What About That One Time In RE4 When Ada Thought Leon Was Gonna Kiss Her

Every time Ada’s saved Leon, someone Leon loves, or literally anybody at all: an Ada Appreciation Post. The second installment of this post, except that my memory is a bit spotty in regards to this particular subject because she really does it so…so many times.

Shooting and killing the dog attacking him - the one that’s literally seconds away from doing away with him

Running over Mr X when he’s about to choke Leon out

Blowing up Mr X when he’s about to come back to life

This one is a bit iffy, but legit crouching over Leon’s prone body after he gets shot to shoot back at their attacker? Very sexy. She looks very protective there 1000/10

Patching him up after he gets shot so he doesn’t bleed out, despite the fact that it sets her back in her own pursuits

Giving him a rocket launcher that helps him kill an otherwise unkillable monster he’s trapped with

Saving Leon from getting choked out by shooting his captor

Leaving him useful items in re4, from weapons to info to puzzle pieces

Not shooting him in the back and killing him when she had direct orders to do so in re4

Preventing other people from killing him when she has direct orders to kill him herself - saving him from getting stabbed by Krauser - literally rushing to Leon after she hears about Krauser’s involvement

Saving both Leon and Ashley from Osmund Saddler when he goes to save Ashley by first shooting at Saddler as Saddler tries to to kill Leon and then

Preventing Saddler from going after Leon and Ashley by exploding the exit he flees out of, effectively trapping her in the room with a deranged person

Helping Leon find the cure to his and Ashley’s infection - also helping Luis Sera do the same

Not killing Leon when he’s choking her out. Which isn’t really saving him but damn, Leon’s lucky he only got stabbed in the leg

Providing background support for Leon when he’s fighting on multiple occasions (but most notably in re4 and re6)

Giving him another rocket launcher to help him defeat a (once again) unkillable monster that would otherwise be impossible to defeat

Giving him the keys to a jetski that helps not only Leon but also Ashley escape from an island about to explode

Shooting Deborah Harper as she’s mutating. Debatable, but I’m going to count it anyways. One could even argue that it was Helena she was saving

Giving Leon a ring which he uses to escape from a whole horde of zombies about to murder him later on. A ring which also provides him a way out of the catacombs and frees him and Helena from being trapped underground

Helping Leon and Helena fight Deborah, despite no actual benefit to herself, considering she could have legit just walked right around their battle and continued on her merry way without even letting Leon know she was there

Helping Sherry and Jake fight off infected and the chainsaw mutant

Saving Sherry Birkin from the chainsaw mutant by using her grappling hook and grabbing her out of the way

Helping random civilians on (by my admittedly shoddy count) two to three occasions? In re6 when they’re being attacked by infected in the streets.

Saving hundreds of thousands of people by defeating Carla Radames

Appearing in her helicopter after she’s presumed dead to save Leon and Helena from getting cornered by a small army of infected. Shooting at the groups of infected until Leon and Helena get to safety

Helping Leon and Helena defeat Simmons for the first time around while she’s in the helicopter 

Saving dozens of civilians on the rooftops when they’re being attacked by the enemies

Helping Leon and Helena to defeat Simmons the second time around

- Helping Leon and Helena climb the building without getting torn from the rope by Simmons (providing background support as they’re climbing)

- Fighting Simmons on her own in multiple instances while Leon and Helena provide backup support

- Saving Leon’s life every time he’s downed (which is up to the player and the gameplay, of course)

Fighting off Simmons (dropping him from the roof) when he’s seconds away from knocking Leon from the building and causing him to drop to his death 

Possibly saving even more people by killing Simmons’ next mutant experiment and exploding his labs

Giving Leon yet another rocket launcher to defeat a mutated creature that would otherwise be impossible to kill and who would probably kill thousands of other people if left alive, including Leon and Helena

Giving Leon a helicopter that will gave him a straight shot out of an infected and doomed city

Providing Leon with the means to not only prove his own innocence and Helena’s innocence, but to also put Simmons away and prevent him from hurting anymore people

Making the elevators work in Damnation so Leon and Buddy can escape despite, once again, no possible benefit to herself. This action, btw, involved her risking her life to stay in a place where her cover was blown to hack into the palace servers of the president and get the elevators working - in a building overrun by Lickers, Infected, and X mutants.

