BIOGRAPHY/STORYLINE
(note: i will only be focusing on the games and movies i have seen or consider my 'personal' canon. therefore, for the time being, degeneration will be ommitted.)
Not much is known about Leon's life before the events of Resident Evil 2. Born sometime in 1977, once he was old enough he elisted in a police academy to graduate at 21 with incredibly high marks. His first assignment was to be the Raccoon City Police Department, something he chose himself because of the strange murders and other events around Raccoon City and the nearby Arklay Mountains.
However, even before arriving in the city, Leon faced a few bumps in the road. In his haste after being assigned, he hadn't made too many plans, and his then-girlfriend broke up with him. In a heartbroken state, Leon got a bit too drunk and overslept on his first day. In the 2019 remake, the events were changed. Instead, Leon had been told to wait a week before reporting for his first day; he went anyway when he was never called.
The actual events following, before Leon's first taste of the chaos of Raccoon City, differ between versions of canon. In one version of events, he arrived in the city as normal, and was surrounded while investigating a body. When he retreated into a nearby alleyway, he met Claire Redfield, and proceeded to take a RPD cruiser and drive to the station to find answers. In another, his meeting with Claire was before he reached Raccoon City, instead at a gas station somewhere outside of town. In both turns of events, the two are separated when the car hits a gas truck within the city, and they were forced to travel separately from there on out.
From there, Leon investigated the RPD station on his own. Fighting against zombies, lickers, and in his B route/from the start, the hulking tyrant Mr. X, he sought to find out just what was going on in Raccoon City. During his investigating he met two now-series staple characters: Sherry Birkin, the then-young daughter of William and Annette Birkin trying to equally escape the hell of the city, and Ada Wong, a mysterious woman who always seems to be both on and off his side, who at the time was working against Umbrella. There are a lot of other side characters that appear during the bulk of Resident Evil 2, but many of them do not make it out of the game alive.
Ultimately, Leon survived Raccoon City's hellscape, taking down the hulking G-Birkin in the subways below the city. He escaped with Claire and Sherry, wondering just what would happen next. Being one of only few survivors left a toll on Leon's mind, and he would be saddled with the guilt for years afterwards, wishing he could have helped more people.
(Resident Evil 2.)
After the various, chaotic events of Resident Evil 2, Leon took over watching Sherry as Claire was still looking for her brother, Chris. However, they were soon apprehended by the US government. Sherry was taken into protective custody, while Leon was interrogated Adam Benford. He made sure never to mention Claire or Ada, but regardless, the government wanted him. Eventually Leon agreed to help on the condition that Sherry be put into good hands.
Leon was subsequently trained as a government agent for STRATCOM, turning a police rookie into a expert in both weapons handling and hand-to-hand combat. Following his training, two major events happen. One, he sent his friend Ark Thompson to Sheena Island to investigate Umbrella's dealings there (Resident Evil: Survivor). Two, after an email from Claire told him to alert her brother of her presence on Rockford Island, he personally tracked down Chris Redfield and told him where his sister is (Resident Evil Code: Veronica).
His first major assignment as a STRATCOM agent was codenamed "Operation Javier". It was during this mission that he first met Jack Krauser, sent alongside Leon as aid, someone who would unfortunately pop up later down the line on the opposite side. The mission was to investigate a man named Javier Hildalgo who had been recently dealing with Umbrella. Eventually, as most Resident Evil stories tend to go, the pair had to act as a two-man army against a budding T-Virus outbreak.
During this time he met a girl named Manuela, who turned out to be the daughter of Javier Hildalgo. She was incredibly sick and her father was using a form of the t-Veronica virus to keep her alive, hence his dealings with Umbrella. While exploring Javier's compound, Leon told Krauser about not only his time in Raccoon City, but Claire's experience on Rockford Island as well. Both were an attempt to explain to Krauser just how Umbrella's B.O.W.s worked.
Eventually, Leon and Krauser confronted Javier, only to have him fuse with a plant infected with the t-Veronica virus. Manuela aided them by unleashing her own t-Veronica powers and ultimately the three kill Javier. Manuela was taken into government custody; Leon and Krauser part ways after the latter was discharged due to an injury substained during the mission. At some point after, Leon was told Jack Krauser died in an accident.
(Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles.)
