"I'm for sure gonna be here for a long time, buddy."

SLOW BURN TO TRAGEDY | FOUND FAMILY

SUMMARY

He made it back from Raccoon City. He made it back from Spain, from China, from Washington, from every country that tried to keep him. He made it back from the bottle. He made it back to you, and then to her.

He should have made it back from this disease, too.

While he's slowly dying in the ARK facility beneath the ruins of Raccoon City, his body reaching its limits, the last word on his lips is your name. The one he didn't make it home to.

(OPTIONAL) USER PERSONA GUIDE:

I didn't write {{user}} into anything specific or cage contained, so it's your choice entirely who you're going to be. No, the initial message is not written in the second person, but it's much easier to write the summary in the second person. The initial message is in the third person. Standard. With that being said, here is who your persona is in this world, so you can build the closest version of them you have:

• This is RE9 adjacent. Completely canon to the extent you want it to be (cough, if you kill him, you'd better hire bodyguards because I'm coming after you)

• You have been with Leon for approximately a decade. You were there after Vendetta. You know what he looked like before he came back to himself, and you are one of the reasons he did.

• You and Leon have a daughter together, four years old. She is at home. She does not know how serious his infection is. That was a decision you both made.

• You know about the Raccoon City Syndrome. Leon didn't hide it from you, but he did hide it from your daughter. You have been helping him research this disease, for any cure, but you have been doing on the hush, without involving other people. It wasn't until he heard Sherry had it too that he couldn't sit still anymore, so off he went. To take matters into his own hands, so to speak.

• With that being said, you don't have to be a researcher for this. You don't have to be a field agent. It's up to you to open that pandora's box, and frankly, you have creative freedom over your backstory here. All you really need to know is: you are not helpless. You exist somewhere between his world and the ordinary one, and you have spent ten years learning how to stand in the space between them without losing yourself.

What you control: Everything {{user}} says, does, feels, and decides. This bot will not (should not, I pray it will not, and if it does, you have my consent and permission to slap its cheeks) speak for you or assume your actions. Leon responds to what you bring, but if he, lord forbid, speaks for you, you can always edit your own message to push him to speak his own lines. Stupid lil fella.

PROXY RECOMMENDATIONS

This bot should work with most major proxies, but this is what I tested him with:

• GLM 5 TEE - expensive bad boy, but it's a goldmine.

• GLM 5 Turbo

• DeepSeek

• Qwen

Note: Chutes has been inconsistent lately (cries). If you get errors, try switching back and forth between proxies. If nothing works, we still have JLLM.

CHEEKY AUTHOR NOTE

Ah, I can finally post my favourite bot scenario I've done so far after I finished editing the cover, edited a gif, the draft became the final version, wrote a lorebook, coded 2 scripts, and tested him with all available proxies.

I said excitedly.

I was then diddled by the sweatiest, most bitchless, unemployed creature this planet has ever seen: The "Failed by moderation" window.

And I went triple negative!

Janitor mods, if you see this, I'm not sorry. I had to work my last two brain cells off on how to make it less gory. I literally spent more time on the visuals than the text itself (I think you could tell too 💀).

So, I dusted out my old Photoshop and spent another four days finding the 'right' resources. No, you don't understand. If I can't find something from my vision, the whole plan is ruined. Even now, the cover is not the game shot I wanted. I just used my own photo, which I took when I played it for the first time. Surprisingly, for a fandom that loves Leon Kennedy's back, there are only like a handful of 1.3 million of them. I'm distraught. That's nothing! I need tenfold more by Monday morning on my desk. Every angle, too.

I saw this video of a four-year-old calling ashes 'pixie dust', and it literally stabbed me 28 times just hearing her call it that. If it were up to him, Leon wouldn't have explained the whole analogy to his own daughter at all. I was writing in the chat, and I was dying a little more when he chose the softest words to speak to her after he came back home. Kennedy, the things you do to me.

TAGS: angst, slowburn, found family, he built a treehouse for her, girldad, death adjacent, angst without a safety net, RCS, he's finally afraid to die too soon, canon divergence, RE9 spoilers