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Out of Character Information
player name: Laura
player livejournal: hatesnog
playing here: nope
where did you find us? ATP
are you 16 years of age or older?: sure am
In Character Information
character name: Leo Baskerville
Fandom: Pandora Hearts
Timeline: Chapter 64, specifically right after Vincent tells him not to be dumb.
character's age: 16
powers, skills, pets and equipment:
Powers
First off, Leo is a contractor with a Chain from the Abyss. In real words this means that he has a creature that was once a human, before falling into and going mad in the Abyss, bound to him. Chains are very powerful weapons that look like freakish monsters and used to be people, basically. Leo's is called Jabberwock and, like the monster it's named for, is big and vicious and terrifying. It's also completely devoted to Leo. Its abilities are currently unknown other than flight and being generally huge and capable of smashing things with its hugeness, but presumably because it's one of Glen Baskerville's old Chains, it's really powerful.
Fortunately, it won't be going on the warpath anytime soon, because Leo's body is yet uncapable of handling the strain of its power. So for now it's sort of not really in check. Yeah.
Leo also, while not really a "power" but something specific to him that he can't control, is the container for Glen Baskerville's soul. IT'S COMPLICATED but for the sake of this section, it means he can see the Abyss and hear the past lives of Glen talking to him. Seeing the Abyss, I suppose, won't be relevant in a setting outside his canon, but the voices will still be there. So far all they've done is speak to him, evidently telling him what he should be doing (the first time they're revealed talking to him directly, he asks them why they're back after being silent for so long, and the most recent Glen answers that they shut up because he didn't want them and returned because he begged for their help). Additionally, now that several of the Sealing Stones that supposedly contained Glen's soul but apparently contained his previous body have been broken, the influence of the most recent Glen has awakened stronger than before. In Leo. Whaaat this means basically is that he's gone off the deep end a little more thoroughly than he did when Elliot died.
So. It's not really a power, but it's important.
Skills
Leo is actually not very good at a lot of things! He very much does not have any skill with traditional weapons, e.g. swords and guns.
He's good at piano though.
Pets
None.
Stuff
Just the clothes on his back.
canon history:
Okay, so, Pandora Hearts: the manga where a lot of pretty boys make a lot of bad decisions. Let's start from the top. PH takes place in some miscellaneous, European-looking country, in the vague period where noble families ruled everything and lots of people have monster pets that they shouldn't, because they wind up getting killed for it. Wait what.
The monster pets are actually called Chains -- they can look like anything, but are, indeed, often monstrous, and come from a place called the Abyss. The Abyss doesn't exist in the same plane as the "real world," meaning you can't pop over for a quick drive through the Abyss and come out the other side an hour later or anything like that. It's separate, and everything is wrong there. It's literally a place of chaos and insanity, so much that even time is broken there -- you can spend an hour, relative to yourself, in the Abyss, then find yourself decades later in the real world if you manage to get out. That's a really big if, for the record -- most of the time, falling into the Abyss means you slowly lose yourself and turn into a Chain. Chains don't want to be in the Abyss, it rather sucks, and they can get out if they contract with a human. Contracting can be done one of two ways, the more common being "illegally" -- the human drinks the blood of the Chain and recites its name, and a clock face "seal" is placed on the contractor's chest. This enables the Chain to get out of the Abyss and the contractor to use the Chain's wacky supernatural power; however, the seal acts as a time limit on how long the contract can go on. Because it's clock symbolism, the seal will advance around its face like the hands of a clock, moving further along each time the contractor calls upon the Chain's power. It's a clock, so you only get 12 chances. The further the advancement of the seal, the more linked to the Chain the contractor is; when it's nearly completed its rotation, damage taken by either party will be felt by the other. When the rotation is completed, the Chain and contractor are dragged back into the Abyss.
So those are Chains. Brief history of the Abyss: it used to be a rather nice place, described as bathed in golden light, but at some point the mysterious ~Will of the Abyss~ appeared and promptly ruined it completely. It's pretty rare to see her, the Abyss being what it is. That is to say, screwed up.
