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— ✧ the dreamer; AN INTRODUCTION TO LEO ✧ —

Guess who is back like a heart attack? I'll give you a moment to guess, did you? Okay.....well if you guessed me, Belle, then congrats. You're right. I'm back with and this time with a male character who will very likely also be my last character here at IS. 

Seriously if I try to pick up a third yell at me. 

Anyways I should probably get to telling you guys all about Leonidas here (tho pls don't ever actually call him leonidas or he'll cringe to death).

Leonidas Parker grew up believing himself to be human. He had no reason to believe otherwise. His father was a Greek and Roman History professor at Boston University (hence the name Leonidas) and his mother a nurse at the local hospital. The second oldest of four Leo's childhood was a relatively happy one. 

Everything, however, changed the morning of his thirteenth birthday when he suddenly started to see things that no one else around him could. Though it began with small things it seemed to get progressively worse as the months went by. It started with him chasing down people that weren't there. Then they started to find him wandering around dangerously run down buildings.But it wasn't until Leo started to  'hallucinate' demons and go from fine one minute to screaming bloody murder the next that his parents' started to worry.

It had been a hard decision but his parents finally pulled Leo out of school and began to focus their attention on finding out what was wrong with their son. They took him to only the best hospitals both in and out of Boston and every shrink they could imagine but everyone had the same answer, Leo was severely mentally ill and he couldn't be trusted to function normally in society without some sort of treatment. 

Adrian and Hallie Parker, however, did not want to believe their sweet sweet boy could have gone from completely sane to insane in a matter of a few short months. They were going to keep searching, find a doctor who would find something the others didn't, but when their denial only led to Leo accidentally attacking a neighbor's kid because he thought she was one of "those marked people", they knew they couldn't keep denying what was in front of them.

Two weeks after his fourteenth birthday Leonidas Emery Parker was signed into a mental institute. The first three weeks had been the hardest but when the medicine they gave him actually began to slowly stop the ‘ hallucinations’, Leo began to sing another tune. Weeks turned into months which turned into years and before Leo knew it he was eighteen and being dismissed back into the care of his family who had been assured that Leo was cured.

And for almost three years Leo felt cured. Besides the medicine he had to take daily, he was as normal as everyone else his age. That all changed however on the night of his 21st birthday when his older brother took him out for drinks and they were separated. Leo went out back looking for him but all he found was a demon who seemed to be angry. Leo hardly had enough time to even think about running before the thing was attacking him. He hadn't even fought back, trying to convince himself that despite the agonizing pain that none of it was real and it was just another hallucination.

He'd been on the brink of death when the Nephilim hunting the demon finally appeared and dragged the monster off of Leo and killed it. It wasn't until Leo started to mutter thank you over and over again that the shadow hunter realized the 'human' could see him/her/them. Realizing something was off they dragged him back to the Boston Institute and it was upon waking up there with his first rune (one to help him heal from the demon attack) that Leonidas Parker was informed of the fact he wasn't human. He was a Nephilim like the rest of them.

If that hadn't been enough to wrap his mind around they began to immediately bombard him with questions. Where had he grown up? How hadn't he known? Who were his parents? When was his date of birth? How long had he been able to see behind the veil? Not too long after that Leonidas was reunited with his real parents Joseph and Aurora Waywood. Aurora was the head trainer of the Idris Institute and Joseph the Inquisitor (prosecuting attorney on Shadowhunter trials) for the Clave.

He has spent the last six years receiving the shadow hunter training he'd missed out on during his first twenty-one years of life. Leo doesn't particular want to be a shadow hunter, he's always been a lover, not a fighter. But he spent a lot of time disappointing his human parents by making them the mother and father of a mentally ill son (even though he now knew he'd never been mentally ill, they didn't). The last thing he wants to do is to let down his shadow hunter parents too. Especially not after they were kind enough to allow him to remain in Boston for his training (and to stay close to his human family), rather than drag him to Idris with them.

Personality Wise: Leo is a horrible shadowhunter. Despite six years of training his fighting is subpar and the only weapon he’s half way decent at is throwing knives and that's probably only because of the distance it puts between him and the demons. He didn't grow up in the shadow hunter world so he still isn't used to throwing himself into unneccesary He still hasn't learned to use his fear as a weapon rather than a weakness. Regardless though, Leo is pretty well liked around the Boston Institute. He is the guy who can instantly put a smile on anyones face and he makes friends faster than most shadowhunters make enemies. 

He is pretty close with downworlders as well. They find him amusing rather than threatening and as a result Leo tends to know what's happening with them faster than the shadowhunters who look down on them. 

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Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie.

Russian Proverb (via tat-art)