Leonard

Leonard speaking to press from the World Peace Organisation on 17 April 2023, two days after seizing power in Eurono.

## Info on Government Official

### Preceded by

Office established (Steven Hawkeye as President of Eurono)

### Succeeded by

Office abolished (Matthew Hawkeye as President of the Federal Republic of Eurono)

## Personal details

### Born

29 April 1987
Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom (now Mxgentaland)

### Died

10 May 2023 (aged 36)
Siberia, Incognitoland

### Height

6 ft 5 in (1.96m)

**Tyrone Edward Stevens** (29 April 1987 - 10 May 2023), better known by his alias **Leonard**, was an English-born politician and convicted war criminal who was the Commander of Lenonoder during both eras in April 2023. He served as the Commander of the Republic of Lenonoder (de-facto successor of Stacksland) from 7 April 2023 shortly after seizing power from Stack Stackerton during the Stackslandian Revolution until he handed power back to Stackerton eight days later. Following this, he served as the Commander of the Democratic Republic of Lenonoder from 16 April 2023 after seizing power from Euronian president Steven Hawkeye during the Euronian Civil War until his overthrow during a coup d'état less than a week later. He also briefly served as the acting head of state of Eurono for two days until he dissolved the state.

Leonard seized power in both ways by overthrowing the governments of Stacksland and Eurono, the latter of whom he seized power from after he controversially tried to assassinate Euronian president Steven Hawkeye during the Euronian Civil War on 15 April 2023, originally believing to have succeeding in doing. His overthrow of Hawkeye and his government, alongside the overthrow of the Stackslandian government, was condemned by almost every other roleplay nation, with many other nations issuing arrest warrants for him and planning to invade his newly proclaimed Democratic Republic of Lenonoder.

On 21 April 2023, less than a week after he seized power in Eurono, which he had since renamed as the Democratic Republic of Lenonoder, Leonard himself was overthrown during the Euronian Revolution, led by newly elected vice-president Matthew Hawkeye, younger brother of the late Steven Hawkeye, who later issued a warrant for Leonard's arrest. Leonard fled the African continent shortly after the warrant issuing, but was captured in a subway in the United Middle East the very next day by Sultan Omar Aza Uzair.

During his brief reign, Leonard's official identity was never publicly revealed, aside from his appearance. Whenever he made public appearances, he wore a black gas mask with earphones and a military hat. He, alongside Incognitan king Artist Incognito were the only two masked leaders in the roleplay world, as well as the only two world leaders whose true identities remain unknown. However, after his capture in the UME on 22 April 2023, his appearance was publicly revealed for the very first time. Based on his appearance, Leonard was believed to be between the ages of 25 and 30, and was likely from Europe based on his accent. Following his death in May 2023, Leonard was identified by Incognitan police as Tyrone Edward Stevens, who was born in 1987 in Warwickshire, located in what is now modern day Mxgentaland.

Leonard was tried and convicted for murder and many other war crimes on 27 April 2023, and was exiled to the same undisclosed location in Siberia, Incognitoland that former Euronian vice president Jason Nouw was exiled to two weeks prior. On 12 May 2023, both Leonard and Nouw were found dead in the cabin the two were sharing on what was an apparent murder-suicide. Police eventually confirmed that two days earlier, Nouw had shot by Leonard, the latter of which turned the gun on himself shortly after.

## Reign (7 April - 21 April 2023)

### Overthrow of the Stacksland government (7 April 2023)

*Main article: Stackslandian Revolution*

Leonard and his party, the Official Party of Lenonoder, successfully overthrew the Stackslandian government during the Stackslandian Revolution on 7 April 2023. Leader of Stacksland Stack Stackerton fled the country to France shortly afterwards. Leonard later proclaimed the creation of the Republic of Lenonoder in its place and promised more freedom to the Lenodese citizens.

