Leif (Bug Fables)

“	Even if they seem like obstacles, we can exploit them for our own benefit.	„
	~ Leif

“	This is it, huh. Vi, Kabbu...thanks for all the good times. We can feel the artifacts... Let's destroy them as soon as they appear. We can't stop now!	„
	~ Leif

“	Even if they seem like obstacles, we can exploit them for our own benefit.	„
	~ Leif

“	This is it, huh. Vi, Kabbu...thanks for all the good times. We can feel the artifacts... Let's destroy them as soon as they appear. We can't stop now!	„
	~ Leif

Background

Leif is one of the three protagonists in Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling. He is the third and final member required to join Team Snakemouth.

Unlike most moths, his head, torso, limbs and abdomen are colored cyan blue. He has navy blue wings with gold highlights that he uses as a cloak of sorts over his body, as well as a fluffy gold collar around his neck. Like most bugs, he has a pair of black antennae atop his head.

When Leif was alive, his head, torso, limbs, abdomen and wings were the same red instead of different shades of blue (Body is cyan, wings are navy blue) with the same gold highlights and collar, and his eyes were a light brown color, instead of white. He is shown wearing his wings like a cloak when he was alive.

Leif presents himself as well-mannered and polite, speaking in a royal "We" instead of using "I". He is also known to be knowledgeable and intelligent, as he suggests several means of traversing Snakemouth Den. However, he is also quite blunt and often inconsiderate of the feelings of others, as exemplified in the demo when he suggests to Kina the possibility that her brother, Maki, left her to get some space from her.

Despite this bluntness, he is shown to be loyal to those he trusts, namely Team Snakemouth. Despite his stoic facade, however, Leif is shown to have a weak spot towards domesticated bugs like Aphids or even towards smaller characters such as Tanjerin, often calling them "cute".

Due to strange circumstances surrounding his time in the magic-drenched Snakemouth Den, Leif is able to utilize ice magic. He is also shown to have literacy in the Roaches' language.

In the field, Leif can freeze water to form paths and platforms as well as freeze enemies to bounce around and use to solve puzzles. He can also create a shield that protects the party from hazards, and the shield can first strike an enemy in the overworld when they make contact, eventually he also learns to hover by carrying himself (and any other followers if present) on a block of ice, but he only does this to follow Vi when she flies as the party leader.

In battle, Leif acts as the party's mage. He is able to freeze enemies for a short period of time and deals 1 extra damage against plant-like enemies. Upon hitting a frozen enemy, it will deal extra damage. He is also able to increase the damage or defense to the party or decrease enemies' damage or defense. He owns the most move medals in the game.

General Information

Name: Leif

Origin: Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling

Sex: Male

Age: Nearly in his 50's

Classification: Member of Team Snakemouth

Species: Geometer Moth

Occupation: Knight

Status: Alive

Alignment: Lawful Good (Leif is a knight who serves Queen Elizant II and her kingdom, generally following her orders as to what to do. He also commonly helps out people)

Codex Statistics

Key: Chapters 1-6 | Chapter 7

Tier: 10-C, Higher with Items and Medals | At least 10-C, Higher with Items and Medals

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Subhuman level (The game's cast are that of small bugs. Their notable feats are fighting centipedes, worms, spiders, small tanks, and small metal drones. Leif can create a big block of ice. Can fight Kabbu, who can break chunks of rock. Far stronger than Tanjerin, who can throw a rock with its horn), Higher with Items and Medals | At least Subhuman level (Vi and the rest of the team progressively get stronger as they fight. Being considered weak at the start, they worked their way up to keeping up and later surpassing the Queen's highest knight. Initially struggled to defeat certain bosses, but later can defeat enemies that were stronger than anyone they've ever faced throughout all of their adventures. Initially struggled to even land a hit on the Wasp King and being considered too weak to hurt him, to later defeating him and even keeping up with his boost with The Everlasting Sapling), Higher with Items and Medals

Durability: Subhuman level, Higher with Items and Medals | At least Subhuman level, Higher with Items and Medals

Striking Strength: Subhuman Class, Higher with Items and Medals | At least Subhuman Class, Higher with Items and Medals

Lifting Strength: Below Average Human | Below Average Human

Travel Speed: Athletic Human (Comparable to Vi's flight speed. Honey bees can fly up to 28 km/h) | At least Athletic Human

