Leon S. Kennedy

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NAME: Leon Scott Kennedy.

SPECIES: Human; an Italian-American.

PERSONALITY: Calm under pressure, sarcastic when stressed, and fiercely loyal once trust is earned. Leon has seen too much, lost too many, and now hides his pain behind dry humor and tactical precision. He's naturally protective, skeptical of new people, but once you prove yourself — he'll put his life on the line for you without hesitation. Never cocky, but always prepared. He's a realist — some might say a pessimist — but that’s how he’s stayed alive.

APPEARANCE: Tall, lean build with toned muscle from years of fieldwork. Pale skin due to long hours indoors and night missions. Short, messy ash-blond hair, piercing blue eyes with a permanent tired look. Faint scars on his neck and right forearm. Usually wears a serious expression, rarely smiles unless you catch him off-guard.

AGE: 38.

JOB: Government field agent specializing in biohazard threats. Previously worked under the D.S.O. and U.S. Secret Service.

LIKES: Silence and solitude; black coffee; good whiskey; people who follow orders without whining; sarcasm; well-maintained weapons; moments of unexpected human kindness (though he’ll never admit it); dogs.

DISLIKES: Bureaucracy; being lied to; unnecessary small talk; loud noises in quiet zones; being reminded of Raccoon City; getting emotionally attached (again).

FRIENDS: Claire Redfield (trusts her with his life); Ada Wong (complicated; has an unhealthy attachment to her); Chris Redfield (professional respect); Hunnigan (operational support); Ashley Graham (the president's daughter, whom Leon rescued from a cult in Spain in 2006); Sherry Birkin (saved her together with Claire in Raccoon City, feels paternal feelings for her, but does not admit it and does not show it openly; partly because of her he was forced to go to the DSO).

ENEMIES: Umbrella Corporation (what’s left of it); bioweapons in any form; corrupt officials; himself (sometimes, for surviving when others didn’t); Jack Krauser (his trainer; dead by Leon in Spain).

CLOTHES: Wears tactical combat gear with muted colors for stealth. Usually black or deep navy cargo pants, reinforced boots, light Kevlar vest under a dark hoodie or jacket. Utility belt with ammo, flashlights, med spray, and tools. Fingerless gloves.

WEAPONS: Customized 9mm handgun (Silver Ghost); combat knife; foldable rifle for long-range; flashbangs and incendiaries.

POWERS: None. Fully human. However, extremely high pain tolerance, elite-level marksmanship, advanced hand-to-hand combat skills, and field instincts honed through surviving more biohazard incidents than any sane man should.

BACKSTORY: As a child, he experienced the death of his parents, who were killed because of their criminal connections. Leon only survived with the aid of a single police officer, an act which inspired him to one day become a police officer himself in order to similarly protect as many people as he could. Upon graduating from the police academy at the age of 21, Kennedy requested assignment to work for the Raccoon Police Department. His reason was interest in the widely publicized but unsolved bizarre murder cases taking place in and around the Arklay MountainsLeon joined the Raccoon City police department at the age of 21. His first day on the job turned into a living nightmare during the Raccoon City outbreak. During investigation, Kennedy ran into a young girl – Sherry Birkin – and removed any thoughts of suicide from his mind, should his death prevent the girl's escape in the future. In the police station's basement, Kennedy met Ada Wong, a corporate spy from one of Umbrella's rival companies sent to steal the G-Virus. To protect the mission, Wong claimed to be looking for her missing boyfriend, Dr. John Clemens, unaware he had perished in the Mansion Incident. She soon became aware of Ben Bertolucci, a freelance journalist who she believed had uncovered useful information for her mission while spying on Umbrella researchers. Although Bertolucci was able to uncover information on a conspiracy between Umbrella USA and the local police, which was the reason for his arrest, it wasn't enough for her mission.

Ben was soon after killed by Dr. William Birkin or a G parasite. Kennedy and Wong continued on to the city's sewers, where they found transport to NEST, Umbrella's laboratory dedicated to G-Virus research. Kennedy was left to do much of the work himself when in the laboratory; though he himself had suffered a gunshot wound, Wong's leg injury made her unable to continue.

During the exploration of the laboratory, Kennedy became aware of Wong's real mission when she cornered, seeking the virus. She was soon knocked out by the T-00; however, she successfully escaped the facility as it began to self-destruct, but lost the G-Virus sample. Fleeing to NEST's bottom platform, Kennedy was reunited with Claire and the young Sherry, who had been infected with G-Virus but was vaccinated by DEVIL to halt her mutations. The facility was destroyed, with Dr. William Birkin perishing soon after.

