#eagleone

[tappioca]

when saddler starts popping off in the village group chat

(based off this meme)

[sapphire-weapon]

I thought this was interesting. Ashley and Leon's POVs at different moments in the post-surgery scene.

While Ashley's still focused on the map, Leon instead looks at her.

We, as the audience, witness Leon experience "The Fall" back in chapter 9, but this is the moment, I think, when Leon finally sees it, himself. This is when he finally realizes it, and when she notices it for the first time: that he loves her, too.

It also gives a layered meaning to their follow-up exchange:

Ashley: "You sure you're okay?" Leon: "Never been better."

[duvastian]

Her Leon

[kasueli]

[nonnatao]

another boring party

[larvamars]

small piece for leshley week

day 2 - First date

[jelybobik]

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[kod23pm]

reverse!!

[omelette-otter-art]

Some more AshLeon art~

[61a7ax22]

Memories of a ghost

[sapphire-weapon]

The first time Ashley really looks at Leon without being in full fight-or-flight, he looks like such a fucking asshole LMAO

And their character models are literally too close together for me to get POV shots while Leon's holding her after the catch (their actual literal eyeballs got in the way), so I just got as close as I could without it looking weird, and:

I can't find a platonic explanation for this moment. He could have just put her down. He just puts her down every single time he catches her after this. And judging from his reaction and considering the thoroughness of his training and his readiness for this mission, there's absolutely no way that Ashley is the first person he's caught after a jump like that -- so it's not even like he's stunned that he managed to pull it off. He doesn't ask her if she's okay, doesn't give her an "I told you" or a "See?" Doesn't breathe a sigh of relief or show any signs of stress about having to do that at all.

He just... stands there. And holds her.

They don't even start off looking at each other; it's only when he lingers with her in his arms that they turn their heads and lock eyes. They both have just sort of fallen out of time and space. Their urgency to escape is momentarily forgotten.

It's so much different from Leon watching Ada's chopper at the end of the game -- when there's a thousand different thoughts and doubts and questions and conflicting feelings zipping through his mind, ranging from their complicated past to her unknown employer to the fact that he just let her walk away with whatever Krauser had killed Luis over, and there's no taking back that decision now that he's made it.

This is the complete opposite. Instead of having racing thoughts, Leon is experiencing an absence of thought. He completely forgets himself -- his position, his status, his rank, his mission -- forgets who he is, what he's doing here, and why he's with Ashley in the first place. A connection forms between them in this moment, and they both feel it.

And for that moment, Leon suddenly is no longer a top secret government asset with experimental training holding his mission objective, the president's daughter, after a jump. He's a man holding a woman, in a way that feels inexplicably meaningful, on a chill autumn night as the rain comes down around them.

It's such a classical example of the Held Gaze trope in romance stories that it should be on the fucking wikipedia page for it.

[tappioca]

dooble: take care of your hands

[hanaranjada]

A few years after Spain, Leon still thinks about how things could have gone different with Ashley…

Based on “Veil” from @_K0TTERl_ 💕

PLEASE DO NOT REPOST WITHOUT CREDIT (o´▽`o)ﾉ

[nonnatao]

🩵🧡

[bloominginthesun]

Leon not rejecting her but rather brushing off her request because he’s not used to people Wanting him rather than needing him. She might not need him anymore but she wants him around and he’s not sure how to react to that.

[jelybobik]

🕷⋆⁺₊⋆♱happy halloween, pumpkins!♱⋆⁺₊⋆🕷