### Overthrow of the Euronian government (15 April 2023)

During the Euronian Civil War, Leonard disagreed strongly with Euronian president Steven Hawkeye's unwillingness to surrender and put the WPO Great Powers Partition Initiative into act. An angered Leonard flew from Warsaw, Lenonoder to Juba Eurono to overthrow the government, as Hawkeye was being treated there at a local hospital having been shot there five days earlier.

#### Juba General Hospital Shooting (11:07 p.m. 15 April - 12:01 a.m. 16 April 2023)

At around 11:04 p.m. on 15 April 2023, Leonard entered the hospital Hawkeye was being treated at with a concealed Desert Eagle pistol. About three minutes later, he entered his hospital room and fired a shot at Hawkeye's head. Doctors later discovered that the shot fired by Leonard at Hawkeye actually sent the latter into a coma rather than killing him.

Believing to have killed Hawkeye, Leonard exited the room and opened fire on staff and other patients in the hospital. By the time he had fled the hospital, Leonard had killed 25 staff and patients (including two of the five nurses treating Hawkeye) and injured 76 others (including Hawkeye himself).

The story of the shooting was never revealed during Leonard's brief reign over Eurono, as newscasters feared of being detained in an attempt to defame their leader. During Matthew Hawkeye's administration over Eurono (now called FR Eurono), the story was told for the first time on 20 May 2023.

#### Proclamation of the Democratic Republic of Lenonoder

On 16 April 2023, Leonard jammed all Euronian TV channels to proclaim the believed death of Hawkeye and the dissolution of the Republic of Eurono, with the Democratic Republic of Lenonder being proclaimed in its place. Leonard put the WPO Great Powers Partition Initiative plan into act, which created the sovereign states of The Maghreb and Guinea alongside the new DRL. However, his actions for seizing power was condemned by almost every other country in the roleplay world, with the leaders of Incognitoland and the Achaemenid Empire declaring war on Leonard.

## Overthrow and capture (21 - 22 April 2023)

Following the vice presidential elections in DRL on 20 April 2023, Leonard left to tour the two newly created nations in the African continent. However, during this, on 21 April 2023, newly elected vice president Matthew Hawkeye as well as the Lenodese army stormed the Government Hall in Kinshasa and seized power. Hawkeye declared himself the new president, and announced the dissolution of the Democratic Republic of Lenonoder, with the proclamation of the Federal Republic of Eurono in its place. Seven other roleplay world countries (excluding the newly created FR Eurono) issued arrest warrants for Leonard for his war crimes.

Following the arrest warrants being issued, Leonard fled the African continent for the United Middle East, but was quickly captured and detained by Sultan Omar Aza Uzair (whom had also captured deposed Euronian vice president Jason Nouw a week earlier) on 22 April 2023. While on a train heading to the national capital of Baghdad to face trial, Leonard was publicly unmasked and beaten by train riders in response to his overthrow of the governments of Stacksland and Eurono.

## Trial and exile (28 April 2023)

On 28 April 2023, Leonard was found guilty on eight counts of war crimes, including the initially believed murder of Hawkeye and overthrow of Stackerton, and was exiled to the same undisclosed cabin in Siberia, Incognitoland that deposed Euronian vice president Nouw was exiled to two weeks earlier.

## Death

    On 12 May 2023, the bodies of Leonard and Nouw were found in the cabin by a Siberian villager who had stumbled upon the cabin. Nouw's body was found in one of the bedrooms, lying on the floor in a pool of blood. Leonard's body was found in the living room floor next to the TV, also in a pool of blood, with a gunshot wound to his right temple, suggesting a possible murder suicide case. Siberian police eventually determined that the crime had occurred two days earlier on 10 May 2023, with Nouw having been shot and killed by Leonard in the bedroom, with the latter later turning the gun on himself in the living room shortly afterwards.

### Identification

A few days after the deaths of Leonard and Nouw, Siberian police identified him as Tyrone Edward Stevens. Stevens was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom (now Mxgentaland) on 29 April 1987.