REALLY thinking the voice talking to Leon is Sherry Birkin. it sounded like her.

beauty queens!! lesbians!!

yes!

thank you for coming to my tedtalk.

he remembers when her resilience didn’t belong to her, where being strong meant surviving something she never should have endured. and he could do nothing.

so his protectiveness isn’t about preventing her from acting, it’s about controlling the conditions that allow her to act freely.

Caleb watched a version of her who had no autonomy; where her consent was overwritten, and her strength was measured, regulated, and weaponized. she was denied the right to exist like a normal little girl. and she suffered for it. over and over again.

I’ve seen people mistake his vigilance as a belief that she needs sheltering, or that it’s stealing her autonomy. I think that misses the point tbh.

he’s protecting a timeline where she is allowed to exist freely.

aaaw 🥹

that makes sense 🙂‍↕️ since umbra is the root of both, and umbra essentially means shadow, it was a great word to use for umbreon! :)

yep, last night! I thought it sounded like a cool call sign for a stealth unit.

I named him Dr Pepper.

Kaia lore is my parents got me a puppy when I was really little and I’d say we were puppies together, and I’d eat dog treats with him under the table.

genuinely I appreciate your message, and I hope you remember the same for yourself too. :)

yknow… I wish I could say it was. 😵‍💫 lmao

haha and you’d be right because that’s exactly where my sorry ass plucked the little fucker from: a cellophane Halloween bag.