10 Things You Didn't Know

[notlewis]

That's it. It's Sunday, I'm bored, it's time for a meme that I stole from xi_rpg.

RULES
1. Post with your character
2. Post ten things that you believe are true about your character that people might not know - nobody cares if you use headcanon, it's up to you.
3. Watch as others do the same; comment IC or OoC!
4. ???
5. PROFIT!

Comments

[governmentninja]

1. He still has a fondness for gummi bears.

2. While Leon has zero problems blowing things up for Great Justice, and will do so without hesitation, he doesn't enjoy it at all. He considers it an unpleasant, but necessary part of his job.

3. He was once clinically dead for about three and a half minutes. He will not discuss that experience. EVER.

4. He hasn't told anyone that he joined the government in exchange for Sherry's freedom. He never will. As far as anyone else is concerned, he joined of his own free will.

5. There are very few things he's willing to hold a grudge over.

6. At this point, he genuinely does consider Sherry to be his daughter. Anyone who suggests otherwise will get their jaw broken.

7. When one of his nieces was sixteen, she had an emotionally abusive stalker ex-boyfriend. When Leon found out, he came home and threw the boy through a second floor window, among other things. Said ex never bothered his niece again.

7a. Additionally, the legend of her crazy Secret Agent Uncle has kept a few boys away from his niece. Leon has no problem with that.

8. Leon has been trained to gather information by hook or by crook. He has lied, stolen, and tortured, to gather intel.

9. He prefers to listen to smooth jazz and classical music. It helps him relax.

10. He does prefer having Hunnigan as a remote partner, than having someone there with him on the ground. He likes it because its good to have someone feed him information, it gives him one less person to worry about, and though he doesn't realize it, having someone keeping an eye on him via satellite is comforting to him in an "angel watching over me" kind of way.

[governmentninja]

11. On paper, Leon is part of the United States Strategic Command, which is a subdivision of the Department of Defense under the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He'll generally introduce himself as either being from STRATCOM or the DoD. In actuality, he's part of the Executive Office, and his immediate superior is the President of the US. No one else is allowed to give him marching orders.

12. He is on a first name basis with the current President. One of the many perks that come with saving his daughter from terrorists.

13. Despite all he's done, Leon does NOT consider himself a hero or a role model, and is hugely uncomfortable with the idea of someone looking at him as such. He has a career kill count that's hit five figures (the vast majority of which were infectees, but there are several hundred who were not. All killings were still justified, though); as stated earlier, he has lied or stolen to gather intel; he as tortured people, quite gruesomely in fact; and he's even done a handful of assassinations. None of which he enjoyed, but he's still done it. Either way, he doesn't want to be glorified for it, and he wouldn't want anyone to go down that road.

14. Leon doesn't think highly of the superheroes he's come across. He can understand the desire to want to help out, and wanting to do so without working directly for the government. That's fine. But the fact that there's zero oversight, no guidelines beyond "killing is bad", and no age limit drags the whole thing down several notches in his eyes. There's no order or structure to it, and no one seems to stand for anything greater than their own moral code. It's like they're playing some big game with their villainous counterparts and they make up the rules as they go along.

Additionally, most heroes come across being either arrogant, reckless, insane, or a mixture of all of three. They flip off whatever laws as they see fit, seem to disregard law enforcement rather than try to work with them, violently insert themselves into situations as they see fit, and they hide their identities to escape any consequences of their actions.

15. His general coldness is something that came about as a result of him realizing that he was about five seconds away from losing his mind. He's far more screwed up than most people would realize at first glance, and struggling to hold it together. By blocking out his emotions as best he can, every decision he makes becomes a conscious one, and one he accepts full responsibility for, regardless of how he intended it to turn out. It's easier for him to deal with his life that way.

16. Despite somehow becoming the ship 'Dad', he generally doesn't consider himself fatherly. He's mostly stumbling around blindly with Sherry, and is quietly terrified that he's going to screw up horribly with her.

17. Leon has a six-figure salary. Most of which gets plugged into an IRA. He intends to retire, or at least be transferred to a different organization towards the Graham's Presidency.

18. He has a small apartment, which, outside of a tv and a bed, has virtually nothing else in it. He's never there anyway.

19. Being with Claire is the first relationship he's been in since Raccoon City. He has dated a lot over the last several years, but any shot at a relationship falls apart fast when he has to go halfway around the world at a moments notice and stay there for days on end, has to stay out of contact for that time, and can't explain where he's been or what he's been doing in all that time when he gets back.

20. Part of the reason he accepted Motoko's offer for her to work for him is that he's pragmatic enough to realize that they'll need a black ops team at some point to do a lot of dirty work that most people won't approve of. So long as they're under his command, he can make sure that they're deployed only when it's absolutely necessary.

[standaloneshell.livejournal.com]

o2: If you can't enjoy the explosions, then make someone else set the charges. Blowing shit up is one of the great joys of this line of work.

o3: Let's just call it an 'interesting near-death experience,' and not ever speak of it again.

o7: Motoko feels the same way about Togusa's daughters, and will probably end up playing guardian angel for them at some point. Sherry too, at this rate.

o8: We at section 9 would think less of you, if you hadn't.

15: Motoko approves. Smart boys take responsibility for their actions.

19: How about you date someone who's not a civilian?

2o: If he ever calls her 'Black Ops' to her face, she'll break both his arms.

[governmentninja]

02: Someone else usually does set the charges.

03: Let's not discuss it at all.

19: Tried that too. Didn't work out.

20: He'll note that.

[mica-silverwind.livejournal.com]

In Motoko's word Black Ops is the detail they put on when they can't legally kill you, and don't want to ever give you any kind of promotion or perks or anything ever again.

It's basically a dead-end job where they send ex-military cyborgs like Motoko and Batou to work until they die in harness.