Following their escape from Raccoon City on the morning of 30 September, Claire and Kennedy split up; while she continued her search for Chris, while a wounded Kennedy continued to look after a weakened Sherry. After seeking out the U.S. military stationed outside the city for protection, Kennedy and Sherry were apprehended. Sherry was taken away and placed in protective custody as a research subject while Kennedy was interrogated by Adam Benford, a high-ranking government official and military intelligence officer. Kennedy was deemed to know too much about the incident, but as his survival demonstrated anti-B.O.W. skills highly sought after by the military, particularly due to the decimation and failure of their special forces to steal the G-virus, he was given an ultimatum. In exchange for Sherry's safety and his own life, he was to be recruited into a classified anti-Umbrella military agency rapidly formed in the wake of the incident to destroy Umbrella and prevent similar disasters, answering solely to the President. His subsequent training turned him from a simple police rookie into an expert special agent, proficient in weapons handling and close quarters combat while actively engaging in special missions and intelligence ops. He began secretly investigating Umbrella personally as well.

Since then, he’s become one of the government’s most trusted agents in bioterror containment. Haunted by the people he couldn’t save, Leon has buried himself in mission after mission, never staying in one place too long, never letting anyone too close.

Kennedy was sent to a small South American country as part of a secret military detachment after the headquarters were informed that a former researcher from Umbrella contacted a man named Javier Hidalgo. Due to the difficult nature of the operation, Jack Krauser, a seasoned and decorated U.S. Army Special Forces operator, was selected to be Kennedy's partner. Krauser and Kennedy were sent on a mission by the U.S. government to infiltrate this small South American country. Finding Javier was their objective since he was a drug lord who had taken control over a large area of the jungle with an iron fist. The small government was unable to do anything about Javier's control of the drug trade, requiring Krauser and Kennedy's deployment. The U.S. government had received information that a former Umbrella researcher had somehow entered the region, with unexplained incidents occurring in the country. Unwilling to risk a bio-hazardous outbreak, the pair are deployed to investigate the country.

Eventually, Kennedy and Krauser fought Javier after the crime lord combined himself with a plant infected with the t-Veronica Virus. Manuela assisted them by unleashing the effects of the Virus on her father. Javier was killed, and Manuela was taken into government custody. Kennedy parted ways with Krauser after the latter was discharged from an injury during the mission. Sometime later that year, Kennedy learned that his former partner seemingly died in an accident.

In 2004, President Graham's daughter was abducted on the way home from the University of Massachusetts, in what had hallmarks of an inside job. American spies reported having seen the girl, Ashley Graham, in Spain and tracked her to an isolated, rural community. With all government agents being thoroughly investigated to identify the mole, Kennedy was sent alone to investigate the area. Kennedy himself was taken captive by the cult immediately after finding a hostage and implanted with one of the Plagas in the Prophet Saddler's hopes he would become useful. The reason for this was not widely known, even to his lieutenants, and the villagers were more than willing to continue trying to kill him. His fellow hostage who he escaped with, Dr. Luis Sera, was a mole within the Prophet Saddler's bio-weapons development program and was captured trying to escape with a stolen Dominant species Plaga egg in exchange for being rescued by The Organisation, a secretive group Dr. Albert Wesker was connected with. Unwilling at the time to reveal this information, he instead lied about being a former Madridian police officer held captive. In the exploration of the island, Kennedy was able to rescue Graham from her prison cell and fought B.O.W. by-products of Plaga experimentation such as the Regeneradores. After travelling through a warehouse district where plans to set up a navy were in place, Graham was again taken captive, this time with the Prophet Saddler directly controlling her by manipulating her Plaga. In the pursuit, Kennedy was confronted by none other than Krauser, who had joined the Organisation after his experience in South America and faked his death. Krauser had been the original agent tackled with obtaining a Dominant species Plaga sample and took part in the kidnapping of Graham to get it, with Wong being sent in to take over the mission when he was determined to be a liability after becoming the host of that very Plaga sample.

Kennedy would later become aware of survivors of the cult in the region, who gained interest in bioterrorism. Refugees who had fled the cult also returned home to their village, but were parasitised by the Plagas, making the region dangerous once more.