Legoano

Legoano is the family ship between Legosi and Leano from the Beastars fandom.

Past
After Leano found out that scales were starting to grow on her body due to her komodo genetics, she freaked out as she feared her "natural beauty" as a wolf was going away. Desiring to keep her beauty going, she wants to produce an "almost pureblooded" child. To that end, almost immediately after finding out about her scales, she finds an amatuer grey wolf model and has sex with him with the intent of getting pregnant. The plan succeeds and Leano eventually gives birth to her new son, Legosi. She was happy to have had a son and wanted a reminder of how happy she was. So, she had the two of them - along with her father/Legosi's grandfather Gosha - take a family photo.

As Legosi grew up, Leano's scales took over more of her body. Not wanting her son to see her looking so hideous, she locked herself in her room. At that point, the only interaction Legosi was having with his mom was through a hole made in the door. For the next few years, Legosi used the hole to tell his mom about his time in school and to give her gifts - while Leano used it to check her son if he was developing any komodo dragon traits. Through that, Legosi began getting the feeling of why she wasn't coming out as he could feel her fixation with appearance every time she touched him - and that her touching felt like she was inspecting him for any abnormalities.

Death
The years go by, and Leano felt that Legosi wasn't developing any komodo traits. Feeling her goal of producing an "almost pureblood" child was complete, and her body now riddled with scales, Leano felt she didn't have anymore purpose in life. So, when Legosi was 12, she finally exited her room and went into her son's before hugging his sleeping body from behind. Unbeknownst to his mom, however, Legosi was only pretending to sleep and was wanting desperately to turn and hug her back - but knew it would hurt her if he saw her, and so remained still. Eventually, Leano left her son - before ultimately committing suicide.

Legosi was devastated by his mom's suicide as he could've done something to stop it but didn't. At Leano's funeral, he was isolating himself from others, with only his new friend Jack ever coming to him - and it's with Jack that he explains about his mom's death. The suicide also makes Legosi start developing a resentment towards his grandfather as he believed that, had his mom not been born part-komodo, she wouldn't have thought herself ugly enough to kill herself. This ultimately came to a head when Legosi snapped and out-right accused his grandfather of being the reason why Leano committed suicide - an act that drove a wedge between them (though they did work to repair it).

Revenge of the Love Failure
While trying to capture the hybrid Melon, Legosi is shot in the abdomen and is left in a coma. After he's transferred to a hospital to recover, Legosi finds himself having an out-of-body experience. While he's pondering whether it means he's about to die, Legosi is greeted by Leano's spirit telling him that it's too soon to be thinking like that. Understandably, Legosi is shocked to find his mother there though quickly realizes it's only natural to be seeing her in the boundry of life and death.

The two spirits move to the hospital's roof, where Leano remarks how much of Gosha found it's way into Legosi's appearance and sad that he didn't look more like her. When Legosi points out to his mother that shouldn't matter since she and Gosha were on good terms, Leano tells her son about what she went through - her in-built desire to remain beautiful, even if she had to hide her komodo side. She then went into the circumstances that led to Legosi's conception and birth, and noted how proud she was to have had him. As they continued talking about their relationship while Leano was still alive, Legosi admits that he'd already figured out her obsession with her appearance even back then. This fact surprises Leano, prompting to tell him that she did it out of love as she didn't want him to live through the same torment that she did.

As the conversation moved to the night Leano killed herself, she revealed to Legosi about her hugging him in his sleep. In turn, Legosi reveals that he was awake when that happened and why he didn't do anything. After saying that, Legosi reveals his regret for not doing so - and the desire it bore for him to help another hybrid, before angrily remarking that it nearly led to him being killed. Hearing this, Leano tells her son that he can still make up for his regrets while she can't - but notes that having him negated hers in her mind. She finally tells him to live his life as he carries both her and his grandfather's blood within him. This motivates Legosi into quickly finishing his recovery from the gunshot and wake up from his week-long coma.

Fanon
Legoano isn't a very popular ship in the Beastars fandom. As a ship that mostly exists as backstory, there weren't any real chances to see Legosi's and Leano's relationship until Chapters 132-134. Even before that, however, the tidbits that were explained about what happened to Leano and how it affected Legosi made readers want to find out more about what they were like. When the truth about what happened was finally revealed, reception to the ship became mixed. Fans of the ship were quite moved about Leano's struggles and how they influenced how her son saw things. Detractors saw Leano wanting a child for purely selfish reasons, that her actions are the root for several of the psychological problems that Legosi has, and that she only became loving when she committed suicide. Fanworks for this ship imagine versions of their history where Leano doesn't kill herself and instead works to be there for Legosi.

On AO3, this ship is barely written about. While it's used as a background ship in certain works, there are only two fics that are specifically tagged. It's Leano's second-most written ship behind Miyano.

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