#leverage teams

[leverage-ot3]

so I’m about to start work but I have to get this god tier concept out. may post more about it later

derry girls leverage international crew

#that’s it. that’s the post #guess who watched the entirety of derry girls two weeks ago and is already rewatching it again #and I’ve made it my entire personality #not really but they are on my mind 24/7 #someone PLEASE message me about derry girls no one in my immediate circle has seen it #I got my coworker to start watching it but she’s only like on ep 3 😭😭😭 #she loves it though #leverage teams #leverage international #derry girls #leverage x derry girls #leverage #leverage redemption #mine #crossovers #if I keep this up dreams will be in my top 10 on spotify istg

[somestorythoughts]

The fourth Leverage Finale is the first one that does NOT involve any significant lies on the part of any one of the team. Sophie lies to them the first time, Nate the second, Eliot the third. (You could also say Nate and Hardison lied in the fifth finale and they do but they also come clean before the con goes down.) But in the fourth the closest we get to lying is Nate not telling them all that’s going on and he’s up front about that.

It’s also the first where Hardison doesn’t go through shit. First he blew up his second home, then blew up his car Lucielle, then nearly drowned, the finalies are rough on Hardison.

#leverage #leverage teams #leverage finale #hardison

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

"This is my only chance. I've planned for months. I have eight backup contingencies."

Leverage S04E09 The Cross My Heart Job.

#leverage #nate ford #dean chesny #timothy hutton #james tolkan #nate once again proving that he is by far the most dangerous member of the team #he's damn scary when he wants to be! #ghostly'sgifs

[aardvaark]

love when parker drops from seemingly nowhere. not every ceiling has exposed rafters or pipes that she can cling onto or perch on, sometimes she must be pulling some kinda superhuman spider-man shit. it’s not a plot hole btw i fully believe she can do all that stuff, i would never doubt THE parker’s abilities

#parker leverage #leverage #leverageposting #wren speaks #how does she get out of locked rooms with even her own team being totally confused by her reappearance outside? idk. but i love that for her

[julesnichols]

Favorite parts of The Low Low Price Job:

-when they're arguing about whether or not they should take the client and Eliot points out they overthrew a foreign government and Nate's response is just that it was a small foreign country

-Sophie complaining about needing to learn fancy science words and saying something about how they're not real and that they're like the names of dinosaurs or something and Hardison having to say "dinosaurs were real"

-Nate putting on dramatic music while watching the camera feeds of the chaos they're sowing

-Sophie siccing her acting students on these people

-the haunted shopping cart prank

-Parker quitting her day job pretending to be dying

-the team sitting in the food court betting on how long it'll take for the mark to crack

#leverage #sophie devereaux #nate ford #parker #alec hardison #eliot spencer #team leverage #nathan ford #parker leverage

[geekynightowl1997]

Can we appreciate that when Parker hears from Hardison that Tara backstabbed the team- her first instinct was to throw her off the roof?

Like this is Parker. The thief who everyone claims is crazy. The thief that can't process emotions and needs help to play pretend. This thief who hasn't really known what family is like- and her first instinct when the people she cares about is being threatened- she wants to get rid of the threat.

Parker cares. She cares about Eliot. She cares about Nate. She cares about Hardison. Nobody gets to take away her family.

Nobody.

#leverage #parker leverage #the maltese falcon job #she loves her team- no her family #tara was threatening the only people who loved her #and she wasn't gonna take chances #guys #she was gonna throw tara off a roof because hardison let her know that she may have backstabbed the team #that's not okay #not to parker #parker cares about hardison nate and eliot #she's not gonna let anything happen to them if she can help it #i love you #beth reisgraf #lets appreciate her

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage 1x13 - "The Second David Job"

#christian kane #leverage #eliot spencer #alec hardison #aldis hodge #nathan ford #timothy hutton #beth riesgraf #parker #sophie devereaux #gina bellman #maggie collins #kari matchett #the second david job #god i love maggie so much #i wish she could become a semi-permanent member of the team

[weprovidehyperfixation]

I love how everything the team does is so collective. Like even screwing with the marks in small ways throughout the con.

