Leo Fourte

Leo Fourte is an agent for the Strategic Homeland Division, stationed in Washington, D.C.. He is a protagonist in the Operations Crossroads novels Tom Clancy’s The Division: Recruited, Tom Clancy's The Division: Compromised, and Tom Clancy's The Division: Hunted.
The product of a troubled childhood, Leo attended West Point and eventually joined the U.S. Army and Strategic Homeland Division. He was deployed overseas before returning to the U.S. to search for his runaway brother, Raffiel. Following the outbreak of the Green Poison, he joined a Division cell consisting of himself, Brenda Wells, Eric, and Rowan O'Shea. 
==Biography==
As a youth, Leo was a juvenile delinquent who frequently ran afoul of the law. In response, his father sent him to military school, where he eventually graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and joined the Army and, secretly, the Strategic Homeland Division. He was deployed overseas as a tank commander until 2013, when he received news that his younger brother, Raffiel, had disappeared. Against his father's wishes, Leo resigned his commission and returned to the U.S. to find his younger brother. His search was fruitless, and he and his family accepted the possibility that Raffiel was dead. 
When the Green Poison pandemic reached Washington, D.C. in the spring of 2016, Leo was activated for field duty and formed a cell with three other Division agents - Brenda Wells, Eric, and Rowan O'Shea. The team helped the Joint Task Force fight emerging hostile factions in D.C., including the Hyenas and Outcasts.
In the summer of 2016, his teammate Rowan O'Shea went rogue and wiped out a camp of True Sons with Green Poison in retaliation for the deaths of her family on Roosevelt Island; the virus spilled into nearby civilian communities, killing hundreds. While Brenda was distraught and blamed herself for lying to Rowan (in reality, it was Division agents who had accidentally killed her family), Leo was unsympathetic and denounced Rowan as a traitor.
===Tom Clancy's The Division: Recruited===
Eventually, it became evident food and supplies in the D.C. area would soon be depleted. Leo followed Brenda on an expedition westward, in an effort to assess the status of supply lines in the midwestern United States and arrange food shipments back east before winter arrived. 
On the outskirts of D.C., Leo, Brenda, and Eric came upon the settlement of Athena, which was under siege by the Outcasts. Despite slowing their advance using IEDs, the defenders were nearly overwhelmed until the agents intervened, although Eric was killed by a suicide bomber. Afterwards, they met with Jonah, the community's leader, and Maira Kanhai, its head of security. Maira asked to accompany them, and Brenda accepted, over Leo's objections.
While traveling towards the Cumberland Gap supply route, Leo fell ill, and Brenda stayed behind while Maira left to find help. They were saved by Johnny, a survivalist living in the West Virginia mountains. He and his wife Andrea sheltered the agents and nursed Leo back to health. However, their homestead was attacked by a pursuing convoy of Outcasts, and Johnny and Andrea were killed in the ensuing firefight.
At the Cumberland Gap, the trio witnessed a vehicular battle between the Roamers, a fleet of extortionist truckers, and their rivals, the Freighties. After rescuing one of their drivers, Dixie Dog, Brenda brokered an alliance with their leader, Miguel, in exchange for food shipments northeast.
The agents used their SHD Tech to help the Freighties regain the Cumberland Gap, but were forced to destroy their own Turrets after they were remotely hacked. Rowan O'Shea then announced herself via a Drone projection, revealing she was working with both the Outcasts and Roamers, and taunted her former allies over Eric's death. The agents deduced that Rowan planned to cause a regional blackout by targeting one of a Division Core - specifically, the Kansas Core.
Dixie Dog volunteered to drive them through hostile territory to reach the Kansas Core, using a captured Roamer truck. While driving through St. Louis, their truck came under fire and was struck by a dirty bomb, blanketing the area in radioactive dust. Shaken but unharmed, the group escaped and used their disguises to procure more fuel at a Roamer depot.
