I hope fifteen or twenty years after redemption ends we get another reboot of leverage in which Breanna leads a completely new crew who only ever heard of the original leverage team as heros of legends.
And they tell stories of them like they are mythical figures.
They tell stories of Nate Ford and Sophie Devereaux, how they chased each other across the world before joining sides in the middle to bring together the first leverage team. (They have the Old Nate painting in the current headquarters. Everyone in the new team knows without a doubt that is Leverage Founder Nathan Ford.)
They tell stories of Alec Hardison, Eliot Spencer and THE Parker, the trio who can make anything happen, who made this organisation into what it is now, the patron saints of every leverage team. If a job goes really sideways, they will come to save you, you don't even have to call them. They know.
(The stories range from mildly simplified to wildly inaccurate. Breanna finds this whole mystification fascinating to see, she even kinda gets it on some level, but it's also really weeeiiird. that's just his brother and his insane partners. She just gifted them matching plushies the other day. (She does know where they live and how to reach out to them but she never ever in no way would ever call them for a job. She can do this without them dammit) (but of course they'd still come out once or twice in every season sorry breanna i need my cameos dammit))
eliot’s dad is a football coach in a tiny town that was nearly destroyed by corporate greed and the first thing eliot is seen doing as mayor of the town they’re trying to save is playing football with a bunch of kids and encouraging them. screams
A story in three acts:
Leverage 4x10- "The Queen's Gambit Job"
Leverage 1x10 - "The Juror #6 Job"
Leverage: Redemption 2x3 - "The Tournament Job"
so, there's this leverage fic, what we owe each other by @trivalentlinks. (it's one of my favorites. eliot/quinn with a solid dash of moreau. highly recommend. but i digress.) and in this fic, there's a running thing about these tunnels under paris. quinn introduces eliot to them and makes him promise not to use them for crime, and then moreau happens, and, well, it's a whole thing.
and then in the first episode of redemption s3, what do we get? the paris catacombs. and I know that the catacombs are not quite the same as the tunnels from the fic, but I still can't help but wonder what it would be like for that eliot to end up in the tunnels again in the context of l:r 20+ years later. there's just. so much potential there. these ponderings are built firmly on the foundations of a 60k au fic and as such will not go anywhere but i'm just hoping someone else may have read this fic too and understand where my mind went.
people who dont experience it cannot comprehend how awful executive dysfunction is. I WANT to do the task, i have the resources TO do the task, i will feel better having DONE the task
but i cant fucking do the task
thinking about this
Woman: Who are you? Eliot: Well, ma'am, we'd be the cavalry.
Leverage 1x8 - The Bank Shot Job
Flores: Who are you? Parker: I’m supposed to tell you, "We'd be the cavalry."
Leverage 3x16 - The San Lorenzo Job
Ethel: We need real help. Where's the cavalry? Sophie: At the right moment, they'll be here. Probably. Possibly. I trust.
Leverage: Redemption 3x7 - The Shakedown in Clone-Town Job
so the ithaca saga, huh
my jaw was dropped for twenty two minutes and thirty five seconds straight
Eliot Spencer is: Looks like a cinnamon roll, is actually a cinnamon roll AND Looks like a cinnamon roll, could actually kill you AND Looks like they could kill you, could actually kill you AND Looks like they could kill you, is actually a cinnamon roll
Eliot Spencer is the cinnamon roll avatar, master of all cinnamon rolls. Pass it on.
hi excuse me kristin cashore is working on FOUR books rn ??
what do we think they are 👀
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