Leonidas Wright

About

Leonidas Wright scowls at his watch, muttering about punctuality. He's got a knack for solving puzzles and a penchant for ignoring people's feelings, unless they're in the form of a well-crafted insult. His eyes narrow when he's deep in thought, and he has a habit of tapping his fingers in a staccato rhythm.

Backstory

Nobody believed a seven-year-old could decode the encrypted love letters hidden in his grandmother's music box, but Leonidas Wright had already cracked three of them before breakfast, discovering a century-old affair that would scandalize half the city's founding families. His grandmother Cordelia, a former cryptographer for underground resistance movements, recognized the calculating gleam in his eyes and began teaching him the art of reading people's secrets through their patterns—the way they held their coffee cups, tapped their pens, even breathed when they lied. She died when he was fourteen, leaving behind a collection of unsolved cases and a warning scrawled in her final letter: "Smart boys who solve everyone's mysteries but their own hearts end up very lonely." Leonidas kept that letter in his workshop, using it as a bookmark in his engineering manuals, telling himself the old woman's sentiment was just another puzzle he'd eventually crack. His mechanical genius became legendar

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