So, back in the real world, except ~100 years before canon. There's this guy Jack Vessalius and his buddy Glen Baskerville -- and let's talk about the Baskervilles because they're a special kind of weird. For some reason, the Baskervilles are closer to the Abyss than the other noble houses (Vessalius, Barma, Nightray, Rainsworth). Also, the head of the Baskervilles can move his soul into someone else's body when his is about to die, and the old body will become a Chain loyal to the new Baskerville leader. This means that every Baskerville duke has the memories of those before him contained in him somewhere (as well as, apparently, the ability to see the golden light of the Abyss when no one else can), and a collection of powerful Chains. They aren't the same guy in a different body, they're each individuals who happen to have other people's memories in them. The first "Glen," chronologically, that we see in the manga is a pretty decent dude with a lot of hair who takes a liking to Jack Vessalius. Jack spends half of canon possessing Oz Vessalius, our protagonist, and telling stories about the past, and mentions often how Glen was his best friend. However, the Glen shown in these flashbacks is... not the same one. Presumably the "next" in the Glen line, because Jack's first meeting with the Baskervilles is when the guy who appears as Jack's friend Glen in flashbacks is not the Glen he encounters... but another Baskerville, Oswald, is basically identical. To Jack's Glen. Glen II. It is essentially heavily implied without outright saying that Oswald eventually became the new container for Glen's soul.
For the sake of coherence we're just going to refer to Oswald as Glen further on, because he is the new Glen in flashbacks taking place after this Glen I business in the timeline. So, new Glen has a lot of problems. He also has a sister, Lacie. Jack is really into her. At some point, for unknown reasons, Lacie is thrown into the Abyss as a sacrifice, and Glen absolutely loses it. He opens Pandora's Box (apparently a real thing) to look for "Hope," but finds only "Despair," and decides to continue being out of his mind. Which means he makes it his personal goal to destroy the Will of the Abyss in order to control the Abyss itself and get his sister back. He locks a little girl in a tower because she's connected to the Abyss and really fully loses it when he decides to just sacrifice this whole city, Sablier, to the Abyss. Things get a little fuzzy here because apparently Jack, O Great Hero of Sablier, is perhaps not as much of a hero as everyone thought. What the end result of this fuzzy Jack-is-a-liar-maybe business is that these five Sealing Stones were made to, supposedly, seal Glen's soul... using Jack's body parts.
Yeah. It turns out that Glen was the one donating body parts, evidently to seal Jack's soul. So, things between those two are a little fuzzy.
WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH LEO, you may ask. Well, Leo has Glen's soul inside him, is the long and short of it. He's the new cap'n Baskerville and he's got a lot of crazy Glen in his head all the time. But first, let's talk about his childhood, still not up to date with present canon events.
Leo is a commoner. He grows up in a rural town with his parents and life kind of sucks -- you see (again), Leo is capable of seeing gold flecks of light from the Abyss (the reason his hair is a mess is because his mother let him grow his hair in front of his eyes to stop him seeing the Abyss), and hears Baskervilles talking to him for years until he apparently tells them all to shut up a bit. He's seen as bizarre, expectedly, and the other townspeople, adult and child alike, avoid him. To add to his misery, his father dies when he's young, and his mother is killed by a Chain when he's twelve. He's taken away to the House of Fianna, an orphanage owned by the Nightray family, which is a place for children who have been somehow involved with the Abyss. It is here that Leo continues to avoid socializing with other children, even reacting violently when one tries to move his bangs out of his face. He gets into books, for escapism, and piano. He doesn't have any friends and he's still not happy, but he's content enough to sit in the library for days on end and just read.
Enter Elliot Nightray. Leo is fourteen, and Elliot is a loud fussy noble who seems to think Leo gives a damn. At first, they don't get along at all; Elliot is abrasive and offended that Leo isn't respecting his status, and Leo thinks Elliot is a pain who really ought to stop interrupting his reading. However, Elliot continues to visit the orphanage and bother Leo until they develop a more friendly relationship with each other. They bond over piano, Elliot gives him a song he was going to give to his mother, it's very touching. Then Elliot asks Leo to be his servant, and Leo says no immediately. Of course, he quickly comes up with some nonsense about the Nightray library and accepts, and everyone else in the Nightray household thinks this is a terrible idea. That dirty orphan commoner, he's not good enough for Elly.
