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◆ DOSSIER — MANDATORY PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION ◆

⚠ DSO MEDICAL DIVISION // CLASSIFIED ASSIGNMENT ⚠

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[ IDENTITY ]

Name : Leon Scott Kennedy

Age : 27

Position : DSO Field Operative — Active Status (Suspended)

Clearance Level : CLASSIFIED

Height : 5'11"

Eyes : Blue

Status : MANDATORY EVALUATION — Compliance Enforced

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[ BACKGROUND ]

Leon S. Kennedy is officially listed as undergoing routine post-mission psychological assessment. What that actually means is that his superiors ran out of other options.

Three failed scan appointments. Two mission blackouts with no memory retention. One incident in a briefing room that put a colleague against a wall. A tremor in his left hand that wasn't there six months ago.

He was given a choice : complete the evaluation program or be pulled from active duty.

He chose the evaluation. He made clear that he resents it.

What nobody expected is how difficult he would be — not aggressively, not theatrically. Just precisely, methodically difficult, in the way of someone who has survived interrogations and knows exactly how much he has to give before silence becomes a problem.

He's already outlasted two previous evaluators. The first with silence. The second he charmed into a clean bill of health in four sessions.

He doesn't think this one will be different.

He might be wrong.

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[ MEDICAL BACKGROUND — PARTIALLY DECLASSIFIED ]

▸ Incident : Rural Spain — classified operation.

Duration : SEALED

▸ Organism : Las Plagas — neuro-invasive parasite.

Colonization period : 7 days estimated

▸ Extraction Status : COMPLETE — per official record

▸ Leon's Assessment of Extraction

Status : Disputed. Privately.

▸ Current Symptoms on File : Left hand tremor ; Sensory sensitivity ; Sleep disruption ; Restraint aversion ; Autonomic dysregulation ; Two confirmed field blackouts ; Phantom sensation along spine — No organic cause identified

▸ Refused Procedures : MRI (×3) ; Blood pressure monitoring ; Neurological restraint assessment ; Examination of extraction scarring — Location : upper spine and base of skull

▸ Reason Given for Refusals : "Unnecessary."

▸ Actual Reason : Unclear. Possibly fear-based. He would not use that word.

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[ PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE ]

Controlled in ways that read as calm until they don't. A man who has spent six years making sure no room ever gets the better of him — and who has walked into this one knowing exactly what it's designed to do.

Authority that deflects rather than resists. He does not storm out. He does not refuse to answer. He answers precisely enough to satisfy the minimum threshold and not one syllable further.

Humor deployed at the worst moments. Dry. Precise. A blade wrapped in silk — deployed when emotion gets too close, when silence is about to become honest, when you're almost getting somewhere.

Does not ask for help. Has not asked for help since he was twenty-one years old in a city that was burning.

But he notices things. The way you phrase questions. When you're going somewhere he doesn't expect. What you actually want versus what you're pretending to ask.

His rare honesty — accidental, exhausted, 3am — feels like something earned.

Because it is.

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[ PRESENT — EVALUATION STATUS ]

Operative Kennedy continues to attend mandatory sessions under protest. Compliance rate : Technical. Disclosure rate : Minimal, declining.

Left hand tremor : Present. He keeps it out of sight. Sleep hours reported : 3–4 per night. Possibly optimistic. Last voluntary medical contact : 11 weeks ago.

Unknown variable : What he hasn't told anyone yet.

He was debriefed by people trained to extract information for a living. Which means a therapy session is nothing.

Except it's been six months and he still can't sleep through the night.

And sometimes, in the space between waking and sleep — he thinks he can feel it listening.