Leet

<infobox> <title source="name"><default>Leet</default></title>

<image source="Image"></image> <image source="image"></image> <group><header>Basic Information</header> <label>Civilian Name</label> <label>Aliases</label> <label>Gender</label><default>Unknown</default> <label>Death</label> <label>Age</label><default>Unknown</default> <label>Post-timeskip</label> <label>Ward start</label> <label>Relations</label> <label>Family</label></group> <group><header>Professional Status</header> <label>Occupation</label> <label>Classification</label> <label>Unique Features</label> <label>Alignment</label>

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Deceased

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<label>Location</label> <label>Teams</label> <label>Previous Team(s)</label> <label>Base of Operations</label></group> <group><header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label></group> </infobox>Leet is a supervillain who is part of a videogame-themed duo with Über.

Appearance

Leet is described as scrawny, with a weak chin and a bad slouch.<ref>Other than their costumes, though, they couldn’t have been more different. One of the figures was scrawny, with a weak chin and a bad slouch. The other had a sculpted physique, broad shouldered and tall, the lines of his muscles clearly visible through his skintight costume. - Excerpt from Shell 4.5</ref> His voice isn't particularly deep, causing him to sound like he's screeching when he yells.<ref>“Shut up!” Leet roared. Except he didn’t have a very deep voice, so it was probably closer to a screech. - Excerpt from Shell 4.6</ref> In his villain persona, he is usually dressed in a costume based around a video game theme.<ref name="cast">Leet – Partner to Über, is a tinker without limits, except that the more similar an object is to something he’s created before, the more likely it is to misfire.--Basic Cast Page</ref> This theme normally matches with Über's costume.

Abilities and Powers

Leet is a tinker whose power allows him to create an extraordinarily wide arrangement of creations. He essentially has access to all tinker technology trees, being able to create most things a tinker would be able to specialize in. However, the closer that what he makes is to something he's created before, the higher the chances of a spectacular misfire or failure. By the time that Leet figured this out, he had burned many bridges in his experimentation, making his options limited and leading him to fail often. This led to him becoming a laughingstock among other parahumans, though his technology could still be quite versatile when it worked correctly.<ref name=":0">Leet's biggest problem is that it took him time to figure out the 'rule' to his power. He tried a variety of things in attempts to work out what his specialty was, and he burned a lot of bridges. That's not a 'Leet' problem so much as a trap that a lot of people (including many here) would fall into. Word of God - he caught on faster than your average geek might.

Now, any time he sits down for a project, he has to cross-check against all the other things he ever made. This isn't end-product related, but works out to components. Example? Power source. He either uses something mundane, or he uses something tinker derived. But if he uses something tinker derived to power his newest project, then he has to think of all the other power sources he's used, make sure that this one is sufficiently different, gauge the risk, and then move forward. Same goes for the mechanisms, the overall design & goal, and so on.

Defiant has the 'tinker up efficiency/hybrid/minimized technology' skill tree. Stinger has the 'missile' skill tree. Tecton has the 'Seismic and Architecture' skill trees. Leet has all of them, but all throughout those trees are entire sections with 'Use of this technology has a X% chance to fail'. You get further away from one design, that chance drops, but it's still there.

The video game thing was partially personal passion and partially a means of 'categorizing' what he did. On top of a wealth of notes and reference documents, he can think back through the various games he's been inspired by and use that as a mnemonic device to recall what he did for each project.

So by the time you/he figure(s) out the 'catch' to the power, the list of options is riddled with fail chances. You know there are a few trees you've not explored yet, but you have to progress carefully. How? You weigh the odds, estimate your chances of failure, trust your one really reliable buddy/sidekick to cover your ass if something blows up, and you do lots of little jobs you can afford to fail until you have the resources to do one big job well with something you're ninety-five percent sure won't blow up in your face.

Except he can't really seem to catch a break. He doesn't know it, but he's basically doing the opposite of Jack Slash and Taylor. He's explicitly out of tune with his power, he doesn't nurture it the way others do, even by general conflict - he's a little too cowardly, a little too safe, in large part, because he's hedging bets as often as not, and it's an unsatisfied shard, more prone to cause chaos for him rather than set him up to pursue it. It's trying to actively disrupt or kill its host so it can move on to greener pastures.