This is not a thing that is safe to say around Elliot, but we'll get to that. Once Leo becomes Elliot's servant, they pal around and go to school together and everything is really cheerful and fun!! They play piano and Elliot yells at a lot of people and Leo calms him the hell down. It's fairly routine. Which is to say, it's not, because Elliot's memory is warped in new and interesting ways, but we'll get to that too. Elliot and Leo first appear in the manga, actually, before all these flashbacks, when Oz intrudes upon their school looking for his sister. He runs into Elliot and Leo and they wind up rescuing him from Baskervilles later, then Elliot yells at Oz a lot about being a self-sacrificing idiot making everyone worry about him. Leo is polite and friendly in turn and they wander off for... a long time, to just continue going to school while other things in the plot happen.
They return gloriously again when Oz and company head out to Sablier, where Leo and Elliot are hanging out at the House of Fianna some more to take care of the orphans for a bit. Leo loves his orphanage kids, they are practically siblings to him and he gets very upset when they don't treat each other right!! But Leo being happy with his cute not-siblings isn't a thing that's allowed to happen, evidently, because shortly afterwards they wind up in the Sablier pit left from the tragedy 100 years ago, wherein of course they are attacked by Baskervilles. They escape with minimal flashbacks, though, because the main characters are busy using up the flashback quota for the arc. Then Elliot yells at Oz's father briefly, because he decides to show up, and they run off again to be busy until the Head Hunter arc.
The Head Hunter arc!! The Head Hunter, briefly, is introduced as some unknown person who's got it out for the Nightrays, having already killed the three oldest brothers and their uncle before the current rumors that get Elliot and Leo involved. There's some exposition, Elliot decides to go on a revenge quest and everyone is a little concerned about that, and some other non-Leo things happen that ultimately end with everyone attending a coming of age ceremony for Oz, in the mansion of some creep named Isla Yura. He has a history with Leo in that he used to show up at the House of Fianna and be generally creepy, and Leo suspects him of doing something to the orphans, because they start behaving strangely and even dying. The point of the party is to keep an eye on Yura, but Leo has an argument with Elliot in which he throws a table and chair set at him and storms off. Oz follows him, and Leo gives him the lowdown on the way he and Elliot met. He also tells Oz that he will kill all of Elliot's enemies, and if he himself becomes one of them, Oz should kill him immediately. He is very serious about it.
Then they find dead, headless people. The Head Hunter is at the party!! Everything immediately goes to hell, and Leo spends a lot of time running around looking for Elliot. He runs into Vanessa Nightray, who is with Elliot when he suddenly collapses, and she pretty much pushes Leo down the stairs and threatens to kill him, because apparently everything that happens to the Nightrays that's bad is Leo's fault?? Wow, classist! Anyway. Leo runs off again, and winds up getting caught by Isla Yura's weird creepy cult, who are trying to ceremonially release the Sealing Stone apparently in Yura's basement, and... reenact the Tragedy of Sablier. You know, that thing where an entire city was sacrificed to the Abyss. Leo's role is to be unconscious. Oz does a lot of stuff and then Elliot comes to Leo's rescue just as Bernice Nightray, Elliot's mommy, is about to kill Leo under some insane notion that the Abyss is salvation. Yura's fault. And this is when things get weird. At least, for Elliot, and then everyone else when they put together the truth.