Edit: + that time Kendo had a shotgun on Leon and Ada swoops in to save him

Edit: + Let us also not forget that she didn’t follow through with shooting anybody when Leon asked her not to

Edit: + Dropping the ladder for Leon after the Birkin fight. It doesn’t exactly save him, but it’s certainly extremely helpful

Edit: + In RE2 OG (Leon B), Ada shoots at Mr X to draw him away from a cornered Leon at her own risk and then later throws him the rocket launcher to defeat Mr X. AND, 

Edit: + in Claire B, Ada still throws the rocket launcher - only its to Claire - despite them having never met! This allows Claire to defeat Mr X and survive

these are only the ones I can think of off the top of my head. if anybody remembers any others please let me know!

Leon and Ada’s relationship is not ‘forced’: an essay

Here comes the Resident Evil 2 hype again in the wake of its Remake/Reimagination reveal trailers, and with it, all the most stupid complaints I can’t even begin to properly fathom from the shippers’ fanbase.

“Oh but Leon and Ada’s romance doesn’t make any sense, no one falls in love in such a short span of time”, “Leon and Ada’s bond is unrealistic and forced”…

And blah, blah, blah.

Yeah, sure, let’s talk about lack of realism for the romance sector in the same videogames franchise where you have to gun down giant infected zombie frogs. Seems reasonable.

But even so, despite the lore of the game so very distant from what exists in the real world, Leon and Ada’s connection makes sense in and out of its context. Especially in its context, which is the most important part.

Leon is a rookie cop whom, upon his first day in the force, is faced with a gruesome outbreak that wiped out the city almost completely. There are people, dead people, with their deteriorated human faces, attacking to kill. Skinless-only-flesh-blood-arteries-and-human-brain creatures who were once humans as well crawling the delegacy walls. Dead dogs with exposed fractured bones and popping eyes coming as fast as they can for a bite.

And then there’s this woman. “Civilian” woman who’s stuck in the parking garage. Sure, she’s hella attractive, weirdly mysterious, most certainly hiding a few cards of her game, but all he knows is that he wants to save someone – anyone – a human being instead of just shooting undead with HUMAN faces. He has to. He fell straight into this hell not knowing any better because he wanted to be a cop, didn’t he?!

He spends the next total, what? 4? 6? HOURS (maybe even more, since he entered the city by the very beginning of the evening in 09/29, and escaped with Sherry and Claire by dawn/morning of 09/30) trying any imaginable way to escape that shit hole city. Yeah, yeah, the woman runs off on her own like four times, but you have to remember she doesn’t know him at all. When he lectures her about their chances of escaping being improved if they paired up as a team, she seems a bit more inclined to stick with him. And then he takes a bullet in the shoulder for her because that’s what cops do, right? They protect civilians. After confronting Annette, she patches him up, tells him the boyfriend she was looking for is dead, and that they should get going. Escape.

Now, take Ada’s shoes for a sec. She is a secret agent, a spy, on a mission. To retrieve a G-Virus sample. She’s solely in this fucking place dealing with all this apocalyptic situation and the nightmare material monsters because she’s following orders, trying to do her job. She doesn’t need a cop breathing down her neck, delaying her mission’s fulfilment. Plus, she’s looking for the guy she’s been having an affair with the past few months, she expects he’s the one supposed to help her in this: getting her job done, so what good would do her having a cop meddle in all that?

