Leonardo (Log Horizon)

Player:
Name: Kaitou, him
Contact Details: DrSKirk
Other Characters?: N/A

Character
Character Name: Leonardo, "Keronardo" from Kanami
Canon: Log Horizon
Canon Point: Log Horizon Season 2, Series End
Type: Canon
Age: We're assuming about 25 to 30 years old

History/Key Points: - Leonardo has a very strong love of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and looks up to Leonardo as a strong leader. This indicates a in depth familiarity with TMNT, most likely from around the 80s series or older.

- He has played Elder Tale for 5 years, and has resided on the American Server's Big Apple until the June Riots, which was a fight and lynching over who controlled the Real World Food Preparation skill.

- Leonardo has a strong sense of honor and duty.

- His favourite food is Pizza, with a second love for Sushi.

- He travels currently with a group of players and non-player characters along with Kanami. Is acquainted with K.R. a member of Plant Hwyaden and continues to head East to Yamato (Japan) with Kanami.

Elder Tale began as a MMORPG developed and created by an American company, and in the 20 years of its running has become one of the world's most populated and played video games. During that time, on May 3rd at precisely midnight on Japan's timezone, the 12th expansion Novasphere Pioneers was released. This moment was known as the Apocalypse, and it brought 300,000 players from Japan alone into the world of Elder Tale, and several thousand more worldwide.

Leonardo was online for the events of this incident, and woke up in the Big Apple, his home city in America. Everything was fine until the discovery of Real World Food Preparation, which was a method of creating food and other items that could satisfy and taste better, and lead into the fact that other things besides food can be created this way. A massive riot broke out followed by lynchings to monopolize this ability, and Leonardo escaped into the sewers. Using a Fairy Ring, he transported himself to China and landed in a remote part of the server.

He spent time travelling before dropping into Tekeli, a town in the area after accidentally triggering a raid-level event that summoned hundreds of enemies. According to Leonardo, to protect the area, he continually died and respawned at Teleki's cathedral until help arrived. Kanami with her band of friends, Coppelia a AI Chinese Farming Bot and Erius Hackblade, a powerful NPC story character, fought off the enemies until K.R. showed up and was given a chance to retreat.

Journeying to another town, they discovered the double layered status that was driving people insane. Dubbed plague demons, Leonardo stunned a young boy who was suffering from the status, and defeated the overlay without killing him. They continued their journey east with Chun-Lu, a member of the White Wolf Brigade until discovering an army of gnoles, dog-like monsters, were on the way to the previous town to hunt and devour everything in their path. Kanami decides they will charge in, kill the boss monsters and escape.

After this, and finding out that Coppelia was an AI, Leonardo came to a conclusion that all life needed to be protected, since it was what Leonardo, the turtle, would say. K.R. agrees, knowing the character, and together they took on the bosses in a headlong rush. Leonardo's Overskill wins him the battle against Rasphuia by overpowering the genius's ability to get enemies to take the hit for her. And with the other boss monster defeated thanks to Kanami, Coppelia and Erius, they continued East once more. K.R. had been defeated, and sent back to his home server to respawn in these events.

During the trip, they came across Crusty, who was sent there by the curse on his second-in-command's weapon, along with her arm. Preserving the still moving arm, they continued their journey towards a TV station where after some fiddling and monster extermination, managed to get it working. Kanami spoke at length to Shiroe who revealed she has a 3 year old daughter and would love to bring her to this world.


Personality: Leonardo is an interesting mix of values, as he is a roleplayer first and foremost. He judges his actions on what Leonardo, the Ninja Turtle, would do in his place, as well as placing things such as friendship and honor in high esteem. Breaking the tenant of his roleplay, he would be devastated if he ever caused harm while bearing the name of his hero.

Leonardo is often confused by Kanami's decisions, but trusts her after some time to make the right ones. Impossible is simply not in their team's motto, and they have fought and travelled together for months over China to meet with Shiroe in Akibahara. He finds Coppelia endearing, and Erius is as cool as ever, being the every inch of a hero. Sometimes hesitant and a little cynical, he's also not good with children younger than half his age, but can relate to people who have more experience.

Leonardo is often thinking about his own position at times, where he stands in this strange new world that he had been brought to. While not in the thick of it like Shiroe and his guild, Leonardo often works with Kanami to better understand how beautiful this world is, and how he wants to see his own world compliments her ideals. He doesn't dwell on his own status as much as contemplate the best route.

When asked what he would do, Leonardo feels like there's two answers. To follow Kanami into her adventures, and to always continue the path of the ninja. The ninja is life, strong and honorable. He believes in truth and justice, and the mask he wears is a sign of a hero. He patterns his life over the honor he believes in, and even though people can surprise him, Leonardo believes in others as well as himself to do the right thing.

Leonardo isn't very good with children. Their constant nagging and questions tests the limits of his patience, but he has never been known to lash out at them. When dealing with younger people, he would grudgingly let them ride on his arms and legs and teach them about a frog-ninja being the symbol of a hero.

he comes off as impatient at times, displaying traits similar to Raphael from TMNT, but has demonstrated that he is a good listener. Able to pick up things quickly when it is explained to him, he stops and listens to what people say about others, and about what you can and cannot do. He listens to Coppelia talk bout Kanami, and later on uses this sensibility to think about what to do after the fact. He tries to be the logical and cool headed one, when surrounded by a group of ridiculous people. In battle however he can appear impatient and hot tempered, but he is able to pick up on things quickly, and respond quickly and decisively in the thick of things.

He tries to be the voice of reason in Kanami's party, a trait that few others possess. Kanami's headlong rush into things, Erius' honor and Coppelia's following traits puts him in a position of being the thinker, the one who has to make decisions on behalf of the party. He is also sensible, but is often faced with things that just simply make it hard to be the sane one in a party of lunatics.

His sensibility goes hand in hand with Kanami's need to help people. Every time they stop to help someone, Leonardo is there working out the logistics of things, if it doesn't involve letting Kanami go beat someone or something up. He talks through solutions, when he doesn't have to let his swords do the talking. When Erius was mind controlled later in Volume 11 (the material untranslated at this current time), it was Leonardo who decided he needed to bring his friend back to his senses. Friendship with these maniacs is something that holds him together, compounded with his sense of duty and honor.



Gem: Kyanite. Kyanite means power, honor, good communication and bridging the gap between different beliefs and ideas. As a roleplayer of Leonardo, Leo touched K.R.'s heart when he decided to show off the "power of the hero". He also has come to understand Erius Hackblade and Coppelia, both an NPC and AI, and has come to understand the quirks of Kanami by extending his hand in friendship.

Power Considerations:

Status Screens - Log Horizon Edition
The Status Screens allows a player to examine enemies, friends, equipment, status effects, guild affiliation, HP and MP, access friend lists and call via telepathy (voice chat) over long distances. When interacting with someone on their friend list, a "Leonardo is calling do you wish to pick up y/n" where you simply cup your hand over your ear and speak after pressing yes.

Paralyzing Blow - Status Skill
Paralyzing Blow stuns the opponent, causing them to stop moving for a short duration of time. This is most commonly used against targets that the Assassin wishes not to kill, even though it comes with a damage increase against an immobile target.

Deadly Dance - A attack from a low, crouched stance that can be used to deal a flurry of blows. Leonardo uses this attack in tandem with his Overskill which multiplies hits and damage dealt due to him being able to do cancels and combos with a real body instead of hammering the keyboard.


Extra: He's been displaced twice now, from Earth and into the world of Elder Tale. Expect a ton of complaining at first.


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