That is to say, Elliot is the Head Hunter. Or, one of them. As it so happens, back when Leo first became Elliot's servant, they were at the House of Fianna when they received word that a few of the children had wandered into that big Abyss pit. Elliot, too impatient to wait for Pandora officials to show up, runs off to save them. Naturally, Leo follows. Now, what Elliot says happened is that they found the children, but slipped and got knocked out and had to be collected by Pandora, how embarrassing. Because Elliot says this, everyone accepts it, because he is a noble Nightray; so even when Leo is under the impression something very different happened, he's told it was Just A Dream. Because, you see, Leo has always been the weird one, so it must be him who's imagining things. It definitely has to be him who thinks miscellaneous occurrences happened differently (e.g. Elliot telling Oz he wrote the song "Lacie," although it was actually Leo!! whoa!!). Of course, this is not true. What really happens in the pit that day is they find two of the children dead; a third they find crying about the fourth, who suddenly started acting weird and hurt the others, and then -- enter child with big creepy Chain. Humpty Dumpty is its name, and it has a series of unique abilities: it can be contracted repeatedly-- that is, every orphan in the House of Fianna has their own replica of the Chain contracted to them, although none of them are the "core" of the Chain; it can change memories, explaining the multiple offenses of Leo not remembering the same thing as everyone else; and it can sense the location of Glen Baskerville's soul, and acts only to protect him.
So what happens is this: the Chain appears, contracted to an unwitting orphan. Elliot thinks it's going to attack Leo and charges at it. Humpty Dumpty thinks Elliot is attacking Leo, who has Glen's soul in him, and so it attacks Elliot. In the chest. Fatally. Leo screams at it to stop and of course it listens to dear Duke Baskerville, dropping Elliot to the ground, near death. Leo, obviously incredibly upset, desperately seeks help -- which gets the attention of Glen and previous Baskervilles, inside his head. They tell him they can't heal Elliot, but they can seal his wounds -- if Leo makes Elliot contract with Humpty Dumpty. Before they let him go, Glen (the Oswald-looking one) shouts at Leo that this is entirely his fault, he did this, don't forget that this is all because of him! and other such things. Leo is more concerned with Elliot, naturally, and does indeed make him contract with HD. HD promptly changes Elliot's memories to the "we fell and hit our heads" story, as well as changing Elliot's perception so that he doesn't see the seal on his chest if he looks.
Elliot being the Head Hunter without knowing it is because of HD. Vincent Nightray, carrying on in his own special brand of crazy way, kills Fred Nightray and their uncle for being jerks or something, creating the enigmatic Head Hunter persona. Claude and Ernest Nightray capitalize on the Head Hunter, plotting to use it's identity to kill Gilbert and Vincent for being filthy adopted peons!! as well as set the mansion on fire and kill Leo for being a commoner. He's just so bad for Elly!!! Unfortunately for them, Elliot is around the corner when this happens and hears the whole thing. Now, of course it's a bad idea in general to threaten to hurt Leo in Elliot's presence, let alone talk about killing him, but HD's only purpose is protecting Glen's soul!! So. Well. Elliot kills his big brothers because HD makes him, and then rewrites his memories. Vanessa is killed right after pushing Leo down the stairs for similar reasons. All of these memories come back properly when Elliot stops his mother from killing Leo by killing her -- again, HD's influence. Leo breaks down, sobbing about how he's sorry and it's his fault and all that, and Elliot realizes that there isn't much time left on the seal he can now see. In the basement, the Sealing Stone is broken, releasing a lot of power and making everyone's Chains go wild. Somehow this sends a blast of power out from Elliot and Leo gets thrown aside and knocked out, thereby being unfortunately unconscious when Elliot rejects HD's contract, knowing full well that it will kill both him and the Chain. Leo wakes up to his best friend dead on the floor for the second time in his life, and completely breaks down. There is a lot of screaming.
Pandora takes him in for questioning, and he doesn't do too well at it. At first he can't even talk about it, and even when he can start to explain, it doesn't take long for him to break down again and scream at everyone to go away, it's his fault Elliot is dead!! Go away!! No more questions!!!
Vincent takes it upon himself to kidnap Leo, revealing to him that he is the other Head Hunter and that Leo has Glen's soul in him. Because, like, he never noticed that before or anything. He takes Leo home and dresses him up fancy and explains how terrible Duke Nightray was, because he only took in Gil and Vincent to get information on the Sablier incident, and only put up with Leo being around Elliot because he knew Leo had Glen's soul in him. Then he tells Leo that Elliot's last words were a sappy apology to him, Leo freaks out some more, and Vincent convinces him to take up being Duke of Baskerville because they are both so miserable that they should be best friends, right? Right. Actually because he wants Leo to take control of the Abyss and erase his (Vincent's) existence, for Gil's sake, and Leo is convinced by that because ~their existences only inconvenience someone they care for~ naturally.
