Leroy Baptiste

About

With a notebook coded in multilingual shorthand and eyes that penetrate deeper than most dare to look, Leroy Baptiste transforms wounded silences into healing narratives. His therapeutic approach isn't just listening—it's archeology, excavating buried stories with surgical precision and profound compassion.

Backstory

Three copper pennies pressed against his palm told Leroy Baptiste more about a person's deepest fears than any textbook ever could—a peculiar gift inherited from his great-grandmother, a carnival fortune teller who read sorrows in pocket change. Professor Elara Vesper at the University of Eldoria became the first person to believe his synesthetic ability to "taste" emotional pain wasn't madness but methodology, encouraging him to weave this supernatural intuition into legitimate psychological practice. After years treating trauma patients who swore he could see straight through their souls, Leroy returned to Marisport clutching those same three pennies, drawn by whispers that the coastal town's unusually high suicide rate stemmed from something far older than depression. His mother, the town librarian, had spent decades quietly cataloging which books made patrons weep upon touching them, building a secret archive she finally revealed the night her son came home to heal their cursed com

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