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**Spoilers for FMP The Second Raid**

Is Leonard a Whispered like

> his twin sister Tessa? If so, do we know his specialty? If not, how did he
> become the leader of the opposition?


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Is Leonard a Whispered?


I think some of this is not revealed in TSR, so I've spoilered it.

> Yes, he is a Whispered. Not only that, he exceeds his sister's abilities
> both physically and mentally, and he used his knowledge to produce Arm
> Slaves for Amalgam. I don't think we know for sure how/why he became the
> leader of the opposition, though it's implied at some point that primarily
> he wanted more freedom.

Source: [Wiki](http://fullmetalpanic.wikia.com/wiki/Leonard_Testarossa)


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Leonard Testarossa is indeed a Whispered.

> His specialty is Arm Slave design. He is the one who designed the miniature
> AS Alastor units and his own personal AS, Belial. Though not explicitly
> stated it's very likely he designed the Codarl (aka Venom), Behemoth, and
> Eligor as well. His ultimate goal is to change history to create his own
> ideal world, a world without pain and suffering. In this ideal world, the
> Whispered would not exist. Whispered children like him would not be captured
> and tortured as the Black Technology would not exist, wars would not exist,
> all the people that would have died would now be alive. He believes all the
> suffering he causes to get there does not matter, since it would not exist
> in the world he wants to create.

Amalgam's main goal is to consolidate the power of the Whispered. The power
hierarchy structure of Amalgam is akin to that of a web, making it impossible
to topple, but easy to subvert.

> Leonard is ultimately a traitor to the goal of the organization and use
> their resources to further his goal. He goes about doing this by taking out
> the higher ranking members of Amalgam, so that all the resources will come
> to be under his control. He's able to use charisma to win many people over
> to his side (like Kalinin). Among his goals, he wants a list of all the
> people involved in Amalgam, the ones who allowed it to turn into a malicious
> organization that it is now, so that they could be taken care of in the
> creation of the ideal world.


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