they're family and he's proud of them for doing good things. The House of Fianna is for children who've lost their parents in Chain-related business, which basically marks all of them as Strange, so Leo obviously relates to them and just wants his little "siblings" to be happy. He's also evidently really good with kids these days, as every time he so much as walks down the hall in the orphanage, every single person in the place goes KYA KYA IT'S LEO and tries to hug him. Not kidding.
As for Elliot, he is the most important thing in Leo's life. Entirely serious. Their meeting and subsequent interactions were at first tumultuous -- Elliot interrupted his reading and made a scene about how special it was that he's a noble, which Leo didn't care for at all and just blew him off about. But the more Elliot kept coming back to the orphanage, the more they started to get along. Leo doesn't treat Elliot like he's a noble; he scolds him, actually hits him, tells him he's dumb, the works. He'll tone it down around people who don't like him, for Elliot's sake, but the fact of the matter is that Leo's backtalking and inability to care that Elliot is of the peerage is the reason he even chose him to be his servant in the first place. They balance each other out well, in that Leo tells Elliot when he's being a complete tool and flipping out unnecessarily, and Elliot flips out unnecessarily before Leo can lose his temper and start throwing furniture.
Which is a thing that he does. Leo actually has a really violent temper (one time he tried to beat someone to death with a vase -- for trying to cut his hair), but according to his own words, seeing Elliot lose his cool helps him regain his composure by comparison. It's not like he's constantly on edge waiting to snap, but when he does go overboard, he goes overboard hard. Throwing furniture, still not a joke. He chucks a table and chair set at Elliot for not shutting up and listening to him. But normally he's in a good mood and super pleasant, honestly.
Back to Elliot, Leo holds Elliot "in very high esteem." Elliot is the singular focus of basically his whole life, by this point, and he would do anything for him. Including murder. Including killing himself. He really really really admires Elliot and all his righteous ideals, and does his best to not only keep him behaved, but encourage him and be a good little supportive servant. Elliot will always be his number one, no matter what, and he really doesn't see a problem with this. If other people take issue with always being second, if anything at all, compared to Elliot, well, that's their problem. Leo is fiercely loyal and would do anything in his power to protect Elliot, even if most of the time it looks like they just argue all the time and Elliot does all the protecting. Leo tends to be a bit subtler than some people in this canon about his ridiculously all-consuming loyalty. At the same time, Elliot makes him feel very, very bad. But he doesn't know that.
See, there are a few memories Leo has of terrible things happening -- that no one else believes happened. Elliot almost dying and Leo sealing his wounds with an illegal contract to the Chain that attacked him (complicated.) being one of them -- he remembers it clearly, it haunts him to recall the image of Elliot suspended above him impaled through the chest, but Elliot is fine. Elliot tells him it was just a dream, and Leo believes him, because Elliot wouldn't lie and he desperately needs that to be the truth. Leo cannot actually handle losing Elliot -- later in canon he does and he loses his mind from the trauma and the guilt. Because if anything happens to Elliot, Leo is convinced that it's his fault, and he already feels terrible about those things that he isn't even sure are true. So, at the same time Elliot is the only truly good thing in his life, he also is the unwitting source of all Leo's guilt and trauma.
So there it is. On the surface Leo is a kind of strange guy who likes books a lot and calls his master a dummy like five times an hour; under that he has a temper like a bear trap and a lot of confused bad feelings. Hooray!!
Abilities Information
Fighter or Sacrifice?: Fighter. Not for any particular respect for authority or natural inclination to follow orders (he is a servant, but his servant experience isn't exactly at all typical -- and it's not even that he disrespects authority, it's more of an ambivalence but he does what he's told), but more because of the actual fighting involved. Leo is very well-read and well-spoken, and quick to react with the right thing to say to whoever is causing conflict. Thinking of spells and verbalizing them quickly wouldn't be a problem at all. He also won't hesitate to resort to violence if his other half is in danger, so ~hesitating in battle~ wouldn't even register as a possibility.
Canon abilities: Uh nope. Technically he has the soul of a pseudo-immortal closer-to-otherworldly-than-human fellow in him, which makes him capable of a bunch of needlessly complicated things, but at the canon point he'd be from these are all irrelevant, because he very pointedly shuts out the influence of the old dead guys in his head. That's not even really an ability, ah.
Name: n/a
Samples
First Person:
[Okay so he's mostly figured out which way up to hold this thing. He's not used to technology, alright, it took some effort. Get a load of his huge glasses, they're stylish and modern in that not-at-all way.]
Is this on? Hm- Well, I'll continue anyway. My name is Leo, and as much as being abducted into someone's fantasy novel is interesting, I need to find someone.
That is to say, if there's anyone by the name of Elliot Nightray around, please tell him- [some nerd is looking for you? he's sorry? oh god please be okay?] -that he's an idiot. You should probably say it's from me.
That's all for now. Thank you.
[He gives a cheerful little smile and then fumbles with the phone.
And fumbles. ... and fumbles.]
How do I make it stop?
Third Person:
Leo remembers turning a corner in Isla Yura's mansion amidst the chaos. He remembers some number of red-cloaked figures, remembers a blow to the head. And then he wakes up in a forest.
Something is wrong. Before he has time to orient himself enough to move far, some strangely-dressed individual takes him to a brightly lit, even stranger place with more people who rattle off a lot of things that don't make sense to him and pass him some illogical device, smooth and heavy, that's supposed to let him communicate with other people.
He's fairly certain the look of skepticism he gives the person who tells him that one will go down in history, that's how disbelieving he is. But then he's handed a key and shuffled off to a room with some furniture and some absolutely bizarre things, like a box that's cold on the inside only. What's going on here? His ear twitches, and--why does he have extra ears.
Leo takes a moment to stare at the ground and wonder which of the dukedoms has it out for the Nightrays so much that they would not only kidnap a mere servant, but find some way to mutate him into some strange cat creature. There is a mirror in the room and he peers at himself a bit apprehensively--oh, the ears blend in with his hair. Well, that's fine. He forgets about them and pretends not to notice the tail, because there are more important things to deal with than his unfortunate mutation.
The fact remains, he thinks, that he has no idea where Elliot is. And that was his goal, wasn't it, when he was running around, before those ... Baskervilles? knocked him down. He doesn't know where he is or how long he was unconscious on that forest floor, and--Elliot. His chest feels tight and his mind races to the worst possible things, Elliot is injured or lost in that forest himself which means he's been taken as well or worse--the heavy device from the strangers makes a noise in his hand, evidently protesting being squeezed as hard as he's been doing. He looks at it, then hesitantly touches one of the buttons on the side, making it blink to life and, gracious, what kind of mad little thing is this?
They told him he could communicate with it. Somehow.
"Okay," he says to it, seriously, and wonders briefly if he's doing it wrong. "Answer my questions. ... Please."
The screen goes dark. Leo makes an indignant noise and taps furiously on it, what a useless device-- "Are you listening?!"
Anything Else? nope!