Leonardo Kevin Mattias

[Leonardo K. Mattias]

:: Leonardo Kevin Mattias ::

Basics!

:: Nicknames: Leon / Leo / Le
:: AGE: 28
:: BIRTHDAY: February 3
:: GENDER: Male
:: SEXUALITY: Bisexual
:: FACE CLAIM: Ben Barnes
:: MEMBER GROUP: Werewolf
:: JOB: Information broker
:: LANGUAGES SPOKEN: Italian and English


Personality!

:: LIKES:

• Excitement - A patron of the surprise and austere, Leon enjoys the adrenaline rush that comes with excitement. He enjoys dangerous situations with little regard for injury to himself or to others. Growing up, he actually enjoyed picking fights for no other reason than to fight and make others irritated at him. As a young adult, he's more for action that comes with sports and less than lawful deeds. It's fun to scare the living daylights out of people too.
  
• Glass blown figurines - His "most precious" sister liked them first, and overtime he grew to like them as well though he insists for different reasons. He collects them and tends to store them in places where people can't see. He's not self-conscious, he just doesn't want the judgement that comes with a man liking 'girly' things such as that. People tend to piss him off when they judge without understanding, and he won't tolerate it against him.
  
• Jogging - Mostly it's a stress relief really. Leon enjoys running his body ragged with sprints that leave him on the edge of exhaustion. Mostly it's the adrenaline rush that gets to him the most and makes him feel the best. However, it's also the sheer fact that he's naturally fast that he likes to prove on a daily basis.
  
• Magazines - Less than admirable ones if you catch his drift. He collects them and tends to cut them out and do decoupage with them when he finds interesting ones. Again, decoupage is totally a manly thing, but he keeps the stuff he works on and his magazines in general out of sight most of the time.
  
• Traveling - Leon naturally likes traveling and going different places. This may be the reason that his jobs never really hold long at any time outside of what is handed to him by his father and his information broking.
  

:: DISLIKES:

• Setbacks - Anything that can deter his plans tends to drive Leon up a wall. He hates it beyond reason and tends to get easily frustrated when there are a mass of setbacks at any given moment in time. He also tends to break down when major setbacks threaten to wreck him.
  
• Bland foods- Things like breads or tofu that don't have tastes in themselves tend to make Leon 'bleh' at best. He doesn't mind stacking them with better tests in order to enjoy things like sandwiches, but on its own, he doesn't tolerate it well and tends to refuse it.
  
• Violence around Gwen- He will not tolerate any shows of violence around his sister. He would rather keep everything that he does physically out of her life least it scar her some how. When there is a tense situation, he's prone to directing it away from Gwen as much as possible. He won't admit it might be just cause she's a young woman and insists it's just 'because she's family'.
  
• Tight clothes- Such clothes resist movement and easily shred when he transforms a lot of the time. Because of this, Leon makes it a habit to try and wear lose clothes in order to try and avoid this a little more than before.
  
• Hot weather- When it gets too hot, he tends to get irritated easier than normal, and Leon recognizes this. Because of it, he tends to hate heat for what it does to him.
  

:: HABITS:

• Twisting a few strands of hair with his fingers
  
• Over analyzing a situation to the point it's nearly meaningless
  

:: STRENGTHS:

• Positive - Leon has a gift for hope that keeps him going even in the most terrible of situations. He does his best to keep positive in the worst of situations which allows him to deal with them a lot easier than he would normally. Like most people, he is prone to breaking down rather badly at times, but he can rebuild himself up with this hope usually.
  
• Street smarts- Leon knows his way around the streets and is generally comfortable with everything that goes on on them. He knows how to talk and knows when to act. He has a gut that allows him to figure out people for the most part and leads him to generally correct conclusions on things.
  
• Sports - Leon is pretty good at most sports and enjoys physical activity in general. His favorite game is basketball considering he's tall enough to have an advantage over most people.
  
