Leopold

**Lord Leopold** is a famous painter from the Argyle Kingdom, as well as the cousin of Prince Griffin. He later becomes the Portrait Artist of the Plaid Kingdom.

## Appearance

Leopold has slightly messy black hair that is often tied in a small ponytail and brown eyes. He wears a white shirt covered by a yellow and black argyle (hence his kingdom name) blazer, gray pants and boots identical to the Plaid Princes', and an indigo handkerchief tied around his neck. He has a tall, lean build and a more warm beige skin tone.

## Personality

Lord Leopold is a wise, confident, respectful, and talented artist. He has a defined view on beauty as well, and a hypnotically strong flow state when working. Leopold admits he takes great pride in his craft. He is very passionate, which sometimes leads to him losing his temper, especially around Prince Jamie, and can be very opinionated to his beliefs. Classy and tasteful, Leopold is straightforward with his intentions and looks down upon many aspects of society, such as their view of beauty.

## History

Lord Leopold first met Princess Gwendolyn at Prince Lance's birthday party. He described seeing her as happening upon a rare fine wine, and wished to find her after they met.

While Leopold painted Gwendolyn's portrait, Jamie suspected that he was attempting to hit on her. Meanwhile, Leopold thought he was obnoxious, so he called him 'sickly sweet' and 'hideous'. Offended, Jamie started 'portrait-bombing' him; due to this, he is permanently haunted by Jamie's image, whether in his dreams or in reality. Later on, Leopold realized that Jamie did what he did because he cares about his sister, but declared he would never admit this to Jamie himself. Still, he continued to appear in Leopold's nightmares. Upon finding out how much sugar Jamie consumed on a regular basis, Leopold made him a salad. After learning that he could taste people's emotions from their food, he attempted to prevent him from eating the salad, fearful that he would taste his new feelings toward him. When Jamie didn't mention the taste, Leopold reluctantly admitted to finding Jamie beautiful, causing Jamie to declare that he tastes that in everything.

In Episode 93, Leopold went to the Denim Kingdom's local museum to find inspiration for an art exhibit, before seeing Jamie and being terrified. He thought Jamie was a figment of his nightmares that had transferred over to the mortal realm. However, after Leopold realized that he was real, he took him out to Chambray Café because he seemed "particularly dejected and pitiful". At the café, Jamie opened up to him about how he didn't want to become the king and how he preferred to stand up for his sisters instead of himself. Leopold encouraged him to not only stand up for his sisters, but also for himself, in the way most natural for him. He also gave Jamie his personal opinion that nothing can be beautiful if it is done purely out of obligation, but then admitted to being hypocritical, as he himself had agreed to create an art exhibit out of obligation to an associate. This was why he visited the museum, but as it had failed to "fuel his creative spirit", he began to wonder if he was "not an artistic prodigy, but a hack who simply hit his peak at 18". Leopold then realized that while he was talking, he had subconsciously turned his meal into an artwork of Jamie's face, causing him to claim to have the solution to both of their problems.

The solution was Leopold using Jamie as inspiration for the 124th Annual Artgyle Exhibit in the finale of Season 3. This included many paintings of Jamie as well as works based on food. One work was an interactive cookie exhibit that each visitor had contributed to by adding an ingredient. Before Leopold could tell Jamie this, however, he ate part of the cookie, causing him to faint due to 'flavor overload'. Leopold caught him and fell to his knees.

During the Bippity Bop Gala, Leopold ran a portrait station, with a service where you could prepare your own snacks while waiting for your portrait to be painted. The snack service was for Jamie to find out who wanted to crush the Pastel Princesses by trying each guest's food, as he had informed Leopold about someone thinking "Crush the Pastel Princesses" after trying the interactive cookie during the art exhibit.

## Relationships

#### Gwendolyn

Initially, Leopold appeared to have feelings for Princess Gwendolyn. He took interest in her due to her unique looks at Prince Lance's birthday party. Later, he appeared at the Pastel Palace with a bouquet of flowers to paint a portrait of her (commissioned by her father), which he was very glad to be able to do. Leopold intended to ask her to the Bippity Bop Gala, but his many attempts at asking her out were thwarted by Prince Jamie's 'portrait-bombing'. He eventually backed down after realizing that she had feelings for Prince Frederick.

While painting Gwendolyn's portrait, Leopold gave her lots of advice on how to love herself more. Gwendolyn baked him bread with sage and rosemary as a thank-you, and he gave her a sketch he accidentally drew of her and Jamie as a reminder of how much her family loves her.

#### Jamie

*See main: Jamie/Leopold*

At first, Lord Leopold and Prince Jamie did not get along well. Jamie suspected that Leopold was attempting to hit on his sister. Leopold thought Jamie was being obnoxious, so he insulted Jamie, calling him 'sickly sweet' and 'hideous'. Offended, Jamie started portrait bombing Leopold's portraits. Leopold is now permanently haunted by Jamie's image, whether in Leopold's dreams or in reality. Leopold eventually realized that Jamie did what he did because he cared about his sister, but declared he would never admit this to Jamie himself. Still, Jamie continued to appear in Leopold's nightmares.

