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[zerotohiro]

Leooooon and Rise ofc

THIS WAS WRITTEN BEFORE MURDERGATE THREAD FTR

[babermetrics]

RISEEEEEEEE

I'll start by saying that when Leon first meets people, he tends to perceive them pretty shallowly at first. Not in a bad way exactly; it's just the same kind of thing everyone does when they have limited information to go on about a new person. In Rise's case, the first real lasting impression he had of her was as a symbol, which happened the third time they spoke. The first time she was just a hot girl, which leaves an impression on him, but he wasn't particularly more inclined to her than any number of other hot girls. The second time was during the mirrors event, which was a traumatic blur to him, and his feelings about all that were initially pretty self-focused. But then she contacted him to check up on him after the mirror thing, and that was really, really important to him—that's when he kind of latched on to her, though still more as a concept than a person. She was like, A SYMBOL OF HOPE in his life—she was proof that he was "allowed" to be vulnerable and have awful things happen to him and it didn't make him offputting or pathetic or disgusting. That was something he'd been struggling with for ages, and he still kind of does, but it's a lot easier now for him to convince himself that it's okay to open up to people a little or share negative things with them without them thinking he's a freak or a "downer" or "broken" or anything like that. Rise was one of the people who did that for him most powerfully.

So for a while he was eager to hang around her for that reason: she proved to him that a pretty, sweet girl could know some darker things about him and see him having serious problems and still think he was worth being around. But of course the longer you hang out with someone, the more you actually get to know them as a person, and that's what happened between the two of them. Leon doesn't see her as a symbol or a beacon of hope anymore; he sees her as a human being and a good friend of his, and potential romantic interest. He knows what she's like now! He likes what she's like! She's genuinely fun and makes him happy to be around, and he cares deeply about her and all the time they spend together. He would take care of her in any way he could, which is like, not much compared to everyone else she knows, but hey he'd try. He can at least be emotional support.

His sexual/romantic interest in her has definitely not faded any with getting to know her, but their relationship outside of that is really important to him. Leon is definitely not the kind of guy who'd ever decline to sleep with anyone for fear of ruining a friendship lol, but if she turned him down for good in any sense, he would deal with it and move on from those feelings and still want to maintain the close friendship they have. He's cool with that. But of course, unless that happens, he is definitely still hoping/aiming for something to happen between them someday, and is hopeful that maybe she likes him back??? Hope springs eternal.

[pseudonyms]

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