The agents arrived at the Kansas Core to find it overrun by Outcasts and Roamers, its automated defenses disabled by Rowan. During the ensuing firefight, Leo was injured and remained at the surface to guard the entrance, leaving Brenda and Maira to face Rowan inside. At the heart of the facility, Maira ultimately shot and killed Rowan before she could compromise the Core.
=== Tom Clancy's The Division: Compromised ===
After stopping Rowan, the agents recuperated at the Kansas Core for several weeks. Due to her amputated leg, Brenda was no longer fit for field duty, and issued a call for reinforcements, which was answered by two new agents - combat medic Colin Harrison and sharpshooter Cha Yeong-Ja. Joining Leo and Maira, the four agents were tasked to investigate attacks on Freighty convoys along the Texas Gulf Coast by the Reborn, an armed group of environmental extremists targeting fossil fuel production. 
Dixie Dog drove them south, and Leo used a mortar to help fend off a hostile Roamer convoy on the way. In Houston, the cell found the local refineries defended by the Molossi, a paramilitary group from Dallas led by Colonel Marcus Georgio. During a meeting with refinery manager Douglas Rychart, Georgio expressed his disdain for The Division after the death of his son David, who was a First Wave Division agent. Though his insults angered Leo, he remained silent.
Overnight, they received a broadcast from the Reborn’s leader, Cassandra Raines, announcing a forthcoming attack on the town of Groves. Georgio offered to defend Groves, on the condition that Rychart expel the Division agents. Maira insisted her cell be given a chance to face the Reborn first, over her teammates’ reservations; Rychart agreed. Afterwards, Leo tried to dissuade Maira from facing the Reborn without knowledge about their enemy, but Maira refused to back down from the Reborn or Molossi.
The agents set up a perimeter at Groves to intercept the Reborn, but hesitated when Leo recognized their commander, the Hand, as Raffiel, and made a desperate sprint from the barricades to reach him. Upon hearing Leo's name, Raffiel panicked and fled as the other Reborn opened fire, wounding Leo. The agents were overwhelmed by the Reborn's sheer numbers and forced to retreat in a fanboat, while Leo was left behind and captured. He was brought before Raffiel, and angrily scolded him for leaving without telling anyone in their family; his younger brother tried to apologize, but stayed committed to the Reborn and gave the order to raze Groves.
In Houston, Raffiel led another attack that ended in defeat, resulting in grievous losses for the Reborn against the Molossi's mechanized infantry. He approached Raines to suggest seeking peace terms, but was harshly rebuked, stripped of his rank as The Hand, and imprisoned alongside Leo. The brothers were sent to the Vermilion Parish Jail for 're-education', but rescued en route by Maira and her cell. 
The team eventually discovered that the Reborn were being supplied by rogue Division agents, who had been manipulating both sides of the conflict to spread their Eclipse Virus across the country.. Leo convinced the group to release Raffiel, but promised to come find his brother again if he survived. He then accompanied his allies to the rogues' headquarters at the USS Texas, a derelict battleship docked in Galveston. During the climactic firefight against the rogues, the group managed to capture David, although Leo was wounded and Maira ultimately sacrificed herself to sink the ship and its cargo of Eclipse. Leo would later blame himself for being unable to save her.
Colin later arranged a meeting with Colonel Georgio to hand over David, to which Leo expressed doubt that the rogue could be reformed. The colonel revealed the Molossi had begun negotiating a ceasefire with the Reborn, now under Raffiel's leadership, and departed with his son. The agents lamented the loss of Maira, but resolved to press forward.
=== Tom Clancy's The Division: Hunted ===
Leo, Colin, and Yeong-Ja remained in Houston to help facilitate peace between the Reborn and Molossi. Weeks later, they were met by Brenda Wells, who came from the Kansas Core to deliver shocking news: Maira Kanhai was not only alive, but had murdered two other Division agents and now allied with Black Tusk - like Rowan, she had gone rogue. The rest of the group refused to believe she was guilty, and resolved to find her themselves.