Upon finding out how much sugar Jamie consumed on a regular basis, Leopold feared Jamie would 'drop dead from a sugar coma'. Worried that Jamie would then haunt him as a ghost, Leopold made Jamie a salad to keep Jamie healthy. After learning that Jamie can taste people's emotions from their food, Leopold attempted to prevent Jamie from eating the salad, fearful that Jamie would taste Leopold's new feelings toward Jamie. When Jamie didn't mention the taste, Leopold reluctantly admitted to finding Jamie beautiful. Jamie paused for a moment, before declaring that he tastes that in everything. Leopold was extremely irritated by this statement.

They met again in a museum of the Denim Kingdom in Episode 93. Leopold harassed Jamie after first seeing him, thinking he was a figment of his nightmares that had transferred over to the mortal realm, causing passers-by to mistake him for an 'abusive boyfriend'. However, after he realized that Jamie was real, he took him out to Chambray Café because he was appearing 'particularly dejected and pitiful, like a scoop of strawberry ice cream that fell on the floor'. During the meal, Leopold snuck vegetables into Jamie's sweets despite him greatly preferring sweets over vegetables, because he believed too much sugar wouldn't be good for Jamie's lifespan if he was going to rule his kingdom. Hearing this caused Jamie to open up to him about how he didn't want to become the king, and preferred to stand up for his sisters over himself. Leopold attempted to encourage Jamie to not only stand up for his sisters, but also for himself in the way most natural for him, though preferably with his clothes on. He also gave Jamie his personal opinion that "nothing can be beautiful if it's done purely out of obligation", but then admitted to being hypocritical as he himself had agreed to create an art exhibit 'out of obligation to an associate, and visited the museum as he was entirely out of inspiration. As the museum had failed to fuel his creative spirit, he began to wonder if he was "not an artistic prodigy, but a hack who simply hit his peak at 18". He then realized that while he was talking he had subconsciously turned his meal into an artwork of Jamie's face, and claimed to have the solution to both of their problems. Meanwhile, Jamie snuck some candy into his meal.

In the finale of Season 3, the solution turned out to be Leopold using Jamie as inspiration for the 124th Annual Artgyle Exhibit, which included many paintings of Jamie, as well as works based on food. When Jamie fainted due to 'flavor overload' after eating part of an interactive cookie exhibit, which Leopold had previously been trying to warn him about, Leopold caught him and fell to his knees, seemingly distraught.

#### Frederick

Leopold isn't fond of the Plaid Princes, especially Prince Frederick, Princess Gwendolyn's fiancée. He challenged him to a painting duel where, if Frederick won, he could ask Gwendolyn to the Gala, but if Leopold won, Frederick could never see Gwendolyn again. Leopold ended up forfeiting the match because he loved Frederick's painting, and gave him some advice about her before Frederick *tried* to give her the ticket. When saying goodbye to Gwen, he told her that they may see each other again at an upcoming event (the gala) if Frederick, who he referred to as 'that little worm', could pull himself together in time.

#### Griffin

Prince Griffin is Leopold's cousin, and they seem to be on good terms.

#### Bart

Bart is Lord Leopold's butler. Leopold tries to help Bart whenever a task is difficult, and assumes Bart hates help and refuses. This was all a misunderstanding, however, and Bart just simply had a hard time putting down the box.

## Quotes

"BEGONE, PINK DEMON!!!"

"... I can sense his sparkles wafting around. ..."

"One can only accept love from others... to the degree that they allow it within themselves."

"From this perspective... perhaps he's not so hideous after all."

"Well, the only advice I wanted to give you was that you're going to need a lot more grit to go after what you want, Frederick, especially with Gwendolyn...as well as the formidable people surrounding her... Formidable... shiny... people."

"But the truth is you're never fully alone. Your friends and family are always with you in memories, in objects, and in art."

"I realized that my values were ultimately just as short-sighted as society's. Perhaps beauty isn't a stagnant thing that can be judged in one glance."

"Then you must defend yourself as fiercely as you do for your sisters and boldly stand up to your father in the way that's most natural to you."

"Nothing can be beautiful if it's done purely out of obligation."

"Perhaps I'm not an artistic prodigy, but a hack who simply hit his peak at 18."

## Notes & Trivia

* Leopold has a nightmare journal full of sketches of Jamie.
	+ He refers to Jamie as "Pink Demon".
* Leopold is a very healthy eater, in contrast to Jamie who consumes a terrifying amount of sugar in foods.
* Leopold has a niece.
* Leopold is very fast and detail-oriented while drawing, and also could multitask with chatting while drawing multiple portraits at once.
* When he's nervous, he can't stop scribbling as shown when he and Jamie in the carriage rushing to Pastel Palace.
* Leopold is a boy's name of Old German origin with the glorious meaning of "brave people." It derives from the name Luitbald.
* King Leland keeps misspelling his name as the following: Leonard, Lerman , Leonardo , and Leroy .

## References

1. ↑ Episode 93
2. ↑ Episode 71
3. ↑ Episode 146
4. ↑ Episode 65
5. ↑ Episode 124
6. ↑ Episode 143