León

León, Bea’s younger brother, is a sharp-minded, restless presence in the family home: a distance-learning computer-engineering student who is also the YouTuber Leonem. His story brings two unexpected parts of his life into view—the relationship he shares with Jacobo, and the substantial online success that his family does not initially know about. Both revelations unsettle what his relatives assume they understand about him, while his intelligence, teasing humor, and confidence remain apparent throughout.

Identity and Background

León is the youngest brother in a close-knit family whose childhood was shaped by its parents’ large house. The three-storey home included an attic, a vast garage, and a basement where the siblings had set up a football table, a ping-pong table, cushions, and mattresses. The family’s time together extended onto the roof: because the house stood well back from the sea, the Cantabrian Sea could be glimpsed only from up there. The roof was a place for the siblings to sunbathe, share drinks, and spend time together, but it also held a frightening memory from León’s early childhood.

At three, León fell from that roof. At twenty-one, he still bore a conspicuous scar along his jaw, the lasting mark of an accident that left his sisters terrified. Irene reacted immediately, taking their father’s car to drive him to the health centre while Débora and Bea tried to stop the bleeding with the first cloth they could find. The episode places a physical trace of family history on León himself: the scar remains visible long after the emergency has passed.

As an adult, León has a lean, wiry build that the family finds difficult to reconcile with his hours at a computer. His head is partly shaved, with a small length of hair falling over his fringe; his energy seems to persist even when he is sitting still. He can eat without gaining weight, and his liveliness is striking enough to become part of how his relatives describe him.

Studies, Temperament, and Family Life

León studies computer engineering at a distance and goes to the faculty for in-person examinations. His family is unsure whether his staying at home reflects the structure of distance learning or simply a reluctance to leave the house. His marks settle the question of whether he is keeping up: they never fall below the highest grade. The combination of solitary study and evident academic success makes him difficult for his family to read, but his intelligence is not in doubt.

He is widely read and knows about a great many subjects, with little embarrassment about showing it. That confidence can tip into a rather affected, know-it-all manner. The family encounters both sides: León can be the knowledgeable person who has an answer, and the younger brother whose irony keeps a serious moment from settling into solemnity. His humor is especially visible in his exchanges with Jacobo and in his dry response to the family’s astonishment at his earnings.

León also participates in the practical life of the household. During work involving a treehouse, he picks up a drill chuck the wrong way round and examines it as if it were an unfamiliar curiosity. The others tell him not to pick anything up for the moment. The brief mishap punctures any assumption that his general intelligence automatically makes him useful with tools, while the scene still places him among the family and friends gathered around the project.

Relationship with Jacobo

The family learns that León has invited Jacobo to the house after their mother explains that the visitor is León’s friend. The explanation only deepens Bea’s confusion until León clarifies that the term he has been using means a sexual partner rather than simply a friend. His mother quickly understands the relationship in ordinary romantic terms, but León resists calling Jacobo his boyfriend, joking that a loyal servant of the Guardia Civil does not have one because Jacobo is so macho. Jacobo, who is present for the exchange, blushes and points out his presence. Their embarrassment and León’s teasing make the disclosure comic without making Jacobo’s place in León’s life any less clear.

The relationship is established through affectionate gestures as well as banter. Later, Jacobo embraces León and kisses the top of his head. León protests, yet Bea can see that he is pleased. The moment offers a contrast to his verbal insistence on keeping the relationship undefined: he jokes about Jacobo’s masculinity and the label of boyfriend, but accepts tenderness in front of the family and is visibly delighted by it.

Jacobo is also present when León and the family support Bea after she learns about Víctor and the television presenter. León and Jacobo come to console her together. León observes that men can be dazzled in the first days of dating someone, and then describes the effect of infatuation as something that might count as mitigation in court, like alcohol. The exchange shows the couple acting as a unit in family life, while León’s humor gives Bea comfort without turning her distress into an interrogation.

Leonem and the Wider Story

A later encounter reveals that León’s time at the computer has another dimension. Teo recognizes him as Leonem, and the family learns that Leonem is León’s YouTube name. The recognition comes from outside the household: Teo identifies the resemblance before León confirms that the online persona is his. For Bea and the other relatives, the disclosure revises the picture of the brother who seemed simply to spend his days at home on a computer.

The scale of that online activity becomes clearer when Teo estimates that León earns between 5,500 and 7,000 euros net per month. The family bursts into laughter, assuming the figure is absurd; León corrects the estimate by saying that it is more. He then dismisses the significance of the money in a way that makes the contrast sharper: the family is stunned by the amount, while he treats it as only money. The episode confirms not just that he has a public identity, but that his online work brings in substantially more than the already striking estimate.

León’s revelations are not presented as a single transformation but as successive corrections to his family’s assumptions. The private student who rarely leaves home is also an accomplished creator recognized by Teo; the brother who jokes away the word boyfriend is at ease receiving affection from Jacobo. His story makes the household a place where identities surface through teasing, embarrassment, practical mishaps, and other people’s recognition. The scar from his childhood fall, the affection visible between him and Jacobo, and the name Leonem each disclose a different part of a life that the family had only partly seen.