Leo Floris White

"Beautiful and so powerful." -Vincent describing Leo

"It's not about fun. These powers are apart of us. We have to fight in order to live."

Leo Floris White, or just simply Leo, also known as Experiment 278: The Seraph, is one of the experiments of the SSS, and one of the main characters of Bonds: Retribution Prophecy.

Appearance
Leo is of slender build and relatively short stature. He has pale skin, and light green-blonde voluminous hair. His eyelashes and eyebrows are the same color. His eyes are pink, though often reflect purple and orange hues.

Leo wears a black leather jacket adorned with military-esque cords, zippers, and belts. Underneath he wears a long-sleeved white shirt with frilled cuffs and a cravat. He wears a pair of cropped black gloves and pants that resemble sleek biker pants with built-in knee-pads and multiple fastening belts. His shoes are black with two buckles.

The armor he creates with his powers is jet black, sleek, and tall, with stilted blade-like legs with whitened segments. His helmet's visor resembles jagged pointed teeth and ends in two horn-like flairs. In an attempt to appear more intimidating, the armor is much taller and well built looking than he actually is.

When consumed by rage and agony, flames cloak him and his entire form takes on a silhouetted appearance only defined by stark white outlines and his own bright eyes. He also appears to emit two horn-like flames from his head, resembling his armor.

Personality
Leo's an experiment of the SSS. To the general public, his resistance is viewed as terrorism. Though he uses his abilities as a seraphim to burn buildings, Leo always leaves an escape route for those inside. Furthermore, he is shown protecting others with his flames. He is adamant that the SSS should never kill and is incredibly passionate about protecting those who cannot protect themselves. Leo is one of the most powerful experiments, intelligent, and a reliable leader. However, his passion and abilities may also lead to his downfall due to his heavy sympathy towards his people, the other experiments.

Leo is also a very talented individual. He can play the piano, guitar, violin, bass, viola, flute, and drums at a professional level. He can also draw, sing, dance, sculpt, and many other things. It was normal to learn these things in his family, but he isn't arrogant about any of it. In fact, he's rather humble and even offers to help people with whatever they need. Despite seeming practically perfect in whatever he does, it's shown he's far from perfect.

His determination to extinguish all that is wrong leads him into wanting to understand the SSS more and what they are fighting for. He won't target a group of people without knowing why. He wants to protect all who are innocent. This can make him a little too faithful and easy to be deceived.

He tends to not follow orders that prevent immediate action, nor does he do well when dealing with his superiors. His impatience and impulsive nature can get the best of him. Despite this, he has enough restraint to leave when his emotions overwhelm him.

Vincent describes Leo as "Beautiful and so powerful."

Powers and Abilities
Immortality: A seraph, like all angels, by nature, can't die by any natural means of death. They are impervious to bullets, knives, bombs, and any other conventional human ways of killing.

Super Stamina: A seraph never tires or gets fatigued. A seraph does not require food, sleep, or oxygen.

Super Strength: As a higher class of angel endowed with greater strength, seraphs are extremely strong. They can lift at least 1 ton, as demonstrated by Leo when he lifted an anvil with no difficulty, and they can easily overpower and destroy most beings. Leo was able to rupture a stone wall just by touching it. A Seraphs strength is sufficient enough to challenge multiple regular angels in a fight.

Biokinesis: A seraph is able to cure a human turning into a monster.

Telepathy: A seraph can easily read the minds of humans.

Pyrokinesis: A seraph can generate and manipulate fire.

Healing: A seraph can heal others from severe wounds. Leo was able to regrow a cut off finger on a human and heal gunshot wounds with ease.

Localization: A seraph is able to track and locate beings.

Resurrection: A seraph can bring back the dead.

Invisibility: A seraph can become invisible to humans.

Smiting: As all angels, a seraph is able to burn out the eyes of humans, monsters, and demons, killing them.

Regeneration: Like all angels, Seraphs can heal from injuries inflicted upon them. However, wounds caused by angelic weapons take longer to heal.

Reality Warping: A seraph possesses reality warping abilities. Leo was able to assemble a game by simply shaking the box and later fill a vial with his blood simply by cupping it.

Mental Manipulation: A seraph can manipulate, erase or restore a person's perceptions and memories of events.

