Detective Lenny

Detective Leonard Feeld, better known as **Lenny**, is a detective working with The Yard. Lenny has a sharp mind that is, like many of his coworkers, drawn to the truth. Unfortunately, after Lenny's wife left him, his definition of "the truth" is a little skewed. A heavy drug user, Lenny is skeptical of the government and the rich and spends much of his time inventing new, mostly harmless conspiracy theories about the world he can no longer trust. Unbeknownst to the rest of the Yard, though, some of Lenny's theories about their coworkers may actually hold water.

## Appearance

Lenny has short brown hair, pale skin, and full facial hair. His eyes are blue. He often wears tweed and plaid in an attempt to look older than he actually is, but he also has an atrocious fashion sense, with clashing colors frequently appearing in his wardrobe. Unbeknownst to the rest of the force, Lenny is actually bald and wears a wig to hide this. He also has a prosthetic leg that he keeps a secret out of fear.

## Personality

Lenny is an erratic, wild, and eccentric conspiracy theorist who is generally regarded as a strange but necessary addition to the force. He has a genius mind, but due to his past, he finds comfort in conspiracies and does not believe in widely accepted truths. Despite his wild aloofness, Lenny does display care for the other members of the force (such as during the Search for the Cure). It is possible his excessive drug use and spouting of conspiracies is all a front to push others away before they can leave him.

## History

Lenny was born into a tough part of New London on the night the Titanic was supposed to sink. His dad was a cruel alcoholic and his mother was distant, but Lenny persevered, reading fervently and working hard as a roofer through his teen years to get out of his home. One particularly hot day at work, Lenny snuck into a client’s home for a glass of water, and stumbled across an office riddled with cork boards, red string, paper, and cigarette butts. His client was the famous Detective Watkins, and Lenny was drawn into the detective world almost instantly. Each day he worked on that house, he’d sneak down to "use the bathroom" or "get a drink," always returning to that room and learning a bit more about the case on that board. One night, it all clicked. He immediately caught a cab to Watkins’s house, knocked on the door like a madman, and when he answered, breathlessly spat out the answer to the case and dropped down to his knees begging to be his intern. Watkins was so bewildered by the situation that he now recounts he doesn’t even remember saying yes.

Thus began Lenny’s journey. He moved into a room in Watkins’s penthouse and worked tirelessly each day to gain respect from Watkins’s colleagues. Lenny was quick witted, smart, and not afraid to break the rules, which occasionally got him into trouble (sometimes good trouble, though, like seducing a mob boss’s girlfriend). Eventually, Watkins retired, but Lenny was ready to explore the city on his own. Within a few years, Lenny was regarded as the most badass detective in his district. He had cut off his shitty parents, moved into his own apartment, and married a mob boss’s girlfriend: nobody could stop him now.

But the fun couldn’t last forever. In one particularly gnarly run in with the mob, his leg was severely mutilated and he was forced into hiding at his old friend Billy’s apartment for his own safety. His wife took one look at his mangled leg, packed up her things, and left him for the mob boss he'd taken her from in the first place. Beaten down, heartbroken, and alone, there was nothing much to do in his friend’s house but read the old books he had lying around. Lenny learned the truth about the government and the upper class, the supposed creators of all the crime, disorder, destruction, and pain he had witnessed in his career. It all clicked for him. This was why he was hurt. This was why his wife had left. Quickly, he began spiraling. As he recovered from his leg amputation, he got closer to Billy and his circle of friends, whose hobbies consisted mostly of conspiring and drinking. He tried to spread his newfound knowledge to his detective friends but after they became concerned for his well-being. Lenny was placed on paid leave, and fired shortly after.

Lenny was recruited by Sully in 1942, shortly after The Yard had been founded.

## Relationships

### IT

IT and Lenny have a somewhat antagonistic relationship, since Lenny has figured out the truth about IT's time traveling, but the rest of the office laughs it off as another one of his conspiracies. IT taunts him about this occasionally, much to Lenny's chagrin, but the two of them do genuinely consider each other a friend, which neither of them are used to having. Lenny is the only person who IT can really talk to about time travel, and while Lenny might be angry he can't make anyone else see the truth, he does kind of enjoy having a friend to talk to. He would never say that out loud, though.

### Sully

Lenny and Sully had worked on cases together when Lenny still worked under Watkins, and Lenny could see then that Sully was a gifted codebreaker and intelligent leader. Lenny can't get Sully to listen to his conspiracies much of the time, but Sully still treats him like an equal. The two are good friends and have known each other for longer than either of them have known the rest of the force.

### Nicole

Lenny knows the truth about Nicole being a KGB agent, and he gets irritated nobody will listen to him about this. However, Nicole is a good listener and conversation partner, and actually doesn't laugh off many of Lenny's conspiracies like the rest of his coworkers. She takes him seriously and respects him, and he begrudgingly respects her work in the field, even if she is a Soviet spy.

### Washington

Lenny has worked with The Yard for almost as long as Washington, and as such, they formed a friendship in the early days of the force. Lenny thinks Washington is a quick thinker who's able to keep up with him, which he enjoys. Lenny's ostentatious clothing and appearance clashes with Washington's more reserved nature; as such, they sometimes conduct witness interviews together and play off of each other.

### Intern

Lenny knows the truth about Intern moonlighting as a criminal in New London, but he feels less fervent about it than he does about Nicole and IT. He thinks she's doing it *for* the force. While he wants to expose the truth, he doesn't try that hard, since he doesn't want to upset her, though he is inexorably drawn to revealing the truth eventually.

## Trivia

* Some of Lenny's best conspiracies include:
	+ Cars are inherently dangerous and he will not ride in them
	+ Wearing all black will help you absorb sunlight and make you smarter