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[i]"I'm no Hunter. I'm a guard; a Warden."[/i]
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[sub][color=C67C12]Leon Hunter Richoux[/color]

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[color=C67C12]Fighting[/color]
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[color=C67C12]Skills & Talents[/color][/sub]
[i]"Don't huff and puff at something you won't blow down."[/i]
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[b][color=C67C12]Mountain Man  ⫻[/color][/b] Sometimes you meet a family, they look normal enough; then a freakshow saunters in and you wonder whose Uncle descended from their troll hide in the hills. Turns out its a kid, and all you can wonder is what the [b]FUCK[/b] they're feeding this shaved bigfoot. Leon started putting on muscle and height at an early age, and has since come to subscribe to the ideal that one's body is a temple; and his is a citadel. His job consists of fitness and health, and his lifestyle has been built around maintaining that for as long as he can remember.
[b][color=C67C12]The Legacy of King Gravity  ⫻[/color][/b] "Gravity" Richoux was Leon's Father: A world class boxer, trainer, and heir to the Richoux clan's powerful Orange Lux lineage. Leon has followed the example in every way possible, turning whatever he couldn't into a signature flair all his own.  
[b][color=C67C12]Indomitable Will  ⫻[/color][/b] The capacity for strength of mind is of utmost necessity for those who wield the Tiger's Courage. You have to have a capacity for it even before you awaken, so of course Leon would be tenacious and unwavering in the face of whatever adversity is in front of him.
[b][color=C67C12]Unflinching  ⫻[/color][/b] Thanks in no small part to Leon's Iron Will, he can be quite the stone faced killer if need be. Not only undeterred by threats, he is rarely pushed into action of any kind without a great deal of patient consideration beforehand. This makes his recent actions especially worrying for his friends and allies.
[b][color=C67C12]Natural Learning  ⫻[/color][/b] Leon's not traditionally smart; his time spent learning has always been hands on and by the seat of his pants. There's a great deal of history, even about his own family, that he doesn't know. But, that has never stopped him from developing a biting wit or a fantastic knack for working with his hands. Instruments, mechanics, fighting; he just takes to it like a fish to water. 
[b][color=C67C12]St. Portwell's Own  ⫻[/color][/b] Being his Father's son, Leon has continued the fighting tradition and risen to the heights of World Champion in his weight class. He's recognized well around St. Portwell, and to a lot of Blinds in the community, he's something of a local pillar.[/sub][/hider]

[/cell][cell][sub][b] [color=C67C12]Appearance[/color][/b][/sub]
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[i]"Why worry too much about shit that gets blood on it?"[/i]

[indent]Leon is a mountain of a man standing just under seven feet tall. At his size, the natural bulk of a human is enough to cause a great deal of attention to be drawn to them, and in this case Leon has only done more to draw eyes. His fair tone skin is covered in tattoos from his hands to his pelvis, some having to do with his profession and career, others being symbolic to his family and their history or even local imagery with nods to his underground life. Prominently on his right pectoral is the Richoux clan's crest: A tower shield backing a deer in forward picture, a crown atop its head. A set of lions in the bottom right hold up small suns in their paws. Aside from the ink, Leon is fit as hell. With his job mostly consisting of eating and training for fights, he has as much time as he wants to focus on his physique. He keeps his hair long, usually tying it in some various form of bun in the gym, then letting his full mane flow otherwise. His hands are crooked, broken knuckles and scar tissue pushing the fingers into different directions than intended, but they still close into massive hamhock fists that large piston arms carry with ease. His face is surprisingly clean for a pro boxer, notably absent of the same kind of severe scarring one can expect from being drilled in the face so often.

Leon was raised in the Wicca tradition, and both Lord Gravity and the Lady Hunter were dedicated not only to the faith, but to the aesthetic of their kindred spirits. As such, the tall and majestic young man came to mirror the look, going for a mix of traditional gothic aesthetic with the punk and grunge Oregon and the North-West are known for. Even his own ring gimmick is modeled after the preferred look: Lots of black, lots of plaid patterns and toque hats or cloaks and capes in the colder climates. Warmer climates see him in tank tops and ripped jeans with undone laces. Occasionally, for some sort of event or banquet, he'll dress up in one of a couple specially tailored outfits that are more reminiscent of a European Count or Baron than a boxer. In private, it's usually something much more casual; gym wear like a pair of sweat pants and t-shirts.  [/indent]

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[i]"I know what I'm meant to do."[/i]

[INDENT][b][color=C67C12]MAIN GOAL  ⫻[/color][/b] While resigned to the idea that he's aberrant, Leon's resolved long ago that he would protect and defend his family's legacy, eventually passing the Richoux Tomes down to a worthy Orange Lux successor. To him, this doesn't just mean making sure the books are kept safe and that the Gym stays open. It's about trusting that his Father, may His soul rest in peace, had a reason to move his family to St. Portwell. His whole life, Leon had been told by his Father that this was a special place; a nexus of spirituality and magic that would one day be an Eden that the Enlightened would walk in peace and freedom. To that end, Leon has hope that a renewed Sycamore Tree Coven will be able to dispel the dark cloud that has befallen St. Portwell and grant those who have paid for the safety of the city with their lives a peaceful rest. 

