LEON HURE | DISTRICT TWO {FIN}

leon tien hure

Seventeen | Male | District Two

I don’t know exactly what
They want from me now
The more money they come across
The more problems they see

appearance

Whenever someone first looks into Leon's amber eyes, they feel intrigued by them; mystified. That is, until they realize that his eyes don't give off a glowing shine and instead keep this miserable dullness. It's a shame, really, that such a beautifully colored pair of eyes can just be covered up like that with a sheet of boring. Above these lies two moderately thick eyebrows, usually covered by his side-swept bangs. Follow down those to find the long bridge of his nose, and then his mouth with always seems to be in a neutral state. From his head down to his jaw is his choppy chestnut hair, with the longest parts hanging in front of his ears. In old times, there used to be a long ponytail attached to his hair, but it was cut off and never grown back.

Even though Leon has quite a slim body, it's hidden with the baggy clothing he wears. A favorite of his is a maroon shirt with oversized sleeves. Nothing can be done about this odd fashion sense of his; nothing has changed it, nothing ever will. Even with the offering of clothing worth hundreds of dollars, he usually turns it down in favor of his unflattering choice of clothing. Muscles trail up his torso from a few years training as a career, but it's very sparse, as he figured he wouldn't need to use it much. Leon's thin arms are like twigs, it looks like they could snap just as easily, too. His real strength is in running, and he's faster than most of the people in his grade. Speed and agility is his best strength, but it's generally ignored due to the strength and combat skills the others posses.

personality

Weird.

Of a strikingly odd or unusual character; strange. Sometimes, the word 'weird' itself could be called weird. If you asked a random person from Leon's school, they would say that he's weird. But what does that really mean? That he doesn't fit in? Yes. That his opinions differ from everyone else? Yes. That his personality is almost unexplainable? Yes. So what if he is weird? In Leon's life, nobody cares about how he really feels or who he really is. All they want is his fortune. Fake friends who just want to somehow nab a bit of his ridiculous amount of money, relatives who fight for his items, not him. Fake smiles plastered onto faces, fake joy to see him coming, fake everything. There's only one person he can trust. Only one.

Maybe the reason behind Leon's lack of outward emotion was that he was taught to keep his feelings contained in a bubble, ready to burst open at any minute. Sometimes it does pop, and that's when he has those rare and quite unexpected rants of anger. Of course, he does have emotions, it's just that he hides it. When someone first meets him, they think that he's the very serious type. By the way Leon is on the outside, you can't blame them for thinking that way. Cold, distant, emotionless. When someone continues to see him for years, they still think he's the very serious type. Leon is not the type to open up to people easily; only that one person has ever got him to. But once he does, he is himself. All of the layers of heartless steel will peel away to reveal his true self.

A curious boy who's eager to know what's really around him. A weakness for cute, soft, and fluffy things. Casual, carefree. None of these feel like they should describe Leon, but they do. It's those kinds of things that go completely opposite of what you think they do. Being raised in a silent and peaceful environment, he loves the city, with all of the crowded streets, the thundering sound of everyone talking, and the music blaring from the distance. Leon doesn't have too good of a sense of money and value, so he usually blows away what most people would call 'a lot of cash on these trips to the city, buying anything that even looks merely interesting to him. Of course, this never even makes a dent in his wealth. Interaction with strangers is another thing, something he hates and is too painfully shy to talk to them.

history

Leon's parents were rich. Very, very rich. I-can't-believe-they-even-allow-people-to-carry-that-much-money rich. So it was quite unfortunate for them that the mother passed away during birth, leaving the father depressed and with more money one could spend on a life-long shopping spree. After he took the newborn boy home, he left a note saying to 'never let them change you, promise me.', and left. Just left, and was never seen again. And after that, the crying baby in the cradle had just gotten a mountain of money placed on his shoulders. Since he was only a baby, the fight of his relatives for who was to be his guardian started. Eventually, after quite a while of fighting, they decided on Leon's older cousin, Yan, to be his guardian for at least a few years.

Yan wasn't in it for the money, he was the only one in it for the boy. He cared for Leon and gave him attention. You could think that growing up in a massive mansion would turn a kid into a fancy-smancy spoiled one with no sense of money. But have you ever thought about the emptiness these children faced? Although they may have maids or butlers running around, trying to not get lost in the maze of corridors and rooms, they never got to bond with them and were practically alone. But Yan kept him company and Leon let him into his heart. He would be the only one to ever venture there. Naturally, the other relatives were jealous of Yan, but they never thought of actually stealing Leon away. No one with the name Hure would ever do such a thing, even when they were so jealous they wanted to. Or so they thought.

His uncle, obviously from the other side Yan was on, decided he'd had enough of not being filthy rich, and practically kidnapped him. Of course, it wasn't an actually case of kidnapping, as the Peacekeepers just saw it as family members handing a boy over to each other, possibly because they were going on a vacation or something. And Yan knew about this. Mutually, the Hures agreed that a change of guardian had been issued and went back to their normal lives. But something happened in this change of guardians. Leon broke his promise to his father. Uncle was strict, always giving him a giant scolding whenever he talked out of turn, talked too loudly, or even showed the wrong emotion at times. Loud, outgoing little Leon soon became seemingly emotionless Leon.

When Uncle died of old age years later, he was passed around his relatives for a month at a time. During this year, he met many different relatives and learned of their quirks; their weaknesses. There were so many fake smiles, Leon thought he would throw up. But when Yan finally managed to nab Leon again, they all knew he should of been there this whole time and let Yan keep him, at least until he was eighteen. They were reunited. Yan was definitely surprised at what had become Leon, but a couple of false starts later, they managed to open up to each other once again. With Yan, Leon was himself, and he couldn't be otherwise.


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