His next assignment came in 2004. Ashley Graham, the daughter of the then-President, was kidnapped and later seen in rural Spain. Leon was sent as a one-man team to rescue her, arriving in the village she'd been seen in with two local police officers. The two waited in the car as Leon investigated alone. Soon, all hell broke lose.
Leon learned that the kidnapping was the doing of a cult known as Los Illuminados, who wanted to use Ashley as essentially Patient 0 for their bioweapon, a parasite known as Las Plagas. Los Illuminados was led by a man named Osmund Saddler, with his two lieutnants Father Bitores Mendez and Ramon Salazar. Now in much more than a simple rescue mission, Leon had to stop Los Illuminados' outbreak from spreading past the area of rural Spain they were in. Unfortunately for that plan, he was captured by the cult and implanted with a Plagas himself; now he had one extra clock to race against although he was still unaware of it.
Being captured wasn't all bad, as he was held captive alongside the mysterious Luis Sera, who would become a quick friend and ally to Leon. In truth, Luis was a former researcher for the Los Illuminados who had defected and stolen a Plagas from in exchange for help from "The Organisation", a group that Albert Wesker was connected to. Leon doesn't know any of this until Luis' unfortunate death at the hands of Saddler later on; when they first meet, Leon was led to believe Luis was a police officer from Madrid.
His escapades in Spain continued; after locating Ashley, he discovered of his and her infections. The pair manage to dodge literally everything Saddler threw at them, including Leon's eventually fight against Mendez. The pair arrived at the Salazar castle, although through traps and other meant they were often split, leaving Leon alone for the majority of the night. It's during this time in the castle that Leon ran into Ada Wong once again, whom he hadn't seen since the Raccoon City Incident. He realized she had been working "with" Wesker, but before he could do much of anything, she escaped.
Luis' unfortunate death and reveal of his truth happened soon after, leaving Leon with the sample as he died. Ashley was taken by Saddler once more, and Leon was left to explore further, ultimately killing Salazar in his "Queen Plaga" form. He leaves for the nearby island Ashley was being held captive on with Ada, which gave the rather iconic scene of Leon in the boat muttering, "Women."
Arriving at the island, Leon once again found Ashley, although this didn't last long. Fighting against horrific Plagas experiments, the pair wound up at a warehouse district. It's there that Saddler, once again, takes Ashley, using the Plagas in her body to directly control her. While looking for her then, Leon was ambushed by none other than Jack Krauser, who hadn't died in an accident, but had instead joined The Organisation and the Los Illuminados, acting as the former's mole in the latter. It had actually been Krauser who had originally kidnapped Ashley in the first place. Krauser and Leon fought twice, the second time after Krauser had mutated his arm due to the infection still in his body from Operation Javier.
Ultimately, with the eventual help of Ada Wong, Leon took down Saddler once and for all. He and Ashley escape via jet-ski as the island explodes behind them, from charges left by Ada. Leon's report of the events would later simply be called "The Kennedy Report", which was shared to the BSAA in order to understand any further Plagas-based bioweapons.
(Resident Evil 4.)
Skipping ahead a few years, Leon found himself in a slightly different position. Now President, Adam Benford recruited Leon into USSTRATCOM in 2011. His first notable assignment was looking into the bioweapons the US was afraid the Eastern Slav Republic was using in its ongoing civil war; he was dragged out from vacation in order to do so, something he laments quite a bit.
He discovered that there were B.O.W.s in play--specifically quite a few Lickers. Refusing to leave after learning this despite being told his orders were to leave by Ingrid Hunnigan (whom he met during the Spain incident as his sort of guy-in-the-chair), he was eventually kidnapped by local rebel forces and learned of their leader using a "Dominant Species Plaga" to control the lickers.
Hell eventually broke out as it always does, and eventually Leon and his kidnappers (namely a man named JD) escaped into the church above where he was being kept. After a rough conversation with JD within the church wherein he blamed Leon somehow for the infections and an interaction with a man JD calls 'Buddy' that went terribly sour, Leon was taken outside by JD only for the animosity to grow for a moment. However, JD took the time to explain the rebels' point of view on using B.O.W.s (something Leon said they'll just have to agree to disagree on) and specifically why Buddy was using them. He then gave Leon his gun back and directed him to the nearby marketplace to search for the Council of Elders.
