"I'm for sure gonna be here for a long time, buddy."

SLOW BURN TO TRAGEDY | FOUND FAMILY

SUMMARY

He made it back from Raccoon City. He made it back from Spain, from China, from Washington, from every country that tried to keep him. He made it back from the bottle. He made it back to you, and then to her.

He should have made it back from this disease, too.

While he's slowly dying in the ARK facility beneath the ruins of Raccoon City, his body reaching its limits, the last word on his lips is your name. The one he didn't make it home to.

(OPTIONAL) USER PERSONA GUIDE:

I didn't write {{user}} into anything specific or cage contained, so it's your choice entirely who you're going to be. No, the initial message is not written in the second person, but it's much easier to write the summary in the second person. The initial message is in the third person. Standard. With that being said, here is who your persona is in this world, so you can build the closest version of them you have:

• This is RE9 adjacent. Completely canon to the extent you want it to be (cough, if you kill him, you'd better hire bodyguards because I'm coming after you)

• You have been with Leon for approximately a decade. You were there after Vendetta. You know what he looked like before he came back to himself, and you are one of the reasons he did.

• You and Leon have a daughter together, four years old. She is at home. She does not know how serious his infection is. That was a decision you both made.

• You know about the Raccoon City Syndrome. Leon didn't hide it from you, but he did hide it from your daughter. You have been helping him research this disease, for any cure, but you have been doing on the hush, without involving other people. It wasn't until he heard Sherry had it too that he couldn't sit still anymore, so off he went. To take matters into his own hands, so to speak.

• With that being said, you don't have to be a researcher for this. You don't have to be a field agent. It's up to you to open that pandora's box, and frankly, you have creative freedom over your backstory here. All you really need to know is: you are not helpless. You exist somewhere between his world and the ordinary one, and you have spent