Leit Shichal

Gentle

Good Listener

Crocheting

Trauma

Cross-Country

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At first, Leit comes across as gentle and very empathic to others' emotions. He needs a lot of alone time, but also thrives in groups when he is ready for it. However, appearances may be deceiving: Burdened by a horrible childhood inside a cultist sect, Leit has learned to carefully manage and separate public and private appearances. Traumatized by years of forcefully undergoing physical training including stretches to increase his mobility, he nonetheless still depends those exercises as a paradoxical coping mechanism despite deeply loathing the memories it carries for him. He joined the agency when Eos, Ienge and Denso were looking for additional talent, even though he did not see himself fitting into the group very well at first. As it turned out, however, being around his new bendy friends and their relationship towards flexibility has helped disarm many of the triggering effects it had on him before.

Although most of Leit’s acrobatic skills were acquired under great duress and against his will, he nonetheless started training at an incredibly young age and has kept his abilities polished well into adulthood. However, his training at the hands of cult members often went too far: Due to being subjected to intense stretching even as a baby, Leit’s skeletal structure has suffered lasting deformations that cause him frequent pain, but enable certain special feats of flexibility even contortionists might find unnatural, including his “neck fold”, overextension of the knees, and others. He loathes these “skills” and rarely shows them to anyone - For his performances as part of the agency, he instead focuses on backbending in the traditional, old-school contortionist style.

Leit identifies as pansexual and is in an intimate relationship with Denso, but they are both consensually open to other partners as well.