• Information- Leon knows how to get it out of people, and he generally doesn't forget any sort of juicy bits of information when he does find it. Going along with his street smarts, he's generally good at dealing with info.
  
• Spontaneous - Leon isn't the most repetitive of person, and thus he is somewhat hard to track on any given day. He does come home, but his hours tend to be as vague as 'night' at best more often than not.
  

:: WEAKNESSES:

• Lack of control- When he transforms, Leon loses his head pretty much. He has very little control over what he does when he transforms and instincts take over making him reckless and feral more often than not. He particularly dislikes his werewolf form and finds it more of a irritant than anything.
  
• Social connections- Because of his job and the way he views people more often than not, Leon tends to have stressed social connections even between himself and his sister when he's particularly busy. He has a hard time keeping long-lasting relationships including those with women whom he prefers to flirt with more than actually date. His lifestyle is always moving and rarely one that settles down. It's the type that can drive a person mad over time and can be particularly stressful in various ways.
  
• Passive aggressive- He tends to work other people up by his sly and generally mailable words that tend to make him passive aggressive. When he's irritated, he generally won't let anyone know but will broad for hours on end often wrecking his plans and mental health till he finds a perfect retribution.
  
• Chronically ambivalent- He rarely has the best feelings or the worst feelings about anyone or anything. He tends to over analyze things taking them apart and reducing them to nothing more than ash.
  
• Sarcastic- He enjoys a lot of sarcasm and tends to use it heavily. However, it causes a lot of unnecessary tension more often than not.
  

:: OVERALL PERSONALITY:
The suave smooth talking child of the president of the Mattias Gun and Weapon Company, Leonadro Mattias is a man known for his eloquence and reserved yet charming atmosphere. He fits easily into the 'center man of the room' type, one whose approachable but aloof more often than not. He keeps up a charming conversation but keeps personal information to himself often redirecting conversation to other people's personal notes. He's fairly greeting with a cool smile and an easy laugh when he deems it appropriate. Words can be exchanged for hours, but one will never know much more than what one came in with when it comes to Leon. At parties, he is almost always walking shifting from one crowd to the next never really picking favorites save for the few that he directs on a daily basis who are normally at his heels. In this way, it is somewhat hard to get an idea of what Leo truly is as a person.

Around the right people, namely those that he considers trustworthy, Leo lowers the veil of aloofness and becomes more of what he truly is. Hard--pressed, conniving, strict, and demanding, Leon wields a boss nature when it comes down to it. He gives orders, demands, and rules like a drill Sargent who would not tolerate anything less than absolute perfection. He grinds on people's fears to make them do what he wants and won't hesitate to rip a few heart strings in order to ensure he has control. He enjoys using those that are weaker than himself both physically or financially for his own personal gain, and anyone can be used-- even family. If one will not submit, he will make them submit.

Leon is a man of information. He takes it in and uses it as he pleases often twisting it around to help him climb a social or financial ladder. When not 'helping' his father's company in management and transferring guns here and there, he actively works as an information broker. People have secrets, and he enjoys tearing it out of them with a soft gentle but violent surgical knife. When he can get a hold of something that he can hang over someone else, he uses them as his puppets. There are very few that he would consider anything but toys or pieces to be moved around where he chooses. Though he values willing control over anything, Leo relishes the sounds of suffering that comes with people who try to fight against him and realize that they can't. Leon is very aware of his own position of power in the economy and social world, and he'll use it as he pleases.

Mostly because their tongues waggle like dog's, Leon favors the company of women. Their gossip tends to be not only amusing to him but useful in the long run. However, as for actually becoming intimate with anyone, Leon keeps it at arm's length. He hides the fact that he is bisexual rather than heterosexual mostly due to the scrutiny he suffered as a child for it, but to Leon, it doesn't matter anyways. Who would want to fall in love? It makes you weak among other things. You fall to pieces and start being emotional, and that simply isn't logical! He actually utterly despises Valentines Day the most out of any holiday he can think of. Physically, he also refuses to become intimate more often than not. Getting into scandal would simply look bad, and he believes himself to be more controlled than that, of course.

