Sorry if this will soud stupid, and sorry for the grammer, and speling mistakes English is not my first launvige. And maybe I'm just overthinking, or over analysing this. If yes, please tell me. So sorry for the posible headeche. I think Leon, and Freddy are underexplored characters. I don't hate them, I just think we get to little about them, and there are many unansweard questions about both of them. I don't think that leaving your audience with questions is a bad thing but there is the way to do it. And if we think about it we don't really know that many things about niether about Leon, or Freddy.
Yes we know that Leon is one of the oldest characters (after all he is in his 30ths), is a sniper who works for the Shadow Decree as a Shadow Guard, has OCD, likes jazz, his (if I remember well) younger brother teached him to play the saxophon, who was called Joseph, and has died, that he sees his younger brother in Hall, and a few other things.
And we know that Freddy is his partner, who probably had one of most painfull Esper transformations, his nickname is "Mad Dog", is awsom, likes sunglases, easily temperd, were a troublemaker as a child, his parents comperd to his cousin who lived with them, then he left everything behind (in the bate version at least, if I remember well), takes care of his fur, and a few other things.
Those things are enough to know something about the character, and start to like them. But there are still posibilities to give more content about the characters, that would give more deapht to both the characters, and the world building, and also would give a great chance of exploring defrent themes.
Let's start with Leon. But first trigger warning for sensetiv subjects. Let's put all headcanon aside for a little (I'm saying this, because I think a few of us have some of those about his past, and/or plan, or working on a fanfiction full of headcanon about (yeah I'm working on it)) . What exextly we know about his past, his background? We only know that he had a brother named Joseph, who was really importent to him. And what we even know about Joseph outside of that he died, he was Leon's brother, and that he thought Leon how to play the saxophon? We safe to assume that Leon is not the same ever saince, and probably he acts a similar way to his oldself around Hall as his old self. But what coused the death of Joseph? And why were they so close to each other? I think if the devs want to expend on this, then they could explor the theme of grif, or in some scenarios guilt too. What if they so close because they could only count on each other? Is they parents were abusiv? Or they were just neglectfull? Or they never had them? Or they only had just one? Eather way I think all of those could make a really touching storyline about it, if it's writen well. And then how did Joseph died? He was killed by a mirramon? Or he died in an acident? Or he died from an Illnes? Or what if he died from murrder? Or what if he died from sucide? With this they could explorer the theme of grif. If Joseph died from an illnes then, both him, and Leon know that it was coming, or tryd to prevent it in a way, but faild. Like not having enough money for treatment, or medicetion. Or what if he was killed by a mirramon? Well dieng by a mirramon is probably a common acurenc in the univers of Dislyte, so this seems a weary reasonable assumption. Or what if he was murrder? I think with this there is The posibiliti of exploring the themes revenge too. Or what if he died by soucide? This is the more touchier subject, as someone who have strugeld with soucide thoughs, and self harm. I think this could say something about how we handler mental health, and posably confort people who strugel with this. I strugeld with it, and it helpd to know that I was not allone in this, so if it's writen with a good, and sensetiv way, that understands what it feels like it. And plus with this the theme of guilt could be also explor the theme of guilt. Leon was really close to Joseph so imagin the grif, and guilt that he would feel if this happand. And the acident one. What coused the acident? Could it have been orevented? What if Leon was the one who coused it? And there is an another unxplored thing about Leon. What effects Joseph's death had on him? Like I said we are safe to assume that his porsenality changed. But there are other things. Like does some of his habbits changed? Does he have nightmares about it? Does he blame himself for it?
And now let's look at Freedy. Again trigger warning for sensetiv subjects. Well the thing about Freedy's past, is that we don't really have it. The thing that I mentiond is from the bate version. Not the final game. Yes there is a chance that it's still cannon, but we can't forget that it has a chance that the devs stearth up thrown it out the window. But for the sake of it, let's focuse on that. So we know that he was a troublemaker, but how much. Does he had only bad greads, or he more seius things? And how much inflens his friends group had on him? Like before he started hanging out them he was a good kid? He only had just bad greads? Or he was still a troublemaker? If he was a good kid before it, then the theme of influenc, specificly negativ influenc could be explorer. Same if he only had bad greads. And what effects of being comperd to his cousin had on him? We humanus are cooperativ creatures, not competativ. And studies show that compstitivnes, and being comperd to others in childhood has negativ effects on self estem, education, social life and develeptment, and mental health. I know it, my parents always comperd me to other. And there was anything else in the background? So we can assume that Freddy was a bully. Studies show that a larg partion of kids who are bulling others are coming from an abusiv, toxic or neglectfull households. So does Freedy's parents were abusiv? Or just toxic? And what effects this had on Freedy's adult life. Again studies show that adults who were bullied as kids have problems with they social life, intimicy, work invairments, self estem, and drug abuse. I think with really competent writing the themes of the toxisity of competativnes, and even forgivness could be pulled of.