[b][color=C67C12]PHILOSOPHY  ⫻[/color][/b] As a man who has his goals and aspirations set in stone, Leon has a pragmatic philosophy when it comes to life and the way its lived. Oftentimes, concessions must be made in order to broker peace. For that reason, he's a man who knows what sort of compromises need to be made, playing for the long game as best one without vision into the future can hope to. His Father, a truly monumental figure in Leon's eyes, taught him of chivalry and of religion in its most basic moral format; that there are lessons one can take from any "Holy" teaching, and that these lessons can and should be applied to one's life in order to find the center where "right" and "wrong" actually live. Important to remember, Leon is an idealist: At the end of the day, he's seeking paradise within his lifetime, and while very few things drive him to conflict outside of his profession, he's not afraid to step into the fray should his plans be threatened.

[b][color=C67C12]SECRETS  ⫻[/color][/b] While many of the Coven's members may know about his Aberration and the conditions under which he was initially afflicted, very few know that there is an artifact that can be used to quell and regulate his powers should the need arise. Fewer still know that the holder of that artifact is Daisy Hunter; the recently missing right hand of deceased Coven Matron Ashley Stone. [i]Even fewer still[/i] know about their low-key companionship, or the long nights that were spent trying to keep Leon from howling at the moon like a deranged psychopath. The two had done a lot of work on suppressing and adjoining Leon's Aberration, flare ups now only coming at the brightest of full moons that St. Portwell had to offer. 
There was little opportunity for Leon to test the waters of his skills, and as such he's taken on another life entirely: stalking the night streets as something of a comic book vigilante. To date, he's told nobody about his limit testing, but he's sure some people know; after all, how many seven foot tall "invincible" men are out in St. Portwell breaking bikers with their own bikes?

[b][color=C67C12]SEXUALITY  ⫻[/color][/b] Legendary. Despite all his high moral standing and idealistic view of the world around him, he's only human. Sex is a vice, and he's happy to lend his talent and physique to anyone involved.

[b][color=C67C12]FEARS  ⫻[/color][/b] Like other Aberrants, there's always the fear that one may not be in control of their fate, or even themselves, from day to day. Living life as a host is a blessing for some, those who need guidance or companionship in a strong and ever present way. For others like him, the idea of having one's ambitions and dreams and goals all ripped away because the ghost inside your head decided that time is up isn't just an idea; it's a real threat that Leon deals with every time he has to use his powers for any reason. Because of this ever-present threat, Leon has come to a point where his greatest fear isn't [i]will[/i] it take me, but rather [i]when[/i] will it take me. His greatest hope is that by then, Paradise will have already come to St. Portwell, and he can live among the other wolves in peace knowing he left things in good hands.

[b][color=C67C12]REPUTATION IN OLD COVEN  ⫻[/color][/b] Obviously, nobody loves a moral grandstander; but back in the day, Leon was a lot less sure of what his vision was going to be. He was a giant who had just come into the muscle and capacity of a man's body moving toward the end of pubescence. Still idealistic, however, he imagined that the Coven would be an organization that would grow with its members as they became a force for good in the North Western US. To this effort, he did his absolute best to be everyone's rock. However, his Aberrancy event and subsequent rampage left Coven members just as dead as if a stranger had killed them: From there, the effected mourned and processed. Some of them came to understand and accept that Leon had nothing to do with it in the way of responsibility. But, others still hold him accountable, citing his cocky attitude and hero complex for the main reasons why their loved ones were ever put at risk at all.

[b][color=C67C12]ROLE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST THE STYGIAN SNAKE  ⫻[/color][/b] From the start, Daisy Hunter was sure to include Leon in the plans for the Sycamore Tree Coven. While technically an outsider, he quickly proved that his father's training and hard work with him was no joke. From there, Leon was considered one of the Coven's main enforcers, his strong grasp on the family Lux being a boon for others who were just coming into their own. During the battle itself, Leon was the Sword where others were the shield. Working in close conjunction with many of the more supportive Luxes, Leon used his Orange Lux and natural strength to use their powers in ways that would maximize the effects of his own devistating cannon fists.