Within the marketplace, he once again crossed paths with Ada Wong, who he was more than confused as to why she was even in the Eastern Slav Republic in the first place. Leon accused her of being somehow behind the Plagas in the country, which she denied, claiming she wasn't interested in defective products. The two continued to talk, Ada even going so far as to flirt somewhat with Leon, only to leave with a mysterious warning about the town being "purged" soon.
When he returned to the church, Leon found everyone except JD dead. As it turned out, JD had been infected by the Plaga and was getting close to fully turning. Buddy showed back up and he blamed Leon for what had happened--JD came to his defense and claimed Leon was not their enemy, only to succumb to the Plaga and ultimately was killed by Leon himself. Before he could reason too much with Buddy, the government began bombing the church--Buddy escaped first, leaving Leon to follow. They end up at the presidental building, which had been overrun by Lickers. Leon almost managed to avoid two of them within the main building, only for an injured soldier to alert them of his presense. Still, he ended up killing one outright and causing the other to fall to its death in the elevator shaft at the end of the hallway.
Using said elevator, he found himself in a huge underground B.O.W. facility. Once again he ran into Ada, who informed him of the use of the facility: to create Control Plagas. Before the two could do anything about this however, they were surrounded by guards and confronted by Svetlana Belikova, the President of the Eastern Slav Republic. Ada shut the lights down to make her escape; Leon used this opportunity to cause confusion amongst the guards, shooting some of them to get them to essentially shoot each other. He used that confusion to take Svetlana hostage for a moment, asking her if she was "the beekeeper"--that is to say, the person behind all of this.
That entire time, Leon had been unaware that the woman was the President of the country he was in, and as she identified herself, the two got into a fight. Leon got his ass handed to him briefly until Buddy and his army of Lickers arrived. In retaliation, Svetlana released two Tyrant-type B.O.W.s, two hulking creatures that looked like a mix between Mr. X and Nemesis. A biohazard alert went off as the two Tyrants were released, causing Leon and Buddy to have to escape quickly before the entire facility was destroyed. Despite the Tyrants destroying the access elevator, they make it out.
On the surface, a third Tyrant pursued Leon and Buddy. The latter used his controlled Lickers as a distraction, leading the Tyrant to a nearby tanker truck; Leon shot it, causing the B.O.W.'s Power Limiter to break and letting it mutate further. The pair then had to use an entire tank against it, Leon hitting the Tyrant in the face multiple times with the turret. It kept avoiding the turret outright, so much so that Buddy eventually had to use one of his controlled Lickers to cover its face and allowed Leon to blow the thing's head off. Once out of the tank, he remarked he never thought he'd be saved by a B.O.W.
This relief was incredibly short lived as the other two Tyrants emerged from the presidental building. Leon and Buddy were prepared to run, although ultimately they realized they'd never outrun the Tyrants. Leon stood his ground and drew his combat knife, only to be surprised by a sudden US plane arriving and shooting the Tyrants down. He realized in that moment that the government had been watching him the entire time.
As the two watched a joint US-Russian invasion of the capital, Buddy asked if Leon knew anything about this, which he didn't, and if he did he would've stayed on vacation. He refused to kill Buddy when asked, instead taking Buddy's gun when he tried to do it himself; Leon tells him that he owes it to everyone who died to keep living. He then shoots Buddy in the spine to sever the Plaga.
Leon was left back to his vacation, although the events in the Eastern Slav Republic had clearly left him a lot more jaded than he was before. Hunnigan informed him that Svetlana had resigned, which doesn't impress Leon much.
(Resident Evil: Damnation.)
Leon's next "adventure" came in 2013. A meeting with Adam Benford at Tall Oaks University to discuss Benford's plans about releasing the details of Raccoon City officially turned sour in an instant, as a gas filled the campus that infected practically everyone but Leon himself and one of Benford's Secret Service security officers, a woman named Helena Harper. Hunnigan called Leon to ask what even had happened--Leon promptly informed her that he had to shoot the zombified President, and that the entire campus was starting to fall into chaos. Helena proceeded to claim her lead about Tall Oaks Cathedral was Leon's, and the two made their way out of campus.
