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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.{{book ref|legion|5}} In a similar vein, he is able to skim a sheet of facts and have an aspect "read" it to him later.{{book ref|legion|4}}
Stephen regularly binges on all kinds of information so that his aspects can tell it to him later.{{book ref|legion3|8}}
Typically, Stephen's aspects stay in their rooms in his [[Stephen Leeds' mansion|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.{{book ref|legion2|8}}
== History ==
=== Life and Career Prior to the Razon Case ===
Sometime in his twenties, Stephen met Sandra at Camrid Hotel{{book ref|legion3|2}} and she taught him to control his hallucinations, turning them into aspects.{{book ref|legion3|5}}
Stephen took on many cases as a private investigator, including one involving a teleporting cat.{{book ref|legion2|8}} The police are often involved,{{book ref|legion2|11}} and he is sometimes employed by the government.{{cite}}▼
▲After Sandra left, Stephen took on many cases as a private investigator, including one involving a teleporting cat.{{book ref|legion2|8}} The police are often involved,{{book ref|legion2|11}} and he is sometimes employed by the government.{{cite}}
=== Search for Razon's Camera ===
Stephen met with [[Monica]] and agreed to take on a case for her tracking a [[Razon's camera|camera that can look into the past]].{{book ref|legion|3}} He traveled first to Razon's house,{{book ref|legion|4}} then to Jerusalem. On the way, he created a linguist aspect, [[Kalyani]].{{book ref|legion|5}} There, he was captured by the [[wikipedia: Abu Sayyaf|Abu Sayyaf]], who had also captured the [[Balubal Razon|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.{{book ref|legion|7}} Stephen returned to his mansion, with the bulb from the camera, and refused to help Monica further.
=== The I3 incident ===
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.{{book ref|legion2|16}} He takes Dion to [[wikipedia: Denny's|Denny's]] for a quick break.{{book ref|legion2|17}} 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.{{book ref|legion2|18}} 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.{{book ref|legion2|20}} 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.{{book ref|legion2|21}}
=== Chasing Sandra ===
During the months following the I3 incident, Stephen stops dating{{book ref|legion3|4}} and taking on cases.{{book ref|legion3|11}}
At least eighteen months after the I3 incident, Stephen manifested a new aspect, [[Jenny]].{{book ref|legion3|1}} Jenny claimed to be a biographer, but Stephen was not sure why she was manifested.{{book ref|legion3|8}} Just afterwards, he received a series of texts from Sandra, starting with HELP and including a cipher that points to a drop point at a fairgrounds.{{book ref|legion3|2}} After he received these messages, he attempted to meet with all his aspects, only to find [[Armando]] had become a nightmare.{{book ref|legion3|3}} He continued to the drop point at the fairgrounds and found a phone there, which Sandra calls him on.{{book ref|legion3|5}} She claimed to have found peace by ridding herself of her aspects, partially confirming a long-running fear of Stephen's aspects that a further meeting with Sandra would lead to Stephen being "cured".{{book ref|legion|6}}
Stephen broke in to [[Wode|Walters and Ostman Detention Enterprises]], only to find out he had broke in to a simulation.{{book ref|legion3|10}} [[Kyle]], the president of WODE, put him into another simulation, this time of a deserted island. [[Lua]] teleported in and helped him break out by making a catamaran, but broke too many rules and had to disappear.{{book ref|legion3|12}} He was put into another simulation, this time of a mob raiding a casino, and [[Ivy]], J.C. and [[Ngozi]] all die in the crossfire. Breaking more rules, [[Chin]] spoke directly into Stephen's mind, telling him how to add the WODE employees to the simulation. Stephen was able to do this because he can see outside of the simulation even while within it. Stephen used J.C.'s gun knowledge (the first time he was able to use an aspect's knowledge after their death) to shoot the mobsters and Kyle using the simulated guns.{{book ref|legion3|13}} He then entered Sandra's simulation for one last goodbye. All of his other aspects died, returning back to the shadowy, schizophrenic voices they were twelve years ago. All except Jenny.
Stephen went to Wilson's birthday party.{{book ref|legion3|14}} After he excused himself to upstairs, Jenny appeared and told him that she was made from his experience handling aspects, and then she drifts away, leaving her knowledge behind. Stephen sat down to write a book, or perhaps series of books, chronicling recent events. Once he finished, a shadow sounding like Tobias encouraged him to write a sequel telling of ''future'' adventures his aspects might have had.{{book ref|legion3|epilogue}}
== Trivia ==
* It is implied that the books Stephen writes in the epilogue of ''Lies of the Beholder'' are in fact ''[[Legion]]'', ''[[Legion: Skin Deep]]'' and ''[[Lies of the Beholder]]''. This is similar to ''The Hobbit'', where Bilbo is implied to have written the book after having experienced the events therein.{{book ref|legion3|epilogue}}
* Stephen was originally created during a brainstorming session with [[Dan Wells]]. Dan said that the concept of a schizophrenic who used his hallucinations as a superpower was more of a [[Brandon]] book than a Dan book, so Brandon eventually wrote the character in the ''Legion'' trilogy.{{wob ref|11555}}{{wob ref|7086}}
* Lemonade has no special significance. Stephen just really likes lemonade.{{wob ref|6108}}
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