She does her best trying to dismiss him, evade his “hey, let me help you, I’m a police officer, it’s my duty”, runs off, but he seems very serious about it, and what the hell? Maybe this will help her get to John sooner rather than later. Guy gets shot in the shoulder for her, doing his job. While she, doing her job, got stuck in this nightmare filled with horrifying shit that is going to last probably years in her subconscious. Her job is getting her neck in the line for something that is probably harmful to people and even society as a whole, but she doesn’t care (or at least, she’s not supposed to), she does what she’s got to do. His job, on the other hand, involves saving her life, even if demands risking his own well-being for it.

The two are set on escaping, then. They find this cable car that can get them to descend into Umbrella’s lab. Maybe they can find an escape route there. On their way down she gets attacked by a mutated monster, is severely wounded by said monster, but Leon is still very much concerned with her safety, rejecting her pleas for him to move on without her.

Next time they see each other, even though she’s in Umbrella’s Underground Laboratory now, probably already got her hands on that damn sample she needed and should just LEAVE since, again, she’s severely wounded – she finds the time to save him. She’s grabbed and raised in the air like a doll by this massive creature who doesn’t even flinch at her repeatedly shooting at it. Gets thrown in a metal panel, now mortally wounded, and confesses she fell in love with him. In Leon A route, she confesses she wished she could escape with him from… everything.

No need to say that everything doesn’t narrow down to only Raccoon City and their current situation, right?! But also, what got her there in the first place.

Plus, she helps him one more time with a rocket launcher so he can finally leave. Escape this mess. He asks if it’s her. He hopes it is.

Now, if you ever fell in love, you know that things such as chemistry and attraction don’t need YEARS to happen. It can happen in a matter of few hours, maybe minutes or even seconds. It can happen instantaneously. But now, imagine being saved by the person you feel attracted to. Quite literally. Having your life saved by your “crush”.

It affects you, deeply. Changes you. Changes your outlook on life. Changes what you feel. Ada’s entire identity is shaken by Leon jumping in to stop that bullet. Leon’s entire identity is shaken by those final hours with her – the conflict of having Annette planting a seed of suspicion in his trust that he’s doing the right thing and saving a decent, innocent civilian and then witnessing this same person sacrificing herself to save him from the monster that has been hunting him on and off again the entire night. That traumatic, awful, life-changing night.

That’s why he says she’s like a part of him he can’t let go of. That’s why one and a half decade later, he’s pointing his gun at Chris to protect a woman who looks identical to her not knowing better that isn’t her. That’s why Ada disobeys Wesker express orders to execute Leon and saves him so many times you could say she’s his guardian angel.

They changed each other. In that life-changing nightmare of a night.

You fall in love by much less than that. You can literally fall in love by just an affectionate smile at a loud party. With just a conversation.

Resident Evil is not “unrealistic” with Leon and Ada’s connection. Much like it isn’t with Claire and Sherry’s one, who built a mother-daughter bond that lasts to this day.

That’s it. People should get their shit together and come up with better and more honest excuses for not liking the canon romance for these characters in this franchise.

“Forced” is saying that this other girl who most definitely never showed any romantic interest for him whatsoever is better as his pair because she’s “morally” worthy of him. I’m not even gonna tackle how misogynistic this is, but since when love is primarily concerned with a moral compass? Would be better if it was, sure, but very rarely it is. And Ada is not anywhere near aligned with the bad guys when it comes to moral standards, this is clear in the games.

Cut the crap, really. I’m exhausted. Ship whatever you wanna ship, just don’t be intellectually dishonest and CLEARLY derogatory while doing so.

There are plenty of underdeveloped and forced couples in fiction that mysteriously got the canon status out there to pick on. Ada/Leon is not one of them. Shoo. Get a grip of yourselves and stop replying to all Capcom’s tweets and official social media publicity that features Leon and Ada with those stupid, nonsensical opinions no one asked for. 