The two had to journey through the city of Tall Oaks to make it to the Cathedral, something that repeatedly reminded Leon of what had happened in Raccoon City. Zombies, monsters, and fire filled the streets, things he had seen back in 1998. Helena continued to be cryptic with her need to go to the Cathedral, repeatedly telling Leon she'd explain everything when they got there. Eventually they ended up on a bus filled with other survivors they had met at a gun shop, and they headed out of the city.
The bus ride was cut short soon after by the driver swerving too hard to avoid a zombie in the road. Luckily enough for Leon and Helena, not only were they the only ones who survive the bus's eventual explosion (causing Leon to comment about how terrible it was to die like that) but the bus had landed close to the Cathedral.
Within the Cathedral, after taking down a massive gas-spewing B.O.W that emerged from the secret underground entrance, Leon and Helena made their way into the cavern below which housed one of The Family's B.O.W. facilities. Once down there, Helena finally revealed why she needed to be there in the first place, and how she even knew about it. The attack had been orchestrated by Chief Security Advisor Derek C. Simmons, who saw Benford's plan to reveal the truth about Raccoon City as the downfall of America's trust in the eyes of the world. He had kidnapped Helena and her younger sister, Deborah, using the latter as a barganing chip to get Helena to do his bidding.
Unfortunately, Deborah had been infected with the C-Virus and the two, alongside Ada Wong (who was also in the cavern investigating The Family's doings) had to take her down, Helena promising to avenge her sister as Deborah fell to her death. After escaping the cavern through an underwater exit of sorts, the two watched as the city of Tall Oaks was bombed--much like what happened to Raccoon City. Leon realized that it was to neutralize the area and get rid of any lingering evidence of The Family's involvement. Hunnigan managed to contact him then, telling him that Neo-Umbrella had claimed ownership of the attack and had started a similar one in the Chinese city of Lanshiag. It was during this phonecall that he and Helena found out that Simmons was accusing them of being behind some part of it. Leon had Hunnigan report them as deceased due to the accusations, and the two were booked on a flight to China.
Much like everything else in his life, the flight was turned chaotic as the C-Virus spred due to another Lepotica (the same B.O.W. they had encountered in Tall Oaks Cathedral) appearing on the plane. Ultimately Leon had to attempt to keep the plane in the air, but it inevitably crashed. Once he and Helena left the wreckage, they encountered Jake Muller and Sherry Birkin, who had recently escaped The Family's grasp themselves. Finding out that Sherry was working under Simmons, an argument broke out between Leon and Jake when the former tried to find out if Sherry knew where Simmons even was. Before she could say anything, Ustanak--the Tyrant-esque creature that had been chasing Jake and Sherry since Edonia--appeared, and the four had to fight him off together. The fight was cut short when an electrical tower fell on the creature, cutting them back into their respective pairs. Sherry finally got to tell Leon where they were headed--she and Jake were to meet Simmons at the nearby Kwun Lung building.
Leon and Helena soon ran into a woman claiming to be Ada Wong and pursued her through a building, dodging various traps along the way. This led them into a brief meeting with Chris Redfield and Piers Nivans, who were also chasing down "Ada". Leon and Chris fought for a minute, each not realizing who the other man was. When they did realize it, they had a brief argument; Chris wanted to either apprehend or kill "Ada", while Leon wanted to keep her as a witness. Both of them also brought up the amount of people they'd lost: Chris having lost not one but two entire teams of BSAA soldiers, Leon having lost the entire city of Tall Oaks and the President. Using their argument as her get-away-free card, "Ada" escaped with a smoke bomb, and the pairs split once again: Leon and Helena went after Simmons, while Chris and Piers continued following "Ada".
When they reached the Kwun Lung building, Leon assured Helena that what they were doing was right. Once inside, they were met by Simmons and some of his men. Jake and Sherry arrived soon after, Simmons ordering Sherry to arrest Leon and Helena. She refused to and demanded to know if he had actually been behind all of this; Simmons proceeds to own up to everything, claiming it was for the greater good. The four were then shot at by Simmons' men, and they came up with a plan. Once again, Leon and Helena would stay behind and deal with Simmons as Jake and Sherry escaped. Before doing anything, Sherry gave Leon the data chip with all of Jake's information to keep it out of the wrong hands. Simmons was ambushed by a J'avo sent by "Ada" (actually a woman named Carla who had been experimented on by Simmons) and began mutating. Leon, Helena, and Simmons all ended up on a nearby train for the first fight.
