#chaos leverage

[wild-fleurs]

The last damn job discussion gives me family dinner vibes, Parker hanging out with the pseudo father/grandfather figure, Eliot & Hardison both have friends over & are annoying each other

Quinn asking ‘can I hit him’ & Eliot being like see the little brother is annoying hahaha

Nate laying down the rules is fatherly & Sophie diffusing a situation is motherly (admittedly a usual family dinner from my experience doesn’t involve the grandfather figure threatening violence against a guest but Chaos did try & hit on Parker so while that’s a brothers friend move it’s still taster/stiletto cane worthy too haha)

[somestorythoughts]

That bit in the Ho Ho Ho Job where Eliot tells Chaos "You killed my friend's fan" he probably doesn't care much, like he doesn't like Hardison being upset but he's not too bothered and then Chaos is all smug about it and I swear I could see Eliot go "Oh now I want to hit you."

Also he makes a funny Santa.

[leverage-ot3]

Reblogging with more additions because this fandom is hilarious (copy-pasting because I'm on my computer and it makes me twitch when I reblog the same post 5 times in a row)

#jvn would be so happy with his hair#I wanna see what havoc karamo would wreak#because either he makes everyone cry OR he gets eliot to admit he's been in a throuple for 10+ years without actively admitting it#even to himself#also wanna see him and antoni either be bffs or get into a shouting match over something stupid#side plot where Hardison spends the entire time trying to stay one step ahead of Bobby and his team so they don't find all the crime stuff#like they sent them to a random safe house and then Parker was like: oh the one I stored all the gold?#and Eliot is like dammit hardison what if they find all the hidden knives

tags via @innytoes

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Sterling's daughter sees the episode.

Half of Eliot's exes see the episode.

In prison, the Butcher of Kiev sees the episode.

Quinn gets nominated for the next season and is pretty sure he knows who did it.

In an even prisonier prison, Colin Mockery Mason sees the episode and after the other inmates watch him spend the entire time screaming and freaking out, figure out how to make it play at random wherever he is, because he has that kind of effect on people.

response from @digitaldiscipline

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THIS!!! PLEASE THIS!!! Because all I can see in my head is Eliot’s persona being the most fucking INSANE basket case the guys have ever seen, which of course leads to chaos, but we also see the actual Eliot poke through in the randomest fucking places because he just. Forgets/gets frustrated. Which knocks the Fab 5 WILDLY off kilter. I would also LOVE to see JVN try to convince that man to cut his hair. Imagine Antoni trying to teach this man how to cook. Eliot walks into this thinking he’s gonna never see these people after whatever con he and the crew are pulling then walks out with 5 new best friends a la Hurley after having the most INTENSE identity crisis.

……I may or may not write something, thank you OP for opening my eyes to the possibilities

response from @kyogre20

Look, the new season of Queer Eye is in New Orleans. Leverage: Redemption is based in New Orleans. Where's my "the crew needs to pull a heist without being spotted in the background of a Queer Eye episode" fic?

(Convo w/ sister:

"Eliot's most recent persona gets nominated!"

"Hardison nominates Eliot as a prank?"

"Breanna nominates Eliot as a prank!"

"Harry nominates Eliot sincerely and everyone else goes along with it as a prank.")

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Archie may have been a shitty father figure to Parker, but you can't deny his influence...

4x18 - "The Last Dam Job"

2x1 - "The Beantown Bailout Job"

2x9 - "The Lost Heir Job"

3x2 - "The Reunion Job"

3x13 - "The Morning After Job"

3x15 - "The Big Bang Job"

1x9 - "The Stork Job"

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

Behind you!

Leverage Redemption S03E03 The Scared Stiff Job.

[galahadwilder]

This would require a few relationship reshuffles from Leverage, given that Silco is Damien Moreau, Vander is Archie Leach, and Viktor is Chaos. Ambessa is probably The Italian.

All of this is negotiable, but one that I will not budge on is that Jayce is Jack Hurley.

Hitter: Vi

Hacker: Ekko

Grifter: Mel

Thief: Jinx

Mastermind: Caitlyn

[anartisticnerd]

Considering both The Librarians and Star Trek are franchises in Leverage canon, Harry is just existing with Noah Wyle's face, Eliot is stomping around with Christian Kane's face, and Chaos is just sneaking around the interwebs looking exactly like Wil Wheaton. You can't tell me Hardison hasn't made fun of them for their celeb lookalikes.

