さよならひと

I do want to start out by saying that in canon the closest we've ever seen Leon be to SAed was the creepy ass scene with Viktor. And the way Leon freezes and stares straight ahead... that did tip something off to me. I think a lot of people chalked it up to him having been recently choked out and the fact that he's a trained agent, and while I think those were contributing factors, I don't think they are the only factors. The way Leon crashes into the table once he's free, desperately trying to grab for his gun to the point that he even turns his back on Viktor-- and mind you, Viktor wasn't down, he could've easily grabbed Leon from behind if he wanted to-- yeah I think he was panicking a little. I also find the way he says he's glad Grace got away very telling because it seems to suggest (and I guess this is a hot take) to me that Leon thought things were going to go beyond just playing with his hair and touching his neck and he was worried about what would've happened if Grace, a young woman, had been in that situation. I think sometimes people forget that Capcom, for all their bullshit and fuckery, still makes some really dark content. RE is a dark, adult franchise; its not like SA hasn't been shown/implied before.

The comic thing is interesting-- that's not something I remember. If you or anyone else ends up finding that thread, please let me know. The only RE comics I'm aware of that had Leon are the 90s WildStorm ones, and the ID ones. I know for certain it didn't happen in the ID ones, and although it's been a hot minute since I've read the 90s ones, I don't remember that nor anything that could be interpreted that way, but its possible I just forgot about that. Sometimes people will use 'comic' when they mean manga too, but of all the RE manga I know of, I don't recall anything like that there either.