PS: Last time Leon appeared in canon he was 36 years old. Maybe even older if we start speculating when Vendetta can be placed in the chronology. He’s a grown man who’s more than capable to analyse and sort things out on his own, not a baby who needs to be protected from that “devil woman”, Ada. Actually, in 1998 he’s 21, not a teen. He’s a man there. An inexperienced one, alright, but an adult man. Stop the misogynistic idiocy of always demanding the female character to be held accountable for everything.

PS2: By the way, the other girl, the more “morally worthy”, has a taste for morally ambiguous baddies herself. So, yeah. Guess she doesn’t want to use her mom instincts in a relationship with Leon.

Leon S. Kennedy is a bottom, pass it on

sasuke & naruto

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Ada Wong: Appearances Are  Deceiving

Leon Finds Ada After Her Run-in With Annette:

This scene between them has to be my favorite, even above the kiss scene and the lab scene where Ada falls, because this is the point where you see Ada genuinely trying to convince Leon to leave. Many have already commented on Ada not liking to depend on others when she’s injured, but I’d like to add that the main reason she begrudgingly accepts Leon’s help with her injury is actually because she hates lying to him, taking advantage of his gullibility. It’s a sour taste on the tongue for her, because Leon not only has a good heart, he’s a strong survivor. She eludes as much after the alligator attack. 

Let’s Track Back a Bit:

Directly after Leon’s first encounter with William Birkin, a ladder is cast down and Leon makes the comment about being watched. I hazard to guess that was Ada. Then, we see their introduction to one another and Ada goes out of her way again to offer Leon help, this time saving his life from a Cerberus. She tells him directly to get the hell outta Raccoon. This woman is going out of her way to protect some stranger while she’s got a mission to complete. I won’t state the obviousness of the obvious.

She runs into him again after Ben’s death and tells him a second time to escape. Her following line “Then, we’ll talk.” shows us immediately that she’s interested in him personally, not as someone to use for her mission. Conversely, he’s the one trying to stop her and demand questions. Ada is tangling herself into a situation she knows is bad for her in the long run, yet she keeps helping Leon. She does not immediately rope him in with manipulation. She offers assistance to him twice for certain, then leaves; but like I said earlier, I hazard to guess three times. 

It’s only after he attains the keycard – something she needs but can’t just steal from him, because we’ve already established that Ada has gone out of her way to assist Leon without blatantly saying ‘Hey, I’m FBI and you should help me ‘cause reasons” – that she partners up with him. Ada is acting so foolishly in terms of her mission if you really think about it, because she could have either told him before he needs to assist her, or just outright killed him and taken the keycard. It’s not like anyone would know if she had killed him. It’s the apocalypse. Besides, she’s wasted enough precious time telling him to escape instead of telling him immediately to help her. Leon is obviously not just some pawn.

Back to Leon Giving Ada Aid:

I love how Ada’s expression gives away her true thoughts in this scene. You can tell that she is attempting to talk Leon into leaving one final time and she genuinely means it, because Leon just braved those sewers alone and found her on top of already having taken a bullet for her. She doesn’t know how to act with him now, but she’s also got her mission. Leon has complicated things beyond repair at this point, so Ada attempts one final time to push him away. And in true Leon fashion, he steadfastly refuses. 

Imo, I feel Ada thought she could attain the G-Virus, while also keeping up the facade with Leon and letting him survive Raccoon believing no different. Her dialogue with him right before her fall bolsters my suspicions on this, especially when Leon challenges her to shoot him. Even her final line “Take care of yourself Leon” proves her respect for him. If it were any other time, any other life, these two individuals could work together with no issues of allegiances and make a good team. 

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Opinions welcome.

there’s only one good cop and that’s leon s kennedy

If Undertaker had YouTube...

*R/Ciel in a coffin*

Undertaker: Hello, I am #136649 the necromancer, and tonight we are doing unboxing!!!

Naruto fans: Kakashi always favored Sasuke over Naruto.

Meanwhile Kakashi and Naruto:

I love how Kakashi was always trying to make sure that Naruto is eating his veggies

I can't get over how Sasuke is looking at them here, lmao 😂