#leon is a rich white guy living in DC and working for the federal government

[sapphire-weapon]

I'm the anon who ripped on the Damnation outfit, but hear me out for a second. Face and hair wise, it's one of his best designs and it's because I think he looks like shit (which I'm sure was NOT what they were going for).

Leon looks not only miserable, but like he hasn't properly showered or groomed in a while, at least in a few days but that ironically WORKED and it worked brilliantly.

Damnation had an idea for Leon, even though it couldn't be fully fleshed out. It's the first time we see him jaded (listen, Degeneration does not count), drinking on the job and sick to absolute shit with the higher ups. It's the first real look into a spiral. They couldn't fully explore this and it unfortunately got a little knocked out of place due to (just my opinion) the shoehorned Aeon content and no longer being handled in an interesting way in RE6, but all of that is irrelevant. Greasy ass, tired Leon is what they accidentally made and it was perfect.

dude leon was on benzos in degeneration, that's why that movie is Like That. that's my headcanon and i'm sticking to it. post-RE4 he actually tried the whole therapy and meds thing, got dangerously close to becoming addicted to his ativan, and then dropped it after degen LMAO

but no i have said repeatedly that i think damnation has some of the best ideas in it. that movie is unironically great and would still hold up as the best RE CGI movie if only leon wasn't so fucking annoying in it. if his personality in damnation was more like his personality in RE6, that movie would be fucking S-tier.

and i do sincerely think that damnation was the point of reference that capcom used to resuscitate and reboot his character following their RE6 post-mortem. not in terms of his actual character voice and spoken lines, but in terms of the anger and survivor's guilt he has in that movie and his complete and total disillusionment with the government and how his job leads him to drink.

like

ALL OF THAT in modern-day leon started in damnation.

and i've said this before too, but damnation also has the best dynamic between leon and ada in OG period. the whole "lol coyly insinuate we had sex off screen" shit was cringe, but in terms of their actual dynamic and how they play off of each other, ESPECIALLY in the lab, is genuinely enjoyable -- because damnation allowed ada to, at least somewhat, do her own thing and just sort of crash into leon accidentally instead of entangling herself in his bullshit.

like there is a LOT of good stuff in damnation

but like

ok after leon kicked his prescrip for benzos he then went through a coke phase, and that's what damnation is

like look me in the face and tell me leon isn't coked up in that movie

HE'S FUCKING COKED THE FUCK UP IN THAT MOVIE

fucking catch leon snorting lines off of a licker's corpse in damnation bc he's lost control of his life and doesn't gaf anymore