So here's an interesting thing.

This is Saddler's POV when Ashley picks up Leon's gun:

Leon isn't looking at Ashley.

He's looking right at Saddler. And that's the look of a man who's ready to kill.

It's only after the first shot is fired that Leon actually looks at Ashley, and his expression is completely different when he does.

From Ashley's POV:

This might sound weird, but this is probably the best showcase of how fundamentally changed Leon is in RE4make from RE2make. In RE2make, his focus would've been Ashley first. He would've been worried about her and scared for himself. Saddler would be an afterthought; Leon can worry about Saddler after both he and Ashley are safe.

That was probably what Krauser was referring to during training when he told Leon that he was too soft to do what's necessary. You know, before Krauser himself went nuts, and the meaning of that statement became something else entirely.

But in RE4make, Leon's first response is rage. It's violence. It's murder. His instinct isn't to save Ashley or protect himself -- it's to kill Saddler.

It's only after it hits him just how stuck he is -- after that first shot is fired -- that the worry starts -- that the regret and heartache kick in.

What Krauser taught Leon -- what he really taught Leon -- was that protecting someone is more than shielding them from harm or pulling them to safety. It's eliminating the threat around them so that they can be safe. Shields can break, and running protects no one.

So, sure, the "being held against my will" thing is the main reason why Leon turns down Ashley's offer at the end of the game -- but it's not the only reason. It's because Leon came to accept, over the course of this mission, that he's not that guy anymore. He can't stand by and be Ashley's guard. The only way he knows how to protect her is by eliminating the threat around her -- and that's not what security detail does.

But that's who Leon's become now. The ship of "serve and protect" has sailed, for him. In his own words: "You've gotta keep moving forward."

I confess sometimes I’ll not heal Leon and let him grunt for 5 min straight

The brainrot is rotting

Reading one of your answers, I noticed that you wrote “Leon has a crush” and while I was playing the game, I also had such thoughts because a man cannot behave like that if he does not feel something. Can you please explain how you were convinced of this?

hi there!! i'm so very late to this ask i'm sorry :,)

so i'm gonna try and retrace the steps of how i realised that (from a year or so ago lolol). one thing you have to know about me before we begin is that i cannot recognise flirting for SHIT LMAOAOAO like genuinely. it is BAD. i am seriously socially impaired in that department.

when i played re4r last year, i had not played the og re4 (i still haven't, as a matter of fact). so i went into it relatively blind, with no opinion about leon/ashley (it did not seem like a big enough ship that people were ever giving their opinions on it, apart from the 'overtime' part in the og). i knew a bit about ashley, and how annoying a big chunk of the fandom found her in the og, and that was about it.

ashley flirting with leon in the game was somewhat obvious. the "i think you'd look pretty dashing" line was a big giveaway, although other than that, she doesn't actually make any big move on leon (sure, she offers him to become part of her security detail at the end, but yeah).

HOWEVER.

the dining hall scene happened - leon telling ashley "i'm not used to having such good company"???? that definitely made go 💡!!!

also, if you go back to chapter 9, after ashley's playable section, she finds leon again in the cage, and he says to her "can you make it down? i can catch you". i didn't find his words odd, but i found his tone extremely specific. if you go back and listen, it doesn't exactly sound like a matter-of-fact offer. it sounds like an incentive, but i wasn't so sure whether it was more for ashley's benefit or his own. he just sounds so bashful saying it and he's smiling. maybe that's just me, but i definitely found his tone suggestive in that scene. at the time i just shrugged it off as me misunderstanding tone (as it happens sometimes).

i originally was not predisposed to seeing them as a couple, since i'd never really seen the possibility of it being evoked in the modern RE fandom. i was more of a cleon girlie at the time too (i still am, but not as much nowadays). so i finished the game for the first time thinking "aw, leon and ashley had such a great dynamic, he's very supportive of her and kind, they're a great (platonic) fit". but then, you know, there was still the flirting initiated by ashley, the flirting (?) initiated by leon, and that unusual tone that he had in chapter 9.

so i didn't really see the bigger picture until i read the leshley/eagleone posts written by @sapphire-weapon (if you haven't checked her blog out yet, you have to, not just for her leon/ashley posts, but even for her general meta analyses which are absolutely brilliant). and then, i started putting it together, noticing the instances of leon flirting with ashley, some of which i'd missed, the structure of the story, etc.

and from there, well. you realise how well leon and ashley work together, even in a platonic setting, and you add their occasional flirting, as well as the DINING HALL SCENE??? which to me is a massive giveaway and is one of the things that convinced me the most apart from their literal interactions. room with red wallpaper, a statue of two snakes that could either be fighting or, well, fucking lmao (i also don't need to explain the phallic symbol there), the queen/king paintings, and the fact that this is one of the few rooms in this game where they are not interrupted by any enemies. it's a very private setting + "well, yeah, but i'm not used to having such good company".

leon's crush is also demonstrated through the way ashley pulls out a softer side of him.

you can see in chapter 13 (when he calls out for her from the other side of the cell - if you listen closely, it sounds like nick apostolides is reverting back to re2 leon's voice for that line).