[b][color=C67C12]FLAWS  ⫻[/color][/b] Besides cursory sins of the flesh, simple lust and occasional gluttony, Leon has a habit of projecting his wants and needs onto others. While at surface level this seems like a "him" problem, it very quickly becomes an everyone problem. The closer one is aligned to Leon's way of thinking, the harder he makes it for that individual to have any sort of conflicting feelings and emotions. Eventually, he's unable to separate the individual's ideals and dreams from their actions and real feelings, leaving him either dedicated to someone with all of his being or so disappointed and disgusted with them that he can't continue a friendship. He's terrible at reading people, terrible at subtle investigation, and literally cannot be stealthy as he is a tower of a man: Nobody in St. Portwell or abroad could ever be tricked into thinking that this vampire looking giant was anyone other than Leon Richoux. And, to top it off, being Leon's friend on the night of a full moon is like petsitting a druglord's imported hippopotamus after it got into the product stashed in its pond: Risky business without protection.
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[sub][b] [color=C67C12]Backstory[/color][/b][/sub]
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[i]"I'm happy it was me dealing with it: I can't imagine someone else having to."[/i]

[indent]Leon Hunter was born into the Richoux Clan, whose roots take them from French Canada to the southern French territories of Louisiana before bringing them all the way back to Versailles in the French Mainland. Their family has a noble Adept lineage, traditionally as recipients of Orange Lux who specialize in augmented pugilism and bare handed fighting. In the tradition, Leon's Father Maxwell was at one point a world champion heavyweight boxer. Nicknamed "Gravity" Richoux, he was well known for his commanding presence and raw power in the ring. He was an upstanding man, a master of Orange Lux, and a traditionalist who had kept rituals and practices from his family's long heritage passed down through historic records called the Richoux Tomes. Alongside fellow Adept and wife Lynette Hunter, these tomes form the backbone of the teachings for The Temple of Charming and Graceful Individuals; a Portland based temple run by Lynette herself. Of course Blinds get a watered down version, but having raised all five children with what Gravity had always called "the good stuff", Leon and his four younger siblings have all experienced awakenings in their own ways. Of the five Richoux, only Leon has developed Orange Lux, leaving him as the true heir to his family's legacy. As such, Leon spent an inordinate amount of time with and around his Father, being homeschooled for two years after awakening to his abilities in order to teach him how to utilize and suppress his powers without impulsivity. 
It was then that Leon learned how dangerous their way of life and the world they knew beyond the mundane was. The fact that his father could punch holes in car doors and rip concrete from the ground with his hands didn't escape the scrutiny of a child's imagination. But, thankfully, Leon was born a fairly serious child. Mature enough to understand that what he had inside him was a weapon, he submitted to his Father's instruction and dedicated most of his time to learning and cultivating himself into what his Father constantly called "A Responsible Man." Once Gravity believed his son was fit to return to society, he allowed him to do so; the young and slightly awkward twelve year old Leon returned to public school for the eighth grade where he quickly integrated with some of the more alternative cliques around school. Distant relatives, like Daisy Hunter, would help to ease the transition as things became more normal for Leon, and he would eventually broaden his horizons after participating in the local highschool's football team in his freshman and sophomore years. 

Leon continued to participate in sports and various other social activities while training under his Father, living an extremely active lifestyle into his junior year when tragedy struck. While overseas on a fighting tour, Gravity Richoux became involved in a situation involving a local paranormal group. Though there was little evidence in the case, Gravity Richoux has been missing now for 12 years, and is assumed dead. At the time, it was an awful thing for the entire family to be going through, and with their youngest child at age seven, Lynette was left alone to defend her husband's bloodline and lineage as the Stygian Snake's fog rolled across the city of St. Portwell: The Richoux's perceived Eden. With things slowly but surely ramping up around them, Leon was approached by Ashley Stone and his cousin Daisy about joining a cult of their own: A group of young Adepts in defense of St. Portwell against the Stygian Snake. Knowing its what his Father would've done, Leon dove headlong into life among the Sycamore Tree Coven, and with his Mother's blessing he began to use his powerful Lux to aid in the fights to come. 
As they received new members, Leon was often the first individual to set rules and boundaries for people to follow, trying his best to convince people like Ashley and Daisy to structure and organize things like how his own family did, he often had something of a superiority complex, often forcing his way into a role of enforcer that would try to straighten troubled people out. Most ending up on the other end of such a treatment ignored Leon at best, or grew to hate him for the superior way he acted. The plight of an old soul, his mother always claimed. But, time passed as the Coven grew in strength and numbers until that fateful day when they were able to seal the Stygian Snake beneath the Sycamore tree, banishing the thought from their minds in a bid to protect the resting place forever. Many left from there, but Leon remained: At age nineteen, he had foregone higher education and a normal life to defend St. Portwell, and the only thing left for him to do was remain as its stalwart guardian.

