Leonard Snart

## Background

### 1981 - 1997: Leonard Snart

Leonard Snart was born in Central City to Officer Lawrence Snart & EMT nurse Rebecca Snart. When he was three, they welcomed his younger sister Lisa. The two were extremely close with Leo acting as her protecting at school & in the house. After their mother passed, things got kind of dark in Snart household. Their father became much of an alcoholic & Leo essentially became the man of the house. He made sure there was food on the table, bills were paid & Lisa did all her school work.

His father probably would have paid them no mind until he happened to catch Leo in his room watching porn one night. It would've been find to Lawrence except Leo was watching two guys. Enraged, he beat Leo there on the spot. It continued for a long time with his father regularly beating him almost everyday. He would only find peace when hiding from his father on the neighborhood ice cream truck. The ice cream man had acted as an older brother to him & Lisa throughout the years. And the truck may have been cold but it was the only place he felt safe.

### 1997 - 2001: Leonard Snart

After coming home from school one day, Lawrence began beating on Leonard again but had caught Lisa watching. Leo didn't react fast enough but heard the whack as Lawrence slapped Lisa across her face. In his anger, Leo beat his father to death to keep him from harming Lisa.

Because their father was one of their comrades, the police & ADA went after Leo hard. His sister's testimony helped him some but not enough as Leo was convicted of manslaughter. Because he was sixteen, he was sent to juvie while Lisa entered the foster care system. The pair would keep in contact as to not lose their relationship until Leo was released when he was eighteen. He found Lisa upon his release & she thought they would run away together but he decided to leave her with her foster family as he didn't want her tagging along on his journey.

Leo began a life of crime with thefts & robbing of cars. He was eventually caught by the Flash & put back in prison. During his time in prison, he hit the books to fill in his time. Wanting to counter the Flash, he learned how the emissions of a cyclotron could counteract the Flash's speed. After breaking out of jail, he stole a cyclotron & constructed a gun that reduced temperatures of its target to absolute zero. The media soon dubbed him as Captain Cold.

## Personality

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 Powers & Abilities

* **Hand to Hand Combat:** Leonard is a capable unarmed fighter. He was trained by Mick Rory in some combat, though he is the inferior combatant as Mick is able of delivering him a severe beating.
* **Marksmanship:** He has demonstrated great proficiency with his Cold Gun that allowed him to effectively hit the Flash while he was running at superhuman speeds & using it for various creative solutions.
* **Pain Tolerance:** Leonard has a higher-than-average tolerance for low temperatures, even more so than most people who has lived all of their life in freezing conditions. He has stated that he never feel freezing & loves the cold.
* **High Level Intellect:** Leonard's most noticeable & dangerous trait is his intelligence, making him a very skilled planner & schemer as he repeatedly developed plans that he pulled off with usual success. Despite never graduating from high school, he had repeatedly shown considerable knowledge in subjects such as biology & engineering. He also had exceptional instincts that he considered to be almost like a "sixth sense," he was able to tell when something bad was about to happen just through a bad feeling.
	+ ***Eidetic Memory*:**In his nature for preparation, Leonard has repeatedly displayed an unusually adept memory being capable of memorizing the details of every job.
	+ ***Engineering*:** While he's not proficient, he was still highly trained in electrical engineering. Once Leonard obtained his Cold Gun, he had taken the gun apart & put it back together so many times that memorized how to repair it by hand. He was also capable of updating and adding additional features to his Cold Gun.
	+ ***Escapology*:** In addition to being able to avoid capture by the authorities, Leonard was also skilled at escaping them after being captured. He has escaped prison many times & has also demonstrated the ability to effortlessly slip out of handcuffs.
	+ ***Leadership*:**  He is a natural leader & has lead the Rogues through countless years of criminality.
	+ ***Tactical Analysis*:** Leonard's tactics are based on timing, precision & preparation as he would often spend his time studying every detail of his heist from studying the security detail to police response times.
	+ ***Thievery*:** A career criminal, he was regarded as a highly skilled thief who spent months preparing for a job & never giving up until he completed it. He has pulled off armored car heists, jewelry theft & bank robberies with the utmost skill. He was also skilled in the art of pickpocketing, able to effortlessly swap specific items for his mission while stealing their wallets at the same time.
* **Cold Gun:** Cold created his own freeze guns off of machine parts from a custom-made ice vehicle. They can create ice slicks, shatter metal or entomb victims in suspended animation in blocks of ice.
* **Snow Goggles**: They minimize the flashes of energy given off by his guns within his field of vision.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Strength:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Speed:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Occult:** 1 - Nonexistent
* **Weapons:** 6 - Expert / Advanced
* **Range:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Strategy:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Combat:** 5 - High / Exceptional

## Trivia

* Leo met Mick Rory in prison after a bunch of inmates tries to jump Leo. Because he saved him, Leo let Mick in on his escape plan.
* His motto is "Make the plan, execute the plan, expect the plan to go off the rails & throw away the plan."
* Captain Cold is the first non-metahuman villain that the Flash has faced.
* His favorite movie was Star Wars growing up.
* He considers himself to be a "honorable thief."
* Captain Cold has a power ranking of 123, classifying him as Threat Level 3 / General Threat.

## Notes

* Wentworth Miller, the actor who portrays Captain Cold, pitched Leonard as pansexual to the writers so I decided to pick it up though the character was gay in the *Arrowverse*.