#leonconfessional

After RE9, we have seen a huge influx of age-gap and ageplay fics. It is out of character for Leon to engage in this or take advantage of others, as we have consistently seen him put others before himself.

No need to apologize for the block of text; this is what this confessional is for (words of admiration, pet peeves, constructive criticism, etc.)!

For some context to those who may have missed it: Leon declines the offer for a cigarette in the original Resident Evil 4.

The remakes undergo heavy changes yet they still kept in Leon refusing a cigarette.

He also makes this remark to Luis, when he asks for a cigarette.

Leon is shown to be drinking in the movies like Damnation and Vendetta, but not smoking.

If you would like to request content from @rednnedy, she is currently active on Wattpad and Ao3. She does have a Tumblr page. You can read her oneshots there too, she's just not as active when it comes to writing.

Although @key201303 is concentrating more on developing their own Family AUs, they have acknowledged that they do take requests. They are just currently somewhat slow with them.

Finally, there is @thewolffairytaler, a sfw writer with some lovely oneshots of Leon. Although they claim to have been clocking out for the time being, I'm fairly certain they will be working on those because their inbox is open for the whole summer. I suppose we can inquire about their availability.

Thank you for submitting fanfic recommendations with details.

As we keep mentioning, we encourage you all to send in words of praise to Leon writers & artists or any other Leon content, as this is a space for all kinds of confessions!

Smut fanfics garner the most attention and notes. It can be disparaging to other writers but hopefully Leon readers will be more open to engaging with non-smut fanfics.

Also, we encourage you guys to submit praise + recommendations for Leon fanfics and Leon fanart in our inbox as well! Give some love to fanfics and writers that are flying under the radar!

Full disclaimer, we do look into AI allegations with concrete evidence via messages/sources and publish such confessions to keep the community informed. In this case, the writer was confirmed to be using AI and has since deleted their works on Ao3.

Once again, we would also like to reiterate that we are against AI and witch hunts but the reality here is that there have been multiple confirmed cases of fanfics created with the use of generative AI. AI works are allowed on Ao3 and should be tagged as such. It is up to readers to choose whether they want to engage or not.

I’ve also suddenly been seeing a bunch of ACTUAL r*pey incest fics with him and like, they most of the time sadly aren’t tagged so I have to read the synopsis and then block the writer because I don’t wanna see that and then I don’t wanna read anymore because that grosses me out and makes me super uncomfortable even just seeing it

many of the people I’ve seen support it use the argument that “leon is fictional he’s whatever we want him to be” but I feel like that doesn’t justify romanticizing a crime and what has harmed so many peoples lives including my own, it’s just gross and I can’t get past that

anyways though, shoutout to all the leon series writers who make genuine, honest, awesome fluff and amazing stories and plot because you are filling my summer days with some of the best writing I’ve ever seen <333

It appears that the Daddy kink is very common across all smut fanfics in recent years. It is important to note that there is a clear distinction between the terms Dad/Dada/Daddy, etc.

Hopefully, writers can properly tag their works containing such content.

The discussion of romanticizing such topics is also important to have, especially in the fanfic space.

Thanks for shouting out Leon writers and always feel free to send specific shoutouts in the confessional box as well!

Several submissions have commented on the characterization of Leon and how they feel mixed about the content, because writers can write as they please, but they find it difficult to find in-character Leon fanfics, especially when he is portrayed as a 'villain'.

As previously mentioned, we encourage people to send in confessions recommending Leon fanfic writers and artists. Hopefully, readers will be able to locate more in-character fanfics.

Fans have analyzed the remake mods and confirmed that Remake Leon leans towards being a brunette. The original character design sheet features more of a 'ginger' brunette, and throughout the games & movies, his hair color changes to various shades of brown/black and can even appear blonde sometimes.

It is interesting to wonder about his hair journey in addition to his character journey!