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Lenny Solano
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Running the only open diner in the whole town of Dansan, Lenny feels boring and painfully average compared to those around him. However, his life teaches an incredible story if you care enough to sit and listen. He spends much of his time helping his friends with words, but longs for nothing more than playing offensive for once. His loved ones are always his number one priority, even before himself.
Upon first glance Lenny emanates an awe-inspiring aura. His large presence can fill a room. He has warm terra-cotta skin with a brownish-orange glow to it, which pairs nicely with his near-black hair. His hair, reaching down below his shoulders, is rough and scratchy but smooths out nicely when brushed, and his eyes by comparison are a warm shade of brown.
He doesn’t go out of his way to go to the gym, but he's maintained a relatively fit body shape. He is younger than most people tend to assume, and his beard is mostly to blame for that. His eyes sparkle with the whimsy and determination of a man who has fought through tough times but has maintained his perseverance, his gaze able to touch even the toughest of personalities.
Post-Magnus: If you look him in the eyes, you will be overcome with whatever emotion he is feeling. It's so strong that you may be compelled to talk to him if he's angry enough. Lenny has scars covering his entire body; residual of past traumatic injury. The scars don't bug him too much since he's grown enough as a person to have accepted their nature. However, if he's in a particularly bad mood he may pick at some of the ones on his arms. Also, he cuts his hair short for a fresher look by this point. You can see what this looks like in Lenny's "Post-Magnus" tab.
Lenny is empathetic and can read others’ emotions like a book. He’s the perfect person to go to if you’re dealing with personal issues, but his willingness to assist others with such matters outweighs his desire to take care of himself. “Self-sacrificial” would be the best term to describe this behavior, and it isn’t uncommon for the Solano family: Lenny’s father deals with all these same self-worth issues, and they are immensely detrimental. Lenny’s a master at covering up the way he feels about things, lmeaning he lives a life where his outwards stance on multitudes of situations is scarcely sincere. He’s humble in his ways, which often leads to him downplaying his own legitimate needs.
Post-Magnus: After the incident with Magnus, Lenny is in a much better place mentally. He has considerable patience for everyone, even people who have a lengthy history of wrong-doing. He believes in second chances and strives to improve peoples' mood if they need it. He's more open about his emotions than he ever was, and consistently reminds his friends and family how much he loves them.
Lenny is an ENFP-T:
The Campaigner personality is a true free spirit. They are often the life of the party, but unlike types in the Explorer Role group, Campaigners are less interested in the sheer excitement and pleasure of the moment than they are in enjoying the social and emotional connections they make with others. Charming, independent, energetic and compassionate, the 7% of the population that they comprise can certainly be felt in any crowd.
Lenny was born in the Mexican town of Todos Santos to his father and first mother. When his first mother died, his father remarried. When the second mother died a few years later, Lenny and his father packed their bags and traveled across Mexico trying to find their place. Eventually, they managed to secure a spot in the town of Dansan, California partway through Lenny's junior year of high school. He was a sad and lonely kid, but once he met his best friend Reid McKinley ★ he began to open up more.
After high school, Lenny went to college but dropped out soon after. He traveled South America meeting all kinds of interesting people before eventually returning to California. Soon after he did, California seceded from the US and things fell into disarray. The restaurant he'd opened, Lenny's Diner, became a safe haven for various groups in the area. Most notably, Lenny reconnected with his high school friend Reid, and they eventually moved in together. Tension built over time until the fateful battle of Cardinal Fury, when Lenny and a group of Reid's friends defeated the bad guy. Hooray!
After the battle of Cardinal Fury, Reid, having fully re-realized his role as a god, became more busy with his god work. Behind Reid's back, an enemy of Ivan, Ilo, and Elo's, an alien named Magnus, latched onto Lenny as a parasite and deteriorated him from the inside out. Magnus controlled many of Lenny's abilities during this time period, and getting Magnus out of Lenny's system was a long and complicated process. When it was finally over, despite Magnus' absence, Lenny became aware that he was no longer human, at least not in the traditional sense. He began to develop various abilities centered around emotions and the usage of his eyes, which existed as consequences for Magnus' interference with Lenny's humanity.
While Lenny was still recovering from Magnus' expulsion, Reid went off on a quest across the universe to retrieve his brother. In that time, Lenny volunteered to step in and fill in for Reid's role as a god in his absence, despite Lenny having never tampered with such forces before. When Reid returned from the search, he fell into a deep depressive and isolated spiral which Lenny was able to pull him out of. Soon afterwards, the two of them established a proper romantic relationship. Lenny learned more about himself (both emotionally and about his new place in the universe) in the process and it didn't take them long to get married.
