Leonid

<!--​ Leonid is a member of the Las Vegas Protectorate team. He and the other Las Vegas Protectorate members left the Protectorate after the failed transport of Pretender. Spoiler Weaver and Leonid talking about Leonid's powers: 29.6 said: I spoke up, “Leonid’s powerset includes the ability to hear everything in a certain range. That means everything, regardless of intervening obstacles, interfering or distracting noises and volume.”

“I can hear your heartbeats,” Leonid said. He was a lean, young twenty-something with long golden hair and a mask with a lion motif. His upper body was draped in a black, skintight, sleeveless, bodysuit, his legs in loose-fitting pants. Complex looking gauntlets and boots encased his extremities, each tipped with wicked, six-inch claws. Not quite what he’d worn when he was on the Vegas Protectorate team. His eyes roved from Cuff to Imp. “I can hear your heartbeat speed up when you look at particular people.” Leonid can hear everything that's said within a certain area around him: 29.6 said: “I don’t like him,” Rachel murmured in my ear.

Imp leaned in to join the conversation, adding, “You do know that Leonid can hear everything that’s said in a certain area around him? There’s no point in whispering.” as if she hadn’t just found that out for herself. Leonid fighting Weaver's group with the other Las Vegas capes: 29.6 said: Listening?

How much noise could thirty bugs make? Or, rather, how much noise could thirty bugs make in the audible spectrum?

No. That didn’t make sense. Floret sensed details without even trying.

She was faking me out, no doubt. Distracting so someone else could pull something.

Leonid was utterly still, no doubt focusing on the various sounds. On heartbeats and breathing, the creaks of our muscles moving and joints shifting. He was the one to watch. He’d said it himself. He was the hand that drew attention so the others could pull their tricks.

Which didn’t make him any less threatening.

Secondary powers of sound detection and sound manipulation, adjusting select things to be up to twice as loud or absolutely silent. It gave him a stranger classification, a thinker classification.

His third power was a mover power.

...

Leonid screamed, double volume, and it was an eerie, echoing scream that bounced through the area, each echo lower in pitch than the last.

Not that he needed it to reach that far. Each echo of the scream coincided with a fraction of him fading out of existence.

Simultaneously phasing those parts of him in behind our group.

Canary had started to sing, nervous, but Leonid faded in behind her. Two seconds to teleport.

Rachel raised her hands to her mouth to whistle. No sound came out.

I turned, opened my mouth to shout, but Leonid had muted us.

I pointed, instead, but Canary didn’t get my meaning.

Rachel couldn’t get her dog’s attention with snaps or whistles.

Leonid reached out with his claw, up for her throat-

And Rachel tackled him, gripping his wrists. Canary was entirely unawares, up until one of them kicked her ankle in their struggles.

...

Even at this juncture, I knew it wasn’t an even fight. Satyr had outright admitted his team wasn’t a match for ours in a brawl.

Canary tentatively stepped on Leonid’s right hand. Rachel’s dogs got his legs. He screamed, and that sound wasn’t muted.

He began to phase out, reappearing by Satyr. He climbed to his feet.

We outnumbered them, we had better combat powers. The outcome wasn’t in doubt.

Which made Imp’s maneuver all the more insane.

She stepped out into the middle of the group and held the sphere high.

Rotated it, then rotated it back.

Sound resumed around us, as Leonid dismissed the silence effect. -->

Leonid is a hero with his ear to the ground.

Appearance
Leonid is a lean man with golden hair. He wears a mask with a lion motif, a black skintight sleeveless bodysuit, and loose-fitting pants, leaving some skin exposed. After leaving the Las Vegas Protectorate, he started to wear complex-looking gauntlets and boots with six-inch claws.

Abilities and Powers
Leonid has the power to hear everything within a certain range of himself regardless of volume and intervening obstacles or noises. He can also manipulate particular sounds, from absolute silence up to twice as loud. He also has the ability to teleport to anywhere within earshot of a given sound by using the echoes to gradually phase out over the course of about two seconds, giving him Thinker, Stranger, and Mover ratings, respectively. In application, Leonid described himself as one of the "active guys" of Vegas Dark.

Post-Echidna
Leonid was present along with his teammates when Contessa freed Pretender from the Protectorate in Las Vegas.

He defected along with the other members of the Las Vegas Protectorate before New Delhi.

Gold Morning
A Satyrical clone of Leonid guarded the entrance to Cauldron's base. The real Leonid and his teammates tried to stop Weaver's group from entering the base when Scion was attacking it during Gold Morning. In the ensuing fight, Leonid used his sound manipulation powers to track sounds inaudible to normal humans, silence everything within his range, and teleport behind his opponents using the echoes of an amplified scream, but he was eventually taken out by a combination of Weaver's insects, Canary stepping on his hand, and Bitch's dogs attacking his legs.

Trivia

 * Leonid is erroneously referred to as "Leonine" in parts of Venom 29.3.