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Leo Baskerville (canon update) | Pandora Hearts
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Current Characters at Luceti:
Character
Name: Leo Baskerville
Fandom: Pandora Hearts
Gender: Male
Age: 17 (he's 16 in canon but has celebrated a birthday in Luceti)
Time Period: Retrace 63.
Wing Color: Black.
History: Wikia link
Leo Baskerville (canon update) | Pandora Hearts
To those who aren't familiar with him (read: most people, since Leo usually fails to engage with people outside the topic of Book Books and Really, This Book is Interesting), Leo probably hasn't changed much between his Retrace 47 and Retrace 63 selves. He's still as careful and still as calm despite sporting a brand new haircut and a rather disconcerting way of smiling at times (though one could argue that he's always smiled that way, people just didn't know because they couldn't see his eyes). He still has his bookwormish habits though he's quite obviously tidier in presentation, a little more talkative and perhaps a little more flippant in attitude.
Of course, he still excels in throwing forth the occasional sarcastic barb (his deadpan tendencies, however, seem to have utterly disappeared) but he's still undeniably polite in most social situations. It comes with being trained to serve a member of the nobility and then becoming noblility yourself, it seems— though Leo rarely thinks of his duty as Glen Baskerville as an honour. He still doesn't put on airs, preferring, instead, to engage others on their own level. This can be seen by how he extended a respectful enough (the friendliness is, however, up to debate) invitation to Oz to negotiate about joining the Baskervilles' cause. Glens were considered to be revered, powerful figures among noble circles before the Tragedy of Sablier and in current canon, feared death-bringers; Leo had no obligation and everything to lose by letting Oz in on his plans and yet he did, simply because he considered Oz a close enough acquaintance to be trusted.
Or at least, that's how it all seems on the surface.
Elliot's death has not only devastated Leo, it has broken him. The flippancy in his attitude is not as benign as most would assume; instead, it lies in his change of outlook. Previously, he'd been more of an uninvolved bystander (this can be seen by how much of a role he plays in the story until the Second Coming of Age Ceremony arc— he merely exists as comic relief for any Oz-centric scenes and as an expository character in Elliot-related affairs) but this has now been skewed into to a self-hating, destructive mindset. It is very possible to say that Leo goes from being somewhat physically blind to selectively blind. His hatred for himself and the Will of the Abyss has blinkered him so much that he has taken decisions that he would otherwise have shunned and adopted an attitude that is quite frankly, suicidal. He's willing to harm not only himself but others as well. Oz identifies this correctly enough:
—You don’t want to destroy anything at all—
You just want to be destroyed yourself.”
But what does Oz know? Elliot's dead and as far as Leo knows, it's all his own fault.
It would be correct to say that Leo has regressed into a more selfish one-track mind mentality with little to no regard for others— or at least, those who aren't Elliot or close to him. Even the reasons for his actions (as painstakingly explained to Oz) revolve more around personal reasons (i.e. punishing the Will for subjecting Elliot to such a fate). Sure, he attempts to mask it with the somewhat more righteous "To fix the distortion in the Abyss made by the Will" goal of the Baskervilles, but there’s not as much dedication from him to that compared to the efforts of the rest of the Baskervilles. To him, even if their objective is just as valid (and he doesn’t mind subscribing to it), his wants come before theirs. Leo isn’t ignorant of his own downspiral— he embraces it.
And yet, to say that he’s become a stereotypical batshit villain would be incorrect as well—Leo’s selfishness extends to the fact that he doesn’t really want to lose his current friends if he can help it. Having been subject to a lonely childhood, Leo treasures every bit of friendship he can get, even if he has to ruin everything with his own hands in the end. That’s why he’d attempted to talk Oz into joining his cause—it was, as he said, “All […] Leo’s bit of selfishness”.
When it all boils down to that, Leo’s mostly a lonely, disoriented kid who’s lost his bearings for a moment and taken some really bad decisions. Does this excuse what he’s doing (and about to do)? No, of course not. He’s childish, he’s foolish, he’s suicidal and deals with grief in the most abhorrent of ways— no. But for all it's worth, there is still something remaining of the old Leo, even if it’s about to be phased out by this new (but not quite improved, as shown by further chapters) Glen Baskerville 2.0.
Strengths:
Since Leo is essentially the reincarnation of Glen Baskerville, it is assumed that he has the same regenerative powers as the rest of the Baskervilles. Canon has shown that Lily Baskerville was able to recover from a point-blank headshot within minutes; it can be thus assumed that Glen Baskerville (being arguably the most powerful Baskerville) has that same ability as well.
