Sincerely, Melancholy

i do believe that ada is wasian/not fully chinese, but how do we feel about havana as ada? i think she almost looks too innocent but maybe that could be used to her advantage as a spy.

and i think louis hofmann is a very solid choice for leon, but he’s only 5’7 and kind of close to aging out of being able to play a young leon, although both actors are very similar in age so maybe just age up the characters?

i’ve seen other people fancast cailee spaeny as claire and i really like that as well, but mackenzie was the first person i thought of for live action college claire.

i also thought maybe edi gathedi could be marvin but then this would just be a twilight reunion 😭

eurasian jill supremacy!! i couldn’t find a french-japanese actress that resembled jill, but mylène is french-chinese and has that badass look that jill encapsulates.

i had a hard time finding someone for carlos. he’s tricky because he’s got a portuguese last name, speaks spanish, and is apparently south american but also native american? i landed on martin because he’s indigenous and resembles carlos, but maybe a brazillian/latin actor would be a better fit?

also both characters would have to be aged up due to the actors’ ages (40s)

both of these fancasts are not my own idea. i had no clue who could play either of them, but these two look familiar to the source material.

also have no casting for who could realistically play a young sherry birkin because i don’t know child actors, nor am i in any rush to watch movies/shows with kids in them 🫤

if anyone has any substitutes for these characters, or fancasts for other characters, please comment/put it in my asks! (focussing on realistic casting for a live-action tv show/movie)

i truly believe that leon's time in the special forces was more traumatic than raccoon city.

it's one thing to have to be in the mental space to shoot and kill reanimated people and monsters that are trying to eat you, but it's another thing to be subjected to physical, mental and psychological torture by fully cognisant human beings, ALL BECAUSE you managed to survive a biohazard and wanted to protect a child.

like we see leon come out of raccoon city all cheery with sherry and claire, so wth happened to him in the military for him to be so hardened in re4r? obviously he's still the same leon who cares and wants to help, but he's so emotionally detached to the violence of it all that i'm concerned 😭

i think raccoon city was a shock to his system that he could never shake off, but the military broke him into a shell of a person to be rebuilt into that emotionally devoid, depressed, alcoholic (ik he liked to drink before re2 but it's on another level after re2). it hurts to imagine, but i'm genuinely fascinated by what he could've possibly been subjected to that wouldn't make him blink twice when facing all the las plagas shit in re4.

he had to have been bullied. relentlessly. i mean he wasn't even supposed to be in the special forces in the first place, so i can imagine the other military guys would haze tf out of him for being a rookie and skipping through basic training and all the years of hard work they would've put in to get to the place they were at. and every time he would get better, bigger, earn his place amongst the rest of the men, they would double down; abuse tf out of him and never allow him to fully belong. and you KNOW that they would get away with it too because the government is obviously corrupt.

meanwhile leon was literally blackmailed into joining. like join and ensure sherry was protected, or be killed with all his knowledge of the outbreak and sherry gets tortured. not much of a choice for him.

leon says that krauser was always an asshole, but he never expected him to turn on him the way he did, so it seems krauser was sort of his safe space in the special forces? and yeah they did operation javier together so they had a good level of trust and cooperation before re4, but i wanna know what it was like for them in trainingggg

anyway i’m writing about it on ao3 😁 read Resident Evil - Operation: Collapsed Canopy to find out what happens to leon in the military!