'Half the fans would want to hang me': Leon Kennedy's voice actor won't say whether he's Team Ada or Team Claire, but he does point to all that Ada has done for Leon

Resident Evil 4's Ada Wong
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Since the dawn of time, people have been picking sides and fighting each other, Rome vs Carthage, Edward vs Jacob, the list goes on. But one battle that has engulfed the Resident Evil fandom ever since I can remember is the fight between who has Leon's heart, Ada Wong or Claire Redfield.

I wrote about this war of attrition only the other day, after the news that Leon Kennedy had been spotted with a wedding ring in Resident Evil Requiem broke everyone's hearts. As the discovery had fans theorising who the lucky lady could be, Ada, Claire, or someone else entirely. There are some pretty strong arguments for each side, but we may have just had a tiebreaker.

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Talking with PC Gamer's video producer, Midas Whittaker, Leon Kennedy's voice actor Nick Apostolides revealed what he would want to see Leon do next: "I would love to see him kind of settle down for once, maybe open an ice cream parlour. I think he deserves a little break, a little vacation, and maybe fight zombies once and a while." I agree, some relaxation is way overdue for poor old Leon.

But when asked who he would want to see Leon settle down with, and whether it would be nice to see him with Ada, Apostolides just replied, "I don't know, I feel like I could get into big trouble for saying that, half the fans would want to hang me." Smart move.

Although when pressed on whether he likes Ada, he did admit: "I like Ada too. Hate her all you want, but Leon wouldn't be alive if it weren't for her. She saved him three or four times." That's very true. Ada may have betrayed Leon here and there, and sure, their relationship is probably best left to a therapist to deal with, but she has been there with Leon at many pivotal moments. That's not an indictment against Claire, but it does seem like a win for Ada, even if it's only a small one.

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Elie Gould
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Elie is a news writer with an unhealthy love of horror games—even though their greatest fear is being chased. When they're not screaming or hiding, there's a good chance you'll find them testing their metal in metroidvanias or just admiring their Pokemon TCG collection. Elie has previously worked at TechRadar Gaming as a staff writer and studied at JOMEC in International Journalism and Documentaries – spending their free time filming short docs about Smash Bros. or any indie game that crossed their path.

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