Like in “The Boiler Room Job” when the whole team gets the mark’s self-given nickname of “The Mako” wrong just to mess with him.

The legacy continues in Leverage: Redemption series, with the “Rolling on the River Job” when they refuse to call the mark “Senator” even though he calls himself that at every opportunity.

It’s the subtle way they mess with the mark’s minds that I love.

#leverage #eliot spencer #alec hardison #nathan ford #nate ford #sophie devereaux #parker #it’s such a team effort #collective psychological terrorism

[clareguilty]

Thinkin bout how every Eliot episode is him having the opportunity to do something other than be a weapon and a tool (for the army or some govt or Nate) and he always finds that he really likes it and is good at it, even to the point of ditching the job temporarily to have fun for himself. But ultimately at the end of the day he always goes back to the team and to being a weapon its just so spicy and tragic but at the same time it's because they're his family and his home

#he's a chef and a fashion consultant and a baseball player and a country singer #and he is good and successful at every one of these things #and if he was able to see himself as a man deserving of happiness he COULD be any of these things #but he's gotten himself trapped in his role and he wont give up on the team #UGH #the MMA episode is good too bc its something he likes but he only knows how to kill #leverage #clare screams #thinkin bout #eliot spencer

[spacedace]

Oh hey here’s the lil prolog thing I wrote for my DP x DC Leverage AU. I’m gonna actually write more of one day I swear but for now have this opening bit and feel free to use it as a prompt if you want :D

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The station went utterly quiet as they brought her in.

Room after room going as silent as the grave when the young woman in handcuffs stepped through the door. Chatter stopped. Bodies stilled. Heads turned. Eyes widened. It almost felt like everyone was too afraid to even breath as she walked by. Cops and crooks alike watching with fear and awe in equal measures as Jim Gordon led her past them to the interrogation room.

She didn’t give the gaping crowd any mind. Head tilted up at an angle, shoulders back, steps sure. The solid heals of her boots clicked upon the scuffed linoleum, echoing loud in the stifling quiet. Like a royal herald announcing her presence. She held herself like a queen, which was fitting Jim supposed. Until tonight, the only name anyone had to call her by was Queen.

The blood, unnervingly, only made her seem more regal.

Batman was already in the interrogation room when they arrived. Jim didn’t even have it in him to sigh at the broody bat looming in the corner. He knew he’d be there. There was no way he would miss the interrogation of someone they’d been chasing for so long. Especially not now considering…well.

Considering.

Jim largely ignored the vigilante in the corner as he moved through the familiar process of getting the young woman handcuffed in place to the table, starting the recording and rattling off the relevant details: date, time, the - many - charges the young woman had been arrested for. If he faltered over the victim’s name of the young woman’s most recent crime no one commented on it. In the corner, Batman watched and lurked. Nearly lost in the shadowy corner of the room while still being impossible to ignore.

They’d done this before. Good cop, bad vigilante. It was usually effective in getting the truth out of stubborn criminals.

Jim rather doubted it would work in this case.

“Please state your name for the record.” He said, only to be met with the same cool silence Queen had given everyone since her arrest. She shifted in her seat, not a nervous fidget but an easy, languid movement. Even the uncomfortable metal chair seemed like a throne when she was involved. Jim bit back a sigh. “We have your information. I’m asking as a courtesy.”

Queen tilted her head faintly, looking at him with something almost like amusement, one brow twitching slightly upward. “You’ll have to forgive my disbelief, Commissioner Gordon.” She said, polite as ever. “But I’m rather sure that you won’t find me in any system you run my fingerprints or face through.”

She was right about that. They’d tried a hundred times over the past few years she and her team had been operating in Gotham. Her face never appeared in any pictures or recordings - not even in her mugshot during processing, all that was visible was her red hair and a mess of corrupted visual data where her face should be. The most her fingerprints had ever led to where the other crimes they already knew she’d taken part in. Batman had done everything to try and circumvent whatever meta ability kept her from being recorded on film, had done even more to try and find her and her people in every system he and the Justice League had access to. Nothing. Jim had grumbled a few times about how Queen and her crew might as well be ghosts for all the proof that they existed officially.

