here we do not speak evil of anyone - st.augustine

BloodborneLeon AU

OKAY! So things are pretty stressful after Leon's first transformation and everyone is trying to figure out how to help him. Leon's told Chris and co about his time in Yharnam and what the beast blood did to the people there, but Rebecca wants more information. She asks Leon about the various beasts he encountered, especially ones that were similar to his case.

Leon tenses when he recalls an encounter he had with a bloodied man he found hunched over the body of a family. Leon could still remember how furious he was when he realized the man had not only killed the defenseless couple, but was also eating their child's face. The man had tried to defend himself by transforming into a beast, but Leon simply cleaved his head in two with his axe. It was the only case where Leon had seen someone transform willingly back and forth, and wasn't stuck as a beast like everyone else.

This gives Rebecca and co some hope, as it seems Leon may be able to learn to control this transformation, but Leon isn't so optimistic. He's honestly terrified of it and would rather NEVER go through again, so for now he decides to wear a respirator to help shield his face from flying blood and gore, as well as minimize the tantalizing smell.

Things get even shitter when a week later ANOTHER outbreak happens and the group encounters Zeno there, who should obviously be dead but isn't, and is back for some reason and causing chaos. Leon dreads the ensuing fight, knowing that Zeno has super speed, but is surprised to find that he can actually keep up with the man just fine.

And while Leon has the upper hand, he feels a growing sense of dread building up inside him as the fight dwindles on. His gut feeling turns out to be right when he kills Zeno, cutting the man's head off again with his axe...only to watch body dissipate into thin air like smoke.

Chris and Jill's cry of shock and confusion tell Leon he's not hallucinating and he slowly realizes in horror what might actually be happening. The way Zeno's body had disappeared was eerily similar to how his own corpse would vanish, back when he died in Yharnam and was still tied to the Hunter's dream.

If that was true, that meant Zeno somehow had been tethered to a dream and was now essentially immortal unless Leon could find the source of the dream and kill it, and he had NO idea how the hell to that.

((Zeno resurrection was actually caused by Micolash, the scholar from school of Mensis who caused the blood moon to descend and send the city of Yharnam into chaos. Micolash has basically made his own hunter's dream and is manipulating Zeno into creating another ritual to summon the blood moon again to call down a Great one (eldritch being), only this time in Leon's reality.))

((Micolash is still alive cause his spirit slipped though realities and is who Leon has to kill in order to stop Zeno's ability to respawn endlessly. Again, Leon has no idea how go about doing this, but he's going to get some much needed help from the beyond, that being from the doll and the messengers...))