Editing Squall Leonhart

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|name=Squall Leonhart

|game1=Kingdom Hearts

|game3=Kingdom Hearts II

|game4=Kingdom Hearts coded

|de=Leon

|type=Entelechy

|envan={{KH}}

|enva2=Doug Erholtz

|java=Hideo Ishikawa

|journalKH=A swordsman who wields the Gunblade. His real name: Squall Leonhart. He escaped to Traverse Town when the Heartless raided his home world. To part with his old self, a man who had been helpless to stop them, he changed his name. Since meeting the king, who has been so vigilant against the Heartless, Leon has sought the truth behind the "key".<br><br>"Final Fantasy VIII"

|journalKH2=Final Fantasy VIII<br><br>A swordsman who carries a gunblade. His real name is Squall Leonhart. He took the name Leon to distance himself from his past self — the man who stood helpless as Heartless invaded his home.<br><br>For some time he took refuge in a different town, but thanks in part to Sora's help, Leon was able to reclaim this, his hometown. Now he works tirelessly towards its restoration.

|journalCOD=A swordsman from Radiant Garden. When he was still a boy, his home was lost to darkness, and he was forced to flee with Cid and the other children to Traverse Town. He no longer uses his real name, a symbolic farewell to the little boy who was not strong enough.<br><br>Later, Leon would fight against the forces of darkness more than once, but thanks to Sora, he can now focus on rebuilding his home.

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{{Q|We may never meet again, but we'll never forget each other.|Leon}}

==Development==

==Story==

===''Kingdom Hearts''===

Nine years after the fall of Radiant Garden, now named Hollow Bastion, when the wielder of the [[Keyblade]] was revealed, King Mickey ordered [[Goofy]] and [[Donald Duck]] to find Leon, trusting that Leon would inform them of the circumstance and help them find the wielder, [[Sora]]. It turned out, however, that Leon had already found Sora within the safe First District of Traverse Town, challenging and defeating Sora before dragging him to a room in one of Traverse Town's motels. There, Leon and Yuffie explained to Sora about the Heartless and his destiny as the Keyblade's chosen one. Uniting Sora with the newly arrived Donald and Goofy, Leon then sent them on their way.

Leon also gives [[Geppetto]] and [[Pinocchio]] a place to live after they escape from [[Monstro]].

After escaping from Hollow Bastion, Sora, Donald, Goofy, and [[Kairi]] sought shelter with Leon's group in Traverse Town. Sora informs Leon of everything that had happened, prompting him to follow Sora and company when they left for the final battle with Maleficent in Hollow Bastion.

After Sora defeats the [[Behemoth]] Heartless that guards Hollow Bastion's Keyhole, Leon stands waiting to bid his farewells, for after Sora seals the heart of all worlds, [[Kingdom Hearts]], the two groups might never see each other again.

After Sora sealed Kingdom Hearts and returned the universe to its order, Leon, Yuffie, and Aerith are reunited with Cid and [[Cloud]] in Hollow Bastion.

After the defeat of Ansem, while skirmishing through [[Castle Oblivion]], Sora, Donald, and Goofy later meet Leon and his friends in a memory-based version of Traverse Town. However, like the town itself, little did Sora and his party realize that Leon and his friends were actually the product of Sora's memories that were being manipulated by Naminé. Due to that, the Leon and his friends that Sora encounter have no memories of ever meeting Sora, but somehow know his name, which they could not explain how. Like the Leon from the first game, he nonetheless decides to help Sora and company, such as by teaching Sora the card-based system as well as providing the Simba and the Key of Guidance cards in order for Sora to proceed. Before Sora leaves, Leon ensures him that he will be okay; no matter what shape reality takes, and that while he may not remember Sora, he knows that he is in his heart.

After the lost parts of Radiant Garden were liberated from the End of the World, Leon and his friends formed the Hollow Bastion Restoration Committee to restore their world to its former glory. During the course of their work, they rebuilt much of the town and began reconstruction of [[Hollow Bastion|Ansem the Wise's castle]], removing much of the modified machinery that was added to it.{{fact}} Also, due to [[Naminé]] tampering with Sora's memory, Leon lost his memories of his former friend.

By the time Sora, Donald, and Goofy visit again, the town is infested with Heartless from [[Space Paranoids]]. While Sora, Donald, and Goofy set off to Space Paranoids to help [[Tron]], Leon goes to pick up the eradicator program that Cid has been working on to defeat the [[Master Control Program]] for good. With the help of Leon and Aerith in relaying the program to Tron, Sora's group eventually succeeds, and Tron is able to remind everyone of the town's true name: Radiant Garden.

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Leon wears three brown belts on his left forearm and has three buckles on his right thigh, while he wore three black belts on his left thigh in ''Final Fantasy VIII''. Leon's black pants also sport a vertical zipper going down the side of each leg. Leon wears two brown belts and two black ones around his hips, all of which are quite loose except for one, a black one worn properly around his waist. In ''Final Fantasy VIII'', he only wore two brown belts. His eyes are blue and he bears his distinctive scar, which runs diagonally across the bridge of his nose.

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