Leon and Helena fought the now-mutated Simmons throughout the train. Simmons tried to place blame on Ada, then tried to rationalize what he'd done, but they weren't having any of it. This just made Simmons much, much more pissed off, and he mutated further and even went as far as to taunt Helena about Deborah's death. When he tried to ram the train head on after being thrown off of it, they tripped him up and caused that part of the train to flip over. It seemed for a moment that he had been beat, reverting back to a human form, but he recovered soon and re-mutated. He tried to once again kill the two by throwing part of the train's roof at them; Leon shot at it to get it off-course and leave an opening to Helena to shoot the mutated Simmons in the head. Realizing The Family had since abandoned him, he let himself slip and was ran over by the train. Leon and Helena jumped into the water below.
They pulled themselves ashore near Tatchi, now hopeful that it was all over at the sight of BSAA soldiers helping survivors. Helena asked if it was over, and Leon simply replied "Yeah...it's over."
This relief was incredibly short lived as they were once again contacted by Hunnigan, who informed them that Jake and Sherry had been captured by The Family again and were being held in an underwater facility. Leon in turn contacted the BSAA to find someone to help and got patched through to Chris. Before he could tell Chris about what happened, Chris yelled for them to leave; the object in the sky Helena had seen moments earlier was a missle filled with the C-Virus that, when it went off, filled the streets with the gas form of the virus. Leon hastily told Chris about Jake and Sherry; in turn, Chris tells Leon that Ada had died, not knowing that it was actually Carla, not Ada, who had died. Leon seemed genuinely upset, something Helena asked about, but he deflected and claimed to be alright. Getting the help of nearby BSAA soldiers, the two made their way back into the city.
It was all very remminscent of Raccoon City and Tall Oaks as the BSAA soldier drove them through the fog. Being told of a nearby building used to house survivors, the Quad Tower, they made their way there until they were knocked out by a stray tanker. When Leon and Helena came to, they were surrounded--that was until the real Ada Wong appeared in a helicopter, shooting the zombies down for them. Using Ada's cover-fire, they managed to find a nearby bridge that would take them straight to the Quad Tower. Unfortunately, a plane that had been lodged in a nearby building that caused a series of explosions that destroys the bridge.
They commandeered a BSAA helicopter, although they soon learned that the pilot had been injured. Leon took over the controls, but much like every other time he's tried to use a vehicle in a stressful situation, the helicopter crashed. Leon and Helena barely escaped the crash. As they entered the building, they were once again met with Simmons, now much, much more angry than before. He mutated into a new form, something akin to a dinosaur, and they once again had to fight him off. Luckily enough for them, they had both Ada on their side (still piloting the helicopter) and a BSAA soldier whose vehicle had turrets attached to the back. Once taking Simmons down this time, they headed into a nearby still-operational elevator and went to the roof where Ada had already gone. Helena took the time in the elevator to ask about Leon's apparent feelings for Ada, but before he could reply, an explosion caused them to have to escape to a different, nearby elevator.
Leon and Helena climbed the elevator cables, watching as Ada and Simmons fought on the connecting hallway between two of the towers. When Ada had went to a different section of the tower, they made use of their time and shot at Simmons from afar until the platform they'd stopped on collapsed, causing them to once again have to climb. Simmons' attention was now on Leon and Helena and not Ada, although the latter did attempt to bring the attention back to herself to buy them some time. Eventually, Leon jumped from the cable down to the hallway when Ada was knocked out by Simmons, fending him off until she came to. Another two-on-one fight ensued, culminating in Simmons getting Leon off the edge, leaving him dangling until Ada returned the earlier favor and came to Leon's rescue.
Helena urged Leon to follow Ada when she ran off afterwards, but he insists they stick together. The two made their way up to the roof where there was a helicopter waiting for them, but were stopped once again by a now completely inhumanly mutated Simmons. When they realized he was using the bodies of the zombies that filled the area to regenerate himself when shot at, they used a ripped-off lightning rod to electrocute Simmons. Finally getting to the helicopter, the two used rocket launchers left behind by Ada to take down Simmons once and for all. Helena offered to pilot the helicopter this time, knowing what happened the last time Leon had piloted one, and he let her. She found a different gift left behind by Ada in the pilot's seat--a compact, with the data to prove Simmons' guilt once and for all inside of it. Leon and Helena left in the helicopter, leaving behind the firey city below.
