Leon “Lee” deCoeur
From Egs Mayhem
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Character Bio/Description
Name: Leon de Coeur (answers to either "Leon" or "Lee")
Age: Looks around 30ish
Species: Anthrofeline
Gender: Male
Hair color: Dark blond
Fur color: Yellow, with darker yellow stripes on his face, arms, and tail, and white fur running from under his chin, down the front of his torso
Eye color: Blue
Height: 5’10”
Appearance: Somewhat wiry build, wears glasses that stay put somehow in spite of having no apparent side pieces. Always wears blue jeans, and usually a loose-fitting zip fronted shirt. May or may not wear shoes, according to his mood – his foot-paws are as tough as shoe leather, and he normally goes barefoot by preference.
Lee’s ears and tail are often highly expressive, even (or especially) when he is not showing his feelings in his face. His tail tends to wave back and forth slowly at the tip when he’s thinking hard, or trying to remember something.
Abilities and skills: Lee is something of an artist, and can usually be found wandering around with a sketchbook, or his digital camera, or both.
He speaks several languages (although he is not equally fluent in all of them), the result of growing up in a town where people from a number of different worlds would sometimes come together, whether for trade, or tourism, or any of a number of other purposes.
A magical strain in his family bloodline has given him the ability to sense the presence of magic, to a limited extent. This same “warning sense” allows him to instinctively detect if a drink or food would be harmful to him, for example if it were poisoned, or drugged, or merely contained something that would cause a harmful allergic reaction (although he would not be able to tell which it was), merely by picking it up. He often refers to this as “feline intuition”, a possibly inaccurate term (not that he cares!).
History
Lee was born and grew up on a world (named "Felisar" by its people) inhabited by “furry” people, mostly of the anthrofeline persuasion. Some hundreds of their years ago, the people of Felisar discovered the secret of interdimensional travel, and set out to explore the multiverse. This led to a great deal of trade and other interactions with other worlds (including tourism, and the introduction of karaoke to Felisar), and also led to a number of tales featuring "talking animals" being created on the "human only" worlds.
Lee himself was born and grew up in a town that frequently received tourists from other dimensions, and this in turn sparked an interest in other worlds and their peoples. After spending a few years working as a tour guide for off-world tourists, during which time he met and became friends with Kayla, Lee headed out into the multiverse to see what he could see (curiosity being a big motivating factor in feline people). Along the way, he discovered Grassvale, and decided to make a home there.
Lee is now also the town signwriter for Grassvale.
Where will he turn up next? Who knows... Only time will tell.
MKRP
(Note: Lee in Mossy Knoll is a somewhat older version of the one in Grassvale. Since Felisari age relatively slowly, he still looks about the same age.)
Lee arrived in Mossy Knoll as a result of a near-miss by a large craft, while in transit. The near-collision threw him out of the interspacial realm and into the spacetime of Mossy Knoll, arriving on Ann's doorstep, and colliding with her front door with sufficient force to give him a concussion. Having been cured of it (thanks to the Artmoogle), he then stepped in to help when Rose's "heat" temporarily overwhelmed her, sending her completely out of control.
While having tea with Rose, Knave, and Aurora, he managed to help them sort out at least some of the problems caused by all three of them going into heat together (and for the first time...).
He is currently with the Artmoogle, Lohti, and Sera at her ship, due to certain developments...
Notes
- Lee has hinted that he is, or might be, related to various famous fictional cats.
- Relatives mentioned so far:
- Uncle Whittington
- Uncle Carabas (whose grandmother was the original inspiration for "Puss in Boots")
- Aunt Rhiow (a midwife by trade, has all-black fur.)
- Lee's name is derived from the French phrase "coeur de leon" - or "Lionheart" in English. A little joke on the part of his creator, who does not speak French, but does have a fondness for wordplay.
- Lee briefly made an appearance in LPW. He doesn't like to talk about it...
