𝕃𝕖𝕠𝕟𝕒 𝕂𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤𝕔𝕙𝕠𝕝𝕒𝕣: 𝕒 𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕒𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕪𝕤𝕚𝕤
Note: this is my first time ever doing one of these so bare with me
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈
I always found Leona to be one of the stand out characters from the twisted wonderland cast, not for how much of over the top he was like how some characters are but rather for how reliable he is.
I often see people talk about how much a prick, asshole and one noted character Leona can be. I hope through this character analysis I can provide a reasoning for why he is the way he is and show that he isn’t as one noted as most believe
𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆
To figure out why Leona is the way he is now, we must first take a look at his home life as that is usually the building blocks on how someone will turnout in the future.
In Leona backstory post over blot in chapter 2 and through some of Leona’s card stories we as a audience are told about he was treated when he was younger. Almost at all moments Leona was compared to his older brother Felena, who mind you is 10 years older then Leona (told in Leona first birthday card story). On top of that people fearing him for his unique magic which he was born with.
So throughout his childhood into early to middle teens Leona has been compared to his brother in everyway shape in form, even when Leona puts effort into something it is over shadowed by his brother. Not to mention throughout these years he was feared by most people in the kingdom.
We can see that this adds up to the present where Leona doesn’t care to put effort into anything as it would be overshadowed by something else or seen as not good enough. Even seeing no point in changing his behavior as people are still going to fear him.
This is reinforced in Leona fairy gala story, for when he puts actually effort in instead of lazing about. Vil picks apart every single detail about Leona and saying that it wasn’t good enough, which results in Leona leaving and going back to what he normally does which is sleeping in his room.
𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈
I find in the twst fandom there is a large misunderstanding about Leona when it comes down to how he treats people. Largely most people say he doesn’t care for anyone except himself. This is further from the truth.
Although Leona does care for his fellow classmates he has his own special way of doing so, especially when it comes to his lower classmates.
Throughout chapter 6 we see Leona and Jamil Make their way through S.T.Y.X, Leona makes off handed comments towards Jamil and even get on his ass about the way he acts. I always understood this as a way of Leona trying to make sure Jamil actually learns from his mistakes and doesn’t end up like him (Leona).
Another example of Leona caring for his younger classmates is in his dorm uniform when he gets on the rest of savanaclaws ass for picking on Jack. When Ruggie asks why Leona did this he pauses and asks Ruggie “isn’t it obvious”, which Ruggie then fills in with what he thinks what Leona meant.
The last nail in the coffin for this point is how Leona became dorm leader. In his birthday card Leona tells Yuu about how he became dorm leader, and that he never wanted to do it in the first place but his young classmates kept on bothering him to do so. It is mention that the old dorm leader was quite cruel and thats why his classmates wanted Leona to do something.
This can be seen in two ways of Leona being annoyed but his classmates and decided to help to make them stop or that he somewhat agree that the dorm leader was cruel and decided to do something about it. I believe that its a mixture of both, as Leona did find always being bothered to be extremely annoying and wanted to make it stop but at the same time knew the dorm leader was cruel.
Although having laid out these points, it is still notable that Leona is a prick and a asshole to the third students especially Malleus, which we will be touching on as well.
𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏
One thing that Leona is well known for is sleeping away his issues and lazing about, which causes the fandom and in game characters to rightfully assume that Leona is just a lazy guy who doesn’t want to do the work. I think this can be one of many symptoms of depression.
Before I go any further I am not diagnosing him or anyone with depression, I will be going over common symptoms that I have study and gone over in classes. If any of this applies to you please seek out a professional before jumping to conclusions.
Now why do I think Leona lazing about could be a symptom of depression? Well alone I don’t think it is but mixed together with that he short tempered, sees no point into putting effort into anything and he seems to put up a front when around others. Than I would point to its a symptom.
As listed in the last paragraph, those are all common symptoms of mild depression in a person (probably the ones most seen in media as well) and given Leona’s childhood that was covered earlier. It wouldn’t be too far fetched to assume he has some sort of mild depression.
Although again this does not excuse his actions in chapter 2 and 3 of the game especially when it comes to his overblot. I brought this point up as it seems to be overlooked or pushed aside and called a “reach” even though this a main part of his character.
𝑴𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒖𝒔
I said at some point I would be talking about Malleus and Leona’s relationship (or lack there of) and here it is.
What I often found when look at Malleus is that he parallel Felena and Leona quite a bit. For the Felena point, Malleus is a crown prince next in line for the throne, is better at everything then Leona including Magic shift which for a while Leona was the best at.
Now for him being parallel to Leona, both are feared by many simple from looks (or in Leona case his powers) alone. Both are gifted in Magic to the point they both didn’t have to go to NRC.
If we look at Leona behavior towards Malleus it could be explained in two ways, Leona is jealous of Malleus cause he has everything that he (Leona) doesn’t or he sees Malleus as another Felena this there is parallels between the two. Again this a mixture of both if anything as in chapter 2 it is very heavily implied that Leona is jealous of Malleus.
While seeing him as Felena can be observed throughout the card stories that have the two in them (which is little to none)
𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏
I know this character analysis was a bit all over the place and I apologize but I hope you learned something new about Leona and come to perhaps understand him a bit more. Maybe even see him as less then a one noted character. I hope y’all have a amazing night or day.
This is Dante signing out!