To top it all off, yeah, he's annoying, generally unpleasant, and people don't tend to like him. Except for Über. Such is the life of Leet. - Wildbow on Spacebattles</ref><ref>Leet did come up when I was figuring out how tinkers worked, but I think he was an antagonist in the snippets more than a protagonist. Probably a reason why he didn't get an interlude at any point - a lot of the time I went to write interludes, I tapped snippets for details and ideas.

Keep in mind that Leet is a video game theme tinker. Video games have lots of enemies. So he burned himself out on biotinkering, robotics, and hard light holograms fairly early on. He wanted to do them, he found it easy (and not a thing a lot of other tinkers do well) and it made sense to him, then it all started going wrong. - Wildbow on Reddit</ref>

Behind the scenes, Leet's shard is actually working against him. His tendency to play it safe with his power puts him completely out of tune with his shard, causing it to punish him by being harsher with its restrictions and making his power malfunction. In essence, it is actively trying to kill Leet so that it can move on to another host.<ref name=":0" />

Equipment

Equipment Features
Famine Engine Reality Hacker

History

Background

Formed a criminal partnership with Über, performing various videogame-themed crimes. They streamed their activities online, gaining notoriety for being both incompetent and despicable.<ref>Leet and Über glared at him. Their entire schtick was a video game theme. With every escapade, they picked a different video game or series, designing their costumes and crimes around it. One day it would be Leet in a Mario costume throwing fireballs while Über was dressed up as Bowser, the two of them breaking into a mint to collect ‘coins’. Then a week later, they would have a Grand Theft Auto theme, and they would be driving through the city in a souped up car, ripping off the ABB and beating up hookers. - Excerpt from Shell 4.5</ref>

Story Start

Once Tattletale figured out that the people responsible for stealing their money were still around, Leet clapped, drawing the Undersiders' attention where he and Über were standing. After Skitter covered their snitch with her insects, he asked her if that was necessary. He glared at Regent for insulting his Bomberman costume before hopping down to stand beside Über. He told Grue that Bitch had led them to the money, although he didn't say how they had found her.<ref name="4.5">Shell 4.5</ref>

Leet talked with Über about how they would proceed before the battle began. As Über the Undersiders, Leet pulled out a bomb. Regent made him drop it and he bolted, glaring at the other team after Über was blasted back by it. He defended his actions by saying their mission was worth it only to take a step forward as Tattletale continued to provoke him. He told her that he could make anything and threatened to demonstrate before he started to introduce their 'guest'. He was cut off when Grue blasted him in the face with a cloud of darkness.<ref>Shell 4.6</ref>

Post-Leviathan

Apparently kept his head down for a while.

Post-Slaughterhouse Nine

He was contracted by Coil in his operations to take over the city. After Coil's death, he was captured by Echidna along with Über and Circus during her search for independent capes.

Post-Echidna

Apparently he took a trip to South America though details are scarce.<ref>Reddit</ref> He crossed the wrong people and was resultantly killed.<ref> “Something happened to Leet,” I concluded. “Only way he’d be that… rudderless.”
“Crossed the wrong people, got offed,” Glenn told me.- Excerpt from Cockroaches 28.6</ref>

Trivia

• Copies of Leet by Echidna are given the name 'Pwn', mirroring "Leet" in coming from internet slang.<ref name="cast2">Über and Leet (Miing) – A thinker with the ability to be a master at anything he tries, and a tinker with the ability to build anything, the two only barely managed to be b-list supervillains with a video game theme.-Cast Page (In Depth)</ref>
• Leet is often referred to by fans as "L33t", although this spelling occurs nowhere in the text of Worm.
• Leet is one of the earliest tinkers to show up in Wildbow's drafts.<ref>Leet did come up when I was figuring out how tinkers worked, but I think he was an antagonist in the snippets more than a protagonist. Probably a reason why he didn't get an interlude at any point - a lot of the time I went to write interludes, I tapped snippets for details and ideas.
  
  Keep in mind that Leet is a video game theme tinker. Video games have lots of enemies. So he burned himself out on biotinkering, robotics, and hard light holograms fairly early on. He wanted to do them, he found it easy (and not a thing a lot of other tinkers do well) and it made sense to him, then it all started going wrong. - Wildbow on Reddit</ref>

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