Issue Leo Being Deleted Upon Loading?

JustJon

Newcomer
Hello! I've ran into an issue lately where for some reason, SMAPI appears to be treating Leo as 'broken' in some way, and is forcibly removing him from the game altogether?
This is especially strange to me, given that none of the mods I installed have anything to do with Leo, and I've reverified the integrity of files through steam multiple times to no avail, as well as double checked the proper XNB files are within their places in the code (they are).
If I run Stardew normally (not through SMAPI) he loads in fine, but the second I run through SMAPI it removes him.
The picture below contains a screencap of the only message in the log SMAPI gives as an explanation; there is absolutely nothing else in the log that explains what is broken or how to fix it. I'm at a loss as to what I can even do to fix this at this point, since again, none of the mods I installed at any point even change Leo in any way!
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