Post by Ryan D'Alteau on Sept 6, 2010 18:36:02 GMT -5
Leo Alcroft
Full Name: Leo Alcroft
Age: 45 (born November 7th, 1964)
Civilian or Special: Civilian
Currently Located: New York, NY
Affiliated with: Neutral
Celebrity Claim: Moran, Dylan
Relation to You: Ryan Alcroft's father
While often dressed in a suit, due to his occupation, Leo still has a decently full head of dark brown hair and, when he's not working, can often be seen wearing more casual attire, much like his younger son, Ryan.
While somewhat protective of his offspring and less open-minded than his wife, Leo still endeavours to be the best "family man" he can be (despite his sons being young adults and having left home), which often leads to him allowing himself to be talked around to his wife's way of thinking on numerous occasions.
While Leo, like his wife, is a regular civilian, he was affected by the events of April 4th just like everybody else on the planet. For those fateful four minutes, he had the ability to duplicate himself, creating identical physical copies which - despite essentially being Leo Alcroft as much as he was - had a mind of their own.
The clones were so self-aware thanks to the lack of control over the ability that had spawned them that they disputed the "Prime" Leo's claim that he was the true owner of the identity they shared. Embarrassingly enough, Leo is one of the few people in the world who can claim to have had a fistfight with themselves... not that he would ever talk about it for fears of sounding insane.
Leo's upbringing was a lot like many city kids growing up in London in the Seventies; nearly always surrounded by people and, while not what people would consider "wealthy", his parents did make enough money to get by and get him the education he needed.
As a child, Leo was an argumentative troublemaker, often getting into fights in school; a trait he - through genetics or some parental mistake - would eventually pass onto his first-born son, Darron. His education quickly showed that Leo excelled at the practical side of things rather than the academic side and, upon finishing high school at the age of sixteen - during which he had been a star player in the football (soccer) team - he threw himself into work as a mechanic rather than attend college.
His shift in career didn't really occur until he started to date a young, Irish woman named Rhiannon O'Hara, who - at the time - was a university student. Spending time with her allowed Leo to notice that the rapidly-changing times allowed him to move up in the world and generally make a better life for himself. His epiphany couldn't have had a better timing as, shortly before his birthday in 1982, Rhiannon surprised him with the news that she was pregnant with their first child.
Deciding to step up and do the right thing, Leo and Rhiannon got married - despite the short notice of the occasion - just after Christmas the same year and, in July the following year, Darron screamed his way into the world. Another six years down the line, Ryan followed and, over the course of the next two decades, the two sons left home, leaving the still-happy couple living in the big city though it was New York instead of London.