Despite being rich and not really having to work if he really didn't want to, Leon is a man of action. He enjoys dong things and getting work done above anything else. Overseeing projects gives him goosebumps, and watching as millions of minions help him raise his own power is nothing short of magical. He loves the conductor's seat in a symphony even if he can't read music at all and scarcely really has any appreciation for it. The sense of being over others in general is enough to make him more giddy than a school girl.

Beyond this, Leo does have some more or less redeeming qualities. Though he often claims to feel nothing towards any of his family members, he truly enjoys being around them. As a child who grew up with his father never at home, Leo craves something he was never given as a child- the attention and love of a father. Sure he had his mother, but it was never the same as what he imagined he could do with his father. He grew very spiteful and critical of others mostly because of this, and even now his father's name uttered by someone's lips is enough to make him cringe. However, towards his mother and siblings, even his much younger sister half-sister who had put tension between his parents by being born, he is nothing short of a good big brother. Though he tells himself time and time again that he would use his siblings like the dolls he considered other creatures to be, he really can't. He cares too much, and it makes him more frustrated than he would ever admit to. He wants to say that he has complete control even over this instance. He wills it so much, but it is simply untrue.


History!

:: MOTHER: Nadia Mattias
:: FATHER: Mitchel Mattias
:: SIBLINGS:
Michelangelo Mattias - brother (25)
Raphael Mattias- brother (23)
Gwendolyn 'Gwen' Mattias - half-sister (12)
:: SPOUSE: N/A
:: CHILDREN: N/A
:: PETS: A number of horses he bought on a whim and put on a farm in the English Countryside.

:: HISTORY:
Nadia and Mitchel Mattias were a relatively old couple. Mitchel had spent years trying to get his company off the ground, and Nadia had waited patiently for him. When they finally did start having children after Mitchel had made his first million dollars, Leo was the product of it. Raised with everything he could ever want even from the cradle, Leon was given a personal nanny that worked alongside his mother to ensure his happiness. However, even back then, Mitchel was always busy. The first few years were somewhat stressed but for the most part decent, but soon enough, Michelangelo came along after Mitchel and Nadia seemed to be going through some serious tension here and there. Another nanny was hired into the house to help care for Mikey as he was dubbed rather early on. In a few years after that right before Leo was going to start preschool, Raphael was born. It would be only years later that the boys would realize that their closet-TMNT-spatstic parents had named them after the ninja turtles, but it would be a subject of confusion for a while up till then when Leo went into school and his peers laughing for some reason.

As he grew older, Leon would enter a true private school for 'gifted' children... mostly just rich kids, really. It was here that Leon would slowly grow introverted. He was relatively intelligent for his age and seemed to intuitively know the answers to questions that were asked in class, but he was always reluctant to speak. He hated when others stared at him for knowing things, and the last thing he ever wanted to be called was the teacher's pet. Leon spent a lot of time alone whenever he could and tended to resist working in groups. When his teachers noted this in their reports and when his father read it, Mitchel took it upon himself to 'help' his son become more extroverted. However, help actually consisted of hiring people to speak to his son and try and force him out of his shell. It was actually very traumatic for the most part and tended to drive Leon to tears easily- which his younger brothers tended to laugh at because they knew no better. It only caused Leon to feel worse, and he crumbled quite a lot inside due to lack of self-confidence.

However, due to his age and due to the malleability of his psychology at that moment, Leon slowly began to grow a split in his personality. He created an outgoing mask for himself which the 'helpers' argued was their doing when his father asked, and he never dropped it till he went to bed at night. It was those moments when he stared at the ceiling waiting to fall asleep that he began to realize how much he hated doing it. He never protested considering he craved his father's praise, but deep down, spite was seeded very early on. As he grew up through elementary school, this spite would spread not only towards his fathers but to his teachers and peers as well. He was slowly coming to the conclusion that they were all as fake as he was being forced to be, and he hated them all for it. However, he would never say it....