Leo also has the Chain Jabberwock— a creature from the Abyss that he's formed a Contract with. Chains are entities that exist within Contractors and are unable to sustain themselves for prolonged periods on a plane of existence other than the Abyss. In exchange for a shortened lifespan (each Contractor lives as long as it takes for their seal to complete one circle), the Chain serves the Contractor.
Little has been shown of Jabberwock's abilities other than its ability to fly and its ability to wreck havoc (it attempts to wreck a city but that isn't all too difficult due to its immense size). Jabberwock is one of each Glen's army of Chains and is the easily the one closest to him. Not only does it appear in an illusion with Glen in Sablier (Ozwald!Glen had to tell it that Oz did not mean any harm before it backed down), it is also the first Chain that Leo forms a contract with upon claiming the title of "Glen Baskerville". Jabberwock is Leo's own personal bodyguard...if bodyguards could be kept and produced again at the whim of its owner.
That aside, Leo is also relatively book-smart. He's cultivated a reading habit ever since he was young (he likes books, he states, because they offer him an escape) and almost always has a book with him. He's probably gained knowledge of a wide range of subjects (especially since he's been in Luceti for almost a year), but it's all very shallow unless he's interested enough to pursue things further.
Weaknesses:
As strong as Jabberwock may be, maintaining its existence in the current plane (as opposed to the Abyss) is taxing on the body. As of his current canon point, Leo has only made a contract with Jabberwock a few days prior and thus is unfamiliar with handling the strain of a Chain. Even using Jabberwock for about five-ten minutes (assumed, from the series of events that occur) has been shown to exert extreme strain on him.
Which leads to Item 2: Leo is, despite his superhuman regeneration skills, quite human in terms of his abilities. He bleeds, he exhausts himself, gets knocked out; he is undeniably quite normal in most aspects. Of course, for Luceti, it will be possible for him to die because his wings will always be a weak point and can't regenerate as fast as the rest of him can.
Leo's greatest weakness, however, lies in his obsession with Elliot. In his grief, he makes bad, hasty decisions (i.e. choosing to take on the title of Glen Baskerville after rejecting it for so long) and regresses to a selfish self-hating outlook. He literally becomes suicidal, going as far as pushing himself to use Jabberwock despite the extreme strain on his body and egging Oz on to fight him. Leo's psyche is basically like an inverted pyramid— remove the stabilising force (Elliot) and he goes to pieces.
Samples
First Person: Q&A please!
Third Person:
Five days— he'd spent five days living once again like how he'd been before he'd returned. It had been a wonderful five days, a beautiful five days, a nerve-wrecking five days.
He'd noticed the stares, of course, and the questions that all of them had wanted to ask him. Some had just gone ahead and asked (Elliot had, for certain, and Leo wasn't surprised at all; his...changes would have certainly come as a shock), some hadn't, but in the end, none of that mattered. It was like being home after a particularly bad trip, like waking up after...
After a bad nightmare.
Yes, it all could've been a nightmare, couldn't it? Like those nightmares Elliot had when Leo would always be by his side to tell him that they weren't real, that they were dreams, and that he shouldn't not sleep (or Leo might clop him over the head and as much as that might help sleep come faster, it'd leave an unsightly bump the next day too). Dreams that weren't real.
Except that Jabberwock felt real. That stirring -impatient, huffy- was something that he could ignore for some time, but not all the time. It wouldn't do him good to ignore his own Chain even in a place that mostly offered him little harm anyway— Leo himself knew how useless he was with his handgun (always in his pocket even though he'd barely used it outside that one time months ago in this very village) and his hand-to-hand skills verged on the point of being laughable. No one was going to provide free projectiles to throw at threats.
Jabberwock was necessary.
The Chain materialised almost instantly upon summoning, and Leo was momentarily glad that he took the choice to move deep into the forest before calling it forth. The forest was wide around them, but any closer to the village and there was the possibility of someone from one of the taller buildings noticing it— them. He couldn't risk that at such an early point in time, not when everything was turning out better than he'd expected, when his evasive answers had finally met a grudging acceptance.
Exhale.
"Sorry," he commented pleasantly as he reached a hand up to the massive Chain as it ducked its head deferentially for him to pet. "This might take a while longer."
Q&A
A!
Such personal questions off the bat is quite rude. Why do you want to know?
2. Did you have a hero or a special role model while growing up? Describe them.
Another one? Well, I can't think of any, to be honest.
3. What's the clearest memory that you have? It can be good or bad.
Clearest memory...ah, maybe the time I played my first piece? Or my first book? There's quite a few, I can't really choose!
4. Who is the most important person in your life, and why?
...myself, of course. [He clasps his hands together gently on his lap, a smile.] I'm the only one I can rely on.
5. Do you have any regrets? If so, what are they?
Oh, of course. All of us do, I'd think— but not everyone wants to tell all. You'll have to excuse me.
Accepted
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