Six months later, an incident occurred which led to the discovery of a new Apparition stalking the streets of St. Portwell. Similar to Today's problem with Father Wolf, Lady Lelou seemed to be targeting weak or isolated coven or ex coven members, brutally killing them for no apparent rhyme or reason. Eventually, a small team of the Coven's elite met to stop it, at which it made its plans known: Find an avatar worthy of its strength from the Sycamore Tree Coven, and use that body to find and release its Master: The Stygian Snake. In a desperate attempt to stop it, Leon gave every bit of strength and energy he had, which played right into its trap. As with the others it had attacked, Lady Lelou attempted to hijack Leon's physical form and paranormal strength to use as a vessel for itself. 
Had he not been so quick to act, or perhaps if they had retreated to gather more forces, Leon may not have dove headlong into a fight with the embodiment of the Werewolf Mythos of the North Western US. If he hadn't been so confident from their fight with the Stygian Snake to begin with, maybe he would've felt less compelled to action... But Leon knew himself better than anyone else: He knew he had to protect St. Portwell, and he was convinced that it had to be done then and there. So, his claim is that he intentionally allowed himself to be possessed. Regardless of his motivation, at first things seemed successful for Lady Lelou. With a howl, the massive wolf-like creature sulked into the forests surrounding St. Portwell after killing most of the other members who had gathered to stop it.

Daisy Hunter entreated her cousin, Leon's Mother, to assist with her Black Lux in sealing Lady Lelou, saving not only Leon but the early safety of the Sycamore Tree itself. Fighting a war of wills within his body kept Lady Lelou from accomplishing her plan, and before she could break him down completely, Lynette and Daisy Hunter worked together to trap the Apparition within Leon. It was by his own Lux that the framework of entrapping lattices was built sturdy enough to house the prisoner, leaving Leon entirely cut off from his precious ancestral Lux that had once made him so confident and capable.
From there, he had to essentially restart his life. Working closely with Daisy, who had volunteered to bind with the Channeler responsible for controlling Leon in the most dire circumstances, and having gone through dozens of "Leash Breaks" and Full Moon events, the two were able to get Leon back into a state where he felt comfortable and capable of carrying out his self perceived duties as Warden of St. Portwell. This didn't do much for the Coven, however, as not only were they splitting at the seams, but incidents like Leon's rampages often just left more people dead, meaning more loss and more pain for all involved. Eventually, he had to watch Ashley and Daisy end things.

With his siblings growing and his Mother moving the Temple to St. Portwell as a support faction for the Coven, it was here that Leon was encouraged to do more for himself. His Mother convinced him to get into the circuits his Father had danced through, and having kept St. Portwell's Gravity Gym open as his personal business, Leon knew he could still perform in the ring. So, at 21, Leon made his debut in the world of Boxing, claiming his father's legacy and catching an upwind of publicity that put him face first into fights no amateur should've gotten. 
But he proved himself, and since then he's been working his way up the ladder, winning titles at home and abroad while always coming back home to keep his promise to his Father: To protect and defend St. Portwell, and to bring paradise to their home. For several years, these trends continued upward with the promise of good times for all involved. The gym picked back up after Leon was able to bring notoriety to it with his fighting, his eldest sister was heading an investigation into their Father's unsolved disappearance in Denmark, and Leon assumed that one day soon he'd be able to settle down himself.

But now with Ashley dead, Daisy missing and Father Wolf unaccounted for, Leon has to get his hands dirty in St. Portwell's underbelly. Since the incidents started, he's been undercover (as undercover as a giant man can be), hunting around for any information as to where his friend is or where the Channeler responsible for controlling his powers is, as until that's found, there's an equal risk to Sycamore Coven members lurking in their very ranks. For Auri Auclair, it was easy to track the man down... And he was on board the moment she asked him to return to the coven.[/indent]

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[i]"I hate the claws, they make it difficult to ball a fist."[/i]

[indent][b][color=C67C12]TYPE  ⫻[/color][/b] Adjoined Aberration

[b][color=C67C12]ABSTRACTION ⫻[/color][/b] Lady Lelou is an apparition of feral instinct which first attempted to take over Leon before being Sealed, allowing for the two to become Adjoined.