So if you read this whole thing, thanks. And please tell me your openion about it. If this was rather cringy I'm sorry. And again sorry for the grammer, and speling mistakes English is not my first launvige. I hope at least I meneged to have an idea for a fanfiction, or something.
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Jazz's little. Her parents are super cool. They're ghost hunters! It sounds like something from a movie about future and scientists and supernatural beings and cool-looking tech. They have cool-looking tech at home. It's even cooler than tech in the movies.
Jazz also has a little brother. He's stupid but he's hers, and she will protect him from anything. Her brother is very small, he needs someone to protect him and teach him about the world.
She knows about the world. She understands their parents much better than him, and she can tell her brother when they shouldn't be distracted. She knows when they're upset and irritable, and she knows when they're too excited and being near them is dangerous because of all the inventions.
Jazz does a very good job keeping her little brother safe.
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Jazz goes to school. Her teachers say that she's very smart, the best student in class, and very mature. Her parents are proud of her - when she manages to distract them from ghosts. Her brother is still kinda stupid and doesn't know how to properly fight food, but she's always there to protect him, because that's what older sisters do.
Her classmates seem to think that she's weird though. Some of them say mean things and call her a teacher's pet and a show-off. Jazz isn't sure why they think so because she's always trying to be friendly but maybe she's doing something wrong. She goes to the school library and finds a book about people and their communication.
It's a very interesting book.
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Jazz is almost a teen. She's gotten better at communicating with people. The school library ran out of psychology books, and Jazz now has to go to the city library but that's fine. Human brain fascinates her.
She's been feeling like something is wrong about her though. She even thought that she was going crazy for a little bit. That probably wasn't true because she didn't match any symptoms but she was still worried.
Someone told her that being so good at lying and faking face expressions is not okay. That's probably not true, Jazz is pretty sure almost everyone can do that. Or maybe she's just being a prodigy again. It's a very good thing to be able to do after all. She can hide her emotions from her family when she's feeling sad. She wouldn't want to worry them, would she?
She'll have to research it.
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Jazz is a teen. She now knows that her parents aren't actually that good. It's something that was really hard to accept but it did explain everything. Her parents are kinda bad at being parents, and they also don't really listen when she tries to explain it to them.
It's okay. She's almost an adult and Danny has her. She can take care of herself and her brother.
She learns everything she can about being a parent and a therapist and tries to use her knowledge. It's hard, but she's a Fenton, which means that she's very smart and determined. She pushes through, and trains on her classmates and herself.
In the evening she writes about her feelings in a journal. It's very important to be aware of her feelings because that's the first step to dealing with them.
She's experiencing sadness. And anger, actually, even though she doesn't like to admit that.
She writes "this family is a fucking mess" in her journal and then covers the paper with ink until the sentence is absolutely unreadable.
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Jazz is sixteen, and her stupid parents opened the stupid portal, which means that they're even worse than usual. It's pretty much okay when they're just stuck in their stupid lab, making some stupid weapons. It's not that okay when they're out of the stupid lab, because they get their stupid inventions all over the stupid house, and stupid food comes to life, and she has to protect Danny from both their stupid weapons and stupid hotdogs, and oh god everything is so stupid.
She's experiencing anger.
She's also acting perfectly calm and almost cheerfully.
Jazz hates how perfect her fake smile is in the mirror.
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Jazz is seventeen. She wants to put her headphones on and listen to some loud music. Jazz can't do that, because she gets anxious if she can't hear what's happening around her. She needs to be fully aware of her surroundings because she needs to be able to protect herself and her brother if weapons against ghosts become weapons against children again.
She thinks that it's not okay.
The house smells of ectoplasm, so she'll be extra careful when opening the fridge.
She thinks that she shouldn't know how ectoplasm smells.
Jazz should probably also warn Danny: her little brother's gotten better at fighting food but doesn't notice the smell of ectoplasm. Funny, considering his ghost sense.
Funny, considering that her brother is a half-ghost.
That her brother died.
That she failed at protecting him after all.
Jazz stops breathing to prevent herself from crying, and doesn't need oxygen for a few minutes too long.
