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WELCOME TO MONLEON:

FULL NAME: Leonel “Leon” Arnaz

OCCUPATION: Jazz Club Owner

AGE & D.O.B.: 40 years old

RESIDENCE: South Poinsettia

ORIGINALLY FROM:  Monleon, Florida

HOW LONG THEY’VE BEEN IN TOWN: His entire life

BIOGRAPHY:

TW: old age death, revenge, military.

leon was born into a family of little grandeur and less expectation than the average person born into the sunny monleon part of florida. the son of a gold-digger, who’s real father was always put to question, leon has lived a life of moral fluidity and a dire longing for a life worth living. as a boy, he had lived in the lap of luxury - but neither “father” or mother really cared for what he did. after all, he followed a long line ofthe  various sons of albert woodhouse, an old-money business man who had helped monleon attract the stars to their slice of the state. leon’s older brothers were all bred to either get into politics or to inherit the family name whilst his lone sister was prepared only to marry into a high society family. 

school wasn an uphill battle, and family life wasn’t much better. his older siblings remained poisoned to their kid-brother; and once the patriarch died due to heart failure they all but cut off both leon and his mother (whom was evidently caught in various legal battles with her step-sons over the lack of inheritance offered to mother and son).without funds and with the ongoing resilience from the rest of the woodhouse family, leon’s mother took him out from the upper class school and instead stuffed him into a state education. 

their lives had changed dramatically, leaving mother and son to navigate this new world of coupon vouchers, laundromats and past-their-sell-by-date meals. at eleven years old, leon had his surname changed to his mother’s maiden name - but this transition also helped leon face the reality of life, and what one would have to do to make ends meet. but, when arriving home after skipping his afternoon classes, he was greeted by a man he did not know. his mother, worn by life and the lack of freedom, then had a boyfriend. 

he was not a nice man, and would often keep leon at the front door to keep his privacy with leon’s mother. this timeframe that lasted mere months, but left the young boy who only ever felt abandoned, shaken to the core. three months after meeting, he arrived home to an empty house and an empty fridge. the boyfriend, who he has forever sworn revenge, left with leon’s mother to (apparently) the outskirts of las vegas in the hope to collect riches. a haste-doodled letter was left stuck to the dining table; contact this number if you run out of money, and remember to pay the water bill. they had left one hundred dollars in a single envelope and the name of their rumoured hotel scribbled without care. leon was now alone at twelve years old. 

one hundred dollars didn’t last for long but leon had always been a resourceful boy. his life of pickpocketing began soon after - often trapping tourists or the wealth with their monleon holiday homes with his sticky fingers and charming tongue. but with mediocre grades he at least was allowed to enrol into college where he studied business. the university of tampa allowed leon to spread his wings, helping him rebuild confidence and awareness to what lay around him. still injured by the disappearance of his mother and the hateful relationship between himself and his siblings, leon used what savings he had managed to persuade the owner of the old and rundown jazz club to pass on the deed to him. slightly in debt, but cultivating a happy exterior, leon came to run the show and continued to work the front bar where he mixed drinks and socialised with old friends - thus becoming a figurehead of monleon. 

but he could never be the type of man who was made of  gold and good morals, for soon enough he became mixed in with dirty money and stained souls. and though the jazz club continues to be a hive of activity for both the young and old, leon hopes to expand his business through under-the-table deals and perhaps even bribery. and to one day hire a detective, so they may find what happened to his long lost mother.