Attack Speed: Superhuman | At most Massively Hypersonic

Reaction Speed: Superhuman (Should be far superior to a cockroach, which can react at 11 milliseconds. This is about 10x faster than the fastest reaction of a human being 100 milliseconds, making their speed 77 m/s) | At most Massively Hypersonic (Can react to pseudo-lasers shot by the Ancient Key Pieces, which requires these speeds to dodge)

Stamina: High (Can fight for long periods of time) | High

Range: Below Standard Melee, Higher Ice Manipulation

Intelligence: Above Average Intelligence (A skilled fighter and knight that was able to reach the highest status very quickly)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Small Size (Bug-Sized), Ice Manipulation & Magic (Leif can create ice magic as a projectile to throw or create a wind to freeze enemies), Multilingualism (Along with Bugnish, Leif also speaks a different language), Burrowing (Can throw his ice to travel underground), Forcefield Creation (With Bubble Shield Lite and Bubble Shield Leif can create an ice shield to block all attacks), Flight (Leif can fly on a chunk of ice), Telekinesis (Anyone frozen by Leif can be sent up with his ice), Glyph Creation (Can create ice platforms), Power Nullification (With Clense, Leif can remove all charges and status effects from enemies), Adaptation (It's stated that moths have a body better suited for magic, unlike the others who were killed by the test), Multiple Personalities (Leif was merged with a Zommoth, merging the two), Undead Physiology (The Zommoth merging was done with dead bugs, turning them into zombies. Leif absorbed one of them), Enhanced Senses (Leif can sense magic), Information Analysis (With Spy, Leif can learn about an enemy's information and see their health), Statistics Amplification (If Leif is in front of the team, he gains a boost in attack power), Save and Load (By using Ancient Crystals, Leif can use them to save his progress and retry a battle if he were to lose), Accelerated Development (Leif and the rest of the team progressively get stronger as they fight. Being considered weak at the start, they worked their way up to keeping up and later surpassing the Queen's highest knight. Initially struggled to defeat certain bosses, but later can defeat enemies that were stronger than anyone they've ever faced throughout all of their adventures. Initially struggled to even land a hit on the Wasp King and being considered too weak to hurt him, to later defeating him and even keeping up with his boost with The Everlasting Sapling), Regeneration (Mid; Can regenerate from being squished flat), Passive Purification (Type 1; The Eternal Venom medal states that it cannot let the user naturally recover from poison, meaning that the status effects being removed are due to self-restoration. This would include: Status Effect Inducement, Poison, Sleep, Freeze, Numb, Burn, Sticky, Ink, ATK Down, and DEF Down).

Resistance to Cold (Can walk in colder areas), Corruption (Leif can keep his sanity after merging with the Zommoth, which would turn dead beings into mindless zombies), Body Puppetry (Can breathe in gas that controls your body while being unaffected), Fire Manipulation (The Flame Brooch protected Team Snakemouth from the Wasp King's flames), Status Effect Inducement, Poison Manipulation, Sleep Manipulation, Ice Manipulation, Paralysis Inducement, Fire Manipulation, Power Nullification, Statistics Reduction (Blocking can block the following status effects: Status Effect Inducement, Poison, Sleep, Freeze, Numb, Burn, Sticky, Ink, ATK Down, and DEF Down)