[trekscribbles]

#petition to bring quinn back in redemption

YES PLEASE I WOULD SIGN THAT RIGHT AWAY

Reblog to sign the petition

[deconstructthesoup]

I know I initially thought Thistlecaster for the Leverage AU (because, honestly, there's gotta be one romantic relationship in the crew, the romantic relationships in Leverage are one of my favorite parts), but honestly... Fabadaine might be where it's at.

Because there's Adaine, who was manipulated into being the world's perfect thief so her parents could profit, whose deep fascination and interest in history was warped and twisted until all she saw were artifacts that she could swipe, who had to deal with her parents leaving her to rot when she got caught after she'd sacrificed her entire childhood for their sake. And she picked herself up, told herself "never again," and taught herself to be wholly self-reliant, made sure that her past would always be a mystery, to be unpredictable and unknowable so that she could never be caught. Always the first one to leave, always the first one to betray, don't get stuck and don't slow down.

And then there's Fabian, who's been in the world of thieves his entire life, who almost certainly heard whispers of how the Abernant family really got all of their money, and who forged his entire criminal career off of two things---his family, and reading people. Knowing that going by "Seacaster" would always make people think of his father first, he changed his surname to his stepsister's, and they became legends together. He cherishes the fact that his mother taught him and Fig everything she knew, and he's honed his mind so he can pick up on everything about a person. Even someone with walls as high as Adaine's, even someone who's carefully crafted herself as an enigma, even someone who can't allow herself to let someone in... and yet, he himself hides behind a shifting array of masks, and it's so very rare that he lets someone see the truth.

The thief who had to leave her sister behind, and the grifter who wouldn't do anything without his sister. The oracle who became the best in her field to spite everything her family taught her, and the performer who became the best in his field to honor everything his family taught him. The career criminals who hide themselves from the world in two vastly different ways, but have, against all odds, found someone new who accepts the person underneath the mask.

I dunno, man, I... I think this is something.

[somestorythoughts]

Allies in The Last Dam Job

There's this fun bit of attention to detail In The Last Dam Job when they're discussing how to get Dubenich:

This isn't quite the full gif but what it is is that Sophie says that Dubenich is going to know every friend, every person that they would be expected to go to for help. And Nate looks at Eliot and goes "we find someone who is not a friend" to Sophie and Parker "someone who is not in the game" to Hardison "someone we do not trust." And that's exactly what happens.

Eliot recruits Quinn who we last saw trying to kick the shit out of Eliot:

Parker recruits Archie who is retired:

Sophie recruits Maggie who is the token honest friend in this heist show:

And Hardison recruits Chaos who they all hate for trying to kill Sophie:

It's just a good bit of attention to detail.

[werewolfsmile]

"I mean, there are forks."

Short little crack vid that was originally just gonna be a gif but then I started working on it and this video happened instead lol. Enjoy.

[Watch on Youtube]

Bonus gif of this scene because I love it so much:

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage 4x18- "The Last Dam Job"

[geeky-nightphilosopher]

I don't think we talk enough about how Hardison went from;

"I don't even know what you do."

To;

"S'up Eliot."

And the thing is-in both situations- Hardison was lax. When they first met Eliot was clearly annoyed and Hardison was just being his cocky self. By the time The Rundown Job happened, Hardison was comfortable enough to be in an elevator by himself hacking away. Knowing full what Eliot could do.

On the flip side:

Eliot went from;

"You are precisely why I work alone."

To;

"I have the best thief and the smartest hacker I know."

Which is say A LOT because Mason (Chaos) is around. And if I remember correctly- Hardison doesn't even think he's on par with Mason.

These two men grew SO much between getting to know each other and working together. Their trust for each other is so real it hurts.

And then you add in Parker and-ahh!- I don't even describe it. Because Parker went from being a lone and being almost fearful of working with people- to having utter faith in them.

Jumping without knowing if Eliot was there. And waiting for Hardison to go looking for her.

I think that's why Eliot's "Til my dying day." Is so- Aaaahhh!

I love them. They are a found family your honor.

[amazzyblaze]

Thinking about an alternate version of "The Last Dam Job" where Archie kinda sorta murders Chaos with his stiletto blade cane and blows the whole job

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

Leverage Redemption S02E10 The Work Study Job.

[draconic-neko]

So, Vitamin C neutralizes ADHD meds, right?

And citric soda contains at least some Vitamin C.

And Alec Hardison is ADHD as fuck.

What if he drinks the soda to neutralize his ADHD meds when he needs to switch from forging to hacking?

That would also explain his need for his frogs when he's at his computer. Because a craving for sugar/sweets is another ADHD thing.