Sometime later, Leon accompanied Helena to where her sister had been buried. Saying it was time to take responsibility, she expected Leon to arrest her for her involvement in everything. Instead, he offered her her gun back, telling Helena that there was no way she should be considered at all responsibile for what Simmons had done, and that the information would be kept private. Before they went their separate ways, Helena returned the compact to Leon, telling him to give it back to Ada whenever he saw her again.
(Resident Evil 6.)
Sometime even later, Leon was heading a DSO squad in a mission against B.O.W.s found in Washington, D.C. However, the entire squad had been ratted out, and everyone except Leon was killed. When he went to 'visit' his fallen squad in the morgue, the entire group turned out to be zombies, leaving Leon to have to kill every last one of them again. This incredibly messed him up, and he went on vacation in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, drinking the days away.
His vacation was interrupted by Chris Redfield and Rebecca Chambers, who informed Leon of a new threat--the strain, eventually known as the A-Virus, being used by Glenn Arias. At first, Leon didn't want anything to do with it, citing how sick and tired he was of fighting the dead and "the bastards that make them". It isn't until Rebecca stepped in and tells both him and Chris off that he reluntantly agreed to help.
After Rebecca left the room, the two men were surprised by the man who had gotten Leon's squad killed. He begged Leon to help, saying how the remaining members of Los Illuminados were going to kill his family if something wasn't done. Leon offered a deal between gritted teeth; he helps Leon and Chris, maybe Leon would think about helping him. Before any further discussion could be had, the trio were ambushed by Arias' men. Leon decided then and there to officially and fully help Chris in taking Arias down.
Along with Chris and his Silver Dagger BSAA squad, Leon arrived in New York to stop the next mass attack--Arias was using tankers filled with a gas to trigger the virus. Claiming the Ducati motorcycle offered by the BSAA, he had started to help in blowing the tankers up when zombie dogs, much like the ones used in Raccoon City and Spain, were released. Leon went to distract the zombie dogs so Chris could finish with the tankers and head towards Arias. Leading the dogs onto a nearby freeway, he managed to shoot a few of them before deciding to chuck an entire grenade into the road, blowing up both the zombie dogs and anyone else unfortunate enough to be on the freeway at the time.
He arrived at Arias' building just in time to help Chris finish off the first wave of zombies sent their way, although the pair had to fight through even more sent afterwards. Leon stayed behind to fend off the remaining ones as Chris made his way up the building to save Rebecca and take down Arias.
Leon arrived just in time later on as Arias had mutated into a Tyrant-like creature, appearing in the elevator still on the motorcycle. He used the motorcycle almost like a weapon in its own right against the mutated Arias, slamming into his legs to get him to drop Chris. The two fought, Leon skillfully dodging most attacks (although he did get slammed into a wall at one pont) and even managing to kick Arias in the head. Eventually, Leon basically used the motorcycle as a projectile, shooting at it to explode right in Arias' face so Chris could finish him off.
In the BSAA helicopter later, Leon wondered just how much longer they had to do this. Chris replied by echoing something Leon had said earlier about not making plans that far in advance.
(Resident Evil: Vendetta.)
MY SELFSHIP
(art by my friend mero!)
My selfship with Leon hasn't really changed much since I originally came up with it when I first gained Leon as a F/O. The only thing that's changed since I first came up with the whole concept was my insert's name. My original RE2 insert was named Al, because I used to go by Al/Alfendi as a primary name, but now my insert's name is Jay.
My insert was a reporter a few towns over from Raccoon City when the incident started. They went off to investigate what was happening because they needed a story to prove themselves to their editors. Nobody else would go investigate, mostly assuming that the rumors were bull. When they got to the city, they realized pretty quickly that all hell had broke loose, figuratively and literally. Jay was pretty quickly surrounded by zombies and they flat out would have died had Leon not showed up, who protected them all the way to the RPD.
Jay pretty much followed Leon around the RPD like a baby duckling, mostly because they didn't trust themselves with guns. In fact, the most they would do was beat a few zombies with their camera bag. But in general, Jay was just there for most of the events of RE2. They also meet my friend Pasta's insert Bernal during all of this, who becomes kind of a reoccuring character throughout Jay's story.
