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* HumanWeapon: Leon, who's had his brain fried to the point where he barely recognizes his own name.
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* HumanWeapon: Leon, who's had his brain fried to the point where [[NameAmnesia he barely recognizes his own name.name]].
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* HumanWeapon: Leon, who's had his brain fried to the point where he barely recognizes his own name.
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* ReforgedIntoAMinion: Leon, who apparently gains accelerated healing and enhanced durability due to being infected with the Plaga.
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* SympatheticSentientWeapon: Chapter 7 solidly establishes Leon as this, presenting his POV for the first time in the fic and showing the audience just how ''[[BrokenAce broken]]'' his mental state is.
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** Ada's is watching [[MoralityPet Leon]] getting put through the brainwashing process. Notably, she [[ShootTheTelevision puts a shotgun barrel through the monitor]] in response.
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** ''Series/GameOfThrones'' gets name-dropped in chapter 2, with Chris bringing up [[IHaveManyNames Daenerys' many titles]] in relation to Claire's masked shooter.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Carlos' reaction to Leon, in a video tape, telling Saddler that he must've gone more senile than expected. Ada and Chris [[DudeNotFunny aren't quite so amused]]. It stops being quite so funny when the torture starts.
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* TheMissusAndTheEx: A heartbreaking variant, as Leon's TheLostLenore for both Ada and Chris. They both care about him deeply and are willing to work together to save him, but Chris doesn't trust Ada on account of her being a mercenary with ChronicBackstabbingDisorder. Ada, for her part, seems somewhat ambivalent towards Chris.
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* MoralityPet: Leon is still this for Ada, even years after his apparent death. Watching him be tortured in a video tape is the one thing throughout the story that breaks her [[NervesOfSteel cool disposition]].
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Exploited by Ada to get Chris's attention. It's implied that she specifically went to [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Chris]] because he's so MadeOfIron that a heavily-brainwashed and murderously determined Leon ''cannot'' take him down.
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* HurtingHero: Chris displays shades of this throughout the story, even in the prologue, where he's still hurting over how the Spencer Estate mission turned out for him and Jill, therefore taking the news of Claire's near-death at the hands of a seemingly MalevolentMaskedMan very badly.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Leon's first appearance in the fic, and the first time Chris sees him in person in five years, has him coming out of nowhere to try to stab Chris. He very nearly succeeds. Chris manages to stagger him with a flashbang grenade, buying himself time to get away, but he's GenreSavvy enough to know that this masked man is going to keep coming after him, and keep coming Leon does.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Leon's first appearance in the fic, and the first time Chris sees him in person in five years, has him coming out of nowhere to try to stab Chris. He very nearly succeeds. Chris manages to stagger him with a flashbang grenade, buying himself time to get away, but he's GenreSavvy enough to know that this masked man is going to keep coming after him, and keep coming Leon does.
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* FriendlyEnemy: Contrasting Leon and Ada's [[DatingCatwoman canonical dynamic]], Carlos and Ada border on this, with Carlos reining in a furious Chris for Ada's sake. While neither of them entirely trust each other, Carlos doesn't seem to have plans to arrest her any time soon.
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* ElectroconvulsiveTherapyIsTorture: Discussed and subverted. The narrative takes some pains to point out that ECT shouldn't feel like torture, with Carlos's narration describing a friend using ECT to treat his depression. When he compares it to how Leon was brainwashed, he calls Leon's treatment nothing like the therapy that helped his friend.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Ada invokes this as her reasoning for wanting to save Leon, noting that she owes him a debt from 2004. However, it's clear her feelings for him still run deeper than that.
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** [[FemmeFatale Ada]] also holds this attitude toward Leon.
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** Ada's appearance in chapter 6 implies that she's this too, over the same man.
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* ElectricTorture: A tape watched in chapter 6 depicts this happening to Leon, in the same vein as the bank vault scene in [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier the plotline's original source]]. Carlos finds it so disturbing that he leaves the room, while [[HeartbrokenBadass Chris]] and [[AntiHero Ada]] wreck the TV they watch it on.