Healing (Can heal with Crunchy Leaf, Aphid Egg, Mushroom, Danger Spud, Shock Berry, Succulent Berry, Spicy Fries, Mite Burger, Berry Juice, Dry Bread, Nutty Cake, Drowsy Cake, Honey Leaf, Leaf Omelet, Honey Ice Cream, Mushroom Salad, Roasted Berries, Jayde's Stew, Mystery Berry, Mistake, Leaf Salad, Cooked Shroom, Sweet Shroom, Fried Egg, Succulent Cookies, Mushroom Skewer, Hearty Breakfast, Mushroom Salad, Baked Yam, Burly Chips, Danger Dish, Shaved Ice, Cold Salad, Frost Pie, Yam Bread, Mushroom Gummies, Sweet Pudding, Leaf Croissant, Honey Pancakes, Hot Drink, Plain Tea, Tangy Pie, Cherry Pie, Miracle Shake, Tangy Carpaccio, Queen's Dinner), Restoration (With Honey Drop, Danger Shroom, Agaric Shroom, Aphid Dew, Bag of Flour, Squash, Tangy Berry, Jayde's Stew, Mistake, Glazed Honey, Abomihoney, Cooked Danger, Sweet Danger, Honey'd Leaf, Succulent Cookies, Mushroom Skewer, Hearty Breakfast, Sweet Dew, Danger Dish, Shaved Ice, Ice Cream, Honey Ice Cream, Dry Bread, Nutty Cake, Poison Cake, Frost Pie, Shock Candy, Sweet Pudding, Leaf Croissant, Honey Pancakes, Drowsy Cake, Hustle Candy, Spicy Candy, Burly Candy, Squash Puree, Squash Candy, Squash Tart, Plumpling Pie, Tangy Jam, Tangy Juice, Tangy Pie, Abombination, Cherry Pie, Berry Smoothie, Queen's Dinner), Purification (Type 1; Items such as Mushroom, Aphid Dew, Clear Water, Tangy Berry, Berry Juice, Mushroom Salad, Cooked Shroom, Hearty Breakfast, Sweet Dew, Mushroom Gummies, Leaf Croissant, Hot Drink, Plain Tea, Spicy Tea, Burly Tea, Tangy Jam, Tangy Juice, and Queen's Dinner cures status effects), Power Nullification (Clear Bomb removes all status effects from enemies), Ice Manipulation (Magic Ice, Frost Bomb, and Cherry Bombs freezes enemies), Statistics Amplification (Spicy Berry, Spicy Fries, Spicy Tea, Spicy Candy, Squash Tart increases attack power. Burly Berry, Shell Ointment, Burly Tea, Burly Chips, Burly Candy, Plumpling Pie increases defense. Aphid Shake and Berry Jam increases both attack power and defense. Mega Rush increases attack power and charges up an attack), Velocity Manipulation (Hustle Berry Hustle Candy, and Hot Drink gives the user an extra turn), Resurrection (Magic Seed and Miracle Shake revives fallen allies), Sleep Manipulation (Numbnail Dart, Sleep Bomb, and Cherry Bombs puts enemies to sleep), Poison Manipulation (Poison Dart, Poison Bomb, and Cherry Bombs poisons enemies), Summoning (Longleg Summoner summons a spider to help battle), Explosion Manipulation (With Spicy Bomb, Burly Bomb, Poison Bomb, Frost Bomb, Numb Bomb, Sleep Bomb, Clear Bomb, Abombination, and Cherry Bombs), Flame Rock burns enemies), Durability Negation (Spicy Bomb ignores defense stats), Statistics Reduction (Burly Bomb and reduces enemy defense. Cherry Bombs reduces enemy defense or attack power), Paralysis Inducement (Numb Bomb and Cherry Bombs paralyzes enemies), Status Effect Inducement (Cherry Bombs can inflict the following: Poison, Sleep, Freeze, Numb, ATK Down, and DEF Down).
Resistance to Status Effect Inducement, Poison Manipulation, Sleep Manipulation, Ice Manipulation, Paralysis Inducement, Fire Manipulation, Power Nullification, Statistics Reduction (Shell Ointment gives immunity to the following statuses: Status Effect Inducement, Poison, Sleep, Freeze, Numb, Burn, Sticky, Ink, ATK Down, and DEF Down

