Leon

Of spare build, he was throughout his life a fine walker and mountain climber, a keen botanist, and an excellent talker and linguist. Having narrowly missed becoming a priest, he made his fortune as a software developer. He had actually been ordained as a priest in a protestant way, in an Anglican way, but in his reading and mind he became more interested in the study of logic, mathematics, and holy history, than in the actual worship of god, or any petitioning of god for favors, or wisdom. He in fact became officially atheist in a rather electrifying transformation that quite literally killed his priest father, though his saint mother survived unscathed. Poor thing, it only gained her a spot in an evangelical retirement home in Palm Springs. This explosion in the family had only strengthened Leon’s resolve. He became a moral scientist, or philosopher. He became a reader.
For a logician, the only obvious field, if one means to be lucrative, is computer code, and this he assailed with the earnest deadly zeal of one uneducated in the proper way to do things. Since he was completely clueless, applying Keynes and Boole and John Stuart Mill to the problem of generating strings and schemas for rapidly became a functional AI model, for finance, for international finance, which is a very lucrative field. If you can make a tool that can help other people can make money more easily and more legally, you can expect to be well paid. You can expect your phone to ring constantly. So it was with Leon, a one-man code machine.