you wouldn't know makoto from street fighter was a girl if it wasn't for her dizzy animation well you could also read her bio leo's bio on the other hand doesn't say anything about a gender or about the character trying to look like a boy it's pretty easy to come up with some evidence that makoto is a girl but i've yet to see somebody pull that off with leo something which keeps coming up is that leo is a boys name well considering the she's obviously trying to look like a boy probably so kazuya doesn't recognise her so her revenge will be easier to gain yeah yeah speculation it makes sense that she's actually called leona and leo is a a shortened version of that and b conveniently plays into the tomboy image actually i could think of a more plausible explanation for the name if like you just theorized leo wants to stay incognito i would think she assuming leo's a she still your theory 'd better change her name maybe she's not really called leo at all maybe the name is part of the boy disguise 'seems more logical and simple to me anyway remember in japan tomboys will use boku rather than watashi and will get called kun rather than chan all things that technically explicitly mark them as male not sure why you're saying that does leo refer to himself herself as boku besides if leo is a girl posing as a young man she could go as far as to call herself ore really anyway namco kept leo out of a list of the tekken women girls and the character has been said to be male several times in japanese magazines so if leo is a girl she's secretly a girl and there has been no big reveal as of yet in fact there's even a possibility namco is trying to keep leo's real gender a riddle and has no intentions of confirming it one way or the other ever yumeji from the samurai spirits series would be a precedent