Grace Ashcroft

Do you think Leon believes that his 21-year-old self would hate the person he has become. Because I think that Leon hold his 21-year-old self not like a lost soul but as a moral high ground, like he knows he was naive but he also thinks he was the best version of himself back then, that if he had preserved that part of him well he would be a better person, that he would be able to save more people. Also he thinks he failed not because he was young and dumb but because he was late, like this old man still thinks he would have stopped it if he was a day or so early, this is a deep rooted guilt in him, since the day he was orphaned, he is always late, hence he always fails.

The only person he had told this too (told, not them figuring out) was Ada, she was leaving him, again, so he sprew a bunch of sentence and one such disclosed this guilt in him, (Also Ada told him that the rookie changed her, in way she can't undo them) she sat with him, he talked, she listen, not giving him any input cause it was not about changing his mind but letting him get this burden off. She stayed that night, but when she was leaving in the morning she decided if she ever could she would come back to him, stay with him.

This thought process doesn't change until he meets Grace. She is so much like him, him 28 years ago. And that is one of the reasons he trusts her, others being that she survived the night without much help from him, so she understood what she was doing. He trusts himself more at age 21 than 49, because he thinks he is not a 'good enough person' but she is, she is a very good and kind person, so determined, so much like him. So when she puts him at a moral high, treating him as her corner stone, showing him that no his 21-year-old self wouldn't hate him. He also tells her thing about his past, no specifics, that will put her in danger, but whatever he can tell her just to see her reaction, to see if she would turn on him, but ofc she doesn't and that heals something in him. But to him Grace isn't just an image of his past self but a person of her own,yes she is a lot like him when is comes to her morals and thoughts but how she applies them are her own, how she tackles a suitation, she is smarter than him, and he wants to believe that is a natural talent not a survival tactics she learned.

I was "asked" later to join a top-secret government program. - Leon Kennedy, Resident Evil 4 (2023)

Redraw of the ending scene in Memory of a Lost City from Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles.

Warning, nsfw

 Dorian still felt a strange sizzle between his own personal magical energy field and whatever the hell Templars created with their lyrium guzzling.  It was as though Cullen's aura of a Templar remained around him like a cloak.  Hungry, or pulling all around him, like a heavy staff wielded into a lightning storm.  

Laying next to a Templar was a bit like holding a soft, fuzzy, very pretty lion.  Dorian wasn't afraid, however; in part due to his rigorous training, and in part due to his own pride.  He'd taken on time magic just a few months ago--one Templar was nothing.  And yet he could feel the pull of the Veil in the room as well.  Curious spirits, and some more sinister than curious.  Watching and leering at the vessel that slept, protected by the cast of an altus.  

The lion stirred finally, and Dorian's eyes cut from the book.  He didn't want to wake Cullen unnecessarily, and stayed still when one leg flung over his own, and Cullen's aggressive clinging turned to a less aggressive, but heavy-handed, palm on Dorian's stomach and then chest.  Dorian heard a sharp inhale, and a ragged exhale.  Oh, Cullen was awake all right, some parts of him even more awake than normal.  The altus didn't have a witty comment to make, and his gloating "Good morning, sleepyhead" never left his mouth.  Cullen rose up and met his eyes before planting very scratchy, scruff-surrounded lips on Dorian's.  The mage could feel the crushingly strong heartbeat from the Warrior, resolute and quick, like a war drum.

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List of headcanons for Grace's Childhood.

She watched a ton of cartoons, specifically super hero cartoons spider-man, power puff girls etc. It was either these or something like Tom & Jerry or Scooby-Dobby-Doo. This was also due to her not having any friends.

Also she watched courage the cowardly dog

Since she watched a lot of these cartoons she grew up to read comics as a teenager and books in her college years.

She was always interested in mystery and thriller, so most of her reading list comprises such books but she reads some romance novels too squirming and burying her face in the pillow or her hand at the awkward and embarrassing scenes.