Soul Reading/Channeling: Leo has shown the ability to read a person's soul to check the marker of another angel had left there, see if there is a soul there and check the state of the soul. He has also displayed the ability to channel power from a human soul, though this had to be done very gingerly and could result in the death of the human if done wrong.

Power Negation: A seraph is capable of removing powers from empowered humans, however, it can leave them mentally damaged to do so and is very painful to the individual losing the power.

Photokinesis: As a seraph, Leo was able to emit white light fatal to other beings, particularly demons and monsters.

Animal Communication: Leo was able to speak to and understand a cat.

Astral Projection: Like other angels, Seraphim can display their wings in a show of intimidation.

Fire Aura: Leo can release and surround himself in/with fire for defensive and/or offensive purposes, becoming almost untouchable and granting him various abilities and attacks.

Fire Mimicry: Leo can transform his body completely into fire. This transformed form is anatomically identical to his normal form, aside of being made of fire, in which case, it contains all organs and is somewhat vulnerable to attacks. Alternately, Leo can transform into homogeneous matter, without any part of his form being more important than the other.

Holy Fire Manipulation: Leo can create, shape and manipulate holy flames, which are especially effective against demons and other evil beings and are inextinguishable by normal means. It may also trap or immobilize angels or demons, rather than killing them outright. The color of the flames varies, but are usually blue, white, or the normal light shades of fire.

Holy Fire Solidification: Leo can solidify holy fire, with the level of solidity going from loose jello to metal-like hardness or beyond.

Healing Fire: Leo can heal himself or others by using flames, fire or heat.

Ultimate Burning: When extremely angry, Leo has the ability to burn anything, even if they are normally non-flammable, incorporeal or even conceptual entities, such as time. He can raise the temperature to absolute levels, generating scientifically unexplainable levels of particle energies; due to burning at such otherwise impossible levels, complete annihilation of object at subatomic levels occur. Fire Immunity provides no defense against this ability and extinguishing it is difficult, if not impossible, even by Leo himself. Better not make Leo angry.

Heat Manipulation: Leo can create, shape and manipulate heat by increasing the kinetic energy of atoms and thus making things hotter, ranging from subjective feeling of heat to absolute hot.

Sacred Light Manipulation: Leo can create, shape and manipulate holy/divine light that's highly effective against the supernatural, such as demons or angels. The effectiveness, in question, can range from trapping or immobilizing to outright banishing or killing supernatural threats. Furthermore, divine light may have other properties and abilities, such as healing, Resurrection, summoning angels or spirits of the deceased from Heaven to the material plane.

Light Generation: Leo can generate light of various intensities.

Photokinetic Immunity: Leo is immune to light, being completely invulnerable to direct and indirect effects.

Blindness Immunity: Leo is immune to anything that causes blindness, whether viral, induced, or manipulated but is useless to Leo.

Fire Immunity: Leo is immune to fire, being completely invulnerable to direct and indirect effects.

Pyrokinetic Wing Manifestation: Leo can form wings out of fire and use them from transportation to offensive and defensive purposes such as using them as a shield to block oncoming attacks or slicing his target with a hot fiery sting.

Vincent Ward
Leo is Vincent's superior and, alternatively, his teacher as well. Leo is very kind to Vincent, often comforting him during thunderstorms. Despite how long they've known each other for, Vincent STILL often confuses Leo for a female, and divulges into a stuttering mess because of it. Even after Leo tells him he's, in fact, a guy, Vincent still shows to be a bit awkward afterwards. Still, Vincent thinks really highly of Leo, believing his strength to be something Vincent himself wants to achieve. Leo reassures Vincent that he'll eventually make it to the strength of the Seraphim, but no matter how hard he tries, Vincent just can't ever get to that level. As such he grew to resent Leo a little bit. But Leo is nothing but kind to Vincent, and prefers to teach him in such a manner where it becomes surprisingly easy. Leo was even the first person in the SSS who ever saw Vincent cry. What was weird was his comment on it: "Despite me being sad at the prospect of his tears, I will admit his face was rather cute to look at."

Trivia

 * His piano playing is noted for being rather soothing, even to the point of causing people to cry. This is similar to Aom's voice, which is also soothing and causes people to cry.

Quotes

 * "It's not about fun. These powers are apart of us. We have to fight in order to live."
 * "Is that the best you can do? A little heat..."
 * "Reduce all creation to ash! Ultimate Burning!"
 * "Vincent, you know I always appreciate our talks, and our time together."