Leonard L. Church/Agent Texas

Leonard L. Church/Agent Texas is a het pairing of Leonard L. Church and Agent Texas from Red vs. Blue, not to be confused with Allison/Dr. Leonard Church (The Director). This page also includes the pairing of Epsilon-Church and Epsilon-Texas.
==Canon==
The story opens with Leonard L. Church leading the Blue Team against their enemies, the Red Team, in a pointless turf war out in the boonies of a desolate box canyon called Blood Gulch. Eventually, Church's ex-girlfriend, Tex, becomes involved in the conflict as a competent hired mercenary. According to Church, they wanted to get married before he was shipped out, though she also cheated on him and stole his money, leading to a cantankerous on-and-off relationship. Tex's behavior seemingly corroborates this summary of her character, evident in her aggressive physical and verbal treatment of the Blood Gulch inhabitants. Church and Tex are both killed by friendly fire a few times, and yet as ghosts they have the mysterious ability to possess their dead bodies and return to the living. During this time, Tex and Church have romantic tension and enjoy a few sweet moments.
The silly antics in Blood Gulch come to an end, revealing the darker truth of Church and Tex. 
Brilliant scientist Dr. Leonard Church, also known as the Director, flash-cloned his own brain to create an artificial intelligence, the Alpha, meant to manage various tasks and technologies for the elite soldiers fighting against a hostile alien race. At its genesis, the Alpha spontaneously generated another AI, Beta, created from the memories of Dr. Church's late wife, Allison. Observing this unexpected development born of his own unresolved grief for his lost love, the Director was inspired to subject the Alpha to extreme psychological torture, such that the AI's consciousness would repeatedly fragment into additional AI subjects for further experimentation. 
The Freelancer known as Agent Texas eventually discovered that she was Beta and not a human as she had assumed, and that the Director had been subjecting Alpha to inhumane experiments. When Tex attempted to rescue the Alpha, she found that he'd been psychologically damaged to the point that he could no longer remember her, and didn't have the will to escape. 
The sociopathic AI fragment Sigma corrupted the Freelancer Agent Maine, and the two began to act as a single being known as the Meta, carving a path of destruction in its single-minded pursuit to assimilate the AI fragments into a whole. Tex fled the Freelancers, while the Director reprogrammed and disguised the Alpha as the unremarkable armored simulation trooper known as Leonard L. Church, serving in the boring outpost of Blood Gulch. When the bumbling troopers of Blood Gulch transmitted a distress signal in the course of their squabbling, Tex found them, and was able to reunite with the amnesiac Church for a time. 
Eventually Project Freelancer and the Meta catch up to Blood Gulch. In the ensuing attacks, Tex is captured, and she and Church are both deleted in an EMP detonated as a suicide attack. Only the Alpha's fragmented memory core survives, embodied in the AI Epsilon.
===Epsilon===
Being the Alpha's memory core, Epsilon is essentially a copy of its consciousness. Naturally, this means that Epsilon-Church does what a Church would do, which is create a Tex. Epsilon-Tex continues to try to battle the Meta and protect Epsilon-Church. They find themselves locked inside a memory unit, where Church recreates Blood Gulch, and they spend more time together. In this cycle of recursion, Epsilon-Church eventually comes to admit he is recursively creating his dead love and forcing her to fight his battles. As their constructed reality begins falling apart, Epsilon-Church frees her from her endless doom, and deletes her.
==Comments==
==Popular fanon and tropes==
* Angst: being separated or letting each other go as an act of love comes up often in fan works.
* Dominant woman: Tex is depicted as a one-woman army in canon who is a way better fighter than Church, not to mention physically stronger and seemingly more take-charge. Fic and fanart tends to run with the stronger woman/weaker man dynamic.
*Fix-it
==Fan works==
===Meta===
*Black and Blue Love: A Tex/Church Manifesto by themadmaiden (2009), primarily covering the first five seasons
*Let’s talk RvB9, Epsilon, and the giant flaw in his development.WBM by toaarcan (2017)
===Fan art===
Image:2014-08-17 malcolm-hargrove Chex.png|"There is love in holding and there is love in letting go." by malcolm-hargrove (2014-08-17)
* FanartWBM by malcolm-hargrove
*https://notjustsharksfanart.tumblr.com/post/161299087552/theres-going-to-be-a-part-two-to-this-with-anWBM by notjustsharksfanart (2017-06-01)
* I wanted to redraw one of my favorite emotionally painful scenes. by chaotichero/caydeus
*https://ashleystlawrence.tumblr.com/post/21072904431/post-102-tex-and-church-hand-holding-this-was
*https://tinymintywolf.tumblr.com/post/121869448781/just-do-me-a-favor-okay-dont-say-goodbye-i
*https://ashleystlawrence.tumblr.com/post/146042894736/i-needed-to-do-this-trashy-adorable-quick-before
*http://ashleystlawrence.tumblr.com/post/12549402824/church-and-tex-on-ground-honestly-i-wanted-to-do
*https://meteoratdusk-blog.tumblr.com/post/161697956318/i-run-the-numbers-through-the-floor-heres-how-it
*https://meteoratdusk-blog.tumblr.com/post/154249821100/yeah-i-know-how-to-lift-jackass-ive-been
===Fan fic===
*"Resurgent"WBM and "Storm Front"WBM, incomplete works by Eure 
==Archives and Communities==
*Red vs. Blue stories and crossovers featuring [L. Church/Alpha, Tex/Allison] on FanFiction.Net
*Red vs. Blue stories featuring [Epsilon, Tex/Allison] on FanFiction.Net
* Leonard L. Church/Agent Texas on AO3
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Het Pairings
Category:Red vs. Blue