Lenny went on to study the work of godkind by tagging along with Reid on his work escapades. Not long after, he made the decision to fully become a god so he could be and work with Reid for the rest of his life. From that point onward, Lenny served as a joint god to the Earth alongside Reid and maintained this role until he and Reid eventually accepted death and surrendered themselves to the void.
Skillset
- Adept at cooking, especially diner foods like burgers and pancakes, as well as pasta and Mexican cuisine.
- Intermediate medical practices like tending to severe and fatal wounds.
- Basic skill with robotics and coding.
- Speaks English and Spanish (and eventually, in season 4, Godspeak).
Unique Abilities
- Better than most at being able to tell when someone is emotionally distraught.
- Can sling time spells... to an extent.
- Post-Magnus: The most prominent of Lenny's abilities is his direct gaze. When he makes eye contact with someone, all of their current emotions become visible to him in a synthetic manner (emotions visible as colors) and he will be filled with that same emotion. Even without eye contact, he's able to sense others' emotions in a similar manner.
- Post-Magnus: Similarly to the previous point: he can telepathically communicate his own emotions to others. Usually, he can only acheive this with consent and effort from the other party, but if he becomes agressive enough then he can force emotions and abstract thoughts into the other party's head, sometimes so strong that they are forced to cease or perform specific actions. (Such an excercising of this ability usually ends in Lenny passing out due to strain.)
Friends
Reid McKinley ★: Lenny's absolute BEST friend and eventually husband. They share almost everything with each other and are nearly inseparable.
OTHERPOWER: Lenny is OTHERPOWER's client, which means OTHER monitors his life. They spend a lot of time reassuring Lenny that he's a good person.
Benjamin Dallas ★: They hung out a lot during the secession era, when Cali was in disarray. Benjamin worked at Lenny's Diner at this time.
Lee Gilje, Jeffery Mendoza ★: They've bonded in the past over their humanity and have retained that bond.
Zachary Xavier, Dillon Zhang: They know and like each other, but don't have much in common and aren't terribly close.
Family
Ivan, Ilo, and Elo (Ivan Delgado (Cardinal Fury)): He was once a family friend that Lenny looked after, but Lenny adopted him as his son after the death of his single mother.
"The Children": The baby eyes that live in Lenny's head and grant him additional powers of sight. He cares for them and loves them unconditionally.
Alejandro Solano: Lenny's father. They've been through a lot together and have many things in common. Both predisposed to anxiety and self-sacrifice.
Vivian Carina: Lenny's birth mother who died of an illness when he was four. He doesn't remember much of her.
Tamara Strong: Lenny's second mother who was murdered when he was eight. He really did love her.
Sanaa Safiya: The woman that got Lenny and his father settled down in the US. Lenny thinks of her as a stepmother.
Amina Safiya: Sanaa's daughter. Lenny thinks of her as a stepsister and a mentor.
Micky Darnell: Alejandro (Lenny's dad)'s boyfriend. Lenny hasn't had the time to meet him yet.
- Between dropping out of college and moving back to Dansan, Lenny worked a variety of jobs including janitor, newsroom assistant, carpenter, kayak store employee, and planned parenthood receptionist.
- Lenny's a dog person, but doesn't mind cats either. Despite this, his dream pet is actually a cockatiel.
- If he could have a pokémon, it would be a Wobuffett.
- He admits that most of the time he thinks in Spanish, so he sometimes mixes up his words between English and Spanish.
- He usually can't stand being alone and prefers to be in a room with at least one other person. He even has a hard time having his own bed, so him and Reid sleep together (which is a main reason why people assume they're a thing).
- He holds interest in the work Reid does as a god and often goes with him on certain missions. He eventually is given Reid's position for a temporary time while Reid is recovering from surgery. (Much much later, he's given the chance to become a real god and takes it.)
- Post-Magnus: When the parasite Magnus was controlling Lenny, he planted the seeds for new eyes to grow in his mind. Magnus died before he was able to control the new eyes, however, so now they are completely loyal to Lenny. Lenny refers to them as "the children", which honestly creeps everyone else out, but he views their relationship as endearing.
- Post-Magnus: Lenny is littered with scars of varyin origin and severity all across his body. Apart from a couple due to cooking accidents, all of them are due to the entrance of the parasite Magnus into his life. Even after Magnus is killed some of the scars need to be specially treated.
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