It was when he was eight years old that Leon would transform for the first time in the peak of the full moon. He succeeded in going berserk and shredding his room to pieces and nearly biting his brother much Nadia's horror. Mitchel had kept a secret all those years, it seemed, and it may have been one of the actual reasons he kept putting off the wedding so much. He was a werewolf- a businessman were-wolf who was much older than he had let her know and who had pretty much left his pack to learn more about humans and the like- but one still. Nadia was horrified at first and promptly fainted. Thankfully, Mitchel was more in control and managed to control his son that night. It was only after that that Leon realized he was a half-werewolf, and as his father explained, he did his best to try and get control. However, each time he transformed was the same: he went berserk and tended to destroy things. Mitchel finally concluded it was because his son was only half that he had very little control, and this only irritated Leo. What was he supposed to do, hide out on the full moons? He began to take care of his schedule in order to to compensate for it. He started tying himself up on full moons to keep from destroying things. Thankfully things at school progressed as normal.

Middle school was amusing and terrible. As many of his peers grew interested in the opposite sex and the like, Leon distilled his feelings more and more. He began to learn how to manipulate people's emotions and began to use just a few of his peers calling them 'friends' until he watched them tear each other apart from his few words. It was fun. It was fun to watch them fight for him. Despite what he subconsciously did to people, they flocked to him. He had developed somewhat of a charming air in order to confuse and confound the other students. It was fun, and girls fell for him like dominoes. Oh how he hated them. By the time high school started, he was infamous in the school as a 'heart-breaker' despite the fact that he refused to date even one person anyways. It was amusing ever still. His parents worried when he never brought home friends, but he assured them he had skype. That was good enough if necessary. Most of the time he just played WoW because he felt like it.

However, it was in his freshman year of high school that scandal would break out. A woman came forwards claiming that she was pregnant and that Mitchel was the father. Mitchel tried to subdue the rumors, but it only got worse as people claimed he was covering them up. Nadia was horrified and threatened divorce, yet somehow Mitchel managed to keep them together promising that he would somehow 'fix' this. In the end, the woman was paid a large sum of money, and Nadia and Mitchel were given the baby to raise as their own. That being said, Leo was old enough to see what was happening and know damn well that his mother hadn't had the baby she was now claiming as her own. It irritated him at first, and he confronted his parents about it several times. However, his father preached family honor and appearances, and his mother told him that if he didn't stay quiet, he'd be kicked out of the house. He'd never been so dumbstruck by his parents but finally bent to their will on the matter.

As years went on, Leo did decently well in school, graduated, and got into college as soon as he could. He was sick and tired of the pressure at home that was growing every day due to the woman constantly calling and 'wanting her baby back'. Leo refused to confide with anyone how he felt on the subject not even his brothers whom he got along well with decently on most days, but deep down he loathed the drama of his own home. He ended up going to a renowned party school where he would get by with less than good grades and start actively using more people. He willing "dated" several times so that he could bring a girl home for Christmas and prone that he was 'doing something more with his life' or something like that. His parents never bought it, and relationships never got anywhere. However, they seemed to appreciate the gesture, and he enjoyed the fun of toying with others.

Graduating in the top two percent of a 'economics' major that couldn't quite be called economics, Leo went into the 'family business' when his father offered him a job. It was something to do he supposed and brought in income that his parents were now refusing to give him. During that time, he actually began to build his own underground network and did decently as a night information broker after the encouragement from a 'friend' from the same school he had gone to. He did well and used the tools he had fostered over the years to become a leading man all under his father's nose. He made a fortune in his own right and began to travel more and more frequently with various people here and there.

Now he does whatever he feels like whenever he feels like.





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