Stephen Leeds

Stephen Leeds
by Jon Foster
Abilities	Aspects
Titles	Legion
Profession	Private Investigator
Homeworld	Earth (Legion)

“My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad. ”

—Stephen Leeds

Stephen Rhone Leeds is a private investigator living in America.

Appearance and Personality

Stephen is a rather bland man in his thirties with a mundane face.

Stephen does not like being studied by psychologists, something they attempt quite often. He is often quite snappish and rude towards them, and sometimes this spills out into his relationship with his butler, Wilson, and his aspects. He has a reputation as a reclusive and amoral jerk. He himself concurs on reclusive and jerk. He also repeatedly denies the characterization of him as a genius, insisting that it is his aspects who are smart. When confronted about Sandra, he grows angry and impulsive.

Attributes and Abilities

Stephen has the capability to process large amounts of information subconsciously. This, combined with his mental strangeness, led to the creation of aspects, compartments of his brain that manifest as hallucinations. Each aspect specializes in manifesting one (or sometimes more) areas of his subconscious knowledge. Stephen must have the aspects re-tell him the information he already knows in order to process it directly.

Stephen is able to skim a book or listen to a tape and create an aspect with the knowledge from that book or tape, even though he doesn't process the information directly. In a similar vein, he is able to skim a sheet of facts and have an aspect "read" it to him later.

Typically, Stephen's aspects stay in their rooms in his mansion, accompanying him when necessary. Sometimes, however, he will call them all together to a large white room in order to have the expertise on every subject to solve more difficult problems.

Stephen uses his abilities to solve cases as a private detective. He calls himself a specialist- one who specializes in many different areas.

History

Career Prior to the Razon Case

Stephen took on many cases as a private investigator, including one involving a teleporting cat. The police are often involved, and he is sometimes employed by the government.^{[citation needed]} During this time, he met Sandra and she taught him to control his aspects.^{[citation needed]}

Search for Razon's Camera

Stephen met with Monica and agreed to take on a case for her tracking a camera that can look into the past. He traveled first to Razon's house, then to Jerusalem. On the way, he created a linguist aspect, Kalyani. There, he was captured by the Abu Sayyaf, who had also captured the camera's creator, along with the camera. He convinced them to free him so he can get a good look at the camera. However, Monica's subsequent escape provoked a shooting match, during which J.C. is able to help Stephen shoot all of their captors. One of the captors didn't quite die and was able to pull the pin on a grenade, which injured Stephen and Monica and rendered the camera unusable and irreparable. Stephen returned to his mansion, with the bulb from the camera, and refused to help Monica further. He created an aspect that knows about quantum physics, Arnaud.

The I3 incident

Stephen met with an old friend, Yol Chay. Yol asked Stephen to find a dead body and gives him a 10% share in Innovation Information Incorporated, the biotech company owned by Yol, as a consultation fee. Since Stephen was then a stockholder in I3, he felt compelled to help investigate. Stephen first met with the I3 scientist team to learn that Panos, the dead person whose body was missing, had encrypted data written into his body, then he investigated by poking around Panos' desk and office. Yol informed him that he had to leave I3 headquarters, as it would soon be put under quarantine by the feds.

Stephen met with his aspects in the White Room to go over the information he had. He decided the first step was a trip to the coroner's office, but unfortunately, he was tailed on the way there. Suspecting an assassin, Zen Rigby, he confronted the tail, but it turned out to be Dion Maheras, Panos' younger brother. Zen was tailing him as well, just not as obviously. Leaving Dion in the car, Stephen met with the coroner, Liza. She allowed him entry to the morgue and he deduced that a visitor had left tape on the door to obstruct it from locking. He left with a flash drive containing the security tapes. Zen confronted him, demanding to see the drive, assuming it had the key for decrypting the information in Panos' body. Once Stephen alerted the security guard, however, Zen was forced to leave. After realizing he was being tailed by an assassin, Stephen set in to motion a plan that he hoped would save his life. Stephen next went to the Maheras household and spoke to Panos' mother. She refused to give him any information.

After stating that he would break into Exeltec, the company that had hired Zen, he realized that Zen had bugged him during the confrontation outside the morgue. Because of this, he decides against breaking in. He takes Dion to Denny's for a quick break. When they return to the car, Zen is waiting for them. Zen separates him from all his aspects but Audrey and takes him to a cellar, awaiting orders from her superiors at Exeltec. Zen is about to kill Stephen when Wilson buys 60% of Exeltec in his behalf, allowing him to vote himself owner and call Zen off. He returns to Mrs. Maheras' house, where he finds the encryption key behind Panos' portrait and gives Panos' body (which Mrs. Maheras had) to the feds for cryogenic freezing.

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