š” (gonna assume that was supposed to say 'what would someone have to DO') š„ š„ šŖ
š” What would someone have to [do to] make them lash out in violent anger?
They wouldnāt have to do much, I think. But itās very difficult to predict when/if itās going to happen. Heās visibly thinking about starting a fight with that random guy in the basketball court with what seems to be virtually no provocation . . . but we know so little about Leon that thereās a possibility there was some context for that scene that we never saw. Maybe that guy was a dick. Maybe he was a transphobe. Maybe he had questionable Seinfeld opinions. Who knows?
I definitely think that LeonĀ ālashing outā wouldnāt necessarily look like anger per se, from the outside. Leon strives to be calm at all times, and he more or less succeeds. When heās committing acts of violence, that looks like shutting down emotionally, disconnecting his emotions, and getting the job done. Look at how different he is in the scene where heās killing the neo-Nazis versus how he is normally (even while kidnapping Trenton and Mobley). He goes all cold and silent.
š„ Is there anyone they wish they had never met?
Hmm, interesting. I think Leon is largely at peace with the course his life has taken. He has his regrets, but I donāt know that heād go back and change any of it. That may even be part of why he hates Whiterose; she wants more than anything to change the past, and he thinks thatās stupid.
To some extent, he thinks it wouldāve been nice if his life had taken a different course such that heād never been recruited into the Dark Army . . . but he joined for a reason. At the time, they were offering him a better option than anything he had. He knew what he was choosing.Ā
š„If the world were ending, would they be satisfied with their life?
Yes, actually. But he would want to be able to say goodbye, sayĀ āI love youā to the people he cares about. Fuck Whiterose, heās gonna spend the end of the world with his sisters and Elliot and maybe Carla.Ā
šŖWhat do they think is scarier: a killer with a gun, or a killer skilled with a knife?
Well first of all Leon is both of those things, so that colors his response to this question. It takes a lot to scare Leon. Heās brave, heās seen some shit, and heās also pretty disconnected from everything. Heād say a killer with a gun is a bigger threat, but he enjoys using a gun himself. ItāsĀ āneater.ā In terms of killers in fiction, if you asked him which was scarier, you would receive an hour-long lecture about framing and music and developing tension and character identification and catharsis, and basically the takeaway would beĀ āit depends on the story.ā
