Leonard Lincoln

> "*For the record, no one taught me how to ride. And I can't shoot for shit. But if you're nice and you keep me alive out there in no man's land, I'll give you a lifetime discount at the snack shack. Deal?*"
> ― Leonard welcoming Avery Reed as his new partner, with nothing but lies.
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Leonard Lincoln, better known by his alias Wyatt Stanfield, is a character in Last of The Walking Dead. A former Hunter, turned Savior spy under Simon's command.

## Biography

Only four years old when the apocalypse broke out, Leonard would soon know nothing else. After an infected horde left him prematurely orphaned, Leonard was found hidden under a staircase by a small group of survivors. For a time, they took him in and fed him, until he watched them be caught in a violent bandit trap. Leonard ran and ran, to never learn what happened to them.

Leonard, only seven years old, was left to make do on his own. He scraped by with spoiled and rotten goods, learning when and how to hide from danger. It only took a year until he himself fell into a nasty ambush.

As luck would have it, those bandits saw his empty pockets as something amusing rather than frustrating. They would soon adopt the child for themselves, forcing him to work around the camp for leftovers. To Leonard this was nothing but an improvement.

By his twelfth birthday, that gang had become a family to him. They'd taught him to hunt, fish, steal and lie. They, too, would reach a sudden end, when a treasure hunt became an encounter with a Bloater. Only two survived, splitting the loot between themselves. By nightfall, Leonard had taken everything, leaving their corpses behind for the Bloater to find.

Alone again, but wiser, Leonard began fancying himself a survivor. Someone who took risks and always knew when to fold. He jumped between raider camp to raider camp, using his young age as a tool. At the end of every year, he would rob them blind, right under their noses.

When his third year came, fifteen-year-old Leo attempted to steal from a group called The Saviors, a large militia holding down the city Pittsburgh. They humored him, glad to have slender hands to do all the grunt work... however, when the time came, Leonard was caught stealing by one Henry Simmons. And that was the last time he ever tried taking what didn't belong to him.

They let him live in exchange of what he did best: being useful and being quiet. In time, Leonard earned back the trust of Henry's men. But never enough to become a real Savior. Frankly, he was much too bitter to even want to.

After the Pittsburgh incident, he retreated with the Saviors back to Paradise. And when Henry Simmons and his group abandoned the Saviors, Leonard was glad to follow. He quickly adapted. When Leonard became of age, he was finally welcomed as one of their own. He killed who he had to kill and ate who he had to eat. Sometimes with regret. Sometimes not.

But he knew it wouldn't last. This time, like all other times, he was prepared. After losing their home to a mercenary and a young girl, Leonard abandoned his friends without a second thought. Though, despite it all, this time had been different.

Leonard had met someone, an older woman twice his age. Her name was Eri. She'd lost a son, a husband... and with nowhere to go. Nowhere else to take her daughter to. Leonard helped her take the oath and, to his shame, quickly developed feelings for her. Eri never saw him as more than another son; and Leonard learned to be okay with that, even when it seemed impossible to. Somehow, just being around her made him happy. That was enough.

When one of the attackers murdered Eri's only daughter, he rushed to save her as well. For once, as he put someone else's life far before his own, Leonard dropped the act. He wasn't a survivor. All these years, he'd only gotten lucky.

So lucky, that Eri was the one to save him from bleeding out on the road. She'd taken him back to a Savior outpost, and they agreed to save the young man's life, so long as she, too, became a soldier for them. Leonard last saw Eri in a hospital bed, before he was shipped back to Paradise.

If his fucked up luck held through, he'd survive this too. And then Leo would pay his debt back to Eri... his one true friend.

## Killed Victims

This list shows the victims Leonard has killed

* Numerous counts of survivors
* Numerous counts of infected

## Trivia

* Mostly just Wyatt Russel. He's loosely based on Paul from The Oath Webisode, and can be considered an AU portrayal of him.
* A massive fan of horror, sci-fi, and trashy popcorn movies. Despite this, his favorite movie is Titanic.
* Hates books and could only ever get into non-fiction. Has read a few biographies to pass the time.
* Hopelessly addicted to cigarretes since he was a young boy.