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[effortaverse]

OOC

Timezone/Tag availability: GOOD QUESTION. I'm sorry.
Formatting preference: Style matcher!
Sensitive topics: All's good for me. Warn for others, of course!
Backtagging: I'm good! LMK if it's especially important.
Threadhopping/threadjacking: All's good as long as everyone is cool with it.
Fourthwalling: I'm super happy with people knowing The Lion King or Regular Disney Canon, but part of the mystery of Twisted Wonderland is that we don't know how or why it's Twisted yet, so I'd prefer to retain some semblance that his world is more than just a video game.

IC

Affection: I'm down, but Leona will not be.
Violence: I'm down. Leona will absolutely throw down, and he's got the fangs to do it.
Mental or psychic abilities: Not exactly, but he does have a lion's sense of smell and taste. He can smell other people in the vicinity and identify them by different scents, and can smell the magic on some people.
Magical/supernatural abilities: Leona is an incredibly powerful and adept mage who is mostly only rivaled by folks who are Actual Magical Beings, such as a Night Fairy (he's basically just a vampire) and a Literal Dragon. However, if he uses too much magic while in a shitty mental state, his negative magical energy may consume him and begin a process called Overblot, where the negative magic attempts to turn mages into monsters called Phantoms.
Relationships: I might be up for this, but he won't.
IC triggers: maybe Royal Context child neglect?? I don't think much will come up but I'll warn for it.

He is legitimately actually from a Disney Canon and really is Expy Scar and i'm Sorry.

Leona acts differently with women, especially self-determined women, than he does with men. He is really a bastard to dudes and a gentleman with women, because of Lion Culture (mostly).

Comments

[monsterdaddy]

I can't believe our canons keep lining up to expose our guys' secrets like this, but I must tell you.

If Leona gets close enough to Yoojin, he'll probably be able to smell a little bit of magic in his heart area... magic that is not Yoojin's own mana.

[ameowthecary]

Maomao probably smells herbal, being very much in the herbalist tradition of medicine!

[effortaverse]

hello???????????????? what's up compatible canon mechanics

that is. very interesting and i Must use it

[effortaverse]

oh god bless. does she happen to have any herbs actually on her, like stuck in her clothes or anything?

[ameowthecary]

Hmmm. Probably an emetic concoction (for when she eats poison) >>

[catsgothistongue]

I'm going to assume magical curses fall under this, in which case, Leona'll definitely smell magic off him.

[effortaverse]

interesting! thank you thank you. Those probably aren't super triggering to cats so he won't be terribly sus but VERY interesting

[effortaverse]

hell yeah it does! curses are just blessings you don't want ; ) thank you!

[mind_chess]

[effortaverse]

..ema girl are you ok

this is such a funny response to get when normally i play maya

[ameowthecary]

OH OH Maomao also was carrying a silvervine fruit a while before the canon point I've taken her from, probably a few days to a week or so, if I were to guess? Could look it up in the LN again. Idk if he could still smell that on her after so long. xD Apparently it's similar to catnip!

[effortaverse]

oh oh no. oh no

at least she's used to too-tall men leaning over her and sniffing??? thanks jinshi...

we can definitely play with that for funsies, i've heard of cats being able to track scents for days after, and since they were using different methods of laundering clothes the traces could probably stick!

[mind_chess]

pretty sure Ema is literally only OK when actively doing science

Oh I also looked up his official perfume scents and he seems to have two: one is bergamot tea, rose, and jasmine and the other is this absolute gem: “Elegant floral scent, reminiscent of the sharpness of logic and noble elegance. A vivid contrast between citrus at first and then flowers second. Gradually forms a sweet scent of chrysanthemum(?). The passion for truth is in its lingering musk.”

please feel free to smell the lingering musk of truth

[disreputabeel]

I'm sure you can mostly infer what Jade smells like (eel, mushrooms, whatever expensive cologne he was wearing before he was brought here). But Leona might be interested in him smelling less like the weird potion Jade takes to stay human shaped as things go on.

[effortaverse]

sneef snorf fish boy

[gardenwitch]

Stares into the distance, so witches and wizards in Iris's setting are just, literally mana in a physical form. I imagine she probably smells like a whole lot of magic to Leona???

Oh, and on top of that, she smells pretty flowery and herbal, for somewhat similar reasons to Maomao, but leaning more on floral.

[effortaverse]

oh perfect he smells pretentious, i love it

committing this to memory tbh what a perfect edgeworth smell

[nothingbadeverhappensto]

Leon smells like a normal human dude with absolutely none magic. For the first week he probably smells like a hospital due to the intense round of "recovering from an entire-ass videogame's worth of injuries" he was in the middle of when he showed up but after that? Unremarkable. I am mostly commenting because Resident Evil is weird and there absolutely are other characters who could smell weird to a lion, but Leon isn't one of them and it seemed important to clarify.

[effortaverse]

Do you think he'd smell particularly of blood at any point or are his injuries are all nice and closed up?

[nothingbadeverhappensto]

GOOD QUESTION I think his injuries are mostly pretty healed up just so I don't have to constantly worry about whether he's popping his stitches in any given tag, unless you think there's something interesting we could do with it if he does smell like blood!!

[effortaverse]

I can't think of anything immediately (esp because it's incredibly unclear as to whether or not Leona knows any medical magic and also what??? the fuck??? medical magic even is?? but if i come up with something i'll bring it up!

sorry he'll be an asshole otherwise tho rip

[effortaverse]

oh that'll be VERY interesting. she might not smell 'human' to him at all... thank you this is juicy

[nothingbadeverhappensto]

I can't wait for Leon to get bullied by his almost-nametwin teenage catboy with internalized misandry

[effortaverse]

wow he's a 20 year old pathetic overgrown catboy who should have graduated two years ago with internalized misandry get it right

[ameowthecary]

... welp, it just occurs to me that she has changed clothes several times since then. |D;; So the scent is probably gone. Ah well!

[effortaverse]

that's alright too! there'll still be plenty for them to talk about hehehe

[ameowthecary]

for sure!!