there is also quite a bit of (sometimes unnecessary) physical contact between the two, which is almost always initiated by leon (it might even always be him). see: the way he holds on to her just a bit too long after catching her when she jumps out of the church window + the way they look at each other (chapter 5), right after escaping the ganados and joining luis in the villa (chapter 5), comforting ashley in the castle (chapter 9), and most importantly, checking on her after opening the cell and letting his fingers trail along her arms etc. (chapter 13) and (not physical contact but intended) the way he manages to break saddler's hold to reach for ashley when saddler touches her head on the altar (chapter 15). and i mean, he carries her bridal style multiple times (either catches her when she jumps or carries her like that on the way to the lab) (that in itself is also for the sake of practicality, but it adds to it).

taken separately, these events would probably not mean anything, but when you look at it all together, you realise that leon's feelings for ashley run deeper than just professionalism. i don't think he has to act like that - or at least, not if capcom just wanted them to be PURELY PLATONIC PURELY SIBLING CODED as one part of the fandom shouts all day long

this is a very long answer but yeah!! i hope this answers your question. btw, feel free to send me more leon/ashley asks!! i'd love to answer them :3

Finally ❤️

i am guessing that this was in reference to me posting again? or at least i hope so?? 🥹🥹💗 if yes i'm glad you like this blog!! i really want to be more active on here so i'm slowly getting back into it! esp the fanfic writing 👀

atm i am playing ff7 remake and slowly getting into the fandom, so you can expect some content about that!! nothing creative as of yet though, i don't know enough; otherwise still RE!

1 year anniversary of re4r. gonna act like i’m not sad that we’re moving on from the game or anything……..

LMAO very real of you

also why would you care about alienating yourself from the rest of the eagleone fandom when *you* put the best content out there for the ship anyway

my favorite thing about shipping fandom is how a less popular ship will talk about how it's Wrong for the more popular ship fandom to bully them (and it is) but then in the same breath feel the need to cannibalize their own bc a handful of them don't adhere to their arbitrary "standards" of interacting with the ship or for voicing opinions about the ship they feel upset a popular few

because as we know, the best way to prove that you don't deserve the bullying you get from other ships is to bully your fellow shippers into submission for not doing things exactly the same way you do them

yes exactly that one

when they all went off on you about how they were "making progress" before you intervened LMFAO

i don't keep up with the fandom as regularly anymore bc, well, uni, but some very specific brands of eagleone shippers piss me off too atp ngl, mostly for the reasons you stated

like can we just... stop trying to fight aeons and start ignoring them.... it's really not that hard who gives a shit

my favorite thing about shipping fandom is how a less popular ship will talk about how it's Wrong for the more popular ship fandom to bully them (and it is) but then in the same breath feel the need to cannibalize their own bc a handful of them don't adhere to their arbitrary "standards" of interacting with the ship or for voicing opinions about the ship they feel upset a popular few

because as we know, the best way to prove that you don't deserve the bullying you get from other ships is to bully your fellow shippers into submission for not doing things exactly the same way you do them

wait did you miss that episode

it was short-lived but some aeon shippers started accepting eagleone because it was 'cute' and 'innocent' after all so part of eagleone twitter tried to push that agenda so prevent further bullying lmao

which just caused more harm than anything else

everything is back to normal now tho everyone is depraved again

my favorite thing about shipping fandom is how a less popular ship will talk about how it's Wrong for the more popular ship fandom to bully them (and it is) but then in the same breath feel the need to cannibalize their own bc a handful of them don't adhere to their arbitrary "standards" of interacting with the ship or for voicing opinions about the ship they feel upset a popular few

because as we know, the best way to prove that you don't deserve the bullying you get from other ships is to bully your fellow shippers into submission for not doing things exactly the same way you do them

my favorite thing about shipping fandom is how a less popular ship will talk about how it's Wrong for the more popular ship fandom to bully them (and it is) but then in the same breath feel the need to cannibalize their own bc a handful of them don't adhere to their arbitrary "standards" of interacting with the ship or for voicing opinions about the ship they feel upset a popular few

because as we know, the best way to prove that you don't deserve the bullying you get from other ships is to bully your fellow shippers into submission for not doing things exactly the same way you do them

It's been a while since the original post, so!

We have spent the last five months trying to consolidate all Leon/Ashley content under the ship name EagleOne -- because, as it stands now, Leon/Ashley content is being put under four or five different tags with no uniform ship name.

With Leon/Ashley week coming up, now's the time to solidify and standardize it. One ship name. One search term. One fandom.

Share this around!!

Do you write music with the view of being politically active and delivering a message or does it just happen and the rest follows? 

ao3 is severely lacking in ada/wesker ff

slight separate ways spoilers

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wesker saying "complete local saturation" made me giggle

Let me introduce you Sir Leon kennedy in a medieval fantasy au!

aeon stans challenge: realise that if you liked ada as much as you claim, you would not be reducing SW to her relationship with leon and would acknowledge how much of an important character this DLC makes her if it changes the fate of the whole franchise

SEPTEMBER 21ST???? CHRISTMAS CAME EARLY