The group followed Maira's Smart Watch signal from Texas to New Mexico, uncovering signs of conflict at a Division supply cache along the way. They eventually found Maira at a roadside shopping center, but accidentally set off several traps she had set using SHD Tech. A Hunter appeared and attacked the group, handily overpowering all five agents until being forced to seek cover indoors from Turret fire. Maira then demolished the building with an incendiary Drone and fled with her comrades.
Afterwards, Maira informed the group about her situation: after the sinking of the USS Texas, she was resuscitated at a Homeland Security facility in New Mexico, where she had been told she was the only survivor of her cell. After meeting Black Tusk's CEO, Natalya Sokolova, Maira inadvertently helped them develop a protocol to subvert ISAC. She later discovered Black Tusk had secretly used mind-affecting drugs to keep her compliant, and escaped during the Texas Core attack by altering her program to target Black Tusk's electronic systems, as well. After her plane crashed, she was rescued by two Division agents who were killed by the Hunter that had pursued her since.
The group decided to attack Black Tusks' tower fortress in Albuquerque. They hijacked Black Tusk communications to send a call for aid, which was met by reinforcements from the Reborn, Molossi, and a cell of rogue agents led by Gold. Inside the facility, Leo helped Maira delete her protocol from Black Tusks's servers, while Brenda, Yeong-Ja, and Gold's rogues hunted for Sokolova. In Sokolova's penthouse, Brenda's group was ambushed by the Hunter, giving the CEO time to escape by helicopter.  
In the ensuing battle, the Hunter killed Gold’s entire rogue cell and mortally wounded Brenda as she shielded Maira against a blow from his axe. Together, Leo, Colin, and Maira overpowered the Hunter and killed him by slashing his throat; ISAC later identified him as Division agent Thaddeus Greene. The information shook the surviving agents, and Maira wondered who they could still trust. Leo replied that they could trust each other, and the group resolved to face the future together.
== Personality ==
From the outside, Leo is a silent, grim, and overall unfriendly person, preferring to discuss himself as little as possible. This stems from his troubled youth, of which he is ashamed and credits the military for saving him from. He generally lacks a sense of humor, which vexes his teammate Maira Kanhai, who often uses jokes and sarcasm to mask her own anxiety. However, he does eventually show warmth after reuniting with his younger brother, Raffiel, and learning that Maira survived the sinking of the USS Texas.
Unlike Brenda, who tries to see the best in people and empathize with their struggles, Leo is not afraid to hold people accountable for their faults, no matter how harsh it seems. He was initially against Maira's wish to join him and Brenda on their journey to the Midwest as an untrained civilian, and dismissed Rowan O'Shea as a traitor and mass murderer, whatever her justifications. Even after his allies decided to spare David Georgio's life, Leo doubted that the rogue agent would ever change. 
However, he is supremely devoted to those who earned his respect, and was always a reliable teammate in the field. In Brenda's words, he would grind himself to dust before he gave up on something he considered his duty. In the face of danger, Leo is often the first to charge in to protect his comrades, with no regard for himself. This extended to his family, as well: after learning his brother was missing, Leo readily abandoned his promising career in the Army to search for Raffiel. Moreover, even after learning of Raffiel's involvement with the Reborn and their various atrocities, he still persuaded the other agents to release him and give him a chance at redemption. This hope was vindicated, as Raffiel assumed leadership of the Reborn and led the group to seek peace.
== Equipment ==
* In Tom Clancy's The Division: Recruited, Compromised, and Hunted, Leo carries an MP5 and uses a Sticky Bomb and Flashbang, Fragmentation, and Incendiary Grenades. 
** In Compromised, he also uses a Minigun after obtaining it from a Division supply cache. However, he has disposed of it by Hunted, claiming that it was "too noisy".
== Trivia ==
* An Outfit named "Agent Leo", based on Leo Fourte, was included as part of the Crossroads Apparel Event, which featured Apparel items inspired by characters from the Operation: Crossroads novels.
==Appearances== 
*Tom Clancy’s The Division: Recruited
*Tom Clancy's The Division: Compromised
*Tom Clancy's The Division: Hunted
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