Leo Amicus

Leo Amicus
Official art of Leo Amicus, by Lizzart.
Type	Player Character
Actor	Taliesin Jaffe
Character Information
Class	Face (Journalist)
Age	40s
Family	Raymond, Leo's estranged father Aunt Leanna Unnamed niece
Connections	Candela Obscura Circle of the Crimson Mirror
Status
Status	Alive
Appearances
First seen	"Candela Obscura: Seeking Serenity" (CO4x01)
Last seen	"Candela Obscura: Into the Abyss" (CO4x03)
Stream	Candela Obscura: The Circle of the Crimson Mirror (3 episodes)

Leo Amicus is a "bohemian bachelor who moves through the storied echelons of society with an acute journalistic eye for the eccentric and uncanny." He is played by Taliesin Jaffe.

Description

Leo is in his 40s and well put together, although somewhat foppish in manner. His clothes and accessories are of fine quality.

He enjoys writing, and keeping busy is a comfort to him. Although his profession is nominally that of a journalist, he is in fact a professional man of leisure.

Leo and his Aunt Leanna have a somewhat guarded relationship although she said she cares about both him and his estranged father. When she urged him to take the first step to reconcile with him, noting they were both stubborn, Leo refused, saying the favor he was asking for wasn't enough for that.

Biography

Background

Twenty-three years ago, Leo's sister bought him a birthday present of a clockwork device from a curio dealer. As a game, he and his teen-aged friends (who called themselves "The Dawn Society") set the device in the center of a circle drawn on the ground, and Leo wound it. It began ticking, and the lights went out: there was something in the dark. Leo heard his sister scream while the two others present had their bodies broken by whatever was behind the eyes Leo saw in the darkness. Leo survived but the others did not. He woke up institutionalized from the trauma.

Leo and his father Raymond had not spoken since his sister's death at the time these episodes begin. Leo primarily blames his mother for the estrangement, although his father went along with it.

Leo's cluttered but opulent flat is located in the Red Lamp district of Newfaire on the second floor of 802 Tivery Lane. It is in a wedge-shaped building above a coffee shop named The Endless Well. It serves as the chapter house for the Circle of the Crimson Mirror. In the living room, directly opposite Leo's bedroom door, is a vanity table with a crimson red mirror above it.

Character information

Notable items

• Bleed Detector

Abilities

• Lie Detector
• Sweet Talk

Appearances and mentions

• Candela Obscura
  • "Candela Obscura: Seeking Serenity" (CO4x01) (first appearance)
  • "Candela Obscura: The Gilded Graveyard" (CO4x02)
  • "Candela Obscura: Into the Abyss" (CO4x03)

Quotations

• "Love is special. Love is wonderful. Love is always different. It's honestly a dull word. We use it for far too many things. Wish I could love someone, love my friends, love cheesecake, all in different ways, but unfortunately, we've been given one word for all of this.
• "If it's a problem money can solve, it's not a problem."
• "When did I start crumbling? When do you stop growing and start crumbling?"
• "I suppose money does things to people. I wouldn't know. I've never not had it."

References

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