Resident Evil Requiem voice actor Nick Apostolides has said that “half the fans would want to hang me” if he picked a side between Leon S. Kennedy’s main love interests.
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The question, asked by PC Gamer, follows Requiem’s revelation that Leon is seemingly married. Concept art for Leon wearing a wedding band can be unlocked within Requiem, while its ending appears to show the grizzled agent putting his ring back on, having kept it in a pocket for safe keeping.
Now, Apostolides has been asked what he’d like Leon to do next after the events of Requiem (“settle down for once”) and whether he’d like Leon to settle down with long-term love interest Ada Wong, specifically.
“I would just love to see him kind of settle down for once, maybe open an ice cream parlor,” Apostolides said. “I think he deserves a little break, a little vacation, and maybe still fight zombies once in a while.”
But would Leon be settling down with Ada? “I don’t know, I feel like I could get into big trouble for saying that,” Apostolides replied. “Half the fans would want to hang me.”
The question of who Leon might be married to has been hotly-debated by fans this week, as Requiem (perhaps by design) leaves the question open. Could it be Ada, who Leon once said was “like a part of me I can’t let go”? The pair have a spiky relationship throughout the series, though there’s undeniable tension there.
Indeed, an IGN poll published earlier this week shows far wider support for Ada to be Leon’s wife than any other popular candidate, including Claire Redfield. The co-star of Resident Evil 2 was Leon’s partner during the Raccoon City incident, though has arguably shared less screentime with Leon throughout the series overall.
And while Apostolides isn’t officially picking a side, he did admit he was an Ada fan. “Hate her all you want,” he said of the character, “but Leon wouldn’t be alive if it wasn’t for her. I think she saved him three, four times. Give her a little break, I don’t hate her.”
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