Also due to watching superhero material, she always wanted to be like one calm, collected and always brave. She thought of her mother in the same way, (And now she has Leon)

Coming to her mother, Alyssa was a busy woman but whatever time she had for herself she would give it to Grace, because she wanted the kid to feel home, she had no idea how Spencer treated her so she tried her best. A teen Grace made fun of her mother of not doing anything for herself, it was her way to push her to live a little ('Only on of us can be friendless and I can't have competition)

She was curious, creative and 'for science kid' trying out experiments you wouldn't even think of. As a kid she exhausted all her will power to try out things so much so that as a teenager and an adult she thinks 50000 times before doing anything. But this quality does not disappear it re-emerges in time of high anxiety allowing her to take quick actions

A few of her fears stem from events from her childhood which happened due to her 'experiments'

She played a lot of those pretend-games, usually she was a detective (because the 5 year old didn't understand what her mother did) or a superhero, maybe both. She would have well planned stories for these games, stories she will tell her mother when she came back

Grace had no favorite toys, most of her toys were left behind as they moved from one place to another, she also has nothing of her childhood up to the time her mother died, only a cloud file of her childhood photos that Alyssa created after she kept losing her pictures.

Grace always wears footwear, even on the bed because she is used to leaving abruptly and has felt place bare feet, naturally does not like it, so now she is always prepared.

She was a small child with almost white hair, so she was bullied for it in many places. The tables turned when Frozen was released now every kid wanted that hair. Also Elsa is her favorite Princess.

This one I made up just for the laughs. We know the events of re6 were very public for most of the part, news channels were covering live footages of the events, planes, trains, building everything and an 8 or 9 years old Grace asked her mother is she watching a spider-man movie her mother tells her it is the news and she became excited and asked "Does that mean Spider-man is real?!" (I might write a one-shot for this)

Thats all, might post more idk

This is a rant about what I want, there are headcanons and may be theories coming along the way. I like writing so I have ideas I would like to share.

I have seen a few character studies for her and there are people who don't think they should bring her back, not because they don't like her but because they think that her story is complete and any extension may break her character, I don't agree because I think there is more for her. It is well established that she is not the one to run away no matter how scared she is, that was the essence of her character.

But I don't think she will go into it right after the Canon ending. I believe she will convince herself that she is not cut-out for this, and she CAN stay away. No one is more happy than Leon with this decision, he really doesn't want her to go through what he had suffered. But this does not last, from time to time she will see Leon or Sherry being hurt and it will bother her, but she will just tell herself she will only be a liability. From time to time she will hear them talk about it, she doesn't ask but she mentally jots the clues, something she will assemble into logic at the end of the night. Then her breaking point will come, that will likely be if one of her loved ones are in danger, Leon, Sherry or even Emily and then she will get involved, going through every shred of evidence just to find a solution and when it is all over she will confess she can't just watch from the sidelines knowing she can help and it is her decision to join them in this fight, one her mother fought and died trying.

But she will not jump into field work, she is their analyst, cracking the wall of logic to help them through, but this won't last either, everything that makes it to her has already lost a part of it, some big some small, which lead to errors, which leads to lives lost, this when she gets in action and hold your horses she ain't gonna be a agent like Leon or Sherry, she is more into investigation, find things before they become dangerous and this time she will collect evidence by herself so nothing slips away (I'm catching major eldest daughter vibes from her). And after hearing this Leon trains her because he can't handle the thought of her unable to fend herself (also healing his past trauma of his teacher) But even after the training Grace doesn't become some flashy rocket-launching diva, she is still a diva but in other ways, she knows her strength is her brain. She keeps her skills under wraps relying on her wits to clear her path before doing a BACKFLIP (sorry Leon). She can fight now and she knows 'knives are better for close encounters' but she avoids those encounters, half of it is survival the other half is the knowledge that these people can find a cure (I don't think Elpis cure everything, just viruses ig). This will maintain horror in her story and provide growth to her. Maybe she will be working for the FBI on papers but behind the scenes she will be helping Leon, Sherry maybe even the hound wolf squad (that be fun ngl). Leon would be constantly looking out of her, only for her to return the favor, she might team up with Sherry.

One of Leon's biggest concern is that she gets sucked into the same vortex as him, but Grace is known what happened with him hence knows that she might not always have a choice, so she builds a safety net, evidence against sitting officials, motivated by Ada (yes I ship, aeon) and alias keeping her name out of it so Emily doesn't get dragged into it.