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* LadyInRed: Ada, natch.
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* NotSoStoic: Ada's one of the calmer characters in canon, but after watching the tape where [[MoralityPet Leon]] suffers through the brainwashing process, she puts the barrel of her shotgun through the monitor.
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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Saddler survives the events of [=RE4=] only to meet his end years later at the hands of [[SmugSuper Albert Wesker]], with the tapes that Chris watches implying that Wesker [[AndShowItToYou ripped his heart out with his bare hands]].
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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Saddler survives the events of [=RE4=] only to meet [[DroppedABridgeOnHim his end ignominious end]] years later at the hands of [[SmugSuper Albert Wesker]], with the tapes that Chris watches implying that Wesker [[AndShowItToYou ripped his heart out with his bare hands]].
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* TragicVillain: As per [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier the movie it's based on]], Leon as the Winter Soldier stand-in. What drives it home even further are his notes, where he does everything he can to help any future prisoners escape the island long after he's fully BrainwashedAndCrazy.
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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Saddler survives the events of [=RE4=] only to meet his end years later at the hands of [[SmugSuper Albert Wesker]], with the tapes that Chris watches implying that Wesker [[AndShowItToYou ripped his heart out with his bare hands]].
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* HiddenDepths: Leon is established as having had a minor in English literature, back-up plans involving becoming a novelist, and a small penchant for limericks.
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* ObligatorySwearing: A minor case.
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* ObligatorySwearing: A minor case.case, but the level of swearing is about on par with the more recently released games, with various characters freely dropping F-bombs in both narration and dialogue.
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* BadassNormal: Par for the course in REverse, but [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Chris]] [[MusclesAreMeaningful Redfield]] takes the cake, surviving encounters with Ganados, Regeneradores, zombie dogs, and even his very own Tyrant-style stalker.
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* BadassNormal: Par for the course in REverse, [=REverse=], but [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Chris]] [[MusclesAreMeaningful Redfield]] takes the cake, surviving encounters with Ganados, Regeneradores, zombie dogs, and even his very own Tyrant-style stalker.
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* BadassNormal: Par for the course in REverse, but [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Chris]] [[MusclesAreMeaningful Redfield]] takes the cake, surviving encounters with Ganados, Regeneradores, zombie dogs, and even his very own Tyrant-style stalker.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: While Chris is [[RunOrDie frantically trying to avoid getting murdered]] by either [[TechnicallyLivingZombie Ganados]] or [[ImplacableMan a mind-wiped Leon]], Carlos is sneaking around the island undercover to pick up information. It's implied that not once has anyone realized he's not supposed to be there.
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* AllLowercaseLetters: Some of Leon's ApocalypticLog is in this with poorer and poorer grammar and spelling, indicating his slowly deteriorating mental state. The story title and chapter titles are also all in lowercase.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Not Leon, surprisingly, although to be fair he's currently brainwashed and TheVoiceless. However, [[PluckyComicRelief Carlos]] picks up the slack, especially in CasualDangerDialogue with Chris.
---> '''Carlos:''' What is it with us and [[LampshadeHanging getting stalked by BOWs?]]
---> '''Chris:''' [[SeenItAll Hazard of the job, I guess.]]
---> '''Carlos:''' What is it with us and [[LampshadeHanging getting stalked by BOWs?]]
---> '''Chris:''' [[SeenItAll Hazard of the job, I guess.]]
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** [[CorruptPolitician Wilson]], the BigBad of ''Anime/ResidentEvilInfiniteDarkness'', returns in the same capacity for this story, this time having taken over the cult of [[ReligionOfEvil Los Illuminados]] after [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Saddler's offscreen death]].
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* GodzillaThreshold: WordOfGod in the comment section states that this is why Ada came to Chris in the first place, having been shot by Leon when she found out.
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* SuperPersistentPredator: Leon just will ''not'' stop coming after Chris, no matter what gets shoved in his way.