Maybe she failed at protecting herself too.
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Jazz is turning eighteen next month. Her parents are all of a sudden more attentive and caring, as if that can change their almost-absence during her whole life. She doesn't like their attention because she doesn't know how to deal with it. She doesn't even really think of them as parents anymore.
She thinks of them as a threat.
Once she's eighteen, she's gonna try to move out, and she's going to take Danny with her because it's not safe to leave him here. Maybe after she gets a good job and saves some money, she'll even get into therapy.
Jazz thinks that she needs therapy.
She's been having Bad Thoughts lately, and she doesn't write them down in her journal. Jazz stopped writing anything in there ever since she found out that Danny is a ghost. She just couldn't risk anyone finding that journal.
Jazz isn't sure if she should call those Bad Thoughts intrusive. They scare her, and they're Bad, but it could be just her normal thought process.
It's still definitely not normal.
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Jazz is eighteen. Her parents are very excited, whispering to each other about how they found a perfect present for her, some surprise that she's gonna love.
She doesn't care.
Her little brother is late from school, and it's weird, because he was also super excited about giving her his present.
She's worried.
Her parents brush off her concern, say that Danny probably just got distracted talking with his friends. They don't listen when she says that Danny wouldn't get distracted like that on her birthday because he's not them, he actually cares about her, he doesn't forget her birthdays, and something has to be wrong for him to be that late.
They don't listen to her at all.
She's angry.
Her parents are excited and talk loudly about how they wanted to find a perfect gift for their favourite daughter, and how they managed to do it because they love her so much. She hates when they're excited. It only leads to problems.
They bring her to the lab because of course they do, why would they make a gift that is normal and isn't kept in the lab, right? They usher her in, so obviously proud of themselves.
She hates them.
And she hates them much, much more the next second, because the gift is her little brother in his ghost form, strapped to a table, unconscious and injured, and the smell of ectoplasm is strong in the lab because of his green blood dripping on the floor.
There's a cold part of her that analyses her feelings and tells her what emotions she's experiencing, and that part is very aware of thick black smoke of wrath twirling and twisting under her skin. It's suffocating, and she stops breathing as it invisibly fills her lungs, scared of letting it out.
There's a perfectly fake part of her that keeps the smile on her face as her parents gush about how hard it was to catch the ecto-scum, and what they can do to it - together with Jazz because they wanted to share this with their amazing daughter.
Jazz is black smoke of rage under perfect glass of calmness when she grabs Fenton anti-creep stick. The smile she learned to fake under any circumstances doesn't falter when Jazz brings the baseball bat down on her father's head. It grows a little bit wider when she hits her mother, because Jazz learned to smile brighter when she's hurt or sad or scared or angry - experiencing any "bad" emotion actually.
Jazz is angry when she grabs her weapon.
Jazz is furious when she kills her parents.
Jazz is worried when she checks her brother's wounds.
Jazz feels nothing when she rigs the portal to blow, walks out of the house and presses the button.
She is her parents' genius daughter after all, and she did listen when they were telling her about their inventions. Maybe it would have taken longer to do, but she had Bad Thoughts, and they probably weren't just intrusive after all, because she did what they told her and made it very easy to make a bomb out of a portal. Just in case. Her parents were a threat, and Jazz was smart enough to prepare to dealing with threats, and she was smart enough to make it look like the threats dealt with themselves.
She really hoped she wouldn't have to use that button though.
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Jazz is nineteen. Her sort-of-friends at uni offer to go to a restaurant, and she tells them that she doesn't celebrate her birthdays. There's a noise of all of them saying that maybe she should try, noise that she really should have expected, because humans are always so excited about any holidays, it's hard for them to understand that someone might not like them. It's not hard to stop that noise though. They shut up very quickly when Jazz says that she had "a very traumatic event" on her birthday.
Good. She doesn't like loud people.
Jazz goes home to her little brother. He's sad because his parents died in an awful explosion a year ago. He's still trying to smile because it's also her birthday, and Jazz is very happy that he's bad at faking a smile.
It means that he won't end up like her.
Jazz hugs her little brother, and he gives her a little present that she adores, and then they sit in silence and eat some takeout. It's very nice.
She never tells Danny that their parents died before the explosion, and that the explosion wasn't an accident, and that their ghosts did form after that because of all the ecto-contamination they had, but she made sure this wouldn't become a problem. She never tells him what she's done, because that would hurt her little brother, and she would never let anything hurt him.
Jazz will protect her little brother from anything.
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