Turned out, ghosts was exactly right.

“The Ghost Investigation Ward reached out to us two hours ago.” He said, leaning back in his own seat, watching her carefully. “I’ll repeat, Ms. Fenton, my asking is a courtesy.”

For the first time in the years he’d known her, Queen - real name Jasmine “Jazz” Fenton - looked scared. Beyond scared, even. Completely, and utterly terrified.

Her body went rigid, eyes growing wide, breath picking up as she sat up sharply. Any semblance of that calm, collected presence she always held even when she was at her most cornered and vulnerable vanished in an instant. He’d seen her breath in a cloud of Scarecrow’s Fear Toxin and laugh. Watched as Bane wrapped large hands around her throat and tilt her chin up to stare down at her attacker imperiously. A mobster pressed the barrel of a gun to her head and she’d smiled, coy and confidant and untouchable. Queen always, always was calm. Aggravatingly so, even. Utterly unshakable as she waltzed into every wild and insane situation carrying the undeniable air of one who was complete control of everything happening.

She hadn’t even looked scared when the Joker had held her hostage.

And now? Now all it had taken was those three words. Ghost Investigation Ward. A nonsense name for a government agency with a ridiculous purpose. And yet there the unshakable Queen sat, looking terrified out of her mind at the mere mention of them.

Not for the first time since he received that call, Jim Gordon felt uneasy.

#dp x dc #dc x dp #dpxdc #dp x dc fanfic #dp x dc writing prompt #jazz fenton #jim gordon #bruce wayne #leverage au #Jazz is the mastermind in this one #and has been having a great time up til this moment #everyone on the team has code names #Danny is Spaceman because of course it is lol #Sam is Nightshade #Tucker is Pharaoh #Ellie is Nomad #they're not actually shown here but I just wanted to share the codenames I came up for them lol

[leverage-ot3]

okay I absolutely get and adore harry being oblivious about ot3 developments, but consider:

after breanna makes it explicitly clear she’s queer in the card game job, harry starts Researching™

he’s trying to be good, be better. he likes this girl and wants to be there to support her and be her friend, someone she can trust. it doesn’t help that she’s around the same age as his daughter, who barely wants to associate with him anymore

he learns breanna is queer and dives into researching. watching TED talks in his spare time. reading ebooks on his phone in between playing roles in a con (bringing a physical book is less convenient and he doesn’t want to wave around the fact that he’s researching like he’s trying to be performative about it). he reads about legislation and book bans and wonders about how they could work their magic through a con to fix those things. he reads about asexuality and recognizes the flag colors from the sticker on breanna’s laptop, which he files away for later

he learns a lot! he has been peripherally aware of queer stuff- it’s kind of hard not to be in the 2020s, but now he is much more informed on a lot of issues. he has memorized at least 50 different labels and terms and has an index of resources in his head (and on his phone) if anyone might need them. he wants to understand the people he loves and cares about, whether it’s breanna or one of his daughter’s friends, or anyone in his life that is queer and he doesn’t know it yet. he wants to be ready and prepared to support them!

he learns about sapphicness and bisexuality and intersex rights and the gender spectrum. he learns about karyotypes and stonewall and other queer history. he learns about kink (blushing, but still reads because it’s important!) and relationship diversity… which leads him to discover the term polyamory

he tries not to actively apply the terms he has learned on the people in his life because he knows it’s wrong to assume things about other people. BUT. harry spends a few days reflecting on parker, hardison and eliot’s interactions and wonders. he thinks about the long hugs and lack of personal space and near telepathic communication not just between parker and hardison, but parker and eliot AND hardison and eliot. how parker knows how to make eliot take care of himself, how he knows when she forgets to eat because she’s so hyperfixated on planning a con. how parker jumps on his back for fun and no matter what, he always catches her. hardison’s absence is felt when he’s gone, deeply by the both of them.

it could just be a deep friendship, he knows. they have been working and living together for over a decade, of course they would be close!!! maybe they could even be queerplatonic! (another new word he learned!)

but. still. he quietly observes, watches closely, and thinks.

