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Watch these two episodes one right after the other, these two scenes in particular, if you’re in the mood to break your heart over a thief and a hitter. Parker (in The Stork Job) and Eliot (in The Big Bang Job), are both confronting their painful pasts, and it struck me how very similar the rhythms of their words are as they talk about it. There’s that same moment of hesitation, that same painful pause before they make the damning admission that they’ve looked inside themselves and hated what they saw. They think of themselves as something gone wrong, corrupted, and they feel that whatever they’ve become is a fate they wouldn’t wish on anyone else.
It’s that feeling, I think, that drives their actions for the rest of these episodes. In The Stork Job, Parker risks everything to rescue those orphans, wanting to give them even the tiniest hope that their lives would get better, that they could have the childhood she never had. And in The Big Bang Job, Eliot kills more than a dozen men, and he does it for the team, he does it for the mission, and truth be told, the others on the team are also implicitly responsible for those deaths, but he asks Nate not to tell them. He doesn’t want them to have the same blood on his hands as he does, doesn’t want them to live with the weight that he carries every day.
This is why I will forever be raving about Leverage’s perfect ending. It’s perfect for all of them, but especially for these two. Parker finds a place where she is beloved and safe, and nothing says “you’re a part of this family” more than being given the honor of leading it. And Eliot, after years of being a weapon, gets to spend the rest of his life being a shield, gets to spend his days with people who entrust their lives to his protection. Parker’s wounds are caused by others hurting her, and Eliot’s guilt is caused by the hurt he brought others, but both of them find healing and redemption in the family they’ve made.
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“Controlling the violence” for parvasilvi.
Wonderful. Headcanon accepted.
Sebastian Stan on the set of Avengers: Infinity War (x)
I just want to remind everybody
Leverage gave us a middle-aged couple who impetuously fell into bed and had hot passionate sex, then cleaned up their acts emotionally before committing to each other in marriage.
Leverage gave us a young black man gently, wisely courting a non-neurotypical blonde white woman.
Leverage gave us a young black man whose two white male best friends both describe him as the smartest man they’ve ever known.
Leverage gave us a guitar-playing country boy, an ex-hitman and army vet, who puts his life in the hands of a geeky black man and his blonde girlfriend (till death do them part).
Leverage gave us Parker, Sophie, Maggie, and Tara; it also gave us female villains with as much cunning, ruthlessness, and agency as any man’s.
Leverage gave us villains who were rich, powerful, greedy white people who had to have just a little bit more, and a clever, cunning, usually compassionate, occasionally terrifying white guy who beat them at their own game and robbed the rich to help the poor.
Leverage, gentlefolx.
Most People: *give their love interest flowers and ask them out on dates*
Alec Hardison: *lures Parker and Eliot in over the course of five years like he is an old woman leaving a trail of specially designed breadcrumbs because they are anxious pigeons who respond to affection with distrust and disdain*
Sometimes I think about the way Eliot (who up until now only hugged Hardison begrudgingly) just drags Hardison into this hug, the way he grips him, the way they rock back and forth to comfort each other, the way he turns his lips into Hardison's neck(!!!). We feel the passion of his overwhelming relief so clearly.
Then I think about how I got hit in all the feels by Hardison doing the SAME THING to Parker in The Rundown Job, with a nearly identical plea.
This is very deliberate parallel. The writing on this show is too good for it to be accidental!
They're *both* meant to be romantic! We even have the showrunner confirming no less than THREE TIMES that he created an intentional, canon OT3.
These hugs just... They're everything.
BONUS FROM THAT EPISODE:
Vance calling Parker Eliot's girlfriend, while facing Eliot, and the OT3 just rolling with it.
my idea of a romantic evening is cuddling (◡‿◡✿)
I can’t seem to stop drawing the Leverage trio help
how perfect was that season finale
Gotta include these tags:
#accurate af#and hardison is everyone's big brother#and occasionally grandmother#XD#leverage
Hardison is everyone’s big brother and occasional grandmother, I love that description.
I feel like it’s really easy to lean towards categorising Sophie as the mom friend but like, no. no Sophie is the Cool aunt who’s always slightly tipsy and whisks you away for impromptu shopping trips and lets you drink but Eliot, Eliot is the mom friend.
I’m not sure what I want more
mcsweeten being in leverage redemption and still having not a clue that parker and hardison are, in fact, not federal agents and are actually world-class criminals
or at some point between the finale and now he did find out, and then some government official gets wind of one of their heists and is jabbing their finger at a blurry image of parker and hardison mid-thievery and with a completely straight face, mcsweeten explains that guys, those are agents hagen and thomas and they are working on an undercover op and were in no way at all involved of what is inconveniencing the government now
and the government official keeps trying to explain they are criminals but mcsweeten just pulls up their dossiers and credentials and he can literally see the vein throbbing in the man’s forehead but he just smiles says that he has personally worked with agent hagen and would trust he with his life
New headcanon: Teenage Eliot Spencer was in Color Guard.
Never found a prop he couldn’t twirl. - Jonathan Frakes
Requested by @somethingserious
Obsessed with the idea of a Teenager Leverage AU
Ex-Insurance Investigator Nate Ford being forced to team up with three of the best thieves and criminals in the United States but they're literally children and he nearly kills Dubenich on the spot upon learning this
16-17 year olds Parker, Hardison and Eliot all being hired to help this stuffy, sad drunk man rob some airplane plans and immediately imprinting on him like Yes, This is Our Dad Now
Enter Theatre Mom Sophie, who was at first Not Happy about Nate suddenly (involuntarily) adopting three teenage criminals, quickly deciding that Yes I Can Work With This and if they're going to keep doing crime than at least they're going to know how to talk their way out of it (Eliot is the only one she doesn't fear for)
Que every shenanigan that happens in the 5 seasons of Leverage but the silliness and heartbreak scales are turned up to a 20
Ennis, pointing a gun at Eliot: "Really hurts me to have to do this to you. I've quite enjoyed your company this afternoon."
Look, I recognize sarcasm, okay? I do. But Eliot has been stalling him all day and he has had that frickin lil smug smile half the time, and this whole situation reminds me of the time Eliot stalled that one lady by taking her out on a tour of the town (walking the Freedom trail, etc.), which was really just a long extended date, and Nate even referenced when telling Eliot what to do for this con, and. well.
I totally crossed my wires for a second and had this moment of "wait, does the goon think Eliot's cute? did he think he was just a big criminal himbo he wanted to kiss later but now has to shoot instead?" ahahaha
Eliot on Hardison’s brew pub purchase for ronandhermy.
Eliot: Get ready for a large file transfer
Hardison: How large?
*a giant filing cabinet falls out of the top window of a multi-story building*
Eliot: I stay close to protect Hardison and Parker. I suppose I’m third wheeling but if that’s what it takes to keep them safe then so be it
Hardison: Eliot is our boyfriend. We take him on dates all the time
Parker: he hasn’t figured it out yet
Hardison: I suggested we tell him
Parker: but this is more fun
Hardison: yeah it is