Leontes (Fractures Alternate Universe)

"It's creepy, but here we are, the Brotherhood of Makuta, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. What it's going to be, I don't know. Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. And maybe knowing isn't the point. Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything."

- Toa Leontes, Zero Hour

Leontes was a Le-Matoran carver in the Fractures Universe, who was renowned for his carving skills and was captured by the Brotherhood of Makuta, later becoming a Toa of Air intent on spending his life carving statues of his Makuta employers.

Early Life
Similarly to most other Toa of Air, Leontes came into being on Spherus Magna, where he aided in the construction of the Matoran Universe. He would later be placed in a small Matoran settlement on an island in the Southern Island Chain, along with a number of other Matoran, including "Scratch" and Artaudo.

Strangely though, Leontes did not follow the Le-Matoran tradition of becoming a musician, Rahi tamer or forest navigator. Instead he became intrigued by a local Fe-Matoran named Artaudo and his passion and skill for Stonemasonry. Seeking to pursue a career in this trade, Leontes trained to become a carver and instantly unlocked a hidden, natural talent. However, instead of honing his skills through practice, he chose to arrogantly flaunt his unearned abilities to the point where he drove Artaudo out of the village in jealousy.

Visorak Invasion
Due to the fact that Makuta Teridax never existed in the Fractures Universe, the Brotherhood did not form The Plan and, instead of waiting for events to fall into place around the Great Cataclysm, accelerated their invasion of the Matoran Universe. As a result, Leontes' settlement was raided by Visorak. Though he managed to evade the Visorak, he was ultimately captured by Makuta Rotam.

Service of the Brotherhood of Makuta
Fortunately, Leontes managed to pledge his loyalty to the Makuta and gutlessly boasted of his crafting abilities, offering to carve entire monuments of the Makuta in exchange for his own freedom. The Makuta agreed to the deal and brought him to Destral.

However, once on the island, Leontes was betrayed and became a prisoner of the Makuta, forced to spend the remainder of his Matoran life sculpting statues of various different Makuta -- a hefty price to pay for his escape from the Visorak.

After spending years serving the Brotherhood as a stonemason, it became obvious to his captors that he presented no threat to them. In addition to his continued swearing of allegiance, a decision was made to transform him into a Toa, which resulted in Leontes being experimented on and being forcibly infused with Toa Energy, in spite of not being destined for such a fate.

Destiny War
Roughly 1,400 years ago, 90 years after the death of Toa Takanuva, the Brotherhood of Makuta was informed that the Kanohi Avohkii was being guarded on the Northern Continent, in a fortified settlement called Morica. With their forces reaching a stalemate in the Southern regions of the Matoran Universe against resistance from the Toa, Leontes and a number of other servants of the Brotherhood of Makuta were sent to attack the village and destroy the Kanohi.

However, their attack was met with several complications and Leontes was defeated by Toa Merra, who managed to use his arrogance and inexperience in battle against him.

When Leontes returned to consciousness the village had been raided and its inhabitants had escaped with the Avohkii. Fearing the wrath of his Makuta superiors, he fled the scene and later reported back to Makuta Bitil, making up a story about being betrayed and ambushed. As he appeared to be the sole survivor of the mission, Leontes was able to participate in The Final Push for the remainder of the century.

Bara Magna
When the Matoran Universe arrived on Bara Magna 1,003 years ago, Leontes was amongst the Brotherhood soldiers who spilled out and invaded the world beneath them. With the Agori and Glatorian resistance swiftly neutralized, Leontes was able to open up a construction business in Atero, which had been renamed "New Destral."

Presently, he is leading a project to bring industry to Bara Magna in order to construct the heart of the Brotherhood's empire in New Destral.

Abilities and Traits
Being a Le-Matoran, Leontes would have possessed minuscule elemental control over Air, making him particularly energetic. However, unusually for a Le-Matoran, he was also quite muscular and precise, with unprecedented skills as a stonemason, traits more commonly found in Po-Matoran.

As a Toa, Leontes gained control over the Element of Air, becoming able to manipulate, create, and withdraw Air from an area.

Mask and Tools
As a Matoran, Leontes often carried his own signature chisel and wore a powerless Kanohi Sanok.

Upon becoming a Toa, Leontes was given a large Battlehammer, which had previously belonged to a Toa of Stone who had been killed by the Brotherhood of Makuta and could channel his Elemental Air power.

Furthermore, his Powerless Kanohi became a Great Sanok, allowing him to turn almost anything into a projectile and hit almost any target he aimed for with pin-point accuracy, even if thrown in the wrong direction.

Quotes
"Never worry about the delay of your success compared to others, because construction of a palace takes more time than an ordinary building."

- Leontes to his employer, Zero Hour.

"I would rather build a relationship than a wall. Can you pass me another brick?."

- Leontes.

"With six pieces of wood, I’m building a life, and my coffin."

- Leontes.

Trivia

 * Leontes was named after King Leontes, a character from The Winter's Tale, by William Shakespeare as both characters share a deep arrogance and neither earned their power; rather their attitudes and abilities were inherent and they misused them. The jealousy which haunts the Shakespearean character in The Winter's Tale is also shown through BobTheDoctor27's decision to make Leontes green.
 * Chronologically, Leontes' first appearance will be in Zero Hour. However, his current version is due to be referenced in Frozen Calling in the near future and he will appear in Judgement Day as a minor character.
 * The cape which Leontes is supposed to show his vanity and his egotistical desire to appear better than his allies.

Appearances

 * Zero Hour - First Appearance
 * Frozen Calling - Mentioned
 * Judgement Day - To be written