#gonna reblog this with more but I didn’t want to make this any longer that I’d have to do read more #anyways I adore harry and think about him often #eliot spencer #parker #alec hardison #leverage ot3 #parker x hardison x eliot #leverage #leverage redemption #harry wilson #harry wilson headcanons #headcanons #ficlets #fic ideas #breanna & harry #found family #team as family #mine #i need someone to write this

[somestorythoughts]

The Gloat

One thing I do really like about Redemption is that they offically named the "stand so the mark can see us as they're arrested" thing. It's the Gloat. I'm almost certain it didn't have a formal name in the original, not one spoken in the show.

But we do love the gloats.

#and all the other gloats #leverage #leverage redemption #leverage team

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

"We have to cover every angle. Eliot will work the boat from the inside."

Leverage Redemption S01E03 The Rolling on the River Job.

#leverage #leverage redemption #eliot spencer #breanna casey #christian kane #aleyse shannon #ah i see breanna has already learned from hardison the essential steps to being part of the team #step 1: annoy eliot #you'll fit in fine sweetie! #ghostly'sgifs

[aardvaark]

i was thinking about how i wished leverage had a birthday episode for some of the characters cause that would be sweet, but then i realised something and basically…. okay here’s my thoughts in quotes form, just for fun

hardison: so when’s your birthday? i could plan something for us and the team to do and-

parker: i dont know

hardison: you don’t know… your own birthday?

parker: no, how would i know? pshh, cmon, you’re telling me you remember EXACTLY when you were born? watch this - hey, eliot, do you know your exact birth date?

eliot, innocently passing by, who was canonically anonymously dropped off at a hospital as an infant: no, how would i know?

parker: that’s what i said!

hardison: excuse me?? what is going on right now

sophie, walking into the apartment: whats wrong?

hardison: parker and eliot- well, okay, when’s your birthday? i just have to prove something.

sophie: …….july 12th

hardison: why did you pause? wait, is that your birthday or sophie devereaux’s birthday?

sophie: ………… (guilty silence)

parker: see, no one knows their real birthday! haha you’re so weird sometimes, hardison

hardison:

hardison: what the fuck guys

#leverageposting #wren speaks #leverage #parker leverage #alec hardison #nate knows his birthday i guess so i didn’t include him. if he was watching the whole time he would probably say ‘idk’ to mess w hardison #they’re having this convo in nate’s apartment but it’s like 3am & he’s asleep & they’ve all broken in to hang out #parker doesn’t know either bc of her ridiculously neglectful foster parents or bc she’s parker & her priorities are simply different to most #people. her birthday is irrelevant to thievery. and sadly probably not related to fun happy memories anyway. #sophie obviously is a good enough grifter to answer confidently but she feels a little bad abt lying to her family by now #meanwhile hardison had a normal foster nana who would have known his bday. most kids aren’t safe-surrendered like eliot so assumably #hardison would have a known bday. and he likes birthdays! #and he wants to throw parker a little party even if it’s a very unconventional parker bday that involves rappelling & jumping off buildings #but he is once again thwarted by the leverage team members having the strangest possible lives #he IS gonna give them each birthday parties tho. even if he has to make up some dates & stuff #sophie’s can be the fake date she gives if that’s what she rlly wants. nate’s real birthday is on file somewhere even if he’s being annoying #rn so hardison just has to do some basic hacking. eliot would have an approximate bday such as the day he was surrendered that his parents #would have celebrated throughout childhood. and parker’s would be april 1st bc that’s alice whites bday (and YOURE ALICE!!!) #as in it’s canonically in the online info abt alice white shown in the juror no.6 job & obvs that’s april fools so it’s funny :) #and hardison has a NORMAL bday unlike SOME ppl and yes he DOES expect presents you heathens!!