[b][color=C67C12]ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION  ⫻[/color][/b] Lady Lelou is a prisoner trapped in the very body and soul of the individual she chose to take as an avatar in the battle against the Stygian Snake. A complex array of seals act as a set of gates and locks that give both the Vessel and a specific Channeler the ability to redirect the prisoners vast stores of energy in order to empower the Vessel. There are five seals in total, each locking a different aspect of Lady Lelou's power within Leon. While all five aspects are sealed, Leon experiences a generally comfortable upper level of unnatural strength, stamina and endurance. 
Due to the complicated nature of the process by which these limitations are built and broken, among other factors discussed later on in the limitations, Leon has a very specific methodology when accessing Lady Lelou's powers beyond his every day base level. 

[list][*][b]Earth:[/b] The Earth seal is responsible for Lady Lelou's physical presence in the Shimmer. For Leon, this aspect is associated with stamina and endurance.
[*][b]Air:[/b] The Air seal contains Lady Lelou's powerful sensory and extrasensory abilities. When applied, this aspect imbues Leon with heightened senses and speed.
[*][b]Water:[/b] The Water seal houses Lady Lelou's vital energies. When drawn from, Leon pulls directly from the sealed Apparition's life force to revitalize, rejuvenate and ultimately transform himself.
[*][b]Fire:[/b] The Fire seal guards Lady Lelou's hatred and hunger. Utilized in strengthening his attacks through physical and metaphysical means, this energy has the self explanatory drawback of Beastial Rage that Leon has little control over.
[*][b]Spirit:[/b] The Spirit seal guards Lady Lelou's connection to the energy of its Apparitional Belief. This energy sources the paranormal abilities of the Apparition in addition to translating the other energies into a form processable by Leon's physical body.[/list]
[b][color=C67C12]Disciplines  ⫻[/color][/b] With five seals to draw from, Leon is something like a pressure control supervisor for a nuclear power plant. In his trial and error study of his abilities, he's come to familiarize himself with the different benefits and drawbacks that each seal presents. Some seals should always be opened sequentially, some sequences should never be made: Daisy had been present for these limit tests, utilizing the Channeler dedicated to the Sealing Ritual they had performed. Together, the two came up with the idea of the Disciplines: Different combinations of seals released at different levels which seem to have consistent short term benefits for Leon. Ways to "release the beast" without inviting it out of its cage and back into their world.
There are a great deal of factors that go into the order in which seals are released, and the Disciplines themselves are noted both in Leon's head as a lexicon of spell-like commands, but in the head of his "Master", who holds the Channeler able to repair and control the seals from the outside.

[b][color=C67C12]LIMITS  ⫻[/color][/b] Above all else, the balancing act required to function above his base level requires a great deal of skill and focus to utilize without causing permanent damage to Leon's body. Loosening them too quickly, or overdrawing from any one particular seal, can cause a catastrophic failure of the entire array that sends Leon into a spiral toward Abscission and ultimately Abomination. However, Leon can't afford to be too slow about utilizing his abilities, as the moment that the Water seal is loosened, the energy requirement for his physical body to continue functioning rises exponentially as the beings begin to merge and feed from one another. As such, Leon has a maximum of a few minutes at a time to utilize his abilities before having to tighten the seals and return to his baseline state. Utilizing his unique "Disciplines” to stretch the energy out as long as possible still only yields a record of five minutes and thirty seven seconds of strenuous usage: a time ended by a broken seal that left him comatose for several days as repairs were made. 
To speak of repairs to the seal array, one must mention the fact that there is, essentially, a controller that exists. If someone who was not the "Master" of the Channeler linked to the seal array was to get ahold of it, they would have access to Leon's entire life. They could lock the seals fully, trapping Lady Lelou away in the deepest part of Leon's soul, removing his power fully. Or, perhaps more sinisterly, they could release Lady Lelou back into Shimmer, forcing the destruction of Leon's physical life in the process of bringing about a new dark age for St. Portwell.

[b][color=C67C12]WEAKNESSES  ⫻[/color][/b] (DO NOT FILL THIS OUT, I WILL PROVIDE IT FOR YOU)
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[i]"I'm the Big Bad fucking Wolf, and my only Father is [b]Gravity[/b]. "[/i]

[indent]RIP Peter Steele my beloved. You helped a little goth kid through some of the worst times in his life. 
Fun Facts: 
[list][*]The Temple of Charming and Graceful Individuals [i]is[/i] a cult.
[*] Richoux is French for Ricwulf, translated as Powerful Wolf in Germanic origins.
[*] Leon plays in a band called DECENT EXPOSURE, a St. Portwell "Supergroup" which is something of a social club for musicians, with members rotating in and out with their involvement in the St. Portwell music scene.[/list][/INDENT]
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