The two stayed together after getting out of Raccoon City, having hit it off pretty well while trying to survive the hellhole that was, well, everything. Jay wrote a mostly-anonymous record of the events, leading them to becoming kind of an urban legend all things considered, much like the other survivors of RC. They only named themselves and Leon a few times, which in conjunction to the fact that the world at large really didn't know all the facts (while Jay's record was decent, there were gaps and things they didn't know), furthered their status as an urban legend.
Jay's next involvement wasn't until the incident in Spain, as they were kind of left unaware of what Leon was doing during the early STRATCOM days (something something they were a civilian). Citing both their closeness to Leon and their status as a pretty well-known (if not mostly anonymous still) writer, they wiggled their way into joining Leon on his assignment to rescue Ashley Graham. Things went mostly alright. Mostly.
They had also been infected with the Plaga at the same time Leon was, and as such, spent practically the entire time afterwards once they knew it'd happened afraid they'd turn. They made Leon promise that if they did, and they lost control of themselves, he'd 'take care of it' for them. While not causing a strain between the two or anything, it definitely upped the tension of the whole situation up to that point.
They re-meet Bernal here, now having gotten into a relationship with Luis. (This is a Luis Sera Doesn't Die household.) I haven't talked much about this with Pasta, but by god, they interact.
Otherwise, the events of RE4 go pretty much as normal, with Jay once again following Leon like a duckling. Things go alright, they get the Plagas removed, everyone escapes out of there. Jay once again wrote about the experience, now publishing their work on an independant blog instead of in newspapers. This time, due to the sensitive nature of most of it, they wrote much more anonymously and didn't even mention that Ashley was the President's daughter. Instead, they just referred to her as someone important. They were also a lot more vague about who Leon was.
The repeated life-or-death situations they'd been through together made Leon realize at that point that if he was going to put them through these kinds of things, he didn't just want to do it as a dating couple. So, shortly after they returned to the US after the events of RE4, Leon proposed, and the pair were married soon after. The wedding was small, and they only invited a handful of people. (Funny thing is...one of said few people was the later President, Adam Benford, due to him being a friend of Leon's. Try explaining that to your family.)
While aware of him getting dragged out of vacation during the events of Damnation, they weren't involved themselves. They did, however, write a short thing on it, based on what Leon told them when he got back. Once again, painfully vague, adding even more fuel to their urban legend status. Leon had been neatly folded into their mythos, and people often wrote in asking who they and their mysterious partner were, guesses taken from the few lists of known survivors of RC. Jay never replied to any comments.
Then comes RE6. They hadn't joined Leon when he went to Tall Oaks, mostly because he was the one friends with the President, not them. However, after that whole debacle, Jay made the decision to join him and Helena to China, now much more prepared in a time like this after years of being with Leon. Well, they thought they were more prepared. They do kind of got their shit wrecked at one point.
It's here that they met my friend Kali's insert, specifically in the scene where Leon and Helena finally meet Simmons face-to-face--to put her insert's story short, she'd been kidnapped by The Family, and it's during that scene that the three of them rescue her. There's a whole scene with Leon carrying Kali piggy-back and her asking Jay all sorts of questions about their and Leon's wedding before she's handed off to Ada, because Ada's much more equiped in a time like this to help (see: the helicopter).
Much like with the other games though, in general, the events stay the same throughout, just with the added fun of a few self-inserts. When everything's said and done, and everybody's returned to the US, there's a whole moment in the hospital they'd all been put in (for those that needed it immediately--Kali and Piers specifically [This is also a Piers Nivans Didn't Die household]), because Jay believes themselves to be alright when they really aren't. They got their shit pretty wrecked back in Lanshiag and it's only then that they really realized it, and they do eventually give in (mostly by Leon threatening to get Helena).
Finally, while small, they are a little bit involved with Vendetta. Jay had gone with Leon to that hotel in Colorado, because why wouldn't they. They were actually asleep until all the gunshots woke them up, and managed to get downstairs before Leon and Chris left. There's a moment between them and Leon, in which he leaves them his jacket so they have something of his to keep them calm, as well as an unspoken promise he'll come back.
He was designed to be essentially the opposite of Chris Redfield, as Hideki Kamiya said tough-guy characters like Chris had already been done.
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