Then he gets a haircut, finally, and flounces off to confront Oz. His plan is to capture the Will of the Abyss and destroy her, for the sake of Justice, and he admits he'll willingly cause another Tragedy of Sablier if that's what it takes. Oz is all, "nope," and Leo immediately sics a big angry bird monster on him. His body can't handle the Chain's use so soon after contracting, though, so he has to put his bird away and let Vincent take over. And that's where he'll be taken from, yay!!
personality:
Leo is a nice kid who makes a lot of bad decisions and got saddled with a shitty lot in life before he even knew about it. But let's start with the "nice kid" part. Because Leo really is a nice kid; sure, he had a rough start, but he's an overall pleasant guy. He likes books and peace and quiet and for those important to him to be happy and safe. Which essentially means Elliot, but extends to the orphans at the House of Fianna as well. They are like his little siblings and he is really protective over them and while he scolds them sometimes, he can't really bring himself to stay mad for too long. It's the same with Elliot, although he punches him more. That's what Leo is like -- he'll be really blunt about telling you what you're doing wrong, and he may seem timid and quiet because he tends to blend into the background or be a follower, but that's because it's his job to follow Elliot around, for one, and because Elliot being so loud and out of control all the time keeps Leo under control.
See, because, he actually has a really violent temper. He's lost control before and nearly killed a man with blunt force for trying to cut his hair; the amount to which he has been on edge and ready to snap at the first person to approach him for his whole life is unbelievable. He says straight up that the only reason he isn't losing his head all the time is because Elliot loses his first. While Leo appears to be friendly and tolerant and patient, he really isn't. He's sarcastic, irritable, and again, violent when he's not in a good mood. It's really, really easy to set him off if you aren't one of a very select few people. However, he does tend to keep his temper in check. When he loses it he loses it at people who can handle him, e.g. Elliot... again....., because he doesn't actually want to hurt anyone. He's past the phase where he was almost capable of beating a man to death in a blind rage, but he knows his own temper is dangerous still and would much rather hang around more excessive people so that he doesn't do anything he'll regret.
THIS OF COURSE IS ALL BEFORE ELLIOT KICKS OFF, that noble jerk. To be honest, Leo's personality revolves strongly around Elliot's presence in his life. Elliot was the one to draw him out of his angry isolate shell and bring out the friendlier side to him, Elliot unwittingly keeps his temper in check, etc. Because Elliot is seriously all Leo has, it's impossible to talk about one of them without the other. Because, again before Elliot dies, he is also the center of Leo's enormous guilt complex and slow descent into convincing himself of false occurrences. Everything Leo does, after becoming Elliot's servant, is basically for Elliot. He's incredibly loyal, putting Elliot above himself -- to the point where not only does he swear he will kill all of Elliot's enemies (and he's not even any good with weapons), he tells Oz straight up to kill him if he ever does anything that could harm Elliot. Vanessa Nightray shoves him down the stairs, threatens to kill him, and blames him for everything that's gone wrong in the Nightray household, and Leo asks her to take care of Elliot for him. Leo has never put much thought into himself in general; before Elliot, he drifted lost and alienated and unhappy until he found escapism in books, and even after he learned to open up a bit more, he still felt like he was constantly standing just outside everyone else's world that he could never be a part of. Dedicating himself to Elliot gave him some kind of purpose and he felt like he genuinely belonged with the littlest Nightray, but he's still always The Weird One.