[debuts]

thinking about the inherent romanticism of i chose you, and how everyone at the beef was already pre-chosen for carmy, but sydney? carmy picked syd.

#there’s this scene in leverage where the guy goes #‘listen I picked you. I didn’t pick the others. I picked /you/‘ and then they kiss #bc they were all on a team and he loves them and leads them but!!! they were all assigned to him except for /her/ #and he went out and found her bc he knew he couldn’t do it without her #sydcarmy having that ‘listen I /chose/ you. I chose /you/‘ kiss scene WHEN #the bear #sydcarmy #carmy berzatto #sydney amadu #text #and they said speak now

[geekynightowl1997]

Okay, somebody can correct me if I'm wrong- but at the end of The Nigerian Job, when the team was convincing Nate that they should keep doing what they did- Eliot's whole argument was Nate. Nate falling apart. Nate needing the chance. Nate not being able to walk away. Nate.

Then, suddenly Eliot became the whole team's body guard. (Something he's grunt and gruffed about.) Yet. Yet. Somewhere (I say it was The Iceman Job and The Inside Job,) Eliot's brain switched from protecting the team to protecting Hardison and Parker. (Again correct me if I'm wrong.) Suddenly his job became more about having Hardison and Parker's back than having Nate's back. Maybe I'm the only one whose noticed- but Eliot become more softer with both Hardison and Parker after those particular jobs. Sure he keeps that gruff, sarcastic wit about him but there's often tones of... protectivness(?) when he interacts with them. Almost like he's telling other people around them- whose in ear shot- that Hardison and Parker are his. Like he's possessive.

Now, I'm not saying Eliot just stops caring about the rest of the team. I mean- he beats up Sterling for Nate and in Redemption Eliot is following Sophie around a handful of times. Their are even times where he has Breanna's back and Harry's. But he seems to treat those situations like a case. He compartmentalizes those situations. With Hardison and Parker- he doesn't. It's like his brain won't let him. He sees Hardison and Parker and it's like- all bets are off.

And on the flip side- has anyone noticed that Parker and Hardison seem to be the only ones that know how to... defuse (is that the right word?) Eliot? Like even Maria couldn't get Eliot to relax in The Hurrican Job. (Of course that's probably because Eliot was hiding who he was to her.) But Eliot always seems to be more relaxed when he's around those two.

In The Iceman Job after when Hardison tries to hug him? Eliot wasn't really fighting it. (I would know- I do that to my brother ALL the time when he tries to hug me.) In The Inside Job- when Eliot went to attack that employee- Parker stopped him. In The Double-Edge Sword Job, when Eliot is furious because an abusive ex comes after a women that they tried to hide- it's Parker that calms him down. It's Hardison who pays off the bartender when Eliot attacks Sterling. It's Parker who is always by his side or close to it. It's Parker who trusts Eliot when their in the back of the van with Vance. (Yes, Parker trusts Hardison too, but Hardison is a hacker- not a protector.) It's Eliot who Hardison listens to when he's not confident. It's Eliot who grabs Hardison from the coffin. It's Eliot who crouchs behind Hardison as Parker flips around him. It's Eliot whose hands are shaking when he they have half a second on a bomb.

Eliot Spencer is Hardison's and Parkers. They own him. In the same way Hardison and Parker are his. He owns them. (Does that make sense?)

For the record- I don't know why I'm pointing all of this out. It's just interesting to me... I guess.

#leverage #leverage redemption #eliot spencer #parker #alec hardison #sophie devereaux #nate ford #harry willson #breanna casey #essay #well maybe an essay #i have no idea why I'm bringing this up #it's interesting i guess #just- just how it went from eliot protrcting the whole team in season 1 #to him only seeming to protect hardison and parker #or maybe i'm just reading into it #there's just so many incidents #like eliot never once questions hardison and parker #but he protects them #and its the sweetest thing ever #eliot knows how to handle hardison and parker #and they know how to handle eliot