Power Bestowal (Hard Hits raises an enemy attack, but grants the user more berries if winning. Status Relay allows the user to transfer their status effects to others), Durability Negation (Bug Me Not! allows the user to one-shot anyone that is too weak in comparison with any form of contact, including the enemy's attack. Antlion Jaws negates one point of defense), Statistics Amplification (HP Plus increases an ally's HP by two. TP Plus increases the user's TP by two. Last Attack increases attack power when the user is low on health. Last Stand increases the user's defense when low on health. Super Block+ blocks more damage when preforming a Super Block. Power Exchange increases the user's attack power, but lowers defense. Defense Exchange increases the user's defense, but lowers attack power. Front Support increases the defense of the ally who is in front. Back Support increases the defense of the ally who in the back. Heavy Sleeper halves damage if put to sleep. Frostbite halves damage if frozen and can freeze someone back if attacking the user while frozen. Poison Defender increases the user's defense if poisoned. Heal Plus increases the health restored by healing items. TP Saver reduces the cost of TP usage. Reflection increases the user's defense when doing nothing. Tardigrade Shield gives the user the "Sturdy" move, which increases defense and grants immunity to status effects. Empower increases one person's attack power. Empower+ increases the entire team's attack power. Fortify increases one person's defense. Fortify+ increases the entire team's defense. Extra Freeze increases the freezing power for Leif), Accelerated Development (EXP Booster grants the user more EXP when winning a battle in exchange for one point of attack power), Healing (Block Heal allows the user to heal when preforming a Super Block. Triumph Buzz restores some health when finished with a battle. Reverse Toxin heals the user when poisoned, but lowers their defense. HP Core heals the user overtime. Prayer heals the user if they do nothing), Restoration (Victory Buzz restores some TP when finished with a battle. TP Core restores some TP overtime. Meditation restores some TP if doing nothing), Invulnerability (Shock Trooper will make the user take no damage if paralyzed. First Plating will make the user take no damage during the first turn), Damage Boost (Poison Attack increases the user's attack power if poisoned. Hard Charge fully charges the user in exchange for health, allowing them to deal extra damage for one attack. Charge Up charges up one person's attack power. Charge Up+ charges the entire team's attack power), Poison Manipulation (Weak Stomach makes any healing item also poison the consumer. Poison Touch can poison someone else if attacking the user while poisoned. Eternal Venom does not allow the user to naturally heal from poison. Poison Needles gives Vi's needles the ability to poison others), Rage Power (Seeing someone attacked the Favorite One medal angers the allies while increasing their attack. Berserker increases attack power, but forces the user to only use their basic attacks and no other skill), Absorption (Life Stealer lowers attack power, but allows the user to steal health when attacking), Camouflage (Leaf Cloak camouflages the user, making it harder for enemies to see them), Life Manipulation (Life Cast allows the user to use skills with HP instead of TP), Resurrection (Miracle Matter allows the user to continuously revive themselves after death), Status Effect Inducement (Status Booster increases the chance of enemies being affected by a status effect. Random Start starts the user with either poison, DEF up, ATK up, extra turn, healing, TP up, or charged attacks), Velocity Manipulation (Strong Start allows the user start the battle with an extra turn. Crazy Prepared allows the user to get the first attack in a battle), Attack Reflection (Status Mirror makes it so if the user is hit with an aliment, the caster is also hit with it), Information Analysis (Spy Specs allows the user to see how much health someone has without needing to use the Spy ability), Enhanced Senses (Detector detects any nearby items), Statistics Reduction (Enfeeble decreases one enemy's attack power. Enfeeble+ decreases all enemy's attack power. Break decreases one enemy's defense. Break+ decreases all enemy's defense).

Resistance to Status Effect Inducement, Poison Manipulation, Sleep Manipulation, Ice Manipulation, Paralysis Inducement, Fire Manipulation, Power Nullification, Statistics Reduction (With Resist All, Sleep Resistance, Freeze Resistance, Numb Resistance, and Poison Resistance can resist the following statuses: Status Effect Inducement, Poison, Sleep, Freeze, Numb, Burn, Sticky, Ink, ATK Down, and DEF Down), Item Stealing (Secure Pouch removes the ability of items being stolen from the user)

Statistics Amplification (Pretty Ribbon increases Chompy's power), Sleep Manipulation (Drowsy Ribbon allows Chompy to put enemies to sleep), Paralysis Inducement (Shocking Ribbon allows Chompy to paralyze enemies), Poison Manipulation (Venom Ribbon allows Chompy to poison enemies), Restoration (Team Ribbon allows Chompy to restore TP whenever they attack an enemy)

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Equipment

Items and Medals

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Notable Techniques

• Icefall: Creates an ice projectile that may freeze any enemies around its impact radius.

• Frigid Coffin: Encases an enemy in ice, with a great chance to freeze. Can only target grounded enemies.

• Bubble Shield Lite: Leif shields an ally from all harm for 1 turn

• Bubble Shield: Leif creates a shield that negates damage for all allies during 1 turn. Leif is then unable to act for 1 turn.

• Ice Rain: Creates a rain of icicles, capable of damage all enemies with a chance to freeze them.

• Cleanse: Removes all temporary charges and status effects from one enemy.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Leif will use his ice attacks or various items.

Weaknesses: Had an initial identity crises, though he overcame this.

Battle Records

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