Which leads into the guilt and things. That thing where Elliot almost died and Leo forced an illegal contract with Humpty Dumpty? That, of course, really did happen, but HD really did make everyone remember things differently. It keeps happening; Leo brings up something and asks Elliot why he said it happened differently, and Elliot asks what the hell he's talking about, obviously it happened the way he said it and Leo are you okay? Leo is confused, of course, and then... goes a bit off. He's always been the weird one, after all; always been seen as strange and even when people accept him it's only for Elliot's sake, so of course if everyone else believes Elliot than it must be him who's remembering wrong. The one who's losing it. He internalizes these feelings of going kind of crazy and it messes him up, especially when it starts happening more and more. On some level he doesn't want to be the weird one, the crazy one, but on another level -- he doesn't want to be right. He doesn't want Elliot to really be an illegal contractor -- that would be much better as a bad dream, like everyone is telling him it is. He's guilty, so so guilty about what he's done to save Elliot, because he isn't really saved and his family is dying and it's Leo's fault, everything is Leo's fault. To be treated like you're going mad, as you slowly remember everything unpleasant happening to your only friend is entirely your fault? Not fun! But he internalizes it, because Leo always remembers his place. He knows people don't like him, only put up with him for Elliot. He knows when the other Nightray siblings give him a hard time or ask Elliot why he picked Leo that they're entirely serious. So he acts like he's fine, for Elliot's sake, so he doesn't trouble him.
And then Elliot dies, and he really loses it. It's his fault, after all -- somewhat. To be honest, HD shouldn't have attacked Elliot in the first place, and Leo couldn't have helped that, but the contract and everything else? Okay. Yeah. That's kind of his fault. So he loses it -- incoherent screaming for hours on end kind of losing it, and just sort of drifts through this cloud of depression for days. His best friend and master and only person he had left in the world has just died, and it's his fault, and now all these Pandora people want him to talk about it, over and over and over? Wow, no!
Helpfully Vincent kidnaps him and tells him he's got Glen Baskerville's soul in him. Well, obviously, although Leo doesn't understand why and certainly doesn't want it. He's all set to keep hating himself for the rest of his life for what happened to Elliot -- until Vincent tells him to accept being the head of the Baskervilles, because he has his own plan to eliminate his existence for Gilbert's sake. And then Leo understands him, somewhat, saying their existences are both an inconvenience to the people they care for most. And he accepts his Baskerville place, which... basically just unhinges him further. He's halfway to giving up entirely, fully prepared to destroy countless geography and kill a whole lot of people to get to the Will of the Abyss. He presents himself as cheery and enthusiastic about doing these awful things, and says he's "tired of hiding" -- his haircut is totally symbolic!! So he's tired of being in the background and being "the weird one" and being disregarded, and he's slid back into his more biting demeanor with a tinge more insanity. Because, really, the boy is not alright. On some level he's trying to forget everything and just wants to wreck himself by any means necessary to escape this thing he really cannot deal with, and intends to deny anyone who tries to be kind to him in the process (except apparently Vincent, but they bonded about self-loathing so it's fine).
He's also, to some degree, allowing himself to be more influenced by the Baskervilles in his head, and the most recent one sure wasn't stable at all by the end. So there's that added layer of mental unsoundness.
Somewhere deep down, under the mental break and the guilt and the anger, he's sorry. He's just sorry and he never meant for any of this to happen and he resents every Baskerville wandering around his mental plane, but he's a dozen distrustful walls and a bad attitude away from letting anyone know about that. But as much as he regrets all that's happened, he's still incredibly weary of hiding himself away; so he'll be arrogant, and snappish and demanding the way he was a few years ago, because he's gotten quite good at playing Duke Baskerville in such a short time.
why do you feel this character would be appropriate to the setting?
By this point Leo is quite familiar with a world with supernatural touches and a different entity of sorts that has elements of time distortion and making everything insane. He's never actually been in the Abyss of his canon, but he's so inexorably linked with it that a Mist that takes over what it touches and makes everything go mad won't be much of a shock. He won't like it, but he'll manage. And his canon is pretty old European style in terms of architecture and stuff.
Writing Samples
Network Post Sample:
[The first sound the Forge makes is a short whoosh of air, followed by a soft thud. The holder has dropped it, being as he is both incredibly disoriented and a bit tired. The screen is dark; it's landed face-down. There is a brief silence, before the sound of footsteps, muffled and hesitant.]
--what is... Oz-kun? Have you run out on me?
[A rustle of clothing, then the Forge is picked up; the screen moving dizzily up and down and sideways as the holder turns it over in his hands. What is this weird thing. Why does he have it. His frown is visible over a high collar -- complete with skinny bowtie, what a dweeb -- although the angle is somewhat off. But the Forge can't distract him long, and he looks up at his surroundings instead.]
Vincent?
[No answer, of course. The Forge tilts up again as he moves to look at something else -- a big monstrous-looking thing, in fact. It stares down at the boy holding the Forge and he shakes his head at it.]
It's no use, Jabberwock. Someone must have done something to us; I don't know this place at all.
[Then he flinches; Jabberwock lets out a low growl, and he waves his hand at it; the thing seems to just ... fade, and the boy looks at the Forge again. He finally realizes it's doing something, although he isn't sure what, but -- what the hell, right? He smiles, dark eyes betraying his annoyance at. Uh. Whatever's happening here.]
I was in the middle of an important conversation, you know. Isn't it a bit rude to interrupt like that?
Third Person Sample:
The last thing Leo is aware of is staggering; then Vincent puts a hand on his shoulder, and he wakes up somewhere else. He can't remember having gone to sleep, or how much time has passed between Vincent's hand and now, sitting up and straightening his coat habitually. A minute? A month? But then he feels that tug in his chest once more, and a black feather spins lazily to the floor next to him. He twists and sees Jabberwock crouched over him, claws digging into the floor. (He decides not to wonder how the creature is fitting into the room.)
Not long since Vincent, then, or his Chain wouldn't still be out. Not long since Oz had provoked his temper, since Raven... Anger erupts in his subconscious, righteous and white-hot and very much not his. Raven is his, it's a Baskerville Chain, and that Gilbert Nightray wielding its power against him is an insult as much as it is a betrayal. Leo doesn't know everything, of course, he's denied it all so long and even if he's made some superficial steps towards the opposite, now, he still doesn't -- in the back of his mind, Glen Baskerville has a lot of secrets. Leo wants very much not to care, but he doesn't have a choice.
He shakes his head, banishing the thoughts of Raven and Oz and Nightrays (especially Nightrays) for the time being. He looks around. Nothing looks familiar in the room, it isn't any of the mansions he's been to -- he tries the window. What's outside is even more alien to him, scenery he's never known to exist.
Well that's just fantastic.
Leo sighs and straightens the cuffs of his sleeves absentmindedly. Now... what. What is he supposed to do, apparently abducted to some place he's never been? He is lost and frustrated and alone.
Well. Somewhat alone. The dredges of a dozen dead men and a snarling Chain aside, he is alone. No Vincent, no Oz, no Pandora or Baskervilles. He wonders if it's for the best, being alone for once; at the very least, he has time to catch his breath. But eventually, he thinks, he's going to have to get out of this place and go -- home, back to where he's needed for a bunch of important things he's only half invested in.
His eyes travel the span of the room once more before landing on the things on the bedside table. He picks up the squarish thing and tosses it lightly into the air, thinking. He is alone. He doesn't know where he is. He was just in the middle of something important and now he's in a stranger's room, hefting this stupid square thing up and down? Anger seizes him again and he throws the thing across the room, watching it smack into the wall and drop to the floor with fists balled at his sides. This is -- this is an insult, jerking him around like this! He has things he has to do, he has to get to the Will of the Abyss and deal with Oz and -- and- Leo drags his fingers through his hair and draws a deep breath, trying to calm down. He's quite prepared to throw the bedside table across the room as well when the thing he threw a moment ago beeps on the floor.
He looks at it. Glares at it. Walks across the room and kicks it into the wall again; another beep. Leo raises his foot, about to slam his heel into it when it beeps again and he notices that, for whatever reason, it seems to have lit up. What. He stoops and picks it up, turning it over and over in his hands and tapping on the surface, brow furrowed. Slowly he backs up to the edge of the bed and sits, peering over the thing with equal parts curiosity and annoyance. Well, if he's going to break it, he